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Through a yearlong interaction and partnership with Chicago based artist and developer Theaster Gates, the studio which eventually became known as Back of the House, became a breeding ground of non-conventional approaches to being and making in Chicago.

Nick Franco makes paintings using microscopic images from his dermatologist father’s medical books

Thing Lab was a year-long, hybrid, art and design studio class conceived and taught by 

SAIC full-time faculty Dan Price (Sculpture) and Tim Parsons (Designed Objects). The 

course utilized The School of the Art Institute’s position as a cross-disciplinary institution 

with strong art and design resources to tackle the convergence of art and design head-

on.