Alumni Stories
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W Magazine speaks with the Architecture alum about the “genre-breaking” design firm he founded with Andre Herrero.
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Hyperallergic describes the Painting MFA’s work as a “hallucinatory experience of isolation or a fairly run-of-the-mill orgy.”
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Alum Ying Bonny Cai spent a year in Seoul studying traditional Korean apparel with contemporary makers reviving and modernizing ancient customs.
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New grad Fengijao Ge presents an innovative project at this year’s Antenna conference that repurposes textiles waste to combat erosion.
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The New York Times presents a profile of the Painting/Printmaking MFA, a Pakistani native whose work explores colonialism, migration, gender and hyphenated identities.
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Vogue reports on the Brooklyn-based Photography MFA’s $100,000 honorarium and her portraits chronicling the Black diaspora.
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Time Magazine includes Painting alum Julie Mehretu on its annual list of cultural luminaries.
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A profile in The New York Times Style Magazine dubs the NYC-based Glass alum “The Artist Whose Medium Is Science.”
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An extensive range of virtual programming helps returning students consider how they’ll contribute to the discourse around racial justice.