Cheryl Towler Weese
Professor of Graphic Design, School of Design
Biography
Cheryl Towler Weese (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC)
Cheryl Towler Weese is a professor of graphic design at UIC and a founding partner of Studio Blue, a graphic design firm that has done work for museums, universities and others.
Recognized for her conceptual approach and interdisciplinary collaboration, her work explores design’s civic potential. Through projects that span publication, identity, interactive and environmental design, she investigates design’s ability to participate in public dialogue and shape collective consciousness. With this approach, she endeavors to foster an engaged and thinking public by encouraging discourse, participation and individual perspectives.
Her work has been widely published, honored and exhibited, and is included in permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry Library, and the Denver Art Museum.
