Congratulations to faculty members Curt Labitzke, Estelle Lingo, and Timea Tihanyi on their retirement. 

Curt Labitzke is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Visual Art (IVA) and has been teaching printmaking at the School since 1984. Labitzke is a painter/printmaker living in the Pacific Northwest whose work encompasses a variety of subject matter to include portraits, still life and most recently insects. The works are characterized by expressive surfaces, a variety of mark-making systems and an active use ofcolor. Bridging the gap between reference and representation, image and object, Labitzke’s work asks us to contemplate and celebrate the world we see around us.  

Estelle Lingo is a Professor in Art History and the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts. Lingo is a specialist in early modern European art with research interests that range from the sixteenth century to the present and engage questions of historical visualities, non-textual knowledge, canon formation, media specificity, periodization, gender, and the historiography of Western art history. She offered graduate and undergraduate courses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European art and taught regularly at the UW’s Rome Center. 

Timea Tihanyi is a Teaching Professor of Interdisciplinary Visual Art (IVA) and School alum. Tihanyi completed her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Ceramics at the University of Washington in 2003 and began teaching in 2004 as a part-time lecturer. She is the founder and director of Slip Rabbit, a unique mentoring space for experimentation and learning at the intersections of art, design, architecture, science and engineering. Slip Rabbit is the first technoceramics studio in the Pacific Northwest.  We want to thank the three faculty members for their service and the tremendous impact they have had on our students during their tenure at the UW School of Art + Art History + Design. Learn more on the artist's website.