Announcements
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The 9th book by Janetta Rebold Benton (B.F.A. '67), a professor of art history at Pace University, is an overview of the fundamentals shared by visual arts across the globe. Released in softcover and available in seven languages from Thames & Hudson.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Art Alum Denise Eno Ernest Receives Arts Fellowship
Denise Eno Ernest (B.F.A. '85) was awarded the 2021 Emerging Professional Artist Fellowship in Painting by the Delaware Division of the Arts. An exhibition of Ernest's work will be shown at the State Office Building, Nov. 5–24.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Eye on Evanston: Thoughts on Design | Evanston Architect Stuart Cohen
The Evanston Roundtable notes that Chicago architect, author, and educator Stuart Cohen (B.Arch. '66, M.Arch. '67) received the American Institute of Architects' prestigious 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award on October 15.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Studio Archive Project: Use Your Words
Associate Professor of art Carl Ostendarp's work is part of an online group exhibition curated by JJ Manford (B.F.A. '06). Includes art alumni Erik den Breejen (M.F.A. '06), Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12), and former department chair Buzz Spector.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Harman Singh Dhodi (M.R.P '21) Wins National Planning Competition
Recent planning graduate Dhodi won the Global Planning Educators Interest Group (GPEIG) Case Study Prize for his exit project Intra-Urban Split in Sanitation Provision: The Untended Plight of Urban villages in Delhi, India.
Monday, October 18, 2021
M.R.P. Alum Karina Ricks Joins U.S.D.O.T. Federal Transit Administration
Appointed Associate Administrator for Research, Demonstration and Innovation in September, Karina Ricks (M.R.P. '98) will oversee a range of activities including mobility innovation, safety and testing, and bringing research into practice.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Artnet features Aiza Ahmed (B.F.A. '20) in a group show that challenges the patriarchal structures in modern society: Judith Has Arrived: Aiza Ahmed, Sanie Bokhari, Maya Varadaraj at Aicon Contemporary, on view through October.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Anna Warfield: All Things Being Blue
A solo exhibition in two parts hosted by the Schweinfurth Art Center and the Cayuga Museum in Auburn, New York, featured recent soft sculptural works by art alumna Anna Warfield (B.F.A./B.S. '18).
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
the other option is to slow down
A limited-edition artist book by Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97), copublished by SCMA and Candor Arts, documents Williams's 2019 artist residency at Smith College. An exhibition of Williams's work opens in November at Smith College Museum of Art.
Friday, September 24, 2021
Architectural Record Celebrates the 2021 Women in Architecture Awards
Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97) is honored as the New Generation Leader in Architectural Record's 2021 Women in Architecture Design Leadership awards. The architect/artist's installation work often probes the impact of race on the urban realm.
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Amie Cunat: Petal Signals, September 8–October 23
Dinner Gallery in New York City presents an exhibition of eight new paintings by fine art alumna Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12). Both horrific and comedic, earthly and transcendent, Cunat’s new paintings present biomorphic forms, familiar yet foreign.
Friday, August 27, 2021
Graham Foundation Supports JAE Fellows 2022–23
JAE's Graham Foundation grant supports Black, Native/Indigenous, and other people of color in architectural discourse. 2022–23 JAE Fellows include Assistant Professor Jennifer Newsom, Joyce Hwang (B.Arch. '97), and Thena Tak (B.Arch. '09).
Monday, August 23, 2021
Architecture Faculty and Alumni Work in an Exhibition of Architecture, Art, Design, and Community
2021 Exhibit Columbus participants: Dream the Combine, the practice of architecture's Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, co-curated by Mimi Zeiger (B.Arch. '94); Ann Lui (B.Arch. '11); Joyce Hwang (B.Arch. '97); and Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch.'00).
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Oonagh Davis (B.Arch. '20) and Elias Bennett (B.Arch. '20), cofounders of OnE Studio Architecture, received an honorable mention for Okioki Cabin, their entry for the Tiny Kiwi Meditation Cabin Competition by Earth Energies Sanctuary.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Longtime Planner Antoine Bryant Tapped as Detroit Development Director
The Detroit News reports Mayor Mike Duggan has selected Bryant (B.S. URS '95) for the city's planning and development chief. Bryant previously served as business development and project manager at alumni-led architecture firm Moody Nolan.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Howard McCalebb: Special Exhibition: Creating Community, Cinque Gallery Artists
The Art Students League of New York presented work by sculptor Howard McCalebb (M.F.A. '72) in a recent survey show and catalog of Cinque Gallery artists. Cinque supported African American artists in NYC dating from the Harlem Renaissance.
Friday, July 16, 2021
92 New York Artists Receive $616,000 in Grants
Art alums Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12) and Laura Nova '96 (B.F.A. '96) were awarded 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship grants for interdisciplinary work, from an applicant pool of more than 3,500 New York City artists.
Friday, July 9, 2021
Anderson Named Faculty Director of Cornell AAP's Bachelor of Architecture Program
Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. HAUD '96) joins the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning as Associate Professor and incoming Director of the B.Arch. Program.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Archinect reports Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99) will be in residence as a Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow for the 2021–22 academic year, where he will work on his project 3D Turntables Remix: The Architectural Technology of Hip-Hop.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Carson Chan Appointed Inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute at MoMA
Architect's Newspaper reports MoMA has named curator, writer, and educator Carson Chan (B.Arch. '04) as the first director of the museum's Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment.
