I don’t cry watching movies but I cry for this,” writes one user, summarizing the majority perspective. School of the Art ...

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From clubs to raves to galleries, Ále Campos (MFA 2022) and Abhijeet Rane (SAIC 2016) carry the lineage of Chicago drag ...

As the new artist behind Nancy, Caroline Cash (BFA 2019) is one of the biggest names in comics—and there’s much more to come.

Over the last 160 years of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), lots of things have changed, but the core of creativity remains the same. The technology, fashion, and facilities might ...

Three words that describe you? Community-minded, bold, intentional. What’s something you learned at SAIC? I learned the true importance of collaboration. Before coming here, I was always in my own ...

As the new director of the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, Laura-Caroline de Lara (Dual MA 2012) brings the words and work of marginalized artists to the forefront. Her pathway through the museum world ...

Since its emergence in the mid-20th century, pop art has engaged the layered context of popular mass media and consumer culture that lies beneath its iconic look and feel, often sharpened by irony. It ...

The writers, editors, designers, and photographers who contributed to the spring 2026 School of the Art Institute of Chicago magazine.

In 1963, white police officers swarmed a nonviolent civil rights demonstration in what became known as the Birmingham riots. In violent scenes captured by photographer Charles Moore for Life magazine, ...