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Our community is driven by the spirit of engagement and the desire to make positive change in our world. Learn how our alums, students, faculty, and staff are responding to this current moment.

Our community is driven by the spirit of engagement and the desire to make positive change in our world. Learn how our alums, students, faculty, and staff are responding to this current moment...

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Every month, we share the accomplishments of our faculty and staff with our full SAIC community.
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Assistant Professor Lee Blalock was featured on The National News Podcast discussing art and technology forging the future. James Cohan staged an exhibition of new works by...

Every month, we celebrate the accomplishments of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's staff and faculty.   
Anne Wilson, "If We Asked About The Sky" (detail), 2020. Photo by Jake Silby.
Every month, we celebrate the accomplishments of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's staff and faculty. 
Associate Professor Delinda Collier

Associate Professor Delinda Collier (Art History, Theory, and Criticism) has been named a 2020 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in...

  • and criticism
  • art history
  • faculty
  • theory

Mickey R Mahoney (BFA 1997), adjunct professor in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation and Art History, Theory, and Criticism departments and his partner Lilly Wachowski (SAIC 2017–19...

  • alumni
  • faculty
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 ...

  • alumni
  • faculty
  • student
  • students
Clayton Flynn

by Jessie Burnes (Post-Bac 2019)

Clayton Flynn (BFA 2008) is director of sales at Andrew Edlin Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. With more than 13 years of fine art and design consultant...

  • alumni
Lori Waxman - Art Institute of Chicago

SAIC Senior Lecturer Lori Waxman (MA 2001, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, New Arts Journalism) was awarded the 2019 Jean Goldman Book Prize for her book, Keep Walking...

  • alumni
  • faculty
Ruba Katrib Creations - SAIC

The New York Times  highlighted a current exhibition at MoMA PS1, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011, co-curated by Ruba Katrib (BA 2004). ...

  • alumni
Terrain Biennial – SAIC

PBS program Chicago Tonight features SAIC community members whose works are part of the Terrain Biennial, which is on view through November 17. Initiated in 2011 by the late Chicago...

  • alumni
  • faculty