SAIC’s Andres Hernandez chosen for Pulitzer design-build commission.
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts announced Andres Hernandez (MA 2004) and Amanda Williams as the 2016–17 winners of the PXSTL, a design-build project competition with aims of urban transformation through the arts. The two were awarded the commission to transform a vacant lot into a temporary structure for the purposes of community engagement. In addition, the two will teach an architecture studio course at the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, in which students will collaborate in the design and implementation of this project. The structure will be completed in spring of 2017 and programming will begin that summer.
Image courtesy of chicagoartistsmonth.org
In celebration of alum Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks opening current SAIC students were invited to submit artworks inspired by O’keeffe and the city of Chicago.
An image from the exhibition opening of “My Chicagos: SAIC Students Honor Georgia O’Keeffe.”