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Associate Professor Maria Gaspar and Professor Candida Alvarez recently were named recipients of this year’s Latinx Artist Fellowship.

The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation made a $750,000 gift to support the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s College Arts Access Program (CAAP).

As a curator, artist, and director of educational programming at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, Torres-Figueroa utilizes her many roles to inspire social change and foster relationships between young artists, their identities, and their work.

Five undergraduate students from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) are among 30 artists whose work will be on display through February 18 at A Very Serious Gallery at 673 North Milwaukee Avenue. The show, Winter Dreams, focuses on bringing light and warmth into the darkest days of the season. 

After seven years of transformative leadership, Elissa Tenny today announced that she will retire as president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) at the end of the 2023–24 academic year.

With Tiny Table Gallery, four SAIC community members bring elements of fun and play into the art world.

Newcity Art just released its annual list of the 50 most prominent artists based in Chicago, including over 30 artists, activists, and educators from SAIC.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) first in-person Fashion Show since 2019, which took place this past May, was recently spotlighted by the Chicago Reader.

Alum Patricia Michaels (SAIC 1991–93) recently spoke with Hyperallergic about her design company PM Waterlily’s collection for this year’s Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Santa Fe Indian Market fashion show.

When celebrated painter and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting Candida Alvarez was a little girl, she loved to stare at the stained-glass windows of her Brooklyn church.