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The College of Arts + Architecture welcomed new members of our College family into the “circle” on Sunday, August 22, with the 2021 CoA+A Convocation ceremony and after party in the Arts Quad. Dean Brook Muller opened the evening: “I want to express my gratitude to all of you for joining us on this fine […]

A patent-pending microalgae window system developed in the College of Arts + Architecture’s Integrated Design Research Lab (IDRL) has won a 2021 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. The interdisciplinary project, led by Dr. Kyoung Hee Kim, associate professor of architecture and director of the IDRL, is in its ninth year of development and has received […]

Dr. Brian Arreola, professor of voice, will premiere the lead role in a chamber opera by Vietnamese American composer P.Q. Phan and his wife, librettist Anvi Hoàng. Presented by the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, What the Horse Eats will be performed and live-streamed from the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington, Indiana, on August 21 […]

The lobby of Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts will be host to a piano sale August 5-7. The Department of Music has the use of new first-class pianos on a no-cost basis each school year. This arrangement is provided through an association with the Rockley Family Foundation. These instruments, instruments provided to other institutions, […]

A research project to develop high-performance regenerative windows integrated with climate responsive solar cells will move to a new phase of development thanks to a $250,000 Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Principal Investigator Dr. Kyoung Hee Kim, associate professor of architecture, and her co-investigators Dr. Chengde […]

Dance alumna Laura Dearman ’18 has been promoted to a principal dancer position with Neville Dance Theatre, a Manhattan-based contemporary ballet company founded in 2005 by Brenda R. Neville. Dearman joined Neville Dance Theatre in September 2018 as a company member. The company presents annual fall seasons in New York City, as well as curated […]

A new medal issued by the United States Mint features the work of Associate Professor of Art Jamie Franki. The first release in the United States Armed Forces Silver Medal Program, the medal honors the U.S. Air Force. It was designed by Franki and artist Paul Balan, both of whom are designers in the United […]

A group of architecture graduate students, led by Professor of Architecture Chris Jarrett, had the opportunity to take the School of Architecture’s first post-pandemic field trip this month, thanks to $5,000 in financial support from precast concrete industry partners. The sponsorship, organized by Ray Clark, executive director of the Georgia/Carolinas Precast Concrete Institute (PCI), included […]

Associate Professor of Architecture Jefferson Ellinger and his project partners Joseph Choma and Wesam Al Asali are among 12 design teams shortlisted for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Installation Competition. Organized by the Estonian Centre for Architecture, the Tallinn Architecture Biennale is the largest architectural festival in the Baltics. The 12 finalists for the TAB […]

A new collaboration between the Department of Art & Art History and Goodyear Arts awards three-week summer artist residencies to recent graduates of the Department. Alumni Nadia Meadows, who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art in December 2020, and Nicole Thrower, who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art in May, are […]