Kendall Hill received his BFA in New Media in 2019 and is currently working in conjunction with the Chicago Park District on an ongoing series from the summer of 2020 documenting youth life and culture in Chicago parks during the COVID-19 pandemic and growing civil unrest. Visit his website for details about the project.

The School of Art + Design is saddened by the death of alumnus Robert Ernst Marx on September 21, 2020. Robert received his BFA in Painting in 1951 and his MFA in 1953. Watch a 2012 conversation with Marx in his studio for the Makers and Mentors program of the Rochester Contemporary Art Center or read his biography.

Associate Professor Ben Grosser was interviewed by ABC News for the Perspective podcast on September 11, 2020, to discuss The Endless Doomscroller website. Listen to the podcast episode or head to The Endless Doomscroller.

Kendall Hill (BFA 2019 New Media) has work in the Artists Run Chicago 2.0 exhibition, which runs from August 31 to November 1, 2020, at the Hyde Park Art Center. Learn more about the show.

Deana McDonagh (Co-PI), Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler (PI), and William Norris (Co-PI) received a grant from the National Science Foundation: National Robotics Initiative for their four-year project entitled "MiaPURE (Modular, Interactive, and Adaptive Personalised Unique Rolling Experience).” The amount awarded was $1,499,539.

Jeff Kolar (BFA 2010 New Media) and Zeena Parkins recently had a review of their new album Scale in the Chicago Reader. Read the review.