School of the Art Institute of Chicago News

Sony Electronics has named Drexel's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design as one of the founding members of its new academic program, The Sony Digital Media Academy.

Batavia High School senior Shelby Anderson will attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago next year, where she received a Creative Honors Scholarship.

Jeanette Durand has always been fascinated by fabrics. "I'm a real tactile person," explained the Oak Park artist.

It's not all fun and games for Gina Manola - even though they make up a large part of her work.

The Kuramoto Model is a community-wide art piece by David Reuter , an MFA candidate in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

CAM Raleigh 's latest feature exhibition, The Credentialist, a new body of artworks commissioned by CAM Raleigh and created by Jose Lerma, opened May 19, 2012.

College-bound artist Alex Stark was 11 years old when he was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer.

The Oceanside Museum of Art's board of directors has named Tara Smith as interim director following the recent resignation of Ed Fosmire as the institution's executive director.

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts will host the opening of the first of two summer exhibitions, Amy Stacey Curtis: Drawings About Time, Sunday, May 27, at its Center for Community Programs in Deer Isle village, with a reception from 3-5 p.m. The show will feature the recent work of Amy Stacey Curtis, 27 Hours.

Sitting in a darkened auditorium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a blazing August morning back in 2008, I listened, enchanted by the speaker at the podium, whose words etched themselves in my memory.

This story is contributed by a member of the Naples community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Naples Daily News Reisha Lieze Perlmutter graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on Sunday May 13, 2012.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has appointed Ox-Bow School of Art's executive director to transform the artist's Captiva Island estate into an artist's colony.

Running May 31-June 7, 2012, the Chicago Underground Film Festival , now in its 19th year, has announced its full program lineup.

Sigrid "Sigi" Goerndt remembers well her childhood spent on Crabapple Lane in Barrington Hills.

Park Forest, IL ~ Aspiring documentarian, Barbara Hogu, has made it her mission to bring to the forefront a little known talent, and passion that time has come throughout Chicagoland ; The Black Age of Comics .

Sheryl Kosovski leads a Business of Art workshop aimed to help people "make a living doing what they love." The Business of Art.

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Victorian Sex Painting, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs.

Newswise - Visitors to the World Science Festival will get a taste of the South Pole Telescope when a traveling exhibit comes their way beginning May 30 to June 3 in New York City, including the June 3 World Science Street Festival in Washington Square Park.