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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. 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alums Tara Asgar (MFA 2020), Cassidy Early (MFA 2020), and Duff Norris (BFA 2015) share their artistic explorations of trauma, loneliness, and loss in three interviews for Hyperallergic’s Pride Month Series.

The New York Times spotlights the debut New York solo show of School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Aliza Nisenbaum (BFA 2001, MFA 2005), on view through September 10 at the Queens Museum.

Dazed recently highlighted the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and alums Yvette Mayorga (MFA 2016), Isabelle Frances McGuire (BFA 2016), Ricardo Partida (MFA 2020), and Nereida Patricia (BFA 2020).