In reflecting on my first semester as President of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), I am reminded of a quote published in the Chicago Tribune by our Inaugural President’s Distinguished Lecturer Claudia Rankine, who visited campus this fall. She says, “The unexpected beauty of art is you don’t know what it will do.”
Judy Ledgerwood’s (MFA 1984) work is anything but quiet. Her paintings of jewel-toned quatrefoils, circles, and seed-like shapes suggestive of feminine power pop against the stark white wall of the new studio she shares with her husband Tony Tasset (MFA 1985) in Sawyer, Michigan.
The summer study trip Zeitgeist: Dada in Germany celebrates the past and informs the present for SAIC students.
Here is an excerpt from our conversation with Jasmin Shokrian (BFA 1998), founder and creative director of her Los Angeles-based eponymous clothing brand, and her advice to current SAIC students and recent graduates.
Fine art and fashion were on full display as graduating students presented their final work at the 2016 Fall BFA Show. Here are our editors’ picks of some of the best street style at the preview reception on November 18, at the Sullivan Galleries.
The students graduating SAIC in spring 2017 are inquisitive in the classroom and studio, diverse in their backgrounds, and a little outrageous in how they express themselves. Meet four of our newest alumni.
Christina Gómez is Professor of Liberal Arts and Director of Academic Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion. She is a sociologist, activist, and native Chicagoan whose book was recently selected for the One Campus, One Book program at the University of Alaska Southeast. Gómez told us about some of her favorite places around Chicago that inspire her.
For many students at SAIC, written descriptions and photos are all they have experienced of Tropicália—at least, this has been the case until this February.
Kjell Theøry (2017) is an augmented reality performance by the provisional collective Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r) juxtaposing Alan Turing’s mathematical descriptions of nature with algorithmic mutations of Guillaume Apollinaire’s 1917 play The Breasts of Tiresias, a genderfluid spectacle for which the author invented the word “surrealism.”
