10/09/2026
Join us on October 15th!
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents the School of Art-Cynthia Woods Mitchell Lecture Series with Marta Bernstein.
DETAILS:
University of Houston School of Art
Dudley Recital Hall
Reception: 5:30 PM
Lecture: 6:30 PM
UH GAP Scholarship Announcements to follow
Marta Bernstein is a designer, researcher, educator, and co-founder of the Italian digital type foundry CAST. Originally from Milan, her work is guided by a deep passion for type and typography, the common threads of all her projects. She has a soft spot for 19th century type, which she has researched for over a decade. Marta is part of the Nebiolo History Project, a collective studying Italy’s most influential type foundry. She holds a MDes in type design from KABK, Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. She has taught at USC Roski, Politecnico di Milano, University of Navarra, and Tongji University. Her talks include Typographics, ATypI, the Letterform Archive, and the Cooper Union. She is Creative Director at Studio Matthews, a woman-owned, women-led design firm based in Seattle.