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University and independent school of fine art and design

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Type	Private art school
Established	1866 (1866)
President	Elissa Tenny
Academic staff	141 full-fourth dimension 427 part-time
Undergraduates	2,894 (Fall 2018)[one]
Postgraduates	745 (Fall 2018)
Location	Chicago , Illinois , Usa 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″Westward  /  41.87944°N 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Art Institute of Chicago AICAD NASAD
Website	www.saic.edu

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art schoolhouse associated with the 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 past the Higher Learning Committee, by the National Association of Schools of Fine art and Design since 1944 (charter member), and by the Association of Contained Colleges of Fine 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 University's National Arts Journalism Programme, SAIC was named the "most influential fine art schoolhouse" in the Usa.^[2]

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

Its downtown Chicago campus consists of vii buildings located in the immediate vicinity of the AIC building. SAIC is in an equal partnership with the AIC and shares many administrative resources such every bit design, construction, and human resources. The campus, located in the Loop, comprises chiefly 5 main buildings: the McLean Center (112 S. Michigan Ave.), the Michigan edifice (116 S Michigan Ave), the Abrupt (36 Southward. Wabash Ave.), Sullivan Centre (37 S. Wabash Ave.), and the Columbus (280 Due south. Columbus Dr.). SAIC also holds classes in the Spertus edifice at 610 S. Michigan. SAIC owns boosted buildings throughout Chicago that are used as pupil galleries or investments. There are three dormitory facilities: The Buckingham, Jones Hall, and 162 N State Street residencies.

History [edit]

The institute 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 member dues and patron donations. Four years later, the schoolhouse moved into its ain Adams Street building, which was destroyed in the Bang-up Chicago Fire of 1871.

Because of the school's financial and managerial issues subsequently this loss, business organization leaders in 1878 formed a board 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 Found of Chicago. The banker Charles L. Hutchinson served as its elected president until his death in 1924.^[iii] The schoolhouse grew to become amid the "near 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'south provost.^[six]

Academics [edit]

SAIC offers classes in art and technology; arts administration; art history, theory, and criticism; art education and art therapy; ceramics; manner design; filmmaking; historic preservation; architecture; interior compages; designed objects; journalism; painting and drawing; performance; photography; printmaking; sculpture; audio; new media; video; visual advice; visual and disquisitional studies; animation; illustration; fiber; and writing.^[7] SAIC besides serves every bit a resource for issues related to the position and importance of the arts in gild.

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

The Carving Room, with etching presses and workstations

SAIC also offers an interdisciplinary Depression-Residency MFA for students wishing to study 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 78 architects take contributed.^{[eight] [9]}

Demographics [edit]

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

Total Enrollment: 3,640

Undergraduate students: 2,895

Graduate students: 745

Sexual activity:

Female person: 74.3%

Male: 25.7%

International and indigenous origin:

International students: 33% (countries represented: 67)

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

White: 32.half dozen%

Hispanic: 10.4%

Asian or Pacific Islander: 8.9%

African American: 3.three%

American Indian: 0.2%

Multiethnic: 2.8%

Not Specified: viii.4%

Geographic distribution of United States students:

Midwest: 41.2% (includes 8.8% from Chicago)

Northeast: xvi.five%

Westward: 19.4%

South: 22.eight%

Activities [edit]

Visiting Artists Program [edit]

Founded in 1868, the Visiting Artists Program (VAP) is one of the oldest public programs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 by Flora Mayer Witkowsky's 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. Information technology showcases work in all media, including sound, video, operation, poesy, painting, and independent picture; in add-on to significant curators, critics, and fine art historians.^{[11] [ citation needed ]}

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

Additionally, the Distinguished Alumni Series brings alumni back to the customs to present their work and reflect on how their experiences at SAIC take 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 proper name a few.^{[13] [ commendation needed ]}

Galleries [edit]

• SAIC Galleries - Located at 33 E. Washington Street, SAIC Galleries occupies 4 floors and offers 26,000 square feet of exhibition space for annual educatee and faculty shows, as well as special exhibitions featuring national and international artists.
• Sullivan Galleries- Located to the seventh flooring of the Sullivan Center at 33 S. State Street. With shows and projects oftentimes led past faculty or student curators, it is a teaching gallery. In the Spring of 2020 SAIC announced it would relocate its galleries and Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies from 33 Southward. State Street to 33 E. Washington Street after ten years of operation.^[14]
• SITE Galleries (formerly Pupil Union Galleries) - Founded in 1994, SITE, once known as the Student Matrimony Galleries (SUGs), is a pupil-run system at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of student piece of work. They have ii locations: The SITE Sharp of the 37 S Wabash Artery building; and SITE Columbus of the 280 South Columbus Drive building. The ii locations allow the galleries to cycle two shows simultaneously.

Student organizations [edit]

ExTV [edit]

ExTV is a educatee-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 building.

F Newsmagazine [edit]

F Newsmagazine is SAIC's student-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 popular diners and motion picture theaters.

Free Radio SAIC [edit]

Gratuitous Radio SAIC is the student-run Net radio station of The School of the Fine art Institute of Chicago. Gratis Radio uses an open up programming format and encourage its DJs to explore and experiment with the medium of live radio. Programme content and fashion vary only more often than not include music from all genres, audio fine art, narratives, live performances, electric 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.^{[fifteen] [xvi] [17]}

Student government [edit]

The educatee authorities of SAIC is unique in that its constitution requires four officers property equal ability and responsibility. Elections are held every yr. At that place are no campaign requirements. Any grouping of four students may run for office, but there must always be four students.

The student government is responsible for hosting a school-wide pupil meeting once a month. At these meetings students talk over 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: just oversee it.

Ranking [edit]

In a survey conducted past the National Arts Journalism Programme at Columbia Academy, SAIC was named the "about influential fine art school" by fine art critics at full general interest news publications from across the United States.^[2]

In 2017,^[18] U.Southward. News & Earth Report'due south college rankings ranked SAIC the fourth best overall graduate plan for fine arts in the U.S. tying with the Rhode Island school of Design. In January 2013, The Global Linguistic communication Monitor ranked SAIC as the #v college in the U.S., the highest always for an fine art or design school in a general college ranking. ^[19]

In 2020 and 2021, U.Due south. News and Earth Report^[twenty] ranked SAIC as the second all-time overall graduate programme for fine arts in the U.South. tied with Yale University. In 2021, the university was ranked the seventh globally according to the QS Earth University Rankings by the subject Art and Pattern.^[21]

Notable people [edit]

Controversy [edit]

Mirth & Girth [edit]

On May 11, 1988, a student painting depicting Harold Washington, the start black mayor of Chicago, was taken downward by three of the city's African-American aldermen based on its content.^[22] The painting by David Nelson, titled Mirth & Girth, was of Washington clad simply in women'south underwear^[23] and belongings a pencil.^{[ citation needed ]} Washington had died all of a sudden less than six months earlier, on Nov 25, 1987.^{[ citation needed ]}

After the aldermen held the painting earnest, Law Superintendent LeRoy Martin ordered officers to take information technology into custody.^[22] Art students protested. The painting was returned later a day. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit confronting the Chicago Police force Department and the aldermen. The ACLU claimed the removal violated Nelson's Commencement, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendment rights. A 1992 federal court affirmed his constitutional rights had been violated.^[24] In 1994 the metropolis agreed to a settlement to end litigation; the coin would become toward attorneys' fees for the ACLU. The iii aldermen agreed non to appeal the 1992 ruling, and the Police Department established procedures over seizure of materials protected past the Kickoff Amendment.^[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 Manner to Display a U.S. Flag?, a student named "Dread" Scott Tyler spread a Flag of the United states of america on the floor of the constitute. 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 social club for viewers to write in the notebook, they would accept 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 pupil'due south fine art.^[24] That year, the school's state funding was cut from $seventy,000 to $i, and the slice was publicly condemned by President George H. W. Bush.^[25] Scott would get on to exist i of the defendants in Usa v. Eichman, a Supreme Court instance in which information technology was somewhen decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.^[26]

Bookish freedom controversy [edit]

In 2017, a controversy arose after Michael Bonesteel, an adjunct professor specializing in outsider art, and comics, resigned after actions taken by the institute following two Title Nine complaints past transgender students existence filed against him in which each criticized his comments and class discussion. The found 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 causeless to be "guilty until proven innocent" and that SAIC "feels more similar a police state than a place where bookish freedom and the open exchange of ideas is valued".^[27]

Laura Kipnis, writer of a volume on Title IX cases in which she argues that universities follow reckless and capricious approaches, argued that SAIC was displaying "jawdropping cowardice".^[28] She said, "The thought that students are trying to censor or curb a professor's opinions or thinking is appalling".^{[28] [29]} The school said the claims fabricated against it were "problematic" and "misleading", and that information technology supports academic freedom.^[27]

Property [edit]

This is a listing of property in order of acquisition:

• 280 South Columbus (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, Betty Rymer Gallery)
• 37 South Wabash (classrooms, chief authoritative offices, Flaxman Library)
• 112 South Michigan (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, ballroom)
• seven West Madison (student residences)
• 162 North State (student residences)
• 164 N State Street (Gene Siskel Motion-picture show Eye)
• 116 South Michigan

SAIC as well owns these properties outside of the firsthand vicinity of the Chicago Loop:

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

SAIC leases:

• 36 South Wabash, leasing the 12th floor (administrative offices, Architecture and Interior Compages Pattern Centre)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing the 7th floor (Fashion Design department, Gallery 2)
• 36 S Wabash, leasing offices on the 14th flooring (administrative offices)
• 36 Southward Wabash, leasing offices on the 15th floor (administrative offices)

Academic partnerships [edit]

• Glasgow School of Art (U.k.)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Quick Facts: Enrollment". School 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 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 Society and Newberry Library.
4. ^ Roeder, Jr., George H. (2005). "Artists, Education and Civilization of". In Reiff, Janice L.; Keating, Ann Durkin; Grossman, James R. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Electronic ed.). Chicago Historical Lodge 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 Study". Retrieved xx February 2019.
8. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Projection". The Art Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on 24 April 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
9. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Project: General Data and Ordering Transcripts". The Art Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on 16 February 2006. Retrieved 27 Apr 2022.
10. ^ "About: Enrollment". SAIC. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
11. ^ "Visiting Artists Program". Retrieved xx February 2019.
12. ^ "Visiting Artists Program: Past Events & Podcasts". School of the Art Institute 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 Dwelling for Its Iconic Galleries in Chicago's Loop". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
15. ^ "Infant Wave". FreeRadioSAIC. Archived from the original on 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
16. ^ Tarun (2011-08-22). "Cartoons On The Radio". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
17. ^ andy (2011-11-01). "Interview With Thomas Comerford". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
18. ^ "2017 Best Graduate Fine Arts Programs". U.S. News and World Report. Archived from the original on 2017-03-fourteen.
19. ^ "What's the Buzz? Sectional TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings (January 2013)".
20. ^ "Best Fine Arts Schools". U.S. News and Earth Report.
21. ^ "QS World Academy Rankings by Subject 2021: Art & Design".
22. ^ ^{a b c} Matt O'Connor (21 September 1994). "Suit Concluded 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 Printing International. Chicago. May 13, 1988. Retrieved February 21, 2022. The American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue Chicago law because of the seizure of a painting depicting the belatedly Mayor Harold Washington wearing women's underwear.
24. ^ ^{a b} Dubin, Steven (1992). Arresting Images, Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions . Routledge. ISBN0-415-90893-0.
25. ^ Campbell, Adrianna (nine Jan 2017). "Banner 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). "Information technology'south Legal to Fire the American Flag. This Artist Helped Get in A Form of Gratuitous Speech". Artsy . Retrieved eleven June 2020.
27. ^ ^{a b} Roll, Nick (July 24, 2017). "Tensions in the Art Classroom". Inside College Ed.
28. ^ ^{a b} Jori Finkel (18 August 2017). "Art school under burn for bowing to transgender student complaints". The Art Newspaper . Retrieved 19 December 2018.
29. ^ Tom Bartlett, "The Offender", The Chronicle of College Pedagogy, August 10, 2017. Bachelor online to subscribers only.

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