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The 'School of the Art Institute of Chicago' is a fine arts college located in Chicago, Illinois. It is a professional college of the visual and related arts, accredited since 1936 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and since 1944 (charter member) by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. It is currently seeking accreditation from the National Architectural Accrediting Board.
Its downtown Chicago campus consists of five buildings located in the immediate vicinity of the Art Institute of Chicago's building. SAIC is in an equal partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago and share many administrative resources such as design, construction, and human resources. The president of the school is Tony Jones and the dean of students is Carol Becker.
SAIC is in no manner related to The Art Institutes chain of schools.
History
In 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the 'Chicago Academy of Design' in a studio on Dearborn Street, with the intent to run a free school with its own art gallery. The organization was modeled after European art academies, such as the Royal Academy, with Academians and Associate Academians. The Academy's charter was granted in March 1867.
Classes started in 1868, meeting every day at a cost of $10 per month. The Academy's success enabled it to build a new home for the school, a five story stone building on 66 West Adams Street, which opened on November 22, 1870.
However, the Great Chicago Fire the following year destroyed the building, along with a great deal of the rest of Chicago, and threw the Academy into debt.
Attempts to continue in spite of the loss, using rented facilities, failed. By 1878, the Academy was $10,000 in debt.
Members tried to rescue the ailing institution by making deals with local businessmen, before finally abandoning it in 1879 to found a new organization, named the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. When the Chicago Academy of Design went bankrupt the same year, the new Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bought its assets at auction.
In 1882, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts changed its name to the current' Art Institute of Chicago.' The same year, they purchased a lot on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Avenue for $45,000. The property's building was leased, and a new building was constructed behind it, to house the school's facilities.
With the announcement of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1892–93, the Art Institute pressed for a building on the lakefront to be constructed for the fair, but to be used by the Institute afterwards. The city agreed, and the building was completed in time for the second year of the fair. The construction costs were paid by selling the Michigan/Van Buren property. On October 31, 1893, the Institute was allowed to move into their new building. From the 1900's to the 1960's the school offered with the Logan Family (members of the board) the Logan Medal of the arts, that became one of the most distingish award to be given to artists in the US.
In 2006, the Art Institute began construction of "The Modern Wing", an addition situated on the southwest corner of Columbus and Monroe. Completion of the project, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Renzo Piano, is scheduled for 2009.
Between 1959 and 1970, the Institute was a key site in the battle to gain art & documentary photography a place in galleries, under curator Hugh Edwards and his assistants.
Ranking
According to U.S. News & World Report, as of 2007, tied with RISD and Yale for first place as America's best overall graduate program for fine arts. SAIC took 1st place for photography, 2nd place for painting, 3rd place for visual communications, and 3rd place for sculpture.[1]
Notable Alumni
''The Gashlycrumb Tinies'' by Edward Gorey (1963)
''Interrogation II,'' by Leon Golub 1981.
★ Enrique Alferez, Sculptor
★ Thomas Hart Benton,painter
★ Roger Brown (B.F.A. 1968, M.F.A. 1970), painter
★ Natalie Bookchin
★ John Chamberlain, sculptor
★ John Churchill Chase,(Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) cartoonist
★ Walt Disney (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts), animator, founder of Disney
★ Nora Dunn, actress
★ Ulric Ellerhusen, sculptor
★ Leon Golub, painter
★ Edward Gorey, illustrator
★ Art Green, painter, original member of The Hairy Who
★ Halston, fashion designer
★ Stieg Hedlund (attended 1984–1985) video game designer (''Diablo'', ''Diablo II'', ''StarCraft'')
★ Hugh Hefner (took anatomy classes), founder of ''Playboy''
★ Herblock (studied there as a youth),(Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) political cartoonist, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
★ Don Herold, humorist (did not graduate)
★ Jeff Koons, sculptor
★ Dan Kwong, performance artist, writer, teacher
★ Robert Lostutter, painter, original member of the Chicago Imagists
★ Raúl Martínez, Cuban painter and Pop artist
★ Santiago Martinez Delgado, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) Colombian Muralist, painter, illustrator, Sculptor
★ Bill Mauldin, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) political cartoonist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
★ Joan Mitchell, painter
★ Elizabeth Murray, painter
★ Georgia O'Keeffe (did not graduate, attended 1905–1906), painter
★ Claes Oldenburg (attended from 1950–1954), sculptor
★ Ed Paschke, painter
★ Cynthia Rowley, fashion designer
★ David Sedaris (B.F.A. 1987), author, humorist
★ Victor Skrebneski, fashion photographer
★ Mark Tobey, painter
★ Sarah Vowell (M.A. 1996), author, humorist
★ Orson Welles, filmmaker
★ Grant Wood, painter, "American Gothic" (1930)
★ Wen Yiduo, Chinese poet, scholar
★ Fischerspooner, music group and performers
★ Gahan Wilson, cartoonist (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
★ Karl Wirsum, painter, original member of The Hairy Who
★ Chris Ward, also known as mc chris, a nerdcore rapper
Notable Faculty
★ George Bellows (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
★ Stan Brakhage
★ Wafaa Bilal
★ Barbara Rossi, painter, original member of the Chicago Imagists
★ Ruth VanSickle Ford (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
Controversy
The Harold Washington Incident
"Mirth & Girth" by David Nelson, 1988
In 1988, a student painting of Harold Washington who was the first black mayor of Chicago was torn down by the city's aldermen based on its content. The painting, "Mirth & Girth" by David Nelson, was of Washington clad only in women's underwear holding a pencil. Washington had died recently and was rumored to be gay.
The city council discussed this matter to great length claiming that the author was mentally unstable and the work as a disgrace to the city. The aldermen then met with the school's director and with police had the painting "arrested" for its inflammatory content.
The painting was returned damaged subsequently after a lengthy lawsuit involving the ACLU, but Nelson received payment for that. The ACLU claimed the removal violated Nelson's First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendment rights.
[2]
The "Dread Scott" Incident
In 1989, a student named Dread Scott had draped the American flag across the floor for a piece titled "What Is The Proper Way To Display A U.S. Flag?" which resulted in a media frenzy. The piece was a podium with a notebook for viewers to express how they felt the flag should be displayed, but the podium was set on a flag laid on the floor. In order for viewers to write in the notebook, they would have to walk on the flag. Viewers were occasionally arrested at the request of veterans. [2]
The school stood by the student's display in the face of protests and threats. That year, the school's federal funding was cut from $70,000 to $1 and many benefactors pulled donations. Later on, the school would refuse to allow him to display the piece at his BFA thesis exhibition.
The piece has been displayed throughout numerous galleries in the country after this incident including the show "Our Aim Is To Destroy Them!" by the Near NorthWest Arts Council Gallery in 1988.
Dread Scott is often associated with David Nelson due to time between the works, but Scott distances himself from Nelson and has been quoted saying, "[Nelson] doesn't mind promoting racism, doesn't mind promoting homophobia, doesn't mind promoting, you know, the oppression of women. I want to liberate people from all of that."[2]
Academics
SAIC offers a broad range of fine arts degrees and is interdisciplinary; a selected course of concentration is not necessary.
Departments of Study
Painting Critique, students critiquing work
The Etching Room, etching presses and workstations
Architecture, interior architecture and designed objects
Art education
Art therapy
Art history, theory, and criticism
Art and technology studies
Ceramics
Design for emerging technologies
★ Interactive Design
★ Computer Programming
★ Web Design
Fashion design
Fiber and material studies
★ Weaving
★ Print for materials
★ Dye
Film, video and new media
First year program (foundation dept. for undergraduates)
★ 2D - any media limited to two dimensions.
★ 3D - any media limited to three dimensions.
★ 4D - any media that incorporates time.
★ Research Studio
Liberal arts
★ English
★ Humanities
★ Languages
★ Liberal Arts
★ Sciences
★ Social Sciences
Painting and drawing
Performance
Photography
Printmedia
★ Silkscreen
★ Offset printing
★ Etching
★ Lithography
★ Digital output
★ Book binding
Sculpture
★ Metal work
★ Foundry
★ Wood
Sound
Visual communication
★ Graphic Design
★ Information Design
★ Typographic Design
★ Package Design
Visual and critical studies
Writing
Undergraduate Degree Programs
B.A. in Visual and Critical Studies
B.F.A. in Studio Arts
B.F.A. with an emphasis in Writing
B.F.A. with an emphasis in art History, Theory, and Criticism
B.F.A. with an emphasis in Art Education
B.I.A. Bachelor of Interior Architecture
Graduate Degree Programs
M.F.A. in Studio Arts
M.F.A. in Writing
M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism.
M.A. in Art Education
M.A. in Teaching
M.A. in Art Therapy
M.A. in Arts Administration and Policy
M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies
M.S. in Historic Preservation
Master of Architecture
Master of Architecture with an emphasis in Interior Architecture
Master of Design in Designed Objects.
Other Degrees
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio Arts
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Writing
Graduate Certificate in Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Grading System
SAIC does not utilize a standard grading system. All academics are marked as pass or fail.[1] It is a practice intended by the school to encourage exploration and growth without worry for failure at the bias of a professor. Most students are drawn to this unconventional structure since art as a purely subjective study cannot always be graded like traditional academics. This grading system is dependent upon a student's personal ambition and requires more effort from the student as there are no marks for the student to use as academic measures or comparisons to peers.
Campus Life
The main campus is set in downtown Chicago, also known as the loop. The school uses three main buildings which are the Michigan (112 S. Michigan), the Sharp (37 S. Wabash), and the Columbus (280 S. Columbus). The school also has additional buildings throughout Chicago that are used student galleries or investments.
Galleries
★ 'Betty Rymer Gallery' - The Betty Rymer gallery is named in honor of Betty Rymer, the late wife of School Board of Governors member Barry Rymer. In 1989, Mr. Rymer made a major contribution to the School's Advancement Program and the gallery is a dedication to her memory and interests. It is located in the 280 S. Columbus building. It is run similarly to Gallery 2, but the process for exhibition is less intense with more student workers involved. Since it is on campus, it also receives more student traffic.
★ 'Gallery 2' - Gallery 2 is an offsite space offered through their 847 W. Jackson building. It is run by the school's non-teaching faculty and paid student workers. The gallery also hosts annually the Undergraduate and Graduate Thesis exhibitions also known respectively as the BFA and MFA shows. During the rest of the year, it is the most advanced undergraduate and graduate student program for showing work as the process for exhibition mimics professional galleries.
★ 'Student Union Galleries (LG Space, Gallery X)' - The Student Union Galleries (SUGs) is the school's fully student-run gallery system. Paid student directors maintain the galleries with assistance from a faculty adviser. A volunteer student committee assists in maintenance and the selection of exhibitions. They have two locations: LG Spaceof the 37 S. Wabash building; and Gallery X of the 280 S. Columbus building. The two locations allow the galleries to cycle two shows simultaneously, with three shows per semester. They also maintain their own website.[2]
Student Organizations
ExTV
ExTV is a student-run volunteer television station. Its broadcasts are available via monitors located throughout the 112 S. Michigan building, the 37 S Wabash building and in cable-ready areas of the 162 N. State and 7 W. Madison residence halls. As a closed-circuit station, it is not available off-campus.
F Newsmagazine
FNews is a student-run newspaper with both paid and volunteer positions. They are a monthly publication with running 12,000 copies. Copies are distributed throughout the city mainly at locations that students frequent such as popular diners or movie theaters.
Free Radio SAIC
Free Radio SAIC is a student-run volunteer internet radio station.[3]
Student Government
The student government of SAIC is unique in that its constitution resembles a socialist republic, in which four officers hold equal power and responsibility. Elections are held every year. There are no campaign requirements. Any group of four students may run for office, but there must always be four students.
The student government is responsible for hosting a school-wide student meeting once a month. At these meetings students discuss school concerns of any nature. The predominant topic is funding for the various student organizations. Organizations which desire funding must present a proposal at the meeting by which the students vote whether they should receive monies or not. The student government cannot participate in the vote: only oversee it.
The student government is also responsible for the distribution of the Peanut Butter & Jelly Fund, Welcome Back to School Party, Monthly Morning Coffees, Open Forums, Barbecues in the Pit (the outdoor area at the entrance of the 280 S Columbus Building), Holiday Art Sale, and a Materials Event. In the past Student Government has accomplished such things as campus-wide recycling, and access to the Chicago Transit Authority's U-Pass.
Student groups
★ 'Agape' - Christian student group
★ 'AIGA Student Group' - A chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
★ 'AIAS' Student Group - A chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students.
★ 'Art History Visiting Lecturer Committee' - a group that brings in 3rd party art history lecturers.
★ 'At Home World Wide Fashion Society' - a group concentrating on global fashion trends.
★ 'Base Space Committee' - This committee manages the Base Space Gallery, Sculpture Courtyard, and Display Case in the Sculpture Department of the Columbus Building.
★ 'Belly Dancing Group'
★ 'Body Revolution' - an exercise group with a focus on non-traditional practices
★ 'Escape Chicago' - group focusing on excursions outside of Chicago
★ 'Eye & Ear Clinic' - free, bi-weekly screening series run by (FVNM) Film Video News Media students.
★ 'Grounded' - an environmental group
★ 'Hillel - a chapter of the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life'
★ 'Incarnation - Christian student group'
★ 'Jamboree Wednesday - improvised music group'
★ 'Korean Graduate Student Community'
★ 'Korean Students Association (KSA)'
★ 'NAEA Student Group' - a chapter of the National Art Education Association
★ 'Performance Art Society'
★ 'Photographic Graduate Committee on Visiting Artists' - a group that brings in 3rd party photographers.
★ 'Platypus' - a reading group with a concentration in current events
★ 'SAIC/AVU Collaborative: Heart Club' - group helps to facilitate funding and curriculum about study trips and new exchange students
★ 'Shifted Wires' - a student group introducing new information and technologies
★ 'SMART Art/Gallery'- residence hall group designed to provide residence hall students with art opportunities
★ 'SMART Community' - resident hall group used to connect students with each other and with the greater Chicago community
★ 'SOAP' - a philosophy discussion group
★ 'Students Against War and Injustice' - originally No! Iraq, it is a student activist group with a focus on war issues
★ 'Students For Sexual Diversity' - group promoting sexual diversity and tolerance
★ 'Students With Abundant Materials (SWAM)' - a group concerned with sustainability and recycling materials
★ 'Taiwanese Student Association'
★ 'The 13th Floor' - an open student group focusing on visual communications
★ 'Veggies Unite!' - vegetarian organization
Property
This is a list of property in order of acquisition:
★ ''280 South Columbus'' (Classrooms, Departmental Offices, Studios, Betty Rymer Gallery)
★ ''37 South Wabash'' (Classrooms, Main Administrative Offices, Flaxman Library)
★ ''112 South Michigan'' (Classrooms, Departmental Offices, Studios, Special Events Ballroom)
★ ''7 West Madison'' (Student Residences)
★ ''162 North State'' (Student Residences)
★ ''164 North State Street'' (Gene Siskel Film Center)
The School also owns these properties outside of the immediate vicinity of the Chicago Loop:
★ ''1926 North Halsted'' (Gallery Space) in Chicago. A property donated by artist Roger J. Brown.
★ ''The Oxbow Property'' (Retreat Facility) in Oxbow, Michigan
The School leases:
★ ''36 South Wabash'' Leasing the 12th floor. (Administrative Offices, Architecture and Interior Architecture Design Center)
★ ''847 West Jackson ''Leasing the 2nd and 3rd floors. (Gallery Space)''
External links
★ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
★ Student Union Galleries
★ F Newsmagazine
References
1. America's Best Graduate Programs 2007
2. Arresting Images, Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, , Steven, Dubin, Routledge, ,
3. Arresting Images, Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, , Steven, Dubin, Routledge, ,
4. Arresting Images, Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, , Steven, Dubin, Routledge, ,
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