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WBEZ Chicago spotlights Bassim Al-Shaker’s (MFA 2021) debut solo exhibition Four Minutes, open to the public at Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman Gallery through October 21.

Alum Steph Krim founded Good Things Vending to generate more opportunities for serendipitous art encounters and support local makers. 

Alum Wafaa Bilal’s (MFA 2003) first major survey, Indulge Me, will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Alums Jourdain Barton (MFA 2023), Geoffrey Billetter (MFA 2023), and Nat Holtzmann (MFA 2023) founded TEMPER Press to foster collaboration and experimental writing. 

Alum Yvette Mayorga (MFA 2016) was recently spotlighted in Women’s Wear Daily.

Associate Professors Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey and alum Abraham Avnisan (MFA 2015) helped shape a new artists' residency at the Public Media Institute (PMI): the Buddy Research and Performance Residency.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center was recently featured in the Chicago Reader for the theater’s 50th anniversary.

Justin Ortiz (BFA 2020) exhibited his first solo show entitled Pleasure Guttus at Five Car Garage in Los Angeles.

At Commencement on May 22, we celebrated not only the class of 2022 but also recent graduates from the classes of 2020 and 2021 who couldn’t have an in-person ceremony due to the pandemic. It was an optimistic day. 

When a family tragically lost one of their children, they reached out to a community studio in Michigan to commission a funeral urn. For the design, they asked that it mirror an urn from the anime Naruto. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) student Micah Sweezie (BFA 2022),