New full-time faculty members

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is pleased to welcome nine new full-time faculty members who are joining the School this academic year. The new faculty members represent the wide breadth of work undertaken at SAIC and highlight each of the School’s core values.

Eric Hotchkiss, Designed Objects / Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Painting and Drawing / Gionata Gatto, Designed Objects / Melita Morales, Art Education / Alan Kwan, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation / Vanessa Damilola Macaulay, Performance / Robert Burnier, Painting and Drawing / Nyeema Morgan, Sculpture / Doug Rosman, Art and Technology-Sound Practices.

Three of these artists, designers, and scholars previously taught at SAIC as part-time faculty members, and one joins SAIC from the Art Institute of Chicago museum. The School will also welcome four AICAD fellows this fall.

Kimberley Ayala Najera, Interior Architecture / Aaron Neal, Architecture, Interior Architecture / Uthman Olowa, Architecture, Interior Architecture / Chris Salas, Ceramics.

Combined, the 13 new faculty members and fellows will teach courses in eight departments.