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April 24, 2014
Henry Art Gallery
24 May 2014 – 22 June 2014
The exhibition for graduating Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design students. The graduating students are John Blalock, Hesheng Chen, Rebecca Chernow, Jonathan Cook, Kathryn D’Elia, Joe Freeman, David Gress, Jonathan Happ, Andrew Hoeppner, Abraham Murley, Haeree Park, Hannah Patterson, Sandy Pawson, Jason Petz, Bradley Trinnaman, and Xinchen Xie.
This year’s...
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April 12, 2014
Room 130, Kane Hall
Thursday, 12 June 2014, 7-9pm
tickets required; see below
All UW Art, Art History, and Design students graduating in Autumn 2013, Winter 2014, Spring 2014 and Summer 2014 are invited to attend the 2014 School of Art Graduation Celebration.
SoA Graduation Celebration information is mailed and emailed to graduating students in mid-April. Students must register before...
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April 4, 2014
The 3D4M: ceramics-glass-sculpture Program is hiring a full-time instructional technician. This position will provide primary support to the sculpture studios including wood shop, metal fabrication, forging, mold making, and casting areas. It is the responsibility of the technician to supervise, maintain, and oversee these studio facilities and to ensure the safe and coordinated operations in full support of research and instruction within this department. Our technicians are an invaluable...
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March 9, 2014
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery once again host a series of exhibitions featuring work by Division of Art and Division of Design students who are graduating. Below is a summary of this year’s shows.
09 April – 18 April
Photomedia BFA
Opening: Tuesday, 08 April, 4-7pm
Photomedia Reception: Saturday, 12...
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February 12, 2014
During July and August 2013, we sent a survey to the more than 6,000 people on our mailing lists. We received over 1,100 responses, which is quite good for an electronic survey. Thank you to everyone who took part!
While we have already learned a lot from the survey results, there is still more we can discover as staff time allows for digging deeper into the responses. Here is a simple summary of selected results and some of our thoughts about them.
—More than 75% identified themselves as...
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February 11, 2014
Consciously embracing change is how we evolve. Change is inevitable at the School of Art, and it is a given at the University. It is important that we keep current but to always acknowledge our history and our past accomplishments. Therefore, I would like to inform you regarding...
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February 11, 2014
The SoA participates in several social media outlets: Facebook, Twitter, and Vimeo. Accounts are not required to view what we post, but, if you do use social media, be sure to include us.
There are three primary SoA social media outlets. We post similar material to the Facebook and Twitter feeds, which is a mix of event information; news from current faculty, staff, students, and alumni; and the occasional tidbit from the local or national arts scene. We are relatively new to Vimeo. Right now...
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February 10, 2014
Twice a year the University of Washington gives Royalty Research Fund (RRF) awards to faculty who have applied for project support. This program has existed since 1992, and an RRF Scholar option was added in 1994. RRF Scholars receive release time from teaching for one academic quarter in order to focus on their project. The RRF receives income from royalty and license fees generated through the UW’s technology transfer program. It is a competitive process to win an RRF award; the average...
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February 9, 2014
Once again, several Division of Art faculty (and one graduate student) have shown or will show their work beyond western Washington State.
Painting + Drawing Professor David Brody had a solo show titled Sex, Death, and Geometry: A Thirty-Year Retrospective at Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA. The exhibition was from 07 November 2013 through 08 December 2013.
Photomedia Associate Professor Rebecca Cummins will be...
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February 9, 2014
Four faculty members have or will soon make career transitions. For non-faculty, the term might be retirement, but for most faculty it means leaving teaching to focus on other professional activities.
Patricia Failing (Art History) officially stepped down from her teaching position in December 2012, although she is continuing to serve on thesis and dissertation committees. She started as a visiting lecturer at the UW in 1982 and became tenure-track faculty in 1989. Failing has...
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