As a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), you will focus, study intensively, and learn from some of the most renowned faculty artists, designers, scholars, influencers, and innovators in the world. They are mentors and educators, but equally, peers and collaborators, offering realworld insight because they are experienced practitioners who have been in your position before. They know what it’s like to re-evaluate their work and they are passionate about informing the process from conception to execution through unabashed discourse and critique.
I N T E R DI S C I P L I NA RY P R AC T I C E
CA RO L INA FA LL ER MO U RA You Left Me With A Purple On The Cinnamon
C R E AT I NG C ON N E C T I ON S
ARIANNA PETRIC H Inclination Series
At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, we recognize that today’s artists are not only makers of images, objects, and events, but designers of cities, public spaces, scholars of visual languages, and producers of global culture. Our students are inventors, explorers, and thinkers. As a student, you will develop a deep understanding of historical contexts while imagining new frameworks for ideas and forms. Above all, you will be encouraged to cross disciplines and explore concepts unbound to any one medium or academic department.
Inspiration
You will have the opportunity to cross boundaries between disciplines. A course in photography could help you to see architecture more clearly. Or an art history seminar could expose you to the alternative peer perspectives of an artist, curator, or therapist. By providing you with a context, awareness, and understanding much greater than any single-discipline approach could provide, your work will grow, your ability to adapt will strengthen and your path to success in today’s world will be confirmed.
C H I C AG O : A V I B R A N T C I T Y
G R A D UAT E P RO G R A M S
In addition, Chicago’s active art and design scene, which includes established blue-chip galleries as well as younger galleries and alternative spaces, provides an ideal backdrop for young artists. There are key international venues for contemporary art and design, including the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Renaissance Society; and the Museum for Contemporary Photography. And with our Visiting Artists Lectures, the Gene Siskel Film Center, and our Sullivan Galleries, SAIC holds a prominent position in the Chicago art and design community, which helps our students gain access to many areas of the professional art world locally and beyond.
MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN STUDIO ARCHITECTURE ART AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES CERAMICS DESIGN FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
MASTER OF DESIGN DESIGNED OBJECTS FASHION, BODY AND GARMENT POST-BACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE FASHION, BODY AND GARMENT
DESIGNED OBJECTS FIBER AND MATERIAL STUDIES
MASTER OF ARTS
FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION
ART EDUCATION
PAINTING AND DRAWING
ART THERAPY AND COUNSELING
PERFORMANCE
ARTS ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY
PHOTOGRAPHY PRINTMEDIA SCULPTURE SOUND VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN LOW-RESIDENCY MFA
TEACHING
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM: ARTS ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY AND MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY
SAIC is proud to be considered “The most influential art school in the United States” by the Columbia University’s Art Critics National Arts Journalism Survey in addition to receiving significant rankings from US News and World Report including: #1 in Fiber Arts #2 in Painting/Drawing #2 in Photography #4 Overall Fine Arts Institution
NEW ARTS JOURNALISM MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN WRITING
VISUAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
POST-BACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE
For details on individual programs, visit: saic.edu/grdegrees
STUDIO MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE WITH AN EMPHASIS IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE MASTER OF SCIENCE
J O H N MA NAV ES Surface To Air
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
C HI N HUA L IN Butt’s Bean Bag
Possibilities