School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago

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In addition to everything SAIC has to offer, including its various galleries and access to the Art Institute of Chicago museum, students can explore an exhilarating range of cultural opportunities provided by affiliated arts organizations. Offering avant-garde performance art, Nobel Prize-winning poets and novelists, and the best independent and international films and videos, these affiliates bring the world to Chicago and to SAIC students. SAIC's studio and academic departments offer students access to a reknowned faculty, amazing resources including visiting artists, designers, and scholars, outstanding facilities and a wide array of course offerings to students participating in the School's degree programs. The integration of studio and academic education is encouraged allowing for creative and tailored programs of artistic development. SAIC is famous for its faculty, which includes working artists, educators, writers, intellectuals, and designers. They have helped shape the curriculum into a vehicle for training students to function in the professional fields they choose. Their teaching is informed and influenced by the hurdles they face in their own creative work, and students benefit from the expertise that comes with finding creative solutions to those struggles.