"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 has been one of SAIC’s most exciting events where alumni of the School return to campus 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, Robert Lostutter and Angel Otero have painted alongside their fellow alumni in support of Student Scholarships.
Each year the money raised from the BareWalls program has been contributed to an endowed Student Scholarship Fund benefiting the education of young artists and designers pursuing their studies at SAIC.
Based on a concept proposed by SAIC Alumna 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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