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PTDW Visiting Artist ✨

Tomorrow, JM Howey will be visiting several PTDW graduate student studios. All PTDW graduate students are welcome to come to the studio visits!

JM Howey (b. in New Jersey, currently residing in New York City) has had solo shows at Bureau (New York), Standard (Oslo), Armada (Milan), Taxter & Spengemann (New York), and Marginal Utility (Philadelphia). Howey’s work has been included in exhibitions at The Kitchen (New York), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Dresden), and Team Gallery (New York). Writing on Howey’s work has appeared in Artforum, Hyperallergic, = = (Capricious Publishing), Klassekampen, Kunstritikk, and Paper Monument.

Howey’s paintings, fabric design, furniture, exhibition posters, and ceramic picture frames thematize a struggle to rationalize the relationship between individuality and collectivity, criticality and complicity, artist and art world, painter and painting, educator and academic institution. by @saicptdw

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16 hours ago

Open Studio Night 2026 is this Friday and Saturday!! ✨

More than 200 graduate students will open their studios to share their work, process, and creative practices, including the PTDW department.

📅 Friday, October 16 & Saturday, October 17
📍 Studios across SAIC Graduate Buildings

Reception:
📅 Saturday, October 17 8:00-9:30 p.m.
📍 SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave.

More info @saicopenstudionight by @saicptdw

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3 days ago

Join Campus Life and the Office of Student Affairs for a Graduate and Post-Bacc Student Mixer tomorrow! 🎉

📅 Tuesday, October 13 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
📍 SAIC Ballroom

Food and drinks will be provided! No RSVP required! by @saicptdw

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4 days ago

PTDW Visiting Artist 🗣️

Please join us October 14th in Maclean 314 for a public lecture + Q&A from visiting artist Abigail DeVille @victoriouspurple

Abigail DeVille (b. 1981, New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, large-scale sculptures, and site-specific installations, which engage with the material and lived memory of communities and the land from which they emerge. DeVille received her MFA from Yale University and BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

DeVille has received numerous awards and honors including being named a 2025 New York City Artadia Award recipient, a 2024-25 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, a 2024 Bogliasco Fellow, a recipient of the 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a 2018 United States Artists Fellow, a 2017-18 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, a 2015 Creative Capital Grantee, a 2014-15 Fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the 2015 Obie Award for Design for Prophetika: An Oratorio (La MaMa), a 2013-14 Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and a 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant recipient. by @saicptdw

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8 days ago

PTDW Visiting Artist 🗣️

Please join us October 7th in Maclean 302 for a public lecture + Q&A from visiting artist Giampaolo Bianconi @giampaolobianconi !!!

Giampaolo Bianconi is the Dittmer Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he works across acquisitions, exhibitions, and collection displays.

At the Art Institute, Bianconi has organized exhibitions by artists including Marwa Arsanios, Charles Atlas, Louise Bourgeois, Edgar Calel, Renée Green, Iman Issa, Ellsworth Kelly, John Knight, Jill Mulleady, Gladys Nilsson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Nora Turato. His H. C. Westermann survey, “Anchor Clanker”, was on view for one year and accompanied by a catalogue that situated the artist within broader histories of postwar American art.
Prior to joining the Art Institute, he served as a curator at Museum Brandhorst in Munich and held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he also organized exhibitions and collection displays and expanded collections. by @saicptdw

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15 days ago

PTDW Visiting Artist 🗣️

Please join us September 30th in Maclean 1703 (critique space) for a public lecture + Q&A from visiting artist Caroline Kent.

Caroline Kent was born in Sterling, Illinois, in 1975 and currently lives in Chicago. Kent received a BA from Illinois State University and an MFA from the University of Minnesota. From 2000–2002, she lived in Alba Iulia, Romania, as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She is an Associate Professor in the Art, Theory, and Practice department at Northwestern University.

Kent’s practice explores the limits of language and the process of translation through an expanded painting practice. her practice developed through an open-ended archive of improvisational works on paper. the paintings built out of the context exist in multiple forms. by questioning how language might operate in unknown and ever-evolving conditions, she labors to expand the discourse of modernist. by @saicptdw

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22 days ago

PTDW’s graduate students Emilie Dashe and Alizah Sage, alongside recent graduate Victor Olaoye, are featured in @newamericanpaintings MFA Annual Issue #183! WOOHOO 🎉

1st image: @emiliedashestudio “Beefshow”, oil on canvas, 62 x 72 in.

2nd image: @alizahsage “Smokestack”, dye on canvas and silk, 40 x 30 in.

3rd image: @victor_olaoye “When Dust Settles”, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 60 in. by @saicptdw

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a month ago

Updated Visiting Artist Program for fall semester 2026! 🕺 ‼️ by @saicptdw

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a month ago

Pre-registration is open for Winter 2027 Study Trips.

This winter there are trips to Los Angeles, Peru and Italy!

The Los Angeles trip will be led by PTDW faculty Arnold J. Kemp and Scott Reeder.

In this Study Trip Intensive, students will learn about the dynamic art histories of Mexican American/Chicanx, Black American, and other contemporary artists living and working in Los Angeles.

To learn more about the Los Angeles Arts Immersion study trip please join Study Abroad and faculty trip leaders at one of the scheduled info sessions.  IN-PERSON October 8, 2026, 3:30–4:30 p.m., Room TBD
VIRTUAL  September 14, 2026, 3:30–4:30 p.m.

Study Trip registration is Wednesday, October 14, but pre-registration is required!

The SAIC Travel Scholarship application for international trips is due by September 28 on Slideroom.

To learn more about the other trips visit:
saic.edu/study-abroad/study-trips by @saicptdw

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a month ago

SAIC People! The final MFA student share is *tomorrow night* at *6*. Chidinma, Victor, and Charles will be sharing insight into the art scenes of Nigeria and Ghana. By presenter request, dinner is Jollof Rice. Come be fed and illuminated!

#saic #saicpics #saicptdw by @saicptdw

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5 months ago

Meet Lauria 💚 @lauriarz

Lauria Rodea (b. 2002, MI) is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Chicago, IL, whose practice centers on painting. She holds a BFA from Michigan State University and is currently pursuing an MFA in painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is interested in digital and subjective places. With a focus on process, she explores how intuition and order create space.

📸: @photosbymck taken in School of the Art Institute of Chicago by @saicptdw

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5 months ago

Meet Suhyun 🩵 @suhynkm_

Suhyun Kim (b. 2000, Seoul) is a painter whose practice explores the process of constructing a position while adrift in a space where social coordinates have lost their hold. Working in oil paint, she builds fictional organisms that have evolved through the accumulation of repeated acts of survival.

Kim holds a BFA in Painting from Hongik University in Seoul and is currently an MFA candidate in Painting and Drawing at SAIC.

📸: @photosbymck

#paintinganddrawing #ptdw #saicptdw taken in SAIC Painting and Drawing Department by @saicptdw

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6 months ago