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January 6 - February 5, 2011 - Assistant Professor of Art + Design Jan-Ru Wan has a solo exhibition at UNC-Wilmington’s Boseman gallery. Re Materialization will run till February 5. http://appserv02.uncw.edu/news/atuncw/annview.aspx?id=6330 The Boseman gallery is located on the second floor of the Fisher University Union on the UNC Wilmington campus.
January 31, 2011 - Landscape Architecture lecture [...]

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Art + Design students at the College of Design at NC State University will show their talents on Friday, Dec. 3. The Animation Festival will feature work from the Animation Studio (ADN 560) and the Animation Seminar (ADN 561). The festival will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. at Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall [...]

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Mary Kircher, a graduate student in Art + Design, Fibers and Surface Design, is exhibiting her work at the international Blue Ridge Fiber Show. Her triptych of woven panels, “Sunset Series,” was awarded first place in the category of Amateur Weaving - Decorative Non-functional. Over 170 pieces of fiber art can be seen at the [...]

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The mural in the Free Expression Tunnel isn’t the only design that has gotten a lot of attention lately. NC State University College of Design students are winning awards and finding audiences for their work in a number of ways:

Mack Garrison, a senior in Art + Design, may have the most fans — literally —of [...]

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Ryan Whitley and Matt Hirsch, first-year students at the NC State University College of Design, wanted to make a splash at the Free Expression Tunnel on campus. But a splash of such dimensions would require a lot of paint and quite a bit of help.
When all was said and done, it took 9 hours, 20 [...]

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“Construction is the medium through which architecture is made,” states part of the description of Prof. of Architecture Patrick Rand’s course on Architectural Construction Systems at the School of Architecture at the NC State University College of Design.
Getting to know the building blocks of structures was literally the goal of that course’s annual masonry design [...]

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A graphic design project to preserve the cultural heritage and history of a Raleigh neighborhood is being recognized by the city’s Central Citizens Advisory Council.
Kermit Bailey, an associate professor of graphic design at the NC State University College of Design, began working with the organization over a year ago through a City-funded contract to [...]

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The student run Fish Market will have it’s first open call show of the semester on Friday, October 1, 2010 with doors opening at 6 p.m. As always, this months show will feature fantastic work from all College of Design disciplines. Music will be provided by DJ Chocolate Rice. You won’t want to miss it.
Fish Market [...]

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Who would have thought that designing a head covering could be so involved – or so essential to a design education?

About 125 College of Design students were asked to make head coverings for a partner in their class as part of the First Year Experience, a grouping of three courses that emphasize design thinking, cultural [...]

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The student run Fish Market will have it’s first opening of the school year on Friday, September 3 with doors opening at 6 p.m. This month’s show will feature dresses from Art to Wear 2010 along with screen prints on various media. There will also be a live screen printing station so guests are invited [...]

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August 2010 Home of the Month Article in The News & Observer http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/28/649117/bridge-house-over-troubled-waters.html
College of Design Alums Rob and Beth Mangum featured in the September 2010 issue of Our State Magazine. http://www.ourstate.com/articles/weaverville
Young Inventors Cause A Stir. Six pre-teens worked with industrial design professors and graduate students to conceive, prototype and develop presentations about their new [...]

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Architecture student Christopher Pietsch recently presented his work in the Ninth Annual NC State University Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium at the McKimmon Center. Pietsch won a $1500 undergraduate research grant to study craft in prefabricated architecture. As part of his research, he traveled to San Francisco to visit the offices of Anderson Anderson Architects where [...]

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Architecture students Evan Lane, Kelly Mocock, and Afshin Roshdi produced digital models and a video for for an exhibition that will run at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design. The video is being displayed as part of the Southern Roots of Mid-century Modern, a show that will run until December 18, 2010.
Lane, Mocock, and [...]

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Co-sponsored by AIA Triangle.
September 13 - Plenary | National + Local Contexts
(Michael Crosbie, Roger Clark, Wes McClure, Ellen Weinstein)
September 20 - Sacred Place
(Thomas Kundig)
October 11 - The Endurance and/or Transience of Sacred Places: Devotion, Commodification, and Accommodation in Southern Mexico
(Lindsay Jones)
November 1 - Somewhere in Between
(Michael Rotondl)
November 8 - Defining Local
(Trey Trahan)
November 22 - Shadow [...]

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