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SAIC faculty win prestigious Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship Award to support their artistic practices.

"How to Be an Artist" by art critic and SAIC alum Jerry Saltz (SAIC 1970–75, HON 2008) is the cover story of the latest issue of New York magazine. 

SAIC alums are featured in a gallery show, curated by Associate Professor Jon Cates, celebrating new media.

Current AIADO student Leila Khoury (MArch 2020) was recently featured on OZY as a "Rising Star." Rising Stars, according to OZY, are "people who are accelerating our culture and advancing the conversation - for good or for ill. You may not have heard of them yet but you'll soon need to know 'em."

Recently, the American Institute of Architects' Blueprint for Better campaign and the Chicago Ideas Festival collaborated with two design-based workshops. 

In the News

SAIC Fiber and Material Studies Professor Anne Wilson and alum Shannon Stratton (MFA 2003, MA 2008) were recently featured in an Artsy article on the line between art and furniture. 

After more than 25 years of successful iron pours at Crabtree farm in Lake Bluff, Illinois, the SAIC Sculpture Department has introduced iron casting as a semester long course which runs every spring.