Английская Википедия:Folayemi Wilson

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Folayemi "Fo" Debra Wilson is an American interdisciplinary artist, designer, and academic administrator. Her practice includes work as a furniture designer and maker,[1] installation artist,[2] muralist,[3] and graphic designer.[4] Wilson is the first associate dean for access and equity in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture.[5][6]

Early life and education

Wilson has an MBA degree from New York University Stern School of Business, and a MFA degree (2005) in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).[2][4]

Design career

In her early career she worked as a graphic designer, art director, and creative director.[7][4] Wilson worked for Essence and YSB magazines.[4] In 1984, Wilson was named the first female art director at Essence magazine.[8] In 1991, she established Studio W., a graphic design studio, building off her professional experiences from work in the magazine industry.[4]

In August 2016, she co-founded with Norman Teague the blkHaUS Studios, a design studio based in Chicago.[6][9][10] Their work was social practice–focused, in order to make public spaces in Chicago more inviting.[10] The blkHaUS Studios' Back Alley Jazz project worked to revive the jazz culture and traditions found in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s; they brought together local musicians, architects and artists to build events and performance spaces.[10][11]

Visual art career

In 1995, Renee Cox, Fo Wilson, and Tony Cokes created the Negro Art Collective (NAC) to fight cultural misrepresentations about Black Americans.[12]

In 2008, Wilson constructed a fictitious, 19th-century style scientific exhibition commemorating Sartje Baartman (also known as "The Hottentot Venus") during a residency at the School of Art + Design at SUNY/Purchase.[13]

Her 2016 installation Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities, was a constructed, full-scale, 19th century, fictional, slave cabin with a cabinet of curiosities full of a 100 items of what an African American woman of this time period may have owned or dreamed of owning.[7][14] Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities was an ongoing, Afrofuturist project and was used as a location for related events and performances; on display in 2016 to 2017 at the Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[14][15]

In 2019, she was commissioned to create public art for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) within the newly built Damen Green Line station.[16][3][17] Her work is in the museum collection at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[18] Wilson has served on the board of the American Craft Council (ACC).[18]

Academic career

In July 2021, Wilson was appointed as first associate dean for access and equity in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture.[5][6] She previously was the co-director of academic diversity, equity and inclusion at the Columbia College Chicago.[5]

Publications

See also

References

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  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Шаблон:Cite web
  7. ↑ 7,0 7,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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  10. ↑ 10,0 10,1 10,2 Шаблон:Cite web
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  14. ↑ 14,0 14,1 Шаблон:Cite web
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