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May 10, 2013
10am-8pm | Friday, May 17, 2013
Auditorium, Henry Art Gallery
Free and open to the public
The full title for this year’s Graduate Students of Art History Symposium is “The Mechanics of Beauty: A Question of Representation.” This theme springboards off a Henry Art Gallery photography exhibition, and carries it to other media...
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May 10, 2013
11am-5:45pm | Friday, May 17, 2013
Mary Gates Hall
Free and open to the public
Several School of Art students are participating in this year’s symposium, and two faculty acted as mentors to students who are presenting. Search the last name of the students listed below at the symposium’s proceedings website to read more about their projects.
Carly Cahill...
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April 25, 2013
7pm | Thursday, May 2, 2013
Burke Museum
Ashley Verplank McClelland is a PhD student in Art History. Her lecture is titled “Collecting During Conflict: Tlingit/Russian Wars and the History of St. Petersburg’s Kunstkamera Tlingit Collection.” This free lecture is sponsored by the Friends of Native Art (FONA) and the Bill Holm Center.
Tsar...
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April 6, 2013
7-9pm | Thursday, June 13, 2013
Room 130, Kane Hall
All UW Art, Art History and Design students graduating in Autumn 2012, Winter 2013, Spring 2013 and Summer 2013 are invited to attend the 2013 School of Art Graduation Celebration.
SoA Graduation Celebration information is mailed and emailed to graduating students in mid-April. Tickets are required for both students and guests. Students...
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March 26, 2013
Photomedia Associate Professor Rebecca Cummins and at least seven alumni* are among the thirty-three artists whose work was purchased by Seattle Public Utilities in late winter 2013 for their offices in Seattle Municipal Tower. Nearly 5,000 images were submitted, and forty-seven artworks with atmospheric / weather-related themes were purchased. The panel who made the selections included Suzanne Beal (MA 2008) and Robert Yoder (MFA 1987). There will be a public reception for the artists from 4-...
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February 25, 2013
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February 25, 2013
Twenty-four staff in a variety of full- and part-time positions are the people who keep the School of Art (SoA) running. Only one of those jobs—Administrative Services Coordinator—is currently vacant, but a new person will be hired shortly. Years of service in the SoA vary widely. Some staff have been here over two decades (Judith Clark has been here the longest), while others started work in the last year (Starla Patenaude is our most recent addition).
When asked what they like best about...
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February 25, 2013
Successful career paths are not always linear. Two alumni who received master’s degrees in the 1990s are excellent examples of this. One went from ceramics to being a professor in Florida to production design in Los Angeles. The other studied Renaissance art history, moved into art education then to project management at dot-coms, and, finally, to executive search work (sometimes referred to as headhunting).
Naree (Wongse-Sanit) Viner received her MA in Art History in 1994. She had been...
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February 25, 2013
Higher education is at an exciting and challenging crossroads today. We are in a period of enormous change, and the action needed is not like anything that has happened in the last thirty or forty years. With rising tuition, many legislators, parents, and students are seeking alternatives. You probably have already heard about MOOCS (massive open online courses) and Coursera (free online courses), as well as the national push for and funding of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)...
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February 2, 2013
February 9 – May 5, 2013
Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, Seattle
3D4M Professor Jamie Walker and Photomedia Instructional Technician Michael Van Horn (MFA 1987) are among the thirty-six Seattle artists that the museum commissioned to create new work responding to musical compositions based on James Joyce’s poetry book titled Chamber Music. This exhibition also documents the artists in the...
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