Artist Katie Chung, Credit: Connor Weitz
Chicago Reader Highlights Alum Katie Chung
By Sophia Carmen Salganicoff, MFA Candidate
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Chung’s mural work challenges her to look outward, as a stranger.
Courtesy the artist
Alum Katie Chung (BFA 2014) blends public art with personal storytelling, as highlighted in Chicago Reader. Known for her vibrant murals for brands like Adobe and Facebook, Chung also creates intimate textile pieces, like quilts sewn from laundry tags collected at her mother’s dry cleaning shop. The Reader article explores how her home reflects this merging of practices. This fall, Chung will make her first trip to Korea, deepening her exploration of heritage and identity—continuing to blur the lines between art, craft, memory, and cultural history.