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Meet 55 of the people behind SAIC's historic campaign for students and faculty.

artnet News profiles curator Monique Meloche (SAIC 1991–94) and her role in launching artists like Sanford Biggers (MFA 1999) and Rashid Johnson (2003–04) into the limelight.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Exhibitions, lectures, and celebrations—SAIC is happening.

Learn what inspires four of our newest students. 

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.

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.