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CNN spoke to painter and alum Raelis Vasquez (BFA 2018) about how he uses personal memories and emotions to create tender, large-scale oil and acrylic paintings depicting Afro Dominican life.

The New York Times spotlighted alum Natasha Ghosn’s (BFA 2009) jewelry and fragrance brand Mondo Mondo.

The ancient Egyptian Statue of Horus (332–30 BCE), a carved idol of a falcon in black monochrome basalt, stands watch over the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of antiquities.

Continuing Studies Instructor Haman Cross III partnered with the Lincoln Park Zoo and local artists like Lecturer Eric Hotchkiss to restore the Douglass 18 miniature golf course in Douglass Park.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago was featured in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, which spotlights the nation’s top colleges. The rankings are based on 15 factors across four main categories: student outcomes, academic resources, student engagement, and the learning environment. You can explore the full list here.

Films can transport the viewer everywhere—which makes this list of recommendations from Senior Lecturer and Director of Public Programs Amy Beste a travel itinerary as much as a watch list. From Memoria's streets of Bogotá, Colombia, to Life on the Caps' fictional Atlantic island, these stories cover a lot of ground.

Now, he’s a professor in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department and the director of SAIC’s Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts program. In addition to his more than 22-year career at the School, Bordowitz is an award-winning artist and writer; he is the subject of a career retrospective at MoMA PS1 titled Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well and the author of Some Styles of Masculinity, coming out in October, and the co-founder of Damned Interfering Video Artists (DIVA TV), the loosely-organized video arm of ACT UP—where his involvement in activism bloomed.

Alum and Associate Professor, Adj. Aram Han Sifuentes (MFA 2013) was recently spotlighted in The Guardian.

Professor, Adj. Richard Hull (MFA 1990) has a new exhibition at Western Exhibitions running through April 22. Richard Hull: Mirror and Bone features paintings that an article in Hyperallergic said marked “new territory” for Hull: while he is well-known for his abstract paintings of heads, he has built out the exhibitions to include three separate gallery spaces, filled with works that depart from what a follower of Hull’s work might expect. 

In the world of media, podcasts are still fresh. Newspapers have been around since the 17th century, but podcasts only started taking hold in 2004.