Tricia Treacy

Tricia Treacy

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design
September 11, 2017–February 12, 2018
Profession
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Department of Art, Appalachian State University
Project title
Modes + Methods of Dialog + Collaboration
Project description

I will create a publication series that investigates the relationship between art, design, writing, religion, food studies, and architecture in contemporary Rome. The content of the publication will be curated from my ongoing investigation of the perspectives and insights of the 2016–17 Rome Prize Fellows as well as the Rome Sustainable Food Project chefs. In addition, I will conduct an ongoing dialogue with locals in Rome to enable the local community to have a voice in the publication as well. With all of these voices involved in the content, I will use my training as a visual artist, designer, and master bookmaker to translate this diverse, interdisciplinary dialogue into a series of publications full of rich visual and written narratives. In place of reiteration, the series will use the gaps and overlaps between the included perspectives as its basis. As a result, the publication series will be a site for new creative and critical discourse, comparative research, and open-ended dialogue.