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Bloomington's Rogers Family Park will showcase sculpture by Eskenazi faculty
Comprehensive design lecturer Jon Racek's metal sculpture FLEET/ing will be installed in Bloomington's Goat Farm Park, to be renamed Rogers Family Park upon reopening. Racek collaborated with fellow Eskenazi faculty member Jiangmei Wu on the metal sculpture (C)olumn, installed at the corner of S. Walnut and W. 2nd Streets in 2015.
Kinsey sculpture featured in Limestone Post
Eskenazi School faculty member Melanie Cooper Pennington's newly dedicated bronze sculpture of Dr. Alfred Kinsey celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Kinsey Institute and salutes its ongoing relevance and cutting-edge research.
Interior Design faculty Wu curates "Everything Folds and Unfolds"
The South Haven (Mich.) Center for the Arts exhibition committee invited Eskenazi associate professor Jiangmei Wu to create a call for entries for its annual juried exhibition based on her connection to origami as an art form.
Eskenazi faculty receive two of eight inaugural IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowships
Two Eskenazi faculty members are among the eight IU faculty members to have been awarded the inaugural IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship in 2022. The program aims to accelerate and amplify the work of outstanding IU faculty poised to become national and international leaders in their fields.
Creating African Fashion Histories
Fashion historian and Eskenazi faculty member Heather Akou has spent her career studying clothing that doesn’t normally get a lot of attention. Akou and colleagues will discuss the role museums play in the study of African fashion September 7 on the Bloomington campus.
'Mies in Indiana' opens at Grunwald Gallery
The Eskenazi School's Grunwald Gallery of Art has mounted “Mies in Indiana,” an exhibition that explores the little-known history of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture in Indiana between 1947 and 1953, particularly in Indianapolis and Bloomington.
High school students explore sustainability through summer program led by IU faculty
Eskenazi Lecturer in Fashion Design Lori Frye led high school students from around the country in exploring the environmental impacts of fashion as part of IU's Summer Experience in Sustainability and the Environment in July.
Husband and Wife Making Indigo and Art
Artist Rowland Ricketts met his wife, weaver Chinami Ricketts, in Japan over big vats of indigo when they were apprentices with a family of dyers more than two decades ago. Today, though their Bloomington home is a world away, “indigo remains the point where our work converges,” Rowland says.
Work in Progress: the Alfred Kinsey Legacy Sculpture
In September, Eskenazi faculty member Melanie Pennington's life-size bronze of Dr. Alfred Kinsey will be installed on the Bloomington campus as the world's premier sexuality research institute marks its 75th year.
Fibers lecturer's site-specific installation caps Eastman residency
For a few moments last Saturday evening, those in passing boats and airplanes might have spied a colorful eight-pointed star along the Martha's Vineyard shoreline. The temporary art installation was the culmination of Carissa Carman's two-week Eastman residency, dedicated to inspiring the creative and scholarly activities of IU faculty.
