Students in SAIC’s Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History program pursue research in a prestigious fine art school connected with a major American art museum. Art History students work ...

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program is designed to offer maximum flexibility in addressing the needs of each individual student. Following admission through a department, students design their ...

We take work seriously, but we're also playful and energetic. We think imaginatively, across borders and boundaries. See what makes us SAIC. Our 700-plus faculty members are practicing artists, ...

Both viewing an artwork and traveling somewhere are opportunities to witness, learn from, and make connections. Through each, we delight in novel sensations while being reminded of the fundamental ...

Fashion bridges cultures—and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Fashion Resource Center (FRC), visitors can travel the world from right here on campus. FRC visitors can get a hands-on ...

As the CEO of Studio XYJ in Seoul, South Korea, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Yoo Joung Hwang (BFA 2005) has been evolving alongside the changing landscape of the interior design ...

Fragments of colorful clippings are meticulously arranged across tan woven paper. The colors are mostly muted, or perhaps faded, having come from artist Ray Yoshida’s (BFA 1953) personal collection of ...

For alum Rosalyn Farney (BFA 2021), Berlin wasn’t just a destination for her Fulbright project—it was a creative catalyst. While Farney was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ...

Thomas Foulke vividly recalls the day he spent with his son at the Art Institute of Chicago, around 2009. Foulke, a research scientist, was visiting Chicago with his son, Jedd, who at the time was ...

Curator Hantao Shi (MA 2008) doesn’t believe in leaning on nostalgia. It’s certainly a compelling theme for any exhibit—it reliably stirs up big feelings and personal memories, all but promising the ...

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Sara Schnadt’s (MFA 1998) illustrious career as an artist and aerospace ground systems architect has taken her from the very outer reaches of our ...

When Gareth Kaye took his students to the Art Institute of Chicago on the first day of class, it wasn’t just to discuss the artwork. He wanted his students to look beyond the art itself. As Kaye and ...