North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh
North Carolina 27607-6494
September 27, 2007
7:00 - 9:30 PM
AIGA is excited to welcome Kathy Fredrickson & Cheryl Towler Weese, founders and partners at the Chicago-based Studio Blue, to AIGA Raleigh's 2007 Annual Meeting.
In addition to sharing their award-winning portfolio, Kathy & Cheryl will review the ways design has historically served cultural institutions and discuss how designers can help museums remain inclusive, relevant and vital.
Please join them for an exciting evening at the North Carolina Museum of Art!
Kathy Fredrickson: As a child, Kathy aspired to be a veterinarian, until she learned that vets, just like people doctors, need to study chemistry. She opted for a liberal arts education, preferring to spend her college years reading and making art. Her career is really just an attempt to extend that experience. She is a partner at Studio Blue, where her primary responsibilities include strategic planning for projects; research, writing, and concept development (reading and making art); and new business development. Kathy is able to draw on her personal and professional experiences to allow for risk-taking while balancing the strategic needs of clients. Her conceptual voice, sense of humor and strategic leadership is heard in nearly all the studio's work. Kathy's non-profit management experience includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she worked on developing and producing the museum's in-house branded product line. Prior to joining the company in March 1994, she was the associate director of publications at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the former president of Chicago chapter of the AIGA, the professional association for design, and currently serves on the national board as chapter presidents' liaison.
Cheryl Towler Weese: Cheryl Towler Weese began her design discipleship at age nine, when she learned to proofread galleys at her parents' weekly newspaper. She completed college in fits and starts, preferring to study or work in a new country each year. This love of culture and language is integral to her design sensibility, and she strives to develop a new visual language with each new engagement. She is a partner at Studio Blue, which she founded in 1993. Her primary responsibilities include serving as creative director, designing and mentoring other designers; long-range fiscal and operational planning; and presenting the studio's design to the public. Cheryl's influence on the studio's work shows in her contextual approach as well as her intrepid demand for craft and innovation. She has served on the national board of the AIGA, the professional association for design; taught and lectured on design at numerous universities, at local and national conferences, and for the College Art Association; and juried a number of design competitions, including AIGA´s 50 Books/50 Covers competition, which she chaired in 2004 and 2005.
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