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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Type	Individual art school
Established	1866 (1866)
President	Elissa Tenny
Bookish staff	141 full-time 427 part-time
Undergraduates	2,894 (Fall 2018)[i]
Postgraduates	745 (Fall 2018)
Location	Chicago , Illinois , U.s. 41°52′46″N 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°N 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389 Coordinates: 41°52′46″N 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°Northward 87.62389°Due west  / 41.87944; -87.62389
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Art Institute of Chicago AICAD NASAD
Website	world wide web.saic.edu

The School of the Fine art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private fine 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 by the Higher Learning Commission, by the National Clan of Schools of Fine art and Design since 1944 (lease member), and by the Association of Independent 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'south National Arts Journalism Program, SAIC was named the "nigh influential fine art school" in the United States.^[2]

The school's 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 authoritative resources such every bit design, structure, and homo resource. The campus, located in the Loop, comprises importantly five chief buildings: the McLean Centre (112 S. Michigan Ave.), the Michigan building (116 Southward Michigan Ave), the Sharp (36 S. Wabash Ave.), Sullivan Centre (37 S. Wabash Ave.), and the Columbus (280 S. Columbus Dr.). SAIC also holds classes in the Spertus building at 610 Southward. 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 Due north State Street residencies.

History [edit]

The institute has its roots in the 1866 founding of the Chicago Academy of Pattern, which local artists established in rented rooms on Clark Street. It was financed by member dues and patron donations. Four years subsequently, the school moved into its ain Adams Street building, which was destroyed in the Neat Chicago Fire of 1871.

Because of the school's financial and managerial issues afterwards this loss, business leaders in 1878 formed a board of trustees and founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. They expanded its mission beyond pedagogy 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 go among the "most influential" art schools in the U.s..^[four]

Walter E. Massey served every bit president from 2010–July 2016.^[v] The current president is Elissa Tenny, formerly the school'southward provost.^[half-dozen]

Academics [edit]

SAIC offers classes in fine art and technology; arts administration; fine art history, theory, and criticism; art education and art therapy; ceramics; fashion pattern; filmmaking; historic preservation; architecture; interior compages; designed objects; journalism; painting and drawing; performance; photography; printmaking; sculpture; sound; new media; video; visual communication; visual and critical studies; animation; illustration; fiber; and writing.^[seven] SAIC also serves equally a resource for problems related to the position and importance of the arts in society.

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

The Etching Room, with carving presses and workstations

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

Chicago Architects Oral History Projection [edit]

In 1983, the Department of Architecture began the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, more than 78 architects accept contributed.^{[8] [nine]}

Demographics [edit]

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

Total Enrollment: 3,640

Undergraduate students: 2,895

Graduate students: 745

Sex:

Female person: 74.iii%

Male person: 25.7%

International and ethnic origin:

International students: 33% (countries represented: 67)

United States students: 67%, further subdivided every bit follows:

White: 32.half-dozen%

Hispanic: 10.4%

Asian or Pacific Islander: 8.ix%

African American: three.iii%

American Indian: 0.2%

Multiethnic: 2.8%

Not Specified: 8.4%

Geographic distribution of Usa students:

Midwest: 41.ii% (includes viii.8% from Chicago)

Northeast: 16.5%

West: nineteen.4%

South: 22.viii%

Activities [edit]

Visiting Artists Program [edit]

Founded in 1868, the Visiting Artists Program (VAP) is i of the oldest public programs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 past Flora Mayer Witkowsky'south endowment of a supporting fund, the Visiting Artists Program hosts public presentations by artists, designers, and scholars each yr in lectures, symposia, performances, and screenings. It showcases work in all media, including sound, video, operation, poetry, painting, and contained film; in addition to significant curators, critics, and art historians.^{[eleven] [ 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 Chiliad. Bhabha, Pecker Fontana, Wolfgang Laib, Suzanne Lee, and Amar Kanwar amongst others.^[12]

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

Galleries [edit]

• SAIC Galleries - Located at 33 E. Washington Street, SAIC Galleries occupies four 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 7th flooring of the Sullivan Center at 33 S. State Street. With shows and projects frequently led by kinesthesia or educatee curators, it is a teaching gallery. In the Spring of 2020 SAIC announced information technology would relocate it'due south galleries and Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies from 33 Due south. Land Street to 33 East. Washington Street afterwards 10 years of operation.^[14]
• SITE Galleries (formerly Educatee Union Galleries) - Founded in 1994, SITE, one time known equally the Student Wedlock Galleries (SUGs), is a student-run arrangement at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of pupil piece of work. They take two locations: The SITE Sharp of the 37 South Wabash Avenue building; and SITE Columbus of the 280 South Columbus Drive building. The two locations allow the galleries to cycle two shows simultaneously.

Student organizations [edit]

ExTV [edit]

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

F Newsmagazine [edit]

F Newsmagazine is SAIC'due south pupil-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 popular diners and movie theaters.

Costless Radio SAIC [edit]

Gratis Radio SAIC is the pupil-run Internet radio station of The School of the Art Establish of Chicago. Costless Radio uses an open programming format and encourage its DJs to explore and experiment with the medium of alive radio. Programme content and mode vary but mostly include music from all genres, sound art, narratives, live performances, electric current events and interviews.

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

Student government [edit]

The student government of SAIC is unique in that its constitution requires four officers holding equal ability and responsibility. Elections are held every year. At that place are no campaign requirements. Any grouping of four students may run for office, simply at that place must always exist four students.

The pupil government is responsible for hosting a school-wide student meeting once a calendar month. At these meetings students discuss school concerns of any nature. The predominant topic is funding for the various 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: but oversee it.

Ranking [edit]

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

In 2017,^[18] U.S. News & World Report'south college rankings ranked SAIC the 4th best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.S. tying with the Rhode Island school of Blueprint. In January 2013, The Global Linguistic communication Monitor ranked SAIC as the #5 college in the U.Southward., the highest ever for an art or design schoolhouse in a general college ranking. ^[19]

In 2020 and 2021, U.Due south. News and World Written report^[20] ranked SAIC as the second best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.S. tied with Yale University. In 2021, the university was ranked the 7th globally co-ordinate to the QS Earth Academy Rankings past 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 showtime blackness mayor of Chicago, was taken down by 3 of the city'due south African-American aldermen based on its content.^[22] The painting by David Nelson, titled Mirth & Girth, was of Washington clad only in women's underwear^[23] and holding a pencil.^{[ citation needed ]} Washington had died suddenly less than six months before, on November 25, 1987.^{[ citation needed ]}

After the aldermen held the painting hostage, Police Superintendent LeRoy Martin ordered officers to take it into custody.^[22] Fine art students protested. The painting was returned after a 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 First, 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 appeal the 1992 ruling, and the Law Section established procedures over seizure of materials protected by the First Amendment.^[22]

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

In Feb 1989, every bit function of a slice entitled What Is the Proper Manner to Brandish a U.S. Flag?, a student named "Dread" Scott Tyler spread a Flag of the Usa on the floor of the institute. The slice consisted of a podium, set upon the flag, and containing a notebook for viewers to express how they felt most the exhibit. In gild 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 showroom faced protests from veterans and flop threats, the school stood by the student'south art.^[24] That year, the school'south state funding was cut from $70,000 to $ane, and the piece was publicly condemned by President George H. W. Bush-league.^[25] Scott would go on to be ane of the defendants in United States v. Eichman, a Supreme Courtroom case in which information technology was eventually decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.^[26]

Academic freedom controversy [edit]

In 2017, a controversy arose after Michael Bonesteel, an adjunct professor specializing in outsider fine art, and comics, resigned afterwards actions taken by the institute following ii Title IX complaints by transgender students being filed against him in which each criticized his comments and course discussion. The establish 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 like a police force state than a place where academic liberty and the open up substitution of ideas is valued".^[27]

Laura Kipnis, writer of a book on Championship 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 adjourn a professor's opinions or thinking is bloodcurdling".^{[28] [29]} The school said the claims fabricated against it were "problematic" and "misleading", and that information technology supports bookish freedom.^[27]

Property [edit]

This is a list of property in social club of conquering:

• 280 Southward Columbus (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, Betty Rymer Gallery)
• 37 South Wabash (classrooms, main administrative offices, Flaxman Library)
• 112 S Michigan (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, ballroom)
• 7 West Madison (educatee residences)
• 162 Due north Country (educatee residences)
• 164 Due north Land Street (Gene Siskel Motion-picture show Center)
• 116 Southward Michigan

SAIC also owns these properties 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 Due south Wabash, leasing the 12th floor (authoritative offices, Architecture and Interior Architecture Design Center)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing the 7th flooring (Fashion Pattern section, Gallery two)
• 36 Southward Wabash, leasing offices on the 14th flooring (authoritative offices)
• 36 Southward Wabash, leasing offices on the 15th floor (administrative offices)

Academic partnerships [edit]

• Glasgow School of Fine art (United Kingdom)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Quick Facts: Enrollment". School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) . Retrieved twenty February 2019.
2. ^ ^{a b} Szántó, András (2002). The Visual Arts Critic (PDF) (Report). NAJP/Columbia University. p. l.
3. ^ Dillon, Diane (2005). "Fine 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, Teaching and Culture of". In Reiff, Janice L.; Keating, Ann Durkin; Grossman, James R. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Electronic ed.). Chicago Historical Order 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" (Printing release). Retrieved 28 March 2018.
7. ^ "Areas of Study". Retrieved twenty February 2019.
8. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Project". The Fine art Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on 24 Apr 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
9. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Project: General Information and Ordering Transcripts". The Art Plant 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 Programme". Retrieved 20 February 2019.
12. ^ "Visiting Artists Program: Past Events & Podcasts". School of the Fine art Institute of Chicago . Retrieved 2021-03-24 .
13. ^ "Past Events & Podcasts". Retrieved 20 Feb 2019.
14. ^ School of the Art Establish of Chicago (2020-02-27). "SAIC Announces New Habitation for Its Iconic Galleries in Chicago's Loop". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
15. ^ "Babe 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-eighteen .
18. ^ "2017 Best Graduate Fine Arts Programs". U.South. News and Globe Report. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14.
19. ^ "What's the Fizz? Exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings (January 2013)".
20. ^ "Best Fine Arts Schools". U.Southward. News and World Report.
21. ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: Fine 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 Press International. Chicago. May 13, 1988. Retrieved February 21, 2022. The American Civil Liberties Spousal relationship threatened to sue Chicago law because of the seizure of a painting depicting the tardily Mayor Harold Washington wearing women'southward underwear.
24. ^ ^{a b} Dubin, Steven (1992). Arresting Images, Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions . Routledge. ISBN0-415-90893-0.
25. ^ Campbell, Adrianna (nine January 2017). "Banner Year: At a Time of Heated Race Relations in America, Dread Scott Wades Into the Fray". ARTnews . Retrieved 11 June 2020.
26. ^ Cohen, Alina (July 25, 2018). "It'south Legal to Burn the American Flag. This Artist Helped Make It A Class of Free Spoken language". Artsy . Retrieved xi June 2020.
27. ^ ^{a b} Curlicue, Nick (July 24, 2017). "Tensions in the Art Classroom". Inside Higher Ed.
28. ^ ^{a b} Jori Finkel (18 August 2017). "Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints". The Art Newspaper . Retrieved xix December 2018.
29. ^ Tom Bartlett, "The Offender", The Chronicle of Higher Pedagogy, August x, 2017. Available online to subscribers simply.

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