Art Institute Of Chicago

Programs: The school of the art institute of chicago (saic) is an accredited college of art and design offering undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate degree programs for studio artists, art educators, art therapists, designers, writers, and art historians. Saic's fine arts graduate program consistently ranks among the top programs in the nation by u. S. News and world report, and the school offers world-class resources including connections and special access to the art institute of chicago, on-campus galleries, and state of the art facilities. In fiscal year 2017, average academic year full-time-equivalent enrollment of degree-seeking students was 3,457 including international students from 64 countries.

the museum's mission is to collect, preserve, and interpret works of art of the highest quality from across the globe for the inspiration and education of its visitors. It achieves this through building and stewarding its renowned permanent collection, producing educational programming around the collection with daily performances, gallery tours, lectures, readings, and other special events, and presenting world class exhibitions highlighting both its collection and objects loaned from other institutions. The art institute's encyclopedic collection consists of approximately 300,000 works of art in 11 curatorial departments. The museum has the third largest collection of art in the country. Exhibitions featured within fiscal year 2017 include gauguin: artist as alchemist, moholy nagy: future present, the photographer's curator: hugh edwards at the art institute of chicago, and helio oiticica: to organize delirium. Attendance exceeded 1. 6 million visitors in fiscal year 2017.