School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Commencement 2021

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Commencement 2021

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Commencement 2021 July 31, 2021

P R E S I D IN G Delinda Collier, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies

W E LCO M I NG REMA RKS Gregg Bordowitz, Director Low-Residency MFA Program

CO M M E N C EMEN T SPEA KER Cathy Park Hong, Poet

P R E S E N TATIO N O F GRA DUATE C A N D IDAT ES FO R DEGREES Elissa Tenny, President

CO N F E R R I N G O F GRA DUATE DEGREES Elissa Tenny, President

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CO M M E N C EMEN T SPEA KER Cathy Park Hong Cathy Park Hong is an award-winning poet and essayist whose book, Minor Feelings, is a searching work that ruthlessly reckons with the American racial consciousness. Hong weaves together personal stories, historical context, and cultural criticism to ultimately create an emotional and impactful exploration of Asian American personhood. Minor Feelings is the 2020 recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Hong is the author of several books of poetry and is the recipient of notable awards such as the Windham-Campbell Prize. In her moving talks, she offers a fresh and honest perspective on race and Asian American identity, discusses how poetry and writing can be a means for understanding ourselves and our world, and comments on the ways politics and culture are influenced by art—and vice versa.

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LOW- R E S IDEN CY MASTER O F FINE ARTS IN STU D IO GRA DUATES

Lesley Bodzy

Angeline Meitzler

Penny Cagney

Nour Osseiran

Jen Fitzpatrick

Ana Pérez Escoto

Soliana Habte

Sofia Reynal

Andrea Lynn Herrick

Alicia Thompson

Jason Isolini

Valerie A. Xanos

Amélie Marois

Jay Youngdahl

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FAC U LTY ( SU MMER)

Kelly Kaczynski Lou Mallozzi Nathanael

D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem

John Neff

Giovanni Aloi

Andrea Ray

Lee Blalock

Douglas Rosman

Gregg Bordowitz

Pamela Sneed

Troy Briggs

Hamza Walker

Christian Campbell Tyler Coburn Dana DeGiulio

TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Lindsey Dorr-Niro Assaf Evron Shawné Michaelain Holloway

Miriam Hudson

Kelly Kaczynski

Sara Niroobakhsh

Judd Morrissey

Ishani Synghal

Nathanael John Neff Joshua Rios

PROG RAM M ENTORS

Christine Shallenberg Hamza Walker

Giovanni Aloi

Mechtild Widrich

Claire Ashley Samantha Bittman

FAC U LTY ( FA LL & SPRIN G)

Andrew Blackley Irina Botea Bucan Jason Bulluck

D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem

Verónica Casado Hernández

Giovanni Aloi

Tyler Coburn

Jeremy Biles

Christa Donner

Dana DeGiulio

Mark Dorf

Corrine Fitzpatrick

Assaf Evron

kg Gnatowski

Monica Giron

Gordon Hall

Matthew Goulish

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Gordon Hall

VISITING ARTISTS & SCHOLARS

Aram Han Sifuentes Kelly Kaczynski Mie Kongo Alison Kudlow Betelhem Makonnen Jumana Manna Scott Northrup Sondra Perry Marina Rosenfeld Casey Smallwood Nyugen E. Smith Pamela Sneed

Gregg Bordowitz Eugenia Cheng Sowon Kwon Glenn Ligon Patric McCoy Fred Moten Kameelah Janan Rasheed Aram Han Sifuentes Pamela Sneed Tourmaline

Hamza Walker Rachael Zur

STU D IO CO O RDIN ATO RS

STAFF Gregg Bordowitz Program Director Lee Blalock Assistant Program Director

Sid Branca Shea Burke Eric Fuertes Tabitha Kunkes Brian Rush

Kelly Kaczynski Graduate Coordinator John Neff Graduate Coordinator and Program Mentor Coordinator Celeste Collins Senior Administrative Director

Sanaz Sohrabi

Lauren Migas Administrative Director

Vanessa Viruet

Ariel Blitz Administrative Assistant

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B OA R D O F GOVERN O RS Anita K. Sinha, Chair

Betsy Karp

Melissa V. Behm

Jay Frederick Krehbiel

Daniel S. Berger

Carol Levy

Robert H. Bergman (BFA 1975)

Margaret MacLean

Sanford L. Biggers (MFA 1999)

Cary D. McMillan

Michelle Boone

Charles L. Michod Jr.

Laurence O. Booth

Melissa A. Moore (BFA 1989)

Charles M. Brennan III

Cherilyn Murer

Todd C. Brown

William R. Padnos (MFA 1987)

Daniel R. Bryant

Marian Phelps Pawlick

Linda Smith Buonanno (P 2001)

Charles T. Price

D.H. Chang (MFA 1991)

Quintin E. Primo III

Lester N. Coney

Beth K. Rosen

A. Steven Crown

Neal Sales-Griffin

Robert G. Donnelley

Ellen Sandor (MFA 1975, HON 2014)

Karen W. Frank (SAIC 1972–74)

Richard L. Sandor

Denise B. Gardner

Stephanie A. Sick

Sarah Garvey

Shawn Smith

Gordon Gill

Charlotte Tieken

Gail Hodges

Joseph R. Trpik Jr.

Genevieve Hovde

David J. Vitale

Holly Hunt

Kenneth W. Warren

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B OA R D O F GOVERN O RS EMERITI

John S. Chapman

Patrick J. Leemputte

Michael Conrad

Barry L. MacLean

Richard H. Cooper

Susan R. Manilow

Marshall Field V

Young-Ju Park

H. Richard Fumo

Linda Johnson Rice

David C. Hilliard

Adrian D. Smith

Richard Hunt (BA 1957, HON 1979)

Todd Warnock

Philip Kotler

Arthur M. Wood Jr.

Frederick Krehbiel II

Curtis Zeiser

Duane R. Kullberg

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P R E S I D E N T’S C A BIN ET

Elissa Tenny, President

Allison Green (MA 2009), Chief of Staff

Gene Adams, Vice President and

Scott J. Hendrickson, Vice President of

Chief Information Officer

Marketing and Communications

Martin Berger, Provost and Senior

Alexandra Holt, Executive Vice President

Vice President of Academic Affairs

for Finance and Administration

Tom Buechele (BFA 1989, MFA 2017),

Rose Milkowski, Vice President of

Vice President for Campus Operations

Enrollment Management

Paul Coffey (BFA 1990), Vice Provost and

Michael Nicolai, Chief Human Resources Officer

Dean of Community Engagement Stephanie Oberhausen, Vice President Delinda Collier, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies

for Advancement

Leslie Darling, Executive Vice President

Jefferson Pinder, Director of Diversity,

and General Counsel

Equity, and Inclusion for Academic Affairs

Felice Dublon, Vice President

Devarajulu Ravichandran,

and Dean of Student Affairs

Vice President of Educational Technologies and Chief Information Officer

Brian Esker, Vice President of Finance Shawn Michelle Smith, Interim Dean of Faculty Dawn Gavin, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

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ABOU T T HE SC HOOL OF T HE ART IN ST IT U T E OF C HIC AGO For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers​, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program ranked number two in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.

Learn more at saic.edu.

Artwork by Haowen Mandy Chen (BFA 2016), Whalefall 3.0 & Whalefall 4.0, 2015, acrylic on canvas