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Featured in W Magazine, Lindsay Adams (MFA 2025) is preparing a major 2026 commission for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Alum Alejandra Rivero (MFA 2024) heads to Paraguay on a Fulbright to explore the cultural stories woven into Ñandutí lace

In the fall 2025 issue of School of the Art Institute of Chicago magazine, we explore the ways our community goes back to the basics.

Check out what our alums have been up to. 

On a sunny July day, SAIC students gathered for an event that harkened back to the Iron Age. 

On the first day of the fall 2025 semester, our students came dressed to impress. 

SAIC professor Romi Crawford named to the Artistic Team for documenta 16 in Kassel, 2027.
 

In Adult Continuing Studies course En Plein Air, students learn to paint the world around them.

For alum Bobbi Meier (MA 2000, MFA 2009), helping launch the Anne Wilson and Joan Livingstone Fiber and Material Studies Fellowship had personal ties. 

As the co-founder of watch culture website Worn & Wound, alum Zach Weiss (MFA 2008) is obsessed with things built to last.