April 2023: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Assistant Professor Salvador Jiménez-Flores is part of the *Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture* exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design.

Assistant Professor Salvador Jiménez-Flores is part of the *Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture* exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design.

Associate Professor, Adj. Marzena Abrahamik was selected as a 2023–24 Fulbright U.S. Scholar for Poland.

Lecturer Sonya Bogdanova is participating in Invisible Architecture, an exhibition at Ralph Arnold Gallery in Chicago alongside six other artists. Bogdanova creates ceramic clouds and places them in domestic spaces to address the spiritual weight of working toward the American dream.

Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment Nick Cave appeared on the podcast Time Sensitive, discussing art as a means of working through trauma and grief.

Lecturer Iymen Chehade is the founder of Uprising Theater, which is putting on the play Decolonizing Sarah at Chicago’s Den Theatre, running through April 22.

Professor, Adj. William Harper received the Best Timelapse Film Award at the Barcelona Plane t Film Festival for his film Transmigrations.

Assistant Professor Salvador Jiménez-Flores will be part of the Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture ex hibit ion at the Museum of Art and Design in New York and the public atio n Funk You Too! He also appeared in the artists talk “What the Funk” on March 21.

After 11 years, Associate Professor, Adj. Eric Leonardson passed his role as World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) president onto his successor at the WFAE’s annual general meeting. Additionally, he presented “Soundwalking as Ecologic a l Practice'' at the Wild Things Conference and explained how the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology supports the Singing Insects Monitoring Program at the Calumet Community Science Bash. He also released the CD horizontal shift along with musicians Birgit Ulher and Carol Genetti. The trio will perform together at Constellati on o n April 20.

Associate Professor Daniel R. Quiles reviewed the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today for Artf or um.

Lecturer Douglas Williams was named a 2023–24 Landscape Archi t ecture Foundation Fellow for the project “Engaging K-12 STEAM Public Education Efforts for Future Landscape Architects to Address Climate Equity.”