Danielle Aubert’s work examines materials, methods of production, machines and labor as they relate to graphic design and printing. She is the author of The Detroit Printing Co-op: The Politics of the Joy of Printing (2019: Inventory Press), Marking the Dispossessed (2015: Passenger Books), and 16 Months Worth of Drawings in Microsoft Excel (2006: Various Projects). She is co-author, with Lana Cavar and Natasha Chandani, of Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies (2012: Metropolis Books). She was a Fellow in the Creative and Performing Art at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and a Kresge Arts Award recipient. She has curated or co-curated exhibitions at MoMA PS1 and the Cranbrook Museum of Art; exhibited, presented work, and led workshops internationally, including at the Walker Art Center, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Michigan State University, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyons, Concordia University, and Werkplaats Typografie, among other places. She served as president of the union of faculty and academic staff at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan, where she taught for many years before moving to the University of Chicago. She currently serves as the national Secretary-Treasurer of the AAUP, the American Association of University Professors. Aubert holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Virginia and an MFA in graphic design from Yale University.
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Danielle Aubert
