“SAIC has provided me with an environment rich with artistic experimentation, critical examination, and the ability to work alongside fellow artists and faculty…I truly appreciate being among those SAIC students who have the privilege to receive your scholarship.” - Eman Akram Nader, Bare Walls Scholarship Recipient
BareWalls is one of SAIC’s most exciting events where alumni of the School are invited to return and paint live in front of 1,000 of Chicago’s major arts patrons, civic and business leaders as they participate in a silent auction of the works in progress. Over the years, notable artists such as Ellen Lanyon, Jonathan Green, Richard Hunt, LeRoy Neiman, Ed Paschke, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Natkin, Cynthia Rowley, Karl Wirsum and Robert Lostutter have painted alongside their fellow alumni in a show of spontaneous creativity.
This event engages the greater community with the School, the alumni and the students as a fundraising event for scholarship. Each year the BareWalls program raises money to support the BareWalls Student Scholarship Fund. By participating in this event guests will be benefiting the education of young artists and designers pursuing their studies at SAIC.
Based on a concept proposed by Annegret Reichmann, BareWalls was started in 1994 by a volunteer Alumni Committee of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The BareWalls Scholarship Fund was endowed shortly thereafter and is awarded annually to students of need at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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