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University and independent school of art and design

Schoolhouse 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)[1]
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°Due north 87.62389°West  / 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 fine art schoolhouse associated with the Fine art Plant 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 by the Higher Learning Commission, past the National Association of Schools of Art and Blueprint since 1944 (charter fellow member), and by the Association of Contained Colleges of Fine art and Design (AICAD) since the associations founding in 1991. Additionally it is accredited past the National Architectural Accrediting Board. In a 2002 survey conducted by Columbia University'due south National Arts Journalism Program, SAIC was named the "most influential art school" in the United states of america.^[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 seven buildings located in the immediate vicinity of the AIC edifice. SAIC is in an equal partnership with the AIC and shares many administrative resources such equally design, construction, and human resources. The campus, located in the Loop, comprises chiefly 5 primary buildings: the McLean Centre (112 Due south. Michigan Ave.), the Michigan building (116 S Michigan Ave), the Sharp (36 South. Wabash Ave.), Sullivan Center (37 S. Wabash Ave.), and the Columbus (280 S. Columbus Dr.). SAIC also holds classes in the Spertus edifice at 610 South. Michigan. SAIC owns additional buildings throughout Chicago that are used as pupil 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 University of Pattern, which local artists established in rented rooms on Clark Street. It was financed by member dues and patron donations. 4 years subsequently, the schoolhouse moved into its own Adams Street building, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Because of the school'due south financial and managerial problems after this loss, business organization leaders in 1878 formed a board of trustees and founded the Chicago University of Fine Arts. They expanded its mission beyond education and exhibitions to include collecting. In 1882, the academy was renamed the Fine art Institute of Chicago. The banker Charles Fifty. Hutchinson served as its elected president until his death in 1924.^[3] The school grew to become among the "virtually influential" fine art schools in the United States.^[4]

Walter E. Massey served every bit president from 2010–July 2016.^[5] The current president is Elissa Tenny, formerly the schoolhouse's provost.^[6]

Academics [edit]

SAIC offers classes in art and engineering; arts administration; art history, theory, and criticism; art education and art therapy; ceramics; style design; filmmaking; celebrated preservation; architecture; interior compages; designed objects; journalism; painting and drawing; functioning; photography; printmaking; sculpture; audio; new media; video; visual advice; visual and critical studies; animation; illustration; fiber; and writing.^[7] SAIC also serves as a resource for bug related to the position and importance of the arts in club.

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

The Etching Room, with etching presses and workstations

SAIC also offers an interdisciplinary Low-Residency MFA for students wishing to written 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 have contributed.^{[8] [9]}

Demographics [edit]

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

Total Enrollment: iii,640

Undergraduate students: 2,895

Graduate students: 745

Sex:

Female: 74.3%

Male: 25.7%

International and ethnic origin:

International students: 33% (countries represented: 67)

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

White: 32.vi%

Hispanic: x.iv%

Asian or Pacific Islander: viii.9%

African American: 3.iii%

American Indian: 0.2%

Multiethnic: 2.8%

Non Specified: 8.4%

Geographic distribution of United States students:

Midwest: 41.ii% (includes 8.8% from Chicago)

Northeast: 16.five%

W: 19.iv%

South: 22.8%

Activities [edit]

Visiting Artists Program [edit]

Founded in 1868, the Visiting Artists Program (VAP) is i of the oldest public programs of the Schoolhouse of the Art Plant of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 by Flora Mayer Witkowsky'south endowment of a supporting fund, the Visiting Artists Programme hosts public presentations by artists, designers, and scholars each year in lectures, symposia, performances, and screenings. It showcases work in all media, including sound, video, functioning, poetry, painting, and independent film; in addition to significant curators, critics, and art historians.^{[11] [ commendation needed ]}

Recent visiting artists take 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 among others.^[12]

Additionally, the Distinguished Alumni Series brings alumni dorsum to the community to present their piece of 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] [ commendation needed ]}

Galleries [edit]

• SAIC Galleries - Located at 33 Due east. Washington Street, SAIC Galleries occupies four floors and offers 26,000 square feet of exhibition space for annual educatee and kinesthesia shows, too equally special exhibitions featuring national and international artists.
• Sullivan Galleries- Located to the 7th floor of the Sullivan Center at 33 S. Country Street. With shows and projects often led past faculty or student curators, it is a pedagogy gallery. In the Spring of 2020 SAIC announced it would relocate it's galleries and Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies from 33 S. State Street to 33 Eastward. Washington Street after ten years of performance.^[14]
• SITE Galleries (formerly Student Union Galleries) - Founded in 1994, SITE, once known as the Student Matrimony Galleries (SUGs), is a pupil-run organisation at the School of the Art Plant of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of pupil work. They have two locations: The SITE Sharp of the 37 Southward Wabash Avenue building; and SITE Columbus of the 280 South Columbus Drive building. The ii locations permit the galleries to cycle 2 shows simultaneously.

Educatee 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 building, the 37 S Wabash building, and the 280 Southward. Columbus building.

F Newsmagazine [edit]

F Newsmagazine is SAIC'south student-run newspaper. The mag is a monthly publication with a run of 12,000 copies. Copies are distributed throughout the metropolis, mainly at locations frequented by students such as popular diners and moving picture theaters.

Free Radio SAIC [edit]

Free Radio SAIC is the educatee-run Cyberspace radio station of The School of the Art Found of Chicago. Free Radio uses an open programming format and encourage its DJs to explore and experiment with the medium of live radio. Program content and style vary only generally include music from all genres, audio fine art, narratives, alive performances, current events and interviews.

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

Student authorities [edit]

The pupil government of SAIC is unique in that its constitution requires 4 officers holding equal ability and responsibility. Elections are held every year. There are no campaign requirements. Whatever group of 4 students may run for office, but at that place must always exist four students.

The student authorities is responsible for hosting a school-wide student 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 want funding must present a proposal at the meeting by which the students vote whether they should receive monies or not. The educatee government cannot participate in the vote: only oversee information technology.

Ranking [edit]

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

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

In 2020 and 2021, U.Due south. News and World Report^[20] ranked SAIC as the second best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.Southward. tied with Yale Academy. In 2021, the university was ranked the 7th globally according to the QS Globe Academy Rankings by the subject Art and Design.^[21]

Notable people [edit]

Controversy [edit]

Mirth & Girth [edit]

On May eleven, 1988, a student painting depicting Harold Washington, the starting time blackness mayor of Chicago, was taken down past 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 just in women's underwear^[23] and property a pencil.^{[ citation needed ]} Washington had died suddenly less than six months before, on Nov 25, 1987.^{[ citation needed ]}

After the aldermen held the painting earnest, Police Superintendent LeRoy Martin ordered officers to take it into custody.^[22] 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 Commencement, 4th, 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 3 aldermen agreed non to entreatment the 1992 ruling, and the Law Department established procedures over seizure of materials protected by the Beginning Amendment.^[22]

What Is the Proper Fashion to Display a U.S. Flag? [edit]

In February 1989, as function of a piece entitled What Is the Proper Manner to Display a U.Southward. Flag?, a student named "Dread" Scott Tyler spread a Flag of the Usa on the floor of the constitute. 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 order 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 exhibit faced protests from veterans and bomb threats, the school stood by the student'southward art.^[24] That twelvemonth, the school'southward land funding was cut from $70,000 to $1, and the piece was publicly condemned by President George H. W. Bush-league.^[25] Scott would go on to be one of the defendants in United States v. Eichman, a Supreme Court case in which information technology was eventually decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.^[26]

Academic liberty controversy [edit]

In 2017, a controversy arose after Michael Bonesteel, an adjunct professor specializing in outsider art, and comics, resigned later on actions taken by the institute following 2 Title IX complaints by transgender students being filed against him in which each criticized his comments and form discussion. The constitute 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 country than a identify where academic liberty 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 censor or curb a professor'south opinions or thinking is bloodcurdling".^{[28] [29]} The schoolhouse said the claims made against it were "problematic" and "misleading", and that information technology supports academic freedom.^[27]

Property [edit]

This is a list of holding in order of acquisition:

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

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

• 1926 North Halsted (gallery space) in Chicago.
• Ox-Bow School 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 Eye)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing the 7th floor (Style Design section, Gallery 2)
• 36 Southward Wabash, leasing offices on the 14th floor (administrative offices)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing offices on the 15th floor (administrative offices)

Bookish partnerships [edit]

• Glasgow Schoolhouse of Art (United Kingdom)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Quick Facts: Enrollment". School of the Fine art Establish of Chicago (SAIC) . Retrieved xx February 2019.
2. ^ ^{a b} Szántó, András (2002). The Visual Arts Critic (PDF) (Report). NAJP/Columbia University. p. 50.
3. ^ Dillon, Diane (2005). "Art Plant 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 Society and Newberry Library.
5. ^ "Walter Massey Named President Emeritus". June 28, 2018.
6. ^ "SAIC Names Elissa Tenny President to Succeed Walter Massey, Effective July one, 2016" (Press release). Retrieved 28 March 2018.
7. ^ "Areas of Study". Retrieved xx Feb 2019.
8. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Projection". The 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 Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on 16 February 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
10. ^ "Virtually: Enrollment". SAIC. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
11. ^ "Visiting Artists Program". Retrieved twenty Feb 2019.
12. ^ "Visiting Artists Program: Past Events & Podcasts". Schoolhouse of the Art Institute of Chicago . Retrieved 2021-03-24 .
13. ^ "Past Events & Podcasts". Retrieved 20 Feb 2019.
14. ^ Schoolhouse of the Fine art Institute of Chicago (2020-02-27). "SAIC Announces New Abode 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-eleven-17. Retrieved 2014-03-xviii .
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-xviii .
18. ^ "2017 Best Graduate Fine Arts Programs". U.Southward. News and World Report. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14.
19. ^ "What's the Buzz? Sectional TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings (Jan 2013)".
20. ^ "Best Fine Arts Schools". U.S. News and World Report.
21. ^ "QS Globe University Rankings by Field of study 2021: Art & Design".
22. ^ ^{a b c} Matt O'Connor (21 September 1994). "Suit Ended on Film of Washington". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on Dec 21, 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
23. ^ "ACLU jumps into 'Mirth and Girth' fine art controversy". United Press International. Chicago. May 13, 1988. Retrieved February 21, 2022. The American Ceremonious 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 (9 January 2017). "Banner Year: At a Fourth dimension of Heated Race Relations in America, Dread Scott Wades Into the Fray". ARTnews . Retrieved 11 June 2020.
26. ^ Cohen, Alina (July 25, 2018). "It'southward Legal to Burn the American Flag. This Creative person Helped Brand It A Form of Free Speech". Artsy . Retrieved eleven June 2020.
27. ^ ^{a b} Coil, 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 19 Dec 2018.
29. ^ Tom Bartlett, "The Offender", The Relate of Higher Didactics, August 10, 2017. Available online to subscribers only.

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