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.
Professor Joseph Grigely will exhibit a series of works titled In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Words, 1996-2023) at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art beginning May 28.
Experimenting outside of a singular discipline is essential to the curriculum of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and learning across disciplines is a metamorphosis so many students here make.
The Gene Siskel Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has named filmmaker, curator, and programmer Jada-Amina (BFA 2020) to lead the artistic vision and direction as lead curator of the 29th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival.
Current student Elizabeth YJ Seonwoo (BFA 2023) and alums Leah Ra’chel Gipson (MA 2010) and Ivan Lozano (MFA 2011) recently received grants from the 3Arts Awards, a non-profit grant-making organization that has awarded over $5.8 million in funds to over 1,800 artists since 2007.
