Director of Visual Arts & Associate Professor of Graphic Design
M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Iowa State University
Thesis: Enhancing patient experience through environmental design in healthcare: A case study of privacy at Thielen Student Health Center and McFarland Clinic in Ames, Iowa
B.A. in Graphic Design & Minor in Media Communications from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
In addition to teaching, Brytton is a freelance graphic designer and was a member of DEMO Project, an artist-run contemporary and alternative project gallery formerly located in Springfield, IL. She is VP of the Creative Reuse Marketplace, a non-profit community donation center & marketplace focused on community development through job training, education & creative reuse.
Her research practice is centered on the intersection of commercial and fine art practices, as well as the contrast of traditional historical production and current digital trends. Her work explores the presentation of self in the current society of constant communication and the self as an edited presentation in that context, including how the self is projected, edited, and misconstrued through digital communication. It combines traditional digital graphic design, letterpress, CHI automation, and darkroom & digital photography.
Her goals in the classroom are teaching how design can solve problems, tackle social justice and environmentalism while providing student's with a mix of client and theoretical problems.
Tenure Review Committee
CLASS Curriculum Committee
Art & Acquisition Committee, Co-Chair
Creative Reuse Marketplace, VP of Executive Board
UIS United Faculty Communications Committee
Library Art-in-Architecture
COURSES TAUGHT
- ART 215 Introduction to Photography
- ART 236 Introduction to Graphic Design
- ART 301 Entrance Assessment
- ART 306 Darkroom & Alternative Photography
- ART 337 Print Design
- ART 338 Web Design
- ART 339 Animation
- ART 437 Typography
- ART 480 Advanced Digital Media
- ART 481 Exit Assessment
- ART 482 ECCE: Professional Skills