Join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Visiting Artists Program for a new season of artists talks by today’s most influential makers and thinkers. Formalized in 1951 with an endowment by Flora Mayer Witkowsky, the Visiting Artists Program has featured more than 1,000 international artists, designers, and scholars representing more than 70 countries. All events are free and open to the public.
Dread Scott: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 15, 6-7:30 PM CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Dread Scott (BFA 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encourages viewers to reexamine cohering ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork because of its transgressive use of the American flag. Scott became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others burned flags on the steps of the Capitol.
