In the News: Week of February 7

The Black Experience in Design, a new book co-authored and edited by assistant professor Penina Acayo Laker, has been released from Skyhorse books. The anthology spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens and exemplifies the inherently collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of design.

Reclining Pan is “the most important Renaissance sculpture in America,” argues William E. Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History (Arts & Sciences). Inspired by his longtime colleague who passed away last fall, Mark S. Weil (E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus for Collaboration in the Arts and former chair of Art History & Archaeology), Wallace wrote this article about the sculpture for the Wall Street Journal.

The Saint Louis Visionary Awards has announced their 2022 recipients. Among this year’s honorees are alum Mee Jey (MFA-VA19), who will receive the Emerging Artist award, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer, who will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony will take place April 25.

Associate professor Patty Heyda is quoted in this St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about the future of the proposed Brickline, a series of walking and biking trails in north St. Louis that would connect to the Great Rivers Greenway.

MFA-IVC student Kruittika Susarla’s work was featured in the Hyperallergic article “Artists Are Embracing the Power of Refusal.”

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 On February 9 Bijoy Jain (MArch90) of Studio Mumbai will take part in Architecture Speaks!, an international lecture series curated by Jenni Reuter and organized jointly by Aalto University Department of Architecture and the Museum of Finnish Architecture. His talk will take place at 1:15p UTC+2/Finnish time.

The Illustrators 64 Exhibition: Advertising, Institutional, Uncommissioned, Surface/ Product Design categories is on view through March 5 at the Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The show includes work by lecturer Edward Kinsella III, Nat Thomas (BFA21), and Noah Jodice (BFA17, MFA-IVC22) |