SAIC Magazine Fall 2018
The fall issue of School of the Art Institute of Chicago magazine celebrates the successful completion of our first-ever fundraising campaign, Beautiful/Work: The Campaign for SAIC, and features the voices of 55 people who helped make it happen. The issue also gives you a front-row seat to our commissionership with the University of Chicago of the US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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August 23, 2018
Dimensions of Citizenship
What does it mean to be a citizen today? This question is at the heart of the US Pavilion’s exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale commissioned by SAIC and the University of Chicago.
August 22, 2018
Beautiful/Work Everywhere
Meet 55 of the people behind SAIC's historic campaign for students and faculty.
August 20, 2018
About a Work
Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism Jennifer Dorothy Lee uses Zao Wou-Ki’s landscape Pink Composition to help students engage with midcentury modernist paintings.
August 20, 2018
From the President
SAIC President Elissa Tenny reflects on the close of Beautiful/Work: The Campaign for SAIC and the School's commissionership with the University of Chicago of the US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
August 23, 2018
My Chicago
Rana Siegel (MFA 2008) likes to move. And touch. And smell. This is her Chicago.
August 20, 2018
CAAP and Gown
The College Arts Access Program leads graduating high school seniors to higher education.
August 21, 2018
My Obsessions: Dan Price
Dan Price likes making things. He loves making pickled vegetables, he makes sculptural installations, and as chair of the Sculpture department, Price also makes things happen for the faculty, students, and curriculum. Here are some of the other things energizing and inspiring him to make.
August 20, 2018
Career Conversations
Here is an excerpt from our recent conversation with Amy Lawson Smeed (BFA 1997) who was the first woman head of animation in Disney history when she led the team for Moana.
August 21, 2018
Street Style: At the MFA Show
The SAIC community came together in its finest attire to celebrate the culminating work of graduate students at the MFA Show. Here are our editors’ picks of some of the best street style from the night of April 27 at the Sullivan Galleries.
August 21, 2018
2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
SAIC was selected by the US Department of State with the University of Chicago to commission the US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
August 21, 2018
Beautiful/Work Donor Honor Roll
Beautiful/Work: The Campaign for SAIC concluded June 30, 2018, $5.2 million over its $50 million goal. To all those who gave, thank you.
