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SAIC Historic Preservation Professor Charles Pipal recently received the AIA Illinois Educator Award.

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Rashid Johnson (MFA 2005), Jeffrey Gibson (BFA 1995), and Trevor Paglen (MFA 2002) are recognized among the 100 most influential people in art

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named alum Rodney McMillian (Post-Bacc 2000) one of its 2026 MacArthur Fellows.

Alum Hong Sang-Soo (MFA 1989) has written and directed more than 30 features and has become a fixture at the world's most prestigious festivals.

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. 

The Los Angeles Times recently featured SAIC alum Guadalupe Rosales' (MFA 2016) debut memoir, East of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood.

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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.