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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago received a $1.5 million grant from the Korea Foundation to establish an endowed professorship in Korean Contemporary Art, Culture, and Media. 

Check out what our alums have been up to. 

Aidan Anne Frierson (MFA 2025) and David King (BFA 2025) continue the age-old tradition of hand-making paper at Chicago Pulp Papermill & Studio. 

Life Out of Order, novelist Audrey Niffenegger's (BFA 1985) long-awaited follow-up to The Time-Traveler's Wife, is out this October. 

The Jonathan Green Maritime Cultural Center preserves the heritage and traditions of the Lowcountry and African diaspora.

Four new SAIC students expand on their obsessions, inspirations, and art school goals.

Artist Trevor Paglen (MFA 2002) has spent decades researching AI, surveillance, and covert military structures. Now, he’s heading into an MRI machine to tap into his latest subject: his own brain. 

Dream Cake Test Kitchen founder Hyun Jung Jun (BFA 2014) celebrates Ravinia picnics, gochujang cookies, and more. 

Interior designers Samantha Soo (BIA 2008) and Martha Mulholland (BFA 2008) see their work as a way of understanding how people live. 

SAIC alum Sanford Biggers to create a monumental sculpture for Google’s Chicago headquarters.