This semester SAIC flexed its power by reducing its energy usage and upping its green initiatives. The School has been recognized by several organizations for its energy minimizing efforts and focus on sustainability.
SAIC continues its year-end events with an exciting line-up for spring and summer.
CCRX is a start up nonprofit organization in the early stages of development. The organization will address the recycling and redistribution of resources for use in the arts and education sectors. The project is modeled on several national organizations. The organization’s leader is a widely respected and admired Chicago arts administrator who has begun research and development for the project.
The MSI team working on this project will help build the organization’s business plan, 501c3 application, fundraising plans, website design, and program concepts. This was an excellent project for students interested in learning the process of starting a non profit, particularly a larger more complex model which will rely on building and sustaining networks and collaborative programming. The project also engaged the important social and political questions of environmental issues such as reuse and the social responsibility of the arts in creating sustainable working models.
Inherit Chicago is the first intercultural citywide festival of its kind, happening in October 2017. The month-long festival is happening across 30 neighborhood-based heritage museums and cultural centers and includes exhibitions, performances, culinary events and discussions. The festival is produced by the Chicago Cultural Alliance.
For this project, the student team worked across the Fall and Spring semesters to help shape and facilitate festival concept design sessions and build collaborative programming ideas with more than 30 member organizations. In the Spring semester, the team worked extensively on the festival branding and to develop the narrative and film elements of the festival's video. Several team members supported the festival production. See links below.
e-merge is an online journal produced by graduate students in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Master of Arts Administration and Policy program, featuring collaborations with guest editors from the SAIC community. It features original, pioneering theory and practice in the field of arts administration and related domains. We seek to engage with issues related to arts administration as a professional practice in order to broaden the overall scope of discourse.
The online-only publication also allows us to continue refining and evolving our structure. This mutability is well suited to a publication run entirely by graduate students-a community that faces a complete renewal every two years. We look forward to seeing and sharing the continued evolution of emerge with our audience.
