Associate Professor Andres Hernandez (Art Education, MA 2004) is a teacher, community activist, and interdisciplinary artist who works with the urban fabric of Chicago as his primary material. The recent winner of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s PXSTL Design-Build Competition, Hernandez told us about some of his favorite places around the city that inspire him.
Holly Hunt and Quintin E. Primo III, Co-Chairs of Beautiful/Work: The Campaign for SAIC, discuss the importance of giving back.
Throughout its more than 150-year history, SAIC’s entire community has established a strong tradition of support and giving. This spring, SAIC launched its first major fundraising campaign, Beautiful/Work: The Campaign for SAIC. With a goal of raising $50 million, the campaign will support student scholarships and endowed professorships and faculty awards.
A look into how Garland Martin Taylor (BA 2005, MA 2007) made the sculpture Phantom as part of his ongoing Black Death Project.
SAIC’s Abandoned Practices Institute explores discarded and outlawed rituals as a summer intensive course open to SAIC degree-seeking students and students from other colleges and universities.
Here is an excerpt from our conversation with Jayeon Kim (BFA 2006), User Experience Design Lead at Google, and her advice to current SAIC students and recent graduates.
The students entering SAIC in fall 2016 are inquisitive in the classroom and studio, diverse in their backgrounds, and a little outrageous in how they express themselves. Meet four of our future artists and scholars.
As part of Anne Sullivan's Building Diagnostic course, SAIC's Historic Preservation students completed a preservation plan for the 114-year-old Oak Park Art League building.
Visit the Art Institute of Chicago with Mohn Family Professor of Contemporary Art History David Raskin for a discussion about Cy Twombly's The Second Part of the Return from Parnassus.
Artist, alum, and Assistant Professor Cheryl Pope (BFA 2003, MDes 2010) had a knockout year. We asked her what she is looking at, listening to, and thinking about as she prepares to defend the title of “Best Year Ever.”
