IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Calling visual artists ! Submit your work now for inclusion in "Emerge: Asian American Art in Focus," opening with an artists' panel and reception Tuesday, April 15, 5-7 pm in the Cook Center at Maxwell Hall. Submit your work by Friday, March 28 at https://bit.ly/4hPDm9v The exhibition will highlight the vibrant and multifaceted expressions of Asian American artists, whose work continues to shape, challenge, and enrich the American cultural narrative. This exhibition celebrates creativity born from diverse experiences, weaving together tradition, innovation, and deeply personal stories.?This event is hosted by the IU Eskenazi School in collaboration?with the IU Asian Culture Center and the IU Arts and Humanities Council.? Indiana University Bloomington IU College of Arts and Sciences

Celebrating Emerging Talent at the 2025 NSAL Visual Arts Exhibition! Congratulations to all the incredible artists, especially the talented students from the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, featured in the 2025 National Society of Arts & Letters Visual Arts Exhibition at the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts! This year’s competition highlights 57 outstanding works by emerging Indiana artists, offering an inspiring look into the future of visual arts. A special shoutout to Brady Fanning (Insectile Circuity), Wren Spellman (Carrion Angles), Bee Shaffer (An Utterance of the Angle), and Cassidy Kaufman (A Tension) for their remarkable achievements and well-deserved recognition at the awards ceremony! Their creativity and dedication are truly commendable. The exhibition is on view at the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts from March 5th to March 13th.

This evening, IU alumna Alison Mefford spoke with Merchandising and Retail Studies Organization students about her journey from an IU student to her current role as Global Assortment Planner at Tiffany & Co. in New York City. Mefford graduated with a BSB in Marketing from the Kelley School of Business and a minor in Fashion Design from the Eskenazi School. Mefford discussed how her student years formed a base for her skills in the working world. She also discussed her jobs after graduation and her current role at Tiffany & Co.—which includes analyzing customer needs, managing inventory, strategic planning across markets and cities, and more. Indiana University Bloomington IU College of Arts and Sciences Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

What if you turned your closet into to a fashion archive and documented what you wore like a historian would? Or recreated the long-lost plum-colored dress Anna Murray wore to wed Frederick Douglass? Dr. Dyese Matthews of Parsons School of Fashion in NYC shared the stories of Black women in Harlem who are creating unconventional fashion archives to make space for the history of Black lives. Dr. Matthews visited the Eskenazi School Monday, March 10 as part of the Bill Blass Speaker Series. Indiana University Bloomington IU College of Arts and Sciences

Designers stand at the verge of a great professional opportunity: artificial intelligence. This technology enables computers to study the world and make predictions using unstructured data. We can speak to machines—and machines can speak back. We can gesture to devices, expressing emotion and intent, and machines can respond meaningfully. We can look to computers not just for interaction, but for companionship. In her talk on Monday, March 10 at 5 pm in the Mies van der Rohe Building, Helen Armstrong will explore the nuances of a thoughtful integration of human/AI capabilities via user experience and user interface design. Helen Armstrong is a Professor of Graphic & Experience Design and the Director of the MGXD Program at NC State University. Her research seeks to demystify AI and inspire designers to harness this technology and establish leadership via thoughtful human-centered design. Professor Armstrong's talk is presented by the Eskenazi Technology Innovation Lab and supported by IU Research and Arts & Humanities AI + Digital Futures Program. More details at https://lnkd.in/gCKPCnke Indiana University Bloomington IU College of Arts and Sciences

Thanks so much to our friends at Mitsch Design, BSA, Officeworks, MillerKnoll, and GMB for hosting our interior design students for a day of learning in the field!

The current show in the Grunwald Gallery brings little-known film footage in the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Moving Image Archive into the light, elevating often marginalized voices, communities, and stories. "You (probably ) Haven't Seen This Before" is a showcase of amateur and independent filmmaking and discarded outtakes. At https://lnkd.in/gMti28jY, learn more about the show and an interactive program taking place tonight (03/06 at 6:30 pm) in the gallery during which Indiana Public Media / WTIU / WFIU's Alex Chambers will conduct interviews about moments that embody a resistance to the status quo. Attendees may participate in experimental camera-less filmmaking, creating art inspired by the stories told. At the end of the evening, the strips of film will be spliced together and projected in the gallery.? Indiana University IU College of Arts and Sciences

Whether you're flying out or coming back home again to Indiana this spring, make sure to check out the work of Printmaking M.F.A. ('24) Nichole Wolz the Indianapolis International Airport's KIND Gallery. Indy Arts Council Indiana University Bloomington IU Alumni Association South Central Indiana Region GANGGANG

How can making, looking at, or otherwise interacting with visual art enhance mental wellness? Join us in the Mies classroom Tuesday night from 5:30-7 pm for Canvas of Care, for lively presentations by IU faculty, staff, and students who are exploring art-based wellness strategies in their work. Hoa Vo, Ph.D., NCIDQ , assistant professor of interior design, and student Caroline Alleva will share their designs for an art therapy studio that incorporates VR to empower adults with autism (first image); their other projects address OCD, anxiety, and PTSD through artmaking. Photography MFA Hannah Toepp will share how creating her magical photo-installations (second image) serves as an antidote to anxiety. The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University's new art-based wellness experiences director and a health educator from Indiana University Bloomington's new Wellness House will round out the program with resources and practices to support your well-being and success. Details at https://lnkd.in/ggPzf_Yk IU College of Arts and Sciences

Black women and their histories are often overlooked and excluded from conventional museums, study collections, and archives. In this talk for the Bill Blass Lecture Series Monday, March 10 at 5 pm in Kirwood Hall 116, Dr. Dyese Matthews, assistant professor at Parsons School of Fashion in New York, explores ways that Black women in New York’s Harlem neighborhood challenge conventions of documentation and preservation by producing unconventional fashion archives through collecting, making, and wearing clothing. Through a re-imagined fashion archive, Black women assert individual agency and come together as a collective that resists oppression and establishes their important place in the past, present, and future of Harlem. A proud Chicago native and award-winning researcher, author, and curator, Matthews investigates how fashion is a medium and an embodied practice for liberation and identity expression across the African Diaspora. More details at https://lnkd.in/gxt_mkeP. First image: Dr. Dyese Matthews. Photo by Becca Howland. Second image: Anna Murray Douglass wedding gown recreation by Cassandra Bromfield (2022). Photo by by Dyese Matthews. Indiana University Bloomington IU College of Arts and Sciences