Read news stories from local and national publications featuring the IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design and its faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Faculty Chae, Clark on Bloomington mural team
As part of a public art team, Eskenazi faculty members interviewed neighbors in Bloomington's Maple Heights to collect motifs for a mural that will cover the walls around the Duke Energy substation at 11th and Rogers. The Indiana Daily Student reports on this collaboration with Duke and the City of Bloomington.
Eskenazi dean provides leadership to national fine arts associations
Since becoming the Eskenazi School's Founding Dean in 2016, Peg Faimon has taken an active role in professional associations dedicated to the fine arts in higher education. This fall, she was elected to leadership roles in the International Council of Fine Arts Deans board of directors and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
IU senior Kev Addison named NRF Next Gen finalist
“Fashion freed me of the opinions of others and taught me to step into my own,” IU senior Kev Addison says, hoping to pay it forward, so that others can “find a piece of individuality within them." The Eskenazi fashion design minor and Kelley marketing major has been named among the top five undergraduates vying for the National Retail Federation Foundation's Next Generation Scholarship.
New York Times highlights Eskenazi architecture faculty work in Chicago biennial
Eskenazi architecture faculty are collaborating on a monument in Marion, Ind. to "honor an expanding, more diverse group of Americans," as The New York Times notes in a review of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, where the architects chart the process of creating the monument. The project's co-creators are faculty Daniel Martinez and Lulu Loquidis, of LAA Office.
Trailblazer Bryn Taubensee (B.A. & B.F.A. '14) advises aspiring fashionistas
Before boldly cutting a swath through the New York fashion world, Bryn Taubensee got her training at the Eskenazi School, earning a B.A. in Fashion Design and a B.F.A. in Studio Art (with a focus on sculpture) in 2014. In advance of her campus talk Monday night, November 27, the founder of the provocative, acclaimed fashion house Vaquera spoke with current Fashion Design major Noah Handy.
Indianapolis ABC affiliate consults merchandising's Embry on Black Friday
As Black Friday beckons, Eskenazi merchandising faculty Mary Embry advises shoppers to consider the source of the packages arriving on the doorstep. Who made the product? How much water did it require? Embry offered tips for sustainable holiday shopping on Indy's ABC affiliate, WRTV. Watch the television story from our link.
2026 McKinney International Art and Design Residency
The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4–6-week McKinney International Art and Design Residency.
