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LEDs to Bees - SAIC

From LEDs to bees and renewable energy in between, for the past 10 years the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been busy becoming a sustainable and resilient campus. SAIC ...

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Eric Hotchkiss, lecturer in the Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects department, and SAIC students are featured in Block Club Chicago. In the article, students of...

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Linda Keane

Professor Linda Keane (Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects) was recently honored with the 2019 American Institute of Architects Illinois Nathan Clifford Ricker Award...

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Terracotta Moonjar at Beyond Tradition exhibition at Numeroventi gallery, Florence, Italy (2019) (Courtesy the Artist)

Yoon-Young Hur (BFA 2006) was featured in the Architect's Newspaper about how she channls architecture into her ceramic work, which is deeply rooted in her Korean heritage. “There’s this...

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Walter Hood - SAIC

Walter Hood (MFA 2013) and his Oakland, California, based design firm, Hood Design Studio were recently spotlighted in an article in Architectural Digest. In the article, Hood’s attraction...

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Luftwerk and Iker Gil's installation at the Farnsworth House

Geometry of Light, a collaboration between Petra Bachmaier (BFA 1999) and Sean Gallero (SAIC 1993–98) of Luftwerk and Lecturer Iker Gil (Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed...

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From left to right: Ramon Jimenez Cardenas (BFA 2018), Chelsea Lombardo (BFA 2019), Amber Cao (BFA 2019), and Liam Wilson (BFA 2018)
Studio Potluck wins first place at Make48 design competition show.
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2019's 3Arts Awards recipients (left to right, top): Richard Costes, Laksha Dantran, Ivelisse Diaz, Stephanie Diaz, Damon Locks; (left to right, bottom): Jumaane Taylor, Norman Teague, Bethany Thomas, Sam Trump, and Santiago X. (3Arts)

Damon Locks (BFA 1991), Norman Teague (MFA 2016), and Santiago X (MFA 2018) were awarded grants from 3Arts, reports the Chicago Tribune. The alums are among the 10 local teaching...

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The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum has launched a new way of experiencing Chicago’s horizontal landscape ascend to a vertical orientation. As the boats on the Chicago River...

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Architectural and urban designer and current full-time visiting artist in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, Paola Aguirre Serrano ...

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Surrounds: 11 Installations exhibit at MoMA

On October 21, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will reopen after a summer-long closure and an ambitious renovation project of its gallery spaces. Among the 10 fall shows opening,...

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Photo courtesy of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

Walter Hood (MFA 2013), landscape and public artist, who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship two weeks ago has been selected as the winner of this year's Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize...

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