A person sits at an upright piano, looking at the camera. The piano lid is open, revealing honeycombs instead of strings. A white cat figurine is placed on top of the piano.

Photo Courtesy of the Vilcek Foundation

Alum Selva Aparicio Awarded The 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

By Sophia Carmen Salganicoff

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Selva Aparicio (BFA 2015) has been awarded the 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Visual Arts. The award honors “outstanding immigrant professionals, and intellectual leaders whose work champions diversity in the United States.” Known for her interdisciplinary installations exploring memory, mourning, and temporality, Aparicio utilizes materials like cicada wings, oyster shells, and human cadavers. Her practice celebrates the cyclicity of the natural world and reflects an extended death ritual, honoring materials caught in physical and spiritual limbo. She is one of three recipients each awarded $50,000.

February 2025: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

See what our faculty and staff are up to. 

February 2025: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Professor, Adj. Ginger Krebs will perform in 3-for-1 Psychic Special, presented as part of Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut performance series.