For the first time in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty member’s career, Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment Nick Cave will present a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). Nick Cave: Forothermore will run at the MCA from May 14 to October 2, 2022, and online at mcachicago.org.
Alum Colin Self’s (BFA 2010) performance was recently reviewed by Artforum. The performance, Tip the Ivy, is an opera surrounding Polari, the dialect of LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, and entertainers in 19th and early 20th-century England.
Lecturer and Continuing Studies Instructor Megan Euker has been selected as a Fulbright scholar to visit Syracuse, Sicily, in Italy. The scholarship recognizes her work bridging art, design, science, and her career in the biotechnology world working with San Rocco Therapeutics to cure sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.
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.
