Honoring Don Seiden

The Department of Art Therapy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the  Master of Arts in Art Therapy program.  From a few classes offered in the 1970s through the Department of Art Education and a brief trial period when a post-baccalaureate certificate was offered, the MAAT degree was launched in 1985.  An early teaching affiliation with Rush Medical School helped convince the SAIC administration that such a degree was viable and today as an independent department we are among the oldest and largest of the MA programs at the school with approximately 500 graduates.  All of this has been made possible by the pioneering vision of our founder Don Seiden and the creative contributions of the many talented instructors who have been part of our faculty over the years.

We would love for you to join us in celebrating this milestone on Friday, October 10th from 6 to 9 pm in the school's LeRoy Neiman Center at 37 S. Wabash. You can RSVP at saicmaaters@gmail.com.  We recognize most of you have relocated all around the country in the intervening years (literally Hawaii to Florida) yet we wanted to reach out in acknowledgement and gratitude.  This small film by alumna Mary Andrus will give those of you who cannot make the opening a sense of the evening's program.