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Artist, activist, and alum Tania Bruguera (MFA 2001, HON 2016) agreed to leave Cuba in exchange for the release of 25 prisoners who are incarcerated for protesting the current regime.

He is most well-known for his oil paintings depicting life in his hometown of Baghdad.

The Gelmans’ artistic interests were sparked through Jacques’ career as a motion picture producer in Mexico, where many painters worked on his sets.

The grains of pine look like brushstrokes, the furls of seafoam green paint draped like folds of fabric.

She received both her bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and has taught in nearly every department at the School over the course of her 16-year teaching career.

Two SAIC alums, Jeanine Oleson (BFA 1995) and Dread Scott (BFA 1988), were awarded highly competitive Rome Prizes for the 2023–24 season. 

Interim Dean of Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs Shawn Michelle Smith was selected as one of the Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) 2022–2023 class of fellows. 

Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment Professor Nick Cave’s video work, “Ba Boom Boom Pa Pop Pop,” will be projected as part of Art on theMART through September 7, in conjunction with his first career-spanning retrospective, Forothermore, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Alum Allison Glenn (MA 2012) was recently announced as senior curator of Public Art Fund, an organization that stages public art installations across New York City.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Nyugen E. Smith (MFA 2017) has completed his latest exhibition, Ancient Future Memory, which is currently on display at CulturalDC in Washington, DC.