Mary Banas,
Design Education


An ongoing record of teaching & related activities, 2007–now.


Graphic Design 1: The Studio︎︎︎Graphic Design 1: The Studio︎︎︎



Graphic Design 1: The Studio
MFA
Fall 2020
California College of the Arts
Co-taught with Ana Llorente
Chair: Jon Sueda
Course website
⟶ Final course exhibition website: Anthropositivisms

Above poster images: Andrew Roque (Lee Harvey Oswald), Katie Harper (Earthquake), Rosie Simose (Mt. Saint Helens), Tracy Leeds (Challenger), Saleem M’boge (Castro), Shijia/Bella Luo (Casablanca)

Student work & process from this course:
Andrew
Katie
Rosie
Tracy
Saleem
Shijia
First core studio course for students pursing an MFA in graphic design in the three-year program. Three projects: image-making, methodologies exploration resulting in a typographic poster, and a speculative journey (open form) project. 

This class hosted a typography workshop with Martin Venezky, images below by Katie and Tracy.



This course was taught online using Zoom, Google Docs, Moodle, Are.na, Mural, and Padlet. 


CONTACT
For speaking engagements, workshops and critic appoinments, drop me a line here.


BIO
Currently teaching at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA.

Mary Banas has taught graphic design since 2009, notably as Visiting Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Bridgeport, Roger Williams University, and California College of the Arts.

She has led design workshops for the Center for Creative Solutions (Vermont), Dolby Labs (San Francisco), OTIS College of Art and Design (Los Angeles), the Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan). She has been a visiting critic at Maryland Institute College of Art, Pratt Institute, University of Utah, Boston University, Rhode Island School of Design, and San Jose State University.

Mary has been invited to talk about her creative practice at California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA), Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan), and University of Georgia (GA). 

Mary develops conceptual and informed designs for brands, institutions, and artists with her independent creative practice YES IS MORE and currently serves as a Senior Visual Designer in Marketing and Communications at Rhode Island School of Design.


Education
Rhode Island School of Design
MFA Graphic Design, with Honors
May 2009

University of Connecticut
BFA Communication Design
May 2003

Original photo: Hunter Kelly. Image manipulation: Derrick Schultz