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Alums Jourdain Barton (MFA 2023), Geoffrey Billetter (MFA 2023), and Nat Holtzmann (MFA 2023) founded TEMPER Press to foster collaboration and experimental writing. 

Alum Yvette Mayorga (MFA 2016) was recently spotlighted in Women’s Wear Daily.

Associate Professors Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey and alum Abraham Avnisan (MFA 2015) helped shape a new artists' residency at the Public Media Institute (PMI): the Buddy Research and Performance Residency.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center was recently featured in the Chicago Reader for the theater’s 50th anniversary.

Justin Ortiz (BFA 2020) exhibited his first solo show entitled Pleasure Guttus at Five Car Garage in Los Angeles.

At Commencement on May 22, we celebrated not only the class of 2022 but also recent graduates from the classes of 2020 and 2021 who couldn’t have an in-person ceremony due to the pandemic. It was an optimistic day. 

When a family tragically lost one of their children, they reached out to a community studio in Michigan to commission a funeral urn. For the design, they asked that it mirror an urn from the anime Naruto. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) student Micah Sweezie (BFA 2022),

Denise Gardner, chairperson of the Board of Trustees for the Art Institute of Chicago, was featured in ABC7’s series Black & Powerful.

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.