Core Exhibition Fall 2024 artwork

AMES, Iowa –– Student projects from the Iowa State University College of Design’s introductory design and drawing studios will be showcased from April 14–27 at various locations within the college. A public reception and studio open house will be held from 6–7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24.  

The “Spring 2025 Core Exhibition” will feature a selection of current projects from the Design Studies 1020: Design Studio I and Design Studies 1310: Drawing I courses in the college’s first-year Core Design Program. Pieces will include pattern and texture drawing, mark making, still life and representational drawing, color theory and design, and three-dimensional and processional forms. 

Student work will be on view in the atrium, room 111 (formerly known as the Reading Room), the Pickard Chilton Gallery (first-floor hallway in the King Pavilion), second-floor hallways, and Core studio classrooms 226, 230, 234, 240, 246, 252, and 258. DSNS 1020 and 1310 studio classrooms will be open during the reception, with student work also exhibited in these spaces. 

Core Exhibition Fall 2024 artwork

DSNS 1020 Faculty 

Hanieh Baktash, assistant teaching professor, interior design
Roman Chikerinets, associate teaching professor, architecture
Bernard Canniffe, associate professor, graphic design
Nathan Edwards, associate teaching professor, art and visual culture
Carol Faber, associate professor, graphic design
Mike Jackson, associate teaching professor, art and visual culture
Liz Koerner, lecturer, art and visual culture
Kevin Lair, associate teaching professor, architecture
LeeReyna Lopez Leyva, associate teaching professor, art and visual culture
Tom Neppl, professor of practice, landscape architecture
Megen O’Toole, assistant teaching professor, industrial design, and co-coordinator, Core Design Program 
May Wilson, lecturer, art and visual culture

Fall 2024 Core Exhibition artwork

DSNS 1310 Faculty 

Nathan Edwards, associate teaching professor, art and visual culture, and co-coordinator, Core Design Program
Amy Harris, teaching professor, art and visual culture
Kyra Litwin, lecturer, art and visual culture
LeeReyna Lopez Leyva, associate teaching professor, art and visual culture
Katie DuVal Mihelich, lecturer, art and visual culture
Elnaz Masrour, graduate teaching assistant, art and visual culture
Anna Segner, assistant teaching professor, art and visual culture, and co-coordinator, Core Design Program
Chris Yanulis, lecturer, art and visual culture
Li Zhang, assistant teaching professor, art and visual culture 

Contacts

Nathan Edwards, Design Studies 1020 co-coordinator, nedwards@iastate.edu
Lauren Johnson, Communications Specialist, College of Design, laujohn2@iastate.edu 

 

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