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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a global leader in art and design education, continues its yearly events with an exciting line-up for April 2021.

Between January 31 and February 1, more than 20 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were subject to bomb scares.

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Alums Emilio Williams (MFA 2019) and Assistant Professor Benjamin Larose (MDes 2016) are staging their plays at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater. 

Lecturer Alberto Aguilar’s exhibition, Yo Soy Museo, is on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art through February 12, 2023.

Interdisciplinary contemporary artist Viraj Mithani (BFA 2015) was recently included on Forbes India's 30 Under 30, a list of “young achievers who are breaking the mold to script their own stories.”

The art and design world is changing. Galleries are embracing online exhibitions alongside in-person shows; community-based art is taking on tremendous gravity; art and activism are merging in more powerful ways than ever before.

Interdisciplinary artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Paul Chan (BFA 1996) was awarded a 2022 MacArthur "genius" grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. E

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago condemns and repudiates Kanye West’s (now know as Ye) anti-Black, antisemitic, racist, and dangerous statements, particularly those directed at Black and Jewish communities.

Alum Cameron Clayborn (BFA 2016) was awarded the 22nd Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2021.