When celebrated painter and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting Candida Alvarez was a little girl, she loved to stare at the stained-glass windows of her Brooklyn church.
This exhibition, which has received rave reviews, is a remarkable bookend to the artist’s first major exhibition stateside, which Jacob curated four decades earlier.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has recently been named a top-producing institution for both the Fulbright US Student and US Scholar Program for the 2022–23 academic year.
CBS Sunday Morning recently highlighted the life and work of artist Joseph Yoakum, whose work is currently on display at the MoMA and can also be seen in SAIC’s Roger Brown Collection on their Youtube channel.
In August of 2023, the Gene Siskel Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago reopened its doors after being closed for 18 months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Rirkrit Tiravanija (MFA 1986) has been given his first United States museum survey at MoMA PS1 in New York, which will feature his famed interactive pieces among other works. With more than 100 artworks, Tiravanija’s show is one of the biggest that PS1 has devoted to a single artist in several years.
The nonprofit Creative Capital Foundation recently announced the recipients of the 2023 Creative Capital Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact Awards and the awardees include three School of the Art Institute of Chicago alums and faculty: Katherine Behar (BFA 2000), Bow Ty (MFA 2014), and Lecturer Pamela Sneed.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Judith Geichman (MFA 1978) was awarded a 2023 Grant to Artists by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
For BOMB Magazine’s latest edition of their Oral History Project (OHP), Associate Professor Ayanah Moor interviewed visual artist and academic Folayemi Wilson.
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