2015

- December 16, 2015
  Best known for creating a 39-panel mural out of bed sheets while serving a six-year prison sentence, Philadelphia-based artist Jesse Krimes will open Deus ex Machina, an exhibition of new work at 91��Ƭ�� on Jan. 12. The exhibition will be on display through March 13 at Drexel’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert Street) of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
- December 09, 2015
  Starting this winter, more than 100 middle-school students from Philadelphia schools and community groups will try their hand at being video game designers, with an opportunity to play their games on one of the biggest screens imaginable: a 29-story building covered with LEDs. 91��Ƭ��’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio is working with young game designers-in-the-making to come up with new games for Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira Centre office building, an edifice that has twice played host to the largest architectural video game display in the world.
- December 07, 2015
  Drexel made a lot of news this year. Check out the best stories about Drexel that came out in 2015.
- December 07, 2015
  It’s that time of year again! The time when your stress levels go through the roof as you shop, cook, wrap, decorate, travel and party-plan yourself into a tizzy while trying to create the perfect holiday season. Drexel experts have identified some of the top stress-inducing holiday nightmares and offer some helpful tips for avoiding them this year.
- December 02, 2015
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- November 09, 2015
  Go behind the scenes of the iconic Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning satirical news program “The Daily Show” at 91��Ƭ�� with a visit from writer and co-executive producer Adam Lowitton Tuesday, Nov. 17. Lowitt, himself a standup comic, will start out the evening with a standup routine and then sit down with Karen Curry, director of Drexel’s Rudman Institute, to talk about how he went from being an intern 13 years ago to one of Jon Stewart’s senior writers and then executive producer.
- November 09, 2015
  An event hosted by a Drexel student organization will give Drexel artists the opportunity to display their work and network with co-op employers like never before.
- November 05, 2015
  Only one month remains to seeImmortal Beauty: Highlights from the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, the first large-scale, retrospective exhibition of highlights from the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (FHCC) in 91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
- November 05, 2015
  Co-produced by the Simpatico Theater Project and 91��Ƭ��’s Co-Op Theatre Company in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design as part of Drexel’s Mandell Professionals in Residence Project (MPiRP), "Watership Down" will feature a cast and crew comprised of students and professionals, set against the work of top-notch designers from around the region. The show will run from Nov. 4 – 22 in Drexel’s Mandell Theater (33rd & Chestnut Streets).
- November 03, 2015
  In December a small class of film students from 91��Ƭ�� will get a chance to view Cuba through a lens. And in an opportunity that would have been impossible just a few decades ago, and a rarity even in recent years, they will be the ones directing its gaze. The Escuela International de Cine y Television, Cuba’s iconic film school, that counts Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez among its noted founders, recently formalized a relationship with Drexel to offer a two-week documentary filmmaking course in Havana this winter.
- November 02, 2015
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- September 29, 2015
  The school year has officially begun. Check out anything you may have missed in all the excitement — like the new provost's first University-wide announcement or the success of Welcome Week.
- September 24, 2015
  Drexel’s Alex Geisinger found he needed to look no further than his own professional backyard for creative help on a personal project.
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- August 17, 2015
  From a fragment of 16th century Italian velvet to an evening dress by New York designer Alexander Wang from 2012, the first large-scale, retrospective exhibition of highlights from the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection in 91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design will trace the arc of fashion history over the course of more than three centuries.
- July 27, 2015
  A website dedicated to directing students to the right schools for them again ranked Drexel’s programs very highly, with one in the Top 10, in its annual list of the best schools in the United States.
- July 16, 2015
- July 16, 2015
  A Drexel student and a recent graduate got a boost from Founder.org for their company looking to help provide sustainable technology for water.
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- July 02, 2015
  The latest exhibit in the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery will be open from July 17 to August 28.
- June 26, 2015
  Hosting Drexel’s first-ever summer institute on design history, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design’s David Raizman talks with DrexelNow about the themes that will be presented by scholars at the institute.
- June 23, 2015
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  Drexel seniors were especially creative this year when creating and completing projects that encompassed everything they've learned during their studies.
- June 15, 2015
  With the support of a $234,400 grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, 91��Ƭ�� will host acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz for a residency in September 2016.
- June 11, 2015
  Graduating fashion design students’ collections rocked the runway earlier this month. See who took home awards with their fresh designs.
- June 03, 2015
  With influences ranging from Miley Cyrus to modern ballerinas, the collections of 29 graduating fashion design students will hit the runway at the 91��Ƭ��’s Annual Senior Fashion Show on Saturday, June 6.
- May 27, 2015
  Drexel students have helped produce new films aiming to help families overcome potential barriers to seeking diagnosis and services for their children on the autism spectrum—particularly in populations that are underserved when it comes to autism awareness, diagnosis and services.
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- May 18, 2015
  Graduating seniors in Drexel's product design program have created prototypes of products that can solve problems in the world around them.
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- May 05, 2015
  Only three weeks remain to see the “enormous, beautifully detailed figurative paintings and three-dimensional installations” (Philadelphia Inquirer) of Storylines, an exhibition at 91��Ƭ��’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert Street) in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, featuring the work of Lithuanian-born artist and illustrator Ray Bartkus. The exhibition will be on display through Sunday, May 24. The gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- May 04, 2015
  On Thursday, May 14 from 6:30 – 8 p.m., a public lecture and forum, “Making Place by Building Civic Stewardship & Public Art-Making” will take place in Drexel’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert St.). This event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held prior to the event at 6 p.m. Three panelists will give presentations about their work as it relates to creative placemaking, civic stewardship, social equity, public art and environmental infrastructure.
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- April 24, 2015
  Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look Saturday at what it takes to bring an empty gallery to life with Clare Suro, curator of the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection.
- April 23, 2015
  Creating a symbiotic relationship in which historic sacred spaces, such as churches, help to alleviate performing artists’ need for space could benefit both groups and better integrate them into the community, according to a new study from 91��Ƭ��.
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- March 31, 2015
  “Artists for All Seasons,” an exhibition of artwork by formerly homeless artists, will be on display at the URBN Center (3501 Market St., Philadelphia) from April 13 – 24.
- March 25, 2015
  For the sixth year, Drexel is again high on the Princeton Review list of the United States’ and Canada’s top game design programs.
- March 25, 2015
  A new book byAlphonso D. McClendon, an assistant professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, entitled Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015), explores the behaviors, signs and meanings that defined this subculture. The book also addresses Philadelphia’s significant role in jazz history.
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- March 11, 2015
  Storylines, a new exhibition at 91��Ƭ��’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert Street) in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, presents the work of Lithuanian-born artist and illustrator Ray Bartkus. Creating immersive environments, Bartkus’s monumental, figurative paintings embrace and engulf viewers, projecting them into compelling, mysterious domains. Shown for the first time in the United States, much of this work has been seen internationally in Lithuania, Poland, Austria Japan and the Netherlands. The exhibition will be on display from Tuesday, April 7 – Sunday, May 24.
- March 05, 2015
  A Drexel doctorate student is leading the charge on researching conductive yarns that have the flexibility of a cotton T-shirt but the energy storage that would make the Energizer Bunny proud.
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- February 26, 2015
- February 24, 2015
  Students from 91��Ƭ��’s music industry program are breathing life into music tracks that have been silent for more than 40 years. Through a partnership between the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and Reservoir, an independent music publisher based in New York City, a set of unfinished songs recorded on the Philly Groove Records label in the 1970s could find their way onto your playlist this summer.
- February 23, 2015
  For the 12th year, the Drexel Arts Administration Graduate Association is raising money for a trip to Washington, D.C., to appeal for more public arts funding by auctioning off a variety of pieces of art.
- February 18, 2015
  “Our hope is that these workshops will empower and educate young women who are eager to learn and become interested in the game industry,” said Tracey Welson Rossman, founder of TechGirlz.
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- February 16, 2015
  Want to live life like a Renaissance man or woman? No need to build a time travel machine—the Drexel Chamber Singers will take care of everything.
- February 16, 2015
  Some of Drexel’s biggest movie-lovers gave their choices for who they think will — or should — win the Oscars this year.
- February 12, 2015
  A select handful of 91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design students interested in urban design will have the opportunity to generate fresh ideas and create a vision for the future of the Lehigh Viaduct, Delaware Power Station and surrounding Port Richmond area. Along with 15 students and two faculty members from Germany’s TU Dortmund University, which researches and teaches the global intersection between man, nature and technology, the students will participate in an intensive urban infrastructure planning and design process to develop concepts for repurposing this post-industrial infrastructure.
- February 10, 2015
  Faculty in design and public health at Drexel are working together with community-based projects in West Philadelphia. Their projects test the idea that aspects of natural systems can be woven into urban design to improve health.
- February 09, 2015
  Imagine Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang as anguished teenagers. The Drexel Co-op Theatre Company will stage a production of “DOG SEES GOD: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead,” an irreverent, yet poignant drama that conceives the teenaged Charlie Brown and his friends as real people dealing with complex issues.
- February 05, 2015
  Amid large-scale sculptures made from recycled tires by contemporary American sculptor and printmaker Chakaia Booker, local poets will create poems, or ‘verbal sculptures,’ inspired by the themes of the artwork at 91��Ƭ�� during Black History Month.
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- February 02, 2015
  “There were gorgeous things happening in the ’80s, from beautiful textiles to masterful silhouettes. We need to put aside our embarrassment over some of our personal style choices at that time and look at fashion from that period through fresh eyes."
- January 22, 2015
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- January 21, 2015
  As one of the youngest competitors on the E! reality show "House of DVF," design and merchandising student Amanda Schauer had more professional experience and education than the other contestants vying for a position as brand ambassador at Diane von Fürstenberg's eponymous company.
- January 21, 2015
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- January 12, 2015
  A high-profile controversy surfaced in the gaming community late last year which reportedly began with concerns about video game journalism turned to vitriol largely directed at women in gaming. Drexel's gaming expert, Professor Frank Lee, discusses GamerGate and diversity issues.
- January 09, 2015
  A civil war that led to the beheading of a king, an 11-year discontinuation of the monarchy, followed by a bloody man-hunt for the judges who signed his death warrant – are all part of one of the most tumultuous times in England’s history and the subject of “Killers of the King,” the latest book by Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer. Spencer, the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, is both part of England’s recent history and a renowned chronicler of its more distant eras. On Jan. 22, he will visit 91��Ƭ�� to talk about his book and also about what it’s like to run the Spencer family estate of Althorp —a real-life Downton Abbey— in the 21st Century. This event is part of a lecture series sponsored by the Kal & Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies.
- January 08, 2015
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- January 07, 2015
  The newest exhibit at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery uses old, cut tires to form sculptures which explore topics like race and gender in a way The New York Times describes as "pure poetry."
- January 07, 2015
- January 05, 2015
  Do you think you have what it takes to be America’s next top model? Here is your chance to prove your talent! The CW hit, America’s Next Top Model, is seeking new contestants to compete for a chance to take on the modeling industry. The CW Philly 57 will hold a local casting call for the show on Tuesday, Jan. 6, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at 91��Ƭ��'s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

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