All Stories

On and off-campus, SAIC alumni, students, and faculty delve into what it means to feel.

For more than a century, SAIC has possessed an ethos of civic engagement that compels its artists, designers, scholars, and educators to create work that extends beyond the studios and classrooms and into the diverse communities of Chicago and beyond. 

Jeff Koons (SAIC 1975–76, HON 2008) remembers studying under influential Chicago Imagist, Ed Paschke (BFA 1961, MFA 1970, HON 1990) at SAIC. For Koons, studying at SAIC and working as Paschke's assistant was a transformative experience, and he used that education to become the internationally known artist he is today.