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Carnegie Museum of Art Curator in Dialogue with Professor Sean Derry

On Saturday, September 12, the Carnegie Museum of Art Design Curator, Rachel Delphia, will join Professor Sean Derry at his solo exhibition, Thingum, on view at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, for a public conversation about Derry's new work.

  • 04 September 2026
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U-SOAR Students to Present Original Research During Aug. 19 Research Symposium

The 52 students selected for the 2026 Undergraduate Summer Opportunities for Applying Research (U-SOAR) will present their original research projects during the U-SOAR Research Symposium on August 19 from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Sutton Hall’s Blue Room.

  • 12 August 2026
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Art and Design Professor Massey to Exhibit Jewelry in Munich

Sharon Massey is participating in SCHMUCKmünchen, a juried exhibition of jewelry held in Munich, Germany.

  • 26 February 2026
Faculty Achievements

Common Goods Pop-up Store Raising Funds and Food for the IUP Food Pantry

The annual Common Goods pop-up store returns on Thursday, November 13, 2025. This year's event will raise funds, food and awareness for the IUP Food Pantry and Help Center.

  • 03 November 2025
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Derry and Massey Present at The Global Impact Forum

Art and Design professors Sean Derry and Sharon Massey were invited to present at the upcoming Global Impact Forum: Workforce Readiness in the Age of AI and Automation summit, taking place at the David L. Lawrence convention center in Pittsburgh November 3-5, 2025.

  • 13 October 2025
Faculty Achievements

Art and Design Professor Derry Exhibits “From Always Until Now”

For the past two summers, artist Sean Derry has lived on the south side of Kachemak Bay while carefully deconstructing a homesteading cabin dating from Alaska’s statehood. Sean’s exhibition “From Always Until Now” opened at Bunnell Street Arts Center on March 7 and will remain on display until April 2.

  • 17 March 2025
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IUP Art and Design Students Continuing Design Stars Event on May 7; Makers Market Event Scheduled for May 10, 11 at Levity Brewing

Students in IUP Art and Design faculty Sharon Massey and Sean Derry’s 3D Design and Digital Fabrication class will compete in the eighth annual Design Stars of IUP on May 7 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Waller Hall theater at IUP.

  • 29 April 2024
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Slenkfest 2024

IUP Graphic Design and Illustration is hosting the first annual Slenkfest, a multiday series of events designed to be a nexus of interaction between current students and IUP alumni working in the field of graphic design and illustration.

  • Anthony DiMauro
  • 26 March 2024
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IUP Studio Art Faculty Selected for Moonshot Grant

Two Indiana University of Pennsylvania studio art faculty members are using a $70,000 Moonshot Grant to launch new worlds of opportunity for youth in Pittsburgh’s Brownsville area.

  • 16 February 2024
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Derry and Massey Receive $70,000 Moonshot Grant from Remake Learning

Studio Art faculty Sean Derry and Sharon Massey were awarded a $70,000 Moonshot Grant from Remake Learning for their upcoming project, Studio Stream.

  • 16 November 2023
Faculty Achievements

Grand Opening of Common Goods Pop-Up Store at Indiana Theater

Common Goods is an annual pop-up store featuring laser-cut paper packages of items we need but cannot buy, like empathy, rest, and rainbows.

  • 25 October 2023
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Studio Art Faculty Bring STEAM to Pittsburgh Zoo

Studio Art faculty members Sharon Massey and Sean Derry teamed up with Molly Russell and Matt Burglund from Marketing and Communications to bring a STEAM project to the Pittsburgh Zoo on Monday, October 9, 2023.

  • 12 October 2023
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IUP Presenting Future Makers Forum with Pittsburgh Maker Nina Barbuto

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s STEAMSHOP (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) will host a Future Makers Forum with Pittsburgh-based maker Nina Barbuto on April 25. The presentation will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Robertshaw STEAMSHOP, room 25. It is free and open to the community.

  • 19 April 2023
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Massey, Derry Present on “Radical Pivots” in Art Curriculum

Art and Design faculty members Sharon Massey and Sean Derry presented at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) conference in Denver, Colorado.

  • Sharon Massey
  • 17 April 2023
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2023–24 Academic Planner Contest Winner

The University College hosted an art submission contest open to all IUP students to design the cover of the 2023–24 academic planner, distributed to all incoming students during Welcome Week. Stephen Graham was selected as the winner.

  • 16 March 2023
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Fashion Studies Major Creates Opportunity for Current, Future IUP Students

Jordan Brown left IUP in December after earning her bachelor’s degree in fashion studies, but her commitment and initiative will impact students for many years to come. She organized taking 22 IUP fashion studies majors to work as volunteers for the fall 2022 Pittsburgh Fashion Week event.

  • 06 December 2022
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IUP 3D Art Students Continuing Common Goods Pop-Up Store at Indiana Mall

IUP 3D design students will hold a pop-up store from November 17 to 19 in the Indiana Mall. Sales will benefit the Future Maker Forum, which brings visiting scholars from multicultural backgrounds to IUP for workshops and public talks.

  • 11 November 2022
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Massey and Derry Present at STEAM and the Future of Education Conference in Porto, Portugal

Art and Design professors Sharon Massey and Sean Derry were invited to give a presentation about Local X Change, a new curriculum they have developed that combines digital fabrication instruction with civic engagement, at STEAM and the Future of Education: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the Integration of the 4 Cultures Domain in Porto, Portugal, in September 2022.

  • Sharon Massey
  • 27 September 2022
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Students’ Summer Research—In Their Words (U-SOAR 2022)

Want a preview of the research you can hear about Friday, August 5, at 11:00 a.m. in the HUB Monongahela Room during the Undergraduate Summer Opportunities for Applying Research (U-SOAR) program symposium? Watch as four students explain their projects.

  • 02 August 2022
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Sculptural Lighting Fixtures Designed and Produced by IUP Students in IUP STEAMshop, Installed in Sprowls Hall

Students in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Art and Design’s three-dimensional art and design course used IUP’s STEAMshop—IUP’s digital fabrication makerspace—to light the way in IUP’s Sprowls Hall. Students in Sharon Massey and Sean Derry’s Art 113 course used Rhino 3D and Fusion Slicer software to design hanging light fixtures for the building, which is home to IUP’s Department of Art and Design.

  • 12 May 2022
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Art Students Paint Mural for Sports Complex

Under the direction of professor Ivan Fortushniak, Advanced Painting students in spring 2021 created a 45-foot mural for S&T Bank Arena in White Township. The mural shows a selection of the sports played at the complex.

  • 07 September 2021
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Alumna Illustrates Cover of Pittsburgh City Paper

Art and Design alumna Morg Cunningham was recently chosen to illustrate the cover of the Pittsburgh City Paper magazine.

  • 22 April 2021

Pandemic-inspired Artwork by Massey Aquired by Smithsonian

“Touch in the Time of Corona,” an artwork by Associate Professor Sharon Massey, was recently acquired by the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Massey was inspired to make this piece in summer 2020 after attending a small funeral for her husband’s grandmother at the height of the first wave of the pandemic.

  • 29 March 2021

IUP Chapter of National Art Education Association Wins National Award

The IUP chapter of the National Art Education Association recently received the 2021 Outstanding Student Chapter Award during the NAEA annual conference.

  • 08 March 2021

McClure Sweeny Wins NAEA Preservice Chapter Sponsor Award

The National Art Education Association named Marissa McClure Sweeny to receive the 2021 Preservice Chapter Sponsor Award of Excellence Award. This prestigious award, determined through a peer review of nominations, recognizes dedication to the development of future professional members of NAEA through sponsorship of an outstanding Preservice Chapter group at the college/university level.

  • 08 March 2021
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