Success Stories: From Art Students to Art Careers

Success Stories is a continuing series of talks with art professionals, many of whom graduated from the Studio Art program at FSU.

For this talk, our focus is on design. Our speakers will discuss their individual approaches to design and talk about their experiences in the art and design world.

The panelists will speak for about an hour, followed by a Q & A session. This is a live Zoom event. Please use the link to register.

Our panelists will be –

Larry Weru
BA ‘14 with degrees in Studio Art and Biological Science. App designer and web development consultant.

Larry is a digital storyteller exploring how information design, data viz, and narrative rooted in science can help build a more just and sustainable world.

Kathryn-kay Johnson
BA ‘16 – currently MFA candidate for the Graphic Design program at Yale

Kathryn-kay Johnson is a digital media and video artist. She utilizes appropriated media from contemporary advertising culture, along with text, fabric, audio, video, and digital fabrication processes to develop a sensorial fictive placemaking that is rooted in African Diasporic mythologies and a womanist perspective. Her work gives voice to the powerful, inarticulable, contradiction-filled crises and delights of the human experience.

Brittany Gress
BA ’16 – Graphic Designer, co-founder of the Tallahassee chapter of AIGA, lead organizer for Tallahassee Design Week

Brittany is a visual artist who specializes in social design and community innovation. Her passion for the fine arts fuels her work with local nonprofits to create meaningful projects that question, uplift, and empower the community.

To register for this event click here.