Decade after decade, SAIC’s Photography department has grown, always evolving with changing technologies and encouraging students to pursue their own aesthetics and interests.Photography often bridges the gap between departments, incorporating the medium into explorations of other disciplines, like performance, printmedia, film, video, new media, and animation, and fiber and material studies.
In “Expanding the Definitions of Design,” published in the July 15 edition the International Herald Tribune and featured on nytimes.com, writer Alice Rawsthorn highlights practical youth-oriented design courses co-founded by SAIC alumna Emily Pilloton (MFA 2005). Aimed at providing practical design strategies, a design course for high school students called Studio H—as well as a design camp for young girls called Studio G—approach design as a means to increasing everyday resourcefulness.
Fifteen full-time faculty joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) working across a range of departments.
In an ongoing collaboration with Swarovski, SAIC student work is featured in the Swarovski anniversary retrospective in New York.
Chicago Tribune Blue Sky Innovation features SAIC's use of new technologies and traditional methods of making.
