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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago announced the appointment of T. Camille Martin-Thomsen as its new dean of faculty and vice president of academic affairs.

On May 22, 2022, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago community gathered at Wintrust Arena to celebrate the resiliency of the graduating classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022.

For the first time in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty member’s career, Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment Nick Cave will present a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). Nick Cave: Forothermore will run at the MCA from May 14 to October 2, 2022, and online at mcachicago.org.

Alum Colin Self’s (BFA 2010) performance was recently reviewed by Artforum. The performance, Tip the Ivy, is an opera surrounding Polari, the dialect of LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, and entertainers in 19th and early 20th-century England.

Lecturer and Continuing Studies Instructor Megan Euker has been selected as a Fulbright scholar to visit Syracuse, Sicily, in Italy. The scholarship recognizes her work bridging art, design, science, and her career in the biotechnology world working with San Rocco Therapeutics to cure sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.

Maura Pilcher (HPres alumna), Director of the Grant Wood Art Colony at the University of Iowa, organized a stimulating and successful conference, A Home and Studio of One's Own, in collaboration with the National Trust's Historic Artists' Homes & Studios program.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alums Lisa Alvarado (BFA 2007), Emily Barker (SAIC 2010–15), Rodney McMillian (Post-Bac 2000), Na Mira (BFA 2006), Guadalupe Rosales (MFA 2016), and collective Moved by the Motion founded by Wu Tsang (BFA 2004) and Tosh Basco (MFA 2018) are a part of this year’s Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It’s Kept.

Creative Catalysts: Performance Art Reacting to the Climate Crisis (Spring 2022)

The impacts of climate change are already affecting humanity and will impact generations to come; while the issue is real and ongoing reaction and change are slow. How do you get people to notice a crisis that is happening all around them? Cue creativity. Glass Clouds Ensemble (Chamber Music Ensemble, New York City) uses chamber music to highlight productive conversations around the climate crisis. Large scale change is essential and it is necessary for independent voices to build the momentum to achieve change. Join us on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at 4 PM CST via Zoom to experience the unique ways in which these artists harness performance to inspire action in response to our global climate crisis. Produced by Nina Friedman, Sigrid Neptun, Reilly Ribeiro, Jing Shi (all MAAAP 2023).

Navigating Repatriation: Possession and Institutional Storytelling (Spring 2022)

From a cross-section of North American institutions, this public conversation brings together leading cultural researchers and practitioners for a dialogue on displaced art, repatriation, and collections policies. Produced by Britton Farrell (MAAAP 2023), Michelle Davo Ortiz (MAAAP/MAAH 2024), and Lauren Woolf (MAAAP/MAAH 2024).

Breathing Together: Revisioning Technology and Cultural Spaces (Spring 2022)

A panel discussion on the combined power of technology and culture for the post-pandemic future. How can we re-imagine, re-evaluate, and re-identify cultural spaces? By viewing this question through the lens of co-inspiration, the discussion will serve as a theoretical foundation for envisioning the future of arts programming and organizational leadership. Please join our conversation between artists, curators, organizers, and educators. Hosted by Arts Administration and Policy graduate students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in partnership with the Department's emerge: journal of arts administration and policy. Produced by Inés Arango Guingue, Yesenia Bello, Jakki Cafarelli, Lindsey Hayakawa, Megan Morton, Benita Nnachortam, Jane Valentin Grossman, Charlie Xie, and Jiani Zhu (all MAAAP 2023).