The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is designed to offer maximum flexibility in addressing your individual needs as a student. Following ...

Riva Lehrer (SAIC 1993–95) is an unorthodox portraitist. For The Risk Pictures, the Chicago based artist invites into her home subjects, or collaborators, some of whom have experienced some sort of ...

How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority? Comprising the regions that more than 80% of the world call home, Afro Asia came to the political fore in the mid-1950s, ...

We will be exploring the needs of our newest generation of fine artists, designers, and visual scholars — Generation Alpha, born between 2010 and 2023. How do we, as educators, anticipate the needs ...

External criticism, theory, or methodology courses relevant to individual research—these courses are selected in consultation with the graduate director. Electives—Advanced academic courses (liberal ...

The CTL will continue its Teach and Tell series with several exciting workshops and presentations. Please let us know that you will attend by visiting our CTL Teach and Tell RSVP page. Our first ...

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 ...

In the creative world of School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) undergraduate student Thalya Jouin, boundaries blur between traditional craft and mass production processes. Her series Present ...

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago offers the following facilities and resources to students in the School's MFA in Studio, Comics program: ...

The MFA in Studio, Comics program leverages Chicago's vibrant narrative comics community to provide an interdisciplinary environment for creativity across the departments of Printmedia, Painting and ...