“Design Professor Mark Mentzer, associate head of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, has been distinguished with CMU’s William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching, the university’s most prestigious teaching honor. The Ryan annually recognizes Carnegie Mellon faculty who have demonstrated unusual devotion and effectiveness in teaching.
Mentzer, a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon since the mid-1970s is also an active artist who has created at least one original drawing each day for more than 16 years and has catalogued more than 6,000 of his drawings.”
—Bruce Gerson, Carnegie Mellon Today, March 24, 2006.
Mentzer has taught, lectured and shown his work at universities in Germany, England, France, Spain, Korea and Canada.
