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Barbara Glauber

The Frank Stanton Chair in Graphic Design (Fall 2022)

Barbara Glauber is the principal of Heavy Meta, a graphic design studio based in New York. Over the past two decades, she has edited, curated, and designed exhibitions; judged competitions; taught classes and workshops; and created a variety of graphic materials for her cultural clients. Her work is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and has won numerous awards. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Barbara is on the faculty at Yale University and is a founding partner of the Smoking Gun website.

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