The Indiana University Board of Trustees has approved the renaming of Jordan Avenue from near Law Lane to 17th Street in honor of a prominent Bloomington family in the Black community.
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"Our NRF Foundation Next Generation scholars have demonstrated impressive knowledge, inspiring creativity and incredible passion for retail throughout the competition,” NRF Foundation Executive Director Bill Thorne says. “We congratulate the top five on this extraordinary achievement, and we look forward to announcing the top recipient in January.”
Beyond their global appeal, the iconic outfits from “Squid Game” reveal a link to the history and culture of South Korea.
2022–2023 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.
LAA Office, a Columbus, Indiana-based multi-disciplinary design studio, has unveiled its transformation of a street in downtown Columbus into a new arts district. Called 6th Street Arts Alley, the project was realized in collaboration with the Columbus Area Arts Council.
The IDEC Best Presentation: Scholarship of Design and Research (SODR) Award acknowledges quality scholarship and presentation in the SODR at the Annual Conference.
2020 was supposed to be a bustling year with the organization of the Olympics. The unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 has silenced all cities. This reality has exceeded the imagination of most people, bringing disorder and chaos to economy and politics. This is a disaster mankind has never encountered before.
The Museum of Russian Art presents a solo exhibition of art by Andréa Stanislav featuring sculptural works, photo montages, collages, and multi-media pieces by this cutting-edge contemporary artist.
Quilts and coverlets have a unique capacity to tell stories: their tactile, intricate mode of creation and their traditional use in the home impart deeply personal narratives of their creators, and the many histories they express reveal a complex record of America.
The Founders' Award is given annually for an article published by an emerging scholar in the preceding two years in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians that exhibits excellence of scholarship and presentation.
Caleb Weintraub’s exhibition, “Spectrum Dynamic,” on display at Rhode Island Museum of Science & Art
Created by artist Caleb Weintraub in collaboration with scientist Dan Kennedy and people on the Autism Spectrum, “Spectrum Dynamic” presents visual interpretations of the repetitive body movements common among individuals with Autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions, aiming to give form to the obscure, make the invisible visible, and show the beauty in the commonly misunderstood.
Featured in WSJ Magazine: The Case of the Missing Mies van der Rohe
After nearly 70 years, a forgotten, unbuilt design by the pioneering architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe comes to life on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus.
Professors James Nakagawa and David Ondrik are exhibiting alongside 2021 MFA's Kristoffer Johnson and Liliana Guzmán and 2021 BFA Wells Douglas from September 3–September 18, 2021.
Embodied Abstraction is on display from July 9–September 24.
For the NRF Foundation Next Generation Scholarship presented by SAS, 25 semifinalists spent the summer researching and building comprehensive plans detailing a proposed grocery product and how they would engage new and existing customers to drive sales.
Co-curated by Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, the third annual show examines the social lessons gleaned from the city’s Modernist architecture.
IU dedicates rediscovered Mies van der Rohe design, now under construction
The new building realizes a recently rediscovered 1952 design created by renowned architect Mies van der Rohe.
Twenty-five semifinalists in the 2022 NRF Foundation Next Generation Scholarship will spend the summer completing a case study created in collaboration with Meijer. This case study provides valuable real-world experience and helps develop future retail leaders.
Eskenazi School Class of 2021 Recognition
Congratulations, class of 2021!
Workshops provide space for conversations about diversity, inclusion and social justice
Students in the Eskenazi and Jacobs schools are talking about antiracism, cultural appropriation and microaggressions during workshops.
IU fashion design majors create off-campus fashion show
The show premiered at 2 p.m. Sunday in Fairfax State Recreation Area.
Veiled Taxonomies is an ongoing project about the fractious relationship humans have with the preservation and interpretation of nature.
Grad students get hands-on opportunity to re-create Cruella De Vil's gloves
Two Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design students helped replicate gloves worn by Glenn Close for "The Art of the Character."
How acclaimed actress Glenn Close's extensive costume collection ended up at Indiana University
Glenn Close's search for a place to house her more than 800-piece costume collection started with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and ended in an Indiana University building far from the Broadway stages and Hollywood sets where the award-winning actress has built her career.
The paper looks at strategies for activating the process of designing factually dense documents, such as government reports and records to increase public engagement.
Distance, group restrictions, school ban, telecommuting… In 2020, amidst the fear and confusion of the inability to control the virus and the distance between people, would we really have spent a year doing nothing?
Three Interior Design students won first and third place in the IIDA Indiana student design competition. For the third year, IU students won first place.
Playing catch with light: Architecture students install playful installation
A group of graduate students and a professor from Indiana University’s J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program is inviting local residents to play along and have a little fun with light as they pass by the former Republic building in downtown Columbus.
The exhibition runs from February 20, 2021–August 29, 2021, and comprises a series of dye-sublimation prints and an accompanying video that presents visual interpretations of motor stereotypies, sometimes termed stimming.
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Sarah Martin, published in AIGA's Eye on Design
What good are dense government documents like the Mueller report if they’re not designed for public consumption?
This body of paintings reflects images, ideas, and methods developed over the past two years as Creative Fellow at the Bloedel Reserve, on Bainbridge Island.
Ben Cowan is a Brooklyn-based visual artist known for his paintings featuring familiar Brooklyn sights cropped, collaged, and simplified in order to capture concentrated experience that refers to the interpersonal and supernatural.
This exhibition will be on display from January 29, 2021–March 6, 2021 at the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago.
Eskenazi School faculty to co-curate the Cook Center's first exhibitions opening in February
The center will be available to faculty and students in the arts and humanities for lectures, exhibits, workshops and conferences.
Rowland Ricketts, Associate Dean, selected to present work in Objects: USA 2020 exhibition
In 1969, the groundbreaking exhibition Objects: USA opened to crowds at the Smithsonian Institution before traveling across the country and abroad.
The exhibition includes collaborations with Jesse Gelaznik - NYC based composer and musician, and features the internationally regarded Tamburitzans dance company, lead by choreographer Johnny Goetz with renowned choreographer Zeljko Jergan.
From basic pleats to complex interlocking folds, origami could deliver better fitting, more comfortable, and more stylish face coverings.
The exhibition will travel from Lille, France to Munich, Germany.
Sculpturally dynamic as well as functional, the seating designs will include chairs, stools, and soft-form seating, among others.
An audacious painted wall with richly colored steel and wood protrusions and fluttering butterfly elements, it is the sixth installation piece by the painter Jennifer Riley utilizing what has become a signature element within her work, her “skeletons.”
David Ondrik’s Inheritance is a large installation of cameraless photographic works, and will be on display through Feburary 26, 2021.