On December 7, 2018, SAIC’s Historic Preservation Department hosted a hands-on workshop on decorative gilding. The session, hosted in SAIC’s 15th floor lab classroom at 116 South Michigan Avenue, was sponsored by the Association for Preservation Technology - Western Great Lakes Chapter.
SAIC's Bio Art Lab is turning poems into viruses and mutating the medium of traditional art.
Octavia Butler's book Parable of the Sower is the inspiration behind Take Root Among the Stars: The Legacy of Octavia Butler, Surviving the 21st Century and Beyond the professional practices course taught by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem (MFA 2004).
SAIC New Arts Journalism alum Jessica Barrett Sattell (MA 2015) describes her work as a content strategist for the social media giant Facebook.
The Chicago Tribune celebrated the best in architecture in 2018, including the US Pavilion's Dimensions of Citizenship and Jeanne Gang's energy efficient green building, Solstice on the Park.
Historic Preservation alum Jill Tuinier (MS 2011) was recently featured in a story by Grotto Network titled "Restoring Beauty to Old Buildings."
Historic Preservation alum Kate Kelemen (SAIC 2007) was recently interviewed by Chicago Woman titled as their "Artist of the Week."
