Who do the candidates think they are? Feb 5, 2008
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago generated considerable hubbub when it displayed a student sculpture of Obama wearing Jesus's robes, with a neon blue halo behind his head. Last year, Slate's Timothy Noah launched "The Obama Messiah Watch," which highlighted astonishing facts about the former Illinois state senator - related to George Washington. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
New art academy on the horizon Jan 31, 2008
Degopper, a freelance photographer and photographer Art Shay's chief archivist, earned a printmaking degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994 ... Degopper said she aims to put her school on par with the nation's best - including the Rhode Island School of Design, Parson's The New School of Design, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago by 2020. (Freeport Journal-Standard, IL)
In the presence of 'Soundsuits' Jan 23, 2008
As befits the head of the Department of Fashion Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the cover subject of the current Ornament magazine, Cave creates complex work. All of this is guided by an unerring aesthetic: He knows what he likes. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Computer-interactive exhibition premieres at Tarble Arts Center Jan 11, 2008
Badani studied at the University of Alberta (Canada) and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a full-time educator, researcher and lecturer. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Book Review: Samedi the Deafness Jan 1, 2008
Much of Jesse Ball's delicious first novel, "Samedi the Deafness," takes place in an inventive institution called a verisylum, an asylum for chronic liars (conveniently located near Washington). And while the Samedi part of the title becomes lucid early on, the deafness isn't explained until Page 254. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Hanson/Fitzgerald Wedding Dec 29, 2007
where Kirstine is attending graduate school in Architecture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Billie works for Olive Garden and is studying computer science through Governor's University. (Atlantic News-Telegraph, IO)
Rock n? roll artist steps up the ladder Dec 11, 2007
She said she was very fortunate to have the opportunity to study overseas and study Art History, which she received her degree in at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. KAT said she ll never forget her roots, at home as a beginning artist and at McKinney High School as a maturing artist. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
What the wild things wear Nov 16, 2007
"I was taking fashion classes at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago and sketched it down," Ozaksut said. "And then I was unpacking some stuff, found the sketchbook again, decided it was a really good idea and to make it happen.". (The Daily Lobo, NM)
Fifteen Chicagoland Historical Sites Receive Preservation Grants Nov 14, 2007
The Advisory committee members are: -- Richard M. Daley - 48th Mayor of the City of Chicago, Honorary Chair -- David Bahlman - Director, Landmarks Illinois -- Lee Bey - Executive Director, Chicago Central Area Committee -- John Bryan - Former Chairman, Sara Lee Corporation; National Trust Council Member -- Susan Campbell - Neighborhood Liaison, University of Chicago -- Jack Davis - Vice President, Chicago Metropolis 2020 -- Emilia Dimenco - Executive Vice President Marketing, Harris Bank --... (PR Newswire)
Passion for preservation Nov 4, 2007
Education: Newcomb College at Tulane University in New Orleans, School of the Art Institute of Chicago ... She studied at Tulane University's Newcomb College in New Orleans, then at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (The Clarion-Ledger)
The 25th Anniversary Princess Grace Awards Gala Oct 27, 2007
The 2007 Princess Grace Awards winners are: THEATER Oana Botez-Ban, Bucharest, Romania Pierre Cardin Theater Award Costume Design Fellowship, Classic Stage Company Gisela Cardenas, Lima, Peru Robert & Gloria Hausman Theater Award Directing Fellowship, INTAR Toccarra Cash, Dayton, OH George C. Wolfe Theater Award Acting Scholarship, University of Missouri-Kansas City Laurie O'Brien, San Francisco, CA Faberge Theater Award Puppetry Arts Scholarship, CalArts Alex Torra, Miami, FL Grace Le Vine... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Alice in the Heartland Oct 18, 2007
" But with the exception of a devoted crowd at a fundraiser to benefit Slow Food (Waters is vice president of the international organization), the audiences weren't particularly sizable. Though a book-signing event at a cafe in the suburbs on Wednesday drew a bigger crowd and the Green City Market was bustling with fans on Saturday morning, a Thursday night signing at the Borders on Michigan Avenue was downright dismal, with only 16 people. Furthermore, a weekend lecture at Northwestern... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Georgia O'Keeffe Oct 17, 2007
Georgia graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago then attended New York s Art Students League. Following a brief stint as an illustrator, O Keeffe began studying with Arthur Wesley Dow of Columbia University. (Suite101.com)
Hank Feeley: SUM greater than PARTS Oct 6, 2007
Paradoxically, he is a graduate of both Harvard Business School and of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Feeley is represented in Chicago by the Packer Schopf Gallery with his most recent show in 2006. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Spotlight: New York Film Fests Sep 28, 2007
In 1980, Pena, who attended Harvard and earned a masters in film studies at MIT, took a job at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, eventually becoming the center's director ... 1980: Pena begins working at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Variety)
Raymer Society to celebrate artist today Sep 23, 2007
He received a bachelor s degree in fine arts with a major in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After Chicago, Raymer returned to Alva and set up a studio off of his mother s home and proved himself as an artist of major significance. (McPherson Sentinel, KS)
Sculpture competition attracts 162 entries Sep 21, 2007
The winner of the open category was Tan Wee Lit, a 29-year-old artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Mr Tan walks away with 10,000. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Normal meets extraordinary Sep 14, 2007
And when it comes to formal training, Whitaker said when he retired from the mill he went for one semester to the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and hated it, said Whitaker, t's not for a country boy like me. I'm glad I did it though. (Demotte Kankakee Valley Post News, IN)
Samuel Gompers Statue Unveiled Sep 4, 2007
She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Palette and Chisel Academy and at Gallery 37. SOURCE Ald. (PR Newswire)
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Hires Robert Jones to Head Conservation of Historic Properties Aug 28, 2007
Jones also spent six years at the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was staff architect for the museum, director of the Department of Design and Construction and directed several key restoration and preservation projects, including Lorado Taft's "Fountain of Time" and the historic Allerton Building. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Return of SDS Aug 22, 2007
SDS isn't just focusing on the U.S. "The military industrial complex is huge, of course," says Marisa Holmes, a School of the Art Institute of Chicago chapter member. Second-generation SDSers argue that they will not make the same mistakes as their forebears by veering towards the extreme Left. (Time.com)
A Flag On The Floor: Art Or Desecration? Jul 15, 2007
That debate turned to fury in February and March 1989, when an American flag was draped on the floor as part of a student exhibit at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, by an artist who described himself as a Communist revolutionary ... "He added that he would not have considered removing it."I'll never apologize for making artwork which makes people think," he said.Courts, Congress Take Up Question Of FlagThe exhibition acme down on March 16, 1989, and the City Council later passed an... (CBS2Chicago.com, IL)
Cell biologist Overton developed second career as Chicago artist Jul 14, 2007
In her late 60s, she studied drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by stints in the studios of Chicago artists Alain Gavin and Bonnie Hartenstein. In the 1990s, her artwork which combined colors from nature with a grid-like framework of floating horizontal and vertical lines was exhibited at several galleries in Chicago and New York and was featured in two solo shows at the Artemesia Gallery in Chicago. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Charting a course to personal knowledge Jun 25, 2007
Instructor Rebecca Ringquist, who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, said the students' passion for art is what inspired her to teach. Page 1 of 2. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Breaking Through the Fog of War Jun 21, 2007
Bilal, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, explained the idea of the performance to : "To the Western media it's a virtual war going on in Iraq -- we're far removed in the comfort zone. We're allowed to disengage from the consequences of war. We don't see mutilated bodies, we don't see the toll on human beings.". Bilal hoped his performance would be an engaging, even playful, attempt at encouraging dialogue about the technical and often impersonal face of modern warfare. (Utne.com)
DCA plans a night to thrill the senses Jun 8, 2007
Receiving scholarships this year are Will Diebel, a visual artist from Allen Park currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Brandon LePage of Southgate, preparing to study performance at Michigan State University; and Cree Carrico of Grosse Ile, who will begin voice studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in September. Funding for the scholarships was made possible with support from U.S. Steel, National City Bank and Comerica Bank. (The News-Herald)
Art lovers can find plenty to admire at juried show Jun 8, 2007
Ivan Riascos of Apopka, a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, took a narrow focus in his photograph, "Untitled: Telescope.". "Everyone is always trying to capture the sky," he said. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Leroy Neiman, Playboy Artist May 13, 2007
Neiman went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois. Neiman s early career was as an illustrator for a department store in Chicago where he worked next to a young copywriter named Hugh Hefner. (Suite101.com)
Ill. agency pays $100K for Neiman's Lincoln May 10, 2007
Best known for paintings of sporting events and athletes, Mr. Neiman studied and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His early work appeared frequently in magazine and clubs. (Crain's Chicago Business)
It started with Schubert, led to van Gogh, then John Chamberlain began scavenging junkyards Apr 22, 2007
Born in Indiana, Chamberlain grew up in Chicago, and briefly attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after Navy service during World War II. He went on to study and teach at the legendary experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina, during the years after poets such as Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan had superseded the early roster of painters. "When I was 10 and 11, I was really intent on being an aeronautical engineer," Chamberlain said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Invites audience to shoot hordes of 'homicidal Jesus' figures Apr 15, 2007
WorldNetDaily: Artist opens 'Christ Killa' exhibit. A Free Press For A Free People. (WorldNetDaily)
A global art star comes home Apr 9, 2007
After he left Toronto -- first for OCAD's New York studio, where he spent two years, then for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and for the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York -- he continued making the works he had started at OCAD: small architectural pieces with kinetic elements. In Chicago he turned toward a more political art, receiving a student prize for a work in which he demanded the return of ancient Thai treasures to their homeland, via a series of photo and text... (Globe and Mail)
Julia Pfeiffer honored as Southeastern's 2007 Outstanding Teacher Apr 8, 2007
She has also completed post-graduate work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and graduate studies in Ireland with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She taught for 10 years at Lincoln Trail College prior to joining the faculty at Southeastern. (Harrisburg Daily Register, IL)
Dont Look At Me: Ive Got Nothing To Do With Those People Apr 5, 2007
The work by School of the Art Institute of Chicago senior David Cordero, made for his senior show, has the phones ringing at the Chicago school as word spreads of the undergrad's work depicting Obama as a messianic figure. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast). (Townhall.com)
Obama As Jesus Sculpture Causes Stir Apr 4, 2007
An undergraduate student's papier mache sculpture of Obama as a messianic figure entitled "Blessing" went on display Saturday at a downtown gallery run by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. By Monday, word of the piece had spread on political blogs, and the school had been flooded with calls. (CBS News -- US)
Barack Obama Depicted as Jesus at Chicago Art Exhibit Apr 3, 2007
The exhibit, titled "Blessing," shows Obama cloaked in white and red robes with a neon halo, is on display at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. "He's sort of emerged as this really sort of charismatic and really popular person. I think that people really like him and I think it's because of his message of unity and sort of his political platform," David Cordero, the artist and a student at the school, said of the Illinois senator. (Fox News -- Politics)
Suburb may lose beloved Pancake House Mar 23, 2007
"Not just any building will do," said Tim Wittman, an architectural historian who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. "To go for the lowest common denominator would be a terrible loss for this site.". (Chicago Tribune)
Isolation, interaction, community Mar 22, 2007
She earned a B.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later received an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from Yale University ... Since she completed her Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, her solo shows include Four Corners at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an exhibition in Nashville's Cheekwood Museum of Art's Temporary Contemporary gallery. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Arte exhibit unveils the agony of Colombia Mar 11, 2007
(He's attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Details: www. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Chasing and buying art, sight unseen Feb 7, 2007
The Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta has presold in large part through JPEGs his current exhibition of paintings by Claire Sherman, a 2005 graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. "We debuted a painting at Basel last year, and Marty Margulies bought it," he said, referring to a major Miami collector. (International Herald Tribune)
'Tribal haute couture' art lands at Cornell Jan 23, 2007
"The exhibition of 20 stencils (pouchoirs) comes from The Pierpoint Morgan Library in New York. It is the first time the library has ever lent the works, said Luann McKinnon, curator and acting director at the Cornell.The works are all cutouts from the early 1940s that Matisse called his "Le Cirque" portfolio.Matisse began the cutouts in the 1920s when he was designing sets for the Ballets Russes. Breathtaking pieces. Pieces from the African-Haynes Collection are on display at Cornell. Craig... (Florida Today)
New season dawns for the Cornell Jan 20, 2007
"Soundsuits 2006" -- Series of works by Nick Cave, chairman of the fashion department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ... In "Soundsuits 2006," artist Nick Cave -- chairman of the fashion department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago -- draws on African, Caribbean and Latin American ritual traditions for a collection of urban-inflected costumes. (Orlando Sentinel)
Death by Design Co. to stage havoc at EIU Jan 19, 2007
Both artists received MFAs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. This approach to a gallery show was first presented at the University of Illinois Gallery 400 in Chicago. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Tarble undergoes transformation Jan 11, 2007
Her colorful abstract paintings have been shown at the Thomas McCormick Gallery, in Chicago; the Evanston Art Center; Betty Rymer Gallery/School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Modern Art Gallery, in Los Angeles; the San Francisco International Art Fair; the Wilson Stevens Gallery, in London; and Mixture Contemporary, in Houston. Kunz lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago ... She holds an master s degree in fine arts from... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
New Art: Putting yourself in the picture Jan 10, 2007
March 1 - Mary Jane Jacob, professor of sculpture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses n Everyday Art. 7 p.m., Community Library. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Read Indepth Article Jan 2, 2007
She received a BA from Yale University and a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in the Joan Flasch Artists Books Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Evanston, IL), The Bullseye Glass Collection (Portland, OR), The Southern Graphics Council Archives at the University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, GA), and various private collections. (AbsoluteArts.com)
