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At Mattel, Minh-Tam Nguyen (BFA 2017) designs the Barbies of the future. 

From clubs to raves to galleries, Ále Campos (MFA 2022) and Abhijeet Rane (SAIC 2016) carry the lineage of Chicago drag performance forward.

Alum Trevor Paglen (MFA 2002) wins the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award for tech-driven art.

SAIC Assistant Professor Edgar X. Aguilera brings his sculptural design language to the global stage.

Alum Maggie Gottlieb (MA 2011) recently won a Children’s and Family Emmy Award for their work on the educational series Tab Time.

SAIC alums Carrie Schneider and Sumakshi Singh and professor Nick Cave join the 2026 Venice Biennale.

We're celebrating 160 years of SAIC with a spotlight of artist and alum William McKnight Farrow (SAIC 1918).

This winter, an SAIC course took students from the classroom to Venice, where they conceived, curated, and mounted an original exhibition.

SAIC student August Marchand’s thesis collection Quantum transforms the aesthetics of machines into a fashion statement.

See what our faculty and staff are up to.