School of Art Events

Visiting Lecturer - Painting + Drawing

Monday, 23 November 2009, 6pm - room 003, Art Building
Rhett D'Costa was born in Bombay, India, and is a Lecturer in Painting at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has exhibited in Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is also writing a PhD dissertation on the relationship between abstract painting in the West and Indian material culture.

Saturday, 21 November - Sunday, 29 November 2009
Opening reception: Friday, 20 November, 6-9pm
Sandpoint Gallery, Magnuson Park
A show of work by eighteen senior-year undergraduate students in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts (IVA) Program.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 10:30am
south end of Memorial Way, UW/Seattle
A new memorial to the UW alumni who are Medal of Honor recipients will be dedicated on Veterans Day. Associated events include a parade and ROTC open house. One of the designers of the memorial is Mike Magrath (MFA, 2004), and an article about the memorial was published in University Week this summer.

Saturday, 21 November 2009, 9:30am-5pm
Kane Hall, room 120
A free event focusing on indigenous peoples and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Art History Professor Robin Wright has organized the event. Kate Duncan (PhD, 1982) and two current PhD students--Jayme Yahr and Nadia Jackinsky--are among the day's speakers. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Friday, 06 November - Sunday, 29 November 2009
Opening reception: 05 November, 5-8pm
Traver Gallery, Seattle
3D4M Assistant Professor Mark Zirpel shows his work at this local gallery that features glass artists.

Tuesday, 03 November - Saturday, 12 December 2009
Artist reception: Thursday, 05 November, 6-8pm
SPENW reception: Saturday, 07 November, 6-8pm
Benham Gallery, Seattle
Professor Paul Berger, Associate Professor Rebecca Cummins, Associate Professor Ellen Garvens, and Instructional Technician Michael Van Horn share a group exhibit highlighting the work of faculty and staff in the Photography Program.

All work must be delivered to the Jacob Lawrence Gallery on Tuesday, November 3rd between 10:00 am? 4:00 pm for consideration by the jury.

* 2d work is limited to 36" x 36" maximum.
* 3d work is limited to 12" x 12" x 12" maximum.
* Each artist is limited to 2 submissions.
* Open to all currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students in the UW School of Art

Show will be juried by Sylvia Wolf, Director of the Henry Art Gallery.
Work not selected for exhibition must be picked up from the Jacob Lawrence Gallery on Thursday, November 5th between 10:30pm? 4:00pm.The JLG is not responsible for unclaimed work.

Fall 2009 - Allen Library
The exhibit, which was originally sponsored by the University District Museum Without Walls, a project of the University District Arts & Heritage Committee, was created by UW design students and as of Sept. 5 became the property of the UW Office of Regional Affairs. Open to Question won an Award of Excellence from the University and College Designers Association, which honors the best works created either for or by educational institutions.
The exhibit consists mainly of photographs from the 1960s and 70s, along with some ephemera, such as posters, flyers and covers from an underground newspaper of the time, the Helix. The materials were compiled by Julia Swan, public relations coordinator at the Burke Museum, as part of her thesis project for the Museology Program. The student designers who created the exhibit were supervised by Assistant Professor of Art Kristine Matthews.
Article taken from University Week
Additional information can be found at Open to Question and University Week

Thursday 5 November, 6pm - room 003, Art Building
Partners: Ricky Castro, Jim Catel, Andi Rusu
IF/THEN is a Seattle based interactive design and development studio that uses a multidisciplinary approach to deliver smart solutions to complex problems. In our work, we seek solutions that are human-focused, honest, and sometimes unexpected.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 3pm - room 236, Art Building
"2x4 is a collaborative group of creative directors, writers, and designers founded in 1994 by partners Michael Rock, Susan Sellers, and Georgianna Stout. With cutting-edge projects in virtually all graphic media-print, web, motion graphics, and environmental design, 2x4's trademark approach heavily emphasizes critical thinking and research. Known for intellectual content and explorations of rhetorical meaning, many of 2x4's projects question the nature of design and are as much about the thinking process behind each work as the finished product. This ideology, based on an almost algorithmic approach, is the foundation for 2x4's pioneering model for design, one that makes process the product." Source: SF MoMA
The work of 2x4 was been featured in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and he Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2006 2x4 was awarded the National Design Award for Communications. Additionally, 2x4 has been featured in numerous publications including Time Magazine, Eye and Idea Magazine and is one of the design studios featured in the Apple Profiles.