Alison Nowak is an illustrator, designer, and writer living in Minneapolis, MN. She currently teaches illustration at Minneapolis College of Art & Design where she has taught for the last 12 years. She has received awards from SILA and 3x3 magazine and has been featured in 3x3’s New Talent Gallery.
This presentation will demonstrate strategies to avoid the pitfalls of subtle stereotype and appropriation, sharing experiences designing assignments that use visual research processes as a tool to combat students’ unconscious assumptions about visually underrepresented groups.
