In the News: Week of February 28

We scream, you scream, we all scream for The Ice Cream Machine, Adam Rubin’s (BFA05) new middle-grade short story collection! Professor John Hendrix, chair of the MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture program, illustrated the cover. The two were interviewed about their unique collaboration on KSDK, and Rubin was also interviewed on NPR.

[dhd]derek hoeferlin design, led by associate professor Derek Hoeferlin, chair of landscape architecture and urban design, has been named the winner of Design STL’s 2022 Architect & Designer Awards in the New Build category. The live/work studio the practice designed, located in The Grove, was designed for an electrical engineer–turned–artist.

Eric P. Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, has been appointed to the board of the Society of Architectural Historians Board. The nonprofit membership organization serves a network of local, national, and international institutions and individuals who, by profession or interest, focus on the history of the built environment and its role in shaping contemporary life.

Sculpture magazine reviewed Judy Pfaff’s (BFA71) exhibition opsins, recently on view at Gaa Gallery Provincetown. “The works showcase a joy despite the ongoing pandemic,” writes Leah Triplett Harrington. “This ebullience only comes from acknowledging—seeing—conflict and balancing its friction.”

Alum Nat Thomas (BFA21) received a Communications Arts Award in the student category for the project My Queerness is Autistic. “My design and typographic decisions embody the dichotomous relationship between living in a constrictive, hostile society versus the inherent out-of-the-box nature of queerness paired with the unrestrained, overstimulating, obsessive joy of autism,” Thomas says.

Jessica Thornton (MFA08) will be discussing her exhibition (In)secure Identities at the The Sheldon Art Galleries on Saturday, March 5 11a CST.