Tag: COVID-19

  • The semester’s first assignments

    How do you teach remotely a curriculum grounded in creativity? Creatively. The high level of teaching and student engagement within the School of Art and Design shows how quality instruction can take place under unusual circumstances. First assignments are often what set the pace. This semester, there’s no such thing as being too far away…

  • Illustrator and Story-Teller Brian Michael Weaver to Teach This fall

    In a world gone buggy…What do you get when you combine a tough-guy detective, a sultry butterfly, a hungry ladybug, a hard-nosed mosquito, a missing pencil box and a tail the size of Brooklyn?… You get incoming Illustration Professor Brian Michael Weaver, aka Neil Numberman! New this fall Prof. Weaver will be teaching Visual Storytelling…

  • Opportunities in the Rebranding of America

    Opportunities in the Rebranding of America

    There’s a wave of rebranding taking place across the country in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, and a realization that Black dollars matter as well. For many major brands, it has been a long time coming. “The names and images on so many products were weaponized from their inception,” says Communication Design Professor…

  • 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…