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July 30, 2013
Division of Design faculty member Kristine Matthews has received an SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Designers) Global Design Merit Award for her work on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center. Matthews received the award on 08 June 2013 at the SEGD annual conference in San Francisco along with Alan Maskin of Olson Kundig Architects, who collaborated on the three year development of the 11,000 square-foot Visitor Center. Cassie Klingler (MFA 2008) works at...
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June 14, 2013
Each June, during the School of Art’s Graduation Celebration, a selection of awards are made. Here are this year’s award winners.
Dean’s Medal Nominees | Undergraduate Student
Roman Camarda | Photomedia
Dillon Gisch | Art History
Janet Hill | Painting + Drawing
Frances Tung | Industrial Design
Joanne Bailey Wilson Awards | Graduate Student
Dakota Gearhart + David Kennedy | Photomedia
Marcus Watson | Painting + Drawing
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May 17, 2013
May 25 – June 23, 2013
Henry Art Gallery
reception: Friday, 24 May, 7:00-8:45pm
Please RSVP for the reception
The culminating exhibition for Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design students. The graduating students are Jared Bender, Phillip Carpenter, Carly Cummings, Lacy Draper, Mike Fretto, Kari Gaynor, Dakota...
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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 12, 2013
Congratulations to the second-year graduate students in the Division of Design whose project was announced as the winner of this year’s Design Ignites Change IDEA Award on 08 February 2013. Known as Pivot, the project was created as a way to discretely empower victims of human trafficking. The design team included Mike Fretto, Kari Gaynor, Josh Nelson, Adriel Rollins, and Melanie Wang; they worked under the guidance of Assistant Professor Tad Hirsch.
The Pivot Project is featured in...
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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 2, 2013
Every Spring Quarter, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery become the focus for a series of exhibitions celebrating the SoA students who will soon be graduating. Below is a summary list of all those exhibitions for this year.
02 April – 12 April
Photomedia BFA
reception: Tuesday, 02 April, 4-7pm
reception: Saturday, 06 April, 2-4pm
16 April – 26 April
IVA Juried + Honors
reception: Tuesday, 16 April, 4-7pm
30 April – 10...
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February 25, 2013
The School of Art thanks its many contributors whose annual, endowment, and in kind gifts over the past year are greatly appreciated. Private support from our alumni and friends enables us to sustain our current activities. Your valuable gifts directly benefit our students, individual programs, and general operations. Follow the Giving link above to join this group of supporters.
$10,000 and above
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Crabby Beach Foundation
The New Foundation...
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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
Students are often so busy with school work and supporting themselves that they do not have time for other activities. Two current undergraduate students, one each from the Design and Art Divisions, have shown that taking the time to use their creative skills as a way to help others can be a rewarding and very worthwhile learning experience.
Kari Davidson came to the UW because of soccer. She has been a member of the UW Women’s team since she arrived as a freshman. Davidson was happy to...
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