Hilary Walrod

Academic Dean,
Associate Professor
School of Arts & Sciences
hilary.walrod@colby-sawyer.edu
603.526.3669

Professor Walrod joined the faculty in 2012 and was awarded the college's highest teaching award, the Jack Jensen Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2016. She earned an M.F.A. in Studio Art, Graphic Design, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a B.A. in Studio Art and Environmental Studies from Williams College.

Professor Walrod teaches graphic design and digital media and works in two-dimensional, three-dimensional and digital realms. Her work in environmental graphics, identity design and editorial design has been recognized and awarded in regional, national and international design competitions. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background, she is especially interested in intersections between visual communication and environmental consciousness. Her independent, freelance, and pro bono projects support the arts, community, education, environment, farms, food, health and place. She helped to develop the college’s major in sustainability studies, a minor in sustainability and the Sustainable Learning Initiative at Franklin Falls. read more…

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental Graphics
  • Fabric Design
  • Food Systems + Local Foods
  • Identity System Design / Branding
  • Information Design
  • Interactive Design / We Design
  • Publication Design / Editorial Design
  • Painting
  • Screenprinting
  • Sustainability
  • Typography

Recent Presentations

  • Illustration to the Rescue. Kutztown, PA: UCDA Design Education Summit, 2017
  • Teaching Design Methodologies. Bowling Green, OH: AIGA Design Educators Community Conference, 2016
  • Guiding Ethical Use of Digital Resources in Design Education. Union, NJ: UCDA Design Education Summit, panel, 2016
  • Designing Our Food Future. Concord, NH: NOFA-NH Winter Conference, 2014
  • Content, Context, +Collaboration: Field Notes on the Education Potential of Interdisciplinary Graphic Design Projects. Chattanooga, TN: UCDA Design Education Summit, 2013
  • Design Systems: Identity, Information + Environmental Graphics. Visiting Designer Workshop + Lecture. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota College of Design, 2012.
  • Cultivation. Visiting Artist Lecture. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Department of Art, Art History, + Design, 2011.
  • A Fork in the Road. Denver, Colo.: CommunityMatters'10 Conference, Design for Change panel, 2010.
  • Reflection by Design | Design by Reflection. Lawrence, KS: UCDA Design Education Summit, 2010.
  • Specifying + Localizing. Des Moines, Iowa: AIGA Iowa Sustain Green Salon Lecture Series, 2010.

Recent Exhibitions

  • New Hampshire Creative Club 17th Annual Juried Exhibition. Manchester, NH, 2015
  • "Ecologies of Food: Past, Present, Future." Geneseo, NY: Lederer Gallery, School of the Arts, SUNY Geneseo, NY 2012.
  • "Food for Thought." Ann Arbor, MI: Gallery Project, 2011.
  • AIGA Minnesota Design Show. Minneapolis, MN: Shelter Studios, 2011.
  • A Fork in the Road. Des Moines, Iowa: Anderson Gallery, Drake University, 2010.

Education

  • B.A., Studio Art and Environmental Studies, Williams College
  • M.F.A., Studio Art: Graphic Design, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville