NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS IN DESIGN College of Design Leading ISU’s Participation in Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Iowa State will be among the exhibitors at this summer’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The festival focus is land-grant universities and the USDA. Iowa State’s high-tech, interactive exhibit will showcase College of Design and Extension and Outreach efforts to help communities meet challenges. The exhibit design and content teams are led by College of Design faculty, and many of the projects and activities will highlight our student and faculty work. [Read more]
Graphic Design Grad Student Wins First Fabric Design Competition Challenge
Graphic design grad student Michele Rosenboom (BFA 2000 Interior Design) won the “Tiny Dwellings” design challenge in the “Repeat” competition sponsored by The Printed Bolt. Her winning fabric patterns will be used in a French braid quilt for display at the Spring Quilt Market in Kansas City. Voting for the second challenge (creating one fabric design that embodies the industrial revolution) takes place April 12-15. Two more designers will be eliminated after this round of competition. At the end of the contest, the grand prize winner will receive a trip to Houston for Quilt Market 2012.
ISA Associate Professor April Katz Named Honorary SGC International Member
April Katz, associate professor of integrated studio arts, was made an honorary member of SGC (Southern Graphics Council) International and awarded lifetime membership in the nonprofit printmaking organization at its annual conference in New Orleans during spring break. She was recognized for her outstanding service to the organization as well as her contributions to printmaking through her teaching and art practice. Katz has been a member since 1995 and served as president from 2004 to 2006.
NOTEWORTHY ALUMS Brent S. L. Collins
After four years with the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Brent S. L. Collins (BArch 2008 Architecture) will leave in June to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in woodworking from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland. [Read more]
Sean Eagleburger
Sean Eagleburger (BFA 2005 Interior Design), St. Louis, has been named a 2012 Iowa STATEment Maker by the ISU Alumni Association. Eagleburger, who is the programming director for Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women, works more broadly to advance and promote Greek life on college campuses across the country. [Read more]
Mark Kargol
Mark Kargol (BArch 2000 Architecture / BFA 2000 Art & Design – Craft Design), owner of Ventus Custom Cycles in Lincoln, Neb., recently traveled to Sacramento, Calif., to show a custom titanium/carbon fiber bicycle he built at the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS). [Read more]
Jackson Metcalf
Jackson Metcalf, LEED AP BD +C (BArch 2006 Architecture), Chicago, has been named a 2012 Iowa STATEment Maker by the ISU Alumni Association. Metcalf helps lead the facilities practice area in Gensler’s North Central Region and in addition to the Chicago office, he has worked on projects with the firm’s Denver, New York and London offices. [Read more]
Gary Schulte
Gary Schulte, Associate AIA, LEED AP (BArch 1983 Architecture), has joined FEH Associates’ Dubuque office as an architect.
Bethany Wilcoxon
Bethany Wilcoxon (2008 Community & Regional Planning) has been named a 2012 Iowa STATEment Maker by the ISU Alumni Association. She is the associate transportation planner for the Des Moines Metropolitan Planning Organization and project manager for Des Moines’ “Tomorrow Plan.” [Read more]
Wade Ziperstein
Wade Ziperstein (BArch 1998 Architecture) recently joined RSP Architects as a project captain for the national design team.
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MAKE NOTE OF OUR UPCOMING EVENTS College of Design/Architecture Advisory Council Lecture
Informality: Spontaneous Process in Dwelling – The Lima Case Cristina Dreifuss, faculty member in the School of Architecture, Urbanism and Arts at the National University of Engineering; the School of Architecture at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences and the School of Architecture at the University of Lima, all in Peru 4:30 - 6 p.m. today, April 12, in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design [Read more]
College of Design Lecture
Influential Landscapes: An Artist’s Evolution Katy Stone, artist and ISU alumna (BFA 1992 Art & Design – Drawing/Painting/Printmaking) 7 p.m. today, April 12, in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design [Read more]
Artist Studio Open House
Working Over Wood Jennifer Drinkwater, lecturer, integrated studio arts 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Fridays, April 13, 20, 27 in Christian Petersen Art Museum, 0003 Morrill Hall [Read more]
Lecture & Demonstration
A Conversation with LEGO Artist Sean Kenney Sean Kenney, commissioned sculptor of the Nature Connects exhibition at Reiman Gardens 12 - 2 p.m. Friday, April 13, in Lightfoot Forum [Read more]
Retirement Reception
Paul Anderson, professor, landscape architecture and agronomy Gary Hightshoe, professor, landscape architecture 5:30 p.m. Reception 7 p.m. Dinner Friday, April 13, at Scheman Building, Iowa State Center [Read more]
University Museums Event
Movement, Music and Art Ingrid Lilligren, professor and interim director, integrated studio arts Valerie Williams, director, Co’Motion Dance Company 2 - 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at Brunnier Art Museum, 205 Scheman Building [Read more]
Awards Day
Annual celebration of student, staff and faculty accomplishments in the College of Design Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:30 a.m. Brunch in Gallery 181 10 a.m. Awards in Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum [Read more]
College of Design Lecture
Emerging Terrain: Burgeoning Public Interest Design Anne Trumble, founder and executive director, Emerging Terrain 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design [Read more]
CODAC Spring Art Sale
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, April 25-27 Foyer outside Dean’s Office, 134 Design [Read more]
P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture
P.S.T.: Places – Systems – Things Chris Guillard, founding principal, CMG (Conger, Moss, Guillard) Landscape Architecture 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design 7 p.m. Reception [Read more]
Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Night 6 - 7:30 p.m. Professionals and design firms 7:30 - 9 p.m. Family and friends ISU Alumni Center, 420 Beach Ave., Ames [Read more]
Graduation Convocation
Celebration in honor of spring and summer candidates for graduation 9:30 a.m. Brunch in King Pavilion 10 a.m. Recognition ceremony in Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum and Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design [Read more]
ON ANOTHER NOTE Anderson/Hightshoe Retirement Reception
The Department of Landscape Architecture will honor retiring professors Paul Anderson and Gary Hightshoe with a reception and dinner on Friday, April 13, at the Scheman Building on the Iowa State campus. Hightshoe has been on the faculty since September 1970, while Anderson joined the faculty in September 1977. The free reception will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Brunnier Art Museum, 295 Scheman Building, Iowa State Center. Alumni are welcome and encouraged to attend! (Note that dinner tickets are no longer available.) If you are unable to attend but would like to send a card, please address it to the intended recipient (either Professor Anderson or Professor Hightshoe) and mail it to the Department of Landscape Architecture, 146 Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. Help us celebrate and thank these two distinguished faculty for their decades of service to the department, college, university and profession.
AIA National Convention Alumni Reception
Please join alumni, faculty and friends of the ISU College of Design for a reception Thursday, May 17, during the AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition in Washington, D.C. The reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. in rooms 10 and 11 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington, D.C. Downtown, 999 Ninth St. NW. Enjoy complimentary appetizers and a hosted bar. Dean Luis Rico-Gutierrez will give brief remarks beginning at 6:30 p.m. Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP by Monday, April 30. We look forward to seeing you there!
Alumni Days Open House
The College of Design will host an open house from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 11, during ISU’s Alumni Days celebration. All alumni who attended or graduated from any of our programs (including prior to the college’s founding!) are invited to attend. Alumni Days are May 10-12; see the complete schedule of events.
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