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CHEN LUO                

Chen Luo is a graphic designer and educator based in Maryland. In 2026, she will join Howard University as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design. She has previously taught at MICA, the SMFA at Tufts University, Boston University, and UMass. Chen maintains an independent design practice, collaborating primarily with artists, galleries, and cultural institutions. She is also the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice that bridges linguistic and cultural barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work reconfigures reading and writing gestures as bodily acts, transforming static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing can engage diverse readerships and foster communal experiences. Her work has been recognized by Communication Arts, NewOne Awards, Design 360°, Boston Art Review, and The Young Ones TDC, and exhibited in Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States.
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Mural Design
2022

A mural wall designed for GrubStreet—a creative writing center. With this mural, we recognize the people and organizations who helped us construct and launch this new home, GrubStreet’s Center for Creative Writing. Between 2018 and 2021, over 400 individuals and organizations contributed gifts ranging from $5 to $2.5 million. We have included the name of every supporter in alphabetical groupings by first name. The design of the piece is meant to evoke various tools and methods writers and storytellers use to support their creative process. Look closely at the shapes within the piece — you might see sticky notes and books, sheets of notebook paper and a stage for storytelling, overturned journals and open laptops The graphic design — seemingly pixelated — also reflects the digital side of writing. Each vibrant color in the piece is also reflected somewhere else within the center itself, tying the mural to the physical space and reinforcing the connection between GrubStreet’s home and the community who helped make it possible.
Late update in 2025