The yearlong Milan External Partnerships class allows AIADO students to hone their craft here in Chicago, designing and producing a complete collection that eventually debuts at the prestigious Spazio Rossana Orlandi gallery during Milan Design Week.
Edra Soto (MFA 2000) is a Chicago-based artist, educator, curator, and co-director of the artist-run outdoor space THE FRANKLIN. In 2017 alone, her work has been shown at such venues as Sector 2337, the Arts Club of Chicago, Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. As of September,her work will inaugurate the Commons, a new social engagement space at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Soto told us about some of her favorite places in Chicago.
Artist and educator Valerie Xanos' (BFA 1991, MFA 2018) classroom at Curie High School, a Chicago Public School on the city's South Side strikes a balance between structure and flexibility. Through her guerrilla art approach in the classroom, she empowers students and cultivates a space where they can truly express themselves.
Through researching microscopic particles and making frames out of interwoven 3D images, Ellen Sandor (MFA 1975, HON 2014) has found the point where photography, holography, and sculpture meet.
Q&A with distinguished alumni lecturer, visiting artist, and alum Apichatpong Weerasethakul (MFA 1998, HON 2011), whose work reveals stories often excluded in history in and out of Thailand: voices of the poor and the ill, marginalized beings, and those silenced and censored for personal and political reasons. On September 16, he returns to SAIC for the US premiere of his exhibition, The Serenity of Madness.
Students in SAIC’s Department of Fashion, Body and Garment presented their year-end collections on May 5 to a standing-room-only crowd of some of the finest dressed spectators in all of Chicago, including Chicago-based fashion designer and SAIC alum Maria Pinto (BFA 1990, HON 2017). Here are our editors’ picks of some of the best street style on display at the runway show and exhibition.
SAIC President Elissa Tenny reflects on the role of the citizen artist and what role artists, designers, and scholars can play in shaping the world we live in.
