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Helena Eisenhart, BFA Fashion Design ’15, was featured in a Brooklyn Magazine article that highlighted their use of vintage and found materials for inclusive design: “In a time when gender issues are at the front of public discourse, blurring the lines of gendered fashion can serve as a positive step towards more inclusivity and progress.”

Portlyn Houghton-Harjo, BFA Writing ’25, won the 2023 Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Competition. She was featured in the Mount Holyoke News: “I think that part of being a poet is finding a bit of inspiration in a lot of things.”

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, was named to President Biden’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The Committee advises the President and cultural agencies on policy and efforts to enhance federal support for the arts, humanities, and museum and library services.

Interior Design magazine featured a class led by Kevin Walz, visiting associate professor of industrial design, in which students experimented with materials from the Italy-based SICIS to learn about the history of mosaics. They spent time at SICIS’s showroom in the Bronx where SICIS artists then assembled the students’ large-scale mosaic designs.

The first half of the MFA thesis exhibition was reviewed by Hyperallergic: “Spanning both traditional and new media, the works explored and restructured collective and personal narratives within the scope of race and culture, sex and gender, language and geography, and beyond.” Part two opens on April 24.

The Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI) contributed to a report on New York City “soft sites,” which are lots that are eligible—and vulnerable—to redevelopment based on land use and zoning criteria. The report and companion website are available online. The faculty collaborators included Sara Eichner, Sara Hodges, Can Sucuoğlu, and John Shapiro.

“Double Cultura” by Yessenia Sanchez, BFA Film ’21, is an HBO Max Latino Short Film Competition winner. The honor includes having her film stream on HBO Max for a year.

Four School of Art students were selected as 2023 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Summer Residents: Mateo Arciniegas Huertas, BFA Photography ’23; Alexander Brewington, MFA Fine Arts ’23, Katie Croft, MFA Fine Arts ’20; MPS Art Therapy and Creativity Development ’23; and Matthew Del Carmen, BFA Fine Arts ’23.

Jiahao Chen, MPS Design Management ’24, received an Emerging Scholar Award at the 2023 International Conference on Design Principles & Practices in Lisbon, Portugal. Chen presented a paper on “non-material design,” examining the opportunities and challenges of digitalization across various industries and its impact on sustainable development.

The 2023 Research Open House People’s Choice Award has been awarded to Greg Sheward and Jason Vigneri-Beane in the School of Architecture for Cephalic Structures: Robotically Printed Eco-Composites. The ongoing design research project explores robotically printed fabrication processes for ecological micro-infrastructures