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Alum Erina Shibata (Post-Bac 2014, MFA 2016) reflects fondly on her memories of SAIC and talks about why she stays connected to the School.
Artist and professor of Art and Technology Studies Eduardo Kac (MFA 1990) recently completed the launch of the world’s first zerogravity artwork in outer space. Called Inner Telescope, it took Kac nearly 10 years to research, plan, and execute.
On Friday, November 3, graduate students opened their studios to the community and the public for SAIC’s annual Graduate Open Studio Night. Here are our editors’ picks of some of the best street style on display from that evening.
Science inspires Trevor Paglen (MFA 2002), Justus Harris (BA 2013), and Lindsey French (MFA 2013, Contemporary Practices and Art and Technology Studies) to create and innovate.
For SAIC students, the Art Institute of Chicago museum is an extension of their classroom, informing their creative and scholarly practices.
After 20 years in SAIC’s administration, Dean of Faculty Lisa Wainwright is hanging up her hat— figuratively, of course—as dean and returning to the faculty to teach art history. She started her career teaching in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism department, where she’ll return next year following a sabbatical. This return to her first love—art history—excites her. Here are some other things that are thrilling to this decorated art historian.
The students graduating SAIC in spring 2018 are ambitious, dedicated, and a bit quirky. Meet four of our newest alumni.
Alum Elizabeth Buchsbaum Newhall’s (DIPLOMA 1932) whimsical black-and-white illustrations of worms, parasites, insects, crustaceans, jellies, and other invertebrates are featured throughout Animals Without Backbones (the University of Chicago Press, first published in 1938), written by her brother, Ralph Buchsbaum.
Each year Lecturer Tim Nickodemus takes his Research Studio for Transfer Students class to visit SAIC's Roger Brown Study Collection in Lincoln Park to illustrate the connections between their art and their lives.