Eileen Myles

Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: 2017 Visiting Artists Series

Friday, July 28, 11:00 p.m.

MacLean Center Ballroom

United States

Eileen Myles is the author of 20 books including the forthcoming Afterglow (a dog memoir). Cool for You was just reissued by Caterpult. I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a reissue of Chelsea Girls came out in 2015. Myles is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, a Creative Capital-Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, and the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. In 2016 Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. They live in Marfa, Texas and New York.

For more than 155 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program ranked number two in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world, and adults, teens, and kids in our Continuing Studies classes have the opportunity to explore their creative sides, build portfolios, and advance their skills. Notable alumni and faculty include Georgia O’Keeffe, Nick Cave, David Sedaris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cynthia Rowley, Michelle Grabner, Richard Hunt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Jeff Koons.

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