i. institutional support and commitment to continuous improvement

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Master of Architecture
Master of Architecture with emphasis in Interior Architecture
Other historic Preservation lectures featured Karen Fix and Ralph Stern (SAH).
6) Exhibitions
SAIC provides a range of exceptional exhibition opportunities for its students—as exhibiting partici-
pants, as curators of exhibitions they have conceived and proposed, and as audience to a broad range
of exhibitions and programs at the School and the Museum. The major SAIC exhibition spaces are:
o Sullivan Galleries—33 S. State Street, Seventh Floor.
The Sullivan Galleries offer 32,000 square feet of exhibition space—the only singlecon-
temporary exhibition site of its size in the Chicago Loop. Located in the Sullivan Center,
the historic site of Louis Sullivan’s masterpiece Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Building, the
galleries feature exhibitions, performances, lectures, and screenings by SAIC students,
faculty, and other international artists.
o Betty Rymer Gallery—280 South Columbus Drive.
The Rymer Gallery offers 2,700 square feet and features exhibitions by SAIC students,
faculty, and other international artists.
o Student Union Galleries—LG Space, 37 S. Wabash; Gallery X, 280
S. Columbus Drive.
Student Union Galleries (LG Space and Gallery X) provide SAIC students with a high level
of professional exhibition experience and opportunities. Students participate substan-
tially in all facets of gallery operations and drive programming decisions in consultation
with a faculty advisor.
Smaller, discrete exhibition spaces exist within departments as well, and the exhibition hall in the
AIADO department is a strong example of such an exhibition area. Nearly all of these exhibitions fea-
ture public programming events in addition to the gallery showcase. Of particular note are the lecture
events associated with the Sullivan Galleries exhibition Learning Modern, which featured many AIADO
faculty. Those discussion are described after the following list of exhibitions that have taken place at
SAIC since NAAB’s last site visit or will take place later this academic year:
o Spill—August 28–October 23, 2010
Betty Rymer Gallery
SPILL examines the expanding definition of “abstraction” in painting through the works
of current SAIC students. This exhibition focuses on the materiality of paint and its many
methods of delivery as well as relating abstraction to history, concepts, metaphor, repre-
sentation, and new forms of non-objective painting.
o Materials of the City—August 28–October 16, 2010
Sullivan Galleries
Materials of the City brings together SAIC students and recent alumni whose work con-
tends with cynicism and idealism in the post-Corbusier modern urban landscape. Taken
together, the artists within the exhibition map a vision for the urban landscape that is
playful as well as poignant.
o The Joke is Irresistible—August 28–October 16, 2010
Sullivan Galleries
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