F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Anne Weber

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”

Economizing Creativity

Is the MFA the new MBA?

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...

Beau O’Reilly

Beau O’Reilly, who has taught playwriting at SAIC for over a decade, has written 70 plays that have been produced and he has directed or acted more than 130 additional plays of new work. “My priority is writing...

Drama Queen

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...

Elaine Sturtevant

For the first twenty minutes after I arrive to hear Elaine Sturtevant speak to the Contemporary Art Society at the Art Institute of Chicago, I view a series of the same very short film...

Olafur Eliasson

By Anne Knight Weber THINK YOU UNDERSTAND LIGHTING? DON’T LIKE AMBIGUITY? DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME! Recipe to change your perceptions: One square room Four mirrors mounted...

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