The BBC recently featured and interviewed SAIC alum, Anida Yoeu Ali (MFA 2010), for her performance work, the Buddhist Bug series. Ali speaks of her experience as a Cambodian refugee in the United States and the history of persecution for Muslims, like her family faced in their homeland. The interview discusses how art serves as a communicative tool to speak of experience, faith, and the human identity.
During her time at SAIC, Ali received the Fullbright Scholarship to investigate a marginalized Cambodian-American perspective in the community. In an alumni interview with SAIC, she explains her work, “I wanted to be part of a project that would shift the global perception of Cambodia, being a country beyond trauma and temples.”
February 12, 2021
Chicago Reader Spotlights Performance Department's Spring Festival
The Chicago Reader spotlighted the Department of Performance's spring festival Old Ways New Tools.
August 26, 2020
Faculty and Alums Awarded MAP Fund Grants
The MAP Fund announced its 2020 grant recipients, distributing $1.3 million to 171 performing artists and arts organizations.
April 29, 2020
Alum Julie Rodrigues Widholm Curates Frieze New York's Tribute to Women Artists of Chicago
Julie Rodrigues Widholm (MA 1999), DePaul Art Museum's director and chief curator and Chicago Tribune's Chicagoan of the Year in museums, is curating Frieze New York’s 2020 tribute to the women artists of Chicago.
