Alumni Stories

Jayne Cole Southard's, HA&A PhD '22, Latest Exhibition Reviewed by "The New York Times"

Profiled in "The New York Times" "Newly Reviewed" series, the latest exhibition organized by Howie Chen, UO alumna Jayne Cole Southard, HA&A PhD '22, and Christina Ong is the "Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001)." Billed as "a smart and moving group show at New York University’s 80WSE gallery" by the paper, the exhibition features some 90 different works structured around three foundational grass-roots entities: the arts production and social services hub called Basement Workshop, founded in Chinatown in 1970; the Asian American Arts Centre, a gallery and performance space that debuted in the neighborhood in 1974 (and is still there); and the institution-storming collective Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, which coalesced in 1990.

Transpecies design projects featured in Venice Biennale

The Venice Architecture Biennale features some of the world's best artists, architects, and designers coming together to put on a unique exhibit that sees over 600,000 people over a span of six months. Students and faculty in the UO College of Design played a prominent role in this year's exhibition. Read more about what the College of Design is doing in regards to the world’s most pressing issues, including climate change, environmental degradation, and the demise of biodiversity.

Eye for Architecture

Michael Wilkes, BArch ’71, started fresh out of college as an architect at the San Diego firm that would later become Delawie/Bretton/Wilkes Associates. That’s also where he started to learn photography and how he became enamored with the discipline.

From UO Architecture to WeWork IPO: An Extraordinary Journey

Miguel McKelvey, UO architecture school graduate and co-founder of WeWork, joins us to share how his experience in architecture school empowered his entrepreneurial journey and set him on a path to create one of the most well-known companies in the world. Join us to learn how WeWork built hundreds of locations around the world, and about his experience building a multi-billion dollar company.