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Visiting Artists ProgramFounded in 1868, The Visiting Artists Program (VAP) is one of the oldest public programs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 with the establishment of an endowed fund by Flora Mayer Witkowsky, the Visiting Artists Program hosts approximately 50 public presentations by artists each year in lectures, symposia, performances and screenings. It is a decidedly eclectic program that showcases artists working in all media including sound, video, performance, poetry, painting, and independent film, in addition to curators, critics, and art historians.The primary mission of the Visiting Artists Program is to educate and foster a greater understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through discourse. VAP curates up to four theme-based lecture series per SAIC academic year and hosts visiting artists on a weekly basis. In curating programs, VAP maintains a long-standing commitment to ethnic and gender diversity and has been at the forefront of the movement toward a more socially engaged and theoretically informed aesthetic dialogue. Most recently generous underwriting from the National Endowment of the Arts supported the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the creation of a Digital Archive Resource Center, an archival website that features "visual quotes" from guest artists, historians and critics which highlight the thematic concerns and topical issues explored in the Program's past seasons. All events are open to the general public.
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