The College of Visual and Performing Arts aspires to be a community that values and supports the research and creative work of its students and faculty and celebrates the diversity of inquiries, disciplines, and practice-informed work.
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Faculty Research Spotlight
Yves Michel, professor of practice of industrial and interaction design in the School of Design, incorporates biotechnology into his work to design sustainable, innovative products. By employing natural processes, he is able to exceed the limitations set by artificial technology. Michel recently traveled to Barcelona to present his paper, “Symbiosis Project: Creating A Design Process To Grow Products,” at SIGraDi 2024. Learn more about his research.
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Boryana Rossa, professor of art video in the Department of Film and Media Arts, is participating in the traveling exhibition “Empowerment: Art and Feminisms,” co-produced by Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai. Presented initially at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2022-23, “Empowerment” offers a comprehensive global overview of art and feminisms in the 21st century. In 2025, “Empowerment” will travel to New Delhi; Mumbai, India; Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Kolkata, India.
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Ordinary conversations provided a riveting research opportunity for Alexandra Milchovich, a junior majoring in communication and rhetorical studies (CRS) and English. Studying the function and impact of queer media references in conversation, Milchovich recently presented her research at the annual meeting of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) at Columbia University’s Teachers College. The project emerged out of an assignment for Intercultural Communication (CRS 430), a class taught by CRS Associate Professor Sylvia Sierra. Learn more about Milchovich’s presentation.