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Art That Gathers, Feeds, and Grows: How a Group of Students Formed a New Art Collective

Revisited collective met through SAIC’s Low-Residency MFA program. Today, they’re still making art that explores motherhood ...
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How Norman Teague Reimagines the World of Furniture Design

From curating a recent MoMA show to running a design studio, alum Norman Teague (MFA 2016) questions what visibility means in ...
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago to Sell its Roger Brown Study Collection to Kohler Foundation

CHICAGO—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a leader in art and design education, and the Kohler Foundation today announced the college will transfer ownership of the art and archives ...
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About the Graduate Program

A graduate education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a play in contrasts. The experience feels intimate—but your possibilities are vast, with 33 graduate degree and certificate ...
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SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

School of the Art Institute of Chicago magazine Published by the Office of Marketing and Communications 116 S. Michigan Ave., 6th floor Chicago, IL 60603 [email protected] Vice President of ...
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Exploring the Iron Age with SAIC’s Foundry

On a sunny day in July, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) students gathered for an event that harkened back to the Iron Age. The class Foundry Projects: Iron Casting participated in an ...
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Street Style: First Day of Classes

A highlight of the new school year? The looks. For School of the Art Institute of Chicago students, the city is their runway. We caught up with several fashion icons on the first day of the fall 2025 ...
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MATERIAL MATTERS: SAIC CLASSES GO BACK TO THE BASICS

Video by Zachary Grey Phelps In an increasingly digital, ephemeral world, what does it mean to go back to the basics? To explore this question, School of the Art Institute of Chicago magazine visited ...
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Meet the Incoming Class

Describe yourself in three objects. My red cowboy boots, a pack of Extra Polar Ice gum, and a half-drunk cup of iced dirty chai. I was drawn to the multidisciplinary aspect of the MFA programs, but ...
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Layers of Scraps, Fragments, and Hidden Meaning

Tucked away in the Prints and Drawings Study Room at the Art Institute of Chicago is a collage that is as much a visual puzzle as it is a historical document. Kurt Schwitters’ Untitled (Arrival for ...
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Jiseon Lee Isbara on Tradition and Rediscovery

The cool crispness of cotton. The scratchy density of felted wool. The silken weightlessness of organza. As a fiber artist, when I graze my hand across a bolt of fabric I hold potential—What forms can ...