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Academy and independent schoolhouse of art and pattern

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Type	Private art school
Established	1866 (1866)
President	Elissa Tenny
Academic staff	141 full-fourth dimension 427 office-time
Undergraduates	2,894 (Autumn 2018)[one]
Postgraduates	745 (Fall 2018)
Location	Chicago , Illinois , United States 41°52′46″N 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°N 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389 Coordinates: 41°52′46″Due north 87°37′26″Due west  /  41.87944°Northward 87.62389°Westward  / 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 Institute 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 past the College Learning Commission, by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 (charter member), and by the Association of Contained Colleges of 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 Program, SAIC was named the "near influential fine art school" in the United States.^[2]

The schoolhouse's 280 Columbus Artery building in Grant Park, is attached to the museum and houses a premier gallery showcase.

Its downtown Chicago campus consists of seven buildings located in the firsthand vicinity of the AIC building. SAIC is in an equal partnership with the AIC and shares many administrative resources such as blueprint, construction, and man resources. The campus, located in the Loop, comprises chiefly v main buildings: the McLean Middle (112 S. Michigan Ave.), the Michigan building (116 S Michigan Ave), the Abrupt (36 Due south. Wabash Ave.), Sullivan Eye (37 S. Wabash Ave.), and the Columbus (280 S. Columbus Dr.). SAIC also holds classes in the Spertus edifice at 610 Due south. Michigan. SAIC owns additional buildings throughout Chicago that are used as student galleries or investments. There are three dormitory facilities: The Buckingham, Jones Hall, and 162 North 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 fellow member dues and patron donations. Iv years subsequently, the school moved into its own Adams Street building, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Burn down of 1871.

Because of the school'southward financial and managerial problems afterward this loss, concern leaders in 1878 formed a board of trustees and founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. They expanded its mission beyond didactics and exhibitions to include collecting. In 1882, the academy was renamed the Art Institute of Chicago. The broker Charles Fifty. Hutchinson served as its elected president until his death in 1924.^[iii] The school grew to become among the "most influential" art schools in the United States.^[4]

Walter E. Massey served as president from 2010–July 2016.^[v] The current president is Elissa Tenny, formerly the schoolhouse'due south provost.^[6]

Academics [edit]

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

"Painting critique": students' critiquing Ben Cowan'south piece of work

The Etching Room, with etching presses and workstations

SAIC besides offers an interdisciplinary Low-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 78 architects accept contributed.^{[8] [9]}

Demographics [edit]

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

Total Enrollment: 3,640

Undergraduate students: 2,895

Graduate students: 745

Sex activity:

Female: 74.iii%

Male: 25.seven%

International and ethnic origin:

International students: 33% (countries represented: 67)

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

White: 32.6%

Hispanic: ten.four%

Asian or Pacific Islander: 8.nine%

African American: 3.3%

American Indian: 0.2%

Multiethnic: 2.8%

Not Specified: 8.4%

Geographic distribution of United States students:

Midwest: 41.2% (includes 8.8% from Chicago)

Northeast: 16.five%

West: xix.four%

South: 22.8%

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 past Flora Mayer Witkowsky'southward endowment of a supporting fund, the Visiting Artists Program hosts public presentations past artists, designers, and scholars each year in lectures, symposia, performances, and screenings. It showcases piece of work in all media, including sound, video, performance, poetry, painting, and contained film; in addition to meaning curators, critics, and 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 K. Bhabha, Bill Fontana, Wolfgang Laib, Suzanne Lee, and Amar Kanwar amongst others.^[12]

Additionally, the Distinguished Alumni Serial brings alumni back to the community to present their work and reflect on how their experiences at SAIC have shaped them. Recent 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.^{[13] [ citation needed ]}

Galleries [edit]

• SAIC Galleries - Located at 33 East. Washington Street, SAIC Galleries occupies four floors and offers 26,000 square anxiety of exhibition space for annual educatee and faculty shows, as well as special exhibitions featuring national and international artists.
• Sullivan Galleries- Located to the 7th floor of the Sullivan Middle at 33 Southward. State Street. With shows and projects often led by faculty or student curators, it is a didactics 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 Due east. Washington Street after ten years of operation.^[14]
• SITE Galleries (formerly Pupil Union Galleries) - Founded in 1994, SITE, one time known every bit the Student Union Galleries (SUGs), is a educatee-run system at the School of the Art Establish of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of student work. They have two locations: The SITE Sharp of the 37 South Wabash Avenue building; and SITE Columbus of the 280 S Columbus Drive building. The ii locations allow the galleries to cycle two shows simultaneously.

Educatee organizations [edit]

ExTV [edit]

ExTV is a pupil-run fourth dimension-arts platform that broadcasts online and on campus. Its broadcasts are bachelor via monitors located throughout the 112 S. Michigan edifice, the 37 S Wabash edifice, and the 280 Southward. 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 pop diners and movie theaters.

Costless Radio SAIC [edit]

Gratis Radio SAIC is the educatee-run Internet radio station of The Schoolhouse of the Fine art Institute of Chicago. Free Radio uses an open up programming format and encourage its DJs to explore and experiment with the medium of live radio. Program content and style vary just by and large include music from all genres, sound art, narratives, live performances, current events and interviews.

Featured bands and guests on Gratis Radio SAIC include Nü Sensae, The Black Belles, Thomas Comerford, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jeff Bennett, Carolyn Lawrence, and much more than.^{[15] [16] [17]}

Student authorities [edit]

The student government of SAIC is unique in that its constitution requires four officers holding equal ability and responsibleness. Elections are held every year. In that location are no entrada requirements. Any group of iv students may run for office, but at that place must always be four students.

The educatee authorities is responsible for hosting a school-wide student coming together once a month. At these meetings students hash out 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 regime cannot participate in the vote: but oversee it.

Ranking [edit]

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

In 2017,^[18] U.Due south. News & Earth Report's higher rankings ranked SAIC the fourth all-time overall graduate programme for fine arts in the U.S. tying with the Rhode Island school of Pattern. In January 2013, The Global Language Monitor ranked SAIC every bit the #v higher in the U.Due south., the highest e'er for an art or pattern school in a general college ranking. ^[19]

In 2020 and 2021, U.S. News and World Report^[xx] ranked SAIC equally the 2d all-time overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.S. tied with Yale University. In 2021, the university was ranked the seventh globally according to the QS World University Rankings by the discipline Art and Design.^[21]

Notable people [edit]

Controversy [edit]

Mirth & Girth [edit]

On May xi, 1988, a educatee painting depicting Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, was taken down past three of the city's African-American aldermen based on its content.^[22] The painting past David Nelson, titled Mirth & Girth, was of Washington clad simply in women'south underwear^[23] and property a pencil.^{[ commendation needed ]} Washington had died suddenly less than six months earlier, on November 25, 1987.^{[ commendation needed ]}

After the aldermen held the painting hostage, Police Superintendent LeRoy Martin ordered officers to accept it into custody.^[22] Art students protested. The painting was returned after a mean solar day. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department and the aldermen. The ACLU claimed the removal violated Nelson's Get-go, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendment rights. A 1992 federal court 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 Amendment.^[22]

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

In February 1989, as part of a slice entitled What Is the Proper Way to Brandish a U.S. Flag?, a student named "Dread" Scott Tyler spread a Flag of the Us on the flooring of the institute. The piece consisted of a podium, set upon the flag, and containing a notebook for viewers to limited how they felt about the exhibit. In lodge for viewers to write in the notebook, they would take to walk on the flag, which is a violation of customary practice and code. While the exhibit faced protests from veterans and flop threats, the schoolhouse stood by the student'south art.^[24] That twelvemonth, the school's country funding was cut from $70,000 to $ane, and the piece was publicly condemned by President George H. Westward. Bush.^[25] Scott would go on to be 1 of the defendants in United States v. Eichman, a Supreme Court case in which it was eventually decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.^[26]

Academic freedom controversy [edit]

In 2017, a controversy arose subsequently Michael Bonesteel, an adjunct professor specializing in outsider art, and comics, resigned after deportment taken past the institute following two Title IX complaints by transgender students beingness filed against him in which each criticized his comments and class discussion. The institute 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 similar a police force state than a place where academic freedom and the open exchange of ideas is valued".^[27]

Laura Kipnis, author of a book 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 idea that students are trying to conscience or curb a professor'due south opinions or thinking is appalling".^{[28] [29]} The schoolhouse said the claims fabricated against information technology were "problematic" and "misleading", and that information technology supports academic freedom.^[27]

Property [edit]

This is a list of holding in society of acquisition:

• 280 South Columbus (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, Betty Rymer Gallery)
• 37 South Wabash (classrooms, main administrative offices, Flaxman Library)
• 112 Due south Michigan (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, ballroom)
• seven West Madison (student residences)
• 162 Northward State (pupil residences)
• 164 North State Street (Factor Siskel Pic Center)
• 116 Southward Michigan

SAIC besides owns these properties exterior of the firsthand vicinity of the Chicago Loop:

• 1926 Northward Halsted (gallery infinite) in Chicago.
• Ox-Bow Schoolhouse of Fine art and Artists Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan (affiliated with SAIC)

SAIC leases:

• 36 South Wabash, leasing the 12th floor (administrative offices, Architecture and Interior Architecture Design Middle)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing the 7th flooring (Fashion Blueprint department, Gallery 2)
• 36 Due south Wabash, leasing offices on the 14th flooring (authoritative offices)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing offices on the 15th flooring (administrative offices)

Academic partnerships [edit]

• Glasgow Schoolhouse of Fine art (United kingdom)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Quick Facts: Enrollment". School of the Art Establish of Chicago (SAIC) . Retrieved 20 Feb 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 Guild and Newberry Library.
4. ^ Roeder, Jr., George H. (2005). "Artists, Instruction and Culture of". In Reiff, Janice L.; Keating, Ann Durkin; Grossman, James R. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Electronic ed.). Chicago Historical Club 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 Written 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 Apr 2022.
9. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Projection: General Information and Ordering Transcripts". The Art Found of Chicago. Archived from the original on xvi February 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
10. ^ "About: Enrollment". SAIC. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
11. ^ "Visiting Artists Program". Retrieved 20 Feb 2019.
12. ^ "Visiting Artists Program: Past Events & Podcasts". School of the Art Establish of Chicago . Retrieved 2021-03-24 .
13. ^ "Past Events & Podcasts". Retrieved twenty Feb 2019.
14. ^ Schoolhouse of the Art Institute of Chicago (2020-02-27). "SAIC Announces New Abode for Its Iconic Galleries in Chicago's Loop". GlobeNewswire News Room (Printing release). Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
15. ^ "Babe Moving ridge". 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 All-time Graduate Fine Arts Programs". U.South. News and World Study. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14.
19. ^ "What'due south the Buzz? Exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings (Jan 2013)".
20. ^ "Best Fine Arts Schools". U.Southward. News and World Study.
21. ^ "QS Earth University Rankings by Subject field 2021: Art & Design".
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 19 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 Matrimony threatened to sue Chicago police 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 (9 January 2017). "Imprint Twelvemonth: 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 Fire the American Flag. This Creative person Helped Brand It A Form of Free Speech communication". Artsy . Retrieved 11 June 2020.
27. ^ ^{a b} Scroll, Nick (July 24, 2017). "Tensions in the Art Classroom". Within Higher Ed.
28. ^ ^{a b} Jori Finkel (18 August 2017). "Fine art schoolhouse under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints". The Fine art Newspaper . Retrieved 19 Dec 2018.
29. ^ Tom Bartlett, "The Offender", The Chronicle of Higher Instruction, Baronial 10, 2017. Bachelor online to subscribers only.

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