Jennie C. Jones standing in front of her acoustic panel artworks at a studio.

Image courtesy of Jennie C. Jones and the Heinz Awards, Photo by Joshua Franzos

SAIC Alum Jennie C. Jones Wins 2024 Heinz Award for the Arts

By Sophia Carmen Salganicoff, MFA Candidate

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Jennie C. Jones (BFA 1991) has been named a 2024 Heinz Award winner for the Arts. Recognized for her multidisciplinary works in painting, collage, sculpture, and sound, Jones engages with American modernism, minimalism, and avant-garde music. Her exhibitions include Higher Resonance at the Hirshhorn Museum and Dynamics at the Guggenheim Museum, the latter being the first solo presentation by a Black woman in the museum’s rotunda. Jones joins a distinguished group of nine other Heinz Award winners making groundbreaking contributions in the arts, economy, and environment.
 

Student Nitya Mehrotra’s Animations Give a Voice to Victims

With her Stories by Strangers project, student Nitya Mehrotra uses her skills as an artist to tell the stories of sexual and mental abusive survivors.

Student Nitya Mehrotra’s Animations Give a Voice to Victims