Stephanie Milanowski
Holds Sluyter Professorship
Hope Provost Richard Ray celebrates Stephanie Milanowski's appointment
to the Sluyter Professorship during the formal investiture ceremony.
Stephanie
Milanowski of the Hope College art and art history faculty holds
the college's Howard R. and Margaret E. Sluyter Endowed Professorship
in the field of design.
Milanowski joined the Hope faculty in the fall of 2009 as an
assistant professor of art. Milanowski has spent more than two
decades working with a variety
of clients in guiding design ideas from concept to market, experience
that she brings to her classroom instruction. In addition to teaching
at Hope, she currently works professionally as an art director,
designer and consultant through Grand Rapids-based Stephanie Milanowski
Design, which she established in 1999. Her emphases include digital
media products as well as products and design for paper and giftware
industries, corporate collateral, identity packages, annual reports,
brochures, books, catalogs, and commissioned drawings for corporate
and private collections and exhibition displays.
She teaches introductory and advanced design classes at the college.
She has involved her students in preparing projects for local businesses
and organizations to provide authentic experiences in bringing
client-oriented assignments from initial planning through implementation.
During 2009-10, such opportunities ranged from a competition to
design a new beverage and promotional campaign for Lemonjello's
in downtown Holland to preparing the 122-page booklet for the college's
annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance.
Prior to establishing her own firm, Milanowski was a senior graphic
designer with Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Rapids
for three years. Her previous teaching experience includes courses
in graphic design at Grand Valley State University, the University
of Michigan and Wayne State University.
A West Michigan native, Milanowski enrolled in drawing and life
drawing courses at Grand Rapids Community College while still a
student at Ottawa Hills High School, from which she graduated in
1986. She completed her B.F.A. in graphic design at Rhode Island
School of Design in Providence in 1990, and an M.F.A. in graphic
design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Her
academic training also includes graduate work in graphic design
in Brissago, Switzerland.
Recognition that she has received for her work includes being
voted Best Designer in "Grand Rapids Magazine's" Home
and Design Annual in 2003, and first place in the 1999 National
Billboard Competition of the Community Action Network Media and
Corporate Awards of New York City. This year, she has had a piece
included in the July 3-September 18 "Regional Juried Sculpture
Exhibition" of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
of Saginaw Valley State University. Fellowships and awards that
she received in support of her academic work included the National
Graphic Arts Fellowship in 1994-95.
The Howard R. and Margaret E. Sluyter Endowed Professorship was
established in the latter 1980s by Margaret E. Sluyter. Her husband,
Dr. Howard R. Sluyter, graduated from Hope in 1928 and had a distinguished
career in business, and served as a member of the college's Board
of Trustees from 1971 to 1986. Through her life-long interest and
involvement in interior design, Margaret Sluyter recognized the
place of design in a liberal arts curriculum.
The professorship was previously held by its original appointee,
Judy Hillman, from when she joined the faculty in 1989 until she
retired in 2009.
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