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Alum Keiouni Keijaun Thomas (MFA 2014) has been announced as one of the recipients of this year’s MAP Fund Artist Grants.

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) community gathered at Wintrust Arena to celebrate the graduating classes of 2023. At the ceremony, 1,163 graduates crossed the stage to receive their degrees. 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alums Tara Asgar (MFA 2020), Cassidy Early (MFA 2020), and Duff Norris (BFA 2015) share their artistic explorations of trauma, loneliness, and loss in three interviews for Hyperallergic’s Pride Month Series.

The New York Times spotlights the debut New York solo show of School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Aliza Nisenbaum (BFA 2001, MFA 2005), on view through September 10 at the Queens Museum.

Dazed recently highlighted the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and alums Yvette Mayorga (MFA 2016), Isabelle Frances McGuire (BFA 2016), Ricardo Partida (MFA 2020), and Nereida Patricia (BFA 2020).

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a global leader in art and design education, will welcome alum and celebrated cultural and civic leader Angelique Power (MFA 1998) to deliver the Commencement address on Sunday, May 22, at the Wintrust Arena.

CHICAGO—Denise Kelly Banks has been appointed chief human resources officer (CHRO), a position overseeing the development and execution of all human resource strategy for both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago museum.

De Orbegoso’s figures are displayed in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of the Arts of the Americas.

Curator and gallerist Monique Meloche (SAIC 1991–94) was recently featured in a profile published by Newcity Art that explores her career, accomplishments, and motivations.

The threat of climate change can seem overwhelming. Existential in its ramifications. It’s no wonder, then, that many School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) artists, designers, and scholars—who regularly tackle the pressing issues of our time—have made humanity’s environmental footprint central to their work.