Early College Program Courses

a teen edits their video project

Online: Animation and Video Projects

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a student models an architectural design in a 3d modeling program

Online: Architectural Design

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a gaggle of girls concentrate together as they create their experimental drawings

Online: Drawing / Painting / Comics and Graphic Novels

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a red haired student pins her fabric to a dress form

Online: Fashion Design and Construction

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a group of students discuss their peer's work in a critique at saic

Online: Portfolio Prep Studio

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen is inking her text piece that is investigating the loss of the native language from her country, The Philipines

Online: Studio Intensive: Advanced Projects in Drawing & Painting

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a girl with pink hair like a mermaid animates her project on a computer

Session 1, 2D Animation

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teacher shows a student a new painting technique

Session 1, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student works on a series of self portraits

Session 1, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a students stands over her painting in concentration

Session 1, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student paints while on all fours looking over her butcher block paper

Session 1, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student holds up an interesting looking poppet that looks like it has escaped an asylum

Session 1, Advanced Projects

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen concentrates as they draw comics

Session 1, Alternative Comics and Graphic Novels

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
Two girls happily showcase their 3d model of a building

Session 1, Architecture: Analog & Digital Processes

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a class of students view the stage at millenium park

Session 1, Drawing: Urban Landscape

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
two students concentrate as they draw

Session 1, Experimental Drawing

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a young girl constructs a can-can looking skirt while wearing lavender headphones

Session 1, Fashion Construction

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student pins fabric akin to winged victory to a dress form in front of the backdrop of the chicago cityscape

Session 1, Fashion Design

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen paints on a canvas with bold paintings in primary colors behind her

Session 1, Oil Painting

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student photographs their work against a white backdrop with three point lighting

Session 1, Portfolio Prep Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
students collaborate on a large art piece

Session 1, Urban Canvas: Street Art & Community in Chicago

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a girl is bathed in the purple light of her computer as she focuses on her project

Session 1, Visual Communication Design

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen sculpts a wolf head

Artist Materials and Techniques

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9:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen works on their digital drawing on a Mac

Digital Drawing and Illustration

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12:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
Luna-Barba-draws a cool piece on the floor

Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Monday - Friday
a young girl designs her clothes on a dress form

Fashion Design

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12:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a student throws up a piece sign next to their fabric draped on a dress form

Fashion Illustration

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9:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen works on their painting

From Drawing to Painting

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12:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a girl with pink hair like a mermaid animates her project on a computer

Session 2, 2D Animation

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student animates a 3d project

Session 2, 3D Animation

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a students stands over her painting in concentration

Session 2, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teacher shows a student a new painting technique

Session 2, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen concentrates as they draw comics

Session 2, Alternative Comics and Graphic Novels

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
Two girls happily showcase their 3d model of a building

Session 2, Architecture: Analog & Digital Processes

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student colors their drawing on the computer

Session 2, Digital Illustration and Motion Graphics

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
two students concentrate as they draw

Session 2, Experimental Drawing

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a young girl constructs a can-can looking skirt while wearing lavender headphones

Session 2, Fashion Construction

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student proudly hold up her dope drawing of a person in front of some cool squares

Session 2, Figure Drawing

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen paints on a canvas with bold paintings in primary colors behind her

Session 2, Oil Painting

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student photographs their work against a white backdrop with three point lighting

Session 2, Portfolio Prep Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student works on a cool looking sculpture of a wolf head

Session 2, Sculpture: Materials and Methods

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student works on a series of self portraits

Session 4, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student works on a water-based painting of a cityscape

Water-Based Painting

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9:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen works on animating a digital drawing

Animation Studio

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a girl contracts a can can skirt

Fashion Construction

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a girl uses a dress form fitting as inspiration for her designs

Fashion Illustration

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
two teens concentrate on their drawings

From Drawing to Painting

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen edits her video on a Mac

Moving Images: Video Production Studio

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen shows off their oil painting of cats

Oil Painting

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
two girls show off their 3-d architectural model

Online, Architecture: Design and Drawing

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a grid of comic portraits by Jay Paver

Online, Creative Writing

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a group of cool teens draw awesome pictures

Online, Drawing Studio

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a series of indigo printed photographs arranged together

Session 3, Advanced Digital Photography

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a students stands over her painting in concentration

Session 3, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student paints while on all fours looking over her butcher block paper

Session 3, Advanced Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student holds up an interesting looking poppet that looks like it has escaped an asylum

Session 3, Advanced Projects

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen concentrates as they draw comics

Session 3, Alternative Comics and Graphic Novels

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
Two girls happily showcase their 3d model of a building

Session 3, Architecture: Analog & Digital Processes

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a young student draws a spiraling tower

Session 3, Architecture: Chicago in Perspective

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
two students concentrate as they draw

Session 3, Experimental Drawing

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a young girl constructs a can-can looking skirt while wearing lavender headphones

Session 3, Fashion Construction

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student proudly hold up her dope drawing of a person in front of some cool squares

Session 3, Figure Drawing

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student constructs a sculpture around some armature

Session 3, Material Manipulation: Introduction to Fibers

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student photographs their work against a white backdrop with three point lighting

Session 3, Portfolio Prep Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student stretches her body across her work drawing with her hands

Session 3, Sculpture: Flat to Form

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
Kate-Stenberg draws a comic

Comics and Graphic Novels

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen works on their digital drawing on a Mac

Digital Drawing and Illustration

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen draws a cool charcoal picture

Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a girl pins a dress that looks like winged victory

Fashion Construction

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a pink haired girl sews some clothes

Fashion Design

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a teen works on their colorful mixed media piece

From Drawing to Painting

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday - Friday
a student holds up an interesting looking poppet that looks like it has escaped an asylum

Session 5, Advanced Projects

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen concentrates as they draw comics

Session 5, Alternative Comics and Graphic Novels

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
two students concentrate as they draw

Session 5, Experimental Drawing

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen paints on a canvas with bold paintings in primary colors behind her

Session 5, Oil Painting

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student works on his crazy abstract charcoal drawing

Session 5, Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a student works on her blue cityscape

Session 5, Painting and Drawing Studio

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (T/TH 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Monday - Friday
a teen works on a series of self portraits

Water-Based Painting

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday

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    Chicago, IL 60603

  • Email: cs@saic.edu
  • Phone: 800.232.7242
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