纤维与材料研究本科课程是世界上同类课程中规模最大的课程，并提供由杰出的创新教师教授的渐进式课程，这些教师是该领域的领先艺术家和理论家。在芝加哥艺术学院（SAIC），我们在当代美术背景下教授纤维和材料研究，着重实验和创新。如果您是考虑攻读纤维和材料研究专业的美术学士（BFA）的学生，我们建议您参加入门课程，例如纤维和材料研究导论，织物和替代材料的印刷I，机织结构基础知识，集体编织，染色和针迹I。从那里，纤维和材料研究学院的教职员工将帮助您确定最适合您的实践和兴趣的高级课程的顺序和选择。
he Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is internationally renowned as a visionary program and one of the leading contemporary fiber arts education programs in the world. Research-based, concept-driven, and resolutely engaged with hands-on making, the program educates students to make ambitious, complex, and innovative contemporary art. The department's historical mission and vision are anchored in feminist and queer politics of community, compassion and care, and our classes offer free materials to students to augment their learning free of worries about the cost of supplies.