More than 290 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.

Juried works, faculty selections, and site-specific installations by first-year undergraduate students in the Contemporary Practices program.

The IMPACT Performance Festival showcases MFA and BFA Candidates who are presenting work in live performance and time based media. The festival will consist of two separate programs, for detailed program information please visit the IMPACT website.

The associated exhibition highlights the many forms through which contemporary performance work can be presented.

IMPACT is co-presented by the SAIC Departments of Exhibitions and Performance, with Defibrillator Gallery and the Zhou B Art Center.

Join the MS Historic Preservation program for our yearly thesis symposium, highlighting research undertaken by our graduating students.

The culminating public presentation of more than 120 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.

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.

Please join graduate students in the Master of Arts in Art Education and the Master of Arts in Teaching programs as they present their thesis research.

The FVNMAS Festival 2019 will take place during the evenings of Wednesday, May 8th through Saturday, May 11th. Tickets are complimentary and will be available each day at the box office, which opens one hour before the first program of the day. Please check program listings for specific showtimes.

For a full list of events please visit the Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival website linked above.

Please join the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education and the Master of Arts in Teaching graduates as they present apprentice teaching projects taught in schools throughout the Chicago area.

Join us for a one-night show featuring the work of graduating BFA and MFA students in Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over 50 graduating students will exhibit work ranging from publications, motion graphics, UI/UX, posters, typeface designs and so much more.

The reception is free and open to the public. Enter Block 37 on Dearborn Street and take the escalators to the 2nd floor gallery.

This presentation features the work of students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Studio Certificate. Artists include: R. Sam Beattie, Ethan G. Brown, Jessie Burnes, Yuhao Chen, Jessica Catherine Du Preez, Weiyang Gao, Eleanor Giron, Mary Celeste Griffin, Francisco Herrero, Journie Nikala Kirdain, Deanna Miera, Ruth L. Poor, Caleb John Schroder, Unu Sohn, Lucas Noël Thomas, Jade Williams, and Jiaming You.

The exhibition is coordinated by the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies; Dean of Graduate Studies, Arnold Kemp; Adjunct Professor Susan Kraut; with special thanks to Graduate Curatorial Assistants, Billie Carter-Rankin and Sandra Shim, and Exhibition Manager Josh Fairbanks.

Students in the Bachelor of Arts in Visual & Critical Studies Program (BAVCS) and The Bachelor of Fine Arts with Visual & Critical Studies Thesis Program (BFAVCS) present their thesis work, based on a year of independent research, writing, and creative production.

Keynote speech by:

Robin Amer

Amer is the creator, host, and executive producer of The City, a long-form investigative podcast from the USA TODAY NETWORK. Robin previously served as the deputy editor of the alt-weekly Chicago Reader, where she supervised the paper’s national-award-winning investigations, and as a producer for WBEZ Chicago Public Media.

*Please note that entry to the event requires entry to the museum. You will need to enter through the Millennium Doors (Modern Wing) and proceed to the elevators to the right by the coat check. Please use the large elevator through the double glass doors to get to the Nichols Board of Trustee Suite on the 2nd floor.

Graduating students from SAIC’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing program present their work in an exciting evening that includes texts generated in traditional as well as hybrid and experimental forms. Come and experience fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, electronic media, and performance as you’ve never heard, or seen, before.

Please join graduate students in the Master of Arts in Art Therapy program as they present their graduate projects and thesis research.

Graduating students from SAIC’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing program read selections from their work. Join us for a surprising series including, but not limited to, fiction, nonfiction, and text off the page. Discover what writing becomes when students adapt the practices of their studio artist peers.

This exhibition will showcase the culminating achievements of our graduating students working in a multitude of mediums and methodologies.

SAIC’s annual exhibition features work from more than 100 talented SAIC students completing undergraduate degrees this fall. SAIC promotes crossing disciplines and challenging assumptions, and the results of this approach are showcased in this exhibition.