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This year's Distinguished Alumni Lecturer Pablo Helguera talks about the process and history behind his latest MCA curation.

See what our faculty and staff are up to. 

In the fall 2025 issue of School of the Art Institute of Chicago magazine, we explore the ways our community goes back to the basics.

Check out what our alums have been up to. 

On a sunny July day, SAIC students gathered for an event that harkened back to the Iron Age. 

On the first day of the fall 2025 semester, our students came dressed to impress. 

In Adult Continuing Studies course En Plein Air, students learn to paint the world around them.

For alum Bobbi Meier (MA 2000, MFA 2009), helping launch the Anne Wilson and Joan Livingstone Fiber and Material Studies Fellowship had personal ties. 

As the co-founder of watch culture website Worn & Wound, alum Zach Weiss (MFA 2008) is obsessed with things built to last.

In her multimedia work, alum Heidi Norton (MFA 2002) explores how to preserve the natural world while capturing the passage of time.