Fall 2022: School of Art & Design Alumni Newsletter, University of Illinois

Patrick Earl Hammie, Bump II D8.40.54, 2021, artist’s giclée print 1/1, 10.5 x 14 inches (26.67 x 35.56 cm).

ALUMNI

Director’s Message

Dear Alumni,

The School of Art & Design’s mission includes our commitment to open dialogue among students, faculty, staff, and a global community in an atmosphere of diversity and active inclusion. We believe a diverse environment creates more culturally connected, empathetic, and thoughtful creators and scholars. These environments improve creative and critical thinking, better preparing students for professional work and for leadership in an increasingly connected global workforce.

We have seen success in the creation of a more inclusive and diverse environment in Art & Design through increasing faculty representation and recruiting a more inclusive student body. In 2022-2023, 36% of our faculty and staff are from underrepresented populations and 27% (179 students) out of 655 are from underrepresented populations. We can also share that out of approximately 560 undergraduates, 142 are first generation, with 100 of these students self-reporting as other than white. We are proud of this progress and acknowledge the need to continue our recruitment efforts.

The 2021–22 Visitors Series has been one of our most dynamic, with 75% people of color and 50% women. Further, several of these visitors actively center on race/ racism and/or ableism as a focus of their work.

In addition, the units across the College of Fine and Applied Arts have been asked to address these Strategic Priorities to guide the College and Units:

• Priority #1: Teach in ways that bring clear benefit to Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students.

• Priority #2: Research and create to support just, equitable, and sustainable communities.

• Priority #3: Invest in the prosperity of neighbors who struggle to meet basic needs.

The School of Art and Design’s Committee to Promote Anti-Racism, Inclusion, and Equity have been charged to begin working on our response.

We are very pleased to share with you that the 2022 Faculty Exhibition will feature the school’s Black faculty through the lens of the Black Quantum Future as proposed by the Philadelphia-based activists and theorists Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa. The collaborative exhibition will explore Black identity, collectively, positionality, healing, innovation, and education as explored via multi-leveled/multidimensional immersive, critical, and openly reflective space.

The School has had a long tradition of annual exhibitions generously hosted by the Krannert Art Museum. As the practices of our faculty have evolved over the years, Art and Design has been in conversation with KAM on how best to present our current research activities. In fall 2022, this revisioning was realized through the celebration of our Black faculty. This exhibition recognizes the legacy of Black knowledge and production in ways that supports the ongoing efforts by the School of Art and Design, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign towards addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion, and celebrating our exceptional community.

Black on Black on Black on Black 2022 Art & Design Faculty Exhibition in the Krannert Art Museum

Featuring Patrick Earl Hammie, Stacey Robinson, Blair Ebony Smith, Nekita Thomas September 24–December 10, 2022

An opening celebration was held on September 24 in the Link, West, and Contemporary Galleries. A lecture series, community conversations, sound installation, and catalogue are planned. Read more about the Black on Black on Black on Black exhibit

Fall 2022 Visiting Artists

• Kelli Morgan: October 13

• Shenece Oretha: October 18

• Shermann Thomas: November 8

• William Downs: November 10

• Tiff Beatty: November, Date/Location TBD

Spring 2023 Visiting Artists

• John Jennings: March, Date TBD, 6pm KAM 62

• BQF Collective (Camae Ayewa & Rasheedah Phillips): TBD

In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light is a forthcoming exhibition at Giertz Gallery at Parkland College curated by and featuring the art of Patrick Earl Hammie, with Kumasi J. Barnett, William Downs, Kenyatta Forbes, Robert Pruitt, Stacey Robinson, and Charles Edward Williams. It will be on view November 14 to February 18, 2023.

Please know that you are welcome to join any of these celebratory events.

Art & Design Picnic 2022

Photo credit: William Hohe

Legacy Award Winners from Art & Design

Robert Faust (BFA ‘90 Graphic Design)

Described as “part artist, part designer, and part mediator,” Bob Faust is the principal and creative director for Faust, a Chicago-based art and design studio focused on cultural articulation. He is also the partner and design collaborator of artist Nick Cave, who together founded the dynamic, multiuse creative space called Facility. As an entity, it believes that art and design can create peace, build power, and change the world ... that by fostering an environment and community built from your dreams you will wake up daily within your destiny. Newcity magazine honored Faust as “Best Breakthrough Design Artist” in 2017 and followed up in 2020 naming him and partner Nick Cave “Designers of the Moment.” He has also been recognized as a design leader nationally and internationally by publications and institutions such as Communication Arts, NBC5 Chicago, the Society of Typographic Arts, and Under Consideration. Faust also serves on the Cultural Advisory Council for the City of Chicago, as well as Chicago Dancemakers Forum Board of Directors and the School of the Art Institute’s Fashion Council.

Mary Anna Pomonis (BFA ‘95 Painting)

Mary Anna Pomonis is a Los Angeles-based artist known primarily for her abstract paintings utilizing commercial airbrush tools as referents to both masculine and feminine power. Pomonis has exhibited in galleries and institutions, including the Western Carolina University Museum of Fine Arts; the Torrance Art Museum; the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois; the Lancaster Museum of Art and History; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The National Theater of Northern Greece. Her artwork has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, The New York Times, Whitehot Magazine, and Artweek. Additionally, her curatorial projects and essays have been featured in museums and gallery spaces throughout Southern California. She is the founder and a contributing member of the artists collective, the Association of Hysteric Curators (AHC). The AHC has been in both national and international press as a result of their social practice projects and activism in the Los Angeles area. Pomonis currently is an assistant professor of art at California State University Fullerton. She is co-editor, along with Professor Annie Buckley, of Radical Actions: From Teaching Artists to Social Practice, a social practice website. She currently is the director of the CSUF chapter of the Prison Arts Collective, working with incarcerated women in California.

Distinguished Alumnus Award Presentation and Lecture

Greg Drasler “THE PAINTED LINE”

Thursday, March 30, 2023 / 5:30 pm

62 Krannert Art Museum 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL Reception in the Link Gallery follows

Greg Drasler lives and works in New York City. His paintings have been the subject of sixteen one-person exhibitions and included in over thirty group shows. He was born and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, and moved to New York in 1983 after receiving an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The first exhibition of his paintings was in the first On View at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1983, followed by Other Man: Alternative Views of Masculinity in 1987, both curated by Marcia Tucker.

Metaphorical depictions of construction sites and workers evolved in his work as accumulations of tools and objects populated his paintings that addressed the constructions of identity. Crowds of men in hats along with the Baggage Paintings contained humor, nostalgia, and memory in ongoing assemblies of selves. Drasler began describing his painting process as packing and re-packing an empty suitcase or painting the inside out. These works were exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Artist Space, New York; and the Whitney Museum in Stamford, Connecticut, among others.

With the support of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 1991 followed by a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1993, Drasler began Cave Paintings. Through depictions of elaborately constructed interiors, paintings concentrating on refuge were posed as asylums or containers for a self. The Queens Museum of Art first presented Cave Paintings in 1994, followed by exhibitions in Boston, Seattle, and New York.

Drasler joined the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York in 2007. His recent exhibition On the Lam traced his references from film production apparatus into auto interiors as places of independence, seclusion, and screening. He characterized these paintings as “packed like luggage, appointed like rooms and driven like automobiles.” His current work Road House, with the support of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship followed by a Pollock Krasner grant in 2019, continues the use of assembly procedures in constructing patterned panoramas. Cloud computations above planes of vivid crazy-quilt terrains contain structures suggesting vernacular American roadhouses as places between here and there.

Drasler’s essay “Painting into a Corner: Representation as Shelter” was published in The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas, edited by Joseph Scalia (Continuum Press, London; Wesleyan Press, 2002) and was followed by a collaboration with poet Timothy Liu titled Plolytheogamy (Philadelphia: Saturnalia Press, 2009). Drasler has taught and lectured at schools, including Princeton University, Pratt Institute for the past twelve years, Williams College, Hofstra University, and Montclair State University.  Reviews of Drasler’s work can be found in Art in America, New Art Examiner, Chicago Tribune, and A.C.T. Gallery.

Program Recognition Art Education

Art education students from Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Arkansas gathered at the School of Art and Design and the Krannert Art Museum for the University of Illinois Art Education Pre-service conference on October 1, 2022. Anne Thulson from Metropolitan State University of Denver delivered the keynote in addition to a program of local and visiting speakers discussing the expansive field of art education including K-12, museum education, video games, web design, art and language, comic art, and art therapy. This conference is organized and hosted by the Art Education Student Organization at the University of Illinois.

Current Art Education PhD candidate Shivani Bhalla will participate on a panel called “Disability Disclosure in Academia: The Risks and Benefits” (chair: Alice Wexler; respondent: Albert Stabler (UIUC, Art Education PhD, 2018); presenters: Alexandra Allen, Shivani Bhalla, J.T. Eisenhauer, Tim Smith).

The art exhibition Illini Past and Present featured the work of current students and alumni in conversation together, honoring a shared history with an eye towards the future. This exhibition runs October 6–30 at the Illini Union Gallery and is organized by alumni Howard Kanter and the students enrolled in ARTE 475, Art Exhibition Practices.

Graphic Design

Graphic Design students were featured in Smile Politely. Juniors Chabeli Duran, Christine Piolet, Ellie Lee, and Ti’Andrea Jones participated in an exhibition at the Boneyard Arts Festival titled Whatever She Imagines.

Industrial Design

All students currently enrolled and graduating in May 2023 or later in the BFA Industrial Design Program will graduate from ID as a STEMdesignated major. Students can apply for STEM Scholarships and OPT extensions for international students eligible to work in the US for up to three years following graduation.

Jim Kendall, assistant teaching professor in Industrial Design, finished writing an eBook/textbook titled Foundation of Industrial Design: Working with Principles for the Introduction to Industrial Design class. The book, published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, targets introductory students who want to know how industrial designers shape the world around them. The book covers design vocabulary, explores the profession, and has exercises to learn about industrial design.

MFA Industrial Design student wins 2022 IDSA Graduate Merit Award for Midwest District IDSA recognizes exceptional student design talent through its annual Student Merit Awards programs. The competition highlights the best creativity and problem-solving design brilliance in IDSA’s five North American Districts. The Graduate SMA (GSMA) competition consists of two separate rounds. Round 1 is conducted independently by the schools and determines a single Student Finalist for that school. In round 2, the jury panel of design leaders and educators reviews and picks the five GSMA District Winners—one winner from each district for this prestigious distinction.

Hanyu Zhu, MFA, a recent graduate from the Industrial Design MFA program, won a graduate student merit award for the Midwest District of the Industrial Design Society of America. Hanyu’s thesis project was the design of a modular coach with the operator’s ability to change the seating configuration easily to suit changes in passenger use needs. The operator could set up the coach with a mixture of conventional seating, face-to-face units for groups, private units for individuals, or sleeper units as required to meet seasonal changes in demand. He was selected after online judging by a panel of design professionals. In 2021, the same award was given to Hanyu’s colleague Hunter Zhang (MFA 2021). Hanyu presented his work via video to the Annual International Design conference of the IDSA in Seattle in September this year.

PDMA 2022 White Space Challenge Winners

The White Space Product Development Challenge competition by the Chicago Chapter of the Product Development Management Association with Northwestern University Segal Professional Bridge group promotes white space research that identifies a real-world problem. Industrial Design students competed with teams from several peer institutions. Our students did us proud by winning the first, second, and people’s choice awards.

1st Prize: Yuhe Cui, Zezhi Guo, and Yuxin Wang

2nd Prize: Yuxan Zhang, Sherry Xu, and Huang, Yi

People’s choice award: Ishani Juneja, Manas Kandimalla, and Sonia Neelangatil

Studio Art

This year Studio Art welcomes three artists-in-residence to the program: William Blake (BFA 2014, Painting), Sally Fama Cochrane, and Ruth Lantz . Across one school year, they will be teaching painting courses and hosting a group exhibition of their works and a public discussion in the spring.

Campus Visit

Industrial Design alumnus Peter Pi-Tek Ho returned to campus for the first time more than 40 years after receiving his MFA in Industrial Design in 1979. He spent the day being reintroduced to the campus in general and to the School of Art and Design and College of Fine and Applied Arts in particular, with stops at Japan House and FAA Dean Kevin Hamilton’s office.

He met with current ID faculty and students from every level of study from first year through graduate level and got a glimpse of what it is like to be an ID student in 2022. We enjoyed hearing his story and learning about the opportunities he was given in the course of earning his MFA degree and how that played into his decision to “give back” to his alma mater by supporting undergraduate and graduate ID students of the future.

Peter has established an estate gift that, when realized, will create substantial scholarship and fellowship funds for the School of Art & Design to attract and support industrial design students at both the undergrad and graduate levels in perpetuity.

Takeover IV

TAKEOVER is an annual extravaganza/experimental showcase of art and design where all 180+ first-year students take over the bathrooms, hallways, stairwells, ceilings, galleries, and classrooms in the A&D Building and the Link Gallery for one night only. TAKEOVER IV was on March 11, 2022.

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TAKEOVER V is scheduled for Friday, March 31, 2023.

National Portfolio Days

The School of Art & Design faculty participate in National Portfolio Days in San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.

Art & Design faculty participated in the National Portfolio Review Day at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on Sunday, October 17, 2021.

• Luke Batten, Associate Professor, Studio Art (Photography)

• Jennifer Bergmark , Teaching Assistant Professor, Art Education

• Alan Mette, Director

• Stacey Robinson, Associate Professor, Graphic Design

• Simrun Sethi, Teaching Assistant Professor, Industrial Design

• Suresh Sethi, Professor, Industrial Design

• Angelica Sibrian, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design

• Chevonne Totten-Garner, Assistant Dean for Recruitment and Administration, FAA

Mary Block Alumni Exhibition

Mary lives and documents life in a small midwestern rural-berg. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and was awarded a scholarship to and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Mary began the graduate program at the University of Iowa but left the program after receiving a grant from Alloy Casting Company and the School of Engineering at the University of Illinois. When the grant was completed, Mary left the engineering program for travel throughout Israel and part of Egypt. She completed graduate school, obtaining a Master of Health Sciences degree at Rush University, several years later.

The bulk of Mary’s sculpture is in public and private sculpture commissions. Public work includes purchases by the state of Illinois, the state of Alaska, as well as smaller cities and schools. Molds and documentation of

two of her pieces are included in the Chicago Historical Society and Art Institute Archival Collections.

Thematically, Mary’s work explores the unique anomalies and humor found in contemporary midwestern America. “This can be a harsh landscape. Awe of its beauty accompanies an understanding of its underlying disquiet. It’s the same with the human inhabitants. We are generous, prickly, odd, and well aware of our place in nature. My neighbors are less interested in overt protest and more interested in survival. We know that we live in a place of beauty, wealth and want.”

Artist website: maryblocksculpture.com

NEW DEGREE PROGRAM

Advanced Design Thinking

Art and Design is now offering a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Design Thinking. The program is an intensive, semester-long introduction to the processes and practice of design thinking as embodied in human-centered design. Students will participate in two studio courses which follow the stages of the design thinking process from inquiry to insight, ideation, involvement, and implementation. art.illinois.edu/programs-and-applying/masters-programs/grad-cert

Bea Nettles: Harvest Moon

April 8, 2022

Bea Nettles has been exhibiting and publishing her autobiographical works since 1970.

Since that time, she has had over fifty one-person exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Light Gallery and Witkin Gallery in NYC. Her works have also been shown internationally in major group exhibitions. Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory, a major retrospective, opened in October 2019 at the Sheldon Art Gallery in St Louis; moved to the Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, in January 2020; and concluded at Krannert Art Museum during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with limited opportunities for in-person viewing and a robust virtual programming schedule. A book by the same name has been co-published by the Eastman Museum and the University of Texas Press.

Her images are in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Canada; the Polaroid International Collection; SF MOMA; the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC; the Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY; and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. Her artists’ books can be found in special collections libraries at universities including Yale (Beinecke), Washington, and Virginia.

She taught photography and artists’ books from 1970-2007 at Rochester Institute of Technology, Tyler School of Art, and the University of Illinois where she is a Professor Emerita. She was selected for the ACE Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and the UIUC School of Art & Design Distinguished Alumni Award for 2020.

Nettles continues to lecture and teach workshops internationally.

Robert Cumming

Robert Cumming, MFA 1967, passed away December 16, 2021.

Robert Cumming, an artist of exceptional versatility who could work in several media simultaneously, was a leading proponent of conceptual photography in the 1970s. The cause of death reported by his partner of 33 years, Margaret Irwin-Brandon, was complications of Parkinson’s disease.

Cumming left his mark on modern art as a multidisciplined contrarian, who viewed life with an eye for the quixotic, absurd, mind-expanding, and amusing, translating his observations through painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and photography into engaging visual essays touched with Surrealism and always tugging at the boundaries of what is real and what is artifice. A brilliant draftsman, he started making art at age 5 with small, precise renderings of different scenes that sometimes won prizes awarded by his local newspaper— precision and clarity of line remained a hallmark of his graphic work for the rest of his life. His paintings, always representational and often large in scale, probed the perplexities of life and art and such complex themes as the interweaving of vision and imagination.

It is Cumming’s photography from the 1970s and 80s, however, that constitutes his greatest legacy. Black and white prints distinguished by acute detail made possible by large negatives were his stock in trade, and he was at his best as a provocateur in scenes he constructed himself with an intention to tease, trick, or stimulate the mind. Crazy quilts of patterns, a slice of bread embedded in a watermelon, movie sets as uncanny stand-ins for reality, and plays on negative and positive relationships are just some of the

head-scratching tableaux that populate his work with both wit and philosophy.

Robert Cumming was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1943. Always interested in art and especially draftsmanship, he earned his BA in 1965 at the Massachusetts College of Art and his MFA in 1967 at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign, with a concentration in painting, drawing, and printmaking. After graduation he taught studio art at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he began working with conceptual art of different forms including mail art, illogical sculptures, and performance skits. In 1970 Cumming took a teaching position at California State University, Fullerton, and occasionally taught at other colleges around Los Angeles. Surrounded by a creative arts community in Southern California with a trend toward conceptual work and influenced by Hollywood set photography, he developed his own strain of conceptual photography, with a sensibility reminiscent of the satire, irony, and linguistic play of Marcel Duchamp. He first exhibited his photography in 1973 at California State College, Long Beach, and group shows followed at such prestigious institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

By the end of the 1970s, Cumming’s interests began to shift again toward painting and drawing, and while he continued his photography, it was mostly of a documentary nature. In 1978 he moved back to New England with a teaching job at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut, and he later established a studio in Whately, Massachusetts. In the later 1980s he met Irwin-Brandon, who was teaching at Mount Holyoke College in the music department, and they

became life partners. Her specialty is Baroque music, and after having founded Arcadia Players, a period instrument orchestra based in Northampton, Massachusetts, she decided to move back to her home state of California in 2013, where she purchased a house in Desert Hot Springs, California, near Palm Springs. Before long, Cumming joined her, and he happily lived out his life with her in that desert community in pleasant seclusion.

Cumming’s work is included in many art museum collections across the country, and it appeared in numerous group exhibitions as well as solo shows, both in the United States and abroad. He was the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants (1972, 1975, 1979) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1981). He is survived by his sister, Virginia, and brother, Edward, both of Southborough, Massachusetts, nephews Andrew and Christopher Cumming, and extended family.

www.palmspringslife.com/robertcumming-artist/

www.latimes.com/entertainmentarts/story/2021-12-21/robertcumming-photographer-obituary

IN MEMORIAM

Kevin Reeder

The School of Art and Design is saddened by the passing of Kevin Reeder, 64, of Champaign. He passed on April 21, 2021, at home.

Kevin was proud to be a design educator and product designer. As a design educator, he was a professor at Stanford, Ohio State, and Georgia Tech, finishing his career at the University of Illinois. He was the first professor to ever achieve tenure at Georgia Tech’s Industrial Design Department and for several years was ranked as a top design educator in the United States.

As a product designer, he specialized in toy design and children’s anthropometrics, creating products for Discovery, Mattel, and others. He holds several patents, and his work is featured in the Smithsonian National

Museum of American History.

Kevin was also a brilliant visual artist and wood sculptor. His sculptures primarily included marionettes, jewelry boxes, and small animals. His drawings, for both design concepts and for fun, were whimsical. The caricature drawing of his face that he used as a signature on his work was especially loved.

His pride and joy, however, were his children, and before his disability, he spent the majority of his time with them drawing, building snow and sand sculptures, coaching tee-ball and soccer teams, playing in the surf, and teaching them the proper way to dip a french fry in ketchup.

Gloria Pagliarulo Johnson Rohr

Gloria Pagliarulo Johnson Rohr of Hilton Head Island died October 13, 2021. Gloria was born January 8, 1927, in Wilmette, Illinois, and was the daughter of Nietta and Dominic Pagliarulo. She graduated from the University of Illinois summa cum laude with a BFA degree in Industrial Design. She was also a Bronze Tablet awardee and a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.

Her husband Robert Johnson predeceased her in 1956. She married Peter Rohr in 1976, and in 1983 they moved from Westport, Connecticut, to Hilton Head Island. Gloria was involved in the interior design of St Francis by the Sea Catholic Church in Hilton Head where she designed the alter, the stain glass windows, and the 14 Stations of the Cross.

She was an avid golfer, skier and proficient in many hobbies such as theater, art, writing, and volunteering.

IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM

Zhabiz Shafieyoun

Dr. Zhabiz Shafieyoun’s background was in Industrial Design including her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Art University of Tabriz, Iran. In addition to her academic experience, she had 10 years of industry experience as a designer, researcher, and creative director in Iran, Italy, and the US. She received a PhD in Design with a concentration in Design Research from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her doctoral work explored a variety of topics including emotional design, service design, and healthcare design. Using the Japanese method of Kansei Engineering, she studied emotional design in healthcare centers focusing on increasing positive emotions and designing a new method for determining the emotional impact of waiting areas. She cofounded the European Kansei Engineering Group in 2014, which has held an annual conference since its inception. Her teaching experience was centered on design methods, UX testing, drawing, strategy design, emotional design, and design skills. Zhabiz started her academic career as an adjunct professor at Winthrop University in South Carolina and was soon to begin teaching as an Assistant Professor in Design at the University of Illinois but was never able to start due to her battle with leukemia. A scholarship was established in her memory by Mr. Jerry Derksen and is supported by friends and family of Dr. Shafieyoun.

Maura Flood

EdM Art Education 2012

Tell us about yourself—where are you from, prior teaching or professional experience, education, etc

I’m Midwest (specifically Illinois) now and forever. I was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. I earned my BS in Consumer and Textile Marketing from UIUC in 2006. During that time, I studied fashion design abroad in London and completed internships in small boutiques. After graduating, I worked for the fashion design house Caroline Rose as an Operations Coordinator. After two years, I returned to UIUC for graduate school. I student taught in Philo, Chicago, and Oak Park, IL, and spent summers interning in Chicago at art museums and galleries. From 2012-2013, I worked as a CPS high school visual arts teacher at Uplift, a social justice school. I left CPS for a position as a full-time teaching artist at the Art Institute of Chicago. I’ve now been at the museum for nine years and have been promoted across five roles.

What brought you here? What attracted you to design/art history/new media (etc.)

I love collaboration and ideas and art. It took me a minute to find a career that intersects all three of those interests. In art education, I get to be creative and design projects with people who inspire me. I also get to talk about art a lot, with so many kinds of people. In

addition to the very affordable tuition, I chose UIUC because I love skies and cornfields. I liked going to art school in the country because there is so much space to think and focus and make big stuff.

Where are you now, and what are you doing?

I am currently an Associate Director of Creative Spaces at the Art Institute of Chicago. In this role, I design experiential learning spaces and engagements inspired by works of art in the museum’s collection. I also lead education special projects—especially those that are digital and DEI orientated.

Best memory of your time at UIUC?

When several art students (my friends) took over and transformed Flagg Hall (all three levels) into a haunted house. They dressed up and pretended to be ghosts that haunted anyone who entered. It was ridiculously timeconsuming, scary, and amazing.

Proudest accomplishments? (Professional and/or personal?)

I’m very proud to have taught in Chicago Public Schools. I’m proud of many of my museum projects too—a teen 24-hour design competition hosting 100 teens overnight at the museum, producing a global online course with MoMA and Tate, producing virtual programs during the onset of the pandemic, any live program where we’ve featured Chicago voices and perspectives in the galleries to collectively make-meaning of objects. Personally, I’m proud to have a life that feels mine, that’s creative, challenging, and also weird. I’m proud of my partner and our kids and this sweet life we keep together imagining, playing, and creating. I’m infinitely exhausted and grateful.

Upcoming or current projects that you’d like people to know about?

Like so many other museums, the pandemic devastated educational programs at the Art Institute. The big project now is rebuilding, hiring new staff, and reimagining the role of museum education now.

Advice for those about to graduate?

Be brave, don’t settle, say yes to new experiences, and exceed expectations whenever possible. There are so many opportunities I received because someone was impressed by that extra thing I did. Also, be kind, generous, and creative in your interactions with others. Don’t pretend to be someone you aren’t. You need to know yourself to recognize and make the life you deserve.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Chitra Ramanathan BFA Painting 1993

My name is Chitra Ramanathan . I would like to first thank the UI School of Art and Design for inviting me to this alumni interview. I hope that my artistic journey provides inspiration to present and future students seeking a career in the arts. An alumna of the School of Art & Design, I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art by majoring in Painting with honors in 1993. I am also an alumna of the Gies College of Business also located in the Urbana campus where I received my MBA degree in 1997.

Tell us about yourself—where are you from, prior teaching or professional experience, education, etc.

I am a contemporary Indian American visual artist. Born in Trivandrum, Kerala, India into a family with strong roots in classical music, I grew up in Kolkata in the northeastern part of the country. I was enrolled in a pre school from the age of four onwards, gaining exposure in stages to different art forms including

music and dance, working with clay, rudiments of ornamental art forms on metal, and particularly drawing and painting. I must have developed a special interest in drawing and painting as I drew pictures of basically anything I saw around me, including portraits of family members and my parents’ friends. I developed an early love for the outdoors as well, repeatedly making color pencil drawings of a scenic lake with boats that was close to our family home. I entered drawing and painting competitions at every opportunity throughout grade school and was recognized by some prominent awards at the national level. At the age of eleven, the Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata awarded me a trophy during an exhibition of a group of my watercolor paintings at the venue A year earlier, I had won a top prize in a national coloring competition hosted by Unilever, India. These encouragements stimulated me to choose art as my future academic pursuit. After completing high school at Good Shepherd Convent in Chennai, I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Stella Maris College in the same metropolis.

What attracted you to design/art history/new media (etc.)

Moving to the United States with my family and to pursue further education, I was accepted by the School of Art and Design and fulfilled a few elective courses needed to complete a second Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, majoring in Painting in 1993 . This was my very first encounter with abstract painting! In 1992, I traveled to Paris, France through the UI summer study abroad program. Traveling in and around Paris during the

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

months of stay, I engaged in learning French art history and visiting museums, recording my findings through sketches. I was particularly drawn to the Impressionist Claude Monet’s Haystack paintings capturing fleeting moments in time, and the works of the Abstract Expressionists portraying mental emotions rather than visible subject matter. After completing college, I continued to live in Champaign until 2003, with some prominent accomplishments to follow as detailed below.

Best memory of your time at UIUC?

I have several evergreen memories both at UIUC and as a resident of Champaign-Urbana from 1991 until 2003 when my family relocated to Indianapolis. I enjoyed my undergraduate years closely interacting with my teachers and classmates. One of my best experiences was that my years as an undergrad were a turning point for my direction, being that it was my first experience in creating abstract paintings, enthused by the freedom to create in large dimensions. Alongside, I took diverse courses including printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics which I also enjoyed tremendously! Following my BFA, Binney and Smith, makers of Crayola crayons awarded me a Liquitex Paints Product Art Grant consecutively for 1994 and 1995. During the summer of 1994, the ARC Gallery at Chicago hosted a month-long solo exhibition of my student works that included not just paintings, but prints and sculpture that I had created as part of my coursework. The show received notice, as different galleries on Broadway, New York City including Agora Gallery featured my paintings in solo as well as group shows from 1995 until 1999. Some of these exhibits attracted the attention of New York art critics who reviewed my art in publications such as Manhattan Arts International magazine.

In 1996, the dean of the College of Medicine at UIUC acquired a pair of my acrylic and mixed media paintings. It is a special memory because I had created both works at my allotted undergrad student art studio. The largesized pieces of different dimensions were installed in the main conference room where they remained in display for several years. Between year 2000 and 2003, some of my early works were sold at an auction titled “Artists against AIDS,” held annually in Champaign during those times. In 2003, the News-Gazette published a photo interview conducted at my studio. (“Happy Art,” Melissa Merli, Staff Writer, News-Gazette, February 23, 2003)

My early years at UIUC therefore, were stepping stones to future successes as a contemporary American art !

Where are you now, and what are you doing?

Currently living in Atlanta, I am professional painter and art educator mostly known for my predominantly large-scale abstract body of work that visually portrays happiness and joy, through color and texture. Most of my paintings are inspired by the melody of music, fantasy,

films, the spirituality of my roots, and the four seasons. Since 1999, my numerous originals have been acquired by private and business clients while simultaneously completing commission invitations from organizations and educational institutions as site-specific public art, with private clients seeking custom paintings as recently as in 2020. Simultaneously, I have been teaching courses and workshops in abstract, mixed media and acrylic painting since 2004, at the Indianapolis Art Center until 2010, the Art School at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida from 2011 until 2018, and currently the Norcross Gallery and Studios in the Atlanta area since early 2020.

My biography and images may be found at: www. chitrafineart.com

Proudest professional accomplishments: My career has progressed steadily over the past years. By 1999, unexpected opportunities began manifesting themselves via online portals. In 2004, MGM Resorts International invited me to re-create two of my earlier abstract paintings on a larger-scale after coming across two earlier 24 X 18 in. originals via a website. I agreed, and the resulting pair of signed, acrylic and mixedmedia paintings in dimensions of 6-feet high and 4-feet wide were installed in the Bellagio Conservatory, an indoor botanical garden located inside the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Housed in a refurbished space devoted to displaying the signed works, the project and its famed location brought me name recognition. (As recently as in 2020, I completed a pair of paintings in dimensions of 8-feet high by 3.6-feet wide commissioned by the president of Ulliman Schutte Construction in Miamisburg, Ohio, and previously a diptych painting for the CEO of the Biaggi’s restaurant chain in Bloomington, Illinois. Both projects were based on abstract garden landscapes rendered in my abstract style.

Aside from acquired originals, undertaking projects for the public realm through opportunities have connected my art with varied audiences in venues of organizational as well as educational institutions. In 2008, I created a mural in the lobby of Crooked Creek Elementary School in Indianapolis. Commissioned through a grant by the area’s school district, it was a joyful experience being that I chose to include contributions by each enrolled child from kindergarten to grade five on the almost 14-ft. wall area. In 2006, my five large originals in varied dimensions were installed in Chase Bank at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, a public art project initiated by the Indiana Arts Council “to project” the city of Indianapolis as a cultural destination.” My originals have also often been displayed as “art in alternate public spaces” such as a loaned piece at the office of the Mayor of Indianapolis in 2007, government administration buildings and the main courthouse in Vero Beach, Florida from 2012 to 2018, and a loan exhibition in 2019

by the City of Orlando Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, with one of my large paintings being selected through the publicart.org portal.

Academic visiting artist tours include the art department of Kansas State University, and an invitation from the Head of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK for a visual presentation of my body of work alongside week-long student critiques at the Royal Academy Schools, a tour I completed in 2005.

Donating to charity has been heartwarming on the personal level. Some of the causes that have received my original paintings as donations in past years are the Care for Kids charity organization, Art with a Heart , the Madam C.J. Walker Theatre, Indianapolis, the Indianapolis International Film Festival , and and the University of Illinois Foundation

Upcoming or current projects that you’d like people to know about?

I have accepted the new UI Alumni Alma Market , loosely interpreted as “creations by University of Illinois alumni and students, and Urbana-Champaign area businesses to support fellow Illini”.

After a gap in time compelled by the onset of the pandemic, I will soon resume teaching classes and workshops particularly in Abstract Painting at the Norcross Gallery and Studios in the Atlanta area.

Ongoing, I plan to continue accepting commissioned projects both for corporate and private clients through invitations. Aside from my art industry accomplishments in the professional/commercial realm, I hope and wish that the unique voice my paintings convey become inspirations, reference or legacy for future generations of both artists and art lovers. That would include both UI alumni and future students who aspire to become professional artists!

Advice for those about to graduate?

To those about to graduate, my advice would be to continue working, treating each failure as a mere stepping stone to the next successful opportunity from my personal experience. Continue to seek new ideas and inspirations for your art if you plan to choose to become painters.

My explorations have not been about just a particular piece of canvas, print, or mural, but about paintings that have aimed to convey a strong and relatable message to all audiences. Helping my students as an experienced art instructor has been a fruitful, growing experience. I hope that readers of this interview have a positive and happy experience as well!

Tell us about yourself—where are you from, prior teaching or professional experience, education, etc

I grew up on farm in Illinois and went to UIUC for college. After graduating I had a few different jobs working with plastic bottling and tradeshow display design. Then moved out to Baltimore to take a job at Under Armour in 2014 and have been there ever since.

What brought you here? What attracted you to design/art history/new media (etc.)

I originally pursued Psychology as my major. I thought Psychology would be a safer bet for a career post college. I was always interested in art doing a lot of painting and drawing in high school. So very quickly into college I switched my major over to Art and Design to pursue an area I was more passionate about.

Where are you now, and what are you doing?

Currently I live in Baltimore, Maryland. I’m working as a footwear designer at Under Armour in the Train & Recovery category.

Best memory of your time at UIUC?

Best memories from UIUC in the ID program were the late nights in the studio when everyone was hustling to finish projects on time. A major sense of comradery resonated when information and help was being shared between classmates just trying to get unstuck or finish a detail.

Proudest accomplishments? (Professional and/or personal?)

On a personal level, we just welcomed our first child a few months ago. That has been an amazing new experience to say the least. On a professional level, my biggest accomplishments are all the small things that I tend to do wrong a lot less often. (haha) Just overall progression from myself with all things design is what I’m most proud of professionally.

Upcoming or current projects that you’d like people to know about?

Currently I have a couple of projects that are out and available from Under Armour. And then in 2023, there are quite a few interesting recovery projects that I was lucky enough to have worked on. I say lucky enough because the team here has been amazing to work with. They are always willing to share information and insights, and this has led to a great new approach for the category.

Advice for those about to graduate?

Not sure where to start, but here are a couple of notes I wish I could have given my younger self:

• Stay in contact with classmates. You can help each other throughout your careers.

Continue to work on your skills (2D, 3D, Storytelling, etc.) in the off-hours.

• For the projects in your portfolio, simplify and make sure each part of the process holistically leads to the next part. You want to tell your story in a clear concise way that makes sense.

For the final designs in your portfolio, your inspiration images should point directly to your final design. Focus on proportions and the hierarchy of your features. Don’t add too many textures. Refine and try to be as considerate as you possibly can with each detail.

• When interviewing, just relax and know that the people interviewing you are rooting for you and want you to be good. The reason you’re there is they could use your help and skills in their design department.

I could go on for days because I did so many of these things wrong with my original portfolio coming out of school. But I’ll just stop there. Best of luck to all the graduates!

Lastly, just wanted to say thanks so much for asking me to be a part of this newsletter. It was a pleasure to reflect and hopefully something I relayed here can help the students in some type of way. All the best!

Hugh Sato

BFA New Media 2019

Tell us about yourself—where are you from, prior teaching or professional experience, education, etc

I grew up in Chicago, Lincoln Square area—I moved back after graduation and still live here with my partner, cat, and two roommates. Before college, I had spent a lot of time in the Gallery 37 programs through Afterschool Matters in downtown Chicago, which I think has changed a lot since I was there. That was probably my most significant influence in coming to art school.

What brought you here? What attracted you to design/art history/new media (etc.)

I initially landed at UIUC, striving for a degree in Urban Planning. I still love urban planning and am interested in city planning, but I remember taking Art 140 my first year and loving it. I knew then that my passion was for the arts and the professors, and the classes that I took only bolstered my desire to make creative work my profession. So, after talking briefly with my program advisor, I switched to New Media in my second year.

Where are you now, and what are you doing?

I work as a senior software designer at a consultancy—a place called 8th Light. Funny enough, I avoided calling myself a designer for a long time after I graduated with my BFA because I thought it would mean I sold out and stopped making art. But honestly, I’ve never been more inspired and creative in my work than I have now. My path was long and windy, and I spent many years making performance art, installation, and interactive work, which was fulfilling and exhausting at the same time. However, it turned out that what had tied all of these experiences together was a passion for creative collaboration, and it’s what I still do today.

Best memory of your time at UIUC?

I loved attending lectures with no relation to my degree. There were always plenty of open conversations and talks available for anyone to attend, which is just one of the benefits of being at a university where crossdisciplinary interests can be satisfied and can help influence your work in beautiful ways. If you’re a current student, you absolutely should be researching and attending these events!

Proudest accomplishments? (Professional and/or personal?)

After college, I found my way into a performance/ dance collaborative where I was making technology to augment the dance performance experience. It led me to so many interesting people and experiences, namely being paid by the Egyptian consulate to travel to Cairo and collaborate with artists there to make performances and participate in cultural exchange. That was an eye-opener regarding what possibilities you can create for yourself when you dive into making art at the professional level.

Upcoming or current projects that you’d like people to know about?

COVID paused this, but I’ve been lucky to participate in Family Days at the MCA Chicago, building interactive artwork for families to create work with me. I’m hoping that we’ll get to do this again soon!

Advice for those about to graduate?

Keep your day job. I’m stealing that advice from one of my favorite professors from my program, Deke Weaver. Yes, you need a job to make some money to keep the boat afloat, but the real benefit of a job is that it influences your work in ways you might never expect. Typically at most jobs, people have to work together to make a thing happen, and you might take what works or doesn’t work back to your studio and apply those to your practice. Austin Kleon, in “Steal Like An Artist,” talks about taking ideas from everywhere and combining them in new and interesting ways. Bring your experience with creative practice back to your work. Not all of my jobs have had that kind of opportunity, but those jobs left me frustrated enough to find better jobs because, at the end of the day, I can’t live without making things.

Keep a brag file. Keep track of the good things you’ve accomplished and keep yourself motivated. Collect nice things others have said about you, and remind others of nice things said about them. Practice speaking up for others. Learn to be a better collaborator because all art practices involve collaboration in some way. Don’t strive to be a solo artist, and never claim all of the credit— no one gets to be a successful artist without others working alongside you.

Plus, it’s way more fun.

Alumni Accomplishments

Norman Akers

MFA 1991 Fine Arts. The University of Kansas endowment and the University of Kansas Department of Visual Arts sponsored an Inaugural Exhibit, Indigenous Space featuring Edgar Heap of Birds and Norman Akers celebrating the naming of the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery on Saturday, January 29, 2022.

Roger Colombik

BFA 1984 Sculpture. Recently interviewed by CanvasRebel Magazine at canvasrebel.com/meetroger-colombik/ www.rogercolombik.com

Keenan Dailey

BFA 2018 Graphic Design & MFA 2021 Graphic Design. The Champaign County African American Heritage Trail unveiling of mural by School of Art & Design alumnus, Keenan Daily was held on Friday, September 9, 2022 at 10 am at Douglass Park, 5th & Grove Street, Champaign. Keenan.dailey@gmail.com

Marsha Glaziere

BFA 1966 Painting. Interviewed for Voyage Jacksonville magazine at voyagejacksonville.com/interview/checkout-marsha-glaziere-s-story/.

Leah Guadagnoli

BFA 2012 Painting. Leah was featured in “Leah Guadagnoli’s Joyous Kitsch” by Alex Wexelman in the latest edition of Hyperallergic. hyperallergic. com/690050/leah-guadagnolis-joyous-kitsch/

Amanda Henderson

MFA 2018 Industrial Design. With Deana McDonagh (Professor of Industrial Design + Designer in Residence

at the Beckman Institute) have reimagined the East Wing of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. They have brought in playful elements to create a more welcoming environment. This is a long-term project with the Beckman utilizing empathic design research to energize their working environments. art.illinois.edu/about-us/news/professor-deanamcdonagh-and-alumna-amanda-henderson-useempathetic-design-to-reimagine-the-east-wing-ofbeckman-institute/

John Hrehov

MFA 1985 Painting. Receives 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts Recharge New Surrealist Prize. www.nyfa. org/blog/introducing-john-hrehov-receives-2021recharge-new-surrealist-prize/ www.johnhrehov.com

Yvette Mayorga

BFA 2014 Painting. Upcoming exhibitions. “Works Acquired by the NMSU Art Museum for Contemporary Ex Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium.” Museum at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Saturday, October 29, 2022 – Sunday, March 12, 2023; What a Time to Be,” The Momentary, Bentonville, AR, Saturday, October 29, 2022 -Sunday, March 12, 2023; “Opulence: Performative Wealth and the Failed American Dream,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, Thursday, December 8, 2022- Sunday, April 16, 2023. www.yvettemayorga.com

Mitchell Oliver

MFA 2019 New Media. Named Executive Director of Elsewhere Studios Residency MFA Alum Mitchell Oliver was recently named Executive Director of the Elsewhere Studios Artist Residence in Paonia, CO. Elsewhere Studios is a small art residency formed in 2011 in the rural setting of Paonia, CO. Elsewhere generally hosts

four to six artists at one time, and has hosted over 300 artists from over 21 countries. [They are] open to visual artists, writers, musicians, and performing artists as well as scientists, activists, teachers, students, or any kind of creative worker interested in exploring and expanding their work.” www.elsewherestudios.org/board-ofdirectors

Preetika Rajgariah

MFA 2018 Painting, receives review in Artforum and prestigious Artadia award.

Preetika Rajgariah’s exhibition “Pleasure Tense” (May 13-June 26, 2022) Bill Arning Exhibitions received a “critics’ pick” and review in Artforum. Rejgariah, based in Houston, received a prestigious Artadia award in 2021 for work that Natalie Dupêcher, curator at the Menil Collection, describes as “visually lush” and “mordantly funny.” Past awardees include Hank Willis Thomas (2007), Nick Cave (2006) Stephanie Syjuco (1999), and Meg Cranston (2013). www.artforum.com/picks/ preetika-rajgariah-88580 ; https://artadia.org/artist/ preetika-rajgariah/

David Reisman

MFA 1982 Painting. David’s video Office Window Au Revoir screened at the Millennium Film Workshop: “Nighttime” NYC at MOMA on Thursday, February 17, 2022.

PhD 2020 Art Education. “The Social Throughout: A Multi-sited Ethnographic Case Study of Gallery Supported Socially Engaged Art.

Dr. Bryce G. Rutter

MFA 1981 Industrial Design.Please join us in congratulating University of Illinois alumnus, Dr. Bryce G. Rutter, MFA, Industrial Design, School of Art & Design, Fine and Applied Arts, 1981; Ph. D. Kinesiology, Applied Health Sciences, 1981, as the following announcement was recently made public.

Aptar Pharma, a global leader in drug delivery and active material science solutions and services announced that it has acquired Metaphase Design Group, Inc., a leader in applying the science of human factors engineering and ergonomics to product design.

Founded in 1991, by Dr. Rutter, Metaphase incorporates various areas of specialization in their User Centered Design Innovation Process, combining them with extensive expertise in Industrial Design and Human Factors research and support. These include formative and summative studies, threshold analysis, patient

journey mapping, risk analysis, regulatory submission support and UX design to help their clients optimize their product development journey. Metaphase will be integrated into Noble, an Aptar Pharma company and a world leader in drug delivery training device programs, medical device training solutions, market insight services and patient onboarding strategies. The addition of Metaphase to Noble enhances Aptar Pharma’s patient-centric approach.

“We are excited to be joining Aptar Pharma and to expand our ability to impact the pharmaceutical industry and help our clients optimize the design of their devices, while continuing to serve our loyal client base in healthcare, consumer, and food and beverage markets,” stated Dr. Bryce Rutter, Metaphase Design Group CEO. “Combining our resources with the foundation that Noble has established with their Human Factors Plus program will also better enable us to represent the voice of the user throughout the product development journey.”

Dr. Bryce Rutter continued—About Metaphase Design Group—Founded in 1991, Metaphase Design Group is a leading expert in ergonomic product design and a specialist in the design of high-touch hand-intensive products and packaging. Working with several of the world’s largest and most prestigious brands across multiple industries, Metaphase combines decades of research, human factors and industrial design experience with expertise in user insights, hand function, ergonomics, design ideation and development, and social sciences to develop and implement realistic design solutions that enable brands to patent designs, optimize product performance and to help improve the overall user experience. Metaphase also created The Dignity Factor™, which is about bringing “Dignity” and a more “Humane” approach to the Research & Design of medical devices, equipment, products and home care for people of all ages, from infants to an aging population. Metaphase is based St. Louis, MO. For information, please visit www.metaphase.com

Albert Stabler

PhD 2018 Art Education, will present a paper: “Art as pedagogy as strategy: the critical potential of conceptualism in art education.”

Anastasia Tumanova

BFA 2009 Graphic Design. Created a mural for Google. HQ. www.wcia.com/news/local-news/u-of-igraduate-creates-mural-for-google-hq/. anastasiatumanova.com/

Allison Rowe

New People

Administration

Lynne Dearborn, Associate Director of Design

Dr. Lynne Dearborn, Associate Director of Design for the School of Art and Design, is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois. She brings experience from diverse academic leadership roles on the U of I Urbana campus as well as in member and professional organizations. Her research and teaching focus on human-centric design, the creation of healthy, socially sustainable, and inclusive communities, and the links between environmental design and human health. She values active learning, the creative process, and student-centered pedagogical approaches.

Faculty

Cristóbal Bianchi, Assistant Professor, Studio Art Cristóbal Bianchi is an artist, scholar, and poet native from Chile whose research focuses on the intersection of poetry, performance and social change. He earned his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a founder member of Casagrande Art Collective, a leading group staging interdisciplinary and transnational collaborative art in urban and aerial spaces worldwide. Dr. Bianchi has taught in academic institutions in the UK, Chile, and the United States, and his work has been published in several edited collections and international journals. His current research project investigates art and social change in contemporary Chile. He is also working on a manuscript exploring the use of the sky in artistic practices and preparing to publish a book of poems by the end of 2022.

Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Assistant Professor, Studio Art

Kira Dominguez Hultgren (b. 1980, Oakland, CA) is a U.S.-based artist and educator. She studied French postcolonial theory and literature at Princeton University, and performance and fine arts in Río Negro, Argentina. With a dual-degree MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, her research interests include material and embodied rhetorics, re-storying material culture, and weaving as a performative critique of the visual. Dominguez Hultgren has exhibited her work at the de Young Museum, headlined Untitled, ART SF, was featured in Architectural Digest, and reviewed in the New York Times. She has had three solo shows with Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco, where she is represented, a solo show at Heroes Gallery in NYC, and her first solo museum show at the San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile. Her fellowships and residencies include the Headlands Center for the Arts, Facebook, and Gensler Architecture. Before joining the School of Art + Design, Dominguez Hultgren was part-time faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material Studies where she taught Intro to Fiber Arts, Tapestry, and Collective Weaving.

Stephen Signa-Aviles, Assistant Professor, Studio Art

My name is Stephen Signa-Aviles; I am a newly hired Assistant Professor of 3D Practice in Studio. My wife, Nicole, and my children, Sybil and Senora, live in Urbana. My work is focused on narrative materials and connecting family history to broader American culture. In the classroom, my practice is very student-focused, and I’m looking forward to being a part of our growing studio program.

Hermann von Hesse, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History Assistant

Professor Hermann W. von Hesse (PhD in History, with Art History minor, University of WisconsinMadison) has joined the Program in Art and Art

History. Before joining the Program, Hermann was the Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Associate at Rice University’s History Department. Hermann’s research focuses on African and African diaspora visual and material cultures. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Love of Stone Houses”: Urban Merchants and Material Culture on Africa’s Gold Coast which situates Gold Coast merchant households in the context of African Atlantic and Black Diaspora history as well as European imperial and capitalist expansion.

Specialized Faculty

Chen Gao, Lecturer

Chen Gao is an interdisciplinary artist/ designer. She graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2D Design. Her work has taken many shapes, 2D, 3D, installation, and performance, that explores the fantasy of ideal freedom that extracts from the real world and asserts the power of unconsciousness and dreams. Website: chengao.me

Yuxiang Dong, Adjunct Lecturer, Studio Art Yuxiang Dong’s practices and research focus on the exploration of media art as an ethnographic method in the Anthropocene. He has exhibited at Hermitage Museum & Gardens, Norfolk, VA, OCAT Institute, Beijing, Three Shadows photography Art Centre, Beijing, and other international venues. He has presented his research at Tate Liverpool, College Art Association Annual Conference, and other international institutions and conferences. His writing has appeared in publications such as Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, Socially Engaged Public Art in East Asia, and Chinese Photography. Before the University of Illinois, he has taught the University of Cincinnati, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Rochester Institute of Technology. Website: www.yuxiangdong.com

Jena Marble, Clinical Assistant Professor, Graphic Design

Jena Marble is a graphic designer, art director, and educator. She uses her knowledge of design methodology and process to help transform brands— and provide hands-on instruction in the classroom, fostering a collaborative, creative, and practical environment

Staff

Michael Foellmer, Coordinator of Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Michael Foellmer joined the School of Art & Design in 2022 as the Coordinator of Undergraduate Academic Affairs. He is a two-time graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Master of Education in Higher Education. Michael has a deep passion for undergraduate student development and looks forward to working with current and prospective students alike, as well as supporting the work of our faculty for the successful matriculation of our breadth of students and programs.

Faculty Promotion

Congratulations to Stacey Robinson who was recently promoted to Associate Professor.

Faculty and Staff Retirements

Lisa Rosenthal, Associate Professor, Art History

Lisa Rosenthal retired from the University of Illinois on May 31, 2022 and is now Associate Professor Emerita of the School of Art & Design. Lisa joined the school in 2000. The focus of her research and publications throughout her productive career has been gender and politics in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting and printmaking and theories of visual allegory in early modern European culture. She is the author of Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and is the co-editor of Early Modern Visual Allegory: Embodying Meaning (Ashgate, 2007).  She is a past recipient of a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, an Arnold O. Beckman Award from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a UIUC Center for Advanced Study Fellowship. Her various roles in the school included Program Chair of Art History and Associate Director, School of Art & Design. She served on many committees. We thank Lisa for her many contributions to the Art History Program and School of Art & Design.

We thank Lisa for her many contribution to the school and Art History Program and School of Art & Design.

Mark Avery, Senior Coordinator, Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Mark Avery began at the School of Art & Design in 2000 and retired on May 31, 2022.

As the Senior Coordinator of Undergraduate Academic Affairs for the School of Art & Design, he touched on all aspects defined as “Undergraduate;” which included recruitment, admissions, curriculums, class schedules, portfolio review process, scholarships, and before December 2018 was the general advisor for the school with approximately 500 undergraduate students in 10 different degree programs.

Not only did he lead the effort to move the school portfolio review process to a digital format. He also created online forms for common activities like course permit override, honors, independent study, and internship forms. These forms have saved many hours for our Program Chairs and faculty. His vigilance and orientation to detail has elevated the school.

The school wishes Mark the best in his retirement.

Congratulations to Director Alan T. Mette

School of Art & Design Director, Alan Mette, received the 2022 Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award. This award recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an executive officer within a college or campus unit. Recipient will be an exemplar of effective leadership who has led diverse groups through strategic improvements within her/his unit or campus.

Staff Accomplishments

Michael Collins MFA 2010

Sculpture alumnus and School of Art & Design Fabrication Coordinator, Michael Collins’ sculpture Beacon was recently purchased by the Public Art League and has been installed since 2016 in the roundabout area at Chestnut and Main Streets in downtown Champaign. michaelcollinsart. wordpress.com

Faculty Accomplishments

CARLOS DE AGUIAR

Carlos de Aguiar, Gilly Leshed, Trevor Pinch, Keith Evan Green. Evaluation of communIT, a Large-Scale, Cyber-physical Artifact Supporting Diverse Subgroups Building Community. Journal of Smart Cities and Society, August 2022.

Publication: Yuhe Cui, Zezhi Guo, Yuxin Wang, Xiangzhou Peng, Joon Park, Carlos Aguiar. A Multisensation Interaction Device that Communicates Emotions. 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2022). June 2022.

CONRAD BAKKER

“Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie” at Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland September 3 - November 4, 2021.  Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie was a storefront/art installation in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring hundreds of carved and painted sculptures of Swiss-branded chocolate bars, available for sale at an amount roughly equivalent to one month’s wages for the average cocoa farmer. The storefront (La Boutique) was directly connected to a secondary space, the factory [L’Atelier] featuring a reconstruction of the artist’s studio also carved out of wood and paint, revealing the process of production for each of the carved and painted chocolate bars and the complicated connections between commodities and labor. The third and final part of this project was the Newspaper, [Le Journal], a fullcolor, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings based on headlines and images taken from online articles and websites related to cocoa production and the (Swiss) chocolate industrial complex.

LUKE BATTEN

Designed a new collection of sportswear with designer Jerry Bossmen of the Netherlands.

ERIC BENSON

Published “Fresh Press Agri-fiber Lab” in “Vibrant Ecologies of Research,” Ground Works journal, Aug. 2022. groundworks.io/journal/projects/57

JENNIFER BERGMARK

Published, Race-based mascots: Reflecting on university‐community conversations with her collaborator and UIUC Art Education Alumna, Stephanie Danker at Miami University, in the International Journal of Education Through Art, 18 (1), 75-88.

CRISTÓBAL BIANCHI

As a member of the art collective Casagrande, in 2021, I worked on developing Coalsack: UP to the Cosmos, a major public performance that took place in Punta Arenas, Chile´s southernmost city, on January 30th, 2022. Using a satellite antenna, we sent the Universal Poem to the Coalsack Nebula, located 600 lightyears away from Earth. The Universal Poem is composed of verses written and spoken by people worldwide and is published in real-time at www. universalpoem.com

ISABEL BO-LINN

Earned a Teaching Advancement Board grant to study collaborative learning practices in design education.

MOLLY BRIGGS

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design & Design for Responsible Innovation, co-chaired the session “Immersive Multimodal Visual History” at the conference of the International Federation for Public History in August 2022, hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin,

Germany, and presented her own paper, “Immersion in Paper: Mapping Socio-Cognitive Space in Stereographic Projection.” Abstract: The popular immersive 19th-century attractions known as panoramas were accompanied by printed ephemera, including interpretive graphics drawn with a variety of perspectival techniques. Particularly striking were the panorama keys presented in a circular format. Drawn in stereographic projection, they offered 360-degree labeled perspective views from a stationary central point. These supplementary graphics afforded immersive experiences in their own right, their low-fidelity materiality notwithstanding. The cartographic technique of stereographic projection has a deeper history; described in Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium in the second century CE, stereographics have long been used for celestial mapping and maps of polar regions. The use of stereographic projection in chorographic applications begins in the 18th century, predating the invention of the panorama but still contributing significantly to the popular culture of immersive media that the panorama exemplifies. Chorographic stereographics continued to interest audiences into the 20th century. This paper sketches the three-hundred-year history of popular chorographic stereographic media, demonstrates the immersive and interactive features of the medium, and interprets the cultural significance of the medium’s use in describing specific places to specific audiences. In this way, the paper offers a methodology for conducting research on the history of popular thought about space, place, and identity.

ANNE BURKUS-CHASSON

“Colouring by the Book: Chen Hongshou’s Sixteen Views of Living in Seclusion and the Reproducibility of the Painted Image,” in Handbook of the Colour Print in China 16001800, ed. Anne Farrer and Kevin McLoughlin. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

RACHEL FEIN-SMOLINSKI

Visiting Artist Lecture, Futures/ Forms Visiting Artist Series, University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Curated by June T. Sanders, Spring 2022

RYAN GRIFFIS

The feature documentary film “Fighting Indians” screened at the 26th Red Nation International Film Festival and the 46th American Indian Film Festival in the Fall of 2021, and in 2022 has been presented at the National Congress of American Indians Mid-Year Conference, the Moorehouse College Human Rights Film Festival, and at several community-organized screenings around the United States. The School of Art & Design’s Ryan Griffis worked as an editor, art director, and writer with directors Mark Cooley and Derek Ellis on the film which recounts the successful struggle by Indigenous leaders in Maine to end the use of Native-themed imagery in public schools.

BENJAMIN GROSSER

Benjamin Grosser’s invited solo exhibition at arebyte Gallery in London received positive featurelength reviews from The Guardian (UK), Hyperallergic (US), la Repubblica (Italy), and many others.

Benjamin Grosser was named an Assembly Fellow for the Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) at Harvard University.

PATRICK EARL HAMMIE

Hammie, Patrick Earl and Treu, Barry, BIPOC Initiative, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL.

Patrick Earl Hammie coauthored the Black, Indigenous, People of Color

Initiative at the Freeport Art Museum with Barry Treu, Exhibition Director at the Museum. The initiative seeks to center Native American personhood, address anti-Blackness, dismantle white supremacy, and advance racial justice at the institution. It is designed to embrace and support underrepresented knowledge and expression while creating a more inclusive venue and experience for staff, artists, and patrons. For five years, the museum will host two solo shows per year where artists of color exhibit and curate shows of artists of color. Hammie and Tyanna Buie were the inaugural artists.

LAURA HETRICK

[March 2022] National Art Education Association annual conference, 50-minute solo presentation entitled, Understanding and Working through Compassion Fatigue. The presentation helped teachers recognize the symptoms of compassion fatigue and then offered possible solutions to assuage this malady.

LAURIE HOGIN

Laurie Hogin’s work was recently acquired for the permanent collection of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware.

STEVEN HUDSON

Solo exhibit “Better Angels” (February 14-March 29, 2022, Giertz Gallery) Champaign, IL, a brisk response to accelerating, political, social, and environmental change.

CHRISTOPHER JONES

This year I received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (with CoPIs Dr. Cynthia Oliver, Dr. Sandra Ruiz, and Liza Sylvestre) to support our project Minoritarian Aesthetics: Collective Practices Across Difference. The project recognizes the value of minoritarian practices, ideas, and community involvement in art as a vehicle and critical lens to examine, debate, and manage the complex worlds we navigate. Minoritarian Aesthetics [MA] is an interdisciplinary and intersectional project that intentionally centers

the voices and viewpoints of underrepresented groups –Women, Queer, Disabled, and People of Color – with certainty that the “voice in minor” is, in fact, instrumental to local, regional, and national cultural and intellectual practices with global impact. The Mellon Foundation grant supports the creation of a MA Certification Program, a MA Archive/ Library, and several MA public programs that include performances, artist talks, round table discussions, studio visits and workshops.

JAMES KENDALL

Textbook for Introduction to Industrial Design published. Foundation of Industrial Design: Working with Principles. ISBN 978-17924-9459-8

EMMY LINGSCHEIT

Has a solo exhibition at The Sheldon in St. Louis, MO, SeptemberDecember, 2022.

JORGE LUCERO

Jorge Lucero and Catalina Hernandez Cabal’s book, What Happens at the Intersection of Conceptual Art and Teaching? is being published by the Amsterdam University of the Arts (due late 2022).

Jorge Lucero participated in an artsintegration convening at the Crystal Bridges Art Museum in October. Sixty participants from academia, school districts, philanthropy, policy and government, museums, teaching-artists, and other arts partners from all over the US and Canada participated in this two-day intensive to rethink the impact and scale of arts-integration initiatives. Dr. Lucero will also be the keynote speaker at this years Illinois Art Education Association Conference, and he is giving invited lectures at the University of Miami, OH; the University of Michigan, Stamps School of Art, and at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden during the Fall semester.

DEANA MCDONAGH

Ten faculty members from across the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign campus are bringing expertise in a broad range of disciplines to Carle Illinois College of Medicine as the latest group of Health Innovation Professors (HIP). The new HIP faculty will champion Carle Illinois’ interdisciplinary approach that leverages expertise from across the UIUC campus to lead advancements in the medical field and improve the human condition. The new faculty join from The Grainger College of Engineering, the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES),  College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), College of Education, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Information Sciences, and Gies College of Business. Health Innovation Professors are positioned to collaborate with Carle Illinois students, physicians, and other health care providers to pursue new frontiers in health-related research and innovation, creating new opportunities for funding from government agencies, industry, and foundations. The new faculty members will also pioneer advancements in medical education and the integration of health-related concepts into undergraduate and graduate courses across the UIUC campus. medicine.illinois.edu/ cross-disciplinary-researchers-joincarle-illinois-as-health-innovationfaculty/news

LISA E. MERCER

Lisa E. Mercer and co-author Terresa Moses signed a book contract with The MIT Press. The book title is Racism Untaught and it will be published in the Fall of 2022. We are currently going through feedback from the peer review process.

ALAN METTE

Received the Campus 2022 Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award.

GUEN MONTGOMERY

Had a solo exhibition in Columbus OH last spring and with her collaborators exhibited in Saint Louis.

DAVID O’BRIEN

Received grants from the American Philosophical Society and the Humanities Research Institute to complete research on his current book, about how memories of Napoleon were preserved in material culture in the decades following his death.

MELISSA POKORNY

Received a 2022 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship.

SALMAN RAHEEL

Was nominated as the Most Valuable Professor by a member of the Illini Women’s Soccer Team. Recognized by the Team and organizers with a Certificate of Appreciation. Fall 2022.

STACEY

ROBINSON

Has several pieces featured in the “Black Angel of History” exhibition as part of Afrofuturism Festival at Carnegie Hall, NY, New York. (February–March 2022).

STAN RUECKER

Radzikowska, Milena, and Stan Ruecker. (2022). Design and the Digital Humanities: A Guide to Mutual Understanding. Intellect Books.

JUAN SALAMANCA

The article Collaborating in Conceptual Spaces: How Data Visualization Facilitated by JavaScript Can Improve Interdisciplinary Design Projects will be published as the lead article in AIGA Dialectic Journal, 3.2 (2022). The article discusses how the interaction with visual representations of conceptual spaces supports the collaborative creation of timelines with researchers in the humanities and informatics. Professor Eric Benson co-authored this publication.

SIMRUN SETHI

Sethi, Simrun (2022). Interdisciplinary Learning - Tomorrow’s Executive

as Creative Problem Solvers. In: Evangelos Markopoulos, Ravindra S. Goonetilleke and Yan Luximon (eds) Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 31. AHFE International, USA. doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001501

SURESH SETHI  (2022). Designing wearable devices to build emotional relationships. In: Tareq Ahram and Christianne Falcao (eds) Human Factors and Wearable Technologies. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 29. AHFE International, USA. doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001469

CLIFF SHIN

Received two(2) the Red Dot design awards in Oct., 2021. The Red Dot design award is one of the most prestigious and oldest international design awards, established in Red Dot GmbH & Co. KG., Germany, in 1993. The Red Dot Concept Award focuses on design concepts, ideas, and visions. The competition is targeted toward young, creative talents, designers, and design companies around the world. He also received a Paris Design Award - Product Design of the year 2021, European Product Design Award 2021, and the IDEA Award Finalist 2021.

Book Chapter- March 2002-: Shin, Cliff., Juan Salamanca, “The Three Approaches to Complexity in Design: Design as Configuration, Execution, and Attribution,” in “Design Within the Anthropocene”

ANGELICA SIBRIAN

Sibrian, Angelica. “Love letters to myself in the time of Covid.” Message Journal, Issue 5: Covid-19 Special Issue : Capturing visual insights, thoughts, and reflections on 2020/21 and beyond (2022): p. 99–101.

STEPHEN SIGNA-AVILES

This summer, I co-curated a public art installation for the Illini Dads Centennial Plaza with Assistant Professor Joseph Altshuler from The School of Architecture. The project is called Kinships/Kinshapes will be unveiled this November on the corner of Lincoln Ave and Illinois St. near the Helene Gateway.

BLAIR EBONY SMITH

Blair Ebony Smith and Dr. Jennifer Bergmark will be presenting on their research project, Building Community through Collaborative Public Art Projects, at the Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Symposium, October 6–7, 2022.

Blair Ebony Smith participated in the Black on Black on Black on Black exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum.

NEKITA THOMAS

Supergraphic Landscapes: Spatializing American Blackness project awarded the Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program, AY2022-2023, $75,000. Supergraphic Landscapes is a collaboration between Nekita Thomas of Art and Design and Joseph Altshuler of Architecture that augments the spatial efficacy of graphics to destabilize the perceived cultural stasis or material permanence of the existing city, setting the scene for more joyful and just configurations of space. Supergraphic Landscapes push the power of graphics and surfaces beyond information (wayfinding) and into the realm of space, place, and communitybuilding (worldmaking).

SARAH TRAVIS presented research at the National Art Education Association National Convention, the Art Education Research Institute Symposium, the Philosophy of Education Society Conference, and the International Congress of Qualitative

Inquiry. Also Dr. Travis will present a paper with Tyson Lewis, “A Phenomenology of Joyful Resistance in Art Education” and chair and participate in a panel with Tyson Lewis, Emily Hood, David Herman, Jr., and Christina Donaldson on “Critical Phenomenological Research in Art Education.”

OSCAR VÁZQUEZ

Co-organizer and presenter, “Academies of Art, 1600–1900” (First of two conferences);  Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. 19–20 May 2022.

CHIARA VINCENZI

Received the 2022 “Fiber Art Now Teacher” Excellence Grant. The Teacher Excellence Grant is sponsored by Jane Dunnewold, artist, writer, teacher, and founder of the online Creative Strength Training community. The teacher grant is awarded to educators who bring fiber and textile art to the classroom.

DEKE WEAVER

Deke Weaver’s work was the subject of Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams’ “The Play at the End of the World: Deke Weaver’s Unreliable Bestiary and the Theatre of Extinction,” a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science, edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.

DAVID WEIGHTMAN

was the team leader for the NASAD accreditation visit to the ID program at Virginia Tech University and a team member for the Institutional accreditation visit to the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

TERRI WEISSMAN

Terri Weissman’s article, “Realism, evidence and photographic rhythm in the Santiago Alvarez’s Now! and the Third World Newsreel Collective’s Report from Newark,” is forthcoming in the Oxford Guide to Global Realisms, edited by Margarita Vaysman and Katherine Bowers.

Staying Connected

Brenda Nardi, Senior Dirctor of Advancement COLLEGE OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS, VISUAL ARTS

The 2021/22 academic year brought us back to short term flashes of “normal” on campus and in our efforts to engage with alumni and friends of the University of Illinois. Sometimes it felt as if we were taking two steps forward toward “normalcy” only to be thrown back into the reality of the persistent pandemic.

Despite it all, the spirit of Illinois alumni prevailed in the School of Art and Design, both on campus with the hard work and perseverance of our faculty, staff, and students, as well as among our many alumni spread across this country and beyond. It was my pleasure to welcome several Industrial Design alumni back to campus in September of 2021 to celebrate what would have been Professor Ed Zagorski’s 100th birthday. He passed just shy of reaching that milestone, but we celebrated for him that day. It was an opportunity for his former students to introduce the great “egg drop problem” to our current students, for upper classmen to share their work in industrial design with our alumni guests, and for us to be together in person for the first time in a long time to celebrate an impactful member of the A&D faculty.

An amazing thing happened during the pandemic. We all had time to reflect on life, longevity, and the fragile nature of both. For many, it was a time to “pull the trigger” on their philanthropic musings and to solidify plans that had been contemplated but never acted upon. To illustrate my point, please enjoy reading about all the wonderful ways the School of Art and Design was supported in fiscal 2022.

We currently bestow financial support to incoming and existing students from 30 privately funded scholarships, fellowships, and student award funds.

FY22 Highlights

Five new endowed funds were established and will be awarded in 2023.

Julianne Heuell Oberlin Art Education Scholarship; Michael Smith Endowed Scholarship in Painting;

• Peggy Purkhosrow Scholarship in Studio Art;

• Rita F. Bass Scholarship for Non-Traditional Students

Also established were the following endowments being funded over 5 years.

• Zhabiz Shafieyoun Design Endowed Scholarship

• Future of Design Endowment

Planned Gifts

Peter Pi-tek Ho Industrial Design Fund that will fund both undergrad scholarships and grad fellowships in ID when realized

Robert Runge Endowment Fund that will provide unrestricted support to Graphic Design and Photography

If you are interested in exploring these and other existing funds to which you may make a gift to the school, please visit art.illinois.edu/alumni/give-a-gift or contact me directly to discuss other possibilities and options.

As always, I invite you to reach out simply to reconnect and share your “Illinois Story” with me. I am continually amazed by the accomplishments of our alumni, and I welcome the opportunity to meet and talk with you.

Brenda Nardi

Senior Director of Advancement

College of Fine and Applied Arts/Visual Arts bnardi@illinois.edu

Leadership Annual Gifts

$1000 - $24,999

Quintin D. Anderson

Rita F. Bass

William J. Bonansinga

William C. Bullock

Michael J. Dugard

Vivian Faulkner-King

Jessica Koehring Leonard P. Lewicki

Nancy A. Nash

Anthony Petullo Foundation, Inc. Michael F. Purcell

Skoog Productions (Melissa Skoog) Charles and Kristen Slife Paul G. Sons

Major Gifts

$25,000+

Clyde P. Davis

Gerry Derksen

Peter P. Ho

Robert A. Runge

Mary C. Smith

Rachel Switzky David and Kathy Twardock

Events

You are always welcome back to campus to participate in our activities. (art.illinois.edu for updates)

Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:30pm Brianna Wiens Online

Critical Design Praxis for Critical Times: Feminist Research-Creation Instagram Hacking

Thursday, December 1, 2022 5:30pm

Eric J. Garcia , Keith Knight, Ann Telnaes 62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL

Political Cartoons in an Age of Fake News: Getting Laughs While Speaking Truth to Power

Thursday, March 30, 2023 5:30 p.m.

Greg Drasler, “The Painted Line” Distinguished Alumni talk and presentation. 62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL Reception to follow in Link Gallery

Friday, March 31, 2023

TAKEOVER V School of Art & Design, 408 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL Reception time TBA

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Editors: Alan Mette Melissa Pokorny Laurie Hogin Anne Jackson Audra Weinstein

Designer: Natalie Fiol

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