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3 unusual facts about Art Institute


Anders Stone

Stone studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura in Mexico and at the Art Institute in the U.S.

Jonas Arčikauskas

He studied at the Art Institute in Vilnius (1980–85) in ceramics and theatre set design.

Three Rivers Film Festival

Festival sidebars for 2012 included Polish Cinema, Women Filmmakers and Coming-of-Age films and had major sponsorships from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Art Institute, Avis, and Kodak.


Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

The instrumental version of the song is the better known cover version, since it was used in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (during the Art Institute scene) along with an other Dream Academy song "The Edge of Forever".


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Aleksandr Kamensky

From 1949 to 1962, he chaired the department of Art History at the Art institute in Vilnius.

Anita Parkhurst Willcox

She studied at the Chicago Art Institute from 1909 to 1913, learning classic drawing; but also studying mural-painting with John W. Norton.

Benjamin Ferguson

The Art Institute also funded Carl Milles's Fountain of the Tritons, which sits in its courtyard, with this fund, but by the 1930s began to tire of standard sculpture and sought a court ruling to include buildings within the terms of the agreement.

Boris Levit-Broun

In the spring of 1973, just before the discussion of his thesis, reviewed by a diploma about the portrait work of Nikolai Ge, Boris Levit-Broun was expelled from the Kiev State Art Institute on trumped ideological "cause."

Cedar Sigo

Sigo has given poetry readings in various locations across the United States, including the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Poetry Center, San Francisco Art Institute, and the Suquamish Community House, also called sgwәdzadad qәł ?altxw (The House of Awakened Culture).

Charles Sprague Pearce

Among his best known paintings are The Decapitation of St John the Baptist (1881), in the Art Institute of Chicago; Prayer (1884), The Return of the Flock, and Meditation.

Chinese scholar's rocks

Little, Stephen, Spirit stones of China, the Ian and Susan Wilson collection of Chinese stones, paintings, and related scholars' objects, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1999, ISBN 0-86559-173-3

Don Suggs

Suggs taught drawing, painting, sculpture and color theory from 1972-1984 at Florida State University at Tallahassee, Franconia College in New Hampshire, University of Southern California, and Otis Art Institute.

Dulah Marie Evans

While a student at The Art Institute, Dulah spent her summers in Saugatuck, Michigan, studying under John Christen Johansen and other prominent artists.

Feel Tank Chicago

Its founders are Lauren Berlant, an English professor at the University of Chicago who focuses on publics and affects; Vanalyne Green, a professor in Fine Art at the University of Leeds; Debbie Gould, a sociologist of political feelings at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Patten, a writer and video artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rebecca Zorach, an art historian at the University of Chicago.

Gary Schneider

Schneider’s work is represented in many museums including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Gallery of Canada, The Guggenheim Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman House, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, Harvard University Art Museum, and Boston Museum of Fine Art.

Gregg Bordowitz

He taught video art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Brown University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1995 to 2010, before being hired as a permanent professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hallowell

Sarah Tyson Hallowell (1846–1924), American curator, art agent for the Chicago Art Institute and volunteer for the French Red Cross during World War I.

Hannah Lash

Her music has been presented in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival and School, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, New York City Opera’s VOX, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hardie Gramatky

Examples of his work are part of the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chicago Art Institute, and Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, among others.

Harry Hershfield

He studied in Chicago at the Frank Holmes School of Illustration and the Chicago Art Institute, and his career began at age 14, drawing sports cartoons and his comic strip about a dog, Homeless Hector, for the Chicago Daily News in 1899.

Irina Zhurina

After studying singing at the Kharkiv Art Institute, she joined the Kharkiv Opera in 1971, where she sang the leading roles in La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto, etc.

James Lawton Wingate

Initially he was influenced by Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, and first exhibited in 1864 at the Glasgow Fine Art Institute.

John Christen Johansen

While a member of the faculty of the Art Institute he met, and later wed, recognized portraitist M. Jean McLane (1878–1964).

Keena Bonella

Bonella graduated from Fruita Monument High School in 2003, she later studied as a marketing major at The Art Institute in Denver and graduated in 2008.

Kevin Red Star

Red Star’s works are the focal point of several important museum collections, including the Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian; C.M. Russell Museum; Heard Museum; Denver Art Museum; Eiteljorg Museum; Southwest Museum; Whitney Museum of Western Art; Institute of American Indian Arts Museum; United States Department of State; and scores of others.

Lorado Taft

His papers reside in collections at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the University of Illinois, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Louis Ritman

He took a drawing class at Hull House, then attended the Art Institute’s school, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and briefly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in 1909 moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the advice of Parker to continue his studies.

Móric Fischer de Farkasházy

It, however, became a veritable art institute, comparing favorably with the famous porcelain establishments of Sèvres, Meissen, and Berlin.

Mykhaylo Chornyi

Mykhaylo Chornyi studied art from 1956 to 1961 at Odessa State Art College n.a. M. Grekov, and same year he entered Kyiv Art Institute (nowadays The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, which graduated with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts in 1968 (professors: Mykhaylo Khmelko and Victor Shatalin.

Rico Lebrun

Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal, The Art Institute of Chicago (1947)

Robert William Davidson

He has won many awards for his works including the Art Association Prize at the Herron Art Institute in 1925, the Harry Johnson Prize from Hoosier Salon in 1930, and two first prize wins at the Indiana State Fair in 1923 and 1924.

San Diego Art Institute

The San Diego Art Institute’s “Museum of the Living Artist”, with its main gallery located in historic Balboa Park, is a Center for the Visual Arts for the Southern California /Baja California region.

Silverpoint

John Wilde's "The Great Autobiographical Silverpoint Drawing" (The Art Institute of Chicago 1986.8) which is 38 × 91", one of the largest modern silverpoints.

Street in Venice

Oil on canvas, 46 cm × 37.5 cm, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Terra Foundation for American Art

A selection of Terra Foundation paintings remains on long-term loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Institute also houses the Foundation’s collection of works on paper.

The Art Institute of Vancouver

The Calgary Sun reported that in 2005 over 200 students were enrolled in The Art Institute of Vancouver's 18-month game art and design diploma program.

Tuvia Beeri

He studied in 1957 at the Oranim Art Institute in Qiryat Tivon, with Marcel Janco and Yaakov Wexler and from 1961 to 1963 with Johnny Friedlaender at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Wellington J. Reynolds

Wellington Jarard Reynolds ( b. April 9, 1865 in New Lenox, Illinois, d. 1949) was a well-known Chicago portrait painter and art instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Zack Mosley

His family then moved to Oklahoma City and he worked for a while as a retail clerk before leaving to attend the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute where he assisted Dick Calkins on Buck Rogers and Skyroads.