Assistant Professor
Graphic Design, Foundations

Office: 1114 Alexander Calder Fine Arts Center
Phone: (616) 331-3088
Email: [email protected]

Personal Website

Shalom Yabilsu is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design & Foundation. As a Nigerian multidisciplinary designer, researcher, and educator whose scholarship and creative work focus on how design can serve as a catalyst for social justice and change, she believes that effective design is rooted in purpose and can be used to generate equitable and sustainable solutions for people, communities, and the world.

Shalom is passionate about exploring the speculative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative intersection of design with pedagogy, community, public health, emergency, and African history.

She has exhibited and presented her work at notable exhibitions and conferences nationally and internationally.

• MDes, Communication Design, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 2024
• PgDip, Education, National Teachers' Institute, Nigeria, 2022
• PgDip, Marketing, Veritas University, FCT, Nigeria, 2019
• BA, Fine Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, 2014

• ART 150: 2D Design and Color
• ART 209: Graphic Design Basics
• ART 210: Graphic Design I

• Design for Social Justice and Change
• Design Pedagogy
• Design and Public Health
• Design and Emergency
• Design and Community
• Design Histories