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Professor Alisha Wormsley’s Collaborative Project Receives $150K Grant
The Just Arts grant from The Heinz Foundation will support “Sibyl’s Shrine,” a Hill District-based residency program for black mothers.
Professor Washko Receives Creative Capital Award
This major award, with a total value of $100,000, will help fund Washko’s experimental video game “The Uncasted Queen and Her Progeny.”
Conflict Kitchen Named to List of “100 Works of Art that Defined the Decade” by Artnet News
Conflict Kitchen, a project by Professor Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski BFA ’10, served dishes from countries in conflict with the United States.
Lecture Series: Walid Raad
Walid Raad’s work examines the role of documentation in the representation of collective traumatic events and their use in the construction of memory and narrative.
Lecture Series: Renée Stout
Renée Stout’s work in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and installation encourage self-examination, self-empowerment, and self-healing.
Lecture Series: Stephanie Syjuco
Stephanie Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles, often with an active public component, that investigate issues of economies and empire.

Upcoming Events

Exhibition / February 21

Three ram figurines on a stool with a drawing of a square taped on the wall behind

What Does a Pencil Know?

Opening Feb 21, 7-9pm, Platform

Exhibition / February 27

52:17 Workstation

Reception Feb 28, 5pm, Ellis Gallery

Lecture / March 3

Installation view of an exhibition showing an abstract wood sculpture and photographs of instruments of war (bullets, bombs, etc.)

Lecture Series: Walid Raad

6:30pm, Kresge Theatre

Lecture / March 17

Painting of a mask-like figure and a bird skeleton with eyes against a night sky

Lecture Series: Renée Stout

6:30pm, Kresge Theatre

Lecture / March 31

Large group of people sitting at tables with scraps of paper littering the floor and the words "money factory" on the wall behind them

Lecture Series: Stephanie Syjuco

6:30pm, Kresge Theatre

Four images of abstract paintings

Weekly Alumni News Update 02.25-03.02.20

Collaged artwork by Amanda Ross-Ho

History of Photography Journal Publishes Essay by Head of School Charlie White

People in a gallery watching a projection on a massive screen

Georgia Saxelby MFA ’22 Exhibits in the Adelaide International

Still from game "Guilty Smells" and a photograph of people playing the video game

Professor Pedercini Shows Game “Guilty Smells” at Conferences in Chicago and San Francisco

Abstract graphic with the words "Object Oriented Orgasm Hackathon"

Lena Chen MFA ’22 Participates in a Hackathon at Commiserate Chicago 2020 Conference

Weekly Alumni News Update 02.18-02.24.20

Students Shori Sims and Steven Montinar Exhibit at Museum Lab

Faculty / MFA / Student

Professor Takahashi and Paper Buck (MFA ’20) Exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Professor Wormsley Exhibits at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts