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Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State St., 7th floor
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More than 300 talented SAIC students completing undergraduate degrees exhibit their innovative work. SAIC promotes crossing disciplines and challenging received assumptions, and the results of this approach are showcased in this exhibition.

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Sharp 327
37 S. Wabash Ave.
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The LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S. Wabash Ave.
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Juried works, faculty selections, and site-specific installations by first-year undergraduate students in the Contemporary Practices program. During the opening reception, Contemporary Practices will also present Inter-Action, a showcase of live performance and ephemeral works; Black Box, featuring linear time-based video work; and Expanded Cinema, featuring GIFS, 3D mapping, web-based games, sounds works, and video designed for looping.

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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State. St.
12:00–2:00 p.m.
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Video premiere featuring screenings of entries in the 48.24.12 Video Contest, which challenges first-year undergraduate students to shoot and edit a winning video in just 48 hours. A live jury will announce the winning team at the screening.

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SAIC Performance Space
280 S. Columbus Dr., room 012
7:00 p.m
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Featuring:

Lal Avgen

Violet Eckles-Jordan

Ellvis

Tannaz Motevalli

John Lincoln Vogel

Guest Emcees:

Sophie Leddick

Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen

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The LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S. Wabash Ave.
5:15 p.m.
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Join the MS Historic Preservation program for our yearly thesis symposium, highlighting research undertaken by our graduating students. This year we welcome two guest speakers who are also alumni. They will speak on complementary topics related to preservation of the built environment and projects happening throughout Chicago. A reception follows at 7:00 p.m.

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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St
Chicago, IL 60608
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The VCD Design Show is a one-night public exhibition that features work by graduating BFA, MFA and Post-bacc designers from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This is a great opportunity for the Greater Chicagoland area to see design work that is both practical and conceptual, with an interdisciplinary palette of mediums, including print, digital, 2D, 3D, and objects.

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MacLean Ballroom
112 S. Michigan Ave.

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Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State St., 7th floor
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The culminating public presentation of more than 115 MFA candidates’ new and ambitious work. Students work for more than six months with three guest curators and 12 graduate curatorial assistants to envision the exhibition, an approach that allows for dialogue, process, and collaborative decision-making among the curatorial teams and artists.

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Sharp Building
37 S. Wabash Ave., room 327
4:30-6:00 p.m.

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Venue Six10
610 S. Michigan Ave.
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A cutting-edge runway show featuring senior collections and a one day exhibition of selected sophomore, junior, and post-baccalaureate work exhibited throughout one of Chicago’s most architecturally significant buildings.

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SAIC Performance Space
280 S. Columbus Dr., room 012

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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.
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Sharp Building
37 S. Wabash Ave., rooms 402, 403, and 404

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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.

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The LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S. Wabash Ave.

Students graduating from the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing program read, perform, and otherwise present their work in traditional as well as hybrid and experimental forms, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, electronic media, and performance.

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MacLean Center
112 S. Michigan Ave., floors 15, 16, and 17
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Block 37
108 N. State St., 3rd floor
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.

The symposium will feature keynote speaker Alison Cuddy, Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival and host of the James Beard Award-nominated podcast, Strange Brews.

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Thesis presentations &
recognition of graduates:
The LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S. Wabash Ave.
4:00-6:00 p.m.
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Exhibit & reception:
Sharp Building
37 S. Wabash Ave., 7th floor
6:00-7:30 p.m.

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MacLean Ballroom
112 S. Michigan Ave.

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Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State St., 7th floor
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Featuring work by: Anon Anym, Kioto Aoki, Isidore Bethel, Louise Captein, Michelle Carrasquilla, Kylie Carrigan, Thomas Dexter, Molly Duggan, Scott Easson, Meryl Feigenberg, Katherine Finkelstein, Patricia RAIN Gianneschi, Ellie Hazlett, Clareese Hill, Monica Kelsie, Jenny Keyser, Susan Krueger-Barber, Marina Leybishkis, David Martinez-Moreno, Alexandra Medina, Rebby M – TNKRT, Claire Pope, Benjamin Ripley, Erin Schalk, Griz Strüss, Zsuzsanna Szegedi, Arielle Tonkin, Alena Ahrens, Josh Turk, Jannell Turner, Lan Xu.

Curatorial Team: Cortney Lederer, Guest Curator; Alden Burke and Adia Sykes, Graduate Curatorial Assistants; with Andrew Falkowski, Graduate Coordinator; and in collaboration with the Department of Exhibitions and the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Program

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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State Street
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Featuring the screening of artist Gina Kelly’s Driftless

Driftless is a feature-length, poetically-versed documentary film which immerses the audience in a world of wildness, seasonal shifts, liminal space, loss, and redemption. It follows the first year of fellow artist and filmmaker Mica O’Herlihy’s gender transition, and the last year of living on and operating their farm in Wisconsin, as they are forced to sell and move across the country in order to search for safety and community.

The screening of Driftless will be preceded by a viewing of an animated short by Mica O’Herlihy, LOVE UNDER WILL OF THE HAGS OF LONG TOOTH. Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Gina Kelly.