FALL 2024 

Ebitenyefa Baralaye
October 7, 2024
6:00 PM
Devasthali Hall, Bleacher Area

You are invited to a Visiting Artist Lecture by ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye. His work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, bodies and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. He received a BFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Baralaye’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Los Angeles), the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), and the Korea Ceramic Foundation (Icheon). He is currently an assistant professor and the Section Lead of Ceramics at the College for Creative Studies. Baralaye resides and works in Detroit, MI. 

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Yeohyun Ahn
September 3, 2024
6:00 PM
Devasthali Hall, Bleacher Area

About: Yeohyun Ahn is an award-winning graphic designer, educator, and researcher in collaboration with creative coding, diversity, and global leadership. She leads several research projects: the interdisciplinary typography project TYPE+CODE Series; a multidisciplinary project to bring awareness to Asian female faculty in America titled Social Homelessness on US campuses; and Evolving Graphic Design to bring academic diversity. Ahn received the SEGD Educator Award in 2022. Featured in the Washington Post, PRINT, New York Times Magazine, Creator’s Project, Designboom.com, etc.

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