School of the Art Institute of Chicago Illustration Schools

University and independent school of art and design

Schoolhouse of the Fine art Institute of Chicago

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 , United States 41°52′46″N 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°Due north 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389 Coordinates: 41°52′46″North 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°Due north 87.62389°West  / 41.87944; -87.62389
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Art Constitute of Chicago AICAD NASAD
Website	www.saic.edu

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Constitute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an fine art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and school, SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the College Learning Commission, by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 (lease fellow member), and past the Association of Contained Colleges of Fine art and Pattern (AICAD) since the associations founding in 1991. Additionally it is accredited past the National Architectural Accrediting Board. In a 2002 survey conducted by Columbia University'due south National Arts Journalism Program, SAIC was named the "most influential art school" in the United States.^[ii]

The school'due south 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 building. SAIC is in an equal partnership with the AIC and shares many administrative resource such equally pattern, structure, and human resources. The campus, located in the Loop, comprises chiefly v main buildings: the McLean Center (112 S. Michigan Ave.), the Michigan building (116 S Michigan Ave), the Sharp (36 S. Wabash Ave.), Sullivan Eye (37 South. Wabash Ave.), and the Columbus (280 South. Columbus Dr.). SAIC also holds classes in the Spertus building at 610 S. Michigan. SAIC owns additional buildings throughout Chicago that are used as pupil galleries or investments. There 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. Information technology was financed by member dues and patron donations. Four years afterwards, the school moved into its own Adams Street edifice, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Burn of 1871.

Because of the schoolhouse'south financial and managerial issues later on this loss, business leaders in 1878 formed a lath of trustees and founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. They expanded its mission beyond education and exhibitions to include collecting. In 1882, the academy was renamed the Art Institute of Chicago. The banker Charles L. Hutchinson served equally its elected president until his death in 1924.^[iii] The school grew to get amongst the "near influential" fine art schools in the United states of america.^[4]

Walter E. Massey served as president from 2010–July 2016.^[five] The current president is Elissa Tenny, formerly the school'southward provost.^[six]

Academics [edit]

SAIC offers classes in art and technology; arts assistants; fine art history, theory, and criticism; fine art education and art therapy; ceramics; manner design; filmmaking; historic preservation; compages; interior compages; designed objects; journalism; painting and drawing; performance; photography; printmaking; sculpture; sound; new media; video; visual communication; visual and critical studies; animation; illustration; cobweb; and writing.^[7] SAIC likewise serves as a resources for issues related to the position and importance of the arts in society.

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

The Etching Room, with etching presses and workstations

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

Chicago Architects Oral History Project [edit]

In 1983, the Section of Architecture began the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, more 78 architects take contributed.^{[eight] [9]}

Demographics [edit]

As of autumn 2018, the student enrollment at SAIC is demographically classified as follows:^[10]

Full Enrollment: 3,640

Undergraduate students: ii,895

Graduate students: 745

Sex:

Female: 74.3%

Male: 25.7%

International and ethnic origin:

International students: 33% (countries represented: 67)

United States students: 67%, further subdivided as follows:

White: 32.six%

Hispanic: 10.4%

Asian or Pacific Islander: 8.9%

African American: three.three%

American Indian: 0.2%

Multiethnic: two.viii%

Not Specified: 8.four%

Geographic distribution of United States students:

Midwest: 41.2% (includes 8.8% from Chicago)

Northeast: 16.5%

Due west: 19.4%

South: 22.8%

Activities [edit]

Visiting Artists Program [edit]

Founded in 1868, the Visiting Artists Plan (VAP) is one of the oldest public programs of the Schoolhouse of the Art Institute of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 past Flora Mayer Witkowsky'southward endowment of a supporting fund, the Visiting Artists Program hosts public presentations by artists, designers, and scholars each year in lectures, symposia, performances, and screenings. It showcases piece of work in all media, including sound, video, performance, poesy, painting, and contained film; in addition to significant curators, critics, and art historians.^{[11] [ commendation needed ]}

Contempo visiting artists accept included Catherine Opie, Andi Zeisler, Aaron Koblin, Jean Shin, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, Marilyn Minter, Pearl Fryar, Tehching Hsieh, Homi One thousand. 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 reflect on how their experiences at SAIC have shaped them. Contempo alumni speakers include Tania Bruguera, Jenni Sorkin, Kori Newkirk, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Saya Woolfalk, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Trevor Paglen, and Sanford Biggers to name a few.^{[xiii] [ citation needed ]}

Galleries [edit]

• SAIC Galleries - Located at 33 Eastward. Washington Street, SAIC Galleries occupies four floors and offers 26,000 square anxiety of exhibition space for annual student and faculty shows, as well as special exhibitions featuring national and international artists.
• Sullivan Galleries- Located to the 7th floor of the Sullivan Center at 33 S. Land Street. With shows and projects frequently led by faculty or student curators, it is a teaching gallery. In the Spring of 2020 SAIC announced it would relocate information technology'southward galleries and Section of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies from 33 S. State Street to 33 E. Washington Street afterward x years of performance.^[14]
• SITE Galleries (formerly Student Union Galleries) - Founded in 1994, SITE, once known every bit the Student Wedlock Galleries (SUGs), is a student-run system at the School of the Art Constitute of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of educatee work. They have 2 locations: The SITE Sharp of the 37 South Wabash Avenue building; and SITE Columbus of the 280 Due south Columbus Drive building. The two locations allow the galleries to cycle 2 shows simultaneously.

Pupil organizations [edit]

ExTV [edit]

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

F Newsmagazine [edit]

F Newsmagazine is SAIC's student-run paper. 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 movie theaters.

Free Radio SAIC [edit]

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

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

Student authorities [edit]

The student government of SAIC is unique in that its constitution requires four officers holding equal ability and responsibility. Elections are held every twelvemonth. There are no campaign requirements. Any group of four students may run for function, but there must e'er be four students.

The student government is responsible for hosting a school-wide educatee meeting once a month. At these meetings students discuss school concerns of whatever nature. The predominant topic is funding for the diverse pupil organizations. Organizations which want funding must present a proposal at the meeting past which the students vote whether they should receive monies or not. The student government cannot participate in the vote: merely oversee it.

Ranking [edit]

In a survey conducted by the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, SAIC was named the "most influential fine art schoolhouse" by fine art critics at general interest news publications from across the U.s..^[2]

In 2017,^[18] U.S. News & World Report's higher rankings ranked SAIC the fourth best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.S. tying with the Rhode Isle school of Blueprint. In January 2013, The Global Language Monitor ranked SAIC as the #5 higher in the U.S., the highest e'er for an art or design school in a general higher ranking. ^[19]

In 2020 and 2021, U.S. News and World Study^[20] ranked SAIC as the second best overall graduate plan for fine arts in the U.Due south. tied with Yale University. In 2021, the university was ranked the seventh globally co-ordinate to the QS World Academy Rankings by the subject Art and Design.^[21]

Notable people [edit]

Controversy [edit]

Mirth & Girth [edit]

On May xi, 1988, a student painting depicting Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, was taken downwardly by iii of the city's African-American aldermen based on its content.^[22] The painting past David Nelson, titled Mirth & Girth, was of Washington clad only in women'south underwear^[23] and property a pencil.^{[ citation needed ]} Washington had died of a sudden less than 6 months earlier, on Nov 25, 1987.^{[ citation needed ]}

Later the aldermen held the painting hostage, Law Superintendent LeRoy Martin ordered officers to take information technology into custody.^[22] Art students protested. The painting was returned after a mean solar day. The American Civil Liberties Spousal relationship (ACLU) filed a lawsuit confronting the Chicago Police force Department and the aldermen. The ACLU claimed the removal violated Nelson's Beginning, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendment rights. A 1992 federal courtroom affirmed his constitutional rights had been violated.^[24] In 1994 the city agreed to a settlement to end litigation; the money would go toward attorneys' fees for the ACLU. The three aldermen agreed not to entreatment the 1992 ruling, and the Police Section established procedures over seizure of materials protected by the First Subpoena.^[22]

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

In February 1989, as part of a piece entitled What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.Southward. Flag?, a pupil named "Dread" Scott Tyler spread a Flag of the U.s. on the floor of the institute. The piece consisted of a podium, set upon the flag, and containing a notebook for viewers to express how they felt nigh 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 school stood by the student's art.^[24] That year, the school's state funding was cutting from $70,000 to $1, and the piece was publicly condemned by President George H. W. Bush-league.^[25] Scott would keep to exist one of the defendants in Usa 5. Eichman, a Supreme Courtroom instance in which it was eventually decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.^[26]

Bookish 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 post-obit two Title Ix complaints by transgender students beingness filed against him in which each criticized his comments and form give-and-take. The plant initiated an investigation and took certain actions. Bonesteel described the SAIC investigation as a "Kafkaesque trial", in which he was never shown copies of the complaints. He claimed he was assumed to exist "guilty until proven innocent" and that SAIC "feels more like a police state than a place where academic freedom and the open substitution of ideas is valued".^[27]

Laura Kipnis, author of a volume on Title Ix cases in which she argues that universities follow reckless and arbitrary 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 appalling".^{[28] [29]} The school said the claims made confronting information technology were "problematic" and "misleading", and that it supports academic freedom.^[27]

Property [edit]

This is a listing of property in gild of acquisition:

• 280 South Columbus (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, Betty Rymer Gallery)
• 37 Southward Wabash (classrooms, main administrative offices, Flaxman Library)
• 112 Due south Michigan (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, ballroom)
• 7 West Madison (student residences)
• 162 North State (student residences)
• 164 N Land Street (Gene Siskel Flick Heart)
• 116 Due south Michigan

SAIC besides owns these backdrop outside of the immediate vicinity of the Chicago Loop:

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

SAIC leases:

• 36 Southward Wabash, leasing the 12th floor (administrative offices, Architecture and Interior Architecture Design Center)
• 36 S Wabash, leasing the 7th floor (Mode Pattern department, Gallery ii)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing offices on the 14th floor (authoritative offices)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing offices on the 15th floor (administrative offices)

Academic partnerships [edit]

• Glasgow School of Art (Britain)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Quick Facts: Enrollment". Schoolhouse of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) . Retrieved 20 February 2019.
2. ^ ^{a b} Szántó, András (2002). The Visual Arts Critic (PDF) (Report). NAJP/Columbia Academy. p. fifty.
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 Social club and Newberry Library.
4. ^ Roeder, Jr., George H. (2005). "Artists, Education and Culture 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, Effective July 1, 2016" (Press release). Retrieved 28 March 2018.
7. ^ "Areas of Report". Retrieved 20 February 2019.
8. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Project". The Art Plant 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 Feb 2006. Retrieved 27 Apr 2022.
10. ^ "About: Enrollment". SAIC. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
11. ^ "Visiting Artists Program". Retrieved 20 February 2019.
12. ^ "Visiting Artists Programme: Past Events & Podcasts". School of the Art Establish of Chicago . Retrieved 2021-03-24 .
13. ^ "Past Events & Podcasts". Retrieved 20 February 2019.
14. ^ School of the Fine art Institute of Chicago (2020-02-27). "SAIC Announces New Home for Its Iconic Galleries in Chicago'due south Loop". GlobeNewswire News Room (Printing release). Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
15. ^ "Infant Wave". FreeRadioSAIC. Archived from the original on 2014-eleven-17. Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
16. ^ Tarun (2011-08-22). "Cartoons On The Radio". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-xviii .
17. ^ andy (2011-eleven-01). "Interview With Thomas Comerford". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
18. ^ "2017 Best Graduate Fine Arts Programs". U.Southward. News and Globe Report. Archived from the original on 2017-03-xiv.
19. ^ "What's the Fizz? Exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings (January 2013)".
20. ^ "Best Fine Arts Schools". U.S. News and Earth Report.
21. ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: Art & Pattern".
22. ^ ^{a b c} Matt O'Connor (21 September 1994). "Suit Ended on Picture 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 Spousal relationship threatened to sue Chicago police considering of the seizure of a painting depicting the late Mayor Harold Washington wearing women'south underwear.
24. ^ ^{a b} Dubin, Steven (1992). Arresting Images, Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions . Routledge. ISBN0-415-90893-0.
25. ^ Campbell, Adrianna (9 Jan 2017). "Banner Year: At a Time of Heated Race Relations in America, Dread Scott Wades Into the Fray". ARTnews . Retrieved eleven June 2020.
26. ^ Cohen, Alina (July 25, 2018). "It's Legal to Burn the American Flag. This Artist Helped Make It A Grade of Free Speech communication". Artsy . Retrieved 11 June 2020.
27. ^ ^{a b} Roll, Nick (July 24, 2017). "Tensions in the Fine art Classroom". Inside Higher Ed.
28. ^ ^{a b} Jori Finkel (eighteen August 2017). "Fine art school under burn down for bowing to transgender pupil complaints". The Art Newspaper . Retrieved 19 December 2018.
29. ^ Tom Bartlett, "The Offender", The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 10, 2017. Available online to subscribers simply.

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