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Promotional flyer for the exhibition "Land & Water: Environmental Conflict and Connection in the American Landscape." Against a dark navy background, the large words "LAND & WATER" are filled with excerpts from the artists' prints, including forests, trees, coral, fish and abstract aquatic patterns in greens, blues, reds and oranges. The subtitle appears in red italic type below.

Flanders and Winkler Show New Work in South Carolina Exhibition

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Dr. Mira Rai Waits's hardcover book Colonial Carcerality: A Spatial History of the British Colonial Prison in India stands upright on a pale pedestal against a white background. The cover features a photograph of a weathered brick prison facade with barred windows, with the Oxford University Press logo above and the title and author name below.

Dr. Mira Waits’ New Book Examines the Colonial Prison in India

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Portrait of artist Lola Panco, who has long blonde hair and wears a cream zip-front jacket, seated in front of one of her large-scale paintings of a forest rendered in blues, greens, and violets.

Lola Panco Earns Dedalus Foundation Grant and MASS MoCA Residency

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Two large horn-shaped sculptures in pale, felted material, each mounted on a black tripod stand and facing the other, joined at the center by a twisting, intertwined organic form. Wires and a small speaker trail from the base of the right stand. Installed in a bright gallery with white walls, exposed ceiling, and a hardwood floor.

Ethridge’s Collaborative Work Featured in Exhibitions Across New York and Colorado

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Frontal view of a round white marble sculpture, showing a raised cross-stitch pattern down the center and rippling carved fabric that distorts facial features.

From CAD to Chisel: Travis Donovan’s Second Digital Stone Project Residency

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A gallery installation of the exhibition "Field Studies: Ways of Knowing Place in Southern Appalachia," with a long carved wooden sculpture in green and earth tones mounted on posts along a white platform, and framed botanical drawings on the walls.

Art Faculty Featured in BRAHM Exhibition’s Field Studies

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Screenshot of the Appalachian State University Department of Art website homepage featuring a collage of student artwork, studio activities, and classroom scenes. Large overlapping images include drawings, paintings, fibers work, graphic design layouts on a computer screen, and students working in studios. Prominent text reads, “We explore the art of connecting,” with the word “art” displayed in large orange type. The page uses an asymmetrical, gallery-like layout with floating images against a light b

Mark Nystrom Receives Award of Excellence for Website Design

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Sculptural teapot-like object with a black cracked base and a tall red and clear geometric handle rising above a circular lid.

Frankie Flood to Present 3D Printing and Sand Casting Research at SNAG Detroit Conference

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Handwoven textile showing two figures seated poolside in sunglasses while a fire burns behind them, composed of bead-like pixels with vivid color contrasts and fringed edges.

Jeana Klein to Exhibit Two Works at 2026 Contextile Biennial

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Headshot of a woman with long dark hair smiling against a black background.

Dr. Waits Elected Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians

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Logo for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on a black background, featuring an open-book icon to the left of the center’s name in bold and italic type.

Dr. Mira Waits awarded grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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Cover of Surface Design magazine, Fall 2025 issue, featuring the SDA International Exhibition in Print titled Emulate, Recreate, Translate. The cover image shows a woven textile depicting a scene of seated people in a brightly colored, pixel-like composition with loose fringe along the bottom edge. Text reads “innovation in fiber, art, + design.”

Jeana Klein Featured in Surface Design and Honored with Guest Juror Award

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A mixed-media textile artwork by Ila Sahai Prouty from the Vessels of Slavery series. The vertical banner combines printed archival text, an image of two figures, a painted blue and white tree, and layered fabric with patterned sections. Embroidered hearts appear throughout, and the word “FREEMAN” is boldly appliquéd across the bottom.

Ila Sahai Prouty Receives Massachusetts Humanities Grant for “Vessels of Slavery” Exhibition

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An open artist book from Stephen Parks’ Obliterative Splendor, showing a realistic illustration of a bird on the left page and a duotone photograph of tangled branches and leaves on the right. The imagery appears printed in muted brown and gray tones on textured paper.

Graphic Design Professors Stephen Parks and Jessica Greenfield Exhibit Artist Books at NCMA

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Ceramic sculpture of a figure with eyes closed wearing red-and-white checkered clothing, holding a bouquet of blue flowers in one arm and a striped cat in the other. The figure’s lower half features three smaller orange figures with closed eyes surrounded by green and blue floral patterns.

Andréa Keys Connell in Ceramics Now

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Colorful reconstruction of an ancient Greek sphinx sculpture with gold, red, and blue patterned wings and scales, used as the promotional image for Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Peters’ article in book published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Graphic design featuring a halftone black-and-white image of an ear with a small yellow dot near the ear canal. Below the image, the text reads “Almanac for Struer Tracks,” with “Struer” highlighted in purple italics.

Servon’s essay published in Almanac for Struer Tracks

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Close-up of an artist book featuring layered translucent pages printed with yellow botanical illustrations and poetic text. A hand lifts one of the pages, revealing overlapping leaves, vines, and printed words that explore themes of growth, relationship, and interconnectedness.

Greenfield’s Artist Book Premieres at Tropic Bound

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Wurtzel presents paper at Art Education Research Institute Symposium

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Grube Presents Research on Early Childhood Creativity

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