Guest Artist Lecture:  Ellen Lupton: Design is Storytelling
Lecture & Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 2019
DeMeester Recital Hall, 5:30 PM

Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. An author of numerous books and articles on design, she is a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist. In the New York Times article “Beauty – Cooper Hewitt’s Triennial,” she explained that as curator she identified “beauty as not just this young and perfect thing, but beauty as time and endurance and change.” Lupton is our Graphic Design Juror for the Annual Juried Student Exhibition.