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University and independent school of fine art and pattern

Schoolhouse of the Art Institute of Chicago
SAIC logo.svg
Type Private art school
Established 1866 (1866)
President Elissa Tenny

Academic staff

 141 full-time
427 part-time
Undergraduates 2,894 (Fall 2018)[1]
Postgraduates 745 (Fall 2018)
Location

Chicago

,

Illinois

,

U.s.a.


41°52′46″Northward 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°North 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389 Coordinates: 41°52′46″Northward 87°37′26″Westward  /  41.87944°North 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389
Campus Urban
Affiliations Fine art Constitute of Chicago
AICAD
NASAD
Website world wide web.saic.edu

The Schoolhouse of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a individual art schoolhouse associated with the Fine art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and school, SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the College Learning Commission, past the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 (charter member), and past the Clan of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) since the associations founding in 1991. Additionally it is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. In a 2002 survey conducted by Columbia Academy'south National Arts Journalism Program, SAIC was named the "nigh influential art school" in the United States.[2]

The school's 280 Columbus Avenue building in Grant Park, is attached to the museum and houses a premier gallery showcase.

Its downtown Chicago campus consists of 7 buildings located in the immediate vicinity of the AIC edifice. SAIC is in an equal partnership with the AIC and shares many administrative resource such as pattern, construction, and human resources. The campus, located in the Loop, comprises chiefly 5 main buildings: the McLean Eye (112 S. Michigan Ave.), the Michigan edifice (116 Due south Michigan Ave), the Precipitous (36 S. Wabash Ave.), Sullivan Center (37 S. Wabash Ave.), and the Columbus (280 S. Columbus Dr.). SAIC too holds classes in the Spertus building at 610 S. Michigan. SAIC owns additional buildings throughout Chicago that are used equally educatee galleries or investments. At that place are three dormitory facilities: The Buckingham, Jones Hall, and 162 N Land Street residencies.

History [edit]

The constitute has its roots in the 1866 founding of the Chicago Academy of Design, which local artists established in rented rooms on Clark Street. It was financed by fellow member dues and patron donations. Four years later, the school moved into its own Adams Street edifice, which was destroyed in the Dandy Chicago Fire of 1871.

Because of the school's fiscal and managerial problems later on this loss, business leaders in 1878 formed a board of trustees and founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. They expanded its mission beyond educational activity and exhibitions to include collecting. In 1882, the academy was renamed the Art Institute of Chicago. The broker Charles L. Hutchinson served equally its elected president until his death in 1924.[3] The schoolhouse grew to become among the "most influential" art schools in the United States.[4]

Walter E. Massey served as president from 2010–July 2016.[5] The current president is Elissa Tenny, formerly the school's provost.[vi]

Academics [edit]

SAIC offers classes in art and engineering science; arts administration; fine art history, theory, and criticism; art education and art therapy; ceramics; fashion blueprint; filmmaking; celebrated preservation; compages; interior compages; designed objects; journalism; painting and drawing; functioning; photography; printmaking; sculpture; audio; new media; video; visual communication; visual and critical studies; animation; illustration; fiber; and writing.[7] SAIC as well serves as a resources for bug related to the position and importance of the arts in society.

"Painting critique": students' critiquing Ben Cowan'southward piece of work

The Etching Room, with etching presses and workstations

SAIC as well offers an interdisciplinary Low-Residency MFA for students wishing to written report the fine arts and/or writing.

Chicago Architects Oral History Project [edit]

In 1983, the Department of Architecture began the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, more than than 78 architects have contributed.[8] [9]

Demographics [edit]

Equally of autumn 2018, the pupil enrollment at SAIC is demographically classified as follows:[10]

Total Enrollment: three,640

Undergraduate students: 2,895

Graduate students: 745

Sex:

Female: 74.3%

Male: 25.vii%

International and ethnic origin:

International students: 33% (countries represented: 67)

U.s.a. students: 67%, further subdivided as follows:

White: 32.6%

Hispanic: ten.four%

Asian or Pacific Islander: 8.9%

African American: 3.3%

American Indian: 0.2%

Multiethnic: 2.8%

Non Specified: viii.iv%

Geographic distribution of Us students:

Midwest: 41.2% (includes 8.viii% from Chicago)

Northeast: 16.5%

W: 19.4%

Due south: 22.viii%

Activities [edit]

Visiting Artists Programme [edit]

Founded in 1868, the Visiting Artists Program (VAP) is one of the oldest public programs of the School of the Art Found of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 by Flora Mayer Witkowsky's endowment of a supporting fund, the Visiting Artists Program hosts public presentations past artists, designers, and scholars each year in lectures, symposia, performances, and screenings. Information technology showcases piece of work in all media, including sound, video, performance, poetry, painting, and contained film; in improver to significant curators, critics, and art historians.[eleven] [ citation needed ]

Contempo visiting artists have included Catherine Opie, Andi Zeisler, Aaron Koblin, Jean Shin, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, Marilyn Minter, Pearl Fryar, Tehching Hsieh, Homi K. Bhabha, Bill Fontana, Wolfgang Laib, Suzanne Lee, and Amar Kanwar among others.[12]

Additionally, the Distinguished Alumni Series brings alumni back to the community to present their work and reverberate on how their experiences at SAIC have shaped them. Recent alumni speakers include Tania Bruguera, Jenni Sorkin, Kori Newkirk, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Saya Woolfalk, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Trevor Paglen, and Sanford Biggers to proper noun a few.[13] [ citation needed ]

Galleries [edit]

  • SAIC Galleries - Located at 33 E. Washington Street, SAIC Galleries occupies four floors and offers 26,000 foursquare feet of exhibition space for annual student and faculty shows, every bit well as special exhibitions featuring national and international artists.
  • Sullivan Galleries- Located to the seventh floor of the Sullivan Center at 33 S. State Street. With shows and projects often led by faculty or student curators, it is a instruction gallery. In the Jump of 2020 SAIC announced it would relocate its galleries and Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies from 33 Southward. State Street to 33 Eastward. Washington Street subsequently ten years of operation.[fourteen]
  • SITE Galleries (formerly Student Union Galleries) - Founded in 1994, SITE, in one case known as the Student Spousal relationship Galleries (SUGs), is a student-run arrangement at the School of the Fine art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of student work. They accept 2 locations: The SITE Sharp of the 37 S Wabash Avenue building; and SITE Columbus of the 280 South Columbus Drive building. The two locations let the galleries to cycle two shows simultaneously.

Student organizations [edit]

ExTV [edit]

ExTV is a student-run time-arts platform that broadcasts online and on campus. Its broadcasts are bachelor via monitors located throughout the 112 S. Michigan building, the 37 Due south Wabash edifice, and the 280 South. Columbus edifice.

F Newsmagazine [edit]

F Newsmagazine is SAIC's educatee-run newspaper. The magazine is a monthly publication with a run of 12,000 copies. Copies are distributed throughout the city, mainly at locations frequented by students such as pop diners and film theaters.

Gratis Radio SAIC [edit]

Free Radio SAIC is the student-run Cyberspace radio station of The Schoolhouse of the Art Found of Chicago. Free Radio uses an open programming format and encourage its DJs to explore and experiment with the medium of live radio. Program content and fashion vary but mostly include music from all genres, sound fine art, narratives, live performances, current events and interviews.

Featured bands and guests on Gratis Radio SAIC include Nü Sensae, The Black Belles, Thomas Comerford, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jeff Bennett, Carolyn Lawrence, and much more.[15] [sixteen] [17]

Student government [edit]

The student government of SAIC is unique in that its constitution requires four officers belongings equal power and responsibility. Elections are held every yr. At that place are no campaign requirements. Whatever grouping of iv students may run for office, but there must e'er be four students.

The student government is responsible for hosting a schoolhouse-wide student meeting in one case a month. At these meetings students talk over school concerns of whatsoever nature. The predominant topic is funding for the various student organizations. Organizations which desire funding must present a proposal at the coming together by which the students vote whether they should receive monies or non. The student regime cannot participate in the vote: only oversee it.

Ranking [edit]

In a survey conducted by the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, SAIC was named the "most influential art school" by art critics at full general interest news publications from beyond the United states.[two]

In 2017,[18] U.S. News & Globe Report's college rankings ranked SAIC the fourth best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.S. tying with the Rhode Island schoolhouse of Design. In January 2013, The Global Language Monitor ranked SAIC as the #5 higher in the U.S., the highest ever for an art or pattern school in a general college ranking. [xix]

In 2020 and 2021, U.S. News and Globe Written report[20] ranked SAIC every bit the second best overall graduate plan for fine arts in the U.S. tied with Yale University. In 2021, the academy was ranked the 7th globally co-ordinate to the QS Globe Academy Rankings by the subject Art and Design.[21]

Notable people [edit]

Controversy [edit]

Mirth & Girth [edit]

On May 11, 1988, a student painting depicting Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, was taken downward by three of the city'south African-American aldermen based on its content.[22] The painting by David Nelson, titled Mirth & Girth, was of Washington clad merely in women's underwear[23] and belongings a pencil.[ citation needed ] Washington had died suddenly less than half dozen months earlier, on November 25, 1987.[ commendation needed ]

After the aldermen held the painting earnest, Police Superintendent LeRoy Martin ordered officers to take it into custody.[22] Fine art students protested. The painting was returned later a twenty-four hour period. The American Ceremonious Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department and the aldermen. The ACLU claimed the removal violated Nelson'due south First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendment rights. A 1992 federal court affirmed his constitutional rights had been violated.[24] In 1994 the city agreed to a settlement to terminate litigation; the money would become toward attorneys' fees for the ACLU. The three aldermen agreed not to appeal the 1992 ruling, and the Police force Department established procedures over seizure of materials protected by the First Subpoena.[22]

What Is the Proper Way to Brandish a U.S. Flag? [edit]

In February 1989, as role of a piece entitled What Is the Proper Way to Brandish a U.Southward. Flag?, a pupil named "Dread" Scott Tyler spread a Flag of the United states of america on the floor of the institute. The slice consisted of a podium, gear up upon the flag, and containing a notebook for viewers to express how they felt most the exhibit. In order for viewers to write in the notebook, they would have to walk on the flag, which is a violation of customary practice and code. While the exhibit faced protests from veterans and bomb threats, the schoolhouse stood by the educatee'due south art.[24] That year, the schoolhouse'southward country funding was cutting from $70,000 to $i, and the piece was publicly condemned by President George H. West. Bush-league.[25] Scott would proceed to exist ane of the defendants in United States v. Eichman, a Supreme Court case in which it was eventually decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.[26]

Academic freedom controversy [edit]

In 2017, a controversy arose later Michael Bonesteel, an adjunct professor specializing in outsider art, and comics, resigned after actions taken by the institute following two Championship Ix complaints by transgender students being filed against him in which each criticized his comments and course discussion. The institute initiated an investigation and took certain deportment. Bonesteel described the SAIC investigation equally a "Kafkaesque trial", in which he was never shown copies of the complaints. He claimed he was assumed to be "guilty until proven innocent" and that SAIC "feels more like a law state than a place where academic liberty and the open exchange of ideas is valued".[27]

Laura Kipnis, author of a book on Title Nine cases in which she argues that universities follow reckless and capricious approaches, argued that SAIC was displaying "jawdropping cowardice".[28] She said, "The idea that students are trying to censor or curb a professor's opinions or thinking is bloodcurdling".[28] [29] The school said the claims made against information technology were "problematic" and "misleading", and that it supports academic liberty.[27]

Holding [edit]

This is a list of property in order of acquisition:

  • 280 Southward Columbus (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, Betty Rymer Gallery)
  • 37 Due south Wabash (classrooms, main authoritative offices, Flaxman Library)
  • 112 Southward Michigan (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, ballroom)
  • 7 W Madison (student residences)
  • 162 N State (pupil residences)
  • 164 North State Street (Cistron Siskel Motion picture Center)
  • 116 South Michigan

SAIC also owns these properties exterior of the firsthand vicinity of the Chicago Loop:

  • 1926 Northward Halsted (gallery space) in Chicago.
  • Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan (affiliated with SAIC)

SAIC leases:

  • 36 Due south Wabash, leasing the 12th floor (administrative offices, Compages and Interior Architecture Blueprint Middle)
  • 36 South Wabash, leasing the 7th floor (Fashion Pattern department, Gallery 2)
  • 36 South Wabash, leasing offices on the 14th flooring (administrative offices)
  • 36 South Wabash, leasing offices on the 15th floor (administrative offices)

Academic partnerships [edit]

  • Glasgow School of Art (United Kingdom)

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Quick Facts: Enrollment". School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) . Retrieved xx February 2019.
  2. ^ a b Szántó, András (2002). The Visual Arts Critic (PDF) (Report). NAJP/Columbia University. p. 50.
  3. ^ Dillon, Diane (2005). "Art Institute of Chicago". In Reiff, Janice L.; Keating, Ann Durkin; Grossman, James R. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Electronic ed.). Chicago Historical Order and Newberry Library.
  4. ^ Roeder, Jr., George H. (2005). "Artists, Educational activity and Civilization of". In Reiff, Janice L.; Keating, Ann Durkin; Grossman, James R. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Electronic ed.). Chicago Historical Society and Newberry Library.
  5. ^ "Walter Massey Named President Emeritus". June 28, 2018.
  6. ^ "SAIC Names Elissa Tenny President to Succeed Walter Massey, Constructive July one, 2016" (Press release). Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Areas of Report". Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Project". The Art Establish of Chicago. Archived from the original on 24 April 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Project: General Information and Ordering Transcripts". The Fine art Constitute of Chicago. Archived from the original on 16 February 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  10. ^ "About: Enrollment". SAIC. Retrieved 20 Feb 2019.
  11. ^ "Visiting Artists Programme". Retrieved xx February 2019.
  12. ^ "Visiting Artists Program: Past Events & Podcasts". School of the Fine art Institute of Chicago . Retrieved 2021-03-24 .
  13. ^ "By Events & Podcasts". Retrieved 20 Feb 2019.
  14. ^ School of the Art Found of Chicago (2020-02-27). "SAIC Announces New Domicile for Its Iconic Galleries in Chicago's Loop". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
  15. ^ "Babe Wave". FreeRadioSAIC. Archived from the original on 2014-xi-17. Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
  16. ^ Tarun (2011-08-22). "Cartoons On The Radio". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
  17. ^ andy (2011-eleven-01). "Interview With Thomas Comerford". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-xviii .
  18. ^ "2017 Best Graduate Fine Arts Programs". U.South. News and World Study. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14.
  19. ^ "What'southward the Buzz? Exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings (January 2013)".
  20. ^ "All-time Fine Arts Schools". U.Southward. News and Globe Report.
  21. ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: Fine art & Pattern".
  22. ^ a b c Matt O'Connor (21 September 1994). "Accommodate Ended on Flick of Washington". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved nineteen December 2018.
  23. ^ "ACLU jumps into 'Mirth and Girth' art controversy". United Press International. Chicago. May 13, 1988. Retrieved February 21, 2022. The American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue Chicago police force because of the seizure of a painting depicting the late Mayor Harold Washington wearing women's underwear.
  24. ^ a b Dubin, Steven (1992). Absorbing Images, Impolitic Fine art and Uncivil Actions . Routledge. ISBN0-415-90893-0.
  25. ^ Campbell, Adrianna (9 January 2017). "Imprint Year: At a Time of Heated Race Relations in America, Dread Scott Wades Into the Fray". ARTnews . Retrieved xi June 2020.
  26. ^ Cohen, Alina (July 25, 2018). "It'southward Legal to Burn down the American Flag. This Artist Helped Make Information technology A Form of Free Speech". Artsy . Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  27. ^ a b Curl, Nick (July 24, 2017). "Tensions in the Art Classroom". Inside College Ed.
  28. ^ a b Jori Finkel (xviii August 2017). "Fine art schoolhouse under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints". The Art Paper . Retrieved 19 Dec 2018.
  29. ^ Tom Bartlett, "The Offender", The Chronicle of College Education, August 10, 2017. Available online to subscribers simply.

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