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Here are our editors’ picks from some of the best styles at the Fall Undergraduate Exhibition on November 15 at SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries.

Nicholas Lowe, program director and associate professor in Historic Preservation, is a visual artist, curator, historian, and archivist.

Q&A with artist and writer Emil Ferris (BFA 2008, MFA 2010) who returns to SAIC on February 11 for her Distinguished Alumni Visiting Artists Program Lecture. 

Mie Kongo (BFA 2006) divides her time between Chicago and  rural Indiana town, preferring large, bustling cities while finding solace in quiet nature walks. Here are some of the obsessions of someone who welcomes contradiction:

Jane Heap (SAIC 1902–05), a painter born in 1883 in Topeka, Kansas, was an important figure in the fight for artistic freedom.

Beijing-native Xiang “Sean” Gu’s (MDes 2019) graduate collection of sculptural garments has earned him accolades in the New York City fashion world and at SAIC. He is the recipient of the 2019 NicNac Fellowship, a $10,000 award that recognizes exceptional promise in a graduating master’s student in Fashion, Body and Garment.

Claire Ashley (MFA 1995) teaches new generations of young artists at SAIC, challenging them to make the work that matters to them and to go off the grid.

A look at the accomplishment of SAIC alums. 

Fall 2019 was full of great events on and off campus.