Mies van der Rohe Building, Room 223
Rowland Ricketts is the Associate Dean of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. He utilizes natural dyes and historical processes to create contemporary textiles that span art and design. Trained in indigo farming and dyeing in Japan, Rowland received his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005 and was an associate professor in Fibers at Indiana University. His work has been exhibited at the Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.), Cavin-Morris Gallery (New York), and Douglas Dawson Gallery (Chicago) and has been published in Textiles Now, Fiber Arts, Selvedge, Surface Design Journal, and Hand/Eye Magazine. Rowland is a recipient of a 2012 United States Artists Fellowship.