The Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner was held Thursday, May 5 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in downtown Grand Rapids. This Year’sHonorees were Gwen O’Brien, Graphic Design, 1997, Distinguished Alumni Award winner; and Matt Brown, Industrial Design, 2005, Recent Graduate Award winner. A special tribute was awarded to Sara Molina, Interior Design, 2003, for her volunteerism with the Kendall Alumni Association and the Grand Rapids community. The invitation said, “Creative black tie” and black was the word of the evening, ranging from sparkly sweaters and little black dresses worn with vividly-patterned black tights, to Dean Max Shangle, wearing a tuxedo, with well-worn, blue high-top tennis shoes, and a pair of incredibly garish cuff links. (He looked great!) We nibbled on sushi and prosciutto while admiring a beautiful marble sculpture created by Industrial Design alum John Warner. The marble used in the sculpture and in the beautiful awards John created came from the same quarry that Michelanglo used. John told me a great story about the elements he used to create the awards. Beside the marble, mentioned above, he told me Read More…

Cheers and whistles greeted the 205 members of the class of 2011 as they entered the majestic sanctuary of Fountain Street Church, for commencement on May 7.  Friends, family, Read More…

  As anyone who attended Kendall (or any college for that matter) knows, the last two weeks of the semester are jam-packed putting the last minute touches on Read More…

      The Graphic Design Career Day was particularly interesting to me, watching the students dash in, juggling coffee, back packs and large Read More…

  The first clue that the Industrial Design Career Day at Kendall College of Art and Design was going to be a special day was the bright red Willys Jeep parked Read More…

  When the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts sent out request for proposals for their mini-golf exhibit, Sam Blanchard of the Sculpture and Functional Arts Read More…

  Mike Carroll, an accomplished photojournalist, put this photo up on the screen at the beginning of his talk recently at Kendall College of Art  and Design, Read More…

    During the last week of March, a couple hundred Kendall students crowded excitedly into the auditorium at GRCC to hear Don Hahn, a well-known Read More…

    Lilia Garvin, a Kendall Illustration major, nailed it at the Business Etiquette: Personal Power Tools workshop recently. The Read More…

  Photo by Lisa Ambrose    Career Day with Greg Manchess. What a gift to the illustration students at Kendall.  They seemed to Read More…