Active Quote by Stephen Beal

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

— Emil Ferris

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I…

— Kaskade

I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to…

— Allison Tolman

Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.

— Fred Eychaner

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I…

— Claes Oldenburg

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

— Dianne Reeves

I was fortunate enough to go to an art school where we had a lot of different ethnicities represented.

— Erika Jayne

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the…

— Aleksandra Mir

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've…

— Joe Sedelmaier

I didn't go to art school. I was a basketball scholarship, student-athlete, and both my parents were in the military. I had a very…

— RaMell Ross

I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end…

— Alex Weisman

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

— Chelsea Manning