COLLEGE CREDITS
INTENSE. RIGOROUS. LIFE-CHANGING.
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM ONLINE
Upon successfully completing the program, students will receive college credit that may be transferable to other United States colleges. Students must be at least 15 years old and not older than
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to bring our esteemed Early College Program Online program this January. Taught by our SAIC school faculty in English,
WINTER INTENSIVE 2021
18 years of age, and have completed grade 10 of their high school to enroll in the Early College Program Online
these two-week intensive courses are designed to educate, engage, and inspire high school students who are passionate about art and design in the 21st century.
Summer Institute.
Create portfolio-quality work, deepen your understanding “ It was really cool to be able to interact with such intelligent artists every day and they brought a new passion to the topic and their teaching.” — Kayla Rask, Drawing/Painting/Comics and Graphic Novels Online Summer 2020 student taught by Jason Dunda
Non Profit Org. US Postage PAID Elgin, IL Permit #9
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM 36 South Wabash Avenue, suite 1201 Chicago, IL 60603
of contemporary art making, and earn college credit. Experience dynamic
EARN 1.0 COLLEGE CREDIT THIS JANUARY! To register, visit saic.edu/ ecpwinterintensive
virtual demos, engage in group critiques, and receive a robust blend of oneon-one meeting time with faculty and independent exploration.
“ The [course] was amazing, and it really allowed me to understand design and architecture from a new perspective. The content really enriched my design skills, helping me learn from my peers and the amazing [instructors] who taught the course.” — Srivats Srinivasan, Design Projects Online Summer 2020 student taught by David Thomas
COLLEGE CREDITS
INTENSE. RIGOROUS. LIFE-CHANGING.
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM ONLINE
Upon successfully completing the program, students will receive college credit that may be transferable to other United States colleges. Students must be at least 15 years old and not older than
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to host our esteemed Early College Program Online this January. Taught by our SAIC school faculty in English, these two-week
WINTER INTENSIVE 2021
18 years of age, and have completed grade 10 of their high school to enroll in the Early College Program Online
intensive courses are designed to educate, engage, and inspire high school students who are passionate about art and design in the 21st century.
Summer Institute.
Create portfolio-quality work, deepen your understanding “ It was really cool to be able to interact with such intelligent artists every day and they brought a new passion to the topic and their teaching.” — Kayla Rask, Drawing/Painting/Comics and Graphic Novels Online Summer 2020 student taught by Jason Dunda
Non Profit Org. US Postage PAID Elgin, IL Permit #9
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM 36 South Wabash Avenue, suite 1201 Chicago, IL 60603
of contemporary art making, and earn college credit. Experience dynamic
EARN 1.0 COLLEGE CREDIT THIS JANUARY! To register, visit saic.edu/ ecpwinterintensive
virtual demos, engage in group critiques, and receive a robust blend of oneon-one meeting time with faculty and independent exploration.
“ The [course] was amazing, and it really allowed me to understand design and architecture from a new perspective. The content really enriched my design skills, helping me learn from my peers and the amazing [instructors] who taught the course.” — Srivats Srinivasan, Design Projects Online Summer 2020 student taught by David Thomas
MEET THE INSTRUCTORS Design Projects Instructor: David Thomas davidjoelthomas.com
IDEAS MATTER Through the Early College Program Online Winter Intensive, you will be empowered to bring your ideas to life, whatever form they may take. You will have the freedom to work in multiple media: you can incorporate text into paintings, combine performance and sculpture, or cross boundaries from sound to architecture. The possibilities are truly limitless, and you will leave our program a more confident maker with innovative, portfolioquality work.
THE CRITIQUE Because contemporary makers and scholars need to experiment, be bold and take risks, work done in the program is evaluated by critique, rather than traditional grading models. During the critique, you will discuss your ideas and processes, and engage in a dialogue with your instructors and classmates.
The Early College Program Online Winter Intensive Advantage •E arn 1.0 college credit that may transfer to any United States college you attend • Prepare a competitive portfolio for college admission • Work with our amazing faculty of practicing artists, designers, and scholars • Connect with visiting artists from around the globe
Tuition and Registration
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM ONLINE WINTER INTENSIVE WINTER 2021 COURSES
Design Projects Online Sundays-Thursdays, January 10-21, 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. CT (#1072) 1.0 College Credit Instructor: David Thomas Combine your creative interests in architecture, interior architecture, designed objects, and visual communication design with skills ranging from drawing and drafting to research and ideation to execute your ideas. Learn about traditional design materials as well as Adobe software (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop) which will be provided for the duration of the course. This course will include online demonstrations geared to your passions, virtual museum resources, time for self-directed work, and comprehensive faculty advising. You’ll engage in discussions and critiques about a variety of design topics with a vibrant online community of students as you create portfolio-quality work for college admission to art and design programs.
Drawing / Painting / Comics and Graphic Novels Online Sundays-Thursdays, January 10-21, 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. CT (#1073) 1.0 College Credit Instructor: Jason Dunda Interested in exploring traditional and non-traditional drawing and painting techniques or comics and graphic novels? Take your work to the next level and experiment with a variety of media and approaches, including ink, pencil, charcoal, collage, observational and automatic drawing, storyboarding, zines, and papercraft, among others. The course will include online demonstrations geared to your passions, virtual museum resources, time for self-directed work, and comprehensive faculty advising. You’ll engage in discussions and critiques with a vibrant online community of students as you create portfolio-quality work for college admission to art and design programs.
Program Price: $1,740 USD
To register, visit saic.edu/ecpwinterintensive
QUESTIONS? Contact us at ecp@saic.edu or call our office at 1.312.629.6170.
We are very proud to have been ranked as the #2 fine arts graduate program in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
#9 art and design program in the world
David Joel Thomas is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and designer working at the crossroads of visual art with special focus on digital media, critical and creative writing, and design at the object and architectural scales. His interests and training reflect his commitment to bridging the gap between critical research and creative synthesis. His current projects include “Paint and Print,” a word and watercolor meditation; “Threshold,” a collaborative poetic and philosophical dialogue exploring issues of photography, geography, architecture, and experience; “The Perfect Hours,” a collaborative series of short, freespirited liturgical fictions; and “The Ur Project,” an improvisatory design exploration of Ancient Mesopotamian architectural typologies. He has exhibited at a range of venues including the Chicago Cultural Center, the New York Hall of Science through the SciArt Center in collaboration with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum, and the Bridgeport Art Center. As an educator, David provides students with contexts and conditions in which they explore and express their own sensibilities and interpretations. He challenges them with open art and design propositions that they may approach, resolve, and communicate in a variety of ways. He provides them opportunities for problem solving and creative risk taking, and for integrating the material with the conceptual, the traditional with the contemporary, and current cultural production with their own interests and emerging skills.
Drawing/Painting/Comics and Graphic Novels Instructor: Jason Dunda jasondunda.com Jason Dunda is a Chicago-based Canadian painter. He is currently working on a project entitled “Various Incidents” in which he translates imagery of authority and control into portraitive abstractions. Recent projects include “A Hall of Unflattering Portraits,” a solo exhibition at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario, Canada; “Highly Illogical,” a two-person collaborative installation at Langer Over Dickie in Chicago; “Everything Paper” at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; “Eating Cultures” at SOMArts in San Francisco. International exhibits include the Heine-Onstad Art Centre in Oslo, and the Kuwait Art Foundation in Kuwait City. His work is represented in the collections of Todd Oldham, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto. Recent residencies include the Corporation of Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the SÍM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, and a four-month research and production residency in Paris sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts. He is currently completing a series of sequential drawings to be published by Phaidon Press. Jason Dunda’s cultural practice is led by a sense of dry wit and satire combined with an affinity to craft. He considers the undercurrent of polite dissent in his work to be indicative of the Canadian mindset.
MEET THE INSTRUCTORS Design Projects Instructor: David Thomas davidjoelthomas.com
IDEAS MATTER Through the Early College Program Online Winter Intensive, you will be empowered to bring your ideas to life, whatever form they may take. You will have the freedom to work in multiple media: you can incorporate text into paintings, combine performance and sculpture, or cross boundaries from sound to architecture. The possibilities are truly limitless, and you will leave our program a more confident maker with innovative, portfolioquality work.
THE CRITIQUE Because contemporary makers and scholars need to experiment, be bold and take risks, work done in the program is evaluated by critique, rather than traditional grading models. During the critique, you will discuss your ideas and processes, and engage in a dialogue with your instructors and classmates.
The Early College Program Online Winter Intensive Advantage •E arn 1.0 college credit that may transfer to any United States college you attend • Prepare a competitive portfolio for college admission • Work with our amazing faculty of practicing artists, designers, and scholars • Connect with visiting artists from around the globe
Tuition and Registration
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM ONLINE WINTER INTENSIVE WINTER 2021 COURSES
Design Projects Online January 11-22, 2021, Monday-Friday 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. CT (#1072) 1.0 College Credit Instructor: David Thomas Combine your creative interests in architecture, interior architecture, designed objects, and visual communication design with skills ranging from drawing and drafting to research and ideation to execute your ideas. Learn about traditional design materials as well as Adobe software (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop which will be provided for the duration of the course.) This course will include online demonstrations geared to your passions, virtual museum resources, time for self-directed work, and comprehensive faculty advising. You’ll engage in discussions and critiques about a variety of design topics with a vibrant online community of students as you create portfolio-quality work for college admission to art and design programs.
Drawing / Painting / Comics and Graphic Novels Online January 11-22, 2021, Monday-Friday 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. CT (#1073) 1.0 College Credit Instructor: Jason Dunda Interested in exploring traditional and non-traditional drawing and painting techniques or comics and graphic novels? Take your work to the next level and experiment with a variety of media and approaches, including ink, pencil, charcoal, collage, observational and automatic drawing, storyboarding, zines, and papercraft, among others. The course will include online demonstrations geared to your passions, virtual museum resources, time for self-directed work, and comprehensive faculty advising. You’ll engage in discussions and critiques with a vibrant online community of students as you create portfolio-quality work for college admission to art and design programs.
Program Price: $1,740 USD
To register, visit saic.edu/ecpwinterintensive
QUESTIONS? Contact us at ecp@saic.edu or call our office at 1.312.629.6170.
We are very proud to have been ranked as the #2 fine arts graduate program in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
#9 art and design program in the world
David Joel Thomas is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and designer working at the crossroads of visual art with special focus on digital media, critical and creative writing, and design at the object and architectural scales. His interests and training reflect his commitment to bridging the gap between critical research and creative synthesis. His current projects include “Paint and Print,” a word and watercolor meditation; “Threshold,” a collaborative poetic and philosophical dialogue exploring issues of photography, geography, architecture, and experience; “The Perfect Hours,” a collaborative series of short, freespirited liturgical fictions; and “The Ur Project,” an improvisatory design exploration of Ancient Mesopotamian architectural typologies. He has exhibited at a range of venues including the Chicago Cultural Center, the New York Hall of Science through the SciArt Center in collaboration with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum, and the Bridgeport Art Center. As an educator, David provides students with contexts and conditions in which they explore and express their own sensibilities and interpretations. He challenges them with open art and design propositions that they may approach, resolve, and communicate in a variety of ways. He provides them opportunities for problem solving and creative risk taking, and for integrating the material with the conceptual, the traditional with the contemporary, and current cultural production with their own interests and emerging skills.
Drawing/Painting/Comics and Graphic Novels Instructor: Jason Dunda jasondunda.com Jason Dunda is a Chicago-based Canadian painter. He is currently working on a project entitled “Various Incidents” in which he translates imagery of authority and control into portraitive abstractions. Recent projects include “A Hall of Unflattering Portraits,” a solo exhibition at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario, Canada; “Highly Illogical,” a two-person collaborative installation at Langer Over Dickie in Chicago; “Everything Paper” at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; “Eating Cultures” at SOMArts in San Francisco. International exhibits include the Heine-Onstad Art Centre in Oslo, and the Kuwait Art Foundation in Kuwait City. His work is represented in the collections of Todd Oldham, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto. Recent residencies include the Corporation of Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the SÍM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, and a four-month research and production residency in Paris sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts. He is currently completing a series of sequential drawings to be published by Phaidon Press. Jason Dunda’s cultural practice is led by a sense of dry wit and satire combined with an affinity to craft. He considers the undercurrent of polite dissent in his work to be indicative of the Canadian mindset.
COLLEGE CREDITS
INTENSE. RIGOROUS. LIFE-CHANGING.
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM ONLINE
Upon successfully completing the program, students will receive college credit that may be transferable to other United States colleges. Students must be at least 15 years old and not older than
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to bring our esteemed Early College Program Online program this January. Taught by our SAIC school faculty in English,
WINTER INTENSIVE 2021
18 years of age, and have completed grade 10 of their high school to enroll in the Early College Program Online
these two-week intensive courses are designed to educate, engage, and inspire high school students who are passionate about art and design in the 21st century.
Winter Intensive.
Create portfolio-quality work, deepen your understanding “ It was really cool to be able to interact with such intelligent artists every day and they brought a new passion to the topic and their teaching.” — Kayla Rask, Drawing/Painting/Comics and Graphic Novels Online Summer 2020 student taught by Jason Dunda
Non Profit Org. US Postage PAID Elgin, IL Permit #9
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM 36 South Wabash Avenue, suite 1201 Chicago, IL 60603
of contemporary art making, and earn college credit. Experience dynamic
EARN 1.0 COLLEGE CREDIT THIS JANUARY! To register, visit saic.edu/ ecpwinterintensive
virtual demos, engage in group critiques, and receive a robust blend of oneon-one meeting time with faculty and independent exploration.
“ The [course] was amazing, and it really allowed me to understand design and architecture from a new perspective. The content really enriched my design skills, helping me learn from my peers and the amazing [instructors] who taught the course.” — Srivats Srinivasan, Design Projects Online Summer 2020 student taught by David Thomas