Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
Works by Nazafarin Lotfi & Shirin Mozaffari
February 4 - February 26, 2010
LG Space, SAIC
Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
USEFULNESS. Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction
January 28 - February 26, 2010
Exhibition curated by Cecilia Vargas. Participant artists: Chris Bradley, Jesse Butcher, Scott Carter, Anthony Creeden, Scott Jarrett, Brookhart Jonquil, Benjamin Lipkin, Ben Stagl, Allison Wade, Georgia Wall and Sean Ward.
SAIC, MacLean Center, 112 South Michigan Avenue / Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash Avenue
Haiti · Multimedia · School
Open Forum: Monday, February 1 2010, SAIC Ballroom.
Speakers: President Wellington “Duke” Reiter, Dean of Faculty Lisa Wainwright, Exec. Dir. Accounting Anne-Marie Eischen and Doris Frame (Mother of Sue Frame, Asst. Dir., Instructional Shops, survivor of the Haiti earthquake).
F Newsmagazine · Multimedia · School
26 Covers; 1984= Year Zero
As F Newsmagazine trurn 25 years old,
we take a look back at
some of our best covers
Arts & Culture · Interviews · Multimedia · School
The talent and creativity of SAIC students is on display at this unique sale, which offers exquisite one-of-a-kind gifts such as photographs, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, prints and drawings, jewelry, fashion accessories and handmade paper designs.
Critique · Multimedia · School
Video where a group of SAIC students question and recreate “a proper critique”.
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MFA Open Studio Night 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Fnewsmagazine visits Open Studio Night and talks to students featuring work. A time to tour each others’ studios and take a look at all of the work that is being made at SAIC.
More than 300 students with studios from Art and Technology; Film, Video, and New Media; Performance; [...]
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2009 FALL UNDERGRADUATE EXHIBITION
Nearly fifty talented SAIC students completing undergraduate degrees this Fall exhibit their innovative work. F Newsmagazine talks with three students about the BFA show and sees the results showcased in the exhibition.
…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…
Arts & Culture · fashion · Interviews · Multimedia
F Newsmagazine attends Fashion Focus Chicago to see Dress Code 2009. The runway debut of top students from Chicago’s fashion design schools: The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, The Illinois Institute of Art–Chicago and The International Academy of Design & Technology Chicago.
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia
Art on Track, the largest mobile art exhibition in the world, transformed an eight-car CTA train into an alternative space for galleries and artists all over Chicago.
Allison Glenn from the Office of Exhibition Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago collaborated with the Fiber and Material Studies course “Installation: Material and Context”, taught by SAIC faculty Amy Honchell, to produce the 2009 Art on Track SAIC car, an installation that challenged the notion of the traditional exhibition and audience engagement within momentary space and time.
Arts & Culture · author · Multimedia · School
Shane Mecklenburger received his MFA in Film, Video, and New Media from SAIC in May 2009.
“Halcyon Atmosphere is a video made from found digital 3D models of guns I downloaded from the Internet. The guns were originally made for shooter games. I have repurposed the guns into softly falling snowflake-like configurations. It is a 9-minute looping HD-DVD for installation or single viewing in a theater.”
Arts & Culture · Multimedia · music
Ruth Margraff considers herself a gypsy, not only because of her zest for traveling all over the world, but also because she plays Roma gypsy music. Margraff learned gypsy music when she lived with the Gourbeti tribe in…
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
Anatomy is Destiny is both installation and choreographed performance piece, as the artist uses a human-scale game of chess to investigate the relational issues between audience and objects.
Arts & Culture · Interviews · Multimedia · School
Carl Barratta teaches “How to steal,” a painting class about appropriation. Interview by Natalie Edwards
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2009 SAIC WELCOME RECEPTION for new and returning graduate students from all disciplines held at the Sullivan Galleries.
Life · Multimedia · School
Marion M. Mullin’s 1940s scrapbook
by Shannon Torii
All images courtesy of Kathy Mikutis
The grades on Marion M. Mullsin’s SAIC report cards were handwritten in cafeful cursive with black ink.
Her acceptance letters from SAIC and the University of Chicago, her class schedules, ceremonial memorabilia, memos, news clippings, photographs, and watercolors were neatly secured on the black [...]
“Making Modern” Thesis Design Exhibition presents at SAIC Sullivan Galleries from June 13 to July 25, 2009.
Yousun Jung, 2nd year art & tech graduate student, has her first solo show at Gallery X on March 10 - 28, 2009.
audio · Multimedia · writing
Audio excerpts and interviews with the presenters at the MFA Writing graduate reading.