Jean Shin, adjunct professor – CCE of fine arts, was featured on WBUR for her project Perch, a sculptural installation composed of repurposed wood, located at Appleton Farms in Ipswich. The sculptures provide a resting place for bobolinks, songbirds that rely on Appleton Farms as a refuge during their annual migration. “Their populations are really dependent on farmers and their hay fields, their pastures — and grasslands are declining all over the world,” Shin told WBUR. “So, it just seemed like the most beautiful story for us to understand more deeply and really appreciate their contribution to the landscape.”
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Lily Cianfaglione, BFA Art and Design Education ’29, was profiled in The Provincetown Independent in a piece that explores her passion for art, career aspirations, and her summer residency at Wellfleet Preservation Hall.
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Judy Walsh, MS Historic Preservation ’26, is the 2025 Adolf Placzek Fellow at New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. As a part of the fellowship, she undertook extensive research and survey work into vulnerable historic buildings, helping with the development of a digital map to track them, and had the opportunity to explore some fascinating sites including the Old Coastguard Building in Staten Island, the Apollo Theatre and LPC’s archaeological repository.
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Art and Design Education faculty members Visiting Associate Professor Patrick Rowe and Visiting Instructor Nell Klugman will be attending the 18th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum as panelists. Their workshop presentation, Making Room at The Bronx Museum: Learner-Informed Curation, will illustrate that educational theory and practice can and should be at the heart of an inclusive curatorial project.
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Andrew Riad, MFA Writing ‘25, was selected as the winner of the 2025 Megaphone Prize. Riad’s work of poetry, MARTYRED, MOTHER: A FUTURENARRATIVE will be published by Radix in 2026.
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Kirk Mudle, program manager for the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network in the School of Information, presented the poster “Reflecting on Four Years of the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network” at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA.
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Visiting Associate Professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment David Burney and Ghuncha Shaheed, MS Urban Placemaking and Management ’25, write in Common Edge about the street vendor crackdown. “For many immigrant communities, one of the most accessible pathways into the city’s formal economy has been through street vending,” they write. “These small-scale businesses have played a crucial role in sustaining the rich cultural fabric New Yorkers take pride in today. Yet this contribution is frequently overlooked, even suppressed.”
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Mónica Santos Gil, BID ’15, was included in a round-up of Puerto Rican fashion designers for LATV for her brand Santos by Mónica. “Her designs use cactus-based leather alternatives, Eucalyptus Lyocell blends, and 100% TENCEL, proving that eco-conscious fashion can be cutting-edge.”
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Emily Sardo and Ankit Muhury, both MArch ’25, received the Design Award of Excellence from the 2025 SARA NY Design Awards for their project “Imprints,” which was completed in their fifth semester studio led by Visiting Assistant Professor of GALAUD Florencia Pita. Their earlier project “The Living Machine,” from their fourth semester with Hart Marlow, interim assistant chair of GALAUD and adjunct associate professor, earned the Design Award of Honor.
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Alumnus Duke Riley’s exhibition at MOCA in Virginia Beach was reviewed in Virginia Living. “My work addresses the tension between individual and collective behavior, independent spaces within all-encompassing societies, and the conflict with institutional power,” wrote Riley in a statement.
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