department of art – apsu

Mark DeYoung comes to APSU with more than 20 years of graphic design experience in the professional and higher education arenas. He presently owns his own company, L 10 Communication, founded in 2009 in Grand Rapids, Mich. This year, he was a visiting lecturer at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and has lectured at several universities in The Netherlands, Belgium and Michigan. From 1999-2005, he was a design instructor at Alfa College in Groningen, The Netherlands. While there, he wrote three course textbooks in Dutch and developed all accompanying course materials. The textbooks are still in use at the campus. Fluent in Dutch and Flemish, DeYoung has a Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from Michigan State University in East Lansing and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.