September 12–November 14, 2023
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) presents a new season of the Visiting Artists Program—a public forum that features today’s most influential practitioners and thinkers.
Formalized in 1951 with the establishment of an endowed fund by Flora Mayer Witkowsky, the Visiting Artists Program has featured more than 1,000 international artists, designers, and scholars representing more than 70 countries. All events are free and open to the public. Learn more.
Guadalupe Maravilla
Tuesday, September 12, 6–7:30pm CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation, Guadalupe Maravilla grounds his transdisciplinary practice in activism and healing. Engaging a wide variety of visual cultures, Maravilla’s work is autobiographical, referencing his unaccompanied, undocumented migration to the United States due to the Salvadoran Civil War.
Rebecca Morris: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
Tuesday, October 3, 6–7:30pm CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Rebecca Morris (Post-Bacc 1992, MFA 1994) has dedicated her 30-year career to the exploration of abstraction. Her work has taken basic elements like stroke, surface, and frame to question the underlying pretenses of abstract painting, exposing the tensions between the flat surface of the work and the painting as a discrete object.
Raven Chacon: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
Tuesday, October 17, 6–7:30pm CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on more than 80 releases on various national and international labels.
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Tuesday, October 24, 6–7:30pm CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Cannupa Hanska Luger creates monumental installations, sculptures, and performances to communicate urgent stories about 21st century Indigeneity. Luger incorporates ceramics, steel, fiber, video, and repurposed materials to activate speculative fiction, engage land-based actions of repair, and practice empathetic response through social collaboration.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Tuesday, November 7, 6–7:30pm CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s work explores the power of storytelling through video and sculpture. His projects are based on extensive research and community engagement, tapping into inherited histories and counter-memory. Nguyen extracts and reworks dominant, oftentimes colonial histories and supernaturalisms into imaginative vignettes. The Gene Siskel Film Center will host a screening of Nguyen’s films on November 1. Visit siskelfilmcenter.org for details.
Jacolby Satterwhite in Conversation with Jada-Amina
Tuesday, November 14, 6–7:30pm CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Jacolby Satterwhite is celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing crucial themes of labor, consumption, carnality, and fantasy through immersive installation, virtual reality, and digital media. Satterwhite will discuss his practice with Jada-Amina (BFA 2018), artist and lead curator of the Black Harvest Film Festival at SAIC’s Gene Siskel Film Center.
Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth will be on view at the SAIC Galleries September 11–December 2. This survey exhibition is organized by the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University and curated by Director Elizabeth Chodos.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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 consistently ranking among the top programs 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.
