Consistent with a key action item in The Bicentennial Strategic Plan for Indiana University approved in December 2014, the faculties of Fine Arts Studio (FINS) and Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design (AMID) merged their departments into the School of Art + Design (SoAD) within the College of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
As the Strategic Plan outlined, and under the direction of former President Michael McRobbie and former Provost Lauren Robel, the founding of this new School, along with programmatic developments in engineering at about the same time, marked the advent of a new focus on the Bloomington campus in the creation of a “culture of building and making.”
The School became the School of Art, Architecture + Design in 2018 with the addition of a new master’s degree in architecture. In 2019, the School was renamed in recognition of Sydney and Lois Eskenazi and their contributions to art and design education at Indiana University.
As the Sydney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, we celebrate a decade of connection and collaboration with Indiana communities that builds on over a century of creativity and innovation across art, architecture, design, and merchandising.