Category: student work

  • The Image-Makers: Documenting Protests

    The Image-Makers: Documenting Protests

    By now, we’re no strangers to photos and videos of police escalating confrontations with demonstrators and the killing of individuals in custody. Such visceral imagery has been captured for decades: “What the camera had to do was expose the evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the discrimination and the bigotry, by showing the people…

  • Jasmine Garoosi: compassion, art and social distancing

    Jasmine Garoosi: compassion, art and social distancing

    Since her college experience was dramatically altered by COVID-19, two things have been brought into greater focus for Photography major Jasmine Garoosi: her mother and her photography. To help her mother by day, means having to hone her craft by night. “My mom is working full time as a guidance counselor but she has so…

  • Students Shape Pellon for Macy’s Far-Out Flower Show

    One might think that Pellon, a stiff fabric usually used for linings, might have limited design options. Not so. In Prof. Susanna Moyer’s class students had no trouble crafting wildly diverse designs that captured the outer space theme of this year’s Macy’s Flower Show. Here’s what several students themselves said about their work. Victoria Oxer’s…

  • Mariam Khan’s “Don’t Triptych” project addresses anxieties of Gen Z digital world

    Graphic design student Mariam Khan (’20) is immersed in a digital world. One can see quickly that she excels at merging imagination and digital design, her medium of expression, to great effect. Born into a technology era considered synonymous with “Generation Z,” she is ever aware of its perils, of the mental distress and maladies…

  • The Power of Pronouns: Blue Summerfield’s Joyful Inktober

    The Power of Pronouns: Blue Summerfield’s Joyful Inktober

    “My comic sketch during Inktober, came from my enthusiasm for starting my transition,” says Taylor “Blue” Summerfield (Computer Animation-Interactive Media ’19). “It shows a conversation between myself and my partner, so lighthearted and happy.” Summerfield received his AAS in Illustration. He says that although he’s now an animation student, he “retains a love for Illustration–so I’m…