Associate Professor of Fine Arts Andrew Winship is bragging about his former student, Drue Worrell, B.F.A. Painting ’11, and with good reason.

Worrell has been living in Los Angeles, working for famed performance artist Paul McCarthy http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/paul-mccarthy as a performer and set builder.

He’ll be in New York debuting McCarthy’s newest work at the Park Avenue Armory this June, which was featured in the New York Times Magazine last weekend.

Two years ago I arrived in Indianapolis to begin a graduate program in Visual Communication Design at Herron. Having only visited the city a handful of times before moving here, beginning a new life in a new city was a difficult and lonely process. I remember the day my family moved me to Indianapolis; we arrived with a car full of my belongings, and after a day of heaving boxes through doors and elevators and hallways, my family said their goodbyes, leaving me alone in a city of strangers.

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Sam Ladwig and Colin Tury, first-year M.F.A. candidates in Furniture Design, have had works accepted into two prestigious national exhibitions.

Ladwig’s shelving unit, The Ladder, will be part of the Dwell on Design exhibition at the 2013 Furniture Society L.A. Design Symposium. The Furniture Society partnered with Dwell Magazine this year to present the exhibition of works by furniture design faculty from around the country.