Maura Pilcher (HPres alumna), Director of the Grant Wood Art Colony at the University of Iowa, organized a stimulating and successful conference, A Home and Studio of One's Own, in collaboration with the National Trust's Historic Artists' Homes & Studios program.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alums Lisa Alvarado (BFA 2007), Emily Barker (SAIC 2010–15), Rodney McMillian (Post-Bac 2000), Na Mira (BFA 2006), Guadalupe Rosales (MFA 2016), and collective Moved by the Motion founded by Wu Tsang (BFA 2004) and Tosh Basco (MFA 2018) are a part of this year’s Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It’s Kept.
Creative Catalysts: Performance Art Reacting to the Climate Crisis (Spring 2022)
The impacts of climate change are already affecting humanity and will impact generations to come; while the issue is real and ongoing reaction and change are slow. How do you get people to notice a crisis that is happening all around them? Cue creativity. Glass Clouds Ensemble (Chamber Music Ensemble, New York City) uses chamber music to highlight productive conversations around the climate crisis. Large scale change is essential and it is necessary for independent voices to build the momentum to achieve change. Join us on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at 4 PM CST via Zoom to experience the unique ways in which these artists harness performance to inspire action in response to our global climate crisis. Produced by Nina Friedman, Sigrid Neptun, Reilly Ribeiro, Jing Shi (all MAAAP 2023).
Several SAIC community members are working on a public art project as a part of the Terminal 5 expansion project at O’Hare International Airport.
In October 2019, alum llio sophia mish (MFA 2021) and several of their friends threw a Halloween party. Though mish was still relatively new to Chicago, their apartment quickly filled up with people—many more than they’d planned for.
Newcity Design recently announced their annual Design 50 recognizing the people who have positively impacted Chicago design, 14 of whom are SAIC community members.
Comics artist Chris Ware (SAIC 1991–93, HON 2019) will be honored with an exhibition at the Bibliothèque publique d'information at the Centre Pompidou.
From gallery shows to awards, check out what our alums have been up to.
We often think about art as a medium of creation—of making something new, constructing meaning through material. But what were those materials before they became art, and what might they become after?
For School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) students, alums, and faculty, sustainability is an issue as personal as artistic practices. In fact, for many members of our community, environmental concerns have lain at the heart of their work for years.
