Grant Donesky

Department Chair

GDonesky@Cornish.edu

Grant is a designer/writer/educator whose work has been exhibited internationally. His list of clients includes many of the most prominent Canadian corporations, as well as non-profit organizations. Grant has worked in the film industry and holds a certificate in Television Broadcast Production. He also earned a teaching credential at the Canadian Cooperative for Language and Cultural Studies in Toronto. Grant was conceived in India, born in Canada, and spent his restive/formative years in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Toronto, Ontario, after which he travelled widely, working in five countries. He was a charter faculty member of the Department of Design at York University in Toronto, where he was enlisted to integrate emergent media with traditional practice. He is an avid worm farmer and gardener with a particular interest in growing wine grapes, a therapeutic space from which comes many good things, some of which are immanent. He earned a BA at the University of Toronto and an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Grant comes to Cornish College of the Arts after having lived in Providence for nearly 10 years, where he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and the University of Connecticut.