Source: The College Magazine

[The College of Arts and Sciences has published its 2023 "list of amazing young alumni."  Eskenazi alumni Sierra Naomi and Rebecca Drolen are among them. See the complete list at the link above.]

Rebecca Drolen

ARTIST AND PROFESSOR

Rebecca Drolen (B.A.J. ’05, Journalism, M.F.A. ’09, Studio Art) is an artist, the program director of studio art, and an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Her work playfully explores the expansive nature of photography in contemporary art as it incorporates built spaces, assemblage, and performance. Drolen was the recipient of a 2022 Innovate Grant, and her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions within noteworthy venues such as The Huffington Post, Oxford American, the Springfield Art Museum, the Oklahoma State Museum of Art, the CICA Museum, and Filter Photo in Chicago. Follow her on Instagram.

Visit Drolen's website

Sierra Naomi

DESIGNER AND TEXTILES ARTIST

Sierra Naomi (B.A. '18, Fashion Design) is a designer and textiles artist committed to working at the intersection of design and social impact. Combining two years of service in AmeriCorps with fashion design experience at a corporate retail and specialized brands level has led them to amass a broad and versatile skillset in product development. Sierra has directed Craft With a Cause, a local program in Salt Lake City that turns reclaimed textile waste into products that benefit community members in need, displayed their weaving and contemporary fashion designs at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and now leads design and product development for a local fashion company in Salt Lake City. This fall, Sierra intends to further research the intersection of design and social impact as an applied community and economic development graduate fellow at Illinois State University.

Learn about Sierra's time at the Eskenazi School