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10/11/17 AMES, Iowa — The work of three Iowa State University faculty members from different art and design disciplines will be highlighted in an exhibition Oct. 13 through Nov. 4 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “Where is Here?” features complementary works by Firat Erdim, assistant professor of architecture; David Parker, lecturer in graphic design; and Olivia Valentine, assistant professor of art and visual…

October 11, 2017

10/10/17 AMES, Iowa — Multidisciplinary designer Madeline Gannon, a self-described “robot whisperer” with a passion for inventing better ways to communicate with machines that make things, will share her work in a free public lecture at Iowa State University. Gannon will present “Robots Are Creatures, Not Things” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. Part of the ISU Department of Architecture’s 2017-18 Public…

October 10, 2017

October 6, 2017

10/05/17 AMES, Iowa — A team of Iowa State University architecture students has won the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA) Education and Research Foundation Unit Design Competition to design a new concrete masonry or hardscape unit that can be mass-produced on a block or big-board machine. Iowa State’s team was one of eight selected from regional competitions to advance to the national competition and one of only three invited to present…

October 5, 2017

10/01/17 AMES, Iowa — An exhibition celebrating the geological history and landscape of one of Iowa’s state parks — and the elements that shaped it — will open in Clear Lake this month. “Common Channel: Responses to Ledges State Park” will feature three-dozen artworks by Iowa State University College of Design faculty and graduate students with a common interest in the Ledges and in nature art, said the show’s curator, Nancy…

October 1, 2017

09/30/17  AMES, Iowa — A Los Angeles-based photographer who documents graffiti art will speak about the artists’ motivation and the creativity behind street art in a lecture at Iowa State University. Steve Grody will present “Contemporary Graffiti” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, in room 362 College of Design. Sponsored by CODAC (College of Design Art Club), his talk is free and open to the public. Grody will provide a…

September 30, 2017

September 29, 2017

09/29/17 AMES, Iowa — At its April meeting, the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved promotion and tenure awards for Iowa State University faculty members for the 2017-18 academic year. Bambi Yost, assistant professor of landscape architecture in the ISU College of Design, was promoted to associate professor with tenure, effective Aug. 16, 2017. Yost joined the landscape architecture faculty in 2010. She regularly teaches courses in social and…

September 29, 2017

September 22, 2017

09/21/17 AMES, Iowa — Ceramics designer Jonathan Castro will visit Iowa State University as an artist-in-residence Sept. 25-29 in the Department of Art and Visual Culture in the College of Design. Castro will present a free public lecture on “Branding: Who Are You?” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, in room 362 Design. He also will teach an intermediate wheel pottery class open to the public, serve as a guest artist…

September 21, 2017