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

Monica Labelle

Be an exhibitionist

Exhibition opportunities abound at SAIC and beyond: in official gallery spaces, hallways, apartments and even a CTA train.

Get On The Art Train

Two SAIC students are preparing an art exhibition that will run for a limited time on CTA train cars circling the Loop.

Let Them See Cake

Checking out the works on opening night reaped benefits far beyond cookies and cheese cubes—it was positively a visual feast.

Wafaa Bilal

Artist and faculty member Wafaa Bilal is no stranger to the national spotlight. But coverage of his recently censored work, Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi, required more nuance and artist perspective than it was typically given in the mainstream media. Here are the details of the Troy, New York controversy you might have missed.

The Craft Trend

That's not an LSD flashback--that's macramé!

Hail to the Mothership

See, there’s a thought that us art students are repelled by the word “government.” So student life replaced it with “association,” and voila!

It’s My Party and I’ll Run if I Want to

These people usually know they don’t have a chance in Hades, but they’ll be darned if they don’t try.

Aggressive Positivism

Nate Chung, a fi rst-year graduate in the MFA program, saw his artwork evolve into protest signs that captured the attention of hundreds, if not thousands, of people in his home state of Hawaii.

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