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Ivan Toth Depeña's new public art captures the ethereal beauty of light

Creative Boom

Blending screens and sculptures, the piece is designed to be a permanent beacon for the city's vibrant cultural landscape. Towering over pedestrians like illuminated metal trees, the new sculptures commissioned by the energy holding company symbolise its contributions to the city and its electric cultural scene.

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How Cranbrook’s Design Program Redefined How We Make and Talk About Graphic Design

Eye on Design

Design educators like Lorraine Wild, Jeffrey Keedy, Ed Fella, Lucille Tanazes, Martin Venezky, Tom Wedell, and Nancy Skolos studied under the McCoys and would go on to produce work across scales and contexts while teaching at design programs around the country. . “In And she made a place for it in the department.”

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F5: Germane Barnes Shares a Fave Jeweler, Artist, Youth Program + More

Design Milk

The display featured the first Lexus dedicated battery-electric model – Lexus RZ – as a suspended wire-frame sculpture along with colorful pendant lights created in collaboration between Germane, Aqua Creations, Lexus. Today, Germane is joining us for Friday Five! Germane Barnes. Photo: Roscoe B. The Magic Food Truck.

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Responsive Sculptures by Daniel Rozin Echo Human Movement Through Undulating Objects

Colossal

A solo exhibition at bitforms gallery highlights the fleeting nature of interaction in a series of responsive sculptures by artist Daniel Rozin ( previously ). Also included in the exhibition are two inverse sculptures, “CMY Shadows Mirror” and “RGB Peg Mirror.”

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Cranbrook Academy of Art Announces a Free Online Conversation Series About Graduate Programs

Colossal

For nearly 90 years, Cranbrook Academy of Art has remained one of the nation’s most distinctive and celebrated graduate-only programs, and our students have helped shape the historical and contemporary landscape of art, architecture, and design. Get to know more about our programs. 4D Design, Sculpture, Print Media: 4 p.m.

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In ‘No Strings,’ Willie Cole Transforms Instruments into Abstract Animals and Figurative Sculptures

Colossal

Artist Willie Cole is known for transforming discarded materials into sculptures with a tenor of interrogation. “Piano Bird” (2021), piano legs, keys, and wiring, 34 x 32 1/2 x 42 inches. Photo by Joerg Lohse. All images courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York, shared with permission.

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Artist Spotlight: Mahsa Merci

Booooooom

She recently graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Manitoba. For the last two years Merci has been working on the “In Between” series which involves painting, sculpture, and animation about reconstructing the ideology of gender, sexuality and beauty. See more of Merci’s paintings below.

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