Friday, 02 Mar 2018
Weaving to Inform: Using Craft to Convey Socially Critical Data
Kim Mirus will share her work as a weaver, educator and craftsperson. She currently weaves work about a variety of environmental and social issues, preserving a traditional craft while providing an approachable way to interest others in discussing complex issues.
Wednesday, 07 Mar 2018
Lecture: WORKac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge
Dan Wood, FAIA, a founding partner of WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) in New York City, will trace his 15 years of collaboration with co-founder Amale Andraos in the 2018 Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture at Iowa State.
Thursday, 08 Mar 2018
CEAH Symposium: Coding Design / Designing Code
Concurrent workshops (10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m.) as part of the 2018 Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Symposium, "Coding Design / Designing Code," organized by faculty members Caroline Westort, landscape architecture; and Alex Braidwood, graphic design.
Friday, 09 Mar 2018
CEAH Symposium: Coding Design / Designing Code
Formal talks and paper presentations as part of the 2018 Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Symposium, "Coding Design / Designing Code," organized by faculty members Caroline Westort, landscape architecture, and Alex Braidwood, graphic design.
Thursday, 22 Mar 2018
Lecture: Paranormalcy
Photographer Christopher Schneberger (Columbia College, Chicago) builds entire worlds in his art, creating narrative series filled with otherworldly characters. Using photographic technologies from the antiquated to the futuristic, he weaves together fact and fiction into immersive experiences. Bringing his traveling 3-D theater to the College of Design, Schneberger will show his work and discuss how he creates his complex illusions.
Friday, 23 Mar 2018
Lecture: Literally Weaving
Marianne Fairbanks, an assistant professor in the design studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will outline the three distinct yet intersecting threads of her practice, including her solo work, her research into emerging textile technology and a community-based project.
Monday, 26 Mar 2018
Lecture: Advances in Eco-Sensing and Soundscape
Chicago-based composer, sound designer, radio and visual artist Eric Leonardson will talk about several ongoing projects that intersected via "Eco-Sensing and Soundscape," a studio course he taught in fall 2015 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a practicing artist and educator, Leonardson is interested in the promise of technology to enable new connections between physical action, sensory perception and ideas.
Wednesday, 28 Mar 2018
Lecture: Spaces of Exclusion in New York
"This is Not Your Door: Spaces of Exclusion in New York." Architect Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, principal of New York City-based Nami Studio, will speak about access in housing, education and social environments and propose alternative models of inclusion. Part of the ISU Department of Architecture 2017-18 Public Programs Series, "For Other Architectures."
Lecture: Public Transformation: A Documentation of Art in Rural America
Theater artist Ashley Hanson will present a snapshot of the lives, work, stories, themes, artifacts and questions she discovered while visiting 24 rural communities with populations of less than 10,000 across the country and discuss the role of art in small-town life and the challenges of making art in rural America.
Thursday, 29 Mar 2018
Lecture: Design Resistance
Eric Heiman is a partner and co-founder of award-winning San Francisco design agency Volume Inc. and an associate professor of graphic design at the California College of the Arts. His lecture is funded through a Strategic Initiatives Grant from the Vice President for Extension and Outreach.
Friday, 30 Mar 2018
Resurrection Exhibition Reception
Public reception for Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition of graphite drawings and acrylic mixed-media paintings by Robert Jinkins, graduate student in integrated visual arts.