Fatimah Tuggar: 2024–25 Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) welcomes Fatimah Tuggar as the 2024–25 Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor. 

Interdisciplinary artist Fatimah Tuggar uses dialogue and discovery among disciplines and cultures as a central artmaking approach. In her work, technology is a medium and subject that serves as a metaphor for power dynamics combining objects, images, and sounds from diverse geographies and histories to comment on how technology impacts local and global realities. Her work has been exhibited in more than 25 countries. She has received accolades including the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts and an A. W. Mellon Research Fellowship. Her ideas and artworks have been featured in publications including Hirmer Publishers’ monograph Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons. Tuggar has contributed to the global discourse on contemporary art through talks, workshops, and publications such as 72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art and Design Today, and the Visual Communications Journal issue on “The Ethics of Images.” She is a professor of AI in the Arts: Art & Global Equity at the University of Florida. 

As SAIC’s 2024–25 Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tuggar will present a free public lecture through SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program on October 1 at 6pm CT in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago. Details may be found by visiting here. In the spring, Tuggar will be engaged with a graduate seminar in Fashion, taught by Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Sage Foundation Chair in Fashion Design. 

Established in 2006 by a generous gift from Bill and Stephanie Sick of Winnetka, Illinois, the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professorship enables internationally renowned artists and designers to visit and teach at SAIC. Previous Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professors include Bruce Mau, Jaume Plensa, Bill Fontana, Catherine Opie, Andrea Zittel, Theaster Gates, Chris Ware, Ann Hamilton, Laura Owens, Amanda Williams, Nayland Blake, Ebony G. Patterson, Shirin Neshat, Walter Hood, and most recently, Raven Chacon.

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 US 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 alums and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman. For more information, please visit saic.edu.