December 2024: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Lecturer Markus Dohner (MFA 1982) completed the design for beLonging: Lithuanian Artists in Chicago 1900 to Now at the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture in Chicago. He also designed the didactic panels and a visual system for the ID labels. The exhibit team took 15 months to develop and install the exhibition.

Associate Professor and Chair of Art Education Adam Greteman's book, Queer Teach This: Queer and Trans Pleasures, Politics, and Pedagogues, was published by Bloomsbury Press. Greteman's book offers commentary on an educational project that centers queers and their practices amid complex and changing realities in and beyond schools.

Professor Nicholas Lowe served as the executive editor for the Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook, the annual yearbook of the International Panorama Council, which surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media.

Assistant Professor Aliza Shvarts is one of the featured artists in “Field Notes on Repair: 3” in Places Journal. This is the third installment of the series, prepared in the months leading up to the U.S. election, in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

Professor Mechtild Widrich wrote an opinion piece about the Obama Presidential Center currently under construction in Chicago, which was published in the leading Austrian newspaper Die Presse. Her book, Monumental Cares, was reviewed by Nuaiskaä El-Mecky in the latest volume of Oxford Art Journal.