Kansas City Art Institute

As a fresh-faced 28-year-old, Tyler first set foot in a KCAI design classroom as a full-time professor and has never looked back. He has taught at KCAI and the University of Kansas, having earned his BFA from Missouri State University and an MGD from North Carolina State University. Tyler is passionate about design for social change and his recent professional work has centered on visual identity and support materials for “Stand Up KC”, Kansas City’s conception of the international low-wage worker movement. Other projects in this area have been included in the 2017 Graphis Poster Annual, Communication Arts magazine, and “The Design of Dissent”. He also participates regularly in the design educators’ community, delivering papers and project presentations at a national and international level. But perhaps just as important, Tyler loves riding bikes, punk rock, vegan cookies, and being a husband and dad. thenewprogramme.net 
Contact: Tgalloway@kcai.edu

Eager Zhang (b. 1997, China Mainland) is a visual artist and graphic designer. Being brought up as multi-lingual and trained with coding tools in college, she explores among the territory of reading behavior, language issues and poetry writing, and expands her practice into printmaking, editorial design, and web architecture. Her recent works were featured by Tokyo TDC, Society of Typographic Art (STA 100) and The Design Kids. She graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago as an MFA, and received a BE from Tongji University, Shanghai. In 2021 she started her partnership with WAIG, a design studio that works actively on both digital and print-based commissions.

Adam Lucas is a graphic designer and educator. Before joining KCAI, Adam was a Senior Designer at SYPartners in New York; a co-founder of LeClair Lucas, a graphic design studio that worked with artists, architects, and cultural institutions to produce identities, publications, and collateral for print and screen; and an art director at Wieden+Kennedy. Adam has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and School of Visual Arts. He received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Kenyon College. See more about Adam at adamlucas.info.

Lisa J. Maione is an art director, designer, and educator. Born in Japan and raised in the U.S., Lisa cut her teeth at New York studios including 2×4, Pentagram, mgmt. design and Wolff Olins, and later at the publication, Metropolis. In her independent design and art practice, clients range from architects to community organizations, artists, and publishers among others. Since 2008, she has taught undergraduate and graduate design courses at Parsons School of Design, Queens College City University of New York and Oklahoma State University. Lisa holds a BFA and MFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a post-graduate certificate in Typeface Design from Type@Cooper NYC.

Contact: lmaione@kcai.edu

http://work.lisamaione.com/