A showcase of student work
What’s next is right now
What does it look like to make work that is informed by curiosity and research and breaks free from the boundaries of working in a single medium? What if you were able to combine text, painting, and sculpture? Or make interactive fashion pieces or sound installations within an interior space you designed?
Take a look at the work of some of our students to see how our interdisciplinary curriculum helped them follow their passion and bring their visions to fruition.
At SAIC, we want you to experiment, make choices, and follow a path that is uniquely your own.
Aaryana Shah Created graphics and branding for the SAIC Shows 2024 as part of the Viscom (Visual Communication Design) program at SAIC 1
Mackenzie Elizabeth Blooming
Canvas cloth, used clothing, acrylic paint, pillow stuffing, thread
Chang Cheng Regeneration
Acrylic on canvas
“Skateboarding and graffiti culture have always gone hand in hand, whether it’s creativity, self expression, flow style, or rebellious nature. Intentionally blank, this chair allows the public to decorate (graffiti) with complete self expression.” Ollie James White
Ollie James White Sidewalk Surfing Plywood painted in chintz blue
Michela Colognese Fragments of an Ecosystem
Canvas, dye, paint, pastel, stitching, embroidery and foil
Shashwat Arya The Canopy Digital print on paper, acrylic on MDF
Quin Frazier
Left to right: Anima Vestra (Free your Soul)
Acrylic on canvas
ANGELUS (Self-portrait)
Mannequin, spray foam, wire, paper, acrylic paint, spray paint
If I was a Woman (Self-portrait)
Acrylic on canvas
Yooha. L
The Floating Looking Glass
Acrylic plates, acrylic paint, laser cutting, foam board, LED lighting
Yaelin Calaguas Kim Relay
10mm glass tube, neon gas, bedsheets and mattress
Jingyuan Zhang Tomato
Stuff Going on in Chicago
Screen printing and monotypes on paper,
Craig Schmidt
plastic, and styrofoam
Alexis Pedroza Universal Me
PLA 3D print, acrylic, mixed augmented reality
Projected video and sound, acrylic display case, synthetic fabric and old smartphones
Alice Esmé
Left to right: Serpentes; Evening; Rhinoceros; Amphibian Times; Fencing Frogs; Sea Otters; Save the Bees
Watercolor, india ink, digital transfer to procreate, copic markers, gouache, micron pens, posca
Henry Boeschenstein BrainForest
“The furniture poses as characters taking part in unceremonious exchanges. In pursuing an amalgamation of craft techniques and industrial materials, credit is given to the beauty of the ready-made and vestigial craft techniques endure within a new context.”
Thomas McIntyre
Thomas McIntyre
Left to right: Puget; Jimmy; Heart Chair; Commode Man; Cabriole Smurf Leg Table; Smiley Table; Little Lad; Pink Flamingo Wizard; Chicken Eggplant; Big Papa; Turned Pine Table Glazed ceramic, plasma cut steel, plasma cut acrylic, acrylic paint, lampshades
Jeremy Plotkin Wong Four Little Swans Ceramic, glaze, nail polish, and false eyelashes
Grace Rowland disharmoniusflow
Inkjet print, paper, tape, foil, and plastic mesh
Naomi Bodeen Home
Nylon canvas, acrylic
“These hand-embroidered banners feature notes exchanged between two teenage friends. Each hour spent sewing is an act of meditation and preservation of these words while reflecting on the covert forces that have guided choices and shaped perceptions of the world.”
Gracie Hagen
Gracie Hagen
Colored by Today
Cotton fabric, thread, dowel, ambient sound from institutions
Mads Reardon Dog Show Fancy
BFA, Performance and Fashion
Photo: Ji Yang
Edie
Visible stoneware, waxed nihilo, metal encased knitted ‘ware’
Lorielle Sinclair Untitled
“Through speculation and material exploration, this work blurs the boundaries between the digital and the natural, human and non-human.”
Hope Barkov
Hope Barkov Symtechnotic Multimedia installation
Ben Hanlon Echo of Time
Luna Bermudez MAIKAI
Silk, copper, corn
Maxine Audrey Fashion Capstone Show EPHEMERA, 2024
Photo by Jim Prinz
