As the new director of the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, Laura-Caroline de Lara (Dual MA 2012) brings the words and work of marginalized artists to the forefront. Her pathway through the museum world ...
Over the last 160 years of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), lots of things have changed, but the core of creativity remains the same. The technology, fashion, and facilities might ...
Since its emergence in the mid-20th century, pop art has engaged the layered context of popular mass media and consumer culture that lies beneath its iconic look and feel, often sharpened by irony. It ...
In 1963, white police officers swarmed a nonviolent civil rights demonstration in what became known as the Birmingham riots. In violent scenes captured by photographer Charles Moore for Life magazine, ...
Alum Maddie Rogers’s (BFA 2020) Vintage House Chicago began as a series of vintage markets in 2021. Today, it’s evolved to include a brick-and-mortar store in Bucktown, complete with a colorful mural, ...
It might seem ironic that a young woman who designs Barbie dolls for a living didn’t grow up playing with them. But for School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Minh-Tam Nguyen (BFA 2017), a ...
This year, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been honored to see the continued belief donors have in educating the next generation of cultural leaders. By investing in scholarships ...
Blake Aaseby (MFA 2017), Robert Burnier (MFA 2016), and Dee Clements (BFA 2000) were awarded Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants. Bryanna Bibbs (BFA 2014), Claire Ashley (MFA 1995), Spencer Gale (BFA ...
The shapes of School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Aaron Curry’s (BFA 2002) works are familiar, calling to mind the sweeping symmetries of Alexander Calder or the muscular dominance of ...
Erin Minckley (Post-Bacc 2009, MFA 2012) never planned to make wallpaper. As a Fiber and Material Studies graduate student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she became an expert at ...
When Anna Chapman (MA 2022) enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) art education master’s program, she didn’t know that a connection with her then-instructor Lavie Raven would ...
As a kid reading comic books and drawing animations on a lightbox, or as a teenager trained in opera singing, or as a School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) student studying oil painting, or ...
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