James Boyd-Brent, MFA

Specialties & Expertise

• Graphic Design
• Art and Design in the United Kingdom
• Design and Sense of Place
• Printmaking
• Design and business

Course Titles (resident and outreach teaching)

• GDes 1311 Foundations I: Drawing and Design
• DES 1910 Printing for Designers
• GDes 2311 Drawing and Illustration
• GDes 2345 Typography
• GDes 3312 Color and Form in Surface Design
• GDes 8362 Nature of Representation in Visual Communication

Selected Scholarship

• Boyd-Brent, J; Fisher, T.; Singh, V.; Layon, K. Divining the Twin Cities: A knowledge map of spiritual sites of the Twin Cities. Commissioned by the Design Institute of the University of Minnesota, 2003.
• Boyd-Brent, J; Shen, L; Yust, B; Waldron, C. Twin Cities Odorama: A Smell Map of Minneodorous and Scent Paul. Commissioned by the Design Institute of the University of Minnesota, 2003.
• Boyd-Brent, J, Campbell, K. Knowledge Map/Here by Design II, University of Minnesota Design Institute 2003.
• Boyd-Brent, J. and Shen, L. Midtown Greenway Design Knowledge Map, October 2001. A project coordinated by the University of Minnesota Design Institute.
• Boyd-Brent, J. and Shen, L. Here by Design. St. Paul: The Goldstein, University of Minnesota, 2001. 64 pages.
• Boyd-Brent, J, Shen, L., Piedrafita, S. and Littlejohn, D. Midtown Crossings, Interpretive Map of Midtown Greenway area of Minneapolis. Commissioned by the Design Institute of the University of Minnesota, 2001.  

Professional, Institutional, and Community Leadership and Service

• 2001-2002 Chair CHE Scholarship Committee
• 2003 to present Chair CHE International Committee
• 2002 to present Split Rock Arts Program Faculty Selection Committee
• 2000 CHE Undergraduate Scholarship Award Committee

Awards

• 2000 Graduate Faculty Curriculum sub-committee
• 2001 Best of Show-printmaking, Stone Arch Arts Festival, Minneapolis
• 2000 nominated for CHE McFarlane Creative Teaching Award

Associate Professor

Graphic Design Program

Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel