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SAIC 2013 Commencement Ceremony

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:00 -0400

The Commencement Ceremony for the class of 2013 will be held on Saturday, May 18 at 10:30 a.m. at Millennium Park, Pritzker Pavilion.

This year’s Commencement speaker is acclaimed American actor, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith. Along with architect Jeanne Gang and artist Joe Zucker (BFA 1964, MFA 1966), Deavere Smith will receive an honorary doctorate from SAIC to recognize her achievements and commitment to the arts.

Following the Commencement Ceremony, there will be a reception with light snacks and champagne at the Graduate Exhibition in the Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor. Commencement tickets are required for admission.

http://www.saic.edu/lifeatsaic/commencement/

To watch a live stream of the ceremony tomorrow, go to http://www.ustream.tv/embed/11061085?v=3&wmode=direct

TODAY!! All School BBQ Thursday, May 9, 4:00–6:00 p.m.Due to...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:30:47 -0400

TODAY!! All School BBQ

Thursday, May 9, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Due to rain, BBQ to be held in MacLean Ballroom
112. S. Michigan Ave.

Join Campus Life for the All School BBQ for fun barbecue fare such as hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and more (vegan options available)! This annual SAIC tradition is a festive way to end the spring semester!

CHICKEN + WAFFLES + BINGO!!!!!!! Thursday night hosted by SAIC...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:52:00 -0400

CHICKEN + WAFFLES + BINGO!!!!!!! Thursday night hosted by SAIC Student Government. Come relax, eat, and win some prizes!

Wednesday May 1st at 4:15 in MC707!Join Gabriella Brown,...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:46:49 -0400

Wednesday May 1st at 4:15 in MC707!

Join Gabriella Brown, Alexandria Eregbu, and Rashayla Brown in a student-led conversation about diversity, identity politics, and power and inequality and how they pertain to our practices and student life at SAIC.
This conversation was inspired by the recent buzz on campus around issues pertaining to diversity and the “Controversy, Community, and Curriculum” panel that was held in the Neiman Center April 10th.

This is an excellent opportunity to connect with students and faculty who are interested in having these conversations. We will be organizing a new critique and studio visit group and discussing ways to sustain a community of students and faculty in Chicago.

Workshops to help you get started • Get Started: a Pep...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:30:06 -0400

Workshops to help you get started

• Get Started: a Pep Talk by Alumni

moderated by SAIC alumnus Jason Foumberg (MAAH), contributing art critic at Chicago Magazine

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Present Yourself

• Meet New Members of Your Team

• Manage Your Money

• Build Your Web Presence

• A Curator in Your Studio

• Set up Your Business

• Write a Useful Artist Statement

• Local Creative Opportunities

The LeRoy Neiman Center in the Sharp Building

2nd floor, Student Leadership Suite

37 S. Wabash Ave.,

Chicago, IL 60603

Register here to attend
Events are free and open to all degree-seeking SAIC students and alumni.

Join the Working Artist Program on LinkedIn for information about upcoming events: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4391825

Presented by the Career + Co-op Center and SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations.

SPB presents: Drag Show Tuesday, April 30, 4:30 p.m.MacLean...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:21 -0400

SPB presents: Drag Show
Tuesday, April 30, 4:30 p.m.
MacLean Ballroom
112 S. Michigan Ave.

The Student Programming Board is proud to present SAIC’s First Annual Spring Drag & Burlesque Show. This event is designed to promote student performance and creative expression, while also serving to celebrate the diversity of gender and identity expression at SAIC. Come be a part of a new SAIC tradition!

Featuring Guest Performers:
Precious Jewel (Host)
Mister Junior (Vaudezilla member and SAIC alumnus)
RedRum (SAIC Fashion Administrative Director, Michelle Maynard)

visualandcritical: Join us on Saturday, 4/27 for the George...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:20:17 -0400

visualandcritical:

Join us on Saturday, 4/27 for the George Roeder Visual and Critical Studies Master’s Symposium in the Nichols Suite at the Art Institute of Chicago. Please see above for the schedule. Hope to see you there!

Undergraduate Performance Festival

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:20:21 -0400

Saturday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
SAIC Performance Space
280 S. Columbus Dr.

Featuring work by: Justus Harris, Courtney Mackedanz, and Emily Cruz Nowell
Guest MCs: Mitsu Salmon and Keijaun Thomas

Please mark your calendars and join us for SAIC’s Undergraduate Performance Festival. Admission is free and open to the public.

Click here for more information or call 312.629.6635

Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award! Nominate your favorite...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:02:00 -0400

Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award! Nominate your favorite faculty on Engage SAIC by Saturday April 20th, 2013.

https://engage.saic.edu/form/start/20160

Spring Art Sale Friday, April 19, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.Saturday,...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:56:56 -0400

Spring Art Sale

Friday, April 19, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 20, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
MacLean Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave.

The Spring Art Sale is sponsored by Campus Life. All work at the Spring Art Sale is created by current SAIC students. Stay Connected! Be sure to get updates about annual art sale information by joining our Campus Life Facebook page facebook.com/saiccampuslife and Twitter feed @saiccampuslife.

The annual Spring Art Sale is an excellent opportunity for students to show and sell their work, as well as network with many people from the Chicago arts community. Participating students receive the majority of their total sales. Campus Life collects a small commission on all work sold at the art sales in order to fund the cost of advertising and operating the events.

BAVCS/BFA Thesis Symposium - Saturday, April 20th 10:30-4:45 The...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:50:42 -0400

BAVCS/BFA Thesis Symposium - Saturday, April 20th 10:30-4:45

The Art Institute of Chicago
Stock Exchange and Trading Room FREE! OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Featuring the work of:
10:30AM: an indefinite limit
-Tara Plath
-Michael Carrig
-Ivan Gaytan
-Courtney Mackedanz
-Amara Leipzig
-Shreya Sethi

12 Noon: From Tech2u
-Sam Doerge
-Eric Davis
-Quinn Keaveney
-Vincent Uribe
-Justus Harris
-Kekeli Sumah

1:30PM: Experienced Histories
-Kaitlin Murphy
-Katie McCarty
-Stephanie McNeal
-Elliott Mickleburgh
-Heather Piper

3:00PM: Subgestion: Nonsense, Control, Narrative, Absorption
-Joshua Rogin
-Sara Van De Walle
-Chloe Chu
-Karin Kuroda
-Blake Daniels
-Hiba Ali

SAIC’s First Annual Spring Drag & Burlesque...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:30:27 -0400

SAIC’s First Annual Spring Drag & Burlesque Show!
Happening April 30 (during Crit Week) in the Maclean Ballroom, the First Annual Spring Drag & Burlesque Show will be an exciting chance to showcase the variety of student performance while celebrating the diversity of gender and identity expression at SAIC.

The Show is open for all student, faculty, and staff performances. Interested performers please visit https://engage.saic.edu/ to fill out a short proposal application!

Low-Residency MFA

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:04:45 -0400

In the summer of 2014 SAIC will welcome its first class of artists, historians, curators, and writers pursuing an MFA in the newest element of SAIC’s prestigious graduate fine arts program: the Low-Residency MFA. The three-year program is shaped around the evolving needs of 21st-century artists and writers—those creators on the move, applying multiple strategies not specific to any one medium, method, or environment.

Students will participate in three, six-week consecutive summer residencies at SAIC; fall and spring independent study sessions, including regular consultation with SAIC alumni advisors in students’ geographic locations; remote instruction made possible through online delivery systems; international study trips to sites of art historical importance; and a final exhibition in which significant thesis projects and their written accompaniments will be presented to the public.

Students will receive individualized attention relevant to their specific area of concentration from a diverse and deep roster of core faculty members, SAIC alumni advisors, and visiting artists from a wide range of backgrounds. Visiting artists for Summer Session 2014 already include Joseph Grigely, Kira Lynn Harris, Glenn Ligon, Josiah McElheny, Lynne Tillman, and Wu Tsang.

Directed by Gregg Bordowitz, faculty member in SAIC’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department, SAIC’s new Low-Residency MFA program represents the next step forward for SAIC and an opportunity to expand SAIC’s global reach. By educating contemporary artists and scholars in a flexible environment that challenges students to think critically and develop a research-based practice, the Low-Res MFA program will equip students with all the necessary skills and knowledge to develop their own methodology for production and distribution in an ever-changing art world.

I invite you to learn more about SAIC’s Low-Res MFA at saic.edu/lowres.

Crossing the Palisades is a group exhibition featuring...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:30:11 -0400

Crossing the Palisades is a group exhibition featuring graduating artists from the class of 2013. The exhibition is curated by Vincent Uribe—a member of SAIC Student Government and takes place on the 12th floor of the historic Sullivan Center within the student services area. Placing work throughout the interior that houses the student services offices pushes the paradox of the emerging artist exhibiting in the often more closed off spaces that make up upper level administration. Crossing the Palisades highlights the artists most recent accomplishments while confronting the challenges of entering the “real world” in order to become financially stable, at the same time maintaining the balance of a studio practice. This exhibition runs until May 10th and features the work of

Alli Rooney
Ashlee Mays
Brittni Hessler
Carson Hoerz
Cody Tumblin
Connor Creagan
Ian Miyamura
Isabella Kendrick
Jena-Marie Gardner
Julia Cuddy
Kayl Parker
Liana Jegers
Nina Palomba
Nuri Kim
Sarah Malorie
Stephanie Cristello
Tim Mann
William James Thurman
Zeke Raney

Opening reception April 2nd
4:30-6pm in 1203J

Student Government Election Voting–Ends Friday!

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:16:37 -0400

VOTE TODAY! Learn about the 2013–14 Student Government candidates and vote for your student representatives. Vote on EngageSAIC (follow link on homepage) for SAICSG 2013–14. Voting ends tomorrow (Friday, March 29).

Election Results will be announced on March 30.

PB&J Applications Available The Peanut Butter and Jelly...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:29:04 -0400

PB&J Applications Available

The Peanut Butter and Jelly Award recognizes degree-seeking students who continue their education at SAIC and whose work exemplifies being both an artist and a leader.The scholarship is up to $500. Students interested in applying can self-nominate by submitting an application on SAIC Student Government’s EngageSAIC. Applications are due Monday, April 8 by 4:30 p.m. Award winners will be announced at the 19th Annual Leadership Dinner on Friday, April 26.
https://engage.saic.edu/organization/saicsg/availableforms

WAVELENGTHS: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:30:26 -0400

Image from View From the Acropolis (Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, 2012). Courtesy of the artists and Motive Gallery.

WAVELENGTHS: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Thursday, March 21, 6:00 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St., Chicago, IL
312.846.2600
Curator Andréa Picard in person

Named for but also infinitely inspired by Michael Snow’s 1967 masterpiece, Wavelength, the Toronto International Film Festival’s avant-garde program presents films and videos that defy convention, suggest alternate ways of thinking, and sometimes re-emerge from a distant past in order to comment on the present. Curated by Andréa Picard, who has organized Wavelengths since 2006, this program is a Wavelengths compendium featuring a number of works from the 2012 line-up (including Nathaniel Dorsky’s August and After, Ernie Gehr’s Auto-Collider XV, and Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan’s View from the Acropolis which were all cited in the New York Times’ best films of the year wrap-up and screen as Chicago premieres) and highlights from previous editions, including a 35mm restored print from La Cinémathèque Française of Henri Storck’s too-rarely seen 1929 Surrealist gem, Pour vos beaux yeux. Blinking is not encouraged!

1929-2012, multiple directors, multiple countries, various formats, ca. 71 minutes + discussion

ANDRÉA PICARD (b. 1977, Toronto, Canada) is a film curator and writer based in Toronto and Paris. For twelve years she was a member of the programming department at TIFF Cinematheque (née Cinematheque Ontario) and has been curating Wavelengths, the Toronto International Film Festival’s celebrated avant-garde series, since 2006. She also writes the “Film/Art” column forCinema Scope magazine.

CATE is organized by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
Visit our website for links to videos of previous CATE artists, guest bios, interviews, and links to articles. “Like” us on Facebook!
Upcoming Programs

3/28—L.A. REBELLION (with filmmakers Ben Caldwell, Barbara McCullough, and O.Funmilayo Makarah in person. Introduced by co-curator Jacqueline Stewart)
4/4—Hannes Schüpbach: Spin/Verso/Contour (appearing in person)
4/11—An Evening with Rosa Barba (appearing in person)
4/18—Eric Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus: twohundredfiftysixcolors (appearing in person)

Location and Tickets
Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.), unless otherwise noted.
CATE is FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $11 for the general public, $6 for Film Center members, $7 for students, and $4 for SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff.
Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.

SAICSG 2013-2014 CANDIDATE MIXER WEDNESDAY @ 4:30PM 2nd floor of...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:19:59 -0400

SAICSG 2013-2014 CANDIDATE MIXER WEDNESDAY @ 4:30PM 2nd floor of the LeRoy Neiman Center! Come meet the candidates running for SAIC Student Government next year!

Writing About Your WorkArtist Statement WorkshopThursday, March...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:27:08 -0400

Writing About Your Work
Artist Statement Workshop
Thursday, March 21, 4:15 to 6 p .m.
1226 Sullivan Center
Get help with your writing for professional opportunities
and the SAIC Graduating Fellowship application at this workshop with
Kate Schutta, Assistant Dean & Co-Director of the Career + Co-op Center.
To attend, register here.

SAIC SHELTER-IN-PLACE DRILL WEEK, MARCH 18-22

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:30:29 -0400

SAIC SHELTER-IN-PLACE DRILL WEEK, MARCH 18-22