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November 3, 2015
Aside from teaching, faculty at the UW and in the School of Art + Art History + Design engage with their own practice through research and other activities beyond the classroom. Division of Design Professors Karen Cheng and Kristine Matthews are often active with such projects.
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October 5, 2015
As we embark on a new academic year at the School of Art + Art History + Design, I want to set the stage by outlining just who we are and where we are from. Entering my second year as director, I have been constantly impressed and inspired by the scale and scope of the school. It is an exhilarating, affirming, and at times overwhelming educational environment for our students, staff, and faculty. With some 40 full-time faculty, 25 staff, 500 undergraduate majors, and 52 graduate students, we...
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October 5, 2015
Gifts from our generous donors—individuals, foundations, and organizations—are critical to the success and morale of the school. We are deeply grateful of your support.
Gifts $1,000,000 and above
Mary & Allan Kollar
Gifts $100,000 to $999,999
Crabby Beach Foundation
Drew Hamlin
Harold Kawaguchi & Shaun Hubbard
Valentine Welman*
Gifts $25,000 to $99,999
Evelyn Bailey*
Steven & Gail Kaneko...
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October 4, 2015
We are inviting applications for three full-time, tenure-track positions. The Art History position has a preferred deadline of November 1, and the two Division of Design positions have a preferred deadline of January 11. All positions have a start date of September 2016.
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October 1, 2015
We are pleased to announce an agreement between the school and the Seattle Art Museum, wherein all current students (registered majors), faculty, and staff of the School will receive free admission to both SAM and SAAM. As part of this new arrangement, select curators have joined the School as affiliate faculty...
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September 21, 2015
One current MDes student, Catherine Lim, and two 2015 BDes graduates—Jennifer Cheng and Tyler Sinclair Monteferrante—won a 2015 Ideas that Matter grant from Sappi North America. Their project, Archivo: Toolkit of Self-Documentation, received $18,000 for further development. The awards were announced on September 17.
Archivo, which is a “Branded booklet, filing system, and document case to guide undocumented immigrants through the process of collecting and preparing applications for deferred...
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September 1, 2015
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is hosting an exhibition by Division of Design Assistant Professor Tad Hirsch from September 22 – October 17, 2015. Titled Contentious Products, the show includes two installations addressing contemporary gun culture, created with custom software written by Hirsch, as well as video documentation of multiple interventionist works from the last fifteen years; also included is an award-winning project addressing human trafficking, developed in collaboration with...
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June 3, 2015
The School is happy to announce the filling of six new faculty positions: four tenure track positions—Art History, 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture, Photomedia, Industrial Design— and two competitive lecturer positions in 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture and mHCI+D.
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June 1, 2015
The University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design will be creating a new website in partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences Department Web Framework team. Preliminary work on the new website will begin in summer 2015, and the site will likely debut in summer 2016.
The school’s Web/Media Communications Committee wants your input regarding our current and future websites. Please take this six-question survey before the end of July 2015.
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April 3, 2015
Henry Art Gallery
May 23 – June 21, 2015
free public reception: Friday, May 22, 7-9pm
The culminating exhibition for Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design students. The graduating students are Maria Rose Adams, Matthew Schau Allen, Tim Coleman, Shaghayegh Ghassemian, Katherine Groesbeck, Scott Ichikawa, Morgan Mangiaruga, Coley Mixan, Ryan Moeck, Sarah Norsworthy, Krista Schoening, Abigail R. Steinem...
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