IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design on LinkedIn: Join us this evening in Columbus for a cookout on the lawn of the Republic… (2024)

It's September, and the Grunwald Gallery of Art is ready to dazzle you with our fall shows. Two extraordinary shows open Tuesday at the Grunwald, with an opening reception Friday, September 6 from 6-8 pm. Pictured: it's Jake Elwes' "The Zizi Show -- A Deepfake Drag Cabaret," on view in "Blurring the Lines: Art at the Intersection of Human and Artificial Creativity." Also opening, "Intimate Alchemy" showcases a different kind of deepfake--David Levinthal's XXX Polaroids. Plan your visit at https://lnkd.in/gRZX6GuD

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One week away! The Eskenazi School is gearing up for the monthly campus arts extravaganza that is theIU Arts and Humanities Council's First Thursdays festival. Join us Thursday, September 5 around the Showalter Fountain from 4-7 pm for:*T-shirt upcycling with the Fashion Design program*previews of fall shows at the Grunwald Gallery of Art*previews of a student photo show at the Tangent Gallery*talk at 5 by painting prof Caleb Weintraub, co-curator of Crossroads: The Paintings of John Mellencamp at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, followed by a reception. Can't wait to see you there!

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What makes a house a home? Maybe it’s the same thing that turns a set of geographical coordinates into a place you’re proud to call your hometown. The art of placemaking pivots on this same set of intangible qualities: a sense of shared identity, comfort, belonging, and pride, for starters. Learn how IU Eskenazi School students are helping rural Southern Indiana communities to lean in to their unique identities at tonight's Rural Placemaking Studio Showcase at the Mill, in Bloomington.

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The Eskenazi School hosts a talk Wednesday, September 4 at 6:30 pm (Fine Arts 102) by artist Kozo Miyoshi, whose photographs have received international acclaim for their unique and sincere approach to his fleeting subjects.Born in Chiba, Japan in 1947, Miyoshi graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 1971. He began his photographic career in the 1970s and started shooting with an 8×10-inch large format camera in 1981. In 2009 he upgraded to an ultra-large-format 16×20-inch camera which he continues to use on his travels.Miyoshi's talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The talk is free and open to the public. Plan around the Eskenazi's full calendar of fall events, when you go to https://lnkd.in/gdJsech3(Image: #21, gelatin silver print, printed in 2018,20x24 in, ©Kozo Miyoshi)

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Congrats Eskenazi School alum Nichole Wolz (M.F.A. '24, Printmaking) making the I Like Your Work MFA Exhibition Catalog!

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Public speaking isn't just about words; the speaker's attire tells its own story. Women's Wear Daily asked Eskenazi Associate Professor of Fashion Design Heather Akou for her interpretation of the navy blue suit and pinstriped blouse Vice President Kamala Harris wore at the Democratic National Convention. "In the U.S., navy blue is strongly associated with the military and police," Akou said, "while pinstripes are associated with the banking industry." Read Akou's and others' take on the Chloe suit below. https://lnkd.in/ggUeeE9b

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Happy first day of classes from the Eskenazi School! The fall semester at Indiana University Bloomington officially begins today, but some students got a headstart in one of four Intensive First-Year Seminar courses taught this month by Eskenazi faculty. Whether in Deb Christiansen's "Fashioning Identity: Art + Artifacts +Fashion Theory," Carissa Carman's "Exploring 'Otherness' ArtX," Mary Embry's "Fashion Consumption in a Climate Emergency," or Spencer Steenblik's "AI and Making," IU students spent two and a half weeks getting their critical thinking cap on, acclimating to campus in a focused environment, and showcasing their projects in a program-wide Academic Forum in Alumni Hall. IU College of Arts and Sciences

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When Eskenazi alum Justin Carney's (M.F.A. '23, Photography) grandmother died, his siblings didn’t see much of each other for a while. When Justin started taking pictures of his family, that changed. On this week's Inner States podcast from WFIU Public Radio, Justin, now Assistant Professor of Photography at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, shares how making art helped his family work through the grief: https://lnkd.in/giB5RNwa. (Photo: Justin Carney, Cookout, 2022)

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Hyperallergic reports on generative tools' incorporation into studio art classes, pointing to a class Eskenazi faculty Caleb Weintraub and David Ondrik introduced at IU at "the beginning of the buzz" 18 months ago: https://lnkd.in/eD9DauCh "Weintraub and Ondrik challenged their students to find generative AI’s faults," Hyperallergic reports, "and in doing so, to find their strengths as artists." Drop by the Grunwald Gallery of Art September 6 for the opening of an AI art exhibition co-curated by Weintraub: "Blurring the Lines: Art at the Intersection of Human and Artificial Creativity."Pictured: IU student Isabella Cordell's final project for “AI in the Studio” in 2023 incorporated Midjourney AI in an archival inkjet print. (image courtesy David Ondrik featured in Hyperallergic). See the article for more student work produced for the course.

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