White Default and The Power of Research

Join Stevenson University, the Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore for this online event with Dr. Cheryl D. Miller.

Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes Miller is the Spring 2022 Stevenson University Art and Graphic Design Department’s Artist in Residence. She is recognized for her outsized influence within the graphic design profession to end the marginalization of BIPOC designers through her civil rights activism, industry exposé trade writing, research rigor, and archival vision. Dr. Holmes Miller is a national leader of minority rights, gender, race, diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion advocacy in graphic design. She is a 2021 AIGA Medalist, a 2021 Cooper Hewitt National Design Awardee, and a 2021 Honorary IBM Scholar.

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT
1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr. Cheryl D. Miller is recognized for her outsized influence within the graphic design profession to end the marginalization of BIPOC designers through her civil rights activism, industry exposé trade writing, research rigor, and archival vision. Miller is a national leader of minority rights, gender, race diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion advocacy in graphic design.

She is founder of the former Cheryl D. Miller Design, Inc., NYC, a social impact design firm; she is a designer, author, trade writer for PRINT Magazine and Communication Arts Magazine, and theologian.

Dr. Miller has an MS in Communications Design from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Graphic Design from Maryland Institute College of Art, completed Foundation Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, and has a Doctor of Humane Letters from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a MDiv from Union Theological Seminary.

A recipient of countless awards, she is dedicated to visual arts advancement. The Cheryl D. Miller Collection at Stanford University is her legacy professional firm’s archive, including her memoir research and manuscripts. The collection features D&I initiatives, corporate communications developed for Fortune 500 corporations, and corporate communications for national African American organizations, developed post-Civil Rights Era, 1974–1994.

She is an activist, decolonizing graphic design professor, lecturer, and revisionist historian. She is Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Design at the University of Texas–Austin. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Vermont College of Fine Arts and the President’s Global Advisory Board of Maryland Institute College of Art.

Black Collagists: The Book

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA), AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for a talk with curator and writer Teri Henderson followed by a Q&A session moderated by Jen White-Johnson.

Teri Henderson is a Baltimore-based independent curator, a staff writer for BmoreArt, and the founder of Black Collagists, a platform that features the work of emerging Black collage artists as well as more established and well-known collage artists in order to raise awareness about the history of Black collage art. In her presentation, she will discuss her curatorial practice and the creation of the Instagram Account @blackcollagists which led to the publication of her book. She will also discuss her role at BmoreArt as a staff writer and gallery coordinator.

Jen White-Johnson is an Afro-Latina, disabled designer, parent, art activist and educator whose work explores the intersection of content and caregiving with an emphasis on redesigning ableist visual culture. Her activist and advocacy work has appeared in The Washington Post, AfroPunk, Teen Vogue, among other publications. Jen’s work is permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is currently a Guest Lecturer at the University of Minnesota College of Design.

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT
1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

ABOUT BLACK COLLAGISTS
Founded in August 2020, Black Collagists is an online platform that highlights and amplifies the work solely of Black artists making collages worldwide. The platform features the work of emerging Black collage artists as well as more established and well-known collage artists in order to raise awareness about the history of Black collage art.

In December 2021, “Black Collagists: The Book” was published by Kanyer Publishing. Written and curated by Teri Henderson, the publication features over fifty emerging and established Black collage artists from around the world. With over 300 full-color images alongside historical context and academic essays, the book establishes a physical archive of the history and the future of Black collage artists. For more on Black Collagists follow @blackcollagists or visit www.blackcollagists.com

Locating Design Exchanges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore for this online talk by design historians Livia Rezende and Patricia Lara-Betancourt, co-editors of the volume Locating Design Exchanges in Latin America and the Caribbean, a special issue of the Journal of Design History (Oxford University Press, 2019).

They will discuss what happens when researchers foreground Latin American and Caribbean agency in design, a proposition that underpins the edition. Guided by this challenge, they propose a new approach to the discourse on Latin American and Caribbean design and consider ways to decolonize and globalize the study of design history in and from that region.

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo will host this event, part of the virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

Thank you to AIGA Unidos, Stevenson University, and the Design History Society for partnering with us on this event.

👉🏼 The speakers will present in English. Interpretation in Spanish and Portuguese will be available.

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT
1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

PRESENTED BY
Dr. Patricia Lara-Betancourt is a design historian and member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University (London, UK) since 2008. She studied Colombian and Latin American History at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Universidad Nacional de Colombia; and worked as a University lecturer in Colombia from 1990 to 1997. Among her publications is The Quest for Modernity: A Global/National Approach to a History of Design in Latin America, in Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in the Age of Globalization, ed. by K Fallan and G Lees-Maffei (Berghahn, 2016). Other publications include Complex Interior Spaces in London, 1850-1930: Introduction, in F Fisher, P Lara-Betancourt, V Kelley and P Sparke, eds., The London Journal, 45 (2, 2020); and Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail, co-edited with A Lasc and M Maile Petty (Routledge 2017).

Dr. Livia Rezende is a design historian living on Gadigal land and working at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She co-founded OPEN, an art and design collective for decolonial praxis. She is New Formats editor of the Journal of Design History and Book Review editor of the Journal of Modern Craft. Dr. Rezende has published widely, her latest research into the institutionalization of modern design in Latin America as coloniality was initiated in her co-edited Journal of Design History’s special issue Locating Design Exchanges in Latin America and the Caribbean (2019) and is forthcoming in Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: Schools of Departure (2021), Design and Displacement (2022) and Building-Object (2022). Her previous research into displays of Brazilian raw materials in World’s Fairs feature in Iberoamericana (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2021), Designing Worlds (2016), Cultures of International Exhibitions (2015) and Design Frontiers (2014).

Watch the previous Latino Design Histories videos!

Studio Tours: Virtual Lunch Tours

Curious about the behind the scenes of Baltimore’s coolest places to work? Join our virtual studio tours at some of the top design companies in the city! Learn more about workplace culture, interior design, and what it’s like to be an employee at Alpha Graphics, Duckpin, Fearless, and Indigo Ink.

Alpha Graphics

Thursday, October 7
12 pm » 1 pm

Founded in 1972, Alpha Graphics has been a staple in Baltimore for over 48 years. We have become Baltimore’s most respected custom print, design, and graphics shop.

Alpha Graphics has distinguished itself as the go-to print shop in Baltimore for more than four decades. We have a rich history in Charm City providing the highest quality customer service and product satisfaction. We are not a part of the franchise and we pride ourselves on being locally-owned and solely owned by a woman.

It’s not about what we do, it’s why we do it. We take care of the printing details and strive to make sure that not only does your printed piece look great, but so do you. Our clients and our employees have been the backbone of this company for over 40 years and we know why you come back project after project.

Duckpin

Thursday, October 14
12 pm » 1 pm

Duckpin is a digital marketing and advertising agency for elevated brands. We believe in the power of human connection propelled by technology to spark business growth.

But we’re not just an agency. We are a goal-oriented and results-focused partner who is dedicated to your success.

When you work with Duckpin, you’re getting a team that is built from distinct skill sets, combined to produce efficient results and solutions. We focus on a friction-free approach, that is ready to listen, not afraid to be hands-on, and eager to tackle new and unique challenges.

Duckpin is fortunate to work with companies ranging from national brands such as Under Armour to tech startups such as Chai Energy. We support locally-operating organizations with international impact such as The University of Maryland School of Medicine and The International Dyslexia Association. Finally, we also proudly support a wide range of local businesses such as Saiontz & Kirk and The Bagelry Silver Spring.

Fearless

Thursday, October 21
12 pm » 1 pm

Hi, we’re Fearless. We’re a full-stack digital services firm in Baltimore that delivers sleek, modern, and user-friendly software designed to push the boundaries of possibility. It’s our mission to build software with a soul—tools that empower communities and make a difference—so we can create a world where good software powers the things that matter.

Indigo Ink

Thursday, October 28
12 pm » 1 pm

Indigo Ink is a Baltimore/Washington area digital printing company providing the latest high-performance services with environmental impact always in mind. Through technological advances in digital printing, Indigo Ink offers a variety of niche capabilities, including digital white ink printing, digital foil stamping, and metallic ink, among other more traditional printing capabilities. Our organizational mission can be summed up in three statements:

We are print craftspeople…we totally geek out over this stuff!
We never stop moving forward…always improving.
We care deeply about our team, our community, and the environment.

Thanks to Indigo Ink for being an annual print sponsor of AIGA Baltimore!

Accessibility
If you need any accommodations to fully access the event, please get in touch with us at: info@baltimore.aiga.org.

Code of Conduct
AIGA Baltimore expects that all attendees treat each other with respect, openness, and in adherence to the guidelines specified in AIGA’s Code of Conduct, which can be found here: Code of Conduct.

Inside Out: How Might We Share Our Likely Stories

How does social change happen?

Lori Rubeling’s Likely Stories: chaos and cosmos Stevenson University exhibition provides an example for how we might tell 9/11, COVID-19, and Climate Change “origin” stories. Likely Stories origin story features the climate crisis. By 3D modeling the scale and carbon sink processes of a giant sequoia tree Professor Rubeling reminds us that without shared definitions and a common purpose, social change is not likely to happen. The exhibition’s likely story narrative expands into the history of philosophy, specifically the history of architectural philosophy. Abstract research frameworks that imagine possible environmental futures are also featured in the exhibition.

This webinar is a panelist conversation. UX designer Ebony Kenney, artist and community activist Rikiesha Metzger, and artist, designer, and SoDA planning committee member Richard Stanley will join Lori Rubeling in discussing the themes presented in the Likely Stories: chaos and cosmos exhibition. Attendees will also have an opportunity to share their Covid-19 stories.

How to Attend the Event

  1. The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
  2. Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
  3. Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

About the Speakers

 

Lori Rubeling

Lori Rubeling is Professor of Art and Graphic Design at Stevenson University. Her educational expertise is design research methods and theory. She has professionally applied her art and design skills in several contexts: theoretical architecture, interior architecture, theater and TV scenography design, exhibitions, and graphic design.

Professor Rubeling was recently appointed Faculty Director of Exhibitions for Stevenson University. Her curatorial vision is to cultivate aesthetic social conversations in aesthetic contexts. Current curatorial practice projects include Likely Stories: chaos and cosmos installed at Stevenson University Greenspring Campus Art Gallery and Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles installed in UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture.

Ebony Kenney

Ebony Kenney is a Design and Communications professional, as well as a Market Research Analyst, with over 20+ years in the industry. She holds a MA in Design from the University of Baltimore and leads software product design teams as a Usability Analyst for a federal government agency. She draws her insight from a keen understanding of the scientific method and uses this skillset in her design approach.

Rikiesha Metzger

Rikiesha Metzger is a student at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, pursuing a degree in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory, a working mom, an adjunct professor at MICA, and an art teacher at Hampden Christian School. She is a multifaceted community artist working with themes related to race, identity, and beauty. As a socially engaged artist, her professional and research interests revolve around the transformative power of art and its ability to create new experiences, rebirth, and reignite the spirit of underserved communities.

Richard Stanley

Richard Stanley (BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MA equivalent from the Basel School of Design). Retired from corporate and studio design work, he currently freelances, occasionally teaches at area colleges and universities, and pursues fine arts interests. Always fascinated with design history and how it shapes design philosophy and practice, he continues to apply abstract methodologies such as semiotics and visual rhetoric to design issues.

Accessibility

If you need any accommodations to fully access the event, please get in touch with us at: info@baltimore.aiga.org.

Code of Conduct

AIGA Baltimore expects that all attendees treat each other with respect, openness, and in adherence to the guidelines specified in AIGA’s Code of Conduct, which can be found here: Code of Conduct.

Baltimore Mural Hunt 2021

Tired of staring at your screen? Itching for a new view during your daily walk? We get it. Join the Bmore Mural Hunt this October 1st–8th to gain a new appreciation for the walls around you. Browse the Baltimore mural map and take a tour of the city’s public art by the likes of Ernest Shaw, Megan Lewis, Nether, Landry Randriamandroso, Stephen Powers, Amy Sherald, GAIA, and many more.

Share your mural photos and selfies with us by tagging @aigabaltimore and #BmoreMuralHunt, and the hunter who visits the most murals between October 1st and 8th will win a specially curated prize!

Murals can be local landmarks, cultural statements, business and branding tools, or simply beautiful! There’s something to see in every corner of Baltimore, with new pieces popping up daily.

How To Participate:

  1. Take a self-guided tour of the city’s public art. Browse the Baltimore mural map and Annapolis murals for ideas.
  2. Share your mural photos and selfies with us by tagging @aigabaltimore and #BmoreMuralHunt
  3. The art hunter who visits the most murals between October 1st and 8th will win a specially curated prize!

Artists, show us your work! Post photos of your murals, street art, and hand-painted signage with #BmoreMuralHunt, and be sure to tag the location so mural hunt participants can find it.

Check out these artists’ work and start searching:

@eshaw_art
@jessieandkatey
@urbanhipsta
@gaiastreetart
@whitecoffeecreativeco
@eckerdesignco
@steveespopowers
@pablomachioli
@6reg6annon
@nether410

Design & Political Resistance in Chile

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA), AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for this online talk by Javiera Manzi and Nicole Cristi, from Chile. The event is part of AIGA Unidos’ Hispanic Heritage Talks 2021.

Manzi and Cristi will share their research about the two of the most prolific graphic collectives during the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1989): Agrupación de Plásticos Jóvenes (APJ) and Tallersol Cultural Center. The work of both groups was tackled from a perspective that focuses on the production process as a political practice, rather than only on the explicit political content of a graphic piece.

This presentation will be based on an article published by the authors in the Journal of Design History. It unravels a fragment of the history of the political posters in Chile that has been marginalized from design historical discourses and highlights a processual perspective for the study of the work of graphic activisms.

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo will host this program, our third event of a virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT
* The speaker will present in Spanish. Interpretation in English will be available.
1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

PRESENTED BY
Nicole Cristi is a researcher in design history and theory and material culture studies in Chile and Latin America. She is a designer and PhD(c) in Anthropology in Material Culture from the University College of London. Cristi is co-author of the book Resistencia Gráfica (LOM, 2016). Her work has focused on the study of productive processes in both graphic and industrial design from the perspectives of the anthropology of technique and decolonial thought.

Javiera Manzi is a sociologist and archivist at the University of Chile. Independent researcher and curator on the intersections between art/politics, visual culture, and social movements. Manzi is co-author of the book Resistencia Gráfica (LOM, 2016). As a researcher and feminist activist, she has published her work in books and magazines on political graphics, the feminist movement, and Chile’s October Revolution. She is currently the coordinator of Red Conceptualismos del Sur.

Latino Design Histories | Argentine Art and Design From the 1960’s

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore for this online talk by Wustavo Quiroga, a designer, cultural manager, institutional advisor, and researcher from Argentina. He is the president of IDA Foundation (2013) in Buenos Aires. Quiroga will share his experience as the editor of the publication “Material Ideas. Argentine Art and Design in the 1960s.”

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo will host this event, part of the virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

Thank you to AIGA Unidos, Stevenson University, and the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre for partnering with us on this event.

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT

* The speaker will present in Spanish. Interpretation in English will be available.
1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

PRESENTED BY

Wustavo Quiroga co-founded and directed the Foundation of the Interior and the Museum Under Construction (2005-2017) in Mendoza, and IDA Foundation (2013) in Buenos Aires. He has implemented measures to systematize patrimonial assets by creating archives, processing data, improving material conditions, and validating cultural capital. He has participated in curatorial and publishing projects, conferences, academic meetings, and biennials in Argentina and abroad. Quiroga has received awards for his research and professional career.

Fun fact: The typefaces we used for the event’s visual identity were created by Latin American Type Designers. Inge was designed by Fernanda Cozzi from 🇦🇷 Argentina and Anguita Sans was designed by Sofia Mohr from 🇧🇷 Brazil.

Extra Bold Design History: Feminist, Queer, Inclusive!

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA), AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for this online event with Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias, and Silas Munro. They are co-authors and contributors to the new book “Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021).

Part comic book, zine, manifesto, and survival guide, “Extra Bold” is filled with stories and ideas that don’t show up in other design histories. These authors will explore their playful and experimental approaches to writing design history.

Register Today!

How to Attend

1) The event will be online using Zoom. Click here to register for free.
2) Please ensure you download the app for your computer or mobile device prior to the event here on Zoom.
3) Registered attendees will receive a link and password when they complete their registration. The link and password will also be sent 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. Make sure to check your spam folder for the email.

About the Presenters

Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Her exhibitions include “Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master,” “Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence,” “How Posters Work,” and “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.” Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at MICA in Baltimore, where she has authored numerous books on design processes, including “Thinking with Type,” “Graphic Design Thinking,” and “Graphic Design: The New Basics.” Her recent books “Design Is Storytelling” and “Health Design Thinking” were published by Cooper Hewitt. She is an AIGA Gold Medalist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Jennifer Tobias is a scholar and illustrator. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York, an MLS from Rutgers, and a BFA from Cooper Union. She provided reader services at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design libraries. Her illustrations are included in “Health Design Thinking” and “Design is Storytelling”, both by Ellen Lupton.

Silas Munro is a partner of Polymode, a bi-coastal design studio in the U.S. that creates poetic research, learning design, artistic practice, and applied design with clients in the cultural sphere, innovative businesses, and community-based organizations, including Mark Bradford, MoMA, OCMA, and The New Museum. Munro’s writing appears in Eye, Slanted, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. Munro is an Associate Professor at Otis and Advisor at VCFA.

Latino Design Histories

Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore for this online talk by Rafael Cardoso. As one of the leading historians of modern art and design in Brazil, Cardoso has authored numerous books and essays and curated major museum exhibitions. In his new book Modernity in Black and White, he provides a groundbreaking account of modern art and modernism in Brazil.

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo will host this event, part of the virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

Thank you to AIGA Unidos, Stevenson University, the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, and Blucher for partnering with us on this event.