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Meredith Davis
Meredith Davis is professor and chair of the Graphic Design Department in the College of Design at NC State University. Prior to coming to NC State in 1989, she taught and was director of the graduate program at Virginia Commonwealth University for thirteen years.
From 1979 to 1989 Meredith was president of Communication Design, a Richmond, Virginia graphic design office with clients that included the United Nations/Government of Tanzania, Best Products, Reynolds Metals, Ethyl Corporation, National Building Museum, US Information Agency, Twentieth Century Fund and other corporate and cultural clients. Her work has received more than 50 international and national awards and has been exhibited here and abroad. Work has been published by Graphis, Print, ID Magazine, Type DirectorÕs Club, Art Direction, Creativity and others.
Meredith has served as a member of the AIGA national board of directors, member of the board of directors of two AIGA chapters, founding president of the Graphic Design Education Association, president of the American Center for Design, and a member of the accreditation commission of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. For AIGA she has chaired the drafting and adoption of new standards for the accreditation of college-level graphic design programs and served as a program reviewer; published four white papers on design education for AIGA and NASAD.
Meredith is a frequent author on design and design education. She authored ÒDesign as a Catalyst for LearningÓ for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; the book won the 2000 Choice Award from the Association for College and Research Libraries.
In the area of K-12 education, Meredith has served as an educational advisor for the national Endowment for the Arts, on the Goals 2000 Arts partnership with the US Department of Education, and on the development team for the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts.
She holds an MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a MED in art education from Pennsylvania State University.