Interior Design Senior, Ava Moore, and Interior Design 2022 Graduate, Olivia Aasheim, recently received awards from the Oklahoma Interior Design Coalition’s (OIDC).
The OIDC is a legislative advocate organization dedicated to promoting, protecting, and enhancing the Interior Design profession in the State of Oklahoma. They recently held their annual Award Ceremony, which includes a student competition.
Olivia Aasheim received Best in Student Competition for her submission with Kasa de Koko, Como una Bomba, The Sandy Spur. Ava Moore received an Honorable Mention in the Student Competition for her submission with NEXT New York Office.
Olivia, who submitted her work as a student and graduated from the Gibbs College Interior Design program in May 2022, now currently works in Dallas for the Interior Design firm Page Southerland Page.
Telesis, a journal produced by students in the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, has earned first place in the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals for its seventh volume, “Unfold.” This marks the fourth time the publication has earned recognition for excellence in student architectural journalism. It shares the honor with student journals from Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Cal Poly.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
