Jim Iska
& Nicholas Senn High School
Jim Iska & Nicholas Senn High School

“…the Senn experience provides students a unique foundation for living, working, thriving, and leading,” Jim Iska, Photographer

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Project Overview

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  • Artist — Jim Iska

  • School — Nicholas Senn High School

  • Neighborhood — Edgewater

The tremendous diversity of Senn is what many students cited to me as one of their proudest features of their school. Forming personal bonds and friendships with people coming from vastly different cultures and interests, (thanks to the addition of the IB program and Senn Arts), the Senn experience provides students a unique foundation for living, working, thriving, and leading in an ever diverse and changing world. 

Looking back on my involvement at Senn over the past year, I can’t help being struck by the notion that these students are our future, and that our future is in good hands. 

As it has for over a century, Senn stands at the forefront of progressive education. Ella Flagg Young would be proud. 

 

Meet the Artist

Jim Iska

Jim Iska has been photographing the urban scene for over thirty years. After graduating from the Institute of Design in Chicago in 1980, Iska’s work has revolved around on architecture from the classic to the vernacular, and its integral role in defining the city. He collaborated with author and historian Francis Morrone on a series of architectural guidebooks of New York City, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn in the 1990s.  Iska also produced contemporary photography for the first and second editions ofThe City in a Garden: A History of Chicago’s Parks by Julia S. Bachrach.  He is currently the author of the blog “In and About the City.”

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Jim Iska has been photographing the urban scene for over thirty years. After graduating from the Institute of Design in Chicago in 1980, Iska’s work has revolved around on architecture from the classic to the vernacular, and its integral role in defining the city. He collaborated with author and historian Francis Morrone on a series of architectural guidebooks of New York City, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn in the 1990s.  Iska also produced contemporary photography for the first and second editions ofThe City in a Garden: A History of Chicago’s Parks by Julia S. Bachrach.  He is currently the author of the blog “In and About the City.”

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Previous Residency

Rhonda Brown & University of Chicago Charter School: Woodlawn

Next Residency

Jeff Phillips & Phoenix Military Academy

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