My name is Maryam Khaleghi Yazdi. I am a designer and a Graphic Design assistant professor in the Art and Design Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD).
TEACHING
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Department of Art & Design, University of Minnesota Duluth, August 2019 – Present
Courses
• Graphic Design V, Spring 2023
• Graphic Design IV, Spring 2023
• Graphic Design III, Spring 2022
• Graphic Design IV, Spring 2022
• Emerging Media, Fall 2021
• Graphic Design IV, Fall 2021
• Graphic Design III, Spring 2021
• Typography II, Spring 2021
• Graphic Design II, Fall 2020
• Emerging Media, Fall 2020
• Graphic Design III, Spring 2020
• Typography II, Spring 2020
• Graphic Design II, Fall 2019
• Emerging Media, Fall 2019
EDUCATION
MFA, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States, Graphic Design, May 2019
Thesis Title: Living in Between.
MFA, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Visual Communication Design, June 2012
Thesis Title: Designing a curriculum for teaching Farsi/Arabic typeface design as a master’s degree.
BFA, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Visual Communication Design, June 2008
Thesis Title: Designing a Farsi/Arabic type family based on "Naskh" script.
CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Diploma in UX Design, UX Design Institute, Dublin, IE, Online, May 2021
Motion Beast, Brooklyn, New York, United States, Online, September 2020
UI Design Patterns for Successful Software, UX Design Foundation, Arhaus, Denmark, Online, September 2020
Human-Computer Interaction, UX Design Foundation, Arhaus, Denmark, Online, August 2020
User Research Methods, UX Design Foundation, Arhaus, Denmark, Online, July 2020
HONORS AND RECOGNITION
External Sources
Award of Excellence in Communication Arts competition, CA, United States, February 2022
The Winner of the Professional Exploration Category, The World Illustration Awards, London, United Kingdom, October 2021
Distinguished as The Top 10 Winning Work, The 5th PlakatFest, Chorzow, Poland, 2020, July 2020
GRANTS
External Sources
Individual Artist Grant
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: Arrowhead Regional Arts Council
Date Proposal Submitted: August 30, 2022
Award Dates: August 30, 2022 - August 30, 2023
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $4,000.00
Sponsoring Organization: Arrowhead Regional Arts Council
Date Proposal Submitted: August 30, 2022
Award Dates: August 30, 2022 - August 30, 2023
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $4,000.00
Internal Sources
Imagine Fund
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota Duluth
Date Proposal Submitted: February 11, 2022
Award Dates: May 28, 2022 - May 28, 2025
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $5,000.00
CAHSS Research & Creative Activity Funds
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota Duluth
Award Dates: March 28, 2022 – May 2023
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $500.00
Grant in Aid (GIA)
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota Duluth
Date Proposal Submitted: September 15, 2021
Award Dates: January 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $9,497.00
CAHSS Research/Creative Activity
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota Duluth
Date Proposal Submitted: October 20, 2021
Award Dates: November 17, 2021 - May 6, 2022
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $1,000.00
Chancellor’s Faculty Small Grant
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota
Date Proposal Submitted: October 9, 2020
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed
Grant Period: $1,000.00
Art and Design Collegiate Fee Fund
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
Date Proposal Submitted: March 22, 2020
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $800.00
Art and Design Collegiate Fee Fund
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
Date Proposal Submitted: November 1, 2019
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $1,150.00
Chancellor’s Faculty Small Grant
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota-Duluth
Date Proposal Submitted: October 11, 2019
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $1,000.00
Professional Development Travel Grants
Project Investigators: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota-Duluth
Date Proposal Submitted: October 11, 2019
Funded Amount for Entire Grant Period or Proposed Grant Period: $800.00
RESIDENCIES
Online Artist in Resident, SVA Summer Residency, School of Visual Arts, New York, United States, July 6, 2021 - August 7, 2021
Online Artist in Residence, World of Co, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 5, 2020 - January 5, 2021
DEMONSTRATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS
Demonstration
Interactive Wheat Paste Mural Workshop, California Institute of The Arts, Santa Clarita, California, United States, October 2022
A Drop of Ink, A Drop of Persian Culture, TypeWknd, 2021, Online, October 2021
A Drop of Ink, A Drop of Persian Culture, TypeCon conference 2019, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, August 2019
Talks
Say Sew, Narrating the experience of immigration via quilting Department of Art+Design, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States, February 2022, Invited.
Creating a Career Path and Research for BFA students, School of Art and Visual Studies, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States, March 2021, Invited
Creating a Career Path and Research for BFA students, School of Fine Arts and Design, Ohio University, Virtual, August 2020, Invited
Life Tree, The College Art Association of America (CAA) 2021 Annual Conference, Online, United States, February 2021
Teaching Methodology of Arabic Type Design, Typewknd Adobe, Monotype, Font self, Virtual/ International, September 2020
Posters
The Gray Fortune, CAA, Chicago, Illinois, United States, February 2020
Living in Between, UCDA Design Education Conference, Smyrna, Tennessee, United States, May 2019
EXHIBITIONS
International
The Association of Illustrators (AOI), The Association of Illustrators (AOI), Shanghai, China, September 1, 2022 - October 6, 2022
Lahti Poster Triennial, Malva Lahti Museum of Visual Arts, Lahti, Finland, May 5, 2022 - May 10, 2022
Utopia, Tapirulan Illustrators Contest, Cremona, Italy, December 11, 2021 - February 20, 2022
The Biennial of Poster Bolivia BICeBé 2021, International Council of Poster Design BICeBé, La Paz, Bolivia, November 2, 2021 - November 19, 2021
International İKÇÜ Art Festival, The Faculty of Art and Design at Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey, October 25, 2021 - October 27, 2021
Artists for Climate, Fine Acts, TED Countdown and Fine Acts, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 10, 2021 - October 14, 2021
Fake News, Poster for Tomorrow, Paris, France, October 19, 2021 - November 25, 2021
Living in Between, CICA Museum, South Korea, July 7, 2021 - July 11, 2021
27th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poster Museum at Wilanów, Association of Applied Graphic Designers, Warsaw, Poland, June 12, 2021 - August 28, 2021
Jump, The Kaunas International Illustration Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania, May 20, 2021 - June 20, 2021
Read More, Fight Less, The 11th International Eco-Poster Triennial "The 4th Block, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 22, 2021 - May 16, 2021
Respect For Biodiversity, Sixteenth International Poster Biennale in Mexico, International Poster Biennale in Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, November 18, 2020 - July 15, 2021
Living in Between, #Social, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, September 16, 2020 - October 4, 2020
Stay Online, WHY Graphic Design Festival, Florence, Italy, November 13, 2020 - November 15, 2020
Living in Between, Golden Bee 14, Global Biennale of Graphic Design, Moscow, Russia, September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020
Let Nature Speak, New World, PlakatFest Festival, Chorzow, Poland, July 15, 2020 - August 17, 2020
God of Seigfred Hall, AOL, Association of Illustrators, London, United Kingdom, 2019
National
Living In Between, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, Maryland, United States, September 7, 2022 - October 16, 2022
Say Sew, Currents New Media 2022, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, June 17, 2022 - June 26, 2022
We Create, Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota, United States, December 1, 2021 - December 29, 2021
Living in Between, College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, Visalia, California, United States, October 5, 2021 - October 22, 2021
Living in Between, Current New Media 2021, Current New Media, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, June 12, 2021 - June 20, 2021
Living in Between- Past, Home as Situation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States, October 1, 2020 - December 29, 2020
Living in Between, Our Voices, The Pearl Conard Art Gallery at The Ohio State University, Mansfield, Ohio, United States, October 29, 2020 - November 30, 2020
The World After, Missouri State University, Missouri, United States, March 24, 2021 - April 9, 2021
$5 Video, LHUCA, Luis Hopkins Underwood, Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas, United States, June 5, 2020 - August 1, 2020
Dream About Love, Broad Underground, not far from here, Recent Iranian Video Art, Michigan State University, Robin Theater, Lansing, Michigan, January 17, 2020 - January 18, 2020
CONTRACT COMMISSIONED ACTIVITIES
Senior Graphic Designer, UI UX Designer, Innovation Scientists, Huston, TX, United States, Contract, May 2023- Present
Senior Graphic Designer and Illustrator, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, June 2023- Present
Senior Graphic Designer, Vert Digital, Atlanta, GA, June 2023
FREELANCE COMMISSIONED ACTIVITIES
Designed the Visual Identity System, Avae-Mohit-Zist, Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2023
Illustrated two pieces of editorial Illustrations, AARP, Washington, D.C, United States, 2022-2023
MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
In the galleries: Sculptures take us beyond the conventional, Washington Post, September 30, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/09/30/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/
Covid kisses and marvelous menus: the AOI world illustration awards 2021 – in pictures, The Guardian, October 12, 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/13/aoi-world-illustration-awards-2021-in-pictures?fbclid=IwAR0qB9_qkDbOwV9mjmq6KsBVT85X3TwSxQz6nc_Z83qpuHiG-i4c7VVvBF0
Invitational exhibition-Maryam Khaleghiyazdi-LIVING IN BETWEEN, NYC Phoenix Art, August 1, 2021
http://www.phoenix-gallery.com/maryam-khaleghi-yazdi.html
Maryam Khaleghiyazdi: Her Biography and ten examples of her works, Upgraph, July 1, 2021
https://upgraph.ir/maryam-khaleghi-yazdi/
Interactive new media installation: Maryam Khaleghiyazdi's, Living in Between-Future, Pasatiemp, June 18, 2021
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/interactive-new-media-installation-maryam-khaleghi-yazdis-living-in-between-future/article_1071b1c0-c568-11eb-b0e5-df1f8587e647.html
World of Co artist residency, World of Co, January 10, 2021
Student Design Profile, Maryam Khaleghiyazdi, Ohio University College of Fine Arts Alumni Magazine, June 6, 2020
God of Seigfred hall: Mural design, AI AP, American illustration/ Photography, 2019
Living in between, Digital America, December 4, 2019
SERVICES
Member, Mentoring Program (EOCAI), 2019-Present
Member, Imagine Fund selection committee, 2023
Member, Employee of color, and American Indian
Member, Graphic Design Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee, 2022
Member, Graphic Design Term Faculty Search Committee, 2022