Kristin Caskey, fashion and middle Of broad professor, earned her BSS in fashion design from Cornell College in 1984. Since then, she’s earned a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and led mOb Studio through the development of large-scale projects like General Demotion/General Devotion.
Cornell reached out to their alumna to learn more about her work at VCUarts.
This Cornell art alumna’s community is Richmond, Virginia, where she teaches courses focused on fashion design, drawing and design theory, and runs an interdisciplinary design studio open to students at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
As part of the team at the interdisciplinary mOb Studio, Caskey looks at community-engaged design as a way to provide solutions to individuals, institutions, and others by providing access to high-quality design.
“Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy and the national conversation has moved all of us to own up to our inherent biases, privileges, and complicity in an ongoing system which has yet to provide real equity and justice for all our citizens,” Caskey says.
Read more at Cornell’s News Center.
Lead image: mOb students and faculty on Monument Ave.
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