“Summer of Hate,” a show of photographs by SAIC student Nina Hartmann and artist Vinnie Smith, recently opened at Brooklyn’s Youth Group Gallery. But after speaking with Hartmann about her practice, the title hardly sounds applicable to her life.

Our favorite summer-inspired artworks, featuring Missy Weimer's "Chicago City Pools."

“No Waste/Zero Waste” shows art and clothing that make creative use of excess, striving to educate the viewer on the processes and design techniques that counteract fashion’s detrimental impact on the environment.

“NO GIRLS ALLOWED,” does, in fact, welcome women, but it presents art about being a dude and all the complexities inherent in the contemporary idea of male identity.

“Mask of Sanity,” the SAIC course and film series at the Gene Siskel, examines the terrifying realities of crime, insanity, and nature.