Herron professors Scott Deal (left) and Jason Palamara (right) look at a laptop screen together

Software program created by Herron professors featured in upcoming opera

Live performers to take

the stage with AI

Herron professor Scott Deal will fulfill a longtime dream when “Lexia: An AI Opera” premieres in January 2025. Deal teamed up with assistant professor Jason Palamara in 2018 to create AVATAR, an AI machine-learning model that improvises music alongside a live musician.

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Lance Pruitt appointed Director of the Basile Center for Art, Design, and Public Life

expanding opportunities for

public art and student engagement

“We have a unique ability at the Basile Center to foster a deeper understanding of the career possibilities available to Herron students at the same time as we expand what public art or art in general looks like in the city.”

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Group of Herron School of Art and Design students working together in protective clothing to pour molten iron into a mold

National Sculpture Society conference at Herron

Sculpture students

learn the art of pouring iron

Faculty members in Herron’s sculpture department jumped at the chance to collaborate with the National Sculpture Society and the Indianapolis Art Center to provide students with a unique experiential learning opportunity.

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Photograph of Ella Teipen, Herron School of Art and Design's student health and wellness ambassador standing in front of a table covered with stickers and information about the wellness initiative

Student health and wellness initiative

Meet Ella Teipen,

student wellness ambassador

"Sometimes it's helpful to have someone to talk to who is not in your friend group... I'm just here to listen and provide resources."

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Photograph of Herron School of Art and Design Professor of Music Technology Scott Deal looking down while playing the vibraphone with mallets

'Cultivate positive relationships': Advice on life, work, and art

from music technology

professor Scott Deal

"There's an interconnectivity in humanity and nobody does anything alone, nobody. You can't survive alone and you certainly can't have a career alone."

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Color photograph with AMPL Labs cofounders Michael Runge on the left and Mayowa Tomori on the right smiling and posing in a purple-lit glassed in room

Mayowa Tomori and Michael Runge on working well together

Co-founders

of AMPL Labs

"[Collaboration is] a common theme in a lot of our projects—we have a concept that we know enough about to get started. But we have to build a different team each time depending on what needs to happen."

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Color photograph of Herron alum Julian Jamaal Jones seated on a stool in front of one of his colorful quilts on display at his show at the Tube Factory ArtSpace.

Julian Jamaal Jones on the value of art school

Inspiring advice

for new artists

"I would encourage any young artist intimidated by their medium to look at other successful artists working in that medium and imagine yourself doing it."

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Herron School of Art and Design printmaking shop technician Jager Palad rolling black to prepare for a print

'No one will make your work for you'

A closer look at

Jager Palad's work

"It's really about making a bunch of marks first and then trying to fix whatever problem happens...I'm just taking advantage of my mind’s natural ability to want to fix those problems."

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Color photograph of Jordan Ryan, the 2024 Herron Distinguished Alumni Award winner

'Try Anything': Advice for recent grads

Our 2024 Distinguished

Alumni Award Winner

Jordan Ryan (B.A. ’10), an administrator of public records for the city of Indianapolis, represents the future of historic preservation in Indianapolis.

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Three commemorative solar eclipse posters designed by Herron School of Art and Design students

Herron students design eclipse posters

Collaboration with

Visit Indy

The commemorative solar eclipse posters for the LUNACY! festival at White River State Park feature interpretations of iconic Indianapolis landmarks.

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Brenna McCarty Installation at IND

In commemoration of

The International Center

McCarty's is the first permanent sculpture installation since the new IND terminal opened in 2008.

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