Designed for good

For 25 years, Deeno Golding was a fixture in the Claypool-Young Art Building on MSU’s main campus. A towering figure in both stature and personality, his presence was felt wherever he was –making his loss even more profound.

A beloved professor, Deeno passed unexpectedly over MSU’s winter break in 2017. His passing hit MSU’s art community hard. A crucial member of the Department of Art and Design, Deeno crafted the graphic design curriculum, served as the faculty advisor for the American Institute for Graphic Arts and spent summers teaching students at the Arts Academy of Guanxi in China and the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program.

His legacy was cemented at MSU when in 2018, Claypool-Young’s art gallery was named the Golding-Yang Art Gallery. To further memorialize him, his wife Yanya Yang (Class of 1997), brother-in-law Neng Yang (Class of 1993), and son, Milo, established the Deeno Golding Memorial Scholarship Endowment at MSU. Their generous gifts will provide an annual scholarship award to a full-time student studying art and design, with preference given to graphic design.

Although his presence is still deeply missed, his work and words of advice and encouragement he often provided his students live on.

Bowen is the new director of the Golding-Yang Gallery

Mike Bowen has been an adjunct sculpture instructor at MSU, given sculpture workshops and demonstrations, and has participated in faculty art exhibitions. He has also worked at Shawnee State University, Marshall University, and the University of South Carolina.

Bowen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Marshall University in 2004, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from South Carolina University in 2010 and a visiting student at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan, in 2009.