Herb Vincent Peterson

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ABOUT HERB VINCENT PETERSON

Herb Vincent Peterson is an award-winning multidisciplinary creative director, design researcher, and educator. With a background in strategic branding and social design practices, Peterson’s research lies at the intersection of community and design pedagogy aimed to bring sustainable change in rural America. Peterson has been able to work with a variety of towns and cities, universities and colleges, to the wide spectrum of not-for-profit organizations and major retail companies, such as the Guggenheim Museum, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Gap Inc (Old Navy, Gap), Hoosier Lotto, Saturn GM, Kroger Super Markets, Indianapolis Arts Council, Full Circle, Happi Brands, Urban Outfitters, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Michael Mercil, Susan Stewart and Linda Adele Goodine.Peterson\'s work has been featured in numerous national and international magazines, books and exhibitions including venues such as, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Elizabeth Gallery in London, Art-Basel; Miami, Sean Christopher Gallery; Ohio, Agora; New York, Kuhn Fine Arts Center, Jacksson Contemporary Art, Williams Art Galleries at Indiana Wesleyan University, and more recently at the Union University art Museum.A passionate educator and education activist, Peterson has taught design and fine art to numerous students at universities including, Herron School of Art and Design, Ohio Dominican University, The Ohio State University and Indiana Wesleyan University where he currently serves as an associate professor and coordinator of the Visual Communication Design program. Peterson holds a BFA from Herron School of Art and Design where he studied Photography and Visual Communication Design, an MFA emphasizing in interdisciplinary research, focusing on Visual Design and Education from The Ohio State University, and is currently working on a doctorate in design at the college of design at North Carolina State University.