DAAP100 Alumni

Emily is a visual artist living and working in Cincinnati. Her work consists of hand-cut and ornately layered materials that investigate the playful engagement of the body as essential to understanding and experiencing spaces or objects.

Kelly is the President & Founder of Kolar Design Inc., an award-winning global brand experience firm specializing in building branded experiences at the intersection of people and place.

Sheida is an Iranian-American artist, educator, and activist. The daughter of political refugees who escaped Iran in the early 1980s, Soleimani makes work that excavates the histories of violence linking Iran, the US, and the Greater Middle East.

Chad, is president and CEO of emersion DESIGN, the world’s first architecture and engineering firm to have a LEED Platinum office. He strives to lead from a heart of service and making sure his work advances the clients’ mission for the common good.

Frederick Steiner is Dean and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design (Weitzman School) and co-executive director of its Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology.

Dan is CEO, Founder, & Principal Designer of WHIPSAW, a highly acclaimed design firm in San Francisco and San Jose, California. He has won over 300 design awards and was granted over 600 patents.

Tanner, co-founder of GroundworkORV, led the creation of one of the nation's largest youth green workforce programs and brought Climate Safe Neighborhoods to Cincinnati. His passion is creating new pathways for diverse youth to access green careers.

Gasaway is an award-winning Director with over 10 years of directing / producing experience, specializing in computer animation. While teaching at UC, Mike built the animation program with the Digital Media Collaborative (an upcoming 2024 major).

Co-founder of IV Sight Pictures, Sean's attention to both international and domestic audiences coupled with identity, diversity, and socially aware content, helps bridge cultural gaps through original supernatural genre films.

Roebuck is an interdisciplinary artist from Chattanooga, TN. Her process addresses the contemporary complexity of identifying as biracial through symbolizing pain and triumph, exclusion, and acceptance.

David is a fashion designer recognized alongside some of the most respected figures in American fashion. Meister’s name is synonymous with sophisticated, beautiful, body conscious women’s wear.

Wade is the Director of Tri-State Trails. An avid commuter cyclist and outdoor enthusiast himself, Wade is working to change people's everyday interaction with the built and natural environment in Greater Cincinnati.

Kate is an interdisciplinary visual artist who uses drawing, artists’ books, installations and other media to create immersive work.

Eva is an award winning interior designer, innovator, and educator with over 200 design excellence awards — including an induction in the Interior Design Hall of Fame. She is currently the consulting principal of Eva Maddox Design Strategies, LLC.

As the organizational leader at Infinite Scale, Amy's background in making large, complicated events come to life has given her the expertise necessary to manage complex projects like college championship games, NHL Stadium Series, to Super Bowls.

Kiel, FAAR, FAIA, is an architect and builder. In recognition of his design and research endeavors related to the energetic and material basis of building, he's won several prestigious awards. He has also published several books.

Lori is a visual artist working with themes of domesticity and foodways. Her body of work encompasses paintings and installations that explore issues of class, gender, and anthropocentrism, and how these practices both reflect and shape culture.

Daniel is an internationally recognized innovator and leader in environmental, urban planning + design, organizational development + strategic planning, landscape architecture, and collaborative consensus-building. He is the co-founder of MIG, inc.

Reed is a graphic designer living and working in NYC. He co-founded the independent publishing imprint, Standards Manual in 2014. Currently, Reed is a partner at the design consultancy, Order.