Artist, educator, and curator Riva Lehrer (SAIC 1993–95, Painting and Drawing) was this week's guest columnist for the New York Times' weekly "Disability" series. Drawing from her own experiences with spina bifida, a condition where the spinal column fails to fuse to the spinal chord in utero, Lehrer explains some of the work she has done to reshape disability culture. Through portraits of people with disabilities and other stigmas, she reframes subjects as something unexpected, charming, and exciting. As a drawing instructor in Northwestern's Medical Humanities program, she teaches students to think of bodies, not as objects or conditions, but fully dimensional people with fully dimensional lives and stories. To learn more about Lehrer's contributions to disability discourse, read her piece "Where All Bodies are Exquisite."
April 12, 2021
Five SAIC Community Members Named Guggenheim Fellows
Professor Michelle Grabner, Professor Diana Guerrero-Maciá, and alums william cordova (BFA 1996), Emil Ferris (BFA 2008, MFA 2010), and Dread Scott (BFA 1989) were announced as 2021 Guggenheim Fellows.
June 3, 2020
Claire Ashley Debuts Next Installment of Inflatable Art in Her Backyard
WTTW Chicago Tonight recently interviewed SAIC Associate Professor, Adj.
May 7, 2020
New York Times Talks Painting in a Pandemic with Associate Professor Mike Cloud
“Painting right now feels like the most important thing I can do aside from taking care of myself and keeping my family healthy,” explains Mike Cloud, associate professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), in a recent interview with the New York Times.
