Ninth Letter Literary Arts Journal Wins Prestigious Award
The University's innovative literature and arts magazine, Ninth Letter, recently received the "Certificate of Typographic Excellence" from the distinguished international Type Directors Club (TDC). As...[more]

Rose Marshack Sells Tickets to the Sunset
For her final project in her MFA candidacy, narrative media student Rose Marshack decided to address emerging trends of the mediation of nature through technology and the commoditization of beauty. He...[more]

Industrial Design Team Creates Award-Winning Wheelchair
Although the idea started as a class project, the development of the new Balance Sport Wheelchair soon took on a life of its own. The student team of Eric Larson (BFA ID 2004, BFA Metals 2005), Austin...[more]

Nisa Blackmon Receives Metals Prize Honorable Mention.
The Society of North American Goldsmiths awarded Honorable Mention to MFA candidate Nisa Blackmon for their annual Educational Endowment Trust Scholarship. This highly competitive scholarship is for s...[more]

Book Design
Jonathan Sarmiento designed the bookOrdinary People, Extraordinary Lives: the Stories of Nurses for the Honor Society of Nursing during his summer internship in 2003. ...[more]

Research Grant
Sheng Kuan Chung, a third-year doctoral student in Art Education, has recently completed a research grant entitled “Principles for Contemporary Art Appreciation and Interpretation,” awarde...[more]

IDEA Gold Award
Teresa Barin, Scott Kochlefl, Michael Vostal, Laura Naughton, and Matthew Wertz (working with Prof. William Bullock) won the Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) Gold Award from the Industrial De...[more]

Paper Published
Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud had a paper accepted for publication in Visual Language and gave a presentation before the Illinois Arts Alliance....[more]

Kang Wins Emerging Artist Award
Yeon-Mi Kang (Metals) won the 1st Emerging Artist Award from the Art Jewelry Forum....[more]