Since graduating from SAIC, artist, activist, and fashion designer Sky Cubacub (BFA 2015) has funded a Kickstarter campaign for Rebirth Garments. Cubacub’s bold designs create a space for gender nonconforming garments for people on the full spectrum of gender, size, and ability. We caught up with them to find out what they are reading, listening to, watching, thinking about, and doing in the midst of their creative whirlwind.
Q&A with distinguished lecturer, visiting artist, and alum Sonya Clark, who is an acclaimed textile artist and Chair of the Craft and Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.
SAIC was invited by community leaders and the Foundation for Homan Square, a local organization that has been working in North Lawndale for nearly 30 years, to be part of a developing collective of nonprofit organizations working to bring resources to the neighborhood.
Two SAIC alums designed an iPad game that teaches children how to code—and landed jobs at a California app company for their efforts.
Sky Cubacub (BFA 2015) is creating a space for garments for the full spectrum of gender identities and abilities with their clothing line, Rebirth Garments.
Idris Goodwin (MFA 2004) is a playwright, break beat poet, essayist, and Professor of performance writing and hip-hop aesthetics at Colorado College. He recently returned to SAIC for a performance in response to Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, a work he refers to as “a groundbreaking text in an important tradition of African American art.”
Patsy Diaz (MA 2015) creates supportive enviroments for art making that foster emotional development through her work with Chicago’s park district.
