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Monthly Archives: May, 2004

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John Kurtich 1935-2004

Thanks to all of Professor John Kurtich's colleagues and students during this sad time. John loved all of you and we are grateful to have shared the multitude of memories with you.

Wake up and smell the shorts

Student government election / Design contest / One door closes / The Interdisciplinary Tradition / SAIC Press / AIC employee lawsuit

Broken barriers

What does one call the space between the body and the garment it wears? Where is the line between urban and suburban? What are the defining factors that distinguish art and design? SAIC professors Andrea and Hennie Reynders urge their students to explore, as they describe, “centers and borders” such as these in the course Fluid Interfaces, which they created and have been co-teaching since 2001.

Reflections of crit week

An art historian gets a crash course in the art of critique

Art students take on the working world

How some SAIC graduates are seizing their futures with both hands

Mouth off

Hey, did you notice you’re not freezing anymore? Yeah, weird. Hey, did you notice there are tulips alongside downtown State St.? Yeah, they’re pretty. Hey, did you notice that your epidermis is showing? Ha ha, that means skin. Hey, did you...What? What’s that? This is called Spring? Oh, that’s a season, right? Summer is next? It gets even hotter? Wow.

Shattered Dreams

The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East 1995-2002

Leather Culture

Rick Storer Answers Questions about Leather, Art and the Mainstream