Eskenazi School News

ASU faculty, students help incarcerated women renovate prison classroom

Assistant Professor of Interior Design Hassnaa Mohammed completed a service-learning community-engaged project that entailed redesigning a community room in a women’s prison in Arizona with her graduate students and in collaboration with a criminal justice professor and his students at Arizona State University. The project implemented trauma-informed design principles to transform the room into a hub for healing, growth, and connection.

Student spotlight: Jade Smith, Fashion Design B.A.

A third-year fashion design major from Indianapolis, Jade Smith had been interested in art for as long as he could remember. When he came to the Eskenazi School, he learned how frequently fashion figured at the forefront of political movements, and chose to make fashion his medium for advocacy and social progress.

This AI art installation wants to hear your migration story

On view at the Grunwald Gallery, Eskenazi faculty Megan Young's AI-based installation "carry:root" allows the visitor to converse with Carry, whose background is based on twelve interviews with women who have experienced migration and displacement. WFIU spoke with Young in advance of her noon talk in the gallery Nov. 13.

Paying it forward: first-gen faculty sparks first-gen student's creative fire

Digital art prof Dominick Rivers encouraged his student Julian Clensy to learn Blender film editing software  and submit his animated short to London's Noli Me Tangere Film Festival, where it premiered in October alongside Rivers' own short film. Only later did Rivers learn that his student, like himself, was the first in his family to attend college.

Student spotlight: Julian Clensy, Comp Design B.S.

Comprehensive design major Julian Clensy recently premiered his animated short film at London's Noli Me Tangere Film Festival. A first-gen college student who began as a computer science major, Julian's love of creating digital art led him to comp design. In his new major, he's explored animation, architecture, and UX design.

Applicants sought for 2027 McKinney International Art and Design Residency

The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites established artists and designers whose primary residence is outside the US to apply for the 2027 McKinney International Art and Design Residency.

Student spotlight: Alex Quintanilla, Studio Art MFA

The spirit of the monthly campus arts and humanities festival radiates through their promotional graphics. Get to know the MFA student who created the look for November's First Thursday campaign. A second year graphic design MFA from Los Angeles, Alex Quintanilla shares why he came to the Eskenazi School and how it's working out.

Newcity reviews Grunwald's "Intimate Alchemy: Levinthal XXX Polaroids"

Writing in Chicago's Newcity magazine about the Grunwald Gallery's current show "Intimate Alchemy,"  Annette Lepique says, "[David] Levinthal's photography and figurines both play off of and obscure the other. The gallery becomes a hall of mirrors, a magician's trick." The exhibition, highlighting a recent gift to the Kinsey Institute, is on view through November 16.

Michelle Solorzano (MFA '24) is Ceramics Monthly's November 2024 cover artist

A sculpture by Eskenazi alum Michelle Solorzano (MFA '24) is featured on the November 2024 cover of the national publication Ceramics Monthly, with a photo-essay about her process inside its pages. In her work, Solorzano, who is originally from the Dominican Republic, explores cultural identity through the imagery of Carnaval.

Student spotlight: Olivia Childress, Studio Art B.F.A.

Senior Olivia Childress (expected B.F.A. '25) uses all of the resources in the print shop -- from antique wooden and metal types to digital tools -- to create. The artist behind the October First Thursday Festival, Childress will be joining two graphic design faculty and other students at the Wayzgoose letterpress conference in Wisconsin in November.