Faculty Profiles

Housing Design

JAMES W. BOYD-BRENT
Associate Professor, Graphic Design Program
Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel
246e McNeal Hall

1985 Buford Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55108-6136
(612) 624-1731
jboydbre@umn.edu

     

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):
  • DHA 1311 Foundations I: Drawing and Design in two and three dimensions
  • HE1910 Art, Design, and Spirituality
  • DHA 2311 Drawing and Illustration
  • DHA 2345 Typography
  • DHA 3312 Color and Form in Surface Design
  • DHA 8362 The Nature of Representation
     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.-Exhibition Publication
  • Boyd-Brent, J. and Shen, L. Here by Design. St. Paul: The Goldstein, University of Minnesota, 2001. 64 pages.-Exhibition Publication Editor Reviewed)
  • 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.-Other Publication      

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