The art and design world is changing. Galleries are embracing online exhibitions alongside in-person shows; community-based art is taking on tremendous gravity; art and activism are merging in more powerful ways than ever before.
Interdisciplinary artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Paul Chan (BFA 1996) was awarded a 2022 MacArthur "genius" grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. E
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago condemns and repudiates Kanye West’s (now know as Ye) anti-Black, antisemitic, racist, and dangerous statements, particularly those directed at Black and Jewish communities.
Alum Cameron Clayborn (BFA 2016) was awarded the 22nd Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2021.
For years, you were more likely to find Native art in a natural history museum than an art gallery, displayed among dioramas, fading wall labels, and low-lit plinths.
FOX 32 interviewed Professor Romi Crawford about her project the Black Arts Movement School Modality.
Alum Scheherazade Tillet (MA 2005) was recently announced as a 2022 leader for a New Chicago cohort.
Lecturer Guy Elgat’s book, Being Guilty: Freedom, Responsibility, and Conscience in German Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger, was published.
