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Alum Keijaun Thomas (MFA 2014) is the first winner of the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. According to ArtForum, “The award, the first of its kind, is aimed at correcting the exclusion of Black trans women artists from the larger art canon while opening a path for others.” The New York–based alum will receive a $10,000 cash grant, as well as individual artistic support in the form of periodical studio visits from the judges’ panel. 

For the "Chicagoan of the Year in Museums," director of the Depaul Art Museum, Julie Rodrigues Widholm (MA 1999), discusses her leadership at the rising museum.

From LEDs to bees and renewable energy in between, for the past 10 years the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been busy becoming a sustainable and resilient campus. 

Adjunct Professor Richard Hull (MFA 1990, Painting and Drawing) was recently profiled in Hyperallergic.

Wu Tsang (BFA 2004) was included on artnet news' list of most influential artists of the decade.

Eric Hotchkiss and SAIC students designed the Douglas 18, a minigolf course set to open in Douglas Park.

Present. Perfect by Shengze Zhu (MFA 2017) is a documentary collage of contemporary life in China.

Clayton Flynn (BFA 2008) is director of sales at Andrew Edlin Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.