Today’s artists from the Art & Technology / Sound Practices departments show us the malleability of robotics as an art practice. For some artists, robotics provide an amusing format for engaging topics of play, childhood, and sport–bringing us back to the days of paper airplanes, science class experiments, and swingsets. Others work takes on a more somber tone, problematizing histories of British colonialism, homophobia, and trauma by combining Sanskrit and Bengali text with kinetic robotics. Stop by the gallery to see these artists' diverse range of concepts explored through the dynamic field of robotics.
Featured artists:
Leena Mahaal, @mahaal_artech
TRITIYA PRAKRITI - The Third Nature, 2026
Yusuf Shamma @forwardkinematics
Automated Play #1: See-Saw, 2025
Silicon Polymer Solutions, 2026
180 Degree Turnaround Conveyors, 2026
Automated Play #3 Swingset, 2025
Graduate Exhibition Two 2026
May 8–20, 2026
Street Level, Lower Level 1, & Lower Level 2
SAIC Galleries is located at 33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL.
Open Monday through Saturday and Sunday, May 17, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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In work from artists in the Designed Objects program, the tensions of everyday life are designed and materialized within the galleries at SAIC. From the push and pull of bus handles, the stretch of fabric, the resistance of a switch, the stacking of objects, and the relationship between you and your smart home, the patterns of strain and slack within the quotidienne are visualized. Each work reveals the stretch of the fabrics and vehicles that we engage with everyday, revealing the meaningful aspects of the objects that are often overlooked.
Featured Artists:
Wenlu Shao
The Language of care, 2026
Jessica Paulin @jpppaulin
Mi Tío Robert, 2026
Alexa’s Friend, 2026
Mi primo Edwin, 2026
Impacto, 2026
Valentina Pereverzeva
Soft Territory, 2026
Le Yang
Takes More Than One, 2026
Matthew Turnquest
Vessels, 2026
Akua
Anti-Smart Home Speakers, 2026
Rishti Sumedha
In the Flash of Memory, 2026
Sway/Return (Playground Swing)
Graduate Exhibition Two 2026
May 8–20, 2026
Street Level, Lower Level 1, & Lower Level 2
SAIC Galleries is located at 33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL.
Open Monday through Saturday and Sunday, May 17, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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From digital designs to fully rendered models, artists within the AIADO program look to explore the future. They look at current realities and develop ideas to expand upward and outward. As they address the issues of the contemporary, they must engage with climate, structural limitations, cultural influences, and more. In this collection of work, you’ll see artists working in both natural and built environments, within these environments and the communities surrounding them, they imagine a new future.
Featured Artists:
Bowei Li
The Foldable House, 2026
Seth Illingworth-Rodriguez
Disinhabyting Habituation Paintings, 2026
Sullivan Studio Model, 2026
Brian Afzal Chowdri
Architectural Model, 2026
The Common Thread, 2026
Navya Kowligy Raviraj
Prototype, 2026
Sections with environmental systems, 2026
Renders, 2026
Ziwei Li
The Irifune Root, 2026
Daniela Coria
Reclaiming Chinampas, 2026
Samuel James Cusack,
Tuttle By the People, 2026
Abigal Mudd,
Learning from the Landscape, 2026
Graduate Exhibition Two 2026
May 8–20, 2026
Street Level, Lower Level 1, & Lower Level 2
SAIC Galleries is located at 33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL.
Open Monday through Saturday and Sunday, May 17, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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Join us Saturday May 16th at 6:00pm for our eighth program of the FVNMAS Festival. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
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Join us Saturday May 16th at 6:00pm for our eighth program of the FVNMAS Festival. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
#SAICShows #FVNMAS #FilmFestival #ChicagoArtists
Crafting minute ceramics, the talented artists in today’s curated post inspire us to look for the finer (tinier) things in life. Though these individual works are small, in surplus they form new pictures and meaning. The medium of ceramics allows us as viewers to imagine the artist's hand—be it shaping small cups or forming abstracted flowers—and the laborious attention to detail it takes to create such miniatures.
Featured artists:
Kristin Field @fieldandgardner
the katydids were louder, 2025
a slightly greener thing, 2026
a mud dauber made its nest at our door, 2026
look until you see something, 2025 - 2026
yard marbles, 2025 - 2026
slightly greener, 2026
Jacqueline Saepoff @ceramicpinecones
It's Nice to Meet You, 2026
My Right Thumb(print) Edition of 1000, 2026
Graduate Exhibition Two 2026
May 8–May 20
Street Level, Lower Level 1, & Lower Level 2
SAIC Galleries is located at 33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL.
Open Monday through Saturday 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
SAIC Galleries will also be open Sunday, May 17, 11:00 a.m-6:00 p.m.
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Join us Saturday May 16th at 3:30pm for our seventh program of the FVNMAS Festival. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
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Join us Saturday May 16th at 1:00pm for our sixth program of the FVNMAS Festival. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
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Join us Saturday May 16th at 11:00am for our fifth program of the FVNMAS Festival. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
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Join us Friday May 15th at 8:00pm for our fourth program of the FVNMAS Festival. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
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Join us Friday May 15th at 6:00pm for our third program of the FVNMAS Festival. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
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Join us Thursday May 14th at 8:30pm for our second program of the FVNMAS Festival. Our Festival reception will take place after the program. Be sure to reserve your free ticket at the following link: /fvnmas26
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