MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN STUDIO

FIBER AND MATERIAL STUDIES

Application Deadline: January 10

For application requirements, visit saic.edu/apply/mfafiber

saic.edu/fiber

Graduate Admissions36 South Wabash Avenue, suite 1201Chicago, IL 60603Phone 312.629.6100 / 800.232.7242 Fax 312.629.6101 gradmiss@saic.edu

The Fiber and Material Studies department (FMS) offers a progressive program of study that encourages in-depth engagement with textile materials, processes, discourses, histories, politics, and forms. Led by a distinguished faculty of artists and theorists that includes some of the most innovative and accomplished practitioners in the field, FMS is one of the largest, best resourced, and most significant programs of its kind in the world.

FMS encourages an interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of relationships among concept, materiality, and process in contemporary art. The program emphasizes the creation of textile and fiber arts within a contemporary, cross-disciplinary context. We support and foster experimentation across materials, contexts, politics, and forms. Students are engaged in thinking about and through cloth, print, textile construction, surface, and other hand processes, while at the same time exploring new technologies and computer-assisted tools, installation, site responsive, performance, and participatory and collaborative approaches. Teaching and learning emphasize the histories, processes, and politics that are deeply interwoven into the discipline of fiber.

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DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS � Anne Wilson, Professor, had a solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, summer

2017. Additionally, Anne Wilson and Beth Lipman are in a major exhibition, Ruptures, at The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, summer 2017. Her work was acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago for the exhibition A Global View: Recent Acquisitions of Textiles, 2012–2016, 2016; and Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. She was awarded a United States Artists Distinguished Fellowship, 2015.

� Joan Livingstone, Professor, had her work acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago for their exhibition A Global View: Recent Acquisitions of Textiles, 2012–2016, 2016. She also exhibited her show, Joan Livingstone: marvels & oddment[s], at Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 2015; and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2015.

� Christine Tarkowski, Professor, recently completed a full restoration of Working on the Failed Utopia, a permanent sculpture which was commissioned for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governor’s State University.

� Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Associate Professor, had a solo show, Slow Blossoming (Minding the Gap), at South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, spring 2016 and at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, fall 2016.

� Lisa Vinebaum, Associate Professor, had a project space installation, New Demands?, at Sector 2337 in Chicago, through June 2017. An upcoming chapter, “Outside the White Cube,” will be included in the volume Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm, 1930–present, published by Routledge.

� Mike Andrews, Assistant Professor, exhibited new rugs at Volume Gallery in Chicago, summer 2017.

� Fraser Taylor, Adjunct Full Professor, received the MacArthur Foundation grant to develop a collaborative project with The Seldoms, Glasgow, Scotland, 2017.

� Aram Han Sifuentes, Lecturer, was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship 2016–17.

ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS � Graduates of the MFA in Fiber and Material Studies have gone on to hold full-time tenured

or tenure-track positions at research universities and art and design schools in the U.S. and Canada, including three department chairs or heads of contemporary fiber/textile programs in the U.S. Our graduates have also gone on to institutional and curatorial positions at museums and cultural organizations. Many graduates maintain active studio practices with visibility through exhibitions in galleries, museums, cultural centers, and other diverse venues. Five recent graduates have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships for international study.

FULL-TIME FACULTYMICHAEL ANDREWS

DIANA GUERRERO-MACIÁ

JOAN LIVINGSTONE

CHRISTINE TARKOWSKI

LISA VINEBAUM

ANNE WILSON

For complete faculty listing visit: saic.edu/fiber

FACILITIES The Fiber and Material Studies department has some of the most expansive and well-equipped facilities in the country. Spanning two floors, the department has workshops and facilities for screen printing, immersion dyeing, weaving, felting, paper making, knitting, spinning, textile construction, installation and sculpture, and sewing and embroidery. Graduate students can attend workshops and have 24-hour access to the studios. Specialized equipment in the department includes:

� One TC-1 and two TC-2 Digital Jacquard Looms

� Dobby loom

� Floor looms [4 to 16 harness]

� Table looms

� Fully equipped screen printing studio, including dark-room facilities and large (16 ft. to 40 ft. in length) printing tables

� Large format heat transfer press

� Fully equipped dye studio including facilities for natural dye and indigo

� Brother industrial 10-needle embroidery machine and four additional computerized embroidery machines

� Long arm quilting machines, free motion sewing stations, and an assortment of sewing machines

� Industrial sergers and sewing machines

� Knitting machines

� A complete papermaking studio including a Hollander beater

� Plotter/cutter

� Smart lecture/critique spaces

The Textile Resource Center (TRC) is a hands-on study collection of textiles and textile artifacts (including lace, weavings, quilt blocks, embellished textiles, and print samples) from countries within Africa, Central and South Asia, Europe, and the Americas, together with new technological substrates and materials; and artists’ samples and projects. The TRC also houses a discipline-specific library focused on instructional texts, international textiles, fiber and craft theory, and textile history; the collection also includes artist monographs, exhibition catalogs, journals, rare and out of print books and catalogs, videos, recorded lectures, and a digital database and bibliography.

CREDIT HOUR SUMMARY

Studio - MFA 6009 Graduate Projects, Seminars and/or a maximum of 12 credits of 3000 level and above studios

39

Art History - ARTHI 5002 Graduate Survey of Modern and Contemporary Art

3

Art History Electives at the 4000 level or above

9

Electives - Any course in any area at 3000 level or above

9

Participation in four graduate critiques

Participation in the graduate exhibition or equivalent

Total Credit Hours 60