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An international group of educators ♥ representing a wide range of institutions will convene at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California from July 20–23, 2017 to explore the radical potential of the artifacts and platforms of design education (tools, projects, presentations, prompts, resource lists and the like) as spaces for new forms of critical writing, making, and discourse.


Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, Faculty, MFA Program in Graphic Design, Vermont College of Fine Arts; Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Southeastern Louisiana University; Founder, BlacVoice Graphic Design Studio

Shannon Losorelli Doronio, Instructor, Graphic Design, College of The Canyons; Partner, Parallel Play

Joel Evey, Independent educator; Founder, Pathh.co

Denise Gonzales Crisp, Director of the Graduate Program in Graphic Design, North Carolina State University

Anja Groten, Tutor at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Design Academy Eindhoven; Co-founder of Hackers & Designers

Erin Hauber, Director of Design Education, USAA

Roosje Klap, Co-head and tutor at the Graphic Design Department at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands; Advising researcher, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands; Founder, Roosje Klap Studio

Nicole Killian, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University; co-editor and co-designer, ISSUES nicole (at) nylondip (dot) com OR nmkillian@vcu.edu :))))))))))))))))))))

Susan LaPorte, Department Chair, Communication Design, College for Creative Studies

Christopher Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Silas Munro, Assistant Professor, Communication Arts, MFA Graphic Design, Otis College of Art and Design; Advisor, MFA Program in Graphic Design, Vermont College of Fine Arts; Founder, Poly-Mode

Randy Nakamura, Adjunct Professor, Design, California College of The Arts; Ph.D candidate, Critical Studies program, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design

Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen, Tutor and Mentor, Graphic Design Department, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague; Tutor, Graphic Design Department, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam; Founder, DRAWSWORDS Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands DRAWSWORDS Facebook, DRAWSWORDS Instagram, personal Facebook

Kali Nikitas, Chair, Communication Arts, MFA Graphic Design, Otis College of Art and Design

Vasundhara Pachisia, Lecturer, Graphic Design, Lawrence Technological University; Freelance Designer

Joe Potts, Lecturer, Communication Arts, Otis College of Art and Design; Lecturer, USC Roski School of Art and Design; Founder, Southland Institute

Sadie Red Wing, Creating Passion for Learning Native Student Coordinator, University of Redlands; Ambassador, American Indian College Fund

Tanya Rubbak, Assistant Chair, Communication Arts, MFA Graphic Design, Otis College of Art and Design

Niels Schrader, Co-head and tutor at the Graphic Design Department at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands; Founder Mind Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Selwa Sweidan, Adjunct Faculty, Design Technology Department, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

Ramon Tejada, Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate Communications, Pratt Institute; Part Time Lecturer, The New School; Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, City University of New York, Queens College; Founder, ESTUDIOr

Kelly Walters, Visiting Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Connecticut; Founder, Bright Polka Dot

Jessica Wexler, Partner, Workshop Project; Incoming Chair, Undergraduate Communications Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

Davey Whitcraft, Part-time Lecturer, Parsons School of Design; Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate Communications; Lecturer in Art and Design, Purchase College, State University of New York

MFA participants:

- Pilar Castillo, Otis MFA Graphic Design

- MJ Balvanera, Otis MFA Graphic Design

- Tina Miyakawa, Otis MFA Graphic Design

- Yali Yang, Otis MFA Graphic Design

- Dameon Waggoner, CalArts MFA Graphic Design dameonwaggoner@alum.calarts.edu