Additional Opportunities

Career Services
Career Services has extensive resources that include job listings, as well as exhibition, grant, and residency opportunities. Use our opportunities database, SAIC Launch, to search for jobs, competitions and volunteer opportunities. We also provide assistance with funding research and applications, as well as help with graduate school applications. Nancy Gildart is SAIC’s Fulbright Program Advisor and also advises students applying to other important fellowships. Career Services offers one-on-one advising on career strategies, professional materials (including artists’ statements, project proposals, etc.), résumés, funding, and other related issues. We also present workshops on job search strategies, college teaching and sponsor a fall networking event and a colloquium on exhibition practice, as well as fellowship preparation workshops and workshops for graduating students.

Room 1204, Sullivan Center, 36 S. Wabash
CONTACT: Nancy Gildart
312.629.6820
ngildart@saic.edu
www.saic.edu/careers
HOURS: Monday - Friday, 8:30a.m. - 4:30p.m.


Creativity in The Workplace
Open call for submissions, applications reviewed each month. Throughout the academic year, the Department of Exhibitions/Exhibition Studies, in association with the Office of Development, helps coordinate special exhibitions hosted by organizations outside of the School. Past exhibitions have been presented at Synovate, the Corner Bakery, and Clune Construction. Art works are selected by jury from documentation submitted for consideration in these shows. These venues feature works by students of the School and are a unique way to reach a diverse audience. Typically, an honorarium is paid to the artists selected. For more information, or to place your documentation on file for future juries, please contact Jeanne Long, Associate Director of Special Exhibitions.

CONTACT: Jeanne Long
312.443.3729
APPLICATION: www.saic.edu/webspaces/portal/rymer/workplace.html
DUE: Ongoing


Gene Siskel Film Center (Gallery / Café)
Gene Siskel Film Center’s Gallery/Cafe enhances the film going experience with an array of film-related exhibitions. Many exhibits are specifically curated with various departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to thematically support current film festivals or retrospectives.

164 N. State Street, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
CONTACT: Jean de St Aubin
312.846.2076
jdestaubin@saic.edu
www.siskelfilmcenter.org


Fellowship Competition
Each Spring, the Visiting Artists Program oversees the Fellowship Competition. Graduating students are invited to compete for monetary awards that are juried by a panel of distinguished curators and critics. The deadline for application is at the end of the spring semester. Fellowship Competition workshops are presented by Career Development throughout the academic year.

CONTACT: Fellowship Coordinator’s Office:
Visiting Artists Program, 37 S. Wabash Ave, Suite 1220
312.899.5185
fellowship_vap@saic.edu
www.saic.edu/vap


Nuveen Center for International Student Learning
Hosts rotating collaborative and internationally-inspired projects in office and hallway by students from both residence halls.

162 N. State Street Residences, 16th Floor , Chicago, IL 60601
CONTACT: Patrick Spence
312.629.6870
pspence@saic.edu
HOURS: Open to residents, or by appointment
APPLICATION: Proposals submitted through Residence Hall Exhibitions Committee


Undergraduate Film/Video Festival
This is a biannual film/video festival created to enrich the SAIC community and create a positive, engaging screening opportunity for undergraduate students. The festival is sponsored by ExTV, the Student Association, the FVNM Department, the Experimental Film Society, and Eye + Ear Clinic.

Office: MacLean Building, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, TV MI 1401 Chicago, IL 60603
CONTACT: Director: Beth Capper
Staff Adviser: Lori Felker
312.345.3609
outreach@saic.edu
www.extvsaic.edu
APPLICATION: Submission form on ExTV website/at office
Dates will be posted around school and online for each festival.


Off-Campus Exhibitions
Many faculty and students develop projects for production outside of the School’s buildings. Any public exhibition that bears the School’s name should be vetted through the SAIC Department of Exhibitions.

CONTACT: For course-driven exhibitions:
Michael x. Ryan, Office of Exhibition Practices, mryan3@saic.edu
For all other exhibitions:
Trevor Martin, Department of Exhibitions/Exhibition Studies,
tmartin@saic.edu


Visiting Artists Program
The Visiting Artists Program introduces students and Chicago audiences to leading visual artists, critics and historians from around the world through lectures and occasional workshops and seminars. Visiting artists are often available for individual critiques with graduate students on the day following their lecture/presentation. Opportunities for individual critiques are on a first come/first serve basis. The program does not restrict critique slots based on discipline/media. Please check postings or call the Visiting Artists Program office to determine which artists are available for critiques. Sign up sheets are posted a week prior to the date for scheduled critiques and are located on the bulletin board at the Visiting Artists Program office in the Sharp building, Suite 1220. Announcements about critique opportunities are emailed to all saic email accounts. The Visiting Artists Program encourages all students to take advantage of its programming. Visiting Artists Program events are free to the School’s students, faculty, and staff with a current SAIC/AIC ID. Most take place at 6:00 p.m. in the SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive.

For more information on Visiting Artists Program presentations or individual critique opportunities, please call 312.899.5185, or visit the website.

37 S. Wabash Ave, Suite 1220, Chicago, IL 60603
CONTACT: Associate Director: Andrea Green
Program Coordinator: Jason Pallas
312.899.5185
events@saic.edu
www.saic.edu/vap
HOURS: Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.