Alumni

College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Alumni

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Welcome, DAAP Alumni

The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) Alumni Network offers meaningful ways to stay engaged with your college, reconnect with professors and classmates, and remain part of the broader UC Alumni Association community. With more than 22,500 DAAP alumni shaping industries locally and around the world, our network is filled with inventive thinkers and bold creators. We invite you to continue sharing your story, participating in alumni experiences, and strengthening the creative community that makes DAAP extraordinary.

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DAAP Alumni Council

The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Alumni Council is an advisory volunteer group that supports the UC Alumni Association and the College. Council members serve as thought partners, engagement ambassadors, and advocates for DAAP alumni initiatives. Members contribute through a variety of opportunities—including, but not limited to, DAAPX and DAAPmade—and help shape, promote, and support programs and activities that strengthen lifelong connections between alumni and the college. 

2025-26 DAAP Alumni Council Members

  • Patti C. Weller Bresler, BSDE ’94
  • Joell Angel-Chumbley, SEGD, MFA ’00
  • Christopher S. Graham, AIA, BARC ’01
  • Peter W. Huster, BSDE ’94
  • Dominic Iacobucci, BS ’04 , MARC '06
  • Brooke L. Rapp, BUP ’17 


DAAP Alumni Events


DAAP Alumni News

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Construction Management alumnus dreamed of being an entrepreneur

January 14, 2026

Chuck Hall has had an entrepreneurial spirit since he was young. He started his first business venture as a teen with his brother and today he owns several successful businesses. He earned a degree in Construction Management from the University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering and Applied Science in 1990 and was honored by the UC Alumni Association with the 2025 Engineering Technology Award of Distinction.

2

 Painting her path: Award winning artist Alexandra Franz

January 14, 2026

From gallery exhibitions to flower-studded and figure filled paintings, University of Cincinnati alumnus Alexandra Franz is forging an artistic path shaped by cross-disciplinary curiosity, community connection and a deep commitment to creative growth.

3

Student entrepreneurship: Taking ideas to market

January 14, 2026

Through UC’s ADAAPT Innovation Studio, DAAP students moved ideas off the page and into the marketplace during a December 2025 holiday pop-up shop, gaining hands-on experience with product development, pricing, marketing and sales while learning what it takes to launch a business.


Support the Next Generation of Creatives

DAAP is committed to shaping a more thoughtful, inspired, and innovative visual and design environment. Through exceptional academic programs, research, creative work, and community partnerships, our faculty, students, and staff work together to advance this mission. Alumni support helps empower future designers, artists, architects, and planners as they create meaningful work and drive the creative fields forward.


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This network is open to all University of Cincinnati alumni, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other class or status protected by applicable law.

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Marie Morgan, A&S '21

Program Director, Alumni Engagement, College-Conservatory of Music & College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

513-558-4428