School of the Art Institute of Chicago Public or

Academy and independent schoolhouse of 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)[1]
Postgraduates	745 (Fall 2018)
Location	Chicago , Illinois , United States 41°52′46″N 87°37′26″Westward  /  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°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Art Plant of Chicago AICAD NASAD
Website	www.saic.edu

The School of the Fine art Found of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the 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 Committee, past the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 (charter fellow member), and by the Clan of Independent Colleges of Fine art and Design (AICAD) since the associations founding in 1991. Additionally information technology 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 school" in the United States.^[2]

The schoolhouse'due south 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 firsthand vicinity of the AIC building. SAIC is in an equal partnership with the AIC and shares many authoritative resource such as design, construction, and human resources. The campus, located in the Loop, comprises importantly v primary buildings: the McLean Eye (112 Southward. Michigan Ave.), the Michigan building (116 Due south Michigan Ave), the Sharp (36 S. Wabash Ave.), Sullivan Eye (37 Southward. Wabash Ave.), and the Columbus (280 Southward. Columbus Dr.). SAIC as well holds classes in the Spertus edifice at 610 Southward. Michigan. SAIC owns additional buildings throughout Chicago that are used as educatee galleries or investments. At that place are iii dormitory facilities: The Buckingham, Jones Hall, and 162 N Land 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 after, the school moved into its own Adams Street building, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Considering of the school's financial and managerial problems after 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 Plant of Chicago. The broker Charles L. Hutchinson served equally 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 East. Massey served as president from 2010–July 2016.^[5] The current president is Elissa Tenny, formerly the school'due south provost.^[6]

Academics [edit]

SAIC offers classes in fine art and applied science; arts administration; art history, theory, and criticism; fine art education and art therapy; ceramics; manner design; filmmaking; celebrated preservation; architecture; interior architecture; designed objects; journalism; painting and cartoon; performance; photography; printmaking; sculpture; sound; new media; video; visual advice; visual and critical studies; animation; illustration; fiber; and writing.^[7] SAIC likewise serves equally a resource for issues related to the position and importance of the arts in guild.

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

The Etching 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 Compages began the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, more than 78 architects have contributed.^{[8] [ix]}

Demographics [edit]

As of fall 2018, the student enrollment at SAIC is demographically classified every bit follows:^[ten]

Total Enrollment: iii,640

Undergraduate students: 2,895

Graduate students: 745

Sexual practice:

Female: 74.3%

Male person: 25.7%

International and ethnic origin:

International students: 33% (countries represented: 67)

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

White: 32.six%

Hispanic: 10.4%

Asian or Pacific Islander: 8.9%

African American: 3.iii%

American Indian: 0.2%

Multiethnic: 2.8%

Not Specified: eight.4%

Geographic distribution of Usa students:

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

Northeast: xvi.five%

West: 19.four%

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 Schoolhouse of the Art Found of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 by Flora Mayer Witkowsky's 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 independent motion-picture show; in addition to significant curators, critics, and fine art historians.^{[11] [ citation needed ]}

Contempo 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, Pecker Fontana, Wolfgang Laib, Suzanne Lee, and Amar Kanwar among others.^[12]

Additionally, the Distinguished Alumni Serial brings alumni dorsum to the community to present their piece of work and reflect 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 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 student 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 S. Land Street. With shows and projects often led by faculty or student curators, it is a teaching gallery. In the Leap of 2020 SAIC announced it would relocate information technology'southward galleries and Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies from 33 S. Land Street to 33 E. Washington Street subsequently x years of performance.^[14]
• SITE Galleries (formerly Student Union Galleries) - Founded in 1994, SITE, once known as the Student Union Galleries (SUGs), is a pupil-run organization at the Schoolhouse of the Fine art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of pupil piece of work. They accept two locations: The SITE Precipitous of the 37 South Wabash Avenue edifice; and SITE Columbus of the 280 South Columbus Drive building. The two locations allow the galleries to wheel ii shows simultaneously.

Pupil organizations [edit]

ExTV [edit]

ExTV is a student-run fourth dimension-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 edifice, and the 280 South. Columbus building.

F Newsmagazine [edit]

F Newsmagazine is SAIC'southward student-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 past students such every bit popular diners and moving picture theaters.

Gratis Radio SAIC [edit]

Gratuitous Radio SAIC is the pupil-run Net radio station of The Schoolhouse of the Art Plant of Chicago. Gratis Radio uses an open programming format and encourage its DJs to explore and experiment with the medium of live radio. Programme content and fashion vary but generally include music from all genres, sound art, narratives, live performances, 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.^{[xv] [16] [17]}

Student authorities [edit]

The pupil government of SAIC is unique in that its constitution requires iv officers holding equal power and responsibility. Elections are held every yr. In that location are no campaign requirements. Whatever grouping of four students may run for office, simply there must e'er exist four students.

The educatee government is responsible for hosting a school-broad educatee meeting once a month. At these meetings students discuss school concerns of any nature. The predominant topic is funding for the various pupil organizations. Organizations which desire funding must nowadays a proposal at the meeting by which the students vote whether they should receive monies or non. The pupil authorities cannot participate in the vote: merely oversee information technology.

Ranking [edit]

In a survey conducted past the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia Academy, SAIC was named the "most influential art schoolhouse" by fine art critics at general interest news publications from beyond the U.s..^[two]

In 2017,^[xviii] U.South. News & Globe Report's college rankings ranked SAIC the quaternary best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.S. tying with the Rhode Isle school of Design. In Jan 2013, The Global Language Monitor ranked SAIC every bit the #5 college in the U.S., the highest ever for an art or pattern school in a general college ranking. ^[19]

In 2020 and 2021, U.Due south. News and World Written report^[twenty] ranked SAIC as the second best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U.S. tied with Yale University. In 2021, the academy was ranked the seventh globally co-ordinate to the QS World University 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 black mayor of Chicago, was taken down by 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 only in women's underwear^[23] and belongings a pencil.^{[ citation needed ]} Washington had died suddenly less than six months earlier, on November 25, 1987.^{[ citation needed ]}

Afterward the aldermen held the painting earnest, Police Superintendent LeRoy Martin ordered officers to take information technology into custody.^[22] Fine art students protested. The painting was returned afterwards a solar day. The American Civil Liberties Spousal relationship (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department and the aldermen. The ACLU claimed the removal violated Nelson's Start, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendment rights. A 1992 federal court affirmed his ramble rights had been violated.^[24] In 1994 the metropolis agreed to a settlement to end litigation; the money would go 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 by the First Subpoena.^[22]

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

In February 1989, equally role of a slice entitled What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?, a student named "Dread" Scott Tyler spread a Flag of the United States on the flooring of the institute. The piece consisted of a podium, set upon the flag, and containing a notebook for viewers to express how they felt almost the exhibit. In guild 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 bomb threats, the school stood past the pupil's art.^[24] That year, the schoolhouse's state funding was cut from $70,000 to $1, and the slice was publicly condemned past President George H. W. Bush.^[25] Scott would go on to be one 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 after Michael Bonesteel, an adjunct professor specializing in outsider art, and comics, resigned after deportment taken by the plant following 2 Title IX complaints by transgender students being filed against him in which each criticized his comments and grade 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 causeless to exist "guilty until proven innocent" and that SAIC "feels more like a police state than a place where academic freedom and the open exchange of ideas is valued".^[27]

Laura Kipnis, author of a book on Title 9 cases in which she argues that universities follow reckless and arbitrary 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 bloodcurdling".^{[28] [29]} The school said the claims made against information technology were "problematic" and "misleading", and that information technology supports bookish liberty.^[27]

Property [edit]

This is a list of belongings in social club of acquisition:

• 280 South Columbus (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, Betty Rymer Gallery)
• 37 South Wabash (classrooms, main administrative offices, Flaxman Library)
• 112 Southward Michigan (classrooms, departmental offices, studios, ballroom)
• 7 West Madison (educatee residences)
• 162 North State (student residences)
• 164 Northward State Street (Factor Siskel Picture show Eye)
• 116 South Michigan

SAIC also owns these properties outside of the firsthand 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 flooring (administrative offices, Architecture and Interior Architecture Design Eye)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing the 7th floor (Mode Design department, Gallery 2)
• 36 Southward Wabash, leasing offices on the 14th floor (administrative offices)
• 36 South Wabash, leasing offices on the 15th floor (administrative offices)

Academic partnerships [edit]

• Glasgow School of Art (Britain)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Quick Facts: Enrollment". School of the Fine art Constitute of Chicago (SAIC) . Retrieved 20 February 2019.
2. ^ ^{a b} Szántó, András (2002). The Visual Arts Critic (PDF) (Written report). NAJP/Columbia Academy. 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 Lodge and Newberry Library.
4. ^ Roeder, Jr., George H. (2005). "Artists, Educational activity and Culture of". In Reiff, Janice L.; Keating, Ann Durkin; Grossman, James R. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Electronic ed.). Chicago Historical Social club and Newberry Library.
5. ^ "Walter Massey Named President Emeritus". June 28, 2018.
6. ^ "SAIC Names Elissa Tenny President to Succeed Walter Massey, Constructive July 1, 2016" (Press release). Retrieved 28 March 2018.
7. ^ "Areas of Study". Retrieved 20 Feb 2019.
8. ^ "Chicago Architects Oral History Project". The Fine art Plant of Chicago. Archived from the original on 24 April 2006. Retrieved 27 Apr 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 April 2022.
10. ^ "About: Enrollment". SAIC. Retrieved xx February 2019.
11. ^ "Visiting Artists Programme". Retrieved 20 Feb 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 Art Institute of Chicago (2020-02-27). "SAIC Announces New Home for Its Iconic Galleries in Chicago's Loop". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
15. ^ "Infant Moving ridge". FreeRadioSAIC. Archived from the original on 2014-xi-17. Retrieved 2014-03-xviii .
16. ^ Tarun (2011-08-22). "Cartoons On The Radio". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-18 .
17. ^ andy (2011-xi-01). "Interview With Thomas Comerford". FreeRadioSAIC . Retrieved 2014-03-xviii .
18. ^ "2017 All-time Graduate Fine Arts Programs". U.S. News and World 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 Study.
21. ^ "QS World Academy Rankings by Discipline 2021: Art & Design".
22. ^ ^{a b c} Matt O'Connor (21 September 1994). "Adjust Ended on Moving 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 Press International. Chicago. May 13, 1988. Retrieved Feb 21, 2022. The American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue Chicago police because of the seizure of a painting depicting the late Mayor Harold Washington wearing women's underwear.
24. ^ ^{a b} Dubin, Steven (1992). Arresting Images, Impolitic Fine art and Uncivil Deportment . Routledge. ISBN0-415-90893-0.
25. ^ Campbell, Adrianna (9 January 2017). "Imprint Yr: 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's Legal to Burn down the American Flag. This Creative person Helped Make Information technology A Form of Free Speech communication". Artsy . Retrieved eleven June 2020.
27. ^ ^{a b} Roll, Nick (July 24, 2017). "Tensions in the Fine art Classroom". Inside Higher Ed.
28. ^ ^{a b} Jori Finkel (18 August 2017). "Art school nether fire for bowing to transgender student complaints". The Art Newspaper . Retrieved 19 December 2018.
29. ^ Tom Bartlett, "The Offender", The Chronicle of College Didactics, August 10, 2017. Available online to subscribers just.

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