Chicago Reader Highlights Alum Katie Chung

Artist Katie Chung stands amid hanging rows of plastic-covered clothes at a dry cleaners. She looks up at the camera. She wears red lipstick and a white shirt and has long reddish brown hair.

Artist Katie Chung, Credit: Connor Weitz

By Sophia Carmen Salganicoff

Alum Katie Chung (BFA 2014) blends public art with personal storytelling, as highlighted in Chicago Reader. Known for her vibrant murals for brands like Adobe and Facebook, Chung also creates intimate textile pieces, like quilts sewn from laundry tags collected at her mother’s dry cleaning shop. The Reader article explores how her home reflects this merging of practices. This fall, Chung will make her first trip to Korea, deepening her exploration of heritage and identity—continuing to blur the lines between art, craft, memory, and cultural history.

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