SAIC faculty letter supports AICWU
87 [Edit 9/21 9/22:] With the addition of even many more signers today, 136 more than 160 faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have signed an open letter to SAIC senior administration, expressing their support for our union and calling on “senior leadership to stop diverting resources from SAIC’s mission to pay anti-union lawyers and consultants”.
The letter is below. If you teach at SAIC and wish to add your name, you can do so by clicking here.
As faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, we support our staff colleagues who are forming their union, the Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU) as part of AFSCME Council 31.
Staff are the backbone of our school. They play an active and central role in supporting students at SAIC and are often the first point of contact for students and prospective students. Through their work in SAIC’s workshops and labs, galleries, library and collections, health and academic services, career development, and technical services — among many other areas of the school — staff are fundamental to our students’ education and well-being, and are fundamental to SAIC’s mission and values.
As faculty, we support staff’s desire to work in a more equitable, fair, sustainable, and transparent environment. We support their right to self-organize free from employer interference. We urge senior leadership to stop diverting resources from SAIC’s mission to pay anti-union lawyers and public relations consultants. The school cannot truly become the more just, anti-racist, and compassionate institution it claims to want to be until all workers at SAIC have a true voice in, and agency over, their working conditions. We support our colleagues, SAIC staff members’ efforts to form their union.
Sincerely,
Valorie Adrio, Art Therapy
Elena Ailes, Contemporary Practices
Claudia Angel, MAATC
Anna, Lecturer, Contemporary Practices
Joanna Anos, Adjunct Associate Professor, Liberal Arts
Brett Ian Balogh, Associate Professor, Adj., Art and Technology Studies
Shiben Banerji, Associate Professor, Art History (Affiliated Faculty in AIADO)
Jairo Banuelos, Lecturer, Contemporary Practices
sarah bastress, Contemporary Practices
Cecilia Beaven, Painting and Drawing
Jonas Becker, Assistant Professor, Photography
Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Contemporary Practices
Mark Booth, Associate Professor, Writing and Sound
Annie Bourneuf, Associate Professor, Art history, theory, and criticism
Jackie Bousek, Adjunct, Art Therapy
Sid Branca, Assistant Professor Adjunct, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
troy briggs, contemporary practices
Nick Briz, Adjunct Associate Professor, FVNMA and CP
Sofía Brockenshire, Lecturer, FVNMA
Austen Brown, Lecturer, Sound
J. Dakota Brown, Lecturer, Art History & Visual Communication Design
Rosellen Brown, Adjunct Professor, Writing
Tom Burtonwood, Associate Professor, Contemporary Practices
Fredelyn Calla, Lecturer, Art Therapy
Shane Campbell, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Arthi
Kevin Carr, Lecturer, Painting and Drawing
Salome Chasnoff, Lecturer, Art Education
C. C. Ann Chen, Associate Professor, Adjunct, Liberal Arts
Martha Chiplis, Assistant Professor, Adjunct, Visual Communication Design
Thomas Comerford, Associate Professor, Adjunct, FVNMA
James Connolly, Assistant Professor, Adj., Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
Elizabeth Cote, Lecturer, Sculpture
Kendall Crabbe, Art Education
Anya Davidson, Lecturer, PTDW
Dana DeGiulio, PTDW
Theresa Dewey, Lecturer, MAATC
Dan Devening, Professor, Adj., Painting and Drawing
Lindsey Dorr-Niro, lecturer, Sculpture
Robin Reid Drake, Lecturer, Art Education
Keefer Dunn, Assistant Professor, Adjunct, AIADO
Mari Eastman, Associate Professor, PTDW
Daniel Eisenberg, Professor, FVNMA
Hope Esser, Associate professor, adj, Contemporary Practices
eric fleischauer, Associate Professor, Adjunct, FVNMA
Danny Floyd, Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies
Evan Fusco, Lecturer, Printmedia, Contemporary Practices
Pablo Garcia, Associate Professor, Contemporary Practices
Maria Gaspar, Associate Professor, Contemporary Practices
Catherine Gass, Assistant Prof. Adjunct, Photography
Ilona Gaynor, Assistant Professor, AIADO
Susan Giles, Associate Professor, Contemporary Practices
Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Associate Professor, Fashion
Anneli Goeller, Lecturer, Film, Video, New Media, Animation
Christina Gómez, Chair & Professor, Liberal Arts
Adam Greteman, Associate Professor; Director, Master of Arts in Teaching, Art Education
Ellen Grimes, Associate Professor, AIADO
Dan Gunn, Assistant Professor, Adj, PTDW
Andy Hall, Associate Professor, Contemporary Practices
Robert Chase Heishman, Photography
Marie Herwald Hermann, Assistant Professor, the Ceramics department
Aiko Kojima Hibino, Liberal Arts
Nathan Hoks, Writing
Katharine Houpt, Assistant Professor, Adj., Art Therapy
Cathy Hsiao, Instructor, College Arts Access Program
Andrew Hull, Adjunct, Liberal Arts
Zachary Hutchinson, Lecturer, Contemporary Practices
mary jane jacob, professor, sculpture
Sam Jaffe, Associate Professor, Adj., PTDW
Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Assistant Professor, Ceramics
Garrett Laroy Johnson, Lecturer, Art and technology studies
Kevin Kaempf, Adjunct Faculty, Sculpture
Rebecca Keller, Professor, adj, Art History, Sculpture, Art Education
kg, full adjunct, FMS and Arts Admin
Annie Kielman, Printmedia
Seth Kim-Cohen, Professor, Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Benjamin Larose, Assistant Professor, Fashion Design
Deanna Ledezma, Lecturer, Art History, Theory and Criticism
Larry Lee, Lecturer, Art History, Theory, and Criticism; Contemporary Practices
Ling Cheun Bianca Lee, Art Therapy and Counseling
Kirsten Leenaars, Professor, interim co-director, Department of Contemporary Practices
Eric Leonardson, Associate Professor, Adj., Sound
Shan Ru Lin, Faculty / lecturer, Art therapy
Nicholas Lowe, Professor/Chair, Historic Preservation
Dr. Paul Mack, Art Ed.
Judy Malloy, Lecturer, Art & Technology Studies
Lou Mallozzi, Associate Professor, Sound
Frederica Malone, Lecturer, Art Therapy
Brontë Mansfield, Lecturer, New Arts Journalism
Nicole Marroquin, Department Chair, Associate Professor, Art Education
Jordan Martins, Sculpture
Kristi McGuire, Adjunct Professor, Visual & Critical Studies
Daniel McManus, Lecturer, Vis Com
Keith Mikos, Lecturer, Liberal Arts
Frédéric Moffet, Associate Professor, FVNMA
Melissa Raman Molitor, Adjunct Associate Professor, Art Therapy/Art Education
John Paul Morabito, Assistant Professor, Adj. Fiber and Material Studies
Karen Morris, Associate Professor, Department of Visual & Critical Studies
Matt Morris, Assistant Adjunct, PTDW
Judd Morrissey, Associate Professor, Art and Technology Studies
Allie n' Steve Mullen, Associate Professor, Adj. / Faculty Business Senate - PT Senator / ATS / FVNMA / Sound / Liberal Arts
eliza myrie, Printmedia
Huong Ngo, Assistant Professor, Contemporary Practices
Trang Nguyen, Lecturer, Art Therapy
Rachel Niffenegger, Lecturer, Contemporary Practices, Painting and Drawing
William J. O'Brien, Professor, Ceramics
Allison O'Flinn, Visual Communication Design
Máire Witt O'Neill, Lecturer, Performance
Christian Ortiz, Fiber and Material Studies
Pete Oyler, AIADO
Dylan Palmer, Sculpture + Ceramics, Foundry Faculty Director
Mary Patten, Professor, FVNMA
José Santiago Pérez, Lecturer, Fiber and Material Studies
Claire Pentecost, Professor, Photography
Dushko Petrovich, Associate Professor, New Arts Journalism
Peter Power, Printmedia
matthew daniel price, associate professor, sculpture
Daniel Quiles, Associate Professor and Chair, Art History
Niema Qureshi, Lecturer, Art Ed
Eia Radosavljevic, Associate Professor, adj. Fashion
Anjulie Rao, Lecturer, New Arts Journalism
David Raskin, Mohn Family Professor, Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Rebecca, Part time lecturer, AIADO
Josh Rios, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Visual Critical Studies / Contemporary Practices
Douglas Rosman, Lecturer, Art and Technology Studies
Katherine Ross, Professor Emeritus, Ceramics
Sarah Ross, Art Education
Ellen Rothenberg, Professor, Adj., Fiber and Material Studies
Nancy Sánchez, Contemporary Practices
Andrew Scarpelli, Adjunct, Art and Technology
Katrin Schnabl, Fashion Department
Suellen Semekoski, Assoc. Prof Adj., Art Therapy graduate department
Christine Shallenberg, Assistant Professor, Adj. Art and Technology Studies & Contemporary Practices
Roberto Sifuentes, Professor, Performance
Brian Sikes, Associate Professor
Sonia da Silva, Assistant Professor Adjunct, EIS - Liberal Arts
Jonathan Solomon, Associate Professor, Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Conor Stechschulte, Lecturer, Printmedia
Sarah Steele, Lecturer, Art Therapy
Tristan Sterk, Associate Professor, AIADO
Anne Sullivan, Associate Professor, Historic Preservation
Savneet Talwar, Professor, Art Therapy
Christine Tarkowski, Fiber & Material Studies
Sonja Thomsen, Assistant Professor, Adj, Photography
Christine Marmé Thompson, Visiting Instructor, Art Education
Mika Tosca, Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts
Unyimeabasi Udoh, Lecturer, Visual Communication Design
jina valentine, Associate Prof. Printmedia
Lisa Vinebaum, Chair and Associate Professor, Fiber and Material Studies
Kirin Wacher-Grene, Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts
Rachel Wallis, Art Therapy
Oli Watt, Associate Professor, Dept. Chair, Printmedia
Lori Waxman, Senior Lecturer, New Arts Journalism & Art History
Melissa Weiss, Visual Communication Design
Anna Martine Whitehead, Assistant Prof, Contemporary Practices
Mechtild Widrich, Art History
Bess Williamson, Associate Professor, Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Anne Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Fiber and Material Studies
Adrian Wong, Associate Professor, Sculpture
Maggie Wong, Contemporary Practice
If you teach at SAIC and wish to add your name, you can do so by clicking here.
