Earlier in June, SAIC alum Saya Woolfalk (MFA 2004) sat down with the Huffington Post for a Q&A. Woolfalk discusses her art, which grapples with themes of race, cultural boundaries, and hybridity.
Woolfalk’s work is currently on display in an installation at the Seattle Art Museum called ChimaTEK: Virtual Chimeric Space. According to the Huffington Post, Woolfalk’s futuristic installation “features the ‘Empathics,’ women whose absorption of culture results in a genetic transformation into a hybrid being—part human, part plant. They are porous and ultimately demonstrate acceptance and a need to evolve.”
Woolfalk was born in Japan and is based in New York City. “Her own experience points to her elevated understanding of what it means to be a global citizen,” the article notes. “She utilizes sculpture, paintings, digital video, ethereal music, and performance art to design a world and experience for that global citizen.”
The full Q&A, complete with photos and video, can be read on the Huffington Post.
October 27, 2020
Sungho Bae receives Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center
Second year MFA Graduate in sculpture, Sungho Bae, has been selected by the International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, to recieve an Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award!
July 21, 2020
MFA Sculpture Students Launch Virtual Gallery, Perennial Space
To make up for the loss of in-person exhibitions during the pandemic, students from the Sculpture department have launched a virtual gallery to experiment with new methods of collaboration and artmaking.
April 27, 2020
SAIC Faculty, Alums, and Students Contribute to Quarantine Times
Launched by the Public Media Institute (PMI), Lumpen Magazine, and Lumpen Radio (WLPN 105.5fm), The Quarantine Times spotlights the different ways Chicago's artists are responding to the pandemic.
