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Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing Michelle Grabner was recently featured in the Chicago Reader.

Alum Brandon Phillips (BFA 2000) and his wife Amy Phillips were recently featured on an episode of the HBO television series Where We Call Home.

Rebecca Fons, the Gene Siskel Film Center’s director of programming, was recently named by the Chicago Tribune as their 2022 Chicagoan of the Year in Film.

BODIES, curated by Lecturer Megan Euker, highlights the medical device design work of SAIC’s Intro to Designed Objects students. The exhibition is on display at the International Museum of Surgical Science. 

Seeing the future is hard work. Tomorrow can seem like a total mystery and, as the pandemic taught us, what’s to come might not be for the faint of heart. Fortunately, we have artists and designers.

New York’s Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting alum Andrew Norman Wilson's (MFA 2011) video installation Workers Leaving the Googleplex. 

The ceramics of alum Sydnie Jimenez (BFA 2020) are spotlighted by the Chicago Reader.

Katie Paterson’s work moves at a different pace. In our frenetic modern world, the Scottish-born artist’s pieces are rooted in an expansive sense of time, an understanding of the full history of our planet.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a global leader in art and design education, has been selected as a recipient of one of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative grants.