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Silver Award, GRAPHIS POSTER

Kelly received her Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design Magna Cum Laude from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Before joining the faculty at MSU, she was Program Head of Graphic Design and Assistant Professor at Kansas City Art Institute. Other previous teaching experiences include RISD and The College of New Jersey. 

Her concepts and design work have appeared in several publications, including SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients; Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work: An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking, and Writing; Typography, Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography; Designing for the Greater Good: The Best in Cause-Related Marketing and Nonprofit Design; and Atomic Ranch Magazine. Kelly has presented at AIGA, European Academy of Design, International Institute for Information Design, International Design Principles and Practices, College Art Association, University College Designers Association, Foundations in Art: Theory & Education, and Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design conferences. She has guest lectured at several universities. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and selected by Graphis Poster Annual, Print, Creative Quarterly, GD USA, IIID, Emirates International Poster Festival, Type Directors Club, Society of Typographic Arts, American Alliance of Museums, United Designs, AIGA Kansas City, and AIGA Detroit competitions. In 2021 she was an Olympian Artist in Residence for the Olympic Agora in Tokyo, Japan. Her series of 5 Noren curtains celebrating peace, joy, hope, honor, and sport hung in the Nihonbashi neighborhood during the Olympic Games.

She is President Emerita of the international design organization, United Designs Alliance. She is a member of the UCDA Design Educator’s Advisory Committee, and former member of CAA’s Committee on Intellectual Property. Kelly initiated the AIGA Get Out The Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster initiative to commemorate 100 years of the women’s vote in 2020. She and Nancy Skolos partnered with AIGA and the League of Women Voters, creating a collection of 65 posters from 71 women in design, which was exhibited across the country and available for free download.

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MSU professor went to the Olympics twice as a competitor. Her art is there this year.

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Professor of Graphic Design

Dr. Kelly Salchow Macarthur (Department of Art, Art History, and Design). A highly accomplished graphic designer, Kelly is also a retired two-time rowing Olympian who was selected to be ‘Artist-in-Residence’ for the recent Tokyo Olympic Games. She will be talking about her remarkable and varied career.

This talk was filmed on February 1st, 2022.

Town &amp; Gown - Kelly Salchow Macarthur - Together in Sport

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of all women protected and enforced.

AIGA (The Professional Associate for Design) curator Kelly Salchow MacArthur, NY based designer Kelly Walters, local activists Raven Cook and Jenna Blakemen discuss the exhibition AIGA Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote, a collection of posters by women of design, commemorating the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment and motivating present-day voter engagement. The panel was moderated by local designer and educator Aricka Lewis. 

The exhibition is available for physically distanced viewing at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville during October 2020 and can also be viewed online. Catalogs for the exhibit are available at TheatreSquared, Maxines Tap Room, or by request. The exhibition and panel are brought to you by AIGA NWA, TheatreSquared, and The University of Arkansas School of Art. 

Sources shared by the panelists: 
In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Richard Iton 
Woman Suffrage in the Southern Sates by Sarah H. Case 
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings 
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won The Vote, and Insisted on Equality for all by Martha S. Jones

Thumbnail Poster Design: Melinda Beck for Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, sponsored by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters.

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