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2010 Jurors for Graduate Studies | Grants

KELLER EASTERLING JUROR FOR ARCHITECTURE

Keller Easterling is an architect, urbanist, writer, and teacher. She earned both her B.A. and M.Arch from Princeton University and has taught architectural design and history at Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. She is currently Associate Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Easterling is one of the most important contemporary writers working on the issues of urbanism, architecture, and organization in relation to the phenomena commonly defined as globalization. Her latest book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005), researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. Her previous book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America, applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. Easterling is also the author of Call It Home, a laser disc history of suburbia;

and American Town Plans. She is also the author of research installations on the Web: “Wildcards: A Game of Orgman” and “Highline: Plotting NYC.” Her work is widely published in journals including ArtForum, Domus, Grey Room, Volume, Cabinet, Assemblage, Log, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, Metalocus, and ANY. Easterling’s work is also included as chapters in numerous publications. She lectures widely in the United States as well as internationally. Her work is exhibited at the Rotterdam Biennale, the Queens Museum, the Architectural League, the Municipal Arts Society, and the Wexner Center. www.panix.com/~keller

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ELLEN LUPTON JUROR FOR DESIGN

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002). She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (M ICA ) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. Lupton recently focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), co-authored with her graduate students at M ICA , explains design processes to a general audience. D.I.Y. Kids (October 2007), co-authored with Julia Lupton, is a design book for children illustrated with kids’ art. The Lupton twins’ latest book is Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things (St Martin’s Griffin, 2009). Other books include Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips, 2008) and Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book (2008). She is the co-author with Abbott Miller of several books, including The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste (1992), Design Writing Research (1996), and Swarm (2006). Lupton is a 2007 recipient of the A IGA Gold Medal, one of the highest honors given to a graphic designer or design educator in the U.S. Ellen Lupton contributes to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She has a regular column, “The El Word,” in Readymade magazine. Her editorial illustrations are published in The New York Times. Exhibitions she has curated and co-curated include the National Design Triennial series (2000, 2003, 2006), Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005 (2006), Solos: New Design from Israel (2006), and Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), all at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. www.designwritingresearch.org

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SUSAN CROSS JUROR FOR FINE ARTS

Susan Cross has been a curator at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) – the largest center for contemporary visual and performing arts in the country, for four years. She recently organized a survey exhibition of the work of the Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner with whom she produced a new video. Currently, she is organizing Material World, an exhibition that invites seven artists who work with modest, industrially produced materials to engage the museum’s galleries. This past year, Cross worked with Simon Starling on a major new commission for the museum’s signature gallery, as well as an accompanying catalogues distributed through D.A.P. Cross is the co-editor of the catalogue: Sol LeWitt: 100 Views which features short essays on the artist by curators, artists, musicians, architects, and others. Recently, Cross organized the exhibition Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China which included artists Patty Chang and David Kelley’s new film Flotsam Jetsam which made its museum debut at MASS MoCA. In 2007 Cross organized a large-scale textile installation by Dutch artist Fransje Killaars and co-curated an exhibition of the video works of Erik Van Lieshout. In 2006 Cross curated Spencer Finch: What Time is it on the Sun? and produced the first monograph on the artist. Before joining the staff at MASS MoCA, Cross was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she produced exhibitions, catalogues, and public education programs with a number of emerging and established artists. Cross worked closely with the museum’s Panza Collection which features Minimal and Conceptual work. In 2004 Cross was a juror for the Hugo Boss Prize for contemporary art. She was co-curatorial chair of the museum’s Young Collectors Council that acquired works for the museum’s permanent collection by contemporary artists such as Ricci Albenda, Stephen Dean, Spencer Finch, Koo Jeong-a, Jonathan Monk, Rivane Neuenschwander, Marjetica Potrc, Robin Rhode, and Alyson Shotz, among others. Cross has a B.A. in art history from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. She is also a visiting lecturer in the Williams College Graduate Program. www.massmoca.org