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[Fall 2019 final reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2019-final-reviews/) - [Wednesday Episode: Collective Form](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wednesday-episode-collective-form/) - [Lecture: Carl Magnusson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-carl-magnusson/) - [Portfolio Day 2020](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portfolio-day-2020/) - [CANCELED Career Fair](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/canceled-career-fair/) - [Lecture and launch: Jan de Vylder / Gallery Magazine](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-and-launch-jan-de-vylder-gallery-magazine/) - [POSTPONED TryArch Architecture Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/postponed-tryarch-architecture-workshop/) - [Year End Show 2020](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/year-end-show-2020/) - [Spring 2020 final reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/spring-2020-final-reviews/) - [Virtual Graduate Architecture Open House](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/virtual-graduate-architecture-open-house/) - [All-School Meeting](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/all-school-meeting-2/) - 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[Wednesday Episode: What I Did Next, MArch Edition](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wednesday-episode-what-i-did-next-march-edition/) - [In Montreal, with Giovanna Borasi](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/in-montreal-with-giovanna-borasi/) - [Fall 2020 final reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2020-final-reviews/) - [Wednesday Episode: Two How-Tos, on How to Not Perceive](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wednesday-episode-two-how-tos-on-how-to-not-perceive/) - [Open Studio: No Wonder Museum](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/open-studio-no-wonder-museum/) - [Portfolio Day 2021](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portfolio-day-2021/) - [Admitted Graduate Student Open House Week](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/admitted-graduate-student-open-house-week/) - [Career Fair 2021](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/career-fair-2021/) - [In Brussels, with SUGIBERRY](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/in-brussels-with-sugiberry/) - [Geological Time: Manifest #3 launch](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/geological-time-manifest-3-launch/) - 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[Fresh Meat XII launch](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fresh-meat-xii-launch/) - [Virtual Graduate Portfolio Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/virtual-graduate-portfolio-workshop/) - [Virtual Director and Student Talk](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/virtual-director-and-student-talk/) - [Open Studio: Above Across Around](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/open-studio-above-across-around/) - [Graduate Visit Day](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/graduate-visit-day/) - [Wednesday Episode: Two How-Tos, on Making a Virtual World](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wednesday-episode-two-how-tos-on-making-a-virtual-world/) - [Fall 2021 TryArch Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2021-tryarch-workshop/) - [Fall 2021 final reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2021-final-reviews/) - [Open Studio: Stairs, Stands, and Ziggurats](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/open-studio-stairs-stands-and-ziggurats/) - [In New York, with AD–WO](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/in-new-york-with-ad-wo/) - [In São Paulo, with Ciro Miguel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/in-sao-paulo-with-ciro-miguel/) - [Admitted Graduate Student Open House Week](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/admitted-graduate-student-open-house-week-2/) - [Portfolio Day 2022](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portfolio-day-2022/) - [Lecture: studioAPT](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-studioapt/) - [Lecture: Livia Corona Benjamin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-livia-corona-benjamin/) - [Lecture: Mariana Ibañez](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-mariana-ibanez/) - [Spring 2022 final reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/spring-2022-final-reviews/) - [Post-review book talk with Wiel Arets](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/post-review-book-talk-with-wiel-arets/) - [Year End Show 2022](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/year-end-show-2022/) - [Lecture: Ana Rascovsky, “Ascetic Luxury”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-ana-rascovsky-ascetic-luxury/) - [Virtual Graduate Information Session](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/virtual-graduate-information-session/) - [We@UIC: Paul Preissner, Kind of Boring](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-paul-preissner-kind-of-boring/) - 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A Conversation](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/america-deserta-a-conversation/) - [Lecture: Go Hasegawa, “Revisiting Organic Architecture”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-go-hasegawa-revisiting-organic-architecture/) - [We@UIC: Clare Lyster, States of Entanglement](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-clare-lyster-states-of-entanglement/) - [Lecture: Camilo Restrepo, “On Specific Ambiguity”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-camilo-restrepo-on-specific-ambiguity/) - [Lecture: Uriel Fogué, “Architecture for More-Than-Human Futures”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-uriel-fogue-architecture-for-more-than-human-futures/) - [Lecture: Charlotte von Moos, “Some Fragments”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-charlotte-von-moos-some-fragments-2/) - [Leonardo Finotti, “Photography as Installation”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/leonardo-finotti-photography-as-installation/) - [Virtual Director and Student Talk](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/virtual-director-and-student-talk-2/) - 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[Lecture: Jeffrey Nesbit, “NASA and the Enclosed World”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-jeffrey-nesbit-nasa-and-the-enclosed-world/) - [Lecture: SO–IL, “IRL”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-so-il-irl/) - [Admitted Graduate Student Open House](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/admitted-graduate-student-open-house-2/) - [This Is Not Contemporary](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/this-is-not-contemporary/) - [Lecture: Kate Wagner, “A Bicycle Is Not an Ideology (And Neither Is a Building)”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-kate-wagner-a-bicycle-is-not-an-ideology-and-neither-is-a-building/) - [We@UIC: I See Sound](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-i-see-sound/) - [We@UIC: Welcome to Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-welcome-to-chicago/) - [Fresh Meat: Isolated Collectives launch](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fresh-meat-isolated-collectives-launch/) - [architecture design future archive](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/architecture-design-future-archive/) - [We@UIC: Chana Haouzi, “Design, with”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-chana-haouzi-design-with/) - [Year End Show 2023](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/year-end-show-2023/) - [Spring 2023 final reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/spring-2023-final-reviews/) - [At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/at-home-with-the-collective-a-summit-on-communal-housing/) - [We@UIC: Liesl Olson, “Architecture & Chicago dance”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-liesl-olson-architecture-chicago-dance/) - [Sol Camacho, “Adapting - Design in a fully built metropolis”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sol-camacho-adapting-design-in-a-fully-built-metropolis/) - [Phu Hoang, “Indoor Urbanism”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/phu-hoang-indoor-urbanism/) - [Dialogues With: Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison of Could Be Design](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dialogues-with-joseph-altshuler-and-zack-morrison-of-could-be-design/) - [2023 Virtual Graduate Information Sessions](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2023-virtual-graduate-information-sessions/) - [Lecture: Sam Jacob, “Hysterical Realism”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-sam-jacob-hysterical-realism/) - [Fall 2023 TryArch workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2023-tryarch-workshop/) - [Fall 2025 Graduate Visit Day](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2025-graduate-visit-day/) - [We@UIC: Jayne Kelley hosts an archive party](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-jayne-kelley-hosts-an-archive-party/) - [Dialogues With: Feda Wardak](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dialogues-with-feda-wardak/) - [Lecture: Kwong Von Glinow, “There is Room”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-kwong-von-glinow-there-is-room/) - [Dialogues With: Edra Soto](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dialogues-with-edra-soto/) - [Student Mixer](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/student-mixer/) - [2024 Virtual Graduate Portfolio Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2024-virtual-graduate-portfolio-workshop/) - [​We@UIC: Diana Ramirez-Jasso, “They Must Want What You Want Them to Want”: Early Pedagogy and the Spatialization of Upbringing](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-diana-ramirez-jasso-they-must-want-what-you-want-them-to-want-early-pedagogy-and-the-spatialization-of-upbringing/) - [Lecture: Stan Allen, “Buildings and Books”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-stan-allen-buildings-and-books/) - [Fall 2023 Final Reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2023-final-reviews/) - [Career Fair 2024](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/career-fair-2024/) - [We@UIC: Vincent Calabro, "Play/Pause"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-vincent-calabro-play-pause/) - [Portfolio Day 2024](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portfolio-day-2024/) - [Professional Portfolio Panel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/professional-portfolio-panel/) - [Lecture: Future Firm, “Future / Practice”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-future-firm-future-practice/) - [NCARB presentation](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ncarb-presentation/) - ["Sentinels, Iron Portals of Chicagoland" by Cédric Van Parys](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sentinels-iron-portals-of-chicagoland-by-cedric-van-parys/) - [We@UIC: Francesco Marullo, "Generic Architecture and Living Labor"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-francesco-marullo-generic-architecture-and-living-labor/) - [Lecture: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, “Reimagining Assembly Spaces for Face-to-Face Democracies”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-sergio-lopez-pineiro-reimagining-assembly-spaces-for-face-to-face-democracies/) - [YArch Summer Architecture Program](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/yarch-summer-architecture-program-2/) - [HiArch Summer High School Architecture Program](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hiarch-summer-high-school-architecture-program-2/) - [Open House Weekend for Admitted Graduate Students](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/open-house-weekend-for-admitted-graduate-students/) - [Lecture: Liliane Wong, “Adaptive Reuse | Time Mirrored”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-liliane-wong-adaptive-reuse-time-mirrored/) - [We@UIC: Sean Lally, "Snags, Glitches & Unintended Consequences"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-sean-lally-snags-glitches/) - [Lecture: Mark Lee, “AFTER GROPIUS”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-mark-lee-after-gropius/) - [We@UIC: Judith De Jong, "The Spatially Loose Metropolis: Observations from Brazil"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-judith-de-jong-the-spatially-loose-metropolis-observations-from-brazil/) - [Spring 2024 Studio Final Reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/spring-2024-studio-final-reviews/) - ["Sentinels, Iron Portals of Chicagoland" by Cédric Van Parys Public Lecture](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sentinels-iron-portals-of-chicagoland-by-cedric-van-parys-public-lecture/) - [Lecture: Dr. Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio, "Caribbean Imaginar[ies]: Spatial Practices in Puerto Rico."](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-dr-yazmin-m-crespo-claudio-caribbean-imaginaries-spatial-practices-in-puerto-rico/) - [Year End Show 2024](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/year-end-show-2024/) - [Pollen — The UIC/SoArch Journal](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pollen-the-uic-soarch-journal/) - [We@UIC: Meet Fresh Meat 2024-25](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-meet-fresh-meat-2024-25/) - [Super Coming Attractions, Returns!](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/super-coming-attractions-returns/) - [TryArch 2024](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/tryarch-2024/) - [Virtual Director Talk and Graduate Student Panel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/virtual-director-talk-and-graduate-student-panel-2/) - [Fall 2025 Virtual Graduate Information Sessions](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2025-virtual-graduate-information-sessions/) - [We@UIC: PWC Panel “A Day in the Life of Design & Construction”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-pwc-panel-a-day-in-the-life-of-design-construction/) - [Virtual Graduate Portfolio Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/virtual-graduate-portfolio-workshop-4/) - [Lecture: Charles Waldheim, "Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-charles-waldheim-agricultural-modernization-and-collective-memory-50-species-towns/) - [Lecture: Sebastián Adamo, "Itinerant Essays"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-sebastian-adamo-itinerant-essays/) - [We@UIC: What Do We Gain from the Architectural Competition When We Lose?](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-what-do-we-gain-from-the-architectural-competition-when-we-lose/) - [Graduate Research Show & Tell](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/graduate-research-show-tell/) - [Super Coming Attractions](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/super-coming-attractions/) - [We@UIC: Bob Magruder, "Collaboration between Two Worlds—Structure and Architecture"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-bob-magruder-collaboration-between-two-worlds-structure-and-architecture/) - [MAD-Crit Show & Tell 1](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mad-crit-show-tell-1/) - [Architecture Licensure Overview with NCARB](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/architecture-licensure-overview-with-ncarb/) - [Book Launch: "Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentations in Concrete," edited by Alexander Eisenschmidt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/book-launch-felix-candela-from-mexico-city-to-chicago-rise-and-fall-of-experimentations-in-concrete-edited-by-alexander-eisenschmidt/) - [Lecture: Matt Shaw, "American Modern: Architecture, Community, Columbus, Indiana"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-matt-shaw-american-modern-architecture-community-columbus-indiana/) - [Fall 2024 Final Reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/fall-2024-final-reviews/) - [Lecture: Antonio Torres, "Entangled"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-antonio-torres-entangled/) - [Portfolio Day 2025](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portfolio-day-2025/) - [Career Fair 2025](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/career-fair-2025/) - [We@UIC: Professional Portfolio Panel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-professional-portfolio-panel/) - [We@UIC: Thomas Kelley, "A Call for Excuses"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-thomas-kelley-a-call-for-excuses/) - [Lecture: Elisa Iturbe, "Confronting Carbon Form"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-elisa-iturbe-confronting-carbon-form/) - [Mock Interviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mock-interviews/) - [Arabia Interrotta Symposium](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/arabia-interrotta-symposium/) - [Lecture: Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, "Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-kate-yeh-chiu-and-jia-yi-gu-material-acts-experimentation-in-architecture-and-design/) - [We@UIC: Norman Teague, "ROI: Designing for Impact, Equity, and Legacy"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/weuic-norman-teague-roi-designing-for-impact-equity-and-legacy/) - [Lecture: Cristóbal Palma, "Intuition and Practice"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-cristobal-palma-intuition-and-practice/) - [Year End Show 2025](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/year-end-show-2025/) - [Lecture: Anne Mooney, "A Way of Working"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-anne-mooney-a-way-of-working/) - [TryArch One-Day Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/tryarch-one-day-workshop/) - [Spring 2025 Final Reviews](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/spring-2025-final-reviews/) - [Concrete Culture: Chicago and Beyond](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/concrete-culture-chicago-and-beyond/) - [Lecture: Javier Peña Ibáñez, "Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-javier-pena-ibanez-concentrico-urban-innovation-laboratory/) - [Book launch: Cédric Van Parys, “Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/book-launch-cedric-van-parys-sentinels-iron-portals-of-chicagoland/) - [Lecture: Martin Corullon, “Architecture within architecture”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-martin-corullon-architecture-within-architecture/) - [Lecture: Zehra Ahmed, “Lines, Lands, and Words: Rethinking Arab Architecture and Urbanism”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-zehra-ahmed-lines-lands-and-words-rethinking-arab-architecture-and-urbanism/) - [BREAKTHROUGH: Housing Futures](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/breakthrough-housing-futures-2/) - [All Magnificent and Wild: Notes on Chicago Residential Hotels](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/all-magnificent-and-wild-notes-on-chicago-residential-hotels/) - [The Undeniably There: Thoughts to Form (Exhibition 2)](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-undeniably-there-thoughts-to-form-exhibition-2/) - [The Undeniably There: Morphological Echoes (Exhibition 1)](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-undeniably-there-morphological-echoes-exhibition-1/) - [Chicago Architecture Biennial: SHIFT Housing Summit](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chicago-architecture-biennial-shift-housing-summit/) - [2026 Career Fair](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2026-career-fair/) - [Film screening: "Lewerentz Divine Darkness," directed by Sven Blume](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/film-screening-lewerentz-divine-darkness-directed-by-sven-blume/) - [Lecture: Stan Allen, "Buildings & Books"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lecture-stan-allen-buildings/) - [Exhibition: “All Magnificent and Wild,” curated by Francesco Marullo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/exhibition-all-magnificent-and-wild-curated-by-francesco-marullo/) - [Film screening: “GOFF,” directed by Britni Harris](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/film-screening-goff-directed-by-britni-harris/) - [VOICES: Aliza Nisenbaum](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-aliza-nisenbaum/) - [Learning Together: Art Education and Community](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/learning-together-art-education-and-community/) - [Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/contemporary-ex-votos-devotion-beyond-medium/) - [Percussion Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/percussion-ensemble/) - In its 10 years, the UIC Percussion Ensemble has had the opportunity to premiere pieces from composers such as Igor Silva, Bruce A Russel, and Ivan Trevino. The group prides itself on performing a variety of repertoire. Each semester, the ensemble performs a standard from the cannon to deepen students’ connection to the idiom, a - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-5/) - Mariachi Fuego performs several styles of Mariachi music from Boleros, Sones Jalisciences, and Rancheras. Enjoy music by famous Mexican composers including Fernando Z. Maldonado, Quirino Mendoza y Cortez, Alberto Aguilera Valadez, Pepe Albarran, Jose Alfredo Jimenez and many more. Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the Public Registration is required - [Rosemarie Troche](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/rosemarie-troche-2/) - [Voices: Catherine Bock-Weiss](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-catherine-bock-weiss-2/) - [Voices: Anthony Ma](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-anthony-ma-2/) - [Voices: Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-matthew-goulish-and-lin-hixson-2/) - [Coco Fusco](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/coco-fusco-2/) - [Voices: Robert Peters](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-robert-peters-2/) - [Pressure on the Public](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pressure-on-the-public-2/) - [ACCD Collective Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/accd-collective-workshop-2/) - [Micheal Cunningham: Holding (IT) Together](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/micheal-cunningham-holding-it-together/) - [VOICES: Cave bureau](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-cave-bureau/) - [VOICES: Carolyn Castaño](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-carolyn-castano/) - [VOICES: Penny Lane](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-penny-lane/) - [A History of Pros Arts Studio](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-history-of-pros-arts-studio/) - [Hojalata Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hojalata-workshop/) - [Imagination Doctors Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/imagination-doctors-virtual-tour/) - [Imagination Doctors Opening Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/imagination-doctors-opening-reception/) - [In Conversation: Finnegan Shannon, Ignacio G. Galán, & Bess Williamson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/in-conversation-finnegan-shannon-ignacio-g-galan-bess-williamson/) - [SAAH Open House + Studios](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/saah-open-house-studios/) - [Multi-Sensory Zine Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/multi-sensory-zine-workshop-2/) - [Don't mind if I do & Digital Technology Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dont-mind-if-i-do-digital-technology-virtual-tour/) - ["Don't mind if I do" reception & walkthrough](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dont-mind-if-i-do-reception-walkthrough/) - [VOICES: Jason Wesaw](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jason-wesaw/) - [VOICES: Suneil Sanzgiri](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-suneil-sanzgiri/) - [Reception for Fall 2025 Exhibitions](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/reception-for-fall-2025-exhibitions/) - [Hemispheric Blackface](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hemispheric-blackface/) - [Maria Gaspar: We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat (after Angela Davis)](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/maria-gaspar-we-lit-the-fire-and-trusted-the-heat-after-angela-davis/) - ["ALLCITY: a bookwork of Chicago art education stories" Book Release](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/allcity-a-bookwork-of-chicago-art-education-stories-book-release/) - [Eyal Weizman: Conditions of Life Calculated](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/eyal-weizman-conditions-of-life-calculated/) - [M. Carson Day and Lisa Marie Malloy: Discussion and Installation Activation](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/m-carson-day-and-lisa-marie-malloy-discussion-and-installation-activation/) - [Jeff Rivers: American Story](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jeff-rivers-american-story/) - [Dante Moore](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dante-moore/) - [olivier Sculptural Lecture](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/olivier-sculptural-lecture/) - [Orchestration with olivier, Laurel Hauge, and Matthew Metzger](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/orchestration-with-olivier-laurel-hauge-and-matthew-metzger/) - [Sheldon Till-Campbell and Zulkhairi Zulkiflee In Discussion with Dan Peterman](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sheldon-till-campbell-and-zulkhairi-zulkiflee-in-discussion-with-dan-peterman/) - [This Land / That Land Symposium](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/this-land-that-land-symposium/) - [2025 MFA Thesis Show Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2025-mfa-thesis-show-reception/) - [Learning to Clown Together: A Clowning Workshop with Pros Arts Studio](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/learning-to-clown-together-a-clowning-workshop-with-pros-arts-studio/) - [Tonika Johnson & Maria Krysan on “Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It”](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/tonika-johnson-maria-krysan-on-dont-go-stories-of-segregation-and-how-to-disrupt-it/) - [Eve L. Ewing on "Original Sins"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/eve-l-ewing-on-original-sins/) - [VOICES: Y. Malik Jalal](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-y-malik-jalal/) - [VOICES: Eunsong Kim](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-eunsong-kim/) - [Voices: Vito Acconci](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-vito-acconci/) - [SAAH Open House + Open Studio](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/saah-open-house-open-studio/) - [Learning Together: Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/learning-together-virtual-tour/) - [Co-Authoring the Story of Art Education: A Chicago Bookwork](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/co-authoring-the-story-of-art-education-a-chicago-bookwork/) - [Identities and Communities Through Art Education: A Conversation](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/identities-and-communities-through-art-education-a-conversation/) - [Threads and Legacies: Chicago’s Artist Educators and Their Networks](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/threads-and-legacies-chicagos-artist-educators-and-their-networks/) - [The Classroom as Community and the Community as Classroom](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-classroom-as-community-and-the-community-as-classroom/) - [VOICES: Kiyan Williams](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kiyan-williams/) - [VOICES: Andrea Carlson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-andrea-carlson/) - [VOICES: Marcela Torres](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-marcela-torres/) - [Learning Together Opening Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/learning-together-opening-reception/) - [The Language of Materials](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-language-of-materials/) - [The Mask of Prosperity Curatorial Walkthrough](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-mask-of-prosperity-curatorial-walkthrough/) - [The Mask of Prosperity Artist Roundtable](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-mask-of-prosperity-artist-roundtable/) - [Carmen Winant in conversation with Natalie Bennett](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/carmen-winant-in-conversation-with-natalie-bennett/) - [The Mask of Prosperity Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-mask-of-prosperity-virtual-tour/) - [The Mask of Prosperity Opening Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-mask-of-prosperity-opening-reception/) - [See Saw Seen: 2024 UIC MFA Thesis Show Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/see-saw-seen-2024-uic-mfa-thesis-show-reception/) - [Book Release: "Rebelión en el Otro México: el Juicio Final” by Adela Goldbard](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/book-release-rebelion-en-el-otro-mexico-el-juicio-final-by-adela-goldbard/) - [Nate Young in conversation with Luke Sanders, Queen Hibbler, Sarah Isela Aguilar, and Le Hien Minh](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/nate-young-in-conversation-with-luke-sanders-queen-hibbler-sarah-isela-aguilar-and-le-hien-minh/) - [Matthew Metzger in conversation with Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton, and Samuel Schwindt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/matthew-metzger-in-conversation-with-andi-crist-katelyn-patton-and-samuel-schwindt/) - [Dan Peterman in conversation with B’alam Waykan Garcia, Jovita Alvares, and Sarah Whyte](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dan-peterman-in-conversation-with-balam-waykan-garcia-jovita-alvares-and-sarah-whyte/) - [VOICES: S. Torriano Berry](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-s-torriano-berry/) - [VOICES: Laura Huertas Millán](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-laura-huertas-millan/) - [VOICES: June Carpenter](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-june-carpenter/) - [Divine Dilemmas: Cantinflas, Humor and Tradition in El Padrecito](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/divine-dilemmas-cantinflas-humor-and-tradition-in-el-padrecito/) - [Ex-Votos Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ex-votos-virtual-tour/) - [Ex-Votos Social Hour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ex-votos-social-hour/) - [Ex-Votos and Popular Art Panel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ex-votos-and-popular-art-panel/) - [Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/contemporary-ex-votos-devotion-beyond-medium-reception/) - [Chicago Underwater: The Impacts of Flooding](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chicago-underwater-the-impacts-of-flooding/) - [40th Anniversary Benefit & Auction](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/40th-anniversary-benefit-auction/) - [VOICES: Alejandro Almanza Pereda](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-alejandro-almanza-pereda/) - [Common Exchanges, When Species Meet](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/common-exchanges-when-species-meet/) - [Earthly Visions Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/earthly-visions-virtual-tour/) - [Dreaming Landscapes: A Workshop with Cydney Lewis](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dreaming-landscapes-a-workshop-with-cydney-lewis/) - [Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis Opening Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/earthly-visions-inside-the-climate-crisis-opening-reception/) - [Gravity Pleasure Switchback Curatorial Talk](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/gravity-pleasure-switchback-curatorial-talk/) - [Gozié Ojini: Currents](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/gozie-ojini-currents/) - [K Anderson: Fissures of Displeasure](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/k-anderson-fissures-of-displeasure/) - [Rest and Labor: A Gravity Pleasure Switchback Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/rest-and-labor-a-gravity-pleasure-switchback-tour/) - [Gravity Pleasure Switchback Opening Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/gravity-pleasure-switchback-opening-reception/) - [Oral Histories and Narratives Around HIV/AIDS Today](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/oral-histories-and-narratives-around-hiv-aids-today/) - [Rework Garments with Sky Cubacub](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/rework-garments-with-sky-cubacub-2/) - [VOICES: Salomé Voegelin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-salome-voegelin/) - [VOICES: Aram Han Sifuentes](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-aram-han-sifuentes/) - [Rework Garments with Sky Cubacub](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/rework-garments-with-sky-cubacub/) - [VOICES: Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-marissa-lee-benedict-daniel-de-paula-and-david-rueter/) - [Health Maintenance and HIV/AIDS today](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/health-maintenance-and-hiv-aids-today/) - [Call and Response: Lawrence Steger’s Archive and Legacy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/call-and-response-lawrence-stegers-archive-and-legacy/) - [Sky Cubacub: Rebirth Warriors](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sky-cubacub-rebirth-warriors/) - [ATOM-r: I ? The Dead ? (The Followspot)](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/atom-r-i-the-dead-the-followspot/) - [Natasha Mijares and Matthew Goulish](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/natasha-mijares-and-matthew-goulish/) - ["Reckless Rolodex" Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/reckless-rolodex-virtual-tour-2/) - [Opening Reception: "Reckless Rolodex"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-reckless-rolodex/) - [UIC School of Art and Art History Open House/Open Studios](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-school-of-art-and-art-history-open-house-open-studios/) - [Empty Bowls Fundraiser and Soup Service. Produced by Lan Tuazon and Liz McCarthy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/empty-bowls-fundraiser-and-soup-service-produced-by-lan-tuazon-and-liz-mccarthy/) - [When Care Drives Creative Placemaking in South and West Side Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/when-care-drives-creative-placemaking-in-south-and-west-side-chicago/) - ["For Each Other" Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/for-each-other-virtual-tour-2/) - ["For Each Other" Virtual Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/for-each-other-virtual-tour/) - [Opening Reception for "For Each Other"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-for-for-each-other/) - [Robert Nichols](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/robert-nichols/) - [Voices: Miko Revereza](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-miko-revereza/) - [Voices: Dawit L. Petros](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-dawit-l-petros/) - [Voices: TJ Cuthand](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-tj-cuthand/) - [Chronicle of a Fall Convening: Artists and Scholars Talks](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chronicle-of-a-fall-convening-artists-and-scholars-talks/) - [ASSEMBLY HALL III](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/assembly-hall-iii/) - [ASSEMBLY HALL I](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/assembly-hall-i/) - [Through My Lens Closing Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/through-my-lens-closing-reception/) - [Opening Reception for Chronicle of a Fall and A Species of Theft](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-for-chronicle-of-a-fall-and-a-species-of-theft-2/) - [In conversation*: Christopher Robert Jones and Berenice Olmedo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/in-conversation-christopher-robert-jones-and-berenice-olmedo/) - [Crip* Colloquium Day Two](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/crip-colloquium-day-two/) - [Crip* Colloquium Day One](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/crip-colloquium-day-one/) - [Voices: Sarah Schulman](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sarah-schulman/) - [Andy Slater, An Evening of Soundbased Works](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/andy-slater-an-evening-of-soundbased-works/) - [Max Guy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/max-guy/) - [Voices: Hiwa K.](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-hiwa-k/) - [Voices: Jumana Manna](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jumana-manna/) - [Voices: Raven Chacon](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-raven-chacon/) - [Risa Puleo in Conversation with Carmen Papalia](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/risa-puleo-in-conversation-with-carmen-papalia/) - [On Crip*: Liza Sylvestre in conversation with Denny Mwaura](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/on-crip-liza-sylvestre-in-conversation-with-denny-mwaura/) - [Voices: Nicole Marroquin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-nicole-marroquin/) - [It's in the Game: Samuel Levi Jones in Conversation with Camille Bacon](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/its-in-the-game-samuel-levi-jones-in-conversation-with-camille-bacon/) - [To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Essence McDowell and Skyla S. Hearn](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/to-be-young-gifted-and-black-essence-mcdowell-and-skyla-s-hearn/) - [Exercising Fellowship: D’Angelo Lovell Williams and Derrick Woods-Morrow](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/exercising-fellowship-dangelo-lovell-williams-and-derrick-woods-morrow/) - [Voices: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-beatriz-santiago-munoz/) - [Tomashi Jackson in Conversation with Amanda Williams](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/tomashi-jackson-in-conversation-with-amanda-williams/) - [Voices: Tempestt Hazel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-tempestt-hazel/) - [Voices: Onyeka Igwe](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-onyeka-igwe/) - [About Looking: Bethany Collins and Sampada Aranke](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/about-looking-bethany-collins-and-sampada-aranke/) - [Jacolby Satterwhite in Conversation with Kishonna Gray](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jacolby-satterwhite-in-conversation-with-kishonna-gray/) - [Concerned Black Image Makers in Conversation with Bernard Lumpkin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/concerned-black-image-makers-in-conversation-with-bernard-lumpkin/) - [HATORADE RETROGRADE: THE MUSICAL](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hatorade-retrograde-the-musical/) - [Opening Reception: Félix Candela's Concrete Shells](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-felix-candelas-concrete-shells/) - [Voices from Standing Rock](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-from-standing-rock/) - [Farm-to-Fork Dinner: Waste Not, Want Not](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/farm-to-fork-dinner-waste-not-want-not/) - [Forms and Features: Ecopoetry Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/forms-and-features-ecopoetry-workshop/) - [Curator Conversation: Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes and Alexander Eisenschmidt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/curator-conversation-juan-ignacio-del-cueto-ruiz-funes-and-alexander-eisenschmidt/) - [Creating Candela’s Cascarones: UIC Arquitectos Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/creating-candelas-cascarones-uic-arquitectos-workshop/) - [A People’s Tour: Architecture & Activism at UIC](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-peoples-tour-architecture-activism-at-uic/) - [Luminous Intensity, Growing up with Fire and Dancing in the Springs](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/luminous-intensity-growing-up-with-fire-and-dancing-in-the-springs/) - [Voices: Edra Soto](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-edra-soto/) - [Shells, Surfaces and Public Life: A Community Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/shells-surfaces-and-public-life-a-community-workshop/) - [Artist Tax Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/artist-tax-workshop/) - [UIC MFA 2018: Works for the Screen](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-mfa-2018-works-for-the-screen/) - [Voices: Julia Christensen](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-julia-christensen/) - [Moving Out of Reach](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/moving-out-of-reach/) - [Sweet Water Foundation Juneteenth Celebration with Garden for a Changing Climate](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sweet-water-foundation-juneteenth-celebration-with-garden-for-a-changing-climate/) - [Traversing Departures, Conversation on Female Diaspora](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/traversing-departures-conversation-on-female-diaspora/) - [Migration Stories Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/migration-stories-workshop/) - [GCC at Marshall Square](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/gcc-at-marshall-square/) - [GCC at the American Indian Center](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/gcc-at-the-american-indian-center/) - [Voices: Irena Haiduk](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-irena-haiduk/) - [from here to there: A progress](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/from-here-to-there-a-progress/) - [Voices: Charles Gaines](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-charles-gaines/) - [Regeneration Panel: a public conversation on disability art, activism, and access](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/regeneration-panel-a-public-conversation-on-disability-art-activism-and-access/) - [Disability Justice and Allyship Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/disability-justice-and-allyship-workshop/) - [Voices: Dani & Sheilah ReStack](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-dani-sheilah-restack/) - [Artist Talk: Reveca Torres](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/artist-talk-reveca-torres/) - [Opening Reception: Chicago Disability Activism, Arts, and Design: 1970s to Today](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-chicago-disability-activism-arts-and-design-1970s-to-today/) - [Student Advisory Committee](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/student-advisory-committee/) - [Celebración Comunitaria de Arte en La Villita](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/celebracion-comunitaria-de-arte-en-la-villita/) - [Zine Making Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/zine-making-workshop/) - [Opening Reception: Turn the Light](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-turn-the-light/) - [Voices: Jamal Cyrus](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jamal-cyrus/) - [Voices: Caroline Kent](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-caroline-kent/) - [Cut It Up and Remake It](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/cut-it-up-and-remake-it/) - [Funk Lessons: A Tribute](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/funk-lessons-a-tribute/) - [Voices: Camilo Restrepo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-camilo-restrepo/) - [It’s The People That Make The Future](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/its-the-people-that-make-the-future/) - [Voices: Mateo Zapata](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-mateo-zapata/) - [Voices: Nicolas Pereda](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-nicolas-pereda/) - [Voices: Kamau Patton](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kamau-patton/) - [Voices: Kameelah Janan Rasheed](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kameelah-janan-rasheed/) - [Voices: Mendi + Keith Obadike](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-mendi-keith-obadike/) - [Voices: Tonika Johnson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-tonika-johnson/) - [Voices: Jessica Labatte](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jessica-labatte/) - [Pandemic Lessons: What Just Happened?!](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pandemic-lessons-what-just-happened/) - [Pandemic Lessons: Picking up the Pieces: Context, Healing & Advocacy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pandemic-lessons-picking-up-the-pieces-context-healing-advocacy/) - [Voices Lecture via Zoom: Damon Locks](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-lecture-via-zoom-damon-locks/) - [Where can we go from here? Reimagining the future](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/where-can-we-go-from-here-reimagining-the-future/) - [Closing Event: Much Handled](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/closing-event-much-handled/) - [Voices: Ren e Ater](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-ren-e-ater/) - [Marisa Mor n Jahn](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/marisa-mor-n-jahn/) - [Voices: Ren e Green](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-ren-e-green/) - [m r Harmansah](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/m-r-harmansah/) - [Voices: Andrea Bowers and Marcos Ram rez ERRE](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-andrea-bowers-and-marcos-ram-rez-erre/) - [Alex Halsted, David Mor , and M.C. Schmidt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/alex-halsted-david-mor-and-m-c-schmidt-2/) - [Voices: Pep n Osorio](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-pep-n-osorio/) - [Voices: Bibiana Su rez](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-bibiana-su-rez/) - [Voices: Ra l Ferrera-Balanquet](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-ra-l-ferrera-balanquet/) - [Juan S nchez](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/juan-s-nchez/) - [Garden for a Changing Climate Freedom Camp Community Celebration](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/garden-for-a-changing-climate-freedom-camp-community-celebration/) - [Voices: Genevi ve Cadieux](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-genevi-ve-cadieux/) - [Curating Otherwise](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/curating-otherwise/) - [Opening Reception: Out of Easy Reach](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-out-of-easy-reach/) - [Undocumented Community Resource Fair](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/undocumented-community-resource-fair/) - [Reception and Artist Talks: As We Recompose](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/reception-and-artist-talks-as-we-recompose/) - [Earth Day Sustainability Fair with Garden for a Changing Climate](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/earth-day-sustainability-fair-with-garden-for-a-changing-climate/) - [Voices: Sky Hopinka](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sky-hopinka/) - [Voices: Jani Scandura](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jani-scandura/) - [Visita Guiada / Public Tour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/visita-guiada-public-tour/) - [Voices: Bani Abidi](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-bani-abidi/) - [Curator Tour: Let Me Be an Object That Screams](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/curator-tour-let-me-be-an-object-that-screams/) - [Conversation: Das Janssen and Oli Rodriguez](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/conversation-das-janssen-and-oli-rodriguez/) - [Opening Reception: Let Me Be an Object that Screams](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-let-me-be-an-object-that-screams/) - [Voices: Harold Mendez](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-harold-mendez/) - [Opening Reception: Traduttore, Traditore](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-traduttore-traditore/) - [Voices: Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sandra-gibson-luis-recoder/) - [Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/black-women-artists-for-black-lives-matter/) - [Black Light and Make Room: Closing Event](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/black-light-and-make-room-closing-event/) - [Release & Receive: A Workshop and Group Healing Session](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/release-receive-a-workshop-and-group-healing-session/) - [Remnants of a Dream](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/remnants-of-a-dream/) - [Black Quantum Futurism Collective](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/black-quantum-futurism-collective/) - [Moving Energy: A Self-Care and Healing Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/moving-energy-a-self-care-and-healing-workshop/) - [Demystifying Collecting Art from the African Diaspora](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/demystifying-collecting-art-from-the-african-diaspora/) - [Opening Reception: Black Light and Make Room](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-black-light-and-make-room/) - [The Earth Will Not Abide: Closing Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-earth-will-not-abide-closing-reception/) - [Homegrown Justice Food Stand](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/homegrown-justice-food-stand/) - [Opening Reception: The Earth Will Not Abide](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-the-earth-will-not-abide/) - [Voices: Gala Porras-Kim](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-gala-porras-kim/) - [Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/visual-aids-day-without-art/) - [Urbanforage](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/urbanforage/) - [(pre)Day With(out) Art](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/preday-without-art/) - [Ethnic Notions](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ethnic-notions/) - [Open Studios Salon: Making It](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/open-studios-salon-making-it/) - [A Conversation with David Leggett and Lauren Berlant](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-conversation-with-david-leggett-and-lauren-berlant/) - [Collage Dropout](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/collage-dropout/) - [It’s a Po$t Black Thang, You Wouldn't Understand](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/its-a-pot-black-thang-you-wouldnt-understand/) - [Voices: Adrian Notz](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-adrian-notz/) - [Professional Artists Toolkit: Artists' Contracts](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/professional-artists-toolkit-artists-contracts/) - [An Artist's Guide to Student Loans and Financial Self-Advocacy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/an-artists-guide-to-student-loans-and-financial-self-advocacy/) - [Precarity Happy Hour](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/precarity-happy-hour/) - [DeBt for Kids](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/debt-for-kids/) - [Botanica Dinero Pop-up Shop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/botanica-dinero-pop-up-shop/) - [Opening Reception: Precarity: Contingency in Artmaking and Academia](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/opening-reception-precarity-contingency-in-artmaking-and-academia/) - [Precarity Youth Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/precarity-youth-workshop/) - [Closing Reception: our duty to fight](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/closing-reception-our-duty-to-fight/) - [Form Fit: Julia Klein](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-julia-klein/) - [Performance and Conversation: Candela with Bomba con Buya](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/performance-and-conversation-candela-with-bomba-con-buya/) - [Voices: Erin Manning](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-erin-manning/) - [Voices: Robin Kelsey](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-robin-kelsey/) - [Reception and Artist Talks: A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/reception-and-artist-talks-a-cavern-in-the-middle-a-boiling-cauldron/) - [Reception and Artist Talks: The Crystalline Regime](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/reception-and-artist-talks-the-crystalline-regime/) - [Voices: Mario Ybarra, Jr.](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-mario-ybarra-jr/) - [UIC 2016 MFA Screening 2: Do Systems Dream of Monster Sheep? Little Stabs at Narrative by Liz Cambron and Jimmy Schaus](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-2016-mfa-screening-2-do-systems-dream-of-monster-sheep-little-stabs-at-narrative-by-liz-cambron-and-jimmy-schaus/) - [Making Chances Closing Reception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/making-chances-closing-reception/) - [Voices: Letha Wilson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-letha-wilson/) - [If I Can’t Dance, . . . : The Radical Politics Of Pleasure And Delight In Queer Spaces And Activism](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/if-i-cant-dance-the-radical-politics-of-pleasure-and-delight-in-queer-spaces-and-activism/) - [The Art of Abandonment](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-art-of-abandonment/) - [Performance: Meg Leary](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/performance-meg-leary/) - [Voices: David Rueter](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-david-rueter/) - [Creative Resistance: Past|Present](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/creative-resistance-pastpresent/) - [Victoria H.F. Scott](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/victoria-h-f-scott/) - [Crow Requiem](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/crow-requiem/) - [Precarity](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/precarity/) - [Killing Black Women: Race, Gender, and Capital Punishment](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/killing-black-women-race-gender-and-capital-punishment/) - [The Imaginary Center of Perception](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-imaginary-center-of-perception/) - [Natural Dye Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/natural-dye-workshop/) - [Mothership](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mothership/) - [Requiem for Alvenia](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/requiem-for-alvenia/) - [I Am You & You Are Me: Collective Liberation](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/i-am-you-you-are-me-collective-liberation/) - [Black Girl In Om After Today Yoga Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/black-girl-in-om-after-today-yoga-workshop/) - [Voices: RenУЉe Ater](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-rene-ater/) - [Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hairy-who-the-chicago-imagists/) - [Voices: Caroline Woolard](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-caroline-woolard/) - [Blue Talk & Love: A reading by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/blue-talk-love-a-reading-by-mecca-jamilah-sullivan/) - [Marisa MorУЁn Jahn](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/marisa-morn-jahn/) - [Voices: Robert Pruitt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-robert-pruitt/) - [Voices: Susan Buck-Morss](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-susan-buck-morss/) - [Art History Lecture: Krista Thompson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/art-history-lecture-krista-thompson/) - [Form Fit: Claudia Hart](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-claudia-hart/) - [InterCcECT presents: "Poor Sovereignty"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/interccect-presents-poor-sovereignty/) - [Karen Reimer Book Release](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/karen-reimer-book-release/) - [Sistah Sinema Chicago: Lucky](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sistah-sinema-chicago-lucky/) - [Voices: Valerie Hegarty](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-valerie-hegarty/) - [Artist Tax Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/artist-tax-workshop-2/) - [Art History Lecture: Charles Palermo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/art-history-lecture-charles-palermo/) - [Voices: Matias Viegener](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-matias-viegener/) - [Form Fit: Matthew Jesse Jackson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-matthew-jesse-jackson/) - [Art History Lecture Series: David Getsy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/art-history-lecture-series-david-getsy/) - [Form Fit: EJ Hill](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-ej-hill/) - [Sistah Sinema Chicago: Thick Relations](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sistah-sinema-chicago-thick-relations/) - [UIC BFA Open Studios](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-bfa-open-studios/) - [Voices: Anthony Elms](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-anthony-elms/) - [Art 21 Access '14 Film Series: Episode 4](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/art-21-access-14-film-series-episode-4/) - [Voices: Peter Hutton](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-peter-hutton/) - [Sistah Sinema Chicago: Karmen Gei](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sistah-sinema-chicago-karmen-gei/) - [Voices: Karin Zitzewitz](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-karin-zitzewitz/) - [I'll make you a movie after I eat](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ill-make-you-a-movie-after-i-eat/) - [Screenings: Art 21](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/screenings-art-21/) - [Voices: Victoria Fu](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-victoria-fu/) - [Voices: Hank Willis Thomas](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-hank-willis-thomas/) - [Suzan Pitt's Perverse Imaginarium](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/suzan-pitts-perverse-imaginarium/) - [Voices: Mary Miller](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-mary-miller/) - [Sistah Sinema Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sistah-sinema-chicago/) - [Our Lives, Our Voices, Our Stories: A Community Reading of Chicago Community Writers](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/our-lives-our-voices-our-stories-a-community-reading-of-chicago-community-writers/) - [Margaret Olin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/margaret-olin/) - [Voices: Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-mehrnaz-saeed-vafa/) - [Voices: Nina Katchadourian: CANCELLED](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-nina-katchadourian-cancelled/) - [A Studio Revolt Film Screening of Cambodian Son](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-studio-revolt-film-screening-of-cambodian-son/) - [Artist Tax Workshop with Janet Ecklebarger](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/artist-tax-workshop-with-janet-ecklebarger/) - [Voices: Pamela Karimi](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-pamela-karimi/) - [Voices: Kendell Geers and Rhoda Rosen](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kendell-geers-and-rhoda-rosen/) - [Being Like Leaves: Faith Wilding reads from her memoir](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/being-like-leaves-faith-wilding-reads-from-her-memoir/) - [Voices: Bibiana Obler, Sonal Khullar, and Jenni Sorkin; Moderated by Danny Orendorff](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-bibiana-obler-sonal-khullar-and-jenni-sorkin-moderated-by-danny-orendorff/) - [A Double Feature of Feminist Film](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-double-feature-of-feminist-film/) - [Venugopal Maddipati](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/venugopal-maddipati/) - [Voices: Clifford Owens](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-clifford-owens/) - [Voices: Dieter Roelstraete](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-dieter-roelstraete/) - [Book Release: "Arquitectura y Amistad"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/book-release-arquitectura-y-amistad/) - [Voices Preview Night](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-preview-night/) - [Voices: Valerie Hegarty](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-valerie-hegarty-2/) - [Form Fit: Conrad Bakker](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-conrad-bakker/) - [Form Fit: Karthik Pandian](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-karthik-pandian/) - [UIC MFA Open Studios](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-mfa-open-studios/) - [Voices: Kristina Van Dyke](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kristina-van-dyke/) - [Voices: Shifter "Other Spaces" Issue Publication Launch](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-shifter-other-spaces-issue-publication-launch/) - [Form Fit: Bryan Schutmaat](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-bryan-schutmaat/) - [Voices: Luis Camnitzer](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-luis-camnitzer/) - [Voices: David Hartt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-david-hartt/) - [Theatre Convocation: Cast of "The Dance of Death"](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/theatre-convocation-cast-of-the-dance-of-death/) - 11:00 am – 12:00 pm This event is FREE and open to the public. No RSVP required. The cast of Steppenwolf’s Theatre The Dance of Death by August Strindberg will visit UIC Theatre's Convocation class on March 6, 2026, at 11:00 am-12:00 pm. The production is directed by the Head of Theatre Yasen Peyankov, with - [Propeller Fund 2013 Award Ceremony and Party](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/propeller-fund-2013-award-ceremony-and-party/) - [Special Series in Public Art, Social Justice, and Human Rights: Monica Haller](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-public-art-social-justice-and-human-rights-monica-haller/) - [Voices: Saloni Mathur](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-saloni-mathur/) - [UIC Flames Band Day!](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-flames-band-day/) - 2026 Youth Program – No public performance https://www.ticketmaster.com/uic-flames-mens-basketball-v-valparaiso-chicago-illinois-02-21-2026/event/0400634D87E52474?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=5128861-Google%20Events&source=ev - [Special Series in Public Art, Social Justice, and Human Rights: Duane Linklater](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-public-art-social-justice-and-human-rights-duane-linklater/) - [Special Series in Public Art, Social Justice, and Human Rights: Todd Ayoung](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-public-art-social-justice-and-human-rights-todd-ayoung/) - [14th Annual UIC Band & Orchestra Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/14th-annual-uic-band-orchestra-festival/) - 2026 Youth Program – No public performance UIC will host the 14th Annual UIC Band & Orchestra Festival on Friday, March 20, 2026 at UIC’s Student Center East (750 S Halsted St). The UIC Band & Orchestra Festival is open to bands and orchestras of all grade and ability levels. Each participating ensemble will have a concert performance, - [Tzuchien Tho](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/tzuchien-tho/) - [Choral Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/choral-festival/) - 2026 Youth Program - No public performance UIC will host our Choral Festival on Friday, February 13, 2026 at UIC Student Center East (750 S Halsted St.) from 9am-3pm. The choral festival will consist of: Singing together – combined singing with hundreds of high schoolers and the UIC Choirs. Learning together – student and teacher PD tracks, discussions, master - [Steven Nelson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/steven-nelson/) - [Special Series in Public Art, Social Justice, and Human Rights: Hakan Topal](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-public-art-social-justice-and-human-rights-hakan-topal/) - [Canceled: Form Fit: Heidi Norton](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/canceled-form-fit-heidi-norton/) - [Voices: Kate Levant](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kate-levant/) - [Art Criticism Today and Hopefully Also Tomorrow](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/art-criticism-today-and-hopefully-also-tomorrow/) - [Music Convocation: Briana Cash](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-convocation-briana-cash/) - 2:00 p.m. FREE and open to the public. Join us on April 24 for a Music Convocation featuring a performance and talk with singer-songwriter and Grammy® nominated musician Briana Cash. ABOUT BRIANA CASH Briana Cash is an award-winning singer-songwriter and Grammy® nominated musician. Her music has been licensed for TV, ads and film. She is - [Voices: James Benning](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-james-benning/) - [Mark Jarzombek, Victor Margolin, and Terry Smith](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mark-jarzombek-victor-margolin-and-terry-smith/) - [У–mУМr Harmansah](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mr-harmansah/) - [Music Convocation: Angel Bat Dawid](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-convocation-angel-bat-dawid/) - 2:00 p.m. FREE and open to the public. Join us on April 17 for a Music Convocation featuring a performance and talk with musician and educator Angel Bat Dawid. ABOUT ANGEL BAT DAWID Angel Bat Dawid is a Black American Composer, Improviser, Clarinetist, Pianist, Vocalist, Educator and DJ. In 2019 she released her debut album - [Public Hearing](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/public-hearing/) - [Reflexivity and the Small Form: A Symposium](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/reflexivity-and-the-small-form-a-symposium/) - [UIC MFA Open Studio Night](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-mfa-open-studio-night/) - [Public Hearing](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/public-hearing-2/) - [Jodi Dean](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jodi-dean/) - [Music Convocation: SamaSama Project](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-convocation-samasama-project/) - 2:00 p.m. FREE and open to the public. No RSVP required. Join us on April 3 for a Music Convocation featuring a performance from the Midwest's premier Filipino Folk Fusion band, SamaSama Project. In this special convocation event, SamaSama Project will perform selections from “The Great Filipino Songbook” —a collection of reimagined works by visionary - [Johanna Burton](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/johanna-burton/) - [Music Convocation: Crossing Borders Music](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-convocation-crossing-borders-music-2/) - 2:00 p.m. FREE and open to the public. Join us on February 27 for a Music Convocation featuring a performance from Chicago multicultural organization, Crossing Borders. ABOUT CROSSING BORDERS MUSIC Crossing Borders Music is a multicultural organization of color that shares the stories and music of those whose voices are suppressed because of race, ethnicity, - [In Sight/On View: The Museum as Site of Inquiry](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/in-sight-on-view-the-museum-as-site-of-inquiry/) - [Form Fit: Luis Gispert](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-luis-gispert/) - [Music Convocation: Joshua D. Pilzer](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-convocation-joshua-d-pilzer/) - Joshua D. Pilzer, University of Toronto 2:00 PM FREE and open to the public. No RSVP link. Join us on February 6 for a Music Convocation lecture by Joshua D. Pilzer (University of Toronto), presenting material from his book project Voices in the Mirror: Voicing and the Power in Everyday Japanese Life. Drawing on six - [Voices: Douglas Kahn](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-douglas-kahn/) - [Spaces of Learning: Museums and Education: A Panel Discussion](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/spaces-of-learning-museums-and-education-a-panel-discussion/) - [Choirs](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/choirs-5/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. ACCESSIBILITY:For accessibility, accommodations and special requests, please contact Neal McCollam. - [Art in the Park](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/art-in-the-park/) - [Propeller Application Process Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/propeller-application-process-workshop/) - [Propeller Application Process Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/propeller-application-process-workshop-3/) - [Percussion Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/percussion-ensemble-6/) - The UIC Percussion Ensemble takes you to the movies! The ensemble will present an audio visual concert featuring a variety of percussion based soundtracks. From silent films to stop motion animation to avant garde art film, each piece will accompany a wide variety of visual mediums. All of our concerts are FREE and open to the - [Propeller Application Process Workshop](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/propeller-application-process-workshop-2/) - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-13/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Tom Eyers](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/tom-eyers/) - [Funding and Creating Your Independent Projects: Propeller and Beyond](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/funding-and-creating-your-independent-projects-propeller-and-beyond/) - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-6/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Krzysztof Wodiczko](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/krzysztof-wodiczko/) - [Orchestra](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/orchestra-4/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Soup on the Move](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/soup-on-the-move/) - [Special Series in Museum and Exhibition Studies](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-museum-and-exhibition-studies/) - [Special Series in Painting](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-painting/) - [Form Fit: John Opera](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-john-opera/) - [Digital Music Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/digital-music-ensemble-2/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Special Series in Modern and Contemporary Art](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-modern-and-contemporary-art/) - [Chamber Ensembles](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chamber-ensembles-3/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Special Series in Design History](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-design-history/) - [Special Series in Moving Image](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/special-series-in-moving-image/) - [Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-8/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Form Fit: Lisa Dorin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-lisa-dorin/) - [Form Fit: Kelly Kaczynski](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/form-fit-kelly-kaczynski/) - [Art21 Season 6 Advance Screening](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/art21-season-6-advance-screening/) - [Extreme T-Shirt Makeover: Gallery Edition](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/extreme-t-shirt-makeover-gallery-edition/) - [Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-7/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [test](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/test/) - [Forum 400 Launch Party](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/forum-400-launch-party/) - [test video](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/test-video/) - [Pop Rock Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pop-rock-ensemble-7/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition #4](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2011-mfa-thesis-exhibition-4/) - [Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble-5/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [A Conversation with Nato Thompson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-conversation-with-nato-thompson/) - [2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition #3 Artist Talks](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2011-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3-artist-talks/) - [2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition #3](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2011-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3/) - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-20/) - Andy Baker and Michael Stryker All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with - [Teach 4 Amerika](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/teach-4-amerika/) - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-19/) - Marques Carroll and Jon Irabagon All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with - [Voices: Nicholas Frank](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-nicholas-frank/) - [Voices: Ernesto Oroza](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-ernesto-oroza/) - [Chamber Ensembles](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chamber-ensembles-4/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Voices: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-molly-zuckerman-hartung/) - [Voices: RenУЉe Green](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-rene-green/) - [Hot Media: Session 4](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hot-media-session-4/) - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-5/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Performance Anxiety](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/performance-anxiety/) - [Voices: Hannah Feldman](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-hannah-feldman/) - [Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-6/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Andrea Zittel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/andrea-zittel/) - [Talking Cure: Third Edition](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/talking-cure-third-edition/) - [Orchestra](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/orchestra-3/) - Join the UIC Orchestras for a trip into the past for some of the foundational works of the orchestral repertoire. Ludwig van Beethoven is said to have “announced himself to the world” with his spirited Symphony No. 1 in C major, which took the symphonic legacies of Mozart and Haydn and added Beethoven’s own brash, - [Voices: John Miller](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-john-miller/) - [Talking Cure: Second Edition](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/talking-cure-second-edition/) - [Alex Halsted, David MorУЉ, and M.C. Schmidt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/alex-halsted-david-mor-and-m-c-schmidt/) - [Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-7/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Voices: Carroll Dunham](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-carroll-dunham/) - [Talking Cure: First Edition](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/talking-cure-first-edition/) - [Jazz Ensemble featuring 2026 Jazz Festival Guest Artist: Steve Davis](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble-featuring-2026-jazz-festival-guest-artist-steve-davis/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. ACCESSIBILITY:For accessibility, accommodations and special requests, please contact Neal McCollam. - [WDCB 90.9 FM Presents: UIC Jazz Faculty & Steve Davis](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wdcb-90-9-fm-presents-uic-jazz-faculty-steve-davis/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. No registration required to attend this performance, check in with the Jazz Showcase box office. - [Voices: Paul Hatch](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-paul-hatch/) - [Voices: Michael Hall](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-michael-hall/) - [Voices: Peter Nicholson and Tiaa Hansson-Tuntland](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-peter-nicholson-and-tiaa-hansson-tuntland/) - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-18/) - Michael Stryker and Marques Carroll Tonight’s program features music by influential voices in modern jazz, highlighting a balance of tradition, innovation, and personal expression. The set opens with “On Green Dolphin Street,” arranged by Marques Carroll, offering a fresh take on this jazz standard while preserving its harmonic depth and swinging feel. Herbie Hancock’s “Firewater” - [Voices: Maud Lavin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-maud-lavin/) - [Voices: Pierre Dorion](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-pierre-dorion/) - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-17/) - Jon Irabagon and Andy Baker All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with - [Voices: Jonathan Shaun and Elizabeth Redmond](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jonathan-shaun-and-elizabeth-redmond/) - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-12/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Voices: Paul M. Murray](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-paul-m-murray/) - [Voices: C.E.B. Reas](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-c-e-b-reas/) - [Voices: Steve Roden](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-steve-roden/) - [Voices: Jutta Koether](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jutta-koether/) - [Voices: Meg Cranston](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-meg-cranston/) - [Music Student Recital: Emma Takahashi](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-student-recital-emma-takahashi/) - Emma Takahashi is a BMUS in Performance student and violinist from the studio of Jennifer Cappelli. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan Street). There are also CTA buses (#7 and #60) that - [Voices: Erkki Huhtamo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-erkki-huhtamo/) - [Voices: Casey Caplowe](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-casey-caplowe/) - [Music Student Recital: Lorenna Klobuchar](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-student-recital-lorenna-klobuchar/) - Lorenna Klobuchar is a BMUS in Music Education student and flutist from the studio of Eugenia Moliner. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan Street). There are also CTA buses (#7 and #60) - [Voices: Lin + Lam](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-lin-lam/) - [Voices: Jan Jagodzinski](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jan-jagodzinski/) - [Voices: Brian Holmes](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-brian-holmes/) - [Music Student Recital: Abdo Timejardine-Zomeño](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-student-recital-abdo-timejardine-zomeno/) - Abdo Timejardine-Zomeño is a BMUS in Performance student and clarinetist from the studio of Nicholas Carlson. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan Street). There are also CTA buses (#7 and #60) that - [Voices: Anne Wilson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-anne-wilson/) - [Voices: Leslie Hewitt](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-leslie-hewitt/) - [Voices: Kori Newkirk](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kori-newkirk/) - [UIC High School Honor Band and UIC Wind Ensemble Concert](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-high-school-honor-band-and-uic-wind-ensemble-concert/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Voices: Arturo Herrera](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-arturo-herrera/) - [UIC Orchestra with UIC High School Honors Orchestra](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-orchestra-with-uic-high-school-honors-orchestra/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [New Play Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/new-play-festival-4/) - UIC Students UIC Faculty Produced by Charlie Kurzym, Luis Ovalle, Diana Martinez, Adrian Camey, Adrianna Tuttle, and faculty advisors Bonnie Metzgar and Lydia Diamond. For the fourth year running, we will present the annual New Play Festival, featuring plays written and performed by students in stage readings directed by faculty members. This annual event showcases - [The Tragedy of Macbeth](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-tragedy-of-macbeth/) - William Shakespeare Yasen Peyankov Set in medieval Scotland and partly based on a true historical account, MACBETH charts the bloody rise to power and tragic downfall of a Scottish general tempted by a prophecy from three witches that he will become king. Fueled by his own ambition and by the convincing arguments of his wife, - [Sweat](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sweat/) - Lynn Nottage Jerrell L. Henderson It’s the year 2000 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and a group of friends go to work at the steel mill and decompress at the bar, as they’ve been doing for over 20 years. But unbeknownst to them, their lives are about to be uprooted. These middle class, unionized steelworkers have made - [Dance Nation](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dance-nation/) - Clare Barron dado In the middle of Ohio, a group of cutthroat, tween-age competitive dancers make a plan to score a trophy at the nationals in Tampa. But in Clare Barron’s raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step - [Latin American Music Festival Block Party](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/latin-american-music-festival-block-party-3/) - 4:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. This event is made possible thanks to our lead sponsor, Mi Costeñita. The School of Theatre and Music at the University of Illinois Chicago is delighted to present the second Latin American Music Festival (LAMF). The festival will feature performances by acclaimed Latin American musicians, dancers, scholars, and artists from - [Percussion Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/percussion-ensemble-5/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-11/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-4/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Orchestra](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/orchestra-2/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Digital Music Showcase](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/digital-music-showcase/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble-4/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-and-wind-ensemble/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. ACCESSIBILITY:For accessibility, accommodations and special requests, please contact Neal McCollam. - [Choral and Chamber Ensembles](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/choral-and-chamber-ensembles/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. ACCESSIBILITY:For accessibility, accommodations and special requests, please contact Neal McCollam. - [Pop Rock Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pop-rock-ensemble-6/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-16/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-15/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Honors Orchestra Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/honors-orchestra-festival/) - We are excited to host the inaugural UIC Honors Orchestra Festival on Saturday October 25, 2025. This one-day youth program gives high school string students from across Chicago the opportunity to study with UIC faculty and culminates in a final performance with the UIC Orchestra at Student Center East. The final performance is free and - [Honors Band Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/honors-band-festival-2/) - We are hosting the 13th Annual UIC Honors Band Festival on October 24-26, 2025 at the UIC School of Theatre & Music and UIC Student Center East. The UIC Honors Band Festival brings together top high school students from the greater-Chicago region for an engaging weekend of musical collaboration culminating in a concert performance. During the festival, students - [Exit Strategy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/exit-strategy/) - Ike Holter Edward Torres Ricky, the vice principal of a crumbling, mouse-infested Chicago high school, has been trying to hide in his office after the mayor announced the school’s closure at the end of the year. Some teachers want to fight, others have lost hope—but when a fired-up student sparks something in Ricky, they launch - [Latin American Music Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/latin-american-music-festival-5/) - This event is made possible thanks to our lead sponsor, Mi Costeñita. The School of Theatre and Music at the University of Illinois Chicago is delighted to present the second Latin American Music Festival, October 9 – 11, 2025. The festival will feature faculty and students from UIC, local and national scholars, and artists from - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-and-jazz-combo/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble-3/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-6/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-5/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-14/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. Join us at UIC on October 13th as the Minisiax Ensemble pays tribute to some of the greatest contributors to Jazz Music and American culture. You will hear selections - [Choirs](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/choirs-4/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. ACCESSIBILITY:For accessibility, accommodations and special requests, please contact Neal McCollam. Click the date below to RSVP: - [Chamber Ensembles and Jazz Combo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chamber-ensembles-and-jazz-combo/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. An RSVP is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Film Screening & Conversation with GRAMMY® Award-Winning UIC Alum Matt B — Moderated by Dr. Che “Rhymefest” Smith](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/film-screening-conversation-with-grammy-award-winning-uic-alum-matt-b-moderated-by-dr-che-rhymefest-smith/) - The UIC School of Theatre and Music Presents: An Exclusive Film Screening, Conversation, and Q&A with GRAMMY® Award-Winning Artist Matt B — Moderated by Dr. Che “Rhymefest” Smith The UIC School of Theatre and Music welcomes alum and GRAMMY® Award-winning recording artist Matt B (BS Architecture, 2014) back to campus for a one-of-a-kind convocation event - [Symphonic Band Camp and Summer Winds Concert](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-camp-and-summer-winds-concert/) - Join the UIC Symphonic Band Camp and Summer Winds for their final performance. Click the link below for tickets to the event! - [WDCB 90.9 FM Presents: UIC Jazz Faculty & Ingrid Jensen](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wdcb-90-9-fm-presents-uic-jazz-faculty-ingrid-jensen/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. No registration required to attend this performance, check in with the Jazz Showcase box office. https://www.jazzshowcase.com/nowplaying/wdcb-june-4r8d3-956tk-pmc5x-zayen-ezstl-ljmj7-z3fyb-f2fpr-k9zbp-swfan-f4zs2-m2n62-jzerc-j6847-cxxlb-8zm59-7rhal-bwcpb-6d968-6bfdn-s4z5a - [Chamber Ensembles](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chamber-ensembles/) - Adam Cordle All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Percussion Ensemble with Friends of the Gamelan](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/percussion-ensemble-with-friends-of-the-gamelan/) - Jordan Kamps All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. About Friends of the GamelanIncorporated in 1980 as a Javanese gamelan-focused community ensemble with the purpose of providing music instruction and performance, the Friends of the Gamelan has - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-10/) - Michael Espinosa All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Digital Music Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/digital-music-ensemble/) - Dan Lopatka All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-symphonic-band-2/) - Serena Weren & Nicholas Carlson All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259962595039?aff=oddtdtcreator - [Choirs & Orchestra present Mozart's Requiem](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/choirs-orchestra-present-mozarts-requiem/) - Liza Calisesi Maidens, Director of Choral Activities & Timothy Fawkes, Orchestra Director All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259951150809?aff=oddtdtcreator - [Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble-2/) - Andy Baker All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Pop Rock Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pop-rock-ensemble-5/) - Dan Lopatka All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-3/) - Alyssa Allgood All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-13/) - UIC Jazz Faculty: Michael Allemana & Marques Carroll All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-12/) - UIC Jazz Faculty: Andy Baker & Jon Irabagon All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” button below. PARKING:For information on parking, click here. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-9/) - Michael Espinosa All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-5/) - Serena Weren, conductor All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long - [Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-4/) - Nicholas J. Carlson, conductor All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the - [Voices: Andrea Bowers and Marcos RamУ­rez ERRE](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-andrea-bowers-and-marcos-ramrez-erre/) - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-11/) - UIC Jazz Faculty: Michael Allemana & Andy Baker All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far - [Voices: Michael Rakowitz](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-michael-rakowitz/) - [Voices: Mark Wallinger](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-mark-wallinger/) - [Voices: Judith Rodenbeck](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-judith-rodenbeck/) - [Voices: Eva Struble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-eva-struble/) - [Voices: Marcin Berdyszak](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-marcin-berdyszak/) - [Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Combo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble-jazz-combo/) - UIC Jazz Faculty: Andy Baker & Jon Irabagon All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far - [Voices: Sharon Hayes](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sharon-hayes/) - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble & The Ubuntu Project](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-the-ubuntu-project/) - UIC Jazz Faculty: Alyssa Allgood & Marques Carroll All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far - [Voices: Kota Ezawa](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kota-ezawa/) - [Voices: Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-chris-hanson-and-hendrika-sonnenberg/) - [Voices: Glenn Ligon](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-glenn-ligon/) - [Rhythms Defined: A Panel on Latin Music's Future](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/rhythms-defined-a-panel-on-latin-musics-future/) - School of Theatre and Music RedBull Soundclash Join us at UIC for an engaging panel discussion during Hispanic Heritage Month, spotlightingthe fastest-growing genre in the U.S. – Latin music. With a focus on Mexican artists like DannyLux and Tornillo, the panel will explore how these emerging talents are evolving the genre,blending traditional Mexican sounds with - [Short Story Long: 2026 MFA Thesis Show](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/short-story-long-2026-mfa-thesis-show/) - [Voices: Liz Kotz](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-liz-kotz/) - [Abu Ghraib: the Pornography of Warfare Symposium](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/abu-ghraib-the-pornography-of-warfare-symposium/) - [Voices: Dominic Molon](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-dominic-molon/) - [The UIC New Plays Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-uic-new-plays-festival-2/) - UIC Students UIC Faculty The UIC Student New Plays Festival allows young playwrights to bring their productions to life. They are paired with a faculty member as their director, assigned a cast of student actors, and collaborate with student designers. All performances will take place in the Studio Theatre—L467. Student producers: Ace Lee, Analise Bell-Galluzzio, - [Imagination Doctors](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/imagination-doctors/) - [Voices: Carlos Amorales](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-carlos-amorales/) - [Ariella Granados: Like and Subscribe](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ariella-granados-like-and-subscribe/) - [Finnegan Shannon: i wish gays hung out at places where we can sit down](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/finnegan-shannon-i-wish-gays-hung-out-at-places-where-we-can-sit-down/) - [Voices: Catherine Sullivan](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-catherine-sullivan/) - [Sandie Yi: Digital Technology](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sandie-yi-digital-technology/) - [agustine zegers: A toxin threatens, but it also beckons](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/agustine-zegers-a-toxin-threatens-but-it-also-beckons/) - [Voices: Harrell Fletcher](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-harrell-fletcher/) - [Voices: Christine Kim](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-christine-kim/) - [Don’t mind if I do](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/dont-mind-if-i-do/) - [Voices: Adam Simon](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-adam-simon/) - [The Closest to the Future We Ever Got: 2025 MFA Thesis Show](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-closest-to-the-future-we-ever-got-2025-mfa-thesis-show/) - [Tonika Johnson and Joe Nelson: Art Powers](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/tonika-johnson-and-joe-nelson-art-powers/) - [Voices: Camille Norment](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-camille-norment/) - [Voices: Cheyney Thompson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-cheyney-thompson/) - [See Saw Seen: 2024 UIC MFA Thesis Show](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/see-saw-seen-2024-uic-mfa-thesis-show/) - [Voices: Kristine Stiles](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kristine-stiles/) - [The Black Factory](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-black-factory/) - [Voices: John Neff](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-john-neff/) - [The Mask of Prosperity](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-mask-of-prosperity/) - [Voices: Jennifer Pastor](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-jennifer-pastor/) - [Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/earthly-visions-inside-the-climate-crisis/) - [Voices: Bob Nickas](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-bob-nickas/) - [CTRL + histories 2023 UIC MFA Thesis show 2](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ctrl-histories-2023-uic-mfa-thesis-show-2/) - [Voices: Rebecca Baron](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-rebecca-baron/) - [Joachim Sauter](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/joachim-sauter/) - [a series of encounters: 2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 1](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-series-of-encounters-2023-uic-mfa-thesis-show-1/) - [Gravity Pleasure Switchback](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/gravity-pleasure-switchback/) - [Voices: Hamza Walker](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-hamza-walker/) - [summertime, an interlude](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/summertime-an-interlude-3/) - Aniello Fontano Bonnie Metzgar and Omar Fernandez When violence erupts in a peaceful Chicago neighborhood — the community searches for answers. Through belly laughs and blunt smoke, summertime, an interlude examines the community’s complicated relationship with love, legacy, loyalty, and loss. Written by UIC alum and screenwriter Aniello Fontano (BA '14), this play is his - [Reckless Rolodex](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/reckless-rolodex/) - [Voices: Dave McKenzie](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-dave-mckenzie/) - [For Each Other](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/for-each-other/) - [Adaptations for the Understudy: 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition 1](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/adaptations-for-the-understudy-2017-mfa-thesis-exhibition-1/) - [Voices: Diana Thater](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-diana-thater/) - [Voices: David Robbins](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-david-robbins/) - [Favorite Spring Candles: 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition 2](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/favorite-spring-candles-2017-mfa-thesis-exhibition-2/) - [Allan deSouza](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/allan-desouza/) - [A Species of Theft](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-species-of-theft/) - [Voices: Hans Winkler](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-hans-winkler/) - [Chronicle of a Fall: Nadav Assor & Tirtza Even](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chronicle-of-a-fall-nadav-assor-tirtza-even/) - [2022 MFA Thesis Show: Ouroboros](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2022-mfa-thesis-show-ouroboros/) - [Voices: Christine Hill](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-christine-hill/) - [Voices: Kaucyila Brooke](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kaucyila-brooke/) - [Voices: Pamela Fraser](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-pamela-fraser/) - [2022 MFA Thesis Show: Fade into Me: Identity and Abstraction](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2022-mfa-thesis-show-fade-into-me-identity-and-abstraction/) - [Through My Lens: Justin Cooper](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/through-my-lens-justin-cooper/) - [Portal: online screenings | Shelly Bahl](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-shelly-bahl/) - [Voices: Kaja Silverman](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kaja-silverman/) - [Voices: Lisa Strausfeld](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-lisa-strausfeld/) - [Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/young-gifted-and-black-the-lumpkin-boccuzzi-family-collection-of-contemporary-art/) - [Voices: Carlos Basualdo](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-carlos-basualdo/) - [Voices: Judy Ledgerwood](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-judy-ledgerwood/) - [Voices: David Humphrey](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-david-humphrey/) - [Crip*](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/crip/) - [Voices: Matthew Buckingham](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-matthew-buckingham/) - [Portal: online screenings | Sara Ludy](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-sara-ludy/) - [Portal: online screenings | Natalie Bookchin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-natalie-bookchin/) - [Voices: Kyle Cooper](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kyle-cooper/) - [Portal: online screenings | Dread Scott](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-dread-scott/) - [Portal: online screenings | Guy Ben Ner](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-guy-ben-ner/) - [Voices: Dike Blair](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-dike-blair/) - [Voices: Sam Durant](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sam-durant/) - [Portal: online screenings | Bani Abidi](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-bani-abidi/) - [Voices: Matthew Coolidge](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-matthew-coolidge/) - [She Came From the Bronx: A Hip Hop Experience](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/she-came-from-the-bronx-a-hip-hop-experience-2/) - Q BROTHERS COLLECTIVE (GQ, JQ, Jackson Doran & Postell Pringle) in collaboration with ONE FOOT PRODUCTIONS Staged by JQ, Jax, Breon Arzell & Kevin Merritt IMPORTANT INFORMATION:SHE CAME FROM THE BRONX invites audiences to fully immerse themselves in the story by standing amidst the action on the dance floor during the 60-minute performance. ABOUT:SHE CAME - [Portal: online screenings | Yoshua Okón](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-yoshua-okon/) - [Voices: Stephanie Brooks](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-stephanie-brooks/) - [Voices: Martha Gever](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-martha-gever/) - [Portal: online screenings | Alejandro Cesarco](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-alejandro-cesarco/) - [Portal: online screenings | Karina Skvirsky](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-karina-skvirsky/) - [Voices: Peter Thompson](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-peter-thompson/) - [Portal: online screenings | James T. Green](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-james-t-green/) - [Voices: Deborah Stratman](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-deborah-stratman/) - [Portal: online screenings | Zakkiyyah Najeebah](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-zakkiyyah-najeebah/) - [Portal: online screenings | Fawzia Mirza](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-fawzia-mirza/) - [Voices: Gaylen Gerber](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-gaylen-gerber/) - [2004 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 5](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2004-uic-art-mfa-thesis-exhibition-5/) - [Portal: online screenings | Rami George](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-online-screenings-rami-george/) - [Sidelong Glances](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/sidelong-glances/) - [Portal: Maria Gaspar](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/portal-maria-gaspar/) - [Voices: Michael Newman](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-michael-newman/) - [2004 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 4](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2004-uic-art-mfa-thesis-exhibition-4/) - [2004 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 3](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2004-uic-art-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3/) - [2020 MFA Thesis Show: ​This World Should Be More Wonderful](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2020-mfa-thesis-show-this-world-should-be-more-wonderful/) - [Voices: Julia Meltzer and David Thorne](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-julia-meltzer-and-david-thorne/) - [2004 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 2](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2004-uic-art-mfa-thesis-exhibition-2/) - [2021 MFA Thesis Show Two: ​Ordinary Horrors](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2021-mfa-thesis-show-two-ordinary-horrors/) - [2021 MFA Thesis Show One: ​Sidelong Glances](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2021-mfa-thesis-show-one-sidelong-glances/) - [Voices: Paul Chan](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-paul-chan/) - [Lise Haller Baggesen: Museums of Future Past Times Present: Hatorade Retrograde The Musical](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/lise-haller-baggesen-museums-of-future-past-times-present-hatorade-retrograde-the-musical/) - [2004 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 1](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/2004-uic-art-mfa-thesis-exhibition-1/) - [Voices: William Pope.L](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-william-pope-l/) - [And you hold power](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/and-you-hold-power/) - [Black Light](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/black-light/) - [Make Room](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/make-room/) - [Voices: Sheila Pinkel](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sheila-pinkel/) - [The Neighbors, the Asshole, and the Celebration](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-neighbors-the-asshole-and-the-celebration/) - Anton Chekhov Yasen Peyankov Before Chekhov wrote Seagull, Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanyaand Ivanov he wrote some very funny one act farces. Three of those will be adapted and directed by the Head of Theatre, Yasen Peyankov. The three separate acts of an evening of Chekhov hilarity are based on: The Proposal– a story of a marriage proposal - [The Earth Will Not Abide](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-earth-will-not-abide/) - [Voices: Julia Friedman and Tony Wight](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-julia-friedman-and-tony-wight/) - [Voices: Sylvia Chivaratanond and Hamza Walker](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sylvia-chivaratanond-and-hamza-walker/) - [Voices: Helen Mirra and Jason Salavon](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-helen-mirra-and-jason-salavon/) - [Embodiment Abstracted: The Influence of Yvonne Rainer](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/embodiment-abstracted-the-influence-of-yvonne-rainer/) - [Ghost Pattern Waves: 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition 3](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/ghost-pattern-waves-2017-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3/) - [Voices: Anthony Elms and Annette Ferrara](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-anthony-elms-and-annette-ferrara/) - [Back to the Future: Visualizing the Arts at UIC](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/back-to-the-future-visualizing-the-arts-at-uic/) - [our duty to fight](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/our-duty-to-fight/) - [Precarity: Contingency in Artmaking and Academia](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/precarity-contingency-in-artmaking-and-academia/) - [Voices: Allora & Calzadilla](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-allora-calzadilla/) - [Voices: Marjetica Potrc](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-marjetica-potrc/) - [Voices: Helen Molesworth](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-helen-molesworth/) - [A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron: 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition 3](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/a-cavern-in-the-middle-a-boiling-cauldron-2016-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3/) - [Voices: Lucy McKenzie](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-lucy-mckenzie/) - [Voices: John Paul Ricco](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-john-paul-ricco/) - [The Crystalline Regime: 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition 2](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-crystalline-regime-2016-mfa-thesis-exhibition-2/) - [Few Were Happy with Their Condition](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/few-were-happy-with-their-condition/) - [Hyphen Makings: 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition 1](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hyphen-makings-2016-mfa-thesis-exhibition-1/) - [Voices: Emily Jacir](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-emily-jacir/) - [Voices: Simon Grennan and Chris Sperandio](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-simon-grennan-and-chris-sperandio/) - [Voices: Minerva Cuevas](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-minerva-cuevas/) - [That’s the First Place They’ll Look: 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition 4](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/thats-the-first-place-theyll-look-2014-mfa-thesis-exhibition-4/) - [Voices: Edgar Arceneaux](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-edgar-arceneaux/) - [I THINK WE ’RE READY TO GO TO THE NEXT SEQUENCE: THE LEGACY OF HALFLIFERS](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/i-think-we-re-ready-to-go-to-the-next-sequence-the-legacy-of-halflifers/) - [It's the Political Economy, Stupid](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/its-the-political-economy-stupid-2/) - [Voices: Charles LaBelle](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-charles-labelle/) - [Öyvind Fahlström: The Complete Graphics and Multiples](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/oyvind-fahlstrom-the-complete-graphics-and-multiples/) - [Voices: Dan Peterman](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-dan-peterman/) - [Voices: Cornelia H. Butler](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-cornelia-h-butler/) - [Hurricane Diane](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/hurricane-diane/) - Madeleine George Monet Felton Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she’s returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New - [Vito Acconci: A Graphic Retrospective, 1971–1992](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vito-acconci-a-graphic-retrospective-1971-1992-2/) - [Robert Stiegler Retrospective 1938–1990](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/robert-stiegler-retrospective-1938-1990-2/) - [Pathogeographies: or, Other People ’s Baggage](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pathogeographies-or-other-people-s-baggage/) - [Voices: Lane Relyea](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-lane-relyea/) - [Percussion Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/percussion-ensemble-3/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [After Today](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/after-today/) - [Voices: Alex Shakar](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-alex-shakar/) - [Making Chances: an exhibition in the citywide program Platforms: 10 Years of Chances/Dances](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/making-chances-an-exhibition-in-the-citywide-program-platforms-10-years-of-chances-dances/) - [Voices: Erwin Wurm](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-erwin-wurm/) - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-8/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Voices: Sergio Vega](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-sergio-vega/) - [Shadowboxing the Axis: 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition 3](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/shadowboxing-the-axis-2015-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3/) - [Voices: Kojo Griffin](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-kojo-griffin/) - [The Uncanny Valley: 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition 2](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-uncanny-valley-2015-mfa-thesis-exhibition-2/) - [Voices: Terry R. Myers](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-terry-r-myers/) - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-9/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Gush: 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition 1](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/gush-2015-mfa-thesis-exhibition-1/) - [Standard of Living: Work, Economies, Communities](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/standard-of-living-work-economies-communities/) - [Voices: Goat Island](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-goat-island/) - [Here, There, Everywhere](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/here-there-everywhere/) - [Voices: studio blue](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-studio-blue/) - [Orchestra](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/orchestra/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. Join the strings of the UIC Orchestra in an intimate program combining well-known gems of the classical repertoire, “under-the-radar" masterworks, and holiday favorites. Prokofiev’s rollicking Troika and Vivaldi’s Winter anchor - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-2/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-symphonic-band/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. The UIC Band Program features the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Pep Band. The concert ensembles perform music that represents a range of classic and contemporary wind band literature. The - [Chamber Recital](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/chamber-recital/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-8/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING:For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan - [Choirs](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/choirs-3/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. The UIC Choirs return to our historic, neighborhood venue, Notre Dame de Chicago for our final concert of the fall semester. The theme of our season is Sing My Child, lifting - [Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the "Get Tickets" button below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-fuego-7/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Wind Ensemble & UIC Honors Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-uic-honors-band/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Choirs](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/choirs-2/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-7/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-4/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-3/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-6/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Jazz Ensemble & Vocal Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-ensemble-vocal-jazz-ensemble-2/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [Orchestra Invitational Concert](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/orchestra-invitational-concert/) - All of our concerts are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required to attend this performance, click on the performance date and time below. PARKING: For information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/facilities-and-maps/#west-side-parking-garages-and-lots PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:CTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp - [UIC Summer Winds and UIC Symphonic Band Camp](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-summer-winds-and-uic-symphonic-band-camp/) - Join the UIC Symphonic Band Camp and Summer Winds for their final performance at the UIC Theatre. There is no Eventbrite registration required for attendance to this concert. - [Melissa Aldana featuring UIC Faculty](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/melissa-aldana-featuring-uic-faculty-2/) - Melissa Aldana Enjoy a special concert with the 2024 UIC Jazz Festival special guest artist, Melissa Aldana featuring UIC Jazz Faculty. Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. - [Batalla de las Bandas](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/batalla-de-las-bandas/) - The UIC School of Theater & Music and UIC Radio are hosting their first "Batalla de las Bandas" event on March 29, 2024 at the Recital Hall, in the ETMSW Building at UIC. UIC student bands and solo acts are encouraged to perform a range of genres from cumbia, salsa, merengue, reggaeton, banda/regional, and Latin - [Pop Rock Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pop-rock-ensemble-4/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [Latin American Music Festival - Block Party](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/latin-american-music-festival-block-party-2/) - —FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC— When: Saturday, April 13, 2024Time: 1 PM - 9 PMWhere: Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted As part of the three-day Latin American Music Festival, the Block Party invites the community to sing, dance, and enjoy a multi-stage party featuring music by international and Chicagoland artists and DJs to - [Celebrating 10 Years of School of Theatre and Music](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/celebrating-10-years-of-school-of-theatre-and-music/) - Celebrating 10 YearsSchool of Theatre and MusicFebruary 23 RSVP Celebrating 10 years of UIC School of Theatre and MusicThe departments of music and theatre are excited to celebrate 10 years as an established school within the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts.Join us on campus for a day! Catch up with other alumni. Marvel at - [Music Convocation](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/music-convocation-2/) - Convocations are designed to help students launch their careers after they graduate. At weekly meetings, concerts, performances, and presentations, students engage with a wide variety of performance styles and artists. Convocations are held at 2 pm in Recital Hall L285 Jan. 12: Course Introduction Jan. 19: Robyn Smith – “Using your background to - [Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/wind-ensemble-3/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the Public Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” button below. Check back for program information. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wind-ensemble-tickets-820609383757?aff=ebdsoporgprofile - [Symphonic Band and Orchestra](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/symphonic-band-and-orchestra/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the Public Registration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” button below. Check back for program information. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symphonic-band-and-orchstra-tickets-820592683807?aff=ebdsoporgprofile - [Pep Band Performances](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pep-band-performances/) - Cheer on the UIC Flames with the UIC Pep Band. Enjoy a 30-minute performance with anthems that will have you cheering on the UIC Flames before tip-off. Early arrival is highly recommended. To purchase tickets to any of the athletic events please visit: https://uicflames.com/See the home game schedule below: 17 JAN, WED 7 – 9pm MBB: - [If Music Be The Food... (Small Ensembles)](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/if-music-be-the-food-small-ensembles-4/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the Public Registration is required to attend this performance. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit with the long ramp (towards Morgan Street). There are also CTA - [UIC Band and Orchestra Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-band-and-orchestra-festival-2/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [Marat/Sade](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/marat-sade/) - Directed by Christina El Gamal and Yasen PeyankovMovement and Mime Work: Alex B. Rodriquez and Claire KaplanIntimacy and Violence Director: Jyreika Guest It’s 1808 and the inmates of the Charenton Asylum for the Insane outside of Paris are performing a play written and directed by the infamous Marquis De Sade who is also confined to - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-4/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Ticket Link Coming Soon. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the - [UIC Choirs](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-choirs-3/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [UIC Orchestra](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-orchestra/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [UIC Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-wind-ensemble/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [UIC Symphonic Band](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/uic-symphonic-band-3/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [New Play Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/new-play-festival-2/) - Founded by Professors Bonnie Metzgar and Lydia Diamond, the UIC New Play Festival is an annual celebration of new plays and new playwrights at UIC. Our open submission policy encourages any and all students to submit plays at end of the Fall semester. Then, selected playwrights will meet one-on-one with faculty directors who mentor them through - [The 5th Symposium for LGBTQ Studies and Music Education: Queering Music Education](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/the-5th-symposium-for-lgbtq-studies-and-music-education-queering-music-education/) - In 2010, 2012, 2016, and 2021, LGBTQ Studies and Music Education Symposia I, II, III, & IV brought together students, teachers, college faculty, and researchers to discuss relevant research, theory, and practice from an LGBTQ perspective. The purpose of these ongoing symposia is to encourage, promote, and disseminate discourse regarding the intersections of LGBTQ topics - [Jazz Combos](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/jazz-combos-5/) - Tickets available at the door. UIC Students with student ID’s admitted free. Suggested donation of $15 for all others PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe long ramp (towards Morgan Street). There are also CTA buses (#7 - [Percussion Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/percussion-ensemble-2/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [Vocal Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/vocal-jazz-ensemble-jazz-ensemble/) - Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line to UIC-Halsted. There are 3 exits from this platform. Take the far west exit withthe - [Voices: Robert Riley](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-robert-riley/) - [Universal Declaration of Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in the Creative Impulse](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/universal-declaration-of-infantile-anxiety-situations-reflected-in-the-creative-impulse/) - [Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/visibility-machines-harun-farocki-and-trevor-paglen/) - [Voices: Catherine Lord](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-catherine-lord/) - [Celebrating Chilean Music from the Colonial Villancico to the Nueva Canción](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/celebrating-chilean-music-from-the-colonial-villancico-to-the-nueva-cancion/) - This concert will feature Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center’s Chamber Ensemble, Tonos del Sur, and a pre-lecture with Chilean scholar, Paul Feller. Thank you to our co-sponsors: Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center, Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, and Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free - [Voices: Arthur Jafa](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-arthur-jafa/) - [Nice Work If You Can Get It](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/) - [Voices: Carrie Lambert](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-carrie-lambert/) - [Encounters at the Edge of the Forest](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/encounters-at-the-edge-of-the-forest/) - [Voices: Monika Treut](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-monika-treut/) - [Mariachi Festival featuring Mariachi de la Universidad Veracruzana and Mariachi Fuego](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/mariachi-festival-featuring-mariachi-de-la-universidad-veracruzana-and-mariachi-fuego/) - Enjoy traditional mariachi music performed by Mariachi de la Universidad Veracruzana directed by Ivan Velasco and Mariachi Fuego directed by Michael Espinosa. Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicNo tickets/registration required for this event. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line - [This Is Where It Felt Like: 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition 5](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/this-is-where-it-felt-like-2014-mfa-thesis-exhibition-5/) - [Midway: 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition 3](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/midway-2014-mfa-thesis-exhibition-3/) - [Voices: John Smith](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/voices-john-smith/) - [Pop Rock Ensemble - Date Change](https://cada.uic.edu/schedule/pop-rock-ensemble-date-change/) - CONCERT DATE CHANGE - The Pop Rock Ensemble will now perform on April 23, 2024. Unless otherwise stated all UIC Concerts are Free and Open to the PublicRegistration is required to attend this performance, simply click the “Get Tickets” buttonbelow. Check back for program information. PARKINGFor information on parking visit: https://parking.uic.edu/ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCTA Blue Line ## News - [Images of Summer Vault, Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk](https://cada.uic.edu/news/images-of-summer-vault-chicago-architecture-biennial-lakefront-kiosk/) - Final images of the design for the School of Architecture's Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk, Summer Vault, were recently released. The kiosk, designed by Clinical Assistant Professor Paul Andersen (Independent Architecture) and Associate Professor and Acting Director Paul Preissner (Paul Preissner Architects), will be on view during the Chicago Architecture Biennial this Fall. - [Exhibition featuring Ania Jaworska at the MCA](https://cada.uic.edu/news/exhibition-featuring-ania-jaworska-at-the-mca/) - Visiting Assistant Professor Ania Jaworska is featured in BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Ania Jaworska, the first in the exhibition series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to feature an architect. The exhibition opens August 25 and will run through January 2016. - [Palider and Kelley named finalists in CAB Kiosk competition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/palider-and-kelley-named-finalists-in-cab-kiosk-competition/) - Behind the Curtain, by Clinical Assistant Professors Ryan Palider and Thomas Kelley (with C. Paros), was named a finalist in the Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition. - [Demertzis '15 awarded Schiff Foundation Fellowship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/demertzis-15-awarded-schiff-foundation-fellowship/) - Master of Architecture graduate Gianna Ioanna Demertzis '15 was awarded the prestigious Schiff Foundation Design Fellowship, a prize awarded by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. - [Jaworska and Meakins design exhibition for Sullivan Galleries](https://cada.uic.edu/news/jaworska-and-meakins-design-exhibition-for-sullivan-galleries/) - Faculty members Ania Jaworska and Jenny Meakins were the exhibition and display designers for SAIC's Outside Design show, curated by Jonathan Solomon, on view now at the Sullivan Galleries in Chicago. The show officially opens on September 18 with a reception. For more information on the exhibition, please visit the Outside Design website. - [Faculty selected to participate in 2016 Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-selected-to-participate-in-2016-venice-biennale/) - Assistant Professor Kelly Bair, Clinical Professor Andrew Zago, and 2015-16 Greenwald Visiting Critics Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have been selected from over 250 submissions to participate in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. - [Faculty participate in Chicago Architecture Biennial](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-participate-in-chicago-architecture-biennial/) - Congratulations to the School of Architecture faculty members who were chosen to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial this Fall: Sarah Dunn (UrbanLab), Andrew Moddrell (PORT), Stewart Hicks + Allison Newmeyer (Design w/Co), Paul Andersen (Independent Architecture), - [UIC@IIT, S.R. Crown Hall Roundtables](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uiciit-s-r-crown-hall-roundtables/) - UIC School of Architecture faculty will be particpating in the S.R. Crown Hall Roundtables, a series of roundtable discussions taking place at IIT College of Architecture October 2+3, 2015. - [Van Alen International Panel at Art Institute of Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/news/van-alen-international-panel-at-art-institute-of-chicago/) - UIC School of Architecture faculty members Sarah Dunn (UrbanLab) and Andrew Zago (Zago Architecture), with Director Robert Somol, will be participating in the panel discussion, International Perspectives - Chicago and the Future of Urban Change taking place Thursday, October 1. - ["Alternative Scenarios for Chicago" Panel Discussion](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alternative-scenarios-for-chicago-panel-discussion/) - As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial public programming, several School of Architecture faculty will be participating in a panel discussion titled "Alternative Scenarios for Chicago". - [Imaginary Worlds at the Chicago Architecture Biennial](https://cada.uic.edu/news/imaginary-worlds-at-the-chicago-architecture-biennial/) - The UIC School of Architecture is partnering with CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) and the Chicago Architecture Biennial to present Imaginary Worlds, a panel discussion and workshop exploring the intersection between architecture and comics through the depiction of time and space and the represntation of real and imaginary worlds. The event features UIC School of Architecture faculty Sam Jacob and Ania Jaworska along with cartoonists Edie Fake and Keiler Roberts, moderated by comic scholar Brian Cremins. - ["At the Biennial", a discussion with Somol, Goldberg, and Arets](https://cada.uic.edu/news/at-the-biennial-a-discussion-with-somol-goldberg-and-arets/) - UIC School of Architecture Director Robert Somol will be participating in a discussion with IIT College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets, moderated by Adjunct Clinical Professor Geoff Goldberg on Saturday, November 7 at 12pm. The event will take place at the Arts Club of Chicago at 201 East Ontario Street, please reserve your spot by emailing information@artsclubchicago.org. - [Eisenschmidt to exhibit at Bi-City Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/eisenschmidt-to-exhibit-at-bi-city-biennale/) - Assistant Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt will be part of the "Radical Urbanism" section at the Bi- City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture starting in December. - [Janina Sanchez, MArch '15, lectures at AIA Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/news/janina-sanchez-march-15-lectures-at-aia-chicago/) - Political Urbanism: An urban catalogue of the "Good Living"Wednesday, February 24 | 5:30–7:30pmAIA Chicago, 35 E Wacker Dr. Janina Sanchez, recipient of the AIA Chicago Foundation's Martin Roche Travel Scholarship, will present the findings from her travels to Ecuador. - [Hicks and Newmeyer exhibit at Science Gallery Dublin](https://cada.uic.edu/news/hicks-and-newmeyer-exhibit-at-science-gallery-dublin/) - Assistant Professor Stewart Hicks and Adjunct Assistant Professor Allison Newmeyer of Design With Company will be particpating in the Field Test exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. The exhibition, which will run from March 11–June 5, focuses on the future of global food production, asking "where and how we should grow" in the coming years. - [Faculty selected for Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago 2016](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-selected-for-design-50-who-shapes-chicago-2016/) - Congratulations to several faculty members selected for the annual "Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago 2016" edition of New City. Please go here for the full article and list. Featured faculty - [Judith De Jong recognized with UIC Teaching Recognition Program award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/judith-de-jong-recognized-with-uic-teaching-recognition-program-award/) - Associate Professor Judith K. De Jong was recognized as one of fourteen UIC faculty awarded a Teaching Recognition program award. The program, first awarded in 1997, recognizes full-time faculty for teaching excellence, mentoring, and curricula development. - [Faculty and Students participate in MSI Brick by Brick](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-and-students-participate-in-msi-brick-by-brick/) - Design w/Co (faculty Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer), UrbanLab (Martin Felsen and faculty Sarah Dunn) and student team (Andrew Jennings, Spencer McNeil, Preston Welker, Jamie Goldsborough, Tyler Boyett, U Kei Long, and Andy Lang) are participants in the Museum of Science and Industry's Brick by Brick exhibiton. The exhibiton, on view through spring of 2017, features entries from invited architecture firms (David Adjaye, SOM, Studio Gang) and local architecture programs, made entirely of Lego blocks. - [Wheeler Kearns selected for Crystal Bridges Museum project](https://cada.uic.edu/news/wheeler-kearns-selected-for-crystal-bridges-museum-project/) - Wheeler Kearns Architects, co-founded and led by Professor Dan Wheeler, was selected to design the recently announced new outpost for Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. The project will consist of the extensive adaptive re-use of a former Kraft cheese plant into a space suitable for the Museum's contemporary art collection. Slated to wrap up in 2018, the project also aims to help revitalize the downtown area of Bentonville. - [Kelly Bair exhibits at Ball State University](https://cada.uic.edu/news/kelly-bair-exhibits-at-ball-state-university/) - An exhibition of work by Assistant Professor Kelly Bair (Central Standard Office of Design) will be on display at Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning beginning April 4. The exihibition, titled Tight Fade, will feature work that "originates from two rather distant points of influence: popular culture (specifically the Tight Fade haircut) and high art (specifically 2d drawing and 3d sculpture)". For more information please visit the exhibition website. - [MAS Context lecture by Kelly Bair](https://cada.uic.edu/news/mas-context-lecture-by-kelly-bair/) - Assistant Professor Kelly Bair will be lecturing Thursday, April 26 as part of the MAS Context 2016 Spring Talks Series in Chicago. The lecture will take place at 6:00pm in the Studio Gang Architects office at 1520 W. Division Street. For more information and to RSVP please visit the event website. - [SPORTS chosen to design and construct Ragdale Ring 2016](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sports-chosen-to-design-and-construct-ragdale-ring-2016/) - Former Garofalo Fellow Molly Hunker (2013–2014) and her practice SPORTS were awarded the Adrian Smith Prize for their 2016 Ragdale Ring proposal. Construction on the temporary structure will begin May 23, with the public unveiling scheduled for June 9, featuring a garden party and open-air performance with musicians and actors in the Ring. View the press relese here. - [Graduate student wins prize from AIA Chicago Foundation](https://cada.uic.edu/news/graduate-student-wins-prize-from-aia-chicago-foundation/) - UIC School of Architecture student Devon Morris (MArch 2016) has been named the recipient of the 2016 Martin Roche Travel Scholarship given by the AIA Chicago Foundation. Devon will be traveling to Myanmar to research and document the informal dwellings that occupy Yangon’s historic buildings. This marks the fourth consecutive year that a UIC student has won the Martin Roche Scholarship. - [Kelly Bair exhibits at the 2016 Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/kelly-bair-exhibits-at-the-2016-venice-biennale/) - Faculty member Kelly Bair exhibits The Next Port of Call at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale in the US Pavilion’s exhibition, The Architectural Imagination. The show, curated by Monica Ponce de Leon and Cynthia Davidson, explores Detroit as a site of architectural and urban speculation. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between Kelly Bair and Kristy Baillet. - [Andrew Zago exhibits at the 2016 Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/andrew-zago-exhibits-at-the-2016-venice-biennale/) - Faculty member Andrew Zago exhibits A New Federal Project at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale in the US Pavilion’s exhibition, The Architectural Imagination. The show, curated by Monica Ponce de Leon and Cynthia Davidson, explores Detroit as a site of architectural and urban speculation. From the architect: - [Graduate students win design competition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/graduate-students-win-design-competition/) - MAD-Crit candidate, Paul Mosley, and M.Arch candidate, Juan Suarez were awarded First Prize in How To Architecture!, a design competition that invites students to reflect on contemporary culture through an architectural lens. Visit the Section Cut website to see the full entry. - [Judith De Jong at the Graham Foundation, July 21](https://cada.uic.edu/news/judith-de-jong-at-the-graham-foundation-july-21/) - Judith De Jong, along with Marshall Brown, will be moderating a panel discussion at the Graham Foundation, New Architectures and Urbanisms of Decentralization. "This roundtable asks: what are the new forms of architecture and urbanism of decentralization in the American metropolis? What are the primary forces being materialized in their making (new and evolving collectives, democratic processes, free markets, new forms of mobility, others)? - [Bittertang exhibition opening at Lawrence Tech](https://cada.uic.edu/news/bittertang-exhibition-opening-at-lawrence-tech/) - Faculty member Antonio Torres and his partner Michael Loverich of Bittertang led this year's Critical Practice Studio at the Lawrence Technical University College of Architecture and Design in Detroit. Focused on intensive research and fabrication, the four-week workshop culminates with a public review and the opening reception of Off-Gassing on Saturday, July 16. - [Judith De Jong co-curates exhibitions at Gallery 400](https://cada.uic.edu/news/judith-de-jong-co-curates-exhibitions-at-gallery-400/) - Associate Professor Judith De Jong is the co-curator with UIC Gallery 400 Director Lorelei Stewart of two exhibitions: The Netsch Campus: Materializing the Public at UIC and Back to the Future: Visualizing the Arts at UIC. The exhibitions are on view through August 27. - [Alexander Eisenschmidt recognized as UIC Scholar of the Year](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-recognized-as-uic-scholar-of-the-year/) - Congratulations to Alexander Eisenschmidt who received the 2015 Rising Star Award in Art, Architecture, and the Humanities at UIC. - [Patrick Burkle awarded Schiff Foundation Fellowship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/patrick-burkle-awarded-schiff-foundation-fellowship/) - Master of Architecture graduate Patrick Burkle (MArch 2016) has received the prestigious Schiff Foundation Design Fellowship, a prize awarded by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. - [Alexander Eisenschmidt exhibits at the 2016 Lisbon Triennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-exhibits-at-the-2016-lisbon-triennale/) - Faculty member Alexander Eisenscmidt will have work on display at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. - [Clare Lyster exhibits at the Lisbon Trienniale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/clare-lyster-exhibits-at-the-lisbon-trienniale/) - Drawing the Logistical City: Image | Diagram | Model | Index Space, Time and Procedure in Contemporary Urbanism Drawing the Logistical City is a graphic study of the material flows in the built environment that reveals the invisible processes, the seemingly anonymous landscapes and the operational intelligence of contemporary regimes of flow. Focus is on the space and procedures of FedEx, the once US and now global shipping network that was founded by Fred Smith in 1971. - [Francesco Marullo at the Oslo Architecture Triennial 2016](https://cada.uic.edu/news/francesco-marullo-at-the-oslo-architecture-triennial-2016/) - [Paul or Paul win honorable mention for the 2016 American Architecture Prize](https://cada.uic.edu/news/paul-or-paul-win-honorable-mention-for-the-2016-american-architecture-prize/) - Congratulations to faculty members Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner who received an honorable mention for the 2016 American Architecture Prize for their Summer Vault kiosk in Millennium Park. While they both have independent practices, Andersen and Preissner work together sometimes as Paul or Paul. They designed Summer Vault for the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennale. - [UIC Faculty receive 2016 AIA Chicago Design Excellence awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-faculty-receive-2016-aia-chicago-design-excellence-awards/) - Sarah Dunn and the UrbanLab team received a Design Excellence Award in Regional and Urban Design for their Changde City Master Plan. Dan Wheeler and the team at Wheeler Kearns Architects received the AIA Chicago Interior Architecture Award for the Marwen Expansion, and the AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award for the Intrinsic School. Congratulations to both offices! - [Ania Jaworski exhibits at Volume Gallery](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ania-jaworski-exhibits-at-volume-gallery/) - UIC is pleased to announce the opening of Ania Jaworska's exhibition SET at Volume Gallery, November 11 from 5-8pm. From the designer: The stage is set; the set is staged. - [Ania Jaworska selected as finalist for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ania-jaworska-selected-as-finalist-for-moma-ps1-young-architects-program/) - Faculty member Ania Jaworska has been selected as one of the five finalists for 2017 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (YAP). Finalists are chosen by the museum's YAP committee (including Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, and Alanna Heiss, Founding Director of MoMA PS1) from a larger pool of young professionals nominated by deans of architecture schools and editors of prominent architecture publications. The site is PS1's triangular courtyard, and the project is to design a pavilion or recreational space to host the museum's Warm Up summer music festival. - [Colonizing Heritage: The Adaptive Reuse of Myanmar's Architecture](https://cada.uic.edu/news/colonizing-heritage-the-adaptive-reuse-of-myanmars-architecture/) - Wednesday, February 22, 2017 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Chicago Design Museum 108 North State Street, 3rd floor Devon Morris UIC alumna and recipient of the 2016 AIA Chicago Foundation's Martin Roche Travel Scholarship will be speaking about his travels to Myanmar. - [UIC Alumnus wins 2nd Prize in 2017 Fairy Tales Competition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-alumnus-wins-2nd-prize-in-2017-fairy-tales-competition/) - Congratulations to Terrence Hector (M.Arch '16) who won Second Prize in the 2017 Fair Tales Competition for his project, "City Walkers". Four winners and ten honorable mentions were selected by a jury of more than 20 leading architects, designers and storytellers, including Marion Weiss, Michel Rojkind, Jing Liu, Dan Wood and John Maeda, among others. The annual international competition is held by Blank Space, a think tank dedicated to the production and dissemination of architectural ideas through storytelling, narrative, and ot - [Alexander Eisenschmidt recognized with ACSA Creative Achievement Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-recognized-with-acsa-creative-achievement-award/) - Alexander Eisenschmidt has recieved the 2017 ACSA Creative Achievement Award. The award recognizes "sustained creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, and research." - [Francesco Marullo Lecture at the Graham Foundation](https://cada.uic.edu/news/francesco-marullo-lecture-at-the-graham-foundation/) - The Jungle: Bertolt Brecht’s Chicago and the Architecture of Production A talk by Francesco MarulloDouglas A. Garofalo Fellow UIC School of Architecture Tuesday, April 11, 6pm Graham Foundation Madlener House4 West Burton PlaceChicago, Illinois 60610 - [Year End Show 2017 Awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2017-awards/) - Congratulations to the student award winners at the 2017 Year End Show! A3 Alumni Choice Award – Undergraduate Student Ruta Misiunas A3 Alumni Choice Award – Graduate Student Lukasz Wojnicz Schiff Hardin Construction Law Group Award Eugene Murphy Susan Nealy Award – sponsored by FGM Architects Jhonny Caracheo - [Louis Rocah: 1926–2017](https://cada.uic.edu/news/louis-rocah-1926-2017/) - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Associate Professor Emeritus Louis Rocah. Professor Rocah's long and deep contributions to the UIC School of Architecture are practically coincident with its entire history. His high expectations were always a challenge and inspiration for the rest of us, as was his profound encouragement and empathy toward his students, and the sheer enthusiasm he conveyed for his life-long commitment to architecture. - [Fosco Lucarelli named 2017–2018 Garofalo Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fosco-lucarelli-named-2017-2018-garofalo-fellow/) - We are pleased to announce that Fosco Lucarelli will serve as the 2017–2018 Garofalo Fellow. As fellow, Lucarelli will teach deisgn studio and seminar courses, pursue independent design research, and prepare a public lecture and exhibition for Spring 2018. - [UIC Alumnus to curate Swiss Pavilion at 16th Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-alumnus-to-curate-swiss-pavilion-at-16th-venice-biennale/) - UIC alumnus Matthew van der Ploeg (M.Arch 2011) is among a team of three selected by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia to design and curate the Swiss Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018. Their project, Svizzera 240, was chosen from 81 proposal in a two-phase competition. The project team—van der Ploeg, Alessandro Bosshard, and Li Tavor—have been working together since 2015 as assistant lecturers for Alex Lehnerer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. - [Jacob McLaughlin wins Schiff Fellowship in Design](https://cada.uic.edu/news/jacob-mclaughlin-wins-schiff-fellowship-in-design/) - We are pleased to announce that Master of Architecture graduate Jacob McLaughlin (MArch 2017) is this year's recipient of the prestigious Schiff Foundation Fellowship in Design. - [James Carter wins Schiff Fellowship in Writing](https://cada.uic.edu/news/james-carter-wins-schiff-fellowship-in-writing/) - We are pleased to announce that Design Criticism student James Carter (MAD-Crit 2018) is the recipient of this year's Schiff Foundation Fellowship in writing. First granted in 1989 and administered by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Schiff Foundation Fellowship is given annually to one student from either the University of Illinois at Chicago, The Illinois Institute of Technology, or The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. - [UIC faculty to participate in Chicago Architecture Biennial](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-faculty-to-participate-in-chicago-architecture-biennial/) - Congratulations to the School of Architecture faculty who have been selected to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial this fall: - [Clare Lyster to participate in Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism](https://cada.uic.edu/news/clare-lyster-to-participate-in-seoul-biennale-of-architecture-and-urbanism/) - Clare Lyster has curated and designed Guidebook to the Logistical City, an exhibition for the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Everyday we become more entangled with the convenient, yet increasingly abstract procedures of logistical regimes (from online shopping to shared infrastructure) and the corporate actors (Amazon.com to Uber) that make them possible. This two-part installation articulates how logistical flows and their attendant procedures are shaping the city—the logistical city. - [At the Biennial: A Live Critique](https://cada.uic.edu/news/at-the-biennial-a-live-critique/) - Cynthia Davidson, Penelope Dean, and Geoff Goldberg, in Conversation - [Espen Vatn named Spring 2018 Herbert S. Greenwald Critic](https://cada.uic.edu/news/espen-vatn-named-spring-2018-herbert-s-greenwald-critic/) - We are pleased to announce that Espen Vatn will serve as the 2018 Herbert S. Greenwald Visiting Critic. As Greenwald Critic, Vatn will run a week-long seminar with undergraduate and graduate students, and will give a public lecture about his work and research. - [BairBalliet Selected as Finalists for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program](https://cada.uic.edu/news/bairballiet-selected-as-finalists-for-moma-ps1-young-architects-program/) - [Alexander Eisenschmidt curates Candela exhibition at Gallery 400](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-curates-candela-exhibition-at-gallery-400/) - Felix Candela's Concrete Shell's: An Engineered Architecture for México and Chicago Curated by Alexander Eisenschmidt Originated by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes Opening Reception: Friday, January 19 5–8 pm Conversation: Alexander Eisenschmidt and Juan Ignacio del Cueto Saturday, January 20 2 pm - [Ania Jaworska and Thomas Kelley participate in Friedman Benda exhibition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ania-jaworska-and-thomas-kelley-participate-in-friedman-benda-exhibition/) - No-thing: An Exploration into Aporetic Architectural Furniture UIC faculty Ania Jaworksa and Thomas Kelley are featured, along with seven other emerging architectural practices, in the upcoming exhibition, No-Thing, curated by Juan García Mosqueda and presented by the New York design gallery, Friedman Benda. The show runs from January 18–February 17, 2018, in Freidman Benda’s project space. - [Norman Kelley in collaboration with Brendan Fernandes at the Graham Foundation](https://cada.uic.edu/news/norman-kelley-in-collaboration-with-brendan-fernandes-at-the-graham-foundation/) - The Master and Form - [Norman Kelley receives 2018 USA Artists Fellowship Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/norman-kelley-receives-2018-usa-artists-fellowship-award/) - Congratulations to UIC SoA Assistant Professor Thomas Kelly and his partner Carrie Norman for receiving a 2018 United States Artist Fellowship Award in the category of Architecture and Design. Norman Kelley is among 45 artists from across the country and from various fields who will receive an unrestricted $50,000 award to honor their creative achievements and to support continued work. - [Paul Andersen recognized with Progressive Architecture Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/paul-andersen-recognized-with-progressive-architecture-award/) - Congratulations to faculty member Paul Andersen (Independent Architecture) for his honorable mention in the 65th annual Progressive Architecture Awards. - [Francesco Marullo Lecture at IIT](https://cada.uic.edu/news/francesco-marullo-lecture-at-iit/) - Assistant Professor Francesco Marullo is lecturing at The Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture in their Cloud Talks series. Cloud Talks invites visiting architects and academics speak to students in IIT Architecture’s innovative Cloud Studio that brings together students from undergraduate and graduate programs to work alongside one another on projects related to the City of Chicago metropolitan area. The Jungle - [Francesco Marullo Lecture in Santiago, Chile](https://cada.uic.edu/news/francesco-marullo-lecture-in-santiago-chile/) - Francesco Marullo will participate in the upcoming symposium and workshop, From Villa to Cell, at Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. The event focuses on social and collective housing in terms of its relevance to the city, but also as a fundamentally architectural problem.The workshop will review historical housing solutions in Santiago City, and will contrasting them with international projects. - [Anne Dessing: 2018–2019 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/anne-dessing-2018-2019-douglas-a-garofalo-fellow/) - We are thrilled to announce that Anne Dessing has been selected as the 2018–2019 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow. - [Year End Show 2018 Student Awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2018-student-awards/) - Congratulations to the student award winners at the 2018 Year End Show! Alpha Rho Chi Medal of Merit – Undergrad Jacob Miklasz (UG4) Alpha Rho Chi Medal of Merit – Grad Nadia Lohse (G3) AIA Henry Adams Medal of Merit – Grad Tyler Boyett (G3) Association of Licensed Architects Merit Award – Undergrad Anjelica Hope Perez - [Kelly Bair exhibits at UWM School of Architecture](https://cada.uic.edu/news/kelly-bair-exhibits-at-uwm-school-of-architecture/) - UIC faculty member Kelly Bair and her partner Kristy Balliet of BairBalliet has been invited by Kyle Reynolds for a solo exhibition in the Gallery of The University fo Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning. - [Julia Capomaggi's Two Houses recognized by MCHAP and AIA Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/news/julia-capomaggis-two-houses-recognized-by-mchap-and-aia-chicago/) - Congratuations to UIC faculty member Julia Capomaggi and collaborator Laura Geraci, whose project, two houses, has been nominated for the 2018 MCHAP for Emerging Architecture and also received a citation of merit for AIA Chicago's 2018 Small Project Awards. - [Paul Andersen on Archinect's Small Studio Snapshot](https://cada.uic.edu/news/paul-andersen-on-archinects-small-studio-snapshot/) - Paul Andersen is featured in this week's Small Studio Snapchat on the popular archtiecture forum, Archinect. Read the interview here. - [UIC alum awarded Golden Lion at Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-alum-awarded-golden-lion-at-venice-biennale/) - UIC alumnus Matthew van der Ploeg (MArch, 2011), along with Swiss Pavilion co-curators Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, and Ani Vihervaara, received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale this May. Their project, titled Svizzera 240, explores the conditions and potentials of the conventional, unfurnished interiors of new-construction housing. From the press release: - [Now and Then, Fresh Meat receive Graham Foundation grants](https://cada.uic.edu/news/now-and-then-fresh-meat-receive-graham-foundation-grants/) - We are pleased to share that the School of Architecture has received a grant from the Graham Foundation to support Now and Then, an institutional memoir that tracks ideas emerging from the school during its fifty-year history. The anticipated publication date is fall 2019; additional details will be posted soon. Fresh Meat, a journal produced by the school's graduate students, also received a grant. Issue ten (FM X) is currently in production. - [Students contribute to Wrightwood 659 exhibition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/students-contribute-to-wrightwood-659-exhibition/) - This fall, UIC School of Architecture students and recent alumni—Jimmy Carter, Jamie Goldsborough, Julian Gonzalez, Anjelica Hope Perez, Isabel Reford, William Stauffer, Angeliki Sykiotis, and Ismael Vela—contributed to Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture, the inaugural exhibition at Wrightwood 659, the Alphawood Foundation’s Chicago gallery. In collaboration with faculty advisers Thomas Kelley and Ryan Palider, the students produced a model of Tadao Ando’s Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, TX. The exhibition is on view through December 15, 2018. - [Paul Preissner featured in Low-resolution Houses exhibition, symposium](https://cada.uic.edu/news/paul-preissner-featured-in-low-resolution-houses-exhibition-symposium/) - Associate Professor Paul Preissner’s Liz and Morris House is featured in 44 Low-resolution Houses, an exhibition on view at the Princeton University School of Architecture from September 11 to November 9, 2018. Preissner will also present his work during Low-resolution Houses, a exhibition-closing symposium, on Friday, November 9. - [Applications open for 2019–20 Garofalo Fellowship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/applications-open-for-2019-20-garofalo-fellowship/) - The School of Architecture is pleased to announce it is now accepting applications for the 2019–20 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship. The deadline is January 21, 2019. Named in honor of award-winning architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), the Garofalo Fellowship is an annual nine-month teaching fellowship that provides an emerging designer the opportunity to teach studio and seminar courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs and conduct independent design research. - [Thomas Kelley lectures at Harvard GSD, designs Graham Foundation exhibition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/thomas-kelley-lectures-at-harvard-gsd-designs-graham-foundation-exhibition/) - On February 5, Assistant Professor Thomas Kelley and Carrie Norman, who practice as Norman Kelley, will lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Titled “Things not as they are,” their talk will present work dealing with architecture and design’s relationship to translations in two and three dimensions. - [Sam Jacob commissioned to redesign V&A entrance](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sam-jacob-commissioned-to-redesign-va-entrance/) - Clinical Professor Sam Jacob’s firm Sam Jacob Studio has been commissioned to rework the landmarked Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, a project that will transform the rotunda in the museum’s main entryway. Jacob previously worked with the V&A on a gallery in Shenzhen, China, that opened last year. - [Alexander Eisenschmidt publishes The Good Metropolis](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-publishes-the-good-metropolis/) - Associate Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt recently published The Good Metropolis (Birkhäuser, 2019), a book that explores the productive tension between the city and architectural form. From the publisher’s description: - [Kelly Bair launches Possible Mediums](https://cada.uic.edu/news/kelly-bair-launches-possible-mediums/) - Associate Professor Kelly Bair and co-editors Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, and Kyle Miller recently published Possible Mediums (Actar, 2018), a collection of sixteen projective design mediums by emerging architects. Defined through descriptions, drawings, and objects, this vibrant taxonomy positions design as a collective endeavor propelled by the open exchange of ideas and techniques. - [Paul Preissner recognized in P/A Awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/paul-preissner-recognized-in-p-a-awards/) - Ring of Hope, a project by Associate Professor Paul Priessner’s firm Paul Priessner Architects, was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Progressive Architecture Awards. - [Johannes Berry: 2019–20 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/johannes-berry-2019-20-douglas-a-garofalo-fellow/) - We are pleased to announce that Johannes Berry, a South African architect based in Brussels, will be our 2019–20 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow. Berry’s research will focus on the relationship between humans, materials, and construction, with an aim toward finding combinations that allow openness in interpretation. - [Clare Lyster receives CADA Distinguished Faculty Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/clare-lyster-receives-cada-distinguished-faculty-award/) - Congratulations to Associate Professor Clare Lyster, who received the 2019–21 Distinguished Faculty Award from UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts this April. The award supports the research of a senior faculty member for two academic years. In addition to her teaching and practice, the committee cited Lyster’s scholarship on urban systems in the selection announcement. - [Year End Show 2019 award winners](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2019-award-winners/) - Congratulations to the Year End Show 2019 award winners: AIA Henry Adams Medal of MeritIsabelle Reford Alpha Rho Chi Medal of Merit, graduate studentJamie Goldsborough Alpha Rho Chi Medal of Merit, undergraduate studentCamille Castillo Jury awards Pella Fellowship Prize, Best Graduate ProjectIsabelle Reford Pella Fellowship Prize, Best Undergrad ProjectChen Huang - [Dear Stanley,](https://cada.uic.edu/news/dear-stanley/) - Stanley Tigerman, former director of the School of Architecture, passed away June 3, 2019. Tigerman first taught at the School from 1964 to 1971. He returned in 1980, first as head of the Option 1 graduate program, and then as director, a position he held from 1985 to 1993. This week, the Architect’s Newspaper published an open letter to Stanley by our director, Robert Somol. From the letter: - [Thomas Kelley participates in Virgil Abloh’s NikeLab Re-Creation Center](https://cada.uic.edu/news/thomas-kelley-participates-in-virgil-ablohs-nikelab-re-creation-center/) - This summer, Assistant Professor Thomas Kelley has led workshops and discussions at NikeLab’s Chicago Re-Creation Center, a collaboration between Nike and the designer and entrepreneur Virgil Abloh. As part of the initiative, Kelley and other partners from Chicago selected by Abloh have mentored groups of students in the development of a creative project. The space also highlights Nike’s Reuse-a-Shoe program, which recycles used sneakers into the textile Nike Grind. - [Sean Lally’s The Long Now open at Exhibit Columbus](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sean-lallys-the-long-now-open-at-exhibit-columbus/) - The Long Now, an installation by Associate Professor Sean Lally and UIC School of Design alumnus Matthew Wizinsky, opened August 24 as part of Exhibit Columbus in Columbus, Indiana. As one of six groups of 2018–19 Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellows, Lally and Wizinsky have participated in public symposia and developed the project in collaboration with students over the past year. The installation is sited in Eliel Saarinen’s First Christian Church. From the project description: - [Alexander Eisenschmidt participates in Seoul Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-participates-in-seoul-biennale/) - Associate Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt is a participant in Collective City, the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Eisenschmidt has contributed a work titled the “City of Urban Inventions,” a drawing that combines, hybridizes, and extrapolates on thousands of urban inventions from across the globe. Together, these micro urbanisms project a terrain entirely composed of urban intelligences, which visitors can navigate through an app programmed to complement the drawing. - [David Brown organizes charrettes in association with Chicago Architecture Biennial](https://cada.uic.edu/news/david-brown-organizes-charrettes-in-association-with-chicago-architecture-biennial/) - This fall, Professor David Brown’s Available City project is organizing two series of charrettes that will inform the design of spaces for The Available City-North Lawndale, an upcoming exposition examining the role that collective space can have in the city today. Both are presented in association with the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), which opened September 19. - [Faculty contribute to Lisbon Architecture Triennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-contribute-to-lisbon-architecture-triennale/) - The work of several School faculty has been included or recognized in this year’s Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Poetics of Reason. - [Kelly Bair participates in Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans](https://cada.uic.edu/news/kelly-bair-participates-in-biennale-darchitecture-dorleans/) - Associate Professor Kelly Bair has contributed to the Architectural Beast, a collective installation presented in the second Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans. - [The Good Metropolis tours Europe](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-good-metropolis-tours-europe/) - This fall, Associate Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt will present his most recent book, The Good Metropolis, in London, Leipzig, Berlin, Milan, Grenoble, and Copenhagen: - [Bair, De Jong, and Wheeler present at “Tracing/Traces: Architecture and the Archive”](https://cada.uic.edu/news/bair-de-jong-and-wheeler-present-at-tracing-traces-architecture-and-the-archive/) - This Saturday, November 9, School of Architecture faculty Kelly Bair, Judith De Jong, and Dan Wheeler will participate in “Tracing/Traces: Architecture and the Archive,” an event organized by MAS Context at the Art Institute of Chicago in association with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. - [Dunn, Lyster, and Wheeler receive AIA Design Excellence awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/dunn-lyster-and-wheeler-receive-aia-design-excellence-awards/) - Three School of Architecture faculty have been honored with 2019 Design Excellence Awards by the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). - [Clare Lyster to co-curate Irish Pavilion at 2020 Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/clare-lyster-to-co-curate-irish-pavilion-at-2020-venice-biennale/) - Associate Professor Clare Lyster is part of a multidisciplinary team commissioned to curate the Irish Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale. The team, a research and design collaborative called Annex, consists of six architects, artists, and urbanists: Lyster, Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, and Fiona McDermott. - [Applications open for Garofalo Fellowship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/applications-open-for-garofalo-fellowship/) - The School of Architecture is now accepting applications for the 2020–21 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship. The application deadline is January 20, 2020. Named in honor of award-winning architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), the Garofalo Fellowship is an annual nine-month teaching fellowship that provides an emerging designer the opportunity to teach studio and seminar courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs and conduct independent design research. - [Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner to curate American Pavilion at 2020 Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/paul-andersen-and-paul-preissner-to-curate-american-pavilion-at-2020-venice-biennale/) - Clinical Associate Professor Paul Andersen and Associate Professor Paul Preissner have been selected to curate the US Pavilion Exhibition at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. UIC is commissioner of the exhibition. - [COVID-19 updates for the School of Architecture](https://cada.uic.edu/news/covid-19-updates-for-the-school-of-architecture/) - In response to COVID-19, UIC’s spring break has been extended to begin Monday, March 16. All UIC and School of Architecture classes will begin meeting online Monday, March 30. Students should continue to follow UIC’s announcements over the break and check their emails for updates from the university and the school. - [Faculty news digest: De Jong and Lyster awards, faculty at the Venice Biennale, and more](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-news-digest-de-jong-and-lyster-awards-faculty-at-the-venice-biennale-and-more/) - We’d like to share some exciting faculty news that we haven’t been able to highlight over the last few weeks. - [Alexander Eisenschmidt receives CADA Distinguished Faculty Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-receives-cada-distinguished-faculty-award/) - UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (CADA) has selected Associate Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt as the recipient of the CADA Distinguished Faculty Award for 2020–22. The award supports the research of a senior faculty member for two academic years. The committee cited Eisenschmidt’s continuous research activity and significant national and international recognition in its selection announcement. - [Year End Show 2020 recap and award winners](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2020-recap-and-award-winners/) - Major thanks to the students, faculty, staff, and guests who helped us celebrate at our virtual Year End Show on May 8! If you missed the live event, you can still view the exhibition via Miro: Graduate projectsUndergraduate projects We’ve also made a few presentations by our special guests available on our YouTube channel: - [AIA Chicago recognizes faculty Grant Gibson, student Edwin Casas](https://cada.uic.edu/news/aia-chicago-recognizes-faculty-grant-gibson-student-edwin-casas/) - The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently awarded the Minor Residence, by Clinical Assistant Professor Grant Gibson’s firm, CAMESgibson, a Citation of Merit in the 2020 Small Project Awards. - [Sam Jacob receives Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sam-jacob-receives-exhibit-columbus-miller-prize/) - Clinical Professor Sam Jacob is one of five recipients of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize, a biennial award given by Exhibit Columbus, an exhibition and symposium series based in Columbus, Indiana. As part of the program, Jacob will develop an installation that will open in Columbus next fall. - [Design With Company guest edits MAS Context: Character](https://cada.uic.edu/news/design-with-company-guest-edits-mas-context-character/) - Character, an issue of MAS Context guest edited by Associate Professor Stewart Hicks and Adjunct Associate Professor Allison Newmeyer’s practice, Design With Company, was released this August. - [Work by Ania Jaworska collected by SFMOMA, featured in KNIT! exhibition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/work-by-ania-jaworska-collected-by-sfmoma-featured-in-knit-exhibition/) - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) recently collected a work by Clinical Assistant Professor Ania Jaworska. Unit 6 (Armchair), from the SET series, is a black lacquered-wood and fiberglass chair with removeable matte black padding. - [David Brown named artistic director of 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial](https://cada.uic.edu/news/david-brown-named-artistic-director-of-2021-chicago-architecture-biennial/) - The School of Architecture is thrilled to share the news that Professor David Brown has been named artistic director of the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The biennial’s theme, The Available City, extends Brown’s ongoing research into the potential of collective space in the city today. - [Wheeler Kearns Architects recognized by AIA Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/news/wheeler-kearns-architects-recognized-by-aia-chicago/) - Congratulations to Professor Dan Wheeler’s practice, Wheeler Kearns Architects (WKA), which won five Design Excellence awards from the Chicago chapter of the AIA this year: a Distinguished Building Award, for the Bernard Zell Day School (shown above); two Interior Architecture awards, for Lakeview Penthouse and Our Lady of Guadeloupe Sanctuary; and two Divine Detail awards. - [David Brown featured by WBEZ, Architect’s Newspaper](https://cada.uic.edu/news/david-brown-featured-by-wbez-architects-newspaper/) - WBEZ, the Architect’s Newspaper, and Newcity have recently featured conversations with - [Fresh Meat awarded Graham Foundation grant](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fresh-meat-awarded-graham-foundation-grant/) - Congratulations to Fresh Meat, a journal published by the school’s students, which was recently awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation. The grant supports the production of issue XII, Finding Agency in Uncertainty. The issue explores how architecture might organize itself in the face of rapid change and a precarious future. Its lead editors are MArch students Summer Hofford, Jeffri Jacobe, Jamie Kruer, and Alexandra Madsen. - [BairBalliet opens No More Room at SCI-Arc](https://cada.uic.edu/news/bairballiet-opens-no-more-room-at-sci-arc/) - On April 9, Associate Professor Kelly Bair’s practice, BairBalliet, will open No More Room, an installation at the SCI-Arc Gallery, in Los Angeles. The opening event takes place at 8pm CST and will be streamed live. From the exhibition description: - [Paul Preissner publishes Kind of Boring](https://cada.uic.edu/news/paul-preissner-publishes-kind-of-boring/) - Associate Professor Paul Preissner has published a book on his practice’s work, Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture (Actar, 2021). From the publisher’s description: - [Year End Show 2021 award winners](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2021-award-winners/) - Thanks to all who joined us for the Year End Show 2021 on May 7! If you missed the live event, you can still view the exhibited work on Miro: - [UIC faculty and student work exhibited at the Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-faculty-and-student-work-exhibited-at-the-venice-biennale/) - The seventeenth edition of the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale opened in late May. If you don’t follow us on Instagram, you may have missed the images we’ve been sharing of work by participating UIC faculty and students. - [Norman Kelley designs MCA Chicago comics exhibition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/norman-kelley-designs-mca-chicago-comics-exhibition/) - Assistant Professor Thomas Kelley’s practice, Norman Kelley, designed the exhibition Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now, which opened at the MCA Chicago earlier this month. The exhibition presents the central role artists in Chicago have played in the development of comics and cartooning since the mid-twentieth century. - [Ania Jaworska opens BRICKS at Volume Gallery](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ania-jaworska-opens-bricks-at-volume-gallery/) - BRICKS, an exhibition of furniture designed by Clinical Assistant Professor Ania Jaworska, opened at Volume Gallery in Chicago June 5. The commissioned series explores the ability of this fundamental building material to translate across appearances that are analog or digital, real or imaginary, tasteful or vulgar, oversimplified or overexaggerated, willfully entering the psychological realm behind these many expressions. - [Sam Jacob’s Alternative Instruments on view at Exhibit Columbus](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sam-jacobs-alternative-instruments-on-view-at-exhibit-columbus/) - Alternative Instruments, an installation by Clinical Professor Sam Jacob, is now on display as part of the third edition of Exhibit Columbus, an exhibition and symposium series based in Columbus, Indiana. The installation is located along a six-block stretch of Washington Street and incorporates design elements and symbols referencing Thomas More’s Utopia, among other sources. Jacob developed the installation as a recipient of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. - [Fresh Meat, American Framing awarded Graham Foundation grants](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fresh-meat-american-framing-awarded-graham-foundation-grants/) - Congratulations to Fresh Meat, the School of Architecture’s student-run journal, which was recently awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation. - [The Available City opens](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-available-city-opens/) - The fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, The Available City, opened September 17. Professor David Brown is the biennial’s artistic director. For more on the project, which extends Brown’s ongoing research into improvisational frameworks in the city, read his essay on the biennial’s website. From the essay’s introduction: - [Abigail Chang contributes to Seoul Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/abigail-chang-contributes-to-seoul-biennale/) - Visiting Assistant Professor Abigail Chang contributed the work Skeuomorphic Screens to the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, which opened September 16. The project examines screens as “architectural elements that singularly translate apertures, portals, and reflections.” From the project description: - [Martina Smith, Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship featured in Chicago Tribune](https://cada.uic.edu/news/martina-smith-hartshorne-and-plunkard-fellowship-featured-in-chicago-tribune/) - Martina Smith, a first-year Master of Architecture student and the inaugural recipient of the Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship, was recently featured in an article in the Chicago Tribune about efforts to expand access to the field of architecture. - [Flat Out awarded NEA grant](https://cada.uic.edu/news/flat-out-awarded-nea-grant/) - Flat Out Inc., which publishes an independent print magazine founded and edited by Associate Professor Penelope Dean, received a competitive grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) this month. Flat Out is among 1,248 projects across America that were selected to receive this first round of fiscal year 2022 funding, totaling $28,840,000, in the Grants for Arts Projects category. - [WKA’s North Lawndale Employment Network opens](https://cada.uic.edu/news/wkas-north-lawndale-employment-network-opens/) - Professor Dan Wheeler’s practice, Wheeler Kearns Architects (WKA), recently completed the headquarters of North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN), on the West Side of Chicago. Formerly the Community Bank of Lawndale, the building now houses a variety of community programs, including a cafe, a communal meeting space, and an area for the production of honey and honey-related products. UIC MArch alum Emmanuel Garcia was the project architect. - [American Framing on view in Prague, Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/news/american-framing-on-view-in-prague-chicago/) - American Framing, the US Pavilion exhibition at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, will be on view in Prague and Chicago this spring. - [Year End Show 2022 award winners](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2022-award-winners/) - Many thanks to all who joined us at the Year End Show on May 6. We were thrilled to be back in the building to celebrate our students and their work. We’re grateful to the YES jury, Wiel Arets, Christy Cheng, Neil Denari, and Sarah Whiting, along with our faculty review teams, for their thoughtful comments. The winning projects are listed below. Keep an eye on the site and our Instagram page for posts on these projects throughout the summer. Jury awards Adrian D. Smith Architecture AwardBest in ShowColin Jecha, Tilt House - [Florencia Rodriguez appointed school director](https://cada.uic.edu/news/florencia-rodriguez-appointed-school-director/) - In concert with the university announcement issued today, we are very excited to share the results of the search for the new director of the School of Architecture. Florencia Rodriguez will begin her directorship in August 2022. From the university’s press release: For two decades, Rodriguez has practiced as an editor, writer, and educator in both the United States and Argentina, creating bridges in architectural discourse between the Americas, as well as within the field.... - [Abigail Chang opens Reflections of a Room at Volume Gallery](https://cada.uic.edu/news/abigail-chang-opens-reflections-of-a-room-at-volume-gallery/) - Visiting Assistant Professor Abigail Chang recently opened a solo exhibition, Reflections of a Room, at Volume Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition features eight newly commissioned objects that borrow form and proportion from familiar mirrored surfaces in both domestic and public spheres. These objects imitate the reflectiveness of darkened windows, blurring the distinction between perception and reflection and asking the viewer to consider their own physical presence. - [Students recognized by the Art Institute of Chicago, AIA Chicago, SAH, and UIC](https://cada.uic.edu/news/students-recognized-by-the-art-institute-of-chicago-aia-chicago-sah-and-uic/) - We are excited to share that several School of Architecture students were recently recognized with significant external awards: - [Common, Community Driven Architecture opens in Bordeaux](https://cada.uic.edu/news/common-community-driven-architecture-opens-in-bordeaux/) - Common, Community Driven Architecture, an exhibition co-curated by Professor David Brown, recently opened at the Bordeaux-based architecture center arc en rêve. The exhibition draws on The Available City, the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennale that Brown directed, as well as co-curator Christophe Hutin’s contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale. - [UIC joins architecture schools opting out of DI rankings](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-joins-architecture-schools-opting-out-of-di-rankings/) - Florencia Rodriguez, director of the School of Architecture, recently joined fifteen other leaders of US architecture programs in opting out of the rankings of architecture schools issued by DesignIntelligence (DI). The decision was communicated in an open letter published on August 15. - [Fall 2022 public events](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fall-2022-public-events/) - This fall, the UIC School of Architecture relaunches a full slate of in-person public programming. This new era of the school is defined by the belief in the value of exchanging ideas and learning from one another—a belief reflected in the program and its formats. - [Grant Gibson’s Columbus House No. 1 featured in Dwell magazine](https://cada.uic.edu/news/grant-gibsons-columbus-house-no-1-featured-in-dwell-magazine/) - Columbus House No. 1, by Clinical Assistant Professor Grant Gibson, was recently featured on the cover of Dwell magazine. - [Maya Matabwa named second Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship recipient](https://cada.uic.edu/news/maya-matabwa-named-second-hartshorne-and-plunkard-fellowship-recipient/) - Maya Matabwa, a first-year Master of Architecture student, has been named as this year’s recipient of the Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship. - [Racheal Olujide named inaugural UIC Kokkino Educational Fund scholarship recipient](https://cada.uic.edu/news/racheal-olujide-named-inaugural-uic-kokkino-educational-fund-scholarship-recipient/) - UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and the School of Architecture are proud to announce that Racheal Inioluwa Olujide, a first-year undergraduate student in the Bachelor of Science in Architecture program, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the UIC Kokkino Educational Fund. - [Abigail Chang wins Chicago Architectural Club Emerging Visions Competition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/abigail-chang-wins-chicago-architectural-club-emerging-visions-competition/) - Visiting Assistant Professor Abigail Chang is the winner of the eighth Emerging Visions Competition, an award sponsored by the Chicago Architectural Club in partnership with the Design Museum Chicago. The award highlights Chicago architecture community’s most promising emerging talent. As part of the award, she is developing an exhibition for the Design Museum Chicago. The opening event and lecture will take place at 6pm on Tuesday, April 11. - [Michael Cullen and Team UIC win Affordable Housing Student Design & Planning Competition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/michael-cullen-and-team-uic-win-affordable-housing-student-design-planning-competition/) - The school is pleased to share that second-year MArch student Michael Cullen and four other UIC students—Bailey Werner and Allie Pollock (Masters of Urban Planning), Wen Po Hsu (Masters of City Design), and Emily Etzkorn (Masters of Public Health)—are the winners of the - [Penelope Dean receives Faculty Fellowship at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities](https://cada.uic.edu/news/penelope-dean-receives-faculty-fellowship-at-uics-institute-for-the-humanities/) - Professor Penelope Dean has received a Faculty Fellowship from UIC’s Institute for the Humanities (IFH) for the 2023–24 academic year. IFH’s faculty fellowship program supports the research of six faculty from across UIC’s humanities and associated disciplines, releasing them from teaching and administrative duties. During the fellowship year, fellows are expected to research and write full-time, deliver public lectures on their research, and lead seminars for other institute fellows. - [Year End Show 2023 winners](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2023-winners/) - Year End Show winnersCongratulations again to everyone with work in the Year End Show! Here’s the full list of award winners: Jury awards - [Design With Company contributes Stone Wall Stand In to Concéntrico festival](https://cada.uic.edu/news/design-with-company-contributes-stone-wall-stand-in-to-concentrico-festival/) - Stone Wall Stand In, an installation by Associate Professor and Associate Dean Stewart Hicks and Adjunct Associate Professor Allison Newmeyer, was on display from April 27 to May 2 as part of the Concéntrico Festival in Logroño, Spain. - [Alexander Eisenschmidt awarded Graham Foundation grant](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-awarded-graham-foundation-grant/) - Congratulations to Associate Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt, whose publication Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete was recently awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation. - [Barbara Materia designs Van Gogh exhibition at the Art Institute](https://cada.uic.edu/news/barbara-materia-designs-van-gogh-exhibition-at-the-art-institute/) - Clinical Assistant Professor Barbara Materia designed the exhibition - [Alex Serbanescu wins Schiff Fellowship in Writing](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alex-serbanescu-wins-schiff-fellowship-in-writing/) - We are pleased to announce that student Alex Serbanescu (second-year MArch) is the recipient of this year's Schiff Foundation Fellowship in writing. First granted in 1989 and administered by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Schiff Foundation Fellowship is given annually to one student from either the University of Illinois at Chicago, The Illinois Institute of Technology, or The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. - [Cédric Van Parys named 2023–2024 Garofalo Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/cedric-van-parys-named-2023-2024-garofalo-fellow/) - We are pleased to announce that Cédric Van Parys will serve as the 2023–2024 Garofalo Fellow. As fellow, Cédric will teach design studio and seminar courses, pursue independent design research, and prepare a public lecture and exhibition for Spring 2024. - [Students awarded 2023 AIA Diversity Scholarships](https://cada.uic.edu/news/students-awarded-2023-aia-diversity-scholarships/) - We are excited to share that two School of Architecture students were recently recognized with a significant external award. MArch student Jocelyn Hernandez and MArch student Jamia Smith received the - [David Brown co-edits “In Common” series](https://cada.uic.edu/news/david-brown-co-edits-in-common-series/) - Professor David Brown is co-editor of the recently released essay series “In Common,” a collaboration between e-flux Architecture, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, and the Bordeaux-based architecture center arc en rêve. - [Ethan O’Kane speaks at AIA Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ethan-okane-speaks-at-aia-chicago/) - Ethan O’Kane, a third-year MArch student and the recipient of the 2022 Martin Roche Travel Scholarship, will present his award-supported research at AIA Chicago on September 19 at 6pm. From his research summary: - [The School of Architecture is a partner in the Chicago Architecture Biennial 5: This is a Rehearsal](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-school-of-architecture-is-a-partner-in-the-chicago-architecture-biennial-5-this-is-a-rehearsal/) - We're excited to announce that The School of Architecture is among 100+ partners in CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial opening this fall. We will be hosting “At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing”, a 2-day summit at UIC from October 19–20, 2023. This fall semester, Chana Haouzi, Adjunct Associate Professor, is instructing a course, “About, With, and Around: Dialogues on the Chicago Architecture Biennial”. The CAB 5 season will kick off citywide in September. - [Olivia Lewis named third Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship recipient](https://cada.uic.edu/news/olivia-lewis-named-third-hartshorne-and-plunkard-fellowship-recipient/) - Olivia Lewis, a second-year Master of Architecture student, has been named this year’s recipient of the Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship. The fellowship seeks to increase the number of architecture degrees awarded to students from traditionally underserved populations, and in turn, broaden the talent pipeline into the architectural profession. - [Wheeler Kearns Architects receives three Citations of Merit in the AIA Chicago's 2023 Design Excellence Awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/wheeler-kearns-architects-receives-three-citations-of-merit-in-the-aia-chicagos-2023-design-excellence-awards/) - Congratulations to Wheeler Kearns Architects, of which our Professor Dan Wheeler is the founding principal, for receiving three Citations of Merit in the AIA Chicago's 2023 Design Excellence Awards for the following projects: - [Second Annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/news/second-annual-chicago-sukkah-design-festival/) - The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival celebrated the launch of its second annual community event. The festival is organized and produced by Could Be Design, a Chicago-based design practice led by Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison, and Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, a museum that hosts exhibitions by and for the residents of North Lawndale, a neighborhood on the city’s West Side. - [UrbanLab receives a Citation of Merit in the AIA Chicago's 2023 Design Excellence Awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/urbanlab-receives-a-citation-of-merit-in-the-aia-chicagos-2023-design-excellence-awards/) - Professor Sarah Dunn, co-founder of - [Obed Lopez wins 2023 HOK Diversity x Design Scholarship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/obed-lopez-wins-2023-hok-diversity-x-design-scholarship/) - Obed Lopez is a second-year Master of Architecture student awarded the 2023 HOK Diversity x Design Scholarship. The scholarship program has been created to foster greater diversity within the architectural profession by granting $100,000 in scholarships to 10 students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and institutions known for their commitment to educating BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and minority design students. - [Design, With: Chana Haouzi's Lecture on Redefining Architectural Practices](https://cada.uic.edu/news/design-with-chana-haouzis-lecture-on-redefining-architectural-practices/) - "It all started with a blueprint and a dream," recalls Chana Haouzi, an architect transcending the boundaries of architectural possibilities. She is an ardent believer in the power of good design and advocates for making it accessible to all, especially those who need it the most. - [Alexander Eisenschmidt at University of Illinois Chicago first edition of SparkTalks](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alexander-eisenschmidt-at-university-of-illinois-chicago-first-edition-of-sparktalks/) - Associate Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt, who organized a conference, At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing, and designed a prototype one-room house, spoke at the University of Illinois Chicago's first edition of SparkTalks. The new series hosted by the Office of the Chancellor showcases UIC faculty who speak about their work in front of an audience of their peers, the Board of Trustees, and other members of the UIC community. - [Year End Show 2024 winners](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2024-winners/) - Year End Show winnersCongratulations again to everyone with work in the Year End Show! Here’s the full list of award winners: Jury awards Adrian D. Smith Architecture Award - Best in ShowSamuel McChesney, Arch 552: Spatial Interplay Pella Fellowship Prize - Best Graduate ProjectColeman Little, Arch 567: “At Home with the Collective: Housing Urbanisms for Chicago” - [Zehra Ahmed named 2024–2025 Garofalo Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/zehra-ahmed-named-2024-2025-garofalo-fellow/) - We are thrilled to announce that Zehra Ahmed has been selected as the 2024–2025 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow. During her fellowship year, Zehra will teach courses in design, history, and theory, and prepare a public exhibition and lecture for Spring 2025. - [2024-2025 Walter A. Netsch Scholarships awarded](https://cada.uic.edu/news/2024-2025-walter-a-netsch-scholarships-awarded/) - The School of Architecture’s 2024-2025 recipients of the Walter A. Netsch Scholarship are Pamela Flores, Isabel Cabrera, Abigail Serban, Mae Lopez, and Theodore Woessner. The Netsch Scholarship, endowed by the late Walter Netsch and Dawn Clark Netsch, is awarded to continuing undergraduate students who have demonstrated high academic achievement in architecture. - [Jocelyn Hernandez named 2024-2025 DFI Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/jocelyn-hernandez-named-2024-2025-dfi-fellow/) - Jocelyn Hernandez, a second-year Master of Architecture student, has been awarded a Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program (DFI) Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. This highly competitive award aims to increase the number of minority full-time tenure track faculty and staff at Illinois’ two-year and four-year public and private colleges and universities. - [Lauren Rademaker earned an Honorable Mention from AIA Chicago's Chicago Award in Architecture](https://cada.uic.edu/news/lauren-rademaker-earned-an-honorable-mention-from-aia-chicagos-chicago-award-in-architecture/) - We're thrilled to share UIC School of Architecture's undergraduate student Lauren Rademaker earned an Honorable Mention from AIA Chicago's Chicago Award in Architecture for her creative project, "Birds, Baths, and Beaches." The project was part of the fall 2023 Arch 465 "A Bigger Splash" studio taught by Clinical Assistant Professor Barbara Materia. - [2024-2025 Schneider-Kan Scholarships awarded](https://cada.uic.edu/news/2024-2025-schneider-kan-scholarships-awarded/) - The School of Architecture’s 2024-2025 recipients of the Schneider-Kan Scholarship are Daniel Lappin, Alexander Harrison, Toluwalogo Oluyede, and Cynthia Salcedo. The Schneider-Kan Scholarship is an endowed award established by 1967 alumni Reinhard Schneider, who earned a Bachelor of Architecture from UIC, and Sheri Schneider, who earned a BS in Math from UIC. The scholarship is awarded to undergraduate students who have shown exceptional academic merit in the School of Architecture. - [Zaineh Ghanayem named fourth Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship recipient](https://cada.uic.edu/news/zaineh-ghanayem-named-fourth-hartshorne-and-plunkard-fellowship-recipient/) - Zaineh Ghanayem named fourth Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship recipient - [At Home with the Collective: A Seminar and Studio on the Future of Housing received the AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award Taught by Alexander Eisenschmidt](https://cada.uic.edu/news/at-home-with-the-collective-a-seminar-and-studio-on-the-future-of-housing-received-the-aia-acsa-housing-design-education-award-taught-by-alexander-eisenschmidt/) - At Home with the Collective: A Seminar and Studio on the Future of HousingUIC School of Architecture Associate Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt - [Vincent Calabro and Akima Brackeen received an Honorable Mention in ACSA Faculty Design Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/vincent-calabro-and-akima-brackeen-received-an-honorable-mention-in-acsa-faculty-design-award/) - I AM BLOOMING designed by Adjunct Assistant Professor Vincent Calabro (University of Illinois Chicago) and Assistant Professor Akima Brackeen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) received an Honorable Mention in ACSA Faculty Design Award. - [Joseline Toalongo wins HOK Diversity by Design Scholarship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/joseline-toalongo-wins-hok-diversity-by-design-scholarship/) - Joseline Toalongo wins HOK Diversity by Design Scholarship - [Three School of Architecture students awarded 2025 UIC Kokkino Educational Fund Scholarship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/three-school-of-architecture-students-awarded-2025-uic-kokkino-educational-fund-scholarship/) - Three School of Architecture students awarded 2025 UIC Kokkino Educational Fund Scholarship UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and the School of Architecture are pleased to announce Gabija Gricius, Racheal Olujide, and Toluwalogo (Tolu) Oluyede as the 2025 recipients of the UIC Kokkino Educational Fund Scholarship. All three students are pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at UIC. - [Applications open for YArch 2025](https://cada.uic.edu/news/applications-open-for-yarch-2025/) - YArch 2025 will take place from July 7—August 1. YArch (pronounced “why-arc”) is a summer architecture program for current undergraduate students, recent graduates, and other adults who have an interest in architecture and design. It is an intensive, non-credit program spanning many facets of architecture study. - [Associate Professor Stewart Hicks is featured in, “Touring Chicago’s Lakefront” with Geoffrey Baer](https://cada.uic.edu/news/associate-professor-stewart-hicks-is-featured-in-touring-chicagos-lakefront-with-geoffrey-baer/) - Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey BaerMonday, April 14, 7pmLink to premiere Associate Professor Stewart Hicks is featured in a PBS show, “Touring Chicago’s Lakefront” with Geoffrey Baer. In the episode, Geoffrey Baer and Stewart Hicks visit Northerly Island and discuss its role in the city and Burnham’s vision for it. - [Year End Show 2025 Winners](https://cada.uic.edu/news/year-end-show-2025-winners/) - 2025 YES Awards Scholarship Awards Walter A. Netsch Scholarship Jorge Chavez Pearl Egbuonu Britney Flores Emily Schweiger Rosy Vega Prathiksha Venkadeshan Schneider-Kan Scholarship Miroslava Chavolla Avina Dragos Cojocariu Sarah Feinberg Abigail Serban Nini Tran Graduation Awards Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal Alex Harrison - [Participation of UIC School of Architecture faculty in CAB 6: Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change](https://cada.uic.edu/news/participation-of-uic-school-of-architecture-faculty-in-cab-6-shift-architecture-in-times-of-radical-change/) - SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change is the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and marks the celebration of its tenth anniversary. - [All Around and Within: Barbara Materia and Graduate Students to Exhibit at World Stage Design 2025](https://cada.uic.edu/news/all-around-and-within-barbara-materia-and-graduate-students-to-exhibit-at-world-stage-design-2025/) - All Around and Within, a project by Clinical Assistant Professor Barbara Materia and graduate students Zaineh Ghanayem, Justin Sobczak, and Muhammad Zegar for the Theatre Architecture Competition (TAC 25), was selected by an international jury and will be exhibited at the World Stage Design event in Sharjah in October 2025. The exhibition will take place at the Sharjah Art Foundation’s Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. - [Jonathan Mekinda Receives Graham Foundation Grant](https://cada.uic.edu/news/jonathan-mekinda-receives-graham-foundation-grant/) - Jonathan Mekinda, Assistant Professor of Design History, has been awarded a research grant from the Graham Foundation in support of a forthcoming publication titled, Building the "House of Man": Design and the Modern Home in Milan, 1933–1957. - [UIC Design at TypeCon "Nice"](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-design-at-typecon-nice/) - The UIC School of Design is well-represented at TypeCon: 2019, “Nice,” August 28–September 1 in Minneapolis. - [Studio Blue at First Round](https://cada.uic.edu/news/studio-blue-at-first-round/) - Cheryl Towler Weese, Associate Professor and Director of UIC Graduate Studies in Gaphic Design, will present at a one-day conference of visual identity presentations hosted by Under Consideration. First Round Chicago will feature initial design explorations on brand/identity projects—as originally shared with clients. The event will be held on Friday, September 13 at Venue SIX10, 610 S. Michigan Ave. Studio Blue is a graphic design firm founded by Towler Weese that exists to make the complex clear, the old new, and the academic relatable. - [Design in good health: Interdisciplinary collaboration and healthcare](https://cada.uic.edu/news/design-in-good-health-interdisciplinary-collaboration-and-healthcare/) - “I tell the non-design students, especially the engineers and computer scientists, ‘in your field 1 + 1 = 2; here in the lab, 1+1 = 11.’ Design is about making those new connections.” – Robert Zolna, Clinical Associate Professor, Design Research, UIC School of Design - [Nile Greenberg named 2025–26 Garofalo Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/nile-greenberg-named-2025-26-garofalo-fellow/) - We are pleased to announce Nile Greenberg as the 2025–26 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow. Throughout the fellowship year, Greenberg will teach design studio and courses in history and theory, while also advancing the ongoing research agenda Crisis Formalism. The proposition—developed with his office, Abel Nile New York, and partner Michael Abel—asserts that if architecture is to be meaningful, it must situate itself within the flows of crisis. - [18 of a Kind: inaugural exhibition curated by David Brown at the MAS Context Reading Room](https://cada.uic.edu/news/18-of-a-kind-inaugural-exhibition-curated-by-david-brown-at-the-mas-context-reading-room/) - 18 of a Kind is the inaugural exhibition curated by Acting Director and Professor David Brown, and organized by The Available City, NFP (TAC), which promotes new roles that collective space can have in the city today through the construction of 18 objects and spaces designed by invited national and international architects for hosting events in each of the 18 underserved South and West Side Chicago neighborhoods that have the highest quantities of city-owned vacant land, and are home to primarily Black and Brown communiti - [Daria Tsoupikova and Collaborators Awarded Presidential Grant](https://cada.uic.edu/news/daria-tsoupikova-and-collaborators-awarded-presidential-grant/) - Daria Tsoupikova, an Associate Professor at the UIC School of Design and an affiliated faculty member of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) received a $150,000 grant from the University of Illinois (UI) System’s Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities. - [UIC Design Faculty featured in 2019 Newcity Design 50](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-design-faculty-featured-in-2019-newcity-design-50/) - This year's edition of Newcity Design 50 honors those behind the scenes, who drive the creation of form, function, and beauty of design that has come to indlude all aspects of our lives in Chicago. The 2019 list considers leadership, influence and vision as its principal measures and includes Felicia Ferrone, Clinical Associate Professor of Industrial Design, Marcia Lausen, Director of the School of Design, and Jenna Blazevich, UIC Design Alum (BDes Graphic Design 2014). - [Amir Berbić presenting at Dubai's Global Art Forum](https://cada.uic.edu/news/amir-berbic-presenting-at-dubais-global-art-forum/) - Amir Berbić, Professor and Chair of Graphic Design, is presenting at this year's Global Art Forum held in Dubai, UAE, on March 20–21. - [Daria Tsoupikova received Session's Best Paper Award at IMCIC 2019](https://cada.uic.edu/news/daria-tsoupikova-received-sessions-best-paper-award-at-imcic-2019/) - Daria Tsoupikova, an Associate Professor at the UIC School of Design received Session's Best Paper Award for her paper entitled Virtual Reality and Games Facilitating Successful Aging presented at the e-Health, Science and Information Technologies session at the 10th International Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (IMCIC 2019), held in Orlando, FL, March 11–15, 2019. The presentation addressed the existing need of study how the advanced technologies can help with the ongoing and upcoming concerns about aging population with and without disabilities. - [Pouya Ahmadi Lectures at MCAD](https://cada.uic.edu/news/pouya-ahmadi-lectures-at-mcad/) - Pouya Ahmadi, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, presented his research on Latin and non-Latin typography and type design, visual identity, and publication design to the students and faculty of the Design Department of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design on April 26, 2019. - [Priority Grad Application Deadline is January 15, 2026](https://cada.uic.edu/news/priority-grad-application-deadline-is-january-15-2026/) - Join us next fall for graduate school—the priority application deadline is January 15, 2026 for the MArch, MAD-Crit, and MSArch. New graduate students are only admitted for the fall semester of each academic year; there is no spring semester admission. - [Alex Serbanescu wins Schiff Foundation Design Fellowship and honorable mention for AIA Chicago Foundation Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/alex-serbanescu-wins-schiff-foundation-design-fellowship-and-honorable-mention-for-aia-chicago-foundation-award/) - MAD-Crit student Alex Serbanescu (MArch 2025) has been awarded the 2025 Schiff Foundation Design Fellowship for Architecture for his project “Becoming-Lodge” from the Spring 2025 studio All Magnificent and Wild, taught by Associate Professor Francesco Marullo. - [The Notational Surface: Clare Lyster Writes an Essay for Iwan Baan’s Exhibition Catalogue](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-notational-surface-clare-lyster-writes-an-essay-for-iwan-baans-exhibition-catalogue/) - Professor Clare Lyster publishes The Notational Surface, an interpretive essay for the catalogue of an Iwan Baan solo exhibition, also titled “The Notational Surface,” featuring his aerial photographs of Houston, currently on view at the Rice School of Architecture's William T. Cannady Hall. - [Francesco Marullo awarded "Fall–Winter 2025–2026 MacDowell Fellowship"](https://cada.uic.edu/news/francesco-marullo-awarded-fall-winter-2025-2026-macdowell-fellowship/) - Associate Professor Francesco Marullo awarded Fall–Winter 2025–2026 MacDowell Fellowship. MacDowell—the nation’s first artist residency program—has awarded 150 Fellowships to visionary artists working across seven disciplines, representing 25 states, Washington, D.C., and 16 countries, for its Fall 2025–Winter 2026 season. - [Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship (Visiting Faculty) 2026–27](https://cada.uic.edu/news/douglas-a-garofalo-fellowship-visiting-faculty-2026-27/) - The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is now accepting applications for the 2026–27 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship. - [Ceema Sheikha named fifth Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship recipient](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ceema-sheikha-named-fifth-hartshorne-and-plunkard-fellowship-recipient/) - Ceema Sheikha, a first-year Master of Architecture student, has been named the fifth recipient of the Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship. The fellowship seeks to broaden access to the architectural profession. The fellow receives significant tuition support for up to three years of graduate study, a paid internship at Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture (HPA), and academic and professional mentoring. - [Master of Design Applications Deadline February 1](https://cada.uic.edu/news/master-of-design-applications-deadline-february-1/) - The School of Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) invites graduate applications for the fall of 2019. With programs in both graphic and industrial design, UIC’s School of Design prepares future leaders for the expanding field of design. From systems and services to objects and communications, UIC offers aspiring designers an opportunity to develop creative abilities in Chicago, one of the world’s most vibrant cities. - [Norman Teague featured in WBEZ Chicago](https://cada.uic.edu/news/norman-teague-featured-in-wbez-chicago/) - From the article: These partnerships gave his students a chance to design with their own two hands in diverse fields like metal making and woodworking, while also opening up professional avenues for their future careers. Teague believes strongly in offering different forms of teaching in order to make arts education more accessible. For example, he envisions stand-alone classrooms sponsored by universities that allow people, especially non-students, to learn. - [Four School of Architecture students awarded 2026 UIC Kokkino Educational Fund Scholarship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/four-school-of-architecture-students-awarded-2026-uic-kokkino-educational-fund-scholarship/) - UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and the School of Architecture are pleased to announce Gabija Gricius, Racheal Olujide, Toluwalogo (Tolu) Oluyede, and Sofiia Romanets as the 2026 recipients of the UIC Kokkino Educational Fund Scholarship. All four students are pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at UIC. - [Marc Manack appointed school director](https://cada.uic.edu/news/marc-manack-appointed-school-director/) - The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts announces the appointment of Marc Manack, FAIA, as its new director, beginning August 2026, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. - [Keeana DeShay Named Recipient of 2026 AIA Chicago Foundation Diversity Scholarship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/keeana-deshay-named-recipient-of-2026-aia-chicago-foundation-diversity-scholarship/) - Keeana DeShay, a first-year graduate student, has been the recipient of the 2026 AIA Chicago Foundation Diversity Scholarship. - [Music Ed: Welcome Our First Cohort of Student Teachers](https://cada.uic.edu/news/music-ed-welcome-our-first-cohort-of-student-teachers/) - Our first cohort of Music Education student teachers has entered the classroom! Over the next few weeks, these four students will be working with their cooperating teachers at Prescott, Bateman, Perez, and South Loop elementary schools. UIC's BMUS in Music Education program launched two years ago, focusing on preparing our students for careers as music - [Yasen Peyankov directs "Dance of Death" at Steppenwolf](https://cada.uic.edu/news/yasen-peyankov-directs-dance-of-death-at-steppenwolf/) - Photo: Courtesy of Joel Moorman. UIC Theatre Head and Steppenwolf Company Member Yasen Peyankov (Director) and alum Sonya Madrigal (Assistant Director) in rehearsal for Dance of Death. Steppenwolf Theatre Company opens Dance of Death on Thursday, January 29! The production is directed by theatre department head Yasen Peyankov, fresh off his performance in Steppenwolf’s Amadeus and ahead of directing Macbeth at UIC Theatre. The show is part - [Marques Carroll in Chicago Tribune](https://cada.uic.edu/news/marques-carroll-in-chicago-tribune/) - UIC’s Jazz Trumpet Instructor Marques Carroll was featured in the Chicago Tribune recently for his work as a trumpeter, composer, and bandleader in Chicago’s jazz scene. The article highlights his new live-recording series at iconic jazz venues, including Andy’s, Green Mill, Jazz Showcase, and Winter’s, as well as his commitment to collaboration and music education. Congrats, - [Dr. Liza Calisesi Maidens Named UIC Rising Star Researcher](https://cada.uic.edu/news/dr-liza-calisesi-maidens-named-uic-rising-star-researcher/) - We are excited to share that Dr. Liza Calisesi Maidens has been selected as one of UIC’s Rising Star Researchers of the Year! Dr. Calisesi Maidens’ research focuses on historically underrepresented composers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, particularly women and composers of color. Her recent project, Expanding the Choral Canon—a recorded album produced with - [Stephanie Gregoire Joins UIC as Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Education
](https://cada.uic.edu/news/stephanie-gregoire-joins-uic-as-clinical-assistant-professor-of-music-education-2/) - “I’ve been training for this job my whole life.” Stephanie Gregoire doesn’t just teach music—she builds spaces where students belong. This fall, she joins the University of Illinois Chicago as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Education, bringing with her a decade of experience that spans middle schools, community programs, and university classrooms. For Gregoire, - [Dr. Tiffanie Waldron Publishes Article on African American Music Education History](https://cada.uic.edu/news/dr-tiffanie-waldron-publishes-article-on-african-american-music-education-history/) - We’re proud to celebrate Dr. Tiffanie Waldron, Assistant Professor, on the publication of her first peer-reviewed article, “Sounding the Silences of African American Music Education History: A Bibliographic Guide to Research Literature from the Twentieth Century.” Co-authored with Dr. Marie McCarthy (University of Michigan) and Dr. Sean Grier (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill), the article - [UIC Theatre Senior Omar Fernandez Builds Community Through Subtext Studio](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-theatre-senior-omar-fernandez-builds-community-through-subtext-studio/) - (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC) Join us in celebrating Omar Fernandez, a graduating senior in the BA in Theatre and Performance program, with a focus in authorship! Omar was recently profiled by UIC Today for his impact on Chicago theatre and the creation of his production company, Subtext Studio. While at UIC, Omar directed, produced, wrote, mentored, - [UIC Pep Band Boosts More Than School Spirit](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-pep-band-boosts-more-than-school-spirit/) - Fifteen years ago, the UIC Pep Band started with just seven members. Today, led by Pep Band Director Nicholas Carlson, nearly 90 students bring their sound and spirit to games and campus events. ❤️ Discover how the Pep Band has expanded community, leadership, and pride — read the full story by UIC Today. Photos courtesy - [The 5th Symposium for LGBTQ Studies and Music Education: Queering Music Education](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-5th-symposium-for-lgbtq-studies-and-music-education-queering-music-education/) - In 2010, 2012, 2016, and 2021, LGBTQ Studies and Music Education Symposia I, II, III, & IV brought together students, teachers, college faculty, and researchers to discuss relevant research, theory, and practice from an LGBTQ perspective. The purpose of these ongoing symposia is to encourage, promote, and disseminate discourse regarding the intersections of LGBTQ topics - [UIC School of Theatre and Music Welcomes New Music Education Professor, Tiffanie Waldron](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-school-of-theatre-and-music-welcomes-new-music-education-professor-tiffanie-waldron/) - Tiffanie Waldron is equally comfortable teaching music in an elementary classroom and at the university as she is singing with the Detroit Opera or presenting at an academic conference. This comfort comes from being a versatile and experienced musician, teacher, program builder, and scholar pushing for access and equity in spaces where individuals like her - [UIC's Alyssa Allgood Voted Chicago Reader's "Best Individual Jazz Musician."](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uics-alyssa-allgood-voted-chicago-readers-best-individual-jazz-musician/) - Alyssa Allgood serves as the Vocal Jazz Ensemble Director at the UIC School of Theatre and Music. Named a “Rising Star Female Vocalist” in the 2024 DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll and voted “Best Individual Jazz Musician” in the 2024 Chicago Reader Poll, Allgood took some time to discuss this recognition as well as releasing original - [Theatre Professor Serves as Dialect Coach for "The Brutalist"](https://cada.uic.edu/news/theatre-professor-serves-as-dialect-coach-for-the-brutalist/) - Tanera Marshall, UIC theatre professor and professional dialect coach, helped actors like Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones master authentic Hungarian accents for The Brutalist. With the film now nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress for Brody and Jones, Tanera recently spoke with CBS and UIC Today about her role - [First Alum-Written Play to Premiere at UIC Theatre](https://cada.uic.edu/news/first-alum-written-play-to-premiere-at-uic-theatre-2/) - UIC Theatre alum Aniello Fontano is making history — his original play summertime, an interlude is the first alum-written production to be featured on UIC’s main stage, and UIC Today has the full story. Set on the hottest day of summer in a tight-knit Chicago neighborhood, the play is part of Fontano’s seven-play series windy’s - [Happy Holidays!](https://cada.uic.edu/news/happy-holidays-3/) - On behalf of the UIC School of Theatre and Music, we wish you a happy holiday! Enjoy this video recap of our Holiday Concert at Benito Juarez Community Academy High School with the UIC music ensembles. The prism-styled concert featured the Choirs, Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Combos, Chamber groups, Mariachi Fuego, Percussion Ensemble, and special - [Luis Alfaro Residency Project Website](https://cada.uic.edu/news/luis-alfaro-residency-project-website/) - Led by Principal Investigators, Christine Dunford and Young Richard Kim, The Luis Alfaro Residency Project (LARP), funded through the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities, brought renowned playwright, MacArthur fellow, and USC associate professor of dramatic writing to the University of Illinois campuses during the spring ’22 semester. - [STM Sounds Like: Andrew Pridmore](https://cada.uic.edu/news/stm-sounds-like-andrew-pridmore-2/) - Welcome to STM Sounds Like, an interview segment that introduces you to the many great people that make up the School of Theatre and Music. In this segment of STM Sounds Like, we feature Andrew Pridmore a BA in Music Business alumni. Since graduating, Andrew has kept busy making music and playing with various bands - [Meet Alumni - Andrew Pridmore](https://cada.uic.edu/news/meet-alumni-andrew-pridmore/) - Andrew Pridmore is a UIC alumni with a BA in Music Business. Since graduating, Andrew has been busy teaching and making music. One of the many bands Andrew is in is called The Hustle, an indie rock band made up of high school friends. Pridmore is also in The Trenchies, a modern-day 60s rock band - [Welcome Serena Weren, Director of Bands](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-serena-weren-director-of-bands/) - UIC School of Theatre and Music is excited to welcome Serena Weren DMA as Associate Professor and Director of Bands.Dr. Weren earned her DMA in wind band conducting from Arizona State University under the direction of Gary W. Hill and Wayne Bailey. Prior to joining UIC, she was an Associate Professor and Director of Bands - [Welcome Wing Lau, Lecturer](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-wing-lau-lecturer/) - UIC School of Theatre and Music welcomes Wing Lau, Ph.D. as a lecturer and instructor in music theory, aural skills, and keyboard skills. Before joining UIC Dr. Lau taught at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dr. Lau received her Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Oregon, MM in Piano Performance from Indiana University Bloomington, - [UIC alumnus, ‘Family Ties’ actor Michael Gross donates papers](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-alumnus-family-ties-actor-michael-gross-donates-papers/) - Actor and University of Illinois Chicago alumnus Michael Gross watched as UIC School of Theatre students rehearsed the play “Marat/Sade,” set in an asylum during the French Revolution, and said watching the students rehearse on stage gives him a creative spark. Gross, who is best known for playing the father of Michael J. Fox’s character - [New song release by Student Earl Hester, Perfect People](https://cada.uic.edu/news/new-song-release-by-student-earl-hester-perfect-people-2/) - UIC Music student Earl Hester released his single "Perfect People" on November 17. Since performing at festivals and venues like Lollapalooza, Bourbon on Division, and UIC Open Mics, pop singer Earl Hester, has been working on “Perfect People” behind the scenes. “Perfect People” is a song with lyrics that will have you reminisce about past - [Fall Semester News 2023](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fall-semester-news-2023-2/) - The BMUS in Music Education licensure proposal APPROVED by the ISBE.Brent Talbot, the Acting Director of UIC School of Theatre and Music, presented the new city-school-based music teacher licensure degree program to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) on Friday, December 1 in Springfield, IL.The School of Theatre and Music's licensure proposal was approved - [Faculty and Alumni News Spring 2023](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-and-alumni-news-spring-2023/) - Read about the latest projects by UIC School of Theatre and Music faculty and alumni.Marques Carroll, music faculty, released his second album, Foundations following his hit debut album The Ancestors Call. Carroll also released his first book series for trumpet studies titled, The Holistic Trumpet which has three volumes and corresponding meditation tracks: Volume 1 - [Welcome Alyssa Allgood, Director of Vocal Jazz Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-alyssa-allgood-director-of-vocal-jazz-ensemble/) - UIC School of Theatre and Music welcomes​ faculty Alyssa Allgood as the Director of the Vocal Jazz Ensemble and an instructor for courses in Jazz arranging. Allgood is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist, bandleader, educator, composer, and arranger who has been described as “assured and daring” by DownBeat Magazine and a “model of sophisticated song interpretation” - [In Loving Memory: William "Bill" Kaplan](https://cada.uic.edu/news/in-loving-memory-william-bill-kaplan-2/) - In Loving Memory: William “Bill” Kaplan We are saddened to share the news that Professor Emeritus, William “Bill” Kaplan, passed away on July 07, 2023. Bill began teaching at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in 1966 after playing bassoon for eight years with the Denver and Detroit symphony orchestras. At UIC, Bill taught courses - [Welcome Michael Allemana, Jazz Guitar Instructor](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-michael-allemana-jazz-guitar-instructor/) - UIC School of Theatre and Music is excited to welcome Dr. Michael Allemana as a Teaching Associate and instructor of jazz guitar. Dr. Allemana is a guitarist, composer, and ethnomusicologist who has been a fixture on the Chicago jazz scene since the early 1990s. Dr. Allemana has shared the stage with such jazz luminaries as - [Recap: Creating Community with "The Factotum"](https://cada.uic.edu/news/recap-creating-community-with-the-factotum/) - Article by Chassion RiceBA Music Business 2023 The creative team for the Lyric Opera of Chicago was the invited guests at the UIC Department of Music’s weekly Convocation to discuss the world premiere of Will Liverston and Dj King Rico's groundbreaking new opera, The Factotum. UIC faculty members worked closely with the Lyric Opera to - [UIC Jazz Festival: Area schools learn from Chicago’s best](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-jazz-festival-area-schools-learn-from-chicagos-best/) - The annual University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Jazz Festival has again brought the best in jazz music to audiences in Chicago. This year, seventeen high school bands representing the Chicagoland area participated at the UIC Jazz Festival on Thursday, April 20 at the Epiphany Center for the Arts with special guest artist, New York City - [Congratulations Class of 2023](https://cada.uic.edu/news/congratulations-class-of-2023/) - Congratulations to the Class of 2023! Every year before the commencement ceremony with the college, graduating seniors and their families are invited to a special reception at the UIC main-stage theatre. This year, faculty, students and family gathered and enjoyed speeches, monologues and music performances by graduating seniors Ariana Lopez, Emma Ariagno, Hayden Larsen, Natalia - [BA Theatre Capstone 2023](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ba-theatre-capstone-2023/) - By Angelina DavilaBA Theatre and Performance, 2023 The THTR 449 Capstone: Senior Project is a required course for BA Theatre and Performance students on the performance track, taught by Bonnie Metzgar. During the course of the spring semester students are able to create and develop projects to present in a final showcase at the end - [Welcome Joon Park Ph.D., Music Theory](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-joon-park-ph-d-music-theory/) - University of Illinois Chicago School of Theatre and Music is excited to welcome Joon Park Ph.D. as an Associate Professor. Dr. Park joins the UIC School of Theatre and Music from the University of Arkansas where he served as an Assistant Professor. Bridging theory and practice, Dr. Park is equally comfortable performing as he is - [Welcome Jon Irabagon to UIC](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-jon-irabagon-to-uic/) - We are excited to welcome to our Jazz Faculty, Professor Jon Irabagon, who will teach Jazz saxophone, direct combos, and courses in jazz history. “It is with great pleasure that we welcome Filipino-American saxophonist, and composer, Jon Irabagon to the UIC Jazz program. His depth of experience and exceptional reputation in the field is well-known. Jon’s recent - [Guitar Saved My Life, An Tran](https://cada.uic.edu/news/guitar-saved-my-life-an-tran-2/) - An Tran, guitar music faculty, kicked off the UIC Spring 2023 Music Convocation series with a discussion and performance of traditional Vietnamese music arranged for the classical guitar. In conversation with Dr. Brent Talbot, Tran shared stories about his music and career experience as a guitarist. Tran said he had trouble acclimating to his studies - [August Wilson New Voices Competition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/august-wilson-new-voices-competition/) - August Wilson New Voices competition preliminary auditions March 8, 2023 This spring, the UIC School of Theatre and Music will host preliminary auditions for the August Wilson New Voices (AWNV) competition, a national competition that gives students across the country an opportunity to explore and share the richness of August Wilson’s Century Cycle. On Wednesday, March 8, from 9am -5pm, 160 Chicago area high school students will - [Bridge to Faculty scholar’s play ‘Romero’ sheds light on martyred social justice icon](https://cada.uic.edu/news/bridge-to-faculty-scholars-play-romero-sheds-light-on-martyred-social-justice-icon/) - Article by Carlos Sadovi/ UIC News In the first few minutes of Xiomara Cornejo’s play “Romero,” Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero is assassinated as he celebrates Mass while flanked by two archangels who then guide his soul to heaven. While the death of the protagonist would usually signal the end of the story in a - [Interview with John Mackey and Julian Bliss](https://cada.uic.edu/news/interview-with-john-mackey-and-julian-bliss/) - The UIC Concert Band Festival hosted renowned composer John Mackey and masterful clarinetist Julian Bliss to perform Divine Mischief: Concerto for the Clarinet with the UIC Wind Ensemble on March 10. Students enjoyed rehearsing and learning from both and had an opportunity to conduct a radio interview with them before their concert performance. Listen to - [Fond Farewell Chris Madsen](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fond-farewell-chris-madsen/) - After eight years of service to the School of Theatre and Music at UIC, saxophonist, composer, and educator Chris Madsen, will depart our community in January to become the next director of jazz studies at Loyola University. Madsen graduated from DePaul University in 2003 with a Bachelor’s in Jazz Studies; he attended the Juilliard School’s Jazz - [UIC Welcomes New Head of Music, Brent C. Talbot, Ph.D.](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-welcomes-new-head-of-music-brent-c-talbot-ph-d/) - UIC School of Theatre and Music announces the new head of the Department of Music, Brent C. Talbot, Ph.D. Dr. Brent Talbot is equally comfortable in the classroom, on the conductor’s podium, at an academic conference, and as the head of a music program. This comfort comes from being a musician, teacher, program builder, and - [Fond Farewell Chris Madsen](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fond-farewell-chris-madsen-2/) - After eight years of service to the School of Theatre and Music at UIC, saxophonist, composer, and educator Chris Madsen, will depart our community in January to become the next Director of Jazz Studies at Loyola University. Madsen graduated from DePaul University in 2003 with a Bachelor’s in Jazz Studies; he attended the Juilliard School’s - [Yasen Peyankov on the Creative Confidence Podcast](https://cada.uic.edu/news/yasen-peyankov-on-the-creative-confidence-podcast/) - Head of Theatre, Yasen Peyankov was interviewed by broadcaster, writer and coach Jude Kampfner on the Creative Confidence Podcast. On the podcast, Yasen discusses humor in Anton Chekhov's plays, and the honesty and wisdom offered by Chekhov characters. Yasen takes us through eastern European history and shares how the fall of the Berlin Wall had - [Happy Holidays!](https://cada.uic.edu/news/happy-holidays/) - Thank you for joining us on a wonderful theatre and music season!Last Saturday, nearly 300 musicians from the UIC Choirs, UIC Orchestra and UIC Wind Ensemble performed at the annual Holiday Concert at Benito Juarez High School. Friends and family participated in the performance with the classic Holiday Sing-Along. See the recap video below: Happy - [How to add a news item](https://cada.uic.edu/news/how-to-add-a-news-item/) - [Announcing 2022 Presser Scholar](https://cada.uic.edu/news/announcing-2022-presser-scholar/) - The Presser Foundation was established in 1939 under the Deeds of Trust and Will of the late Theodore Presser. It is one of the few private foundations in the United States dedicated solely to music education and philanthropy. In the charter of incorporation, The Foundation’s purposes are set forth to promote primarily the cause of - [UIC Music Professor’s Classical Album Spotlights Forgotten Works by Composer](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-music-professors-classical-album-spotlights-forgotten-works-by-composer/) - When Andy Baker, clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, came up with the idea to record Leo Sowerby’s early work, he never realized it would require him to undertake the expert sleuthing of a detective. While Sowerby was a composer well known for his mid-20th century church music when he was based - [Covid-19 Updates](https://cada.uic.edu/news/covid-19-updates/) - UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATION BUILDING ACCESSBefore accessing the building be sure to follow the steps below. 1. Complete the health check form . 2. When you swipe your i-card, the system will check to see if you have successfully completed the form. 3. If you have not successfully completed the form, campus administrators will receive a notification and you - [Latinx Authors Share How Their Mexican Culture, Family Influences Their Work](https://cada.uic.edu/news/latinx-authors-share-how-their-mexican-culture-family-influences-their-work/) - Celebrated playwright Luis Alfaro and acclaimed novelist and short story writer Luis Alberto Urrea treated audience members at the University of Illinois Chicago to an intimate discussion recently where they spoke about their similar backgrounds, their writing process and how their Mexican heritage and family guides their creations. The discussion was the second of three - [Sad News about a Member of the UIC Music Community](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sad-news-about-a-member-of-the-uic-music-community/) - We are deeply saddened to share the ​news of the tragic passing of UIC School of Theatre and Music student Brittany Kinlow. Brittany was a bright and talented student whose contagious smile lifted the spirit of all those she met. ​The students and faculty at ​UIC remember her for her friendliness, positivity, and enthusiasm in and out of the classroom. Brittany participated in many - [Tribute: Associate Professor Emeritus, William “Bill” F. Raffeld](https://cada.uic.edu/news/tribute-associate-professor-emeritus-william-bill-f-raffeld/) - It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Associate Professor Emeritus, William "Bill" F. Raffeld, passed away peacefully on May 17, 2020 surrounded by the love of his brother and two sisters. Bill dedicated his life to his friends and family, to theatre, and to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni - [Senior Capstone](https://cada.uic.edu/news/senior-capstone/) - Students performed and produced a variety of creative projects, demonstrating their authorship, performance, direction, and creativity as part of their Senior Capstone. Congratulations to all of our BA Theatre and Performance students. See below video playlist of student capstone projects. Deontay White: A scene from Passover by Antoinette Nwandu, performed by Deontay White and Joseph - [A Message of Solidarity](https://cada.uic.edu/news/a-message-of-solidarity/) - Dear School of Theatre and Music Students, Staff, and Faculty, We write to affirm that we, a diverse community of artists and educators, condemn racism is all its terrible forms. We stand together, angry and heartbroken, with all who have been, and continue to be, exploited and harmed by systemic racism, brutality, and injustice. We - [Lydia Diamond in the New York Times: On Racism](https://cada.uic.edu/news/lydia-diamond-in-the-new-york-times-on-racism-2/) - Lydia Diamond, Clinical Associate Professor at UIC’s School of Theatre and Music, was featured in the New York Times as one of four voices discussing racism in the theater world: “Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World.” A playwright, a director, an artistic director, and an actor share their experiences—and prescriptions for - [Sad News: A Time for Support](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sad-news-a-time-for-support/) - The UIC School of Theatre and Music community is deeply saddened to announce the passing of José Oliver Riojas. The cause of Professor Riojas’ death remains uncertain, however medical experts believe it was due to a health-related issue and more testing needs to be done. We also know that, prior to this event, Professor Riojas - [Music Event Cancellations](https://cada.uic.edu/news/music-event-cancellations/) - In light of the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) developments and interest in the health, safety, and well-being of our staff, faculty, and students, the UIC School of Theatre and Music will cancel the following concerts: Wind Ensemble Concert, Saturday, March 14, 7:30 pm – CANCELLED Symphonic Band Concert, Sunday, March 15, 5:00 pm – CANCELLED Jamey Aebersold Concert - [Fall 2020 Covid-19 Updates](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fall-2020-covid-19-updates-2/) - STM COVID-19 HANDBOOK (FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY) Click here for all information on Covid-19 including general guidelines; testing, training and reporting; theatre guidelines; music guidelines and more. REMOTE FRONT OFFICE AND ADMINISTRATION Most staff are working remotely. Staff are available via phone or email during regular business hours. For a full staff directory visit this - [A Message from the Director](https://cada.uic.edu/news/a-message-from-the-director/) - Dear Friends of UIC School of Theatre and Music, In light of the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) developments and in the interest of the health, safety, and well-being of UIC School of Theatre and Music staff, faculty, and students, all instruction is being conducted remotely and all public programs are cancelled or postponed for the remainder - [UIC-Shakespeare Theater Partnership Supplies 5,000 Masks to UI Health](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-shakespeare-theater-partnership-supplies-5000-masks-to-ui-health/) - They used to outfit performers on Chicago’s theater stages, but today costume fabricators from across the city are making patient masks for health care settings in the fight against COVID-19 as part of a new partnership between UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, or CADA, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. This partnership already - [Lydia Diamond Wins Horton Foote Playwriting Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/lydia-diamond-wins-horton-foote-playwriting-award/) - The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Lydia Diamond grew up moving frequently as her single mother’s musical and academic teaching career took her from one university to another. During this time, her mother also earned advanced degrees and taught future artists. Diamond came from a family of musicians and educators, so she had been required - [THTR 333 Student Final Projects: Antigonstein](https://cada.uic.edu/news/thtr-333-student-final-projects-antigonstein/) - Direction: a kaleidoscopic investigation of the tragedy of Antigone. Inspired by five versions of the play: Antigone by Jean Anouilh, Antigonick by Anne Carson, The Dreams of Antigone by Curt Columbus, and The Antigone Project by Karen Hartman, Tanya Barfield, Lynn Nottage, Chiori Miyagawa and Caridad Svich and the original Antigone by Sophocles. Directors/Ensemble: David - [CPS Students Learn Science through Art and Movement with Project STAGE](https://cada.uic.edu/news/cps-students-learn-science-through-art-and-movement-with-project-stage/) - Project STAGE, or Science Theater for Advancing Generative Engagement, is a joint initiative between UIC faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UIC School of Theatre and Music and Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers, that empowers young science learners in CPS classrooms with a platform to develop and communicate their thinking around science ideas - [Join an Ensemble: Audition Now](https://cada.uic.edu/news/join-an-ensemble-audition-now/) - ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS All UIC ensembles are open to students from across our campus. Our auditions are not for deciding acceptance, but to determine which ensemble would be the best fit for you so that you can join in the music making at UIC. THE UIC CHOIRS Auditions for all choral ensembles will take place during - [Broadening Opportunities: A Conversation with Louis Bergonzi](https://cada.uic.edu/news/broadening-opportunities-a-conversation-with-louis-bergonzi/) - Entering his third year as the Head of Music Studies at UIC School of Theatre and Music, Dr. Louis Bergonzi is excited to prepare students to work with a diverse body of music for orchestra and to expand students’ understanding of all there is to know about music. In this interview, Guillermo Duarte, UIC Music - [Ladysmith Black Mambazo Comes to UIC to Educate, Entertain](https://cada.uic.edu/news/ladysmith-black-mambazo-comes-to-uic-to-educate-entertain/) - University of Illinois at Chicago acting student Richard Cantu didn’t hesitate as members of the five-time Grammy-winning Ladysmith Black Mambazo called audience members onto the UIC Theatre stage to join them to sing and take part in learning Zulu dances. The internationally known South African group was at UIC on Monday to offer a nearly - [Happy Holidays! (Video)](https://cada.uic.edu/news/happy-holidays-video/) - Happy holidays! Thank you for joining us on an incredible concert season! Watch highlights of our UIC Holiday Concert at the Benito Juarez Performing Arts Center in Chicago's Pilsen community. Be sure to join us for our 2020 UIC Music Concert Series! - [Welcome to Spring 2020 Semester](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-to-spring-2020-semester/) - WELCOME BACK!Faculty, staff, and students have had an extraordinary academic year so far. In addition to the accomplishments highlighted below and our many regular music and theatre student concerts and productions on and off campus, faculty have focused this past fall on important administrative projects like preparing for the first of a two-year Illinois Board of Higher Education - [Faculty News: Lydia Diamond Nominated for 2019 Writers Guild Awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-news-lydia-diamond-nominated-for-2019-writers-guild-awards/) - Congratulations to Professor Lydia Diamond on receiving a nomination for the episodic drama category of the 2019 Writers Guild Awards (WGA). Professor Diamond's nomination is for "Episode 407" on The Affair for Episodic Drama. The Affair is a Golden Globe award-winning TV drama on Showtime created by Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi. Read the full - [UIC School of Theatre and Music Spring 2019 News](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-school-of-theatre-and-music-spring-2019-news/) - THE POETRY FOUNDATION GRANTS $35,000 IN SUPPORT OF UIC THEATRE'S A STREECAR NAMED DESIRE We are excited to announce that this spring’s production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire has received a $35,000 grant from the Poetry Foundation. This generous support helps the School of Theatre and Music produce university theater at the highest - [Architecture Teams Present Proposals for the Center for the Arts](https://cada.uic.edu/news/architecture-teams-present-proposals-for-the-center-for-the-arts/) - On April 3, 2019, three architecture teams presented their proposals for the Center for the Arts. The Center for the Arts will be an architecturally significant building on Chicago’s Near West Side that serves as a gateway and bridge between UIC and the world, and as a destination for innovative arts and cultural production that - [Announcing UIC Theatre’s 2019–2020 Theatre Season](https://cada.uic.edu/news/announcing-uic-theatres-2019-2020-theatre-season/) - THE LUCK OF THE IRISH By Kirsten Greenidge Directed by Tyrone Phillips Oct 4–13, 2019 When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood in 1950s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to “ghost-buy” a house on their behalf. Fifty years later, the Irish family wants “their” house - [Derrick Sanders Receives Tribute Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/derrick-sanders-receives-tribute-award/) - Congratulations to Derrick Sanders, Associate Professor, who was honored with a Tribute Award at the 2019 League of Chicago Theatres Annual Gala. Sanders was recognized for his work in organizing the annual Chicago's August Wilson Monologue Competition, which celebrated its 10th year anniversary in March. - [Theatre Alum Shines at Goodman](https://cada.uic.edu/news/theatre-alum-shines-at-goodman/) - BA Theatre alum Daniel Kyri recently made his Goodman Theatre debut to great acclaim. Kyri performs the role of Shedrick Yarkpai, a Liberian refugee trying to build a new life in Australia in Charles Smith's Objects in the Mirror. His path to peace is haunted by an explosive family secret, and Shedrick must confront the - [Welcoming a New Head of Music](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcoming-a-new-head-of-music/) - We're thrilled to introduce our new Head of Music, Dr. Louis Bergonzi. In addition to all the work he's going to be doing supporting and building UIC music programs, Dr Bergonzi will be conducting our growing orchestra. "I am honored and excited to be at UIC. With students, alumni, and members of the faculty and - [UIC Senior Morgan Pirtle Wins National Jazz Awards](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-senior-morgan-pirtle-wins-national-jazz-awards/) - Each year, DownBeat magazine, one of the nation’s premier jazz publications, singles out exemplary jazz students across the country for their Student Music Awards. The This year, DownBeat’s award for outstanding performance in vocal music went to Morgan Pirtle, a senior in UIC’s Jazz Studies program. Morgan also recently won the prestigious Chicago-based Luminarts Jazz - [Music Faculty Elbio Barilari’s Album Release: Paquito Libre](https://cada.uic.edu/news/music-faculty-elbio-barilaris-album-release-paquito-libre/) - Our very own Elbio Barilari has released a new album along with guitarist/synthesist Julia A. Miller under U.S.A.’s leading blues and jazz record label Delmark Records. The album is titled Paquito Libre and it features multi-Grammy Award-winning reeds virtuoso Paquito D’Rivera and keyboardist Darwin Noguera. Volcan Radar is an explosive electro-acoustic jazz quartet co-led by - [Faculty Amos Gillespie’s New Album Recognized by Fanfare Magazine](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-amos-gillespies-new-album-recognized-by-fanfare-magazine/) - DeBoor Canfield from Fanfare Magazine described the album as "work that packs a sultry sort of wallop," adding that "Gillespie writes with a distinctive, individual compositional voice" and calling the album "strongly recommended." Faculty member Amos Gillespie released his new album on Sunday October 14 at 3:00 PM. The album is titled Solo!, and it - [Learning to Write a Bad Play](https://cada.uic.edu/news/learning-to-write-a-bad-play/) - Monday's theatre master class provided something of a twist on the traditional model when Luigi Salerni (retired UIC professor) returned to teach students how to write a bad play! The class started by defining the components a good play should have then broke out for students to write a mini-play that denies all of the - [Glengarry Glen Ross: Remix](https://cada.uic.edu/news/glengarry-glen-ross-remix/) - In 1984 David Mamet received the Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross, which chronicles two days in the working lives of four Chicago real estate agents trying to sell undesirable properties in economically challenging times. With their big mouths, even bigger schemes, seriously question seriously question seriously able ethics, and palpable desperation, the - [Yasen Peyankov wins Distinguished Faculty Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/yasen-peyankov-wins-distinguished-faculty-award/) - Yasen Peyankov has received the inaugural College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (CADA) Distinguished Faculty Award. This honorary award acknowledges tenured or clinical faculty who have received exceptional recognition for their research, and awards recipients $6,000 per year for two years to support research activity. The CADA Executive Commitee along with two reviewers from - [Valery Beliakovich and International Theatre](https://cada.uic.edu/news/valery-beliakovich-and-international-theatre/) - In September 1989, after a busy summer of fundraising, 18 theatre students from UIC finally boarded a flight to Moscow to spend two weeks touring Russia as working actors. The students were invited by Russian Director, Valery Beliakovich, who had been so impressed by their work while at UIC as a guest director, that he - [World Premiere at UIC](https://cada.uic.edu/news/world-premiere-at-uic/) - Continuing in his tradition of adventurous programming, UIC Director of Bands, José Oliver Riojas has included a world premiere on the program for the UIC Wind Ensemble performance this weekend. The ensemble is joined for the performance by the New Century Saxophone Quartet, who will work with students throughout the week, as well as soprano (and STM - [Red Light School District](https://cada.uic.edu/news/red-light-school-district/) - Have you heard about UIC's exciting and competitive student-run improv troupe: Red Light School District? One of our theater students sat down with troupe president, Alex Rodriguez to talk about their process. You can follow them on Facebook for updates on their future performances—many are pay-what-you-can and always make for fun-filled evenings. - [David Kersnar on Snafu](https://cada.uic.edu/news/david-kersnar-on-snafu/) - A couple weeks ago I had forgotten my bike helmet so I splurged and took an Uber ride home. I noticed that my driver had displayed his Iraq war vets hat. I told him about the play Snafu I was adapting from the subject of British soldiers to American soldiers for our UIC production. He - [Faculty Release New Music](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faculty-release-new-music/) - If you're on the hunt for some new music, check out recent releases by faculty at the School of Theatre and Music: Volcano Radar: Electro Parables/Electro Parábolas (Pan y Rosas Discos, Feb 2016) Elbio Barilari (electric guitar, electric viola, soprano sax and cornet) and Julia Miller (synthesized guitar and electric guitar) released their first studio - [Kappa Kappa Psi at UIC](https://cada.uic.edu/news/kappa-kappa-psi-at-uic/) - After almost two and a half years worth of work we are thrilled to announce that we have installed the Nu Pi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national co-ed service fraternity. Students completed enormous amounts of paperwork and projects under the guidance of faculty advisor, Jose Oliver Riojas, in order to make the installation - [UIC Director of Jazz Studies, Andy Baker, in Downbeat October Issue](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-director-of-jazz-studies-andy-baker-in-downbeat-october-issue/) - UIC Director of Jazz Studies, Andy Baker, praised in the October 2016 issue of Downbeat Magazine for his direction of the album New Standard Jazz: Waltz About Nothing. Michael Jackson, Downbeat Magazine reviewer, also goes on to mention UIC STM faculty member Chris Madsen's contributions as alto saxophonist. Read the full review below: NEW STANDARD - [Make Music at UIC!](https://cada.uic.edu/news/make-music-at-uic/) - Whatever your intended major, schedule, or ability level, there is a music ensemble for you here. Join UIC's most supportive community this fall and earn credit performing great music. Register for one of the classes listed below then visit our auditions page for more information on how to sign up for a placement audition. MUS - [Spend a Semester in Barcelona](https://cada.uic.edu/news/spend-a-semester-in-barcelona/) - We invite theatre majors to apply to participate in our new exchange program with the Eòlia Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in Barcelona, Spain. Two students from UIC Theatre Department will enroll at Eòlia each spring semester. The dates for this year are February 9 to June 15, 2016. The deadline for applications is October 2, the successful candidates will - [Teaching Movement in Israel](https://cada.uic.edu/news/teaching-movement-in-israel/) - UIC movement professor Rachelle Tsachor took learning international, teaching two courses in Israel this summer. She started the summer teaching a three-day intensive movement workshop at the Israeli Integrative Center for Groups at Wingate College in Netanya—the center trains professionals to integrate arts into their work with groups in Israel. Rachelle returned in July to - [UIC and the Latino Music Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-and-the-latino-music-festival/) - The 10th Annual Chicago Latino Music Festival kicked off this weekend with glowing critical endorsements. "The Latino Music Festival has become one of the biggest, most important conglomerate cultural events of its kind anywhere in the nation, perhaps even the world." —John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune UIC faculty member Elbio Barilari is a co-founder and co-artistic - [A Session with Mike Harvey](https://cada.uic.edu/news/a-session-with-mike-harvey/) - Our jazz vocal majors enjoyed a great master class on Friday with famed session vocalist Mike Harvey. He sang beautifully live and played excerpts from some of the many recordings he has made. Harvey talked about how his versatility has been key to his success. Mike has a love for jazz, and invited all of - [Susan Messing Master Class](https://cada.uic.edu/news/susan-messing-master-class/) - Chicago improv icon Susan Messing led a master class for theatre majors yesterday. "Working with Susan Messing was such an honor and a joy!" said student Destiny Strothers. "She assured us that it is indeed specificity and recognition that prompts laughter, rather than trying to be funny. That really took the pressure off of trying - [Peyankov in Barcelona](https://cada.uic.edu/news/peyankov-in-barcelona/) - Head of Theatre, Yasen Peyankov, travelled to Barcelona at the beginning of spring break to visit the Eòlia Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. He gave a master class on Chekhov to students of the school with whom the School of Theatre and Music (STM) recently established an exciting partnership. In addition to faculty exchanges, students from - [Behind-the-Scenes of A Matter of Life and Death](https://cada.uic.edu/news/behind-the-scenes-of-a-matter-of-life-and-death/) - Our final show of the season, the North American premiere of A Matter of Life and Death, directed by Heidi Stillman, opens tomorrow and we've been behind-the-scenes talking to some of the many inspiring creatives working on the show. Rachelle Tsachor has overseen the development of many different forms of movement for this active, varied - [Minoring in Music: It’s Easier than You Think](https://cada.uic.edu/news/minoring-in-music-its-easier-than-you-think/) - Did you know that if you've passed MUS 107 (Fundamentals of Music Theory) with an "A," then you're automatically eligible for the music minor? Minoring in music is a great way to stay active in the arts, get a firm foundation of music essentials, and make your future resumes look even more interesting. Music minors - [Free Tickets for UIC Freshmen](https://cada.uic.edu/news/free-tickets-for-uic-freshmen/) - Welcome class of 2019! For a memorable start to your UIC career we are offering all freshmen free tickets to any performance of our first show of the season, A View From The Bridge. Call our box office 312.996.2939, email theatre@uic.edu or visit us at 1044 W Harrison St. UIC ID required. A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE - [Praise for Choral Director Andrew Lewis](https://cada.uic.edu/news/praise-for-choral-director-andrew-lewis/) - CHORAL DIRECTOR SEEKS TO EXPAND YET STAY TRUE —John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune, Sep 5, 2014 With choral groups of every size, description and professional status vying for attention in and around Chicago, standing out from the pack often depends on how distinctive a niche each is able to carve out for itself. The Chicago-based - [Abarbanel at the World Congress of IATC](https://cada.uic.edu/news/abarbanel-at-the-world-congress-of-iatc/) - Adjunct Instructor Jonathan Abarbanel will be one of two United States delegates to the 37th World Congress of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), meeting in Beijing, China on October 15–20. Abarbanel will be a delegate in his capacity as chair of the American Theatre Critics Association. At the Congress, he will deliver a - [Anderson in China](https://cada.uic.edu/news/anderson-in-china/) - Michael J Anderson, President of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM), presented a lecture titled Using Movement in the Choral Rehearsal as a Means of Accelerating the Musical Understanding of Young Singers to a group of approximately 500 teachers from China. This was part of the 12th China International Choral Festival and IFCM World - [Abarbanel in China](https://cada.uic.edu/news/abarbanel-in-china/) - In his capacity as chair of the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA), Jonathan Abarbanel was one of three USA delegates to attend the 27th World Congress of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), held in Beijing Oct. 15–19. He delivered a paper at the opening session of the Congress Symposium on Oct. 16 titled - [Community Award for Theatre Faculty Member](https://cada.uic.edu/news/community-award-for-theatre-faculty-member/) - Faculty member Derrick Sanders will be the recipient of the 2014 August Wilson Community Award presented by the Goodman Theatre. On November 6, Chicago’s business, community and civic leaders will gather for a breakfast and reception to learn more about the Goodman’s long-standing commitment to diverse works, artists, and audiences; and to hear about their - [Top Honors for UIC Students at Prestigious Jazz Festival](https://cada.uic.edu/news/top-honors-for-uic-students-at-prestigious-jazz-festival/) - UIC jazz majors—and brothers—James and Jonathon Wenzel received "Outstanding Soloist" awards at the University of Notre Dame's 56th Annual Collegiate Jazz Festival. Students from UIC joined ensembles from across the US to participate in the oldest-running festival in the nation. - [What’s New in Jazz?](https://cada.uic.edu/news/whats-new-in-jazz/) - In his third year here at UIC and his first as Director of Jazz Studies, we caught up with faculty Andy Baker to talk about his plans for 2014–15. What lies ahead for jazz at UIC? We already have a strong base to build upon, thanks to the work of existing and past faculty. The - [Youth Theatre at UIC](https://cada.uic.edu/news/youth-theatre-at-uic/) - David Kersnar is joining our camp faculty this summer to lead theatre students in the creation of a new work. He will also be teaching two classes at UIC in the fall: Script Analysis and Contemporary Performance Techniques. He took some time to tell us about his experiences in teaching and theater. You have directed - [Where in the World...](https://cada.uic.edu/news/where-in-the-world/) - . . . IS THE HEAD OF MUSIC?! Now that school's out, Michael J. Anderson has a jetset summer ahead in conjunction with his position as president of the International Federation for Choral Music. In May he headed off to Milan, Italy where he assembled an extensive choral music project as part of the World - [Register for New Jazz, Theatre, and Band Summer Camps for High Schoolers](https://cada.uic.edu/news/register-for-new-jazz-theatre-and-band-summer-camps-for-high-schoolers/) - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN UIC School of Theatre and Music is pleased to announce the expansion of our summer arts programming for high school students (grades 9–12). Joining our newly re-imagined 2-week Jazz Camp for high school students will be a 2-week Theatre Camp and one-week Band Camp. Save the date and join us in 2014 - [UIC and the Best of Chicago Theater this April](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-and-the-best-of-chicago-theater-this-april/) - If you're looking for a good show in Chicago this month, chances are you'll encounter the work of UIC artists. School of Theatre and Music connections are featured heavily in Chicago Magazine's picks for the best of Chicago theater in April. Assistant professor Jason Martin directs Piccolo Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring UIC alumni David Weber, Elliott Baker, Mickey Saubert, Tara Tisch-Wallace - [Why Every Student Should Be in Choir](https://cada.uic.edu/news/why-every-student-should-be-in-choir/) - Marketing major and UIC choir member Sarah shares her six top surprising benefits of singing in a choir: "We all love music. No matter who you are, what you like to do or where in the world you’re from, music brings us all together. However, we don’t always associate our universal love and appreciation of - [Behind the Scenes: Creating New Work](https://cada.uic.edu/news/behind-the-scenes-creating-new-work/) - Have you ever wondered about the creative process behind staging a new theater work? Hear from faculty and students involved in our spring 2014 production of i wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever? or things i found on craigslist by christopher oscar peña. - [“Tuesdays-at-One” Concerts Live on WFMT, 98.7](https://cada.uic.edu/news/tuesdays-at-one-concerts-live-on-wfmt-98-7/) - UIC Theatre and Music is pleased to announce that free professional lunchtime performances by visiting artists will be broadcast live on WFMT 98.7, Chicago’s fine arts station. All concerts take place from 1 to 1:50pm in Recital Hall L060, 1040 West Harrison Street (lower level). If you are unable to join us in person, please - [Christine Mary Dunford Nominated for 2013 Jeff Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/christine-mary-dunford-nominated-for-2013-jeff-award/) - Congratulations to Christine Mary Dunford, Director of UIC School of Theatre and Music, who received a 2013 Jeff Awards nomination for her original adaptation of the novel Still Alice. Dunford adapted and directed the critically acclaimed play at Lookingglass Theatre Company, where she is also an ensemble member. The 45th Annual Jeff Equity Awards ceremony - [Tanera Marshall Named University Scholar](https://cada.uic.edu/news/tanera-marshall-named-university-scholar/) - Associate professor Tanera Marshall, who teaches voice in UIC’s acting program, is known among film and TV professionals as a dialect coach. The University Scholars Program, now in its 29th year, honors faculty members for superior research and teaching, along with great promise for future achievements. The award provides $10,000 a year for three years. - [Jonathan Abarbanel Elected Chair of ATCA](https://cada.uic.edu/news/jonathan-abarbanel-elected-chair-of-atca/) - Theatre faculty member Jonathan Abarbanel has been elected the new Chair of the American Theatre Critics Association. The American Theatre Critics Association is the only national association of professional theater critics. Its members work for newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and online services across the United States. Membership is open to all who review theater professionally, - [Land Acknowledgment](https://cada.uic.edu/news/land-acknowledgment/) - 9.2.20 The UIC School of Theatre and Music sits on the traditional homeland of the original peoples of the area: the Three Fires Confederacy (the Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe Nations) as well as the Menominee and Ho-Chunk who—along with many Indigenous people—were among its first inhabitants. With respect and gratitude, The School of Theatre and - [Theatre BLM Solidarity Statement, Action Steps, and Land Acknowledgment](https://cada.uic.edu/news/theatre-blm-solidarity-statement-action-steps-and-land-acknowledgment/) - 9.2.20 UIC THEATRE BLM SOLIDARITY STATEMENTThis summer we have been wrestling with how to proceed in the righting of institutional racism that has methodically put Black and Brown bodies in physical, financial, and emotional peril. Because Black Lives Matter. At this time our society is being asked to atone for many wrongs, the most egregious - [Fall 2020 Covid-19 Updates](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fall-2020-covid-19-updates/) - 8.27.2020 STM COVID-19 HANDBOOK (FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY)Click here for all information on Covid-19 including general guidelines; testing, training and reporting; theatre guidelines; music guidelines and more. REMOTE FRONT OFFICE AND ADMINSTRATIONMost staff are working remotely. Staff are available via phone or email during regular business hours. For a full staff directory visit https://theatreandmusic.uic.edu/contact. We also can - [Bridge to the Faculty Fellowship](https://cada.uic.edu/news/bridge-to-the-faculty-fellowship/) - 10.21.20 STM has been awarded a Bridge to the Faculty fellowship. A committee of eight UIC faculty and administrators from various disciplines reviewed applications from across the campus and our application “stood out as one of the most outstanding proposals in a very strong pool.” The UIC Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diverse Faculty, is a postdoctoral - [Student Spotlight: Caleb Blackmond (BA Music '26)](https://cada.uic.edu/news/student-spotlight-caleb-blackmond-ba-music-26-2/) - Caleb Blackmond is a BA Music student in his final semester at UIC studying voice and conducting. During his time at UIC, he revived the university’s Student Gospel Choir and now serves as its president and conductor—creating a space for students across campus to celebrate gospel music and Black musical traditions while building community through - [Announcing the Inaugural Morningstar Design Scholars and Faculty](https://cada.uic.edu/news/announcing-the-inaugural-morningstar-design-scholars-and-faculty/) - The University of Illinois Chicago and Morningstar, Inc. announce the inaugural recipients of the Morningstar Design Scholarship and the appointment of the first Morningstar Design Faculty Scholar, marking a significant milestone in an ongoing collaboration to advance design education and professional practice. EMPOWERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF DESIGNERSThe Morningstar Design Scholarship Fund, established through a - [Application Deadline for Graduate School](https://cada.uic.edu/news/application-deadline-for-graduate-school/) - Join us next fall for graduate school—the priority application deadline is January 15, 2026 for the MArch, MAD-Crit, and MSArch. New graduate students are only admitted for the fall semester of each academic year; there is no spring semester admission. - [First Alum-Written Play to Premiere at UIC Theatre](https://cada.uic.edu/news/first-alum-written-play-to-premiere-at-uic-theatre/) - UIC Theatre alum Aniello Fontano is making history — his original play summertime, an interlude is the first alum-written production to be featured on UIC’s main stage, and UIC Today has the full story. Set on the hottest day of summer in a tight-knit Chicago neighborhood, the play is part of Fontano’s seven-play series windy’s - [Announcing the Hartshorne and Plunkard Fellowship in Architecture](https://cada.uic.edu/news/announcing-the-hartshorne-and-plunkard-fellowship-in-architecture/) - RAYMOND HARTSHORNE AND JAMES PLUNKARD GIFT $500,000 TO UIC'S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Raymond Hartshorne and James Plunkard announced on July 28, 2021 their commitment of $500,000 to the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Architecture to increase the number of architecture degrees awarded to students from traditionally underserved populations at the College of Architecture, Design, and - [Announcing the Morningstar Design Fund](https://cada.uic.edu/news/announcing-the-morningstar-design-fund/) - $1 MILLION MORNINGSTAR DESIGN FUND WILL ADVANCE DESIGN EDUCATION AND BUSINESS COLLABORATIONThe University of Illinois Chicago and Morningstar, Inc. have announced two newly established funds, the Morningstar Design Scholarship Fund and Morningstar Design Faculty Scholar Fund. The combined $1 million commitment from Chicago-based philanthropists Joe and Rika Mansueto and Morningstar will fund both undergraduate scholarships - [STM Sounds Like: Andrew Pridmore](https://cada.uic.edu/news/stm-sounds-like-andrew-pridmore-3/) - Welcome to STM Sounds Like, an interview segment that introduces you to the many great people that make up the School of Theatre and Music. In this segment of STM Sounds Like, we feature Andrew Pridmore a BA in Music Business alumni. Since graduating, Andrew has kept busy making music and playing with various bands - [Priority Application Deadline for Graduate School is Jan 15](https://cada.uic.edu/news/priority-application-deadline-for-graduate-school-is-jan-15/) - Join us next fall for graduate school—the priority application deadline is January 15, 2026 for the MArch, MAD-Crit, and MSArch. New graduate students are only admitted for the fall semester of each academic year; there is no spring semester admission. - [2021 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE](https://cada.uic.edu/news/2021-venice-architecture-biennale/) - The College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts is proud to announce the School of Architecture’s participation in the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, May 22–November 21, 2021. For more information on the faculty and their projects, please see the links below. University of Illinois at Chicago, commissioning institution for the US Pavilion US Pavilion: American FramingPaul Andersen and Paul Preissner, co-commissioners and - [STM Sounds Like: Andrew Pridmore](https://cada.uic.edu/news/stm-sounds-like-andrew-pridmore/) - Welcome to STM Sounds Like, an interview segment that introduces you to the many cool people that make up the School of Theatre and Music. In this segment of STM Sounds Like, we feature Andrew Pridmore a BA in Music Business alumni. Since graduating, Andrew has kept busy making music and playing with various bands - [Racheal Olujde named inaugural UIC Kokkino Educational Fund scholarship recipient](https://cada.uic.edu/news/racheal-olujde-named-inaugural-uic-kokkino-educational-fund-scholarship-recipient/) - UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and the School of Architecture are proud to announce that Racheal Inioluwa Olujide, a first-year undergraduate student in the Bachelor of Science in Architecture program, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the UIC Kokkino Educational Fund. - [Liesl Olson Named Director of Hull-House Museum](https://cada.uic.edu/news/liesl-olson-named-director-of-hull-house-museum/) - UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts is pleased to announce that Liesl Olson has accepted the position of Director of the Jane Addams Hull Hull-House Museum, effective March 1, 2023, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Olson is a respected scholar, cultural leader, and social justice advocate who most - [New song release by Student Earl Hester, Perfect People](https://cada.uic.edu/news/new-song-release-by-student-earl-hester-perfect-people/) - UIC Music student Earl Hester released his single "Perfect People" on November 17. Since performing at festivals and venues like Lollapalooza, Bourbon on Division, and UIC Open Mics, pop singer Earl Hester, has been working on “Perfect People” behind the scenes. “Perfect People” is a song with lyrics that will have you reminisce about past - [Celebrating 40 Years of Gallery 400 with 40 Auction Artists](https://cada.uic.edu/news/40-years-of-gallery-400/) - Join UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts for a celebration of 40 years of Gallery 400. Proceeds benefit the Gallery’s Voices Lecture Series and School of Art & Art History students. The evening includes an auction of works by previous Gallery 400 artists and UIC MFA alumni, musical performances by UIC MFA alumni, - [UIC awarded NEH grant for sustainable exhibition spaces](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-awarded-neh-grant-for-sustainable-exhibition-spaces/) - The School of Art and Art History has received a $180,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study how Gallery 400 and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum can be more environmentally sustainable. The two-year grant, Climate Smart Humanities Organizations, also is supporting a group exhibition at Galley 400, “Earthly Visions: Inside the - [UIC Alumni Association: 2021, A Year In Review](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-alumni-association-2021-a-year-in-review/) - The UIC Alumni Association (UICAA) has compiled a summary of all we'veaccomplished together in 2021. Click here for the 2021 Year In Review. UICAA works to provide programming and connections to the university's319,000 alumni around the world. Led by the UICAA Board of more than 60volunteers, the UICAA is a portal for all alumni to - [Reeder, Gaspar, and Delgado named 2021 USA Fellows](https://cada.uic.edu/news/reeder-gaspar-and-delgado-named-2021-usa-fellows/) - UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts is proud to announce that Director of the School of Art and Art History Jennifer Reeder and alumnae Maria Gaspar and Sandra Delgado have been named 2021 USA Fellows. The USA Fellowships are $50,000 unrestricted awards that recognize American artists practicing today—storytellers, shape-makers, movement builders, and culture - [Ömür Harmanşah appointed Director of UIC’s School of Art and Art History](https://cada.uic.edu/news/omur-harmansah-appointed-director-of-uics-school-of-art-and-art-history/) - Architectural historian and a landscape archaeologist Ömür Harmanşah has been appointed director of UIC’s School of Art and Art History, pending approval by the Illinois Board of Trustees, effective Tuesday, August 16. This new role as director squares with Harmanşah’s belief in the productivity and creativity that comes from drawing people from different backgrounds to - [Guillermo Gómez-Peña at Hull-House](https://cada.uic.edu/news/guillermo-gomez-pena-at-hull-house/) - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (JAHHM), is working with internationally renowned artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña as one of the partner institutions participating in “Toward a Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40,” a multi-venue exhibition and program series featuring 28 MacArthur Fellows happening throughout 2021. In a first-ever partnership, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, - [Gómez-Peña’s Casa Museo: A Living Museum and Archive, Opening September 9, 2021](https://cada.uic.edu/news/gomez-penas-casa-museo-a-living-museum-and-archive-opening-september-9-2021/) - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is working with internationally renowned artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña as one of the partner institutions participating in Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, a multi-venue exhibition and program series featuring twenty-eight MacArthur Fellows happening throughout 2021 that is organized by the Smart Museum of Art at - [Dean Rebecca Rugg named an ACE Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/dean-rebecca-rugg-named-an-ace-fellow/) - The American Council on Education has named Rebecca Rugg, professor and dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at the University of Illinois Chicago, an ACE Fellow for the 2022–23 academic year. Rugg’s nomination was put forward by UIC Chancellor Michael Amiridis and Provost Javier Reyes and underwent a rigorous application process - [Architecture Alumnus Honored for Distinguished Service](https://cada.uic.edu/news/architecture-alumnus-honored-for-distinguished-service/) - John Ochoa (BArch '78) was honored at UIC's annual Alumni Awards in April with the Distinguished Service Award. Ochoa joined the Oak Brook-based firm FGM Architects in 1986, and held the positions of project manager, designer, principal in charge, managing director, and president and CEO of the firm. In his work at FGM, Ochoa emphasized - [Altered Realities: Judith Russi Kirshner on Julia Fish](https://cada.uic.edu/news/altered-realities-judith-russi-kirshner-on-julia-fish/) - How might we use art to help us understand human experience during the pandemic? In March 2020, Dean Emerita Judith Russi Kirshner investigated this issue in an essay on the work of School of Art and Art History Professor Emerita Julia Fish, published online this month in THE SEEN, Chicago’s international journal of contemporary and - [For the School of Theatre and Music, the show must go on, even during a pandemic](https://cada.uic.edu/news/for-the-school-of-theatre-music-the-show-must-go-on-even-during-a-pandemic/) - As the COVID-19 pandemic pushed classes and most of the campus online at the University of Illinois Chicago, UIC’s School of Theatre & Music pivoted to meet the challenge of presenting acting and music instruction — by their nature communal — by providing in-person, virtual and hybrid instruction. The music and theatre departments designed formats - [CADA Faculty to Participate in Chicago Architecture Biennial](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-college-of-architecture-design-and-the-arts-faculty-to-participate-in-chicago-architecture-biennial-cab-5-this-september-and-november/) - Four faculty from UIC’s College of Architecture, Design and the Arts will participate in the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, opening September 21 and November 1, 2023. Directed by the art collective Floating Museum — a civic art collective co-founded by CADA Assistant Professor of Art and alumnus Faheem - [In Loving Memory: William "Bill" Kaplan](https://cada.uic.edu/news/in-loving-memory-william-bill-kaplan/) - In Loving Memory: William “Bill” Kaplan We are saddened to share the news that Professor Emeritus, William “Bill” Kaplan, passed away on July 07, 2023. Bill began teaching at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in 1966 after playing bassoon for eight years with the Denver and Detroit symphony orchestras. At UIC, Bill taught courses - [Guitar Saved My Life, An Tran](https://cada.uic.edu/news/guitar-saved-my-life-an-tran/) - An Tran, guitar music faculty, kicked off the UIC Spring 2023 Music Convocation series with a discussion and performance of traditional Vietnamese music arranged for the classical guitar. In conversation with Dr. Brent Talbot, Tran shared stories about his music and career experience as a guitarist. Tran said he had trouble acclimating to his studies - [Norman Teague to Debut New Installations at 2023 Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/norman-teague-to-debut-new-installations-at-2023-venice-biennale/) - Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Norman Teague, known for his bespoke fabrication work with furniture and designed objects, will debut new works in plastic as part of “Everlasting Plastics,” the exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, opening May 20. Through his role as an educator - [Faheem Majeed to Co-direct the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial ](https://cada.uic.edu/news/faheem-majeed-to-co-direct-the-2023-chicago-architecture-biennial/) - Assistant Professor of Art Faheem Majeed, who blends his unique experience as a sculptor, non-profit administrator, and curator to create works that focus on institutional critique, will serve as Artistic Director for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial this September as part of the art collective Floating Museum. Through his role as an educator at UIC, - [In Memoriam: Martin R. Hurtig (1929–2022)](https://cada.uic.edu/news/in-memoriam-martin-r-hurtig-1929-2022/) - Martin Russell Hurtig, artist and professor emeritus of art at UIC, died peacefully in July 2022. He was 92. Hurtig was a prolific painter, printmaker, and sculptor who produced work with an international sensibility. He explored abstraction with intelligence, exuberance, and rigor. In an essay accompanying a retrospective of Hurtig’s work, artist and critic Corey - [In Memoriam: Richard R. Whitaker Jr. (1919–2021)](https://cada.uic.edu/news/in-memoriam-richard-r-whitaker-jr-1919-2021/) - Richard R. Whitaker, who played an important role in the art and architecture programs at UIC, passed away in early October 2021. Dick, who first became known nationally through his work with the architecture firm of Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker (MLTW) in the Bay Area in the 1960s, had a long and varied career in - [UIC alumnus awarded Golden Lion at Venice Biennale](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-alumnus-awarded-golden-lion-at-venice-biennale/) - UIC alumnus Matthew van der Ploeg (MArch, 2011), along with Swiss Pavilion co-curators Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, and Ani Vihervaara, received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale this May. Their project, titled Svizzera 240, explores the conditions and potentials of the conventional, unfurnished interiors of new-construction housing. From the press release: - [STM NEWS IMPORT (new)](https://cada.uic.edu/news/stm-news-import-new/) - STM NEWS Import (new) - [In Memoriam: Brittany Kinlow, Class of 2022](https://cada.uic.edu/news/in-memoriam-brittany-kinlow-class-of-2022/) - The CADA community mourns the loss of School of Theatre and Music student Brittany Kinlow, who tragically passed away just before receiving her degree in early May. Brittany was a bright and talented student whose contagious smile lifted the spirit of all those she met; students and faculty at ​UIC remember her warmth, positivity, and - [Elise O'Neil (MUSE 2020) Awarded Internship at Chicago History Museum](https://cada.uic.edu/news/elise-oneil-muse-2020-awarded-internship-at-chicago-history-museum/) - MUSE student Elise O'Neil ('20) has accepted a summer 2019 internship at the Chicago History Museum to work with their Decorative and Industrial Arts Collection. - [MUSE Students Presenting Research at ARCS Conference, Fall 2019](https://cada.uic.edu/news/muse-students-presenting-research-at-arcs-conference-fall-2019/) - Emma Turner-Trujillo, Araceli Medina-Castillo and Mallery Lutey, all class of 2020, have been accepted to present their research at the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists Conference (ARCS) in Philadelphia, Fall 2019. https://www.arcsinfo.org/programs/2019-conference - [Mallery Lutey Awarded Paid Summer Anthropology Internship at Field Museum](https://cada.uic.edu/news/mallery-lutey-awarded-paid-summer-anthropology-internship-at-field-museum/) - Mallery Lutey, MUSE Class of 2020, secured a paid internship for summer 2019 at Field Museum of Natural History. She will be working in the Anthropological Collections, with an ethnographic collection of Chinese minority group textiles. - [Formats for Mats: Open Call for Performers!](https://cada.uic.edu/news/formats-for-mats-open-call-for-performers/) - 'Formats for Mats' is an Open Mic Night at Gallery 400, organized by Contra Eras Co. and presented in conjunction with 'Alberto Aguilar moves on human scale,.' Each performance responds to the prompt: who will replace me? This event is free and open to all. Calling all writers, musicians, poets, or other performers! Anyone who is interested is welcome to sign-up for a slot through this form: bit.ly/formatsopenmic. The open call closes at the end of April - [Tracy Montes, MUSE '21, Inaugural Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/tracy-montes-muse-21-inaugural-arts-culture-leaders-of-color-fellow/) - Tracy Montes, who will be joining the MUSE Program in Fall 2019, has been selected as one of the Americans for the Arts Inaugural Arts & Culture Leaders of Color (ACLC) Fellows, one of only 12 chosen for this honor. The new ACLC Fellowship is a one-year professional development program for emerging and mid-career arts leaders of color across arts disciplines in the Great Lakes region. Congratulations, Tracy! MUSE looks forward to working with you. - [QUEER AS GERMAN FOLK: 50 YEARS OF GERMAN AMERICAN RAINBOW FRIENDSHIP](https://cada.uic.edu/news/queer-as-german-folk-50-years-of-german-american-rainbow-friendship/) - Current - [2019 Chicago Artist Coalition LAUNCH Program](https://cada.uic.edu/news/2019-chicago-artist-coalition-launch-program/) - Congratulations to Siena Peterson, Eric Perez, and Neeyah Muhammad, three of our class of 2019 BFA graduates who will be participating in the Chicago Artist Coalition LAUNCH program. Initiated in 2013, LAUNCH Invitational Retreat is a nomination-based professional development program organized every June for artists emerging from Chicago area undergraduate schools. - [MUSE Alumni Sandy Guttman curates an exhibition](https://cada.uic.edu/news/muse-alumni-sandy-guttman-curates-an-exhibition/) - MUSE Alumni Sandy Guttman ('16) has curated an exhibition that will open at the Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, on July 10, 2019. Lullaby was curated by Sandy Guttman, Curatorial Assistant at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The exhibition features the work of artist Georgia Saxelby and will run from July 10-October 18, 2019. More information is available here: - [BFA in Art Education faculty member William Estrada selected for 2019 NALAC](https://cada.uic.edu/news/bfa-in-art-education-faculty-member-william-estrada-selected-for-2019-nalac/) - BFA in Art Education faculty member William Estrada selected for 2019 NALAC Leadership Institute BFA in Art Education faculty member William Estrada is among a group of 31 Latinx Arts Leaders Selected for the 2019 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Leadership Institute in San Antonio, TX. In its 19th edition, the NALAC annual arts management program focuses on building the capacity of arts professionals through the lens of Latinx arts and cultures. The dates of the Institute: July 15th-20th - [Deborah Stratman at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)](https://cada.uic.edu/news/deborah-stratman-at-the-44th-toronto-international-film-festival-tiff/) - Deborah Stratman, Associate Professor at UIC School of Art & Art History, will have her film VEVER (FOR BARBARA) added to the 44th TIFF 2019 slate! Stratman's film is an intergenerational tribute to feminist icons of experimental film, among others. For more information about the programming and festival, check out the link below. - [Video Game Art Gallery exhibition curated by MA and MFA Alum Chaz Evans](https://cada.uic.edu/news/video-game-art-gallery-exhibition-curated-by-ma-and-mfa-alum-chaz-evans/) - Chaz Evans (MA - Art History, 2011 and MFA, 2012) has curated Studio Oleomingus: Notes in the Margins of History at Video Game Art (VGA) Gallery now on view through December 15, 2019. - [Professor Emerita of Studio Arts, Phyllis Bramson at The Suburban](https://cada.uic.edu/news/professor-emerita-of-studio-arts-phyllis-bramson-at-the-suburban/) - PHYLLIS BRAMSON + MATT MORRIS September 28–November 2, 2019 Gallery Talk: Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 4:00pm with Phyllis Bramson, Michelle Grabner, and Matt Morris Reception to follow THE SUBURBAN 723 S 5th St Milwaukee, WI 53204 thesuburban.org 708-305-2657 - [Shir Ende (MFA, 2018) in HATCH group exhibition, Portals](https://cada.uic.edu/news/shir-ende-mfa-2018-in-hatch-group-exhibition-portals/) - Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Portals, a group exhibition featuring new work by HATCH artists-in-residence Hale Ekinci, Shir Ende, Mayumi Lake, and Liang Luscombe. Portals is curated by Elliot Reichert. In this exhibition, each artist draws from an array of practices—among them, photography, video, fiber, sculpture, printmaking, and performance—to produce images and forms that open vistas into other worlds. This event is free and open to the public. On view now through November 7, 2019. - [Martha Pollak named first Circle Professor of Art History](https://cada.uic.edu/news/martha-pollak-named-first-circle-professor-of-art-history/) - Martha Pollak, has been named the inaugural Circle Professor of Art History – a position created in February 2019 for the Department of Art History within CADA, with an endowment by a Nebraska-based charitable foundation that wishes to remain anonymous. Historically, UIC was widely referred to as “Circle,” and this new professorship pays homage to that historical name for the university’s Chicago campus and location. - [UIC alumni and adjunct Nathan Miller: In Spirit + Structure](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-alumni-and-adjunct-nathan-miller-in-spirit-structure/) - SEPTEMBER 20 — NOVEMBER 22, 2019 Opening Reception FRIDAY, SEP 20 6:00-8:00pm Arts Incubator Gallery, 301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637 Free and open to the public RSVP AND SHARE ON FACEBOOK - [MUSE alum Sarita Hernández curated exhibition at the NMMA](https://cada.uic.edu/news/muse-alum-sarita-hernandez-curated-exhibition-at-the-nmma/) - 40 años a la esperanza is now on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA). Curated by Sarita Hernández (Museum & Exhibition Studies—MA, 2017), this exhibit takes a look at how the mothers, students and community organizers fought to establish Benito Juárez High School in 1977 through the Harrison and Froebel school walk outs and incited activism between 1968 and 1974. 40 años a la esperanza honors the 1979 mural A la esperanza designed and painted at Benito Juárez High School 40 years ago. - [The art of war: The National Veterans Art Museum Triennial](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-art-of-war-the-national-veterans-art-museum-triennial/) - Throughout history, art has been a way for humans to grapple with war – to create meaning out of the experience of violence, to seek justice, and to imagine reconciliation. For the 2018–19 academic year, with the support of the Dialogues on the Experience of War grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the School of Art & Art History’s Museum and Exhibition Studies program (MUSE) partnered with the National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) to welcome artist and Iraq veteran Aaron Hughes as visiting faculty. - [Sarah M. Dreller joins the Society of Architectural Historians](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sarah-m-dreller-joins-the-society-of-architectural-historians/) - The history of architecture has much to teach us about ourselves and each other. Fortunately, the Society of Architectural Historians has hired Sarah M. Dreller (PhD, AH) as its Humanities Research Analyst, a newly created position supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dreller will be charged with collecting data to help the School of Art & Art History and the Mellon Foundation understand the current status of architectural history in higher education in the United States, part of a 21-month study of the state of the field of architectural history. - [One-Off: art in action](https://cada.uic.edu/news/one-off-art-in-action/) - “One-Off“ is an OpEd feature of the CADA e-newsletter designed to instigate discussion and debate within the College’s community by presenting a current preoccupation of one of its members. The views expressed in the column are those of the author, Associate Professor and Director of the School of Theatre & Music Christine Mary Dunford, PhD. - [UIC Wind Ensemble](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-wind-ensemble/) - 10.23.2018 - [Memorial for Vincent A. Paglione](https://cada.uic.edu/news/memorial-for-vincent-a-paglione/) - 10.26.2016 - [Welcome back: a fall message from Dean Rebecca Rugg](https://cada.uic.edu/news/welcome-back-a-fall-message-from-dean-rebecca-rugg/) - Hello CADA community, Welcome to our new faculty and students! Welcome back, everybody else! Welcome to what is sure to be a semester like no other! While we are not able to be together in person as much as we would like, and we are not kicking off the semester in all the ways we - [Equity, Diversity, Inclusion](https://cada.uic.edu/news/equity-diversity-inclusion/) - Dear CADA community, As leaders of UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, we are committed to actions that promote a more inclusive college. We stand with our BIPOC colleagues and students in solidarity as the country wrestles with its racist history, still-active white supremacy, and anti-Blackness. Important campus conversations are happening on the - [Land Acknowledgement](https://cada.uic.edu/news/land-acknowledgement/) - 9.2.20 The UIC School of Theatre and Music sits on the traditional homeland of the original peoples of the area: the Three Fires Confederacy (the Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe Nations) as well as the Menominee and Ho-Chunk who—along with many Indigenous people—were among its first inhabitants. With respect and gratitude, The School of Theatre and - [Fall Academic Planning Update](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fall-academic-planning-update/) - Provost Susan Poser has shared an update on the fall academic planning process. Latest updates and news on UIC Today. May 28, 2020 Dear Colleagues, I am writing to provide an update and some additional clarity on Fall planning. This email is not addressed to faculty in the Colleges of Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, or - [Gift Creates Art of the Spanish Americas Appointment](https://cada.uic.edu/news/gift-creates-art-of-the-spanish-americas-appointment/) - IN SPANISH The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation has made a generous gift to the University of Illinois Chicago’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (CADA). This gift will create a clinical appointment in the field of Art of the Spanish Americas at CADA’s School of Art and Art History and distinguishes UIC - [Jennifer Reeder named Director of the School of Art and Art History](https://cada.uic.edu/news/jennifer-reeder-named-director-of-the-school-of-art-and-art-history/) - Moving Image Professor Jennifer Reeder has been named Director of the School of Art and Art History, pending Board of Trustees approval. Many of you already know her well: she has served as the school’s interim director since 2017, and has been a member of the school’s faculty since 2000. Reeder received her MFA from the School - [Fall Semester Plans Announced](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fall-semester-plans-announced/) - The following message was sent today to University of Illinois System students, faculty and staff regarding plans to resume on-campus activities next fall at its universities in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. Dear students, faculty and staff: We are very pleased to announce that on-campus educational activities will resume this fall at the University of Illinois - [From Dean Rugg: In Memory of George Floyd](https://cada.uic.edu/news/from-dean-rugg-in-memory-of-george-floyd/) - Shadow-World, Kilenmarec Howard ’19 Design, used with permission - [Lydia Diamond in The New York Times: on racism](https://cada.uic.edu/news/lydia-diamond-in-the-new-york-times-on-racism/) - “Until you show me institutional change, I don’t want to hear it.” On June 10, 2020, UIC School of Theatre and Music Clinical Associate Professor Lydia Diamond discussed the impact of race and racism on African-Americans working in the theater world with Laura Collins-Hughes. One of four African-American theater figures from different parts of the country and different - [COVID-19 update](https://cada.uic.edu/news/covid-19-update-college-of-architecture-design-and-the-arts/) - In response to COVID-19, UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts has minimized our on-site, in-person administrative and research activities to protect students, faculty, and staff and keep the virus from spreading further. - [UIC Design Faculty featured in Newcity Design 50 2020](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-design-faculty-featured-in-newcity-design-50-2020/) - This year's edition of Newcity Design 50 looks at what's next for Design in the 2020s and features those who are engaged in boundary-pushing work, immersive experiences, and impeccable design across disciplines. Featured from the UIC Design faculty are Sung Jang, Associate Professor and Chair of Industrial Design; Cheryl Towler Weese, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate - [Espen Vatn named Spring 2018 Herbert H. Greenwald Critic](https://cada.uic.edu/news/espen-vatn-named-spring-2018-herbert-h-greenwald-critic/) - We are pleased to announce that Espen Vatn will serve as the 2018 Herbert H. Greenwald Visiting Critic. As Greenwald Critic, Vatn will run a week-long seminar with undergraduate and graduate students, and will give a public lecture about his work and research. - [MUSE Students Presenting Research at ARCS Conference, Fall 2019](https://cada.uic.edu/news/muse-students-presenting-research-at-arcs-conference-fall-2019-2/) - Emma Turner-Trujillo, Araceli Medina-Castillo and Mallery Lutey, all class of 2020, have been accepted to present their research at the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists Conference (ARCS) in Philadelphia, Fall 2019. https://www.arcsinfo.org/programs/2019-conference - [CADA fall 2019: A welcome from Dean Rebecca Rugg](https://cada.uic.edu/news/cada-fall-2019-a-welcome-from-dean-rebecca-rugg/) - Welcome to the 2019–20 academic year at the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (CADA). “Welcome” is a word very much on my mind as I wish to express my gratitude for the warm welcome I have received since I arrived this summer to serve as Dean of the College. Thank you for drawing - [Artful building: The story (so far) of the new Center for the Arts](https://cada.uic.edu/news/artful-building-the-story-so-far-of-the-new-center-for-the-arts/) - From its inception, UIC has been known for highly aspirational, yet doggedly practical civic architecture. Not only was the school conceived as an urban public university accessible to all via the expressways and public transportation of post–World War II Chicago, but also, much of Walter Netsch’s designs for the campus buildings derive from his “Field - [Blu skies: Blu Dot receives 2018 National Design Award](https://cada.uic.edu/news/blu-skies-blu-dot-receives-2018-national-design-award/) - The design firm and retailer Blu Dot has received the prestigious 2018 National Design Award in Product Design from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Founded in 1997 by School of Architecture alumnus Maurice Blanks (MArch, ’91) and his partners John Christakos and Charlie Lazor, Blu Dot grew out of the motivating personal experience of having a sophisticated eye, - [Artists Monument comes to Grant Park](https://cada.uic.edu/news/artists-monument-comes-to-grant-park/) - Artists Monument, the 80-footlong sculpture created by Tony Tasset, professor of art in the School of Art & Art History, is now a colorful feature in Grant Park near Michigan Avenue and 9th Street. The plan is to permanently relocate the piece to the UIC campus. This is the first showing of Artists Monument in Chicago, following its debut - [Architecture Professor Emeritus Ken Isaacs 1927-2016](https://cada.uic.edu/news/architecture-professor-emeritus-ken-isaacs-1927-2016/) - Professor Emeritus of Architecture Ken Isaacs (1927 – 2016) Ken Isaacs, 89, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2016, in Granger, Indiana, where he resided for the past 14 years. He was a professor of architecture at the School of Architecture for 30 years and the husband of Sara Isaacs, a long-time department assistant in - [Adrian Smith '69BARCH Honored at Legacies and Leaders](https://cada.uic.edu/news/adrian-smith-69barch-honored-at-legacies-and-leaders/) - Adrian Smith ‘69BARCH, internationally renowned architect was honored at the 2016 Legacies and Leaders event that took place at the UIC Forum on April 7. The evening celebrated dedicated alumni of the University of Illinois at Chicago for their philanthropic support. Smith was selected as this year’s recipient for the College of Architecture, Design, and - [4 faculty awarded 2013 Graham Foundation Grants](https://cada.uic.edu/news/4-faculty-awarded-2013-graham-foundation-grants/) - Congratulations to Deborah Stratman (Associate Professor of Moving Image), Jimenez Lai (Assistant Professor of Architecture), Lluis Ortega (Assistant Professor of Architecture) and Beate Geissler (Assistant Professor of Photography) who are recipients of a 2013 Graham Foundation Grant. This year, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts awarded over $500,000 to 60 projects. - ["History Moves" project awarded NEA and Innovation grants](https://cada.uic.edu/news/history-moves-project-awarded-nea-and-innovation-grants/) - "History Moves," a ‘museum on wheels’ developed by a multidisciplinary team that includes the School of Architecture’s Julie Flohr and Sharon Haar, as well as Jennifer Brier of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the project’s lead investigator, received a grant of nearly $40,000 from the UIC Chancellor's Discovery Fund. The project uses a - [A Look Back at a Great Year](https://cada.uic.edu/news/a-look-back-at-a-great-year/) - The 2015-16 academic year was one of great accomplishments for all of our schools and units. From 11 of our architectural faculty exhibiting in the first Chicago Architectural Biennial to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum earning a total of $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, there is much to be proud of. Take - [Amir Berbic's Work in the Art Institute](https://cada.uic.edu/news/amir-berbics-work-in-the-art-institute/) - Amir Berbic, associate professor of graphic design, was commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago to design an installation spanning across the windows overlooking Griffin Court in the museum's Modern Wing. The work, developed in conjunction with the Art Instituted Design Episodes exhibition series, will be visible to the public early in May. Karen Kice, - [Art Professor Tony Tasset's Work Featured in Chicago Tribune](https://cada.uic.edu/news/art-professor-tony-tassets-work-featured-in-chicago-tribune/) - Art Professor Tony Tasset, who's work, the Artist Monument, was installed in Grant Park in February is featured in the Chicago Tribune. http://trib.in/24Swu34 - [Collaboration Between College and Health Sciences Inspires Patients to Heal](https://cada.uic.edu/news/collaboration-between-college-and-health-sciences-inspires-patients-to-heal/) - College Dean and noted composer Steve Everett has collaborated with the College of Nursing and the bio behavioral health science department to help patients with peripheral artery disease. Everett created music that distracts patients from their pain and motivates them to exercise. http://bit.ly/1NmnFqd - [Booth at EXPO CHICAGO](https://cada.uic.edu/news/booth-at-expo-chicago/) - Scholarship, creativity of UIC art faculty on display at EXPO CHICAGO The UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts is at EXPO CHICAGO with a booth that highlights the diverse and innovative works of the School of Art & Art History faculty at UIC, Chicago’s public urban research university. The work underscores creativity, scholarship and research that is taking - [Assistant professor Alexander Eisenschmidt in Grey Room #56](https://cada.uic.edu/news/assistant-professor-alexander-eisenschmidt-in-grey-room-56/) - "Metropolitan Architecture", an essay by Assistant professor Alexander Eisenschmidt, was recently published in Grey Room #56. - [CADA School directors & faculty participate in UIC Obama Library Proposal](https://cada.uic.edu/news/cada-school-directors-faculty-participate-in-uic-obama-library-proposal/) - Last fall, UIC Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares appointed an exploratory committee to facilitate UIC’s bid for the Obama Presidential Library. Serving in the leadership of the Chancellor's Obama Library Committees are Bob Somol, Director of the School of Architecture and Co-Chair of the Architecture/Site Committee; Lisa Yun Lee, Director of the School of Art and Art - [Kerry James Marshall, former art faculty, named to Obama's arts committee](https://cada.uic.edu/news/kerry-james-marshall-former-art-faculty-named-to-obamas-arts-committee/) - Kerry James Marshall, Chicago artist and former UIC arts professor from 1993-2006, has been named to President Obama's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. - [ICFF New York Features School of Design Student, Faculty Work](https://cada.uic.edu/news/icff-new-york-features-school-of-design-student-faculty-work/) - The University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Design is one of 14 schools selected to exhibit at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) during NYCxDESIGN week May 14 to 17. It is the first time UIC Design is participating. The ICFF takes place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. "The - [Design Students Win Red Bull Bag Design Challenge](https://cada.uic.edu/news/design-students-win-red-bull-bag-design-challenge/) - Nico Cabrera, the Red Bull-sponsored Chicago bike messenger, needed a new bag to carry his deliveries. That’s when the global energy drink firm turned to the UIC School of Design for their expertise. In just 10 days, 19 teams of undergraduate and graduate students listened to Cabrera needs and then began working feverishly on prototypes - [College video: Fostering fearless curiosity](https://cada.uic.edu/news/college-video-fostering-fearless-curiosity/) - As members of the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, we have the unique pleasure and responsibility of mentoring the next generation of cultural producers. Our internationally-recognized faculty and alumni contribute their intelligence and talent daily to re-imagining how the world looks, sounds, feels and moves; how information is organized and displayed; how we - [Dean Everett profiled by UIC News](https://cada.uic.edu/news/dean-everett-profiled-by-uic-news/) - Dean Everett talks about his inspirations, compositions, and process in this UIC News profile. Read the article here. Recordings of some of Dean Everett's recent compositions can be found on his website. - [Groups recognize School of Design faculty, alumnus for their work](https://cada.uic.edu/news/groups-recognize-school-of-design-faculty-alumnus-for-their-work/) - Two faculty members and a recent alumnus from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Design are being recognized for their contributions to design. The Friends of Switzerland will award the Julius Adams Stratton Prize to Philip Burton, professor and chair of graphic design in the UIC School of Design, Oct. 21 in Boston. The award - [Industrial Design at IDSA conference](https://cada.uic.edu/news/industrial-design-at-idsa-conference/) - The 2016 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) International Conference, “Making Things Happen,” was held in Detroit from August 17 to 20, and exciting things certainly happened there for the School of Design’s Department of Industrial Design. On Friday, August 19, Clinical Professor and Chair of the Industrial Design Department Stephen Melamed (BFA ’80, MFA - [Theatre and Music Alumni Association Welcome Grads](https://cada.uic.edu/news/theatre-and-music-alumni-association-welcome-grads/) - The Theatre and Music Alumni Association (TMAA) held their first annual graduating senior reception on April 29th at Tapworks. Students enjoyed networking and building new alumni connections. - [The College welcomes a new Dean](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-college-welcomes-a-new-dean/) - The College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts is thrilled to announce that Steve Everett is our new Dean. Prior to joining UIC, Dean Everett was professor of music and assistant provost for academic affairs at Emory University. The Dean is a composer and conductor whose research and teaching interests include electronic music, cross-cultural influences - [Projecting the future: a UIC legacy](https://cada.uic.edu/news/projecting-the-future-a-uic-legacy/) - On the cusp of the new school year, the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts reveled in two exhibitions at Gallery 400: The Netsch Campus: Materializing the Public at UIC and Back to the Future: Visualizing the Arts at UIC. Curated by Associate Professor of Architecture Judith K. De Jong and Gallery 400 Director Lorelei Stewart, the - [Of note at the College](https://cada.uic.edu/news/of-note-at-the-college/) - 1 Theatre & Music: In memoriam Richard Wang, Associate Professor Emeritus of Music, was the department’s resident jazz scholar, historian, and all-around jazz authority, as well as the director of the UIC Jazz Ensemble for several decades. A native A native A of Chicago’s South Side, he was playing trumpet professionally by professionally by professionally - [Marientina Gotsis (BFA ’99, MFA ’03) and the art of solving problems](https://cada.uic.edu/news/marientina-gotsis-bfa-99-mfa-03-and-the-art-of-solving-problems/) - Marientina Gotsis (BFA ’99, MFA ’03) never wanted to choose between the study of art and the study of science. Fortunately, her UIC education did not require her to make that choice. That’s a very good thing for the estimated 25,000 people who are able to help thousands more because they have played The Brain - [Professor Lisa Lee named Presidential Fellow](https://cada.uic.edu/news/professor-lisa-lee-named-presidential-fellow/) - Congratulations to Professor Lisa Lee, Director of the UIC School of Art & Art History, on her recent appointment to the University of Illinois Presidential Fellows. Professor Lee will lend her considerable talents in collaboration on system-wide initiatives in the arts and humanities. More information on the Presidential Fellows Program can be found here. - [Sides to our story: east side/west side collaborations](https://cada.uic.edu/news/sides-to-our-story-east-side-west-side-collaborations/) - This summer, researchers from the east and west sides of the UIC campus began collaborating on a solution to a classic conundrum — making something difficult into something doable — using the arts as a catalyst. “We’re trying to find a way to use music to promote exercise,” said Eileen Collins, Professor of Biobehavioral Health - [Theaster Gates is CADA's 2014 commencement speaker](https://cada.uic.edu/news/theaster-gates-is-cadas-2014-commencement-speaker/) - The College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts is pleased to announce that Theaster Gates, Artist and Director of Arts and Public Life at the University of Chicago, will be the 2014 commencement speaker. 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The prism-styled concert featured the Choirs, Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Combos, Chamber groups, Mariachi Fuego, and special guests Mariachi Águilas de - [The 5th Symposium for LGBTQ Studies and Music Education](https://cada.uic.edu/news/the-5th-symposium-for-lgbtq-studies-and-music-education/) - In 2010, 2012, 2016, and 2021, LGBTQ Studies and Music Education Symposia I, II, III, & IV brought together students, teachers, college faculty, and researchers to discuss relevant research, theory, and practice from an LGBTQ perspective. The purpose of these ongoing symposia is to encourage, promote, and disseminate discourse regarding the intersections of LGBTQ topics - [Stephanie Gregoire joins UIC as Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Education
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Throughout the fellowship year, Mačkić will teach design studios and courses in history and theory while advancing her ongoing research into architectural reference and its transformation within contemporary digital culture. - [We're Hiring! Work at UIC Theatre and Music](https://cada.uic.edu/news/were-hiring-work-at-uic-theatre-and-music/) - Open Positions Listings will be updated as approved The School of Theatre and Music provides innovative, rigorous, and comprehensive academic and performance programs to a highly diverse student body. One of four units in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, STM enrolls over 250 undergraduate students who are taught by 30 full-time and - [Fond Farewell Tim Fawkes](https://cada.uic.edu/news/fond-farewell-tim-fawkes/) - After five years of service to the School of Theatre and Music at UIC, conductor and educator Timothy Fawkes will conclude his role with the UIC Orchestra at the end of this academic year. He joined in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the ensemble was a 19-member, strings-only group. Under his leadership, it has - [Thank You, Neal McCollam](https://cada.uic.edu/news/thank-you-neal-mccollam-3/) - After 32 years of service to the UIC School of Theatre and Music, Theatre Operations Coordinator and UIC Theatre alum Neal McCollam will retire this spring. His retirement concludes a career that has shaped generations of students and supported the growth of theatre at UIC across decades of institutional change. McCollam’s connection to the university - [UIC Theatre and Music Hosts Inaugural Unreal Fest Game Jam](https://cada.uic.edu/news/uic-theatre-and-music-hosts-inaugural-unreal-fest-game-jam/) - From June 12–14, 2026, students from across Chicago gathered at the University of Illinois Chicago for the first-ever UIC Unreal Fest Game Jam. 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An internationally - [Student Spotlight: Caleb Blackmond (BA Music '26)](https://cada.uic.edu/news/student-spotlight-caleb-blackmond-ba-music-26/) - [Thank you, Neal McCollam](https://cada.uic.edu/news/thank-you-neal-mccollam/) - After 32 years of service to the School of Theatre and Music at UIC, Theatre Operations Coordinator and UIC Theatre alum Neal McCollam will retire this spring—concluding a career that has helped shape generations of students and supported the growth of theatre at UIC across decades of institutional change. McCollam’s connection to the university spans - [Thank you, Neal McCollam](https://cada.uic.edu/news/thank-you-neal-mccollam-2/) - After 32 years of service to the UIC School of Theatre and Music, Theatre Operations Coordinator and UIC Theatre alum Neal McCollam will retire this spring. His retirement concludes a career that has shaped generations of students and supported the growth of theatre at UIC across decades of institutional change. 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