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Sculptor and alum Richard Hunt (BA 1957, HON 1979) is the first artist commissioned by the Obama Foundation to create a piece for the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side.

Alum Iyomi Ho Ken (BFA 2022) and student Michelle Sumin Suh were recently featured in the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA) 2021 Fashion Future Graduate Showcase.

The New York Times spotlighted the work of Associate Professor LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose photography documents the courage and diversity of communities that have been ravaged by unemployment, poverty, and racism.

On September 1, School of the Art Institute of Chicago students gathered at the 280 Building for a barbecue to celebrate the first day of classes—and they were serving looks. Check out some of our editors’ favorite fits from this year’s Welcome (Back) BBQ.

According to Jewish tradition, everyone dies twice. The first time is when the heart stops beating, and the second time is when the dead person’s name is uttered for the last time. Only then is the person really gone. 

Chicago is a network of neighborhoods and an interdependency of communities that SAIC artists, designers, and scholars are a part of, thrive in, learn from, make for, and grow with.

Before Art and Technology Studies at SAIC became what it is today, the department took the form of two previous programs: Kinetics and Generative Systems.

In 2021, a piece of artwork sold for $69.3 million dollars at Christie’s—the third-highest price ever realized by a living artist at auction. While other works would be whisked away from the auction block by white-gloved hands and packed by art handlers, this piece was different: it doesn’t exist in the physical world at all.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago student Milica Zekic (BFA 2023) was recently announced as the First Prize Winner of the 2022 AXA Art Prize.

Professor Emeritus Michiko Itatani’s (SAIC 1983-91) latest solo exhibition Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage was recently spotlighted on Chicago’s PBS television station WTTW as part of their “Chicago Tonight” segment.