Intended Audience
Lori Rubeling’s creative interest centers around how spatiality can be represented in drawings, in aesthetic concepts, and in material form. Since 1981, she has studied and produced spatial art and design in theatre arts, theoretical architecture, interior architecture, and sculpture contexts. She has also produced a 200-volume sketchbook library.
Her current practice-led research asks the question:
How can encounters with and observational drawing(s) of historic material artifacts inform the comprehension and valuing of the histories of design?
Rubeling is also actively involved in curation of art and design and human-impact design practices. Her leadership in this area includes a two-year Gallery@ Case[werks] curator residency, as program committee member for the Society for History and Graphics, and as co-curator for D Center Baltimore’s monthly impact design conversations.
Rubeling’s undergraduate education includes the study of fine art and theatre at Towson University; interior architecture studies at MICA; and the completion of a BFA Studio Art degree from the Corcoran School of Art. Her graduate studies include studying theoretical architecture w/ Daniel Libeskind at Cranbrook Academy of art. She holds a Masters of Arts in the Liberal Arts degree from St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD. She was a member of Daniel Libeskind’s Cranbrook Academy of Art architectural studio that won a Stone Lion Prize at the 1985 Venice Architectural Biennale for the Three Machines Palminova Project. She has also received sculptural works commissions from the City of Detroit and from Baltimore’s Artscape. Rubeling exhibits nationally and internationally: In 2013, she was a visiting artist and lecturer at Art•Sun’s 25th anniversary exhibition in Kurashiki, Japan. She has been awarded four Stevenson University scholarship research grants; been a visiting artist and designer for Washington, DC’s Art Barn summer programming, Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum and Artscape, and the Northeast Regional Honors Council. Her human-centered teaching practice has been recognized by the President of Stevenson University, the Mayor of Baltimore, and the US Department of Commerce.
Rubeling currently teaches in the Graphic Design Department, in the School of Design at Stevenson University. Subjects taught at Stevenson include foundation art and design studios, rapid visualizing drawing scenarios, visual design theory, history of design, aesthetics, theatre collaboration, and exhibition design. She also teaches drawing systems at Morgan State University in the graduate architecture program. Her previous teaching positions include MICA, CCS College of Art and Design, and Mt. Saint Mary’s University. This residency and related events are co-sponsored by the Lecture and Fine Arts Committee, and the Environmental Studies Program and the Department of Art and Art History.