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Taking Credit. Giving Credit. Faking Credit.
When passing is just good enough to fail.
By Prof. Andrew Yang
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Young Designers in Chicago Push a New National Movement in Design
One of the latest movements in the design world revolves around the design club…
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Tales from my Fisherman Father (If I follow my hands, can I shake the winter fish from the trees?)
In Tiburon, on a Wednesday, I saw a seabird with my father’s face. “Why don’t you get yourself a decent boyfriend?” it cawed…
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Alumni · Faculty · News · Obituary
Flores “Flo” McGarrell, 1974-2010
SAIC community mourns the loss of “Flo” McGarrell, killed in Haiti earthquake; Two others returned safely
Grant Reynolds!
Natalie Edwards interviews Grant Reynolds, an F Newsmagazine cartoonist who has since published several books, including the acclaimed “Comic Diorama”.
Arts & Culture · fashion · School
SAIC fashion show to make its Modern Wing debut
The fashion program at SAIC remains something of a hidden gem at the school, perhaps because it exists within an artistic surfeit. But despite being unofficially classified as a…
Alumni · Arts & Culture · Interviews
The pedagogy of artist Paul Chan
“Education can be an important art experience but an art experience is not dependent on an educational experience or an educational background.”
-Paul Chan
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Gregg Bordowitz Talks to Steve Kurtz
Dec. 26, 2004
Kurtz, an artist charged with bioterrorism, sits down for an informal conversation about the Critical Arts Ensemble.
Home sweet home
Chunks of plaster melt and drip as they climb and curl their way into corners and onto the floor of the gallery |
Arts & Culture · School · Student Art Drawing attention
First-year SAIC student Hu Jingxuan, 20, has published a graphic novel and had a short manga included in the anthology, “Sin City” |
Arts & Culture · economy · work Economizing Creativity
Is the MFA the new MBA? |
Alumni · Arts & Culture · News · Obituary Jeff Marlin, 1969-2009
1991 SAIC graduate’s final show of paintings at Corbett vs. Dempsey through February 6 |
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Silence Speaks Volumes
Since a knee injury set Elizabeth Adamczyk back from running six years ago, her bicycling habits have turned from rehabilitation into a routine. For people…
Read about a bad despot or beer in hell, a writer’s blog, now a book
Despots are bad. George Saunders’s novella, ”The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil,” employs Lorax-like imagery and Orwellesque allegories to make this point clear.
Sex Ed
A giant plush vulva confronts gallery-goers entering “Everybody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009” at I Space.
Publishing the Obama brand
“Designing Obama”, a book chronicling the role of art and design in the Obama campaign is being published unconventionally, using funds raised on the web…
Design Heroes
These twelve badasses revolutionized graphic design. Protecting the public from mundane magazine spreads, boring book covers, and no-fun front pages, these artists brought innovation to graphic design in the fields of photomontage, logo design, illustration, and typography.
Pedal Power
The male dominated culture of Critical Mass bike rides prompted a DIY activist movement for mass rides to include GLBTQ bikers and empower female cyclists…
Grave Reminders
Just before midnight on January 4, 2006, 50 year-old Isai Medina was walking his bike down the sidewalk near Western Avenue and Cortez when a drunk driver swerved and hit him. Medina, an avid participant in Chicago Critical Mass, was…
Field Trip to Motown
…Daniel Quiles and Kymberly Pinder took a group of students to see two significant artworks in Detroit: Diego Rivera’s mural Detroit Industry in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Heidelberg Project by Tyree Guyton…
A View To Learn
By redesigning the space on the eleventh floor of the Sharp building, Stephen Farrell, associate professor of visual communications, aimed to create a more cohesive community…
Newsworthy
Sharp Building renovations opening next fall - H1N1 101 - New students’ semester experience and future choices
Bizot
With the Olympic hope extinguished, Chicago’s cultural elites may have sustained a blow to their egos, but they have another reason to be humming this October…
FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS
The multi-venue retrospective of Hollis Frampton coming to Chicago offers a chance to take another look at a body of work too often reduced to a couple of films…
