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Multi-Level Painting: Form, Process, & Meaning

January 7–22, 2027
11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST/10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST

Untitled, 2026, oil on canvas, 45 x 36 inches

Multi-Level Painting: Form, Process, & Meaning

with Magalie Guérin

This course for beginning to advanced students will include extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Emphasis will be placed on active decision-making to explore formal and material options as part of the painting process in relation to form and meaning. Students will pursue various interests in subject matter. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations, lectures and critiques will be included.

Pricing Information: Tuition & Fees

Registration Information: Monday, November 16, 2026

SAIC/For Credit Course Code: PAINTING 605 001 | 3 credits


About the faculty artist

Magalie Guérin (she/her; b. Montreal) is an artist based in Marfa, Texas. She works primarily in painting and ceramics and describes her work as shape-oriented, with the experience of foreignness and color relationships at its core. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011) and is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins in New York, and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal. She has exhibited internationally, and her work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Speed Art Museum, DePaul Art Museum, Hydro-Québec, and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. She is the author of NOTES ON, a compilation of studio writings published by The Green Lantern Press in 2016 (second edition, 2019), and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the College of DuPage. Guérin is the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner grants (2024, 2018), a Pace Award at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (2019), and a Chinati Foundation residency (2018).

Animal Behavior

January 7–22, 2027
2:00 - 4:30 p.m. EST/1:00 - 3:30 p.m. CST

Animal Behavior

with Dr. Dianne Jedlicka

This course will incorporate field observations in the natural environment surrounding Saugatuck, Michigan into the study of animal behavior. Students will formulate and test hypotheses through the acquisition of data in the field.  Topics covered include: classical learning and instinct, reproductive behaviors, and interactions between and within species. Note: LIBSCI 3521:  Animal Behavior is a separate course and may be taken for credit in addition to this one.  NOTE: SAIC Students must have already taken English 1001 & 1005 in order to enroll in this course.

Pricing Information: Tuition & Fees

Registration Information: Monday, November 16, 2026

SAIC/For Credit Course Code: SCIENCE 3523 001 | 3 credits


About the faculty artist

Dr. Dianne Jedlicka teaches numerous Biology courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Mammalogy, Ecology (Natural History), and Human Anatomy and Physiology. Her primary research has been at the community level of organization, focusing on the feeding strategies and predation of tree and ground squirrels based on their functional morphology. Observational data collected on nocturnal foraging of the eastern cottontail rabbit were published recently. All of these animals are found throughout the Ox-Bow region and offer Dr. Jedlicka’s students