
Ilana Harris-Babou: Long Con
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to present recent video work by Ilana Harris-Babou. The exhibition is on view November 19, 2020 – January 16, 2021. NOTE: the exhibition is currently only open to School students, faculty, and staff.

Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance
A November 20 event launched a project website featuring research by Assistant Professors Audrey Desjardins (Interaction Design), Afroditi Psarra (DXARTS), and Bonnie Whiting (Percussion Studies). Discussion was moderated by Emily Zimmerman. Video is available.

Notes on the Unseen: 2nd Year MFA Exhibition
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to present artwork by nine graduate students. The exhibition will be on view from October 28 through November 14, 2020. Individual, no-contact viewing appointments are available.

Director's Notes
It was a summer like no other. A reduced schedule of classes was all taught online and most staff worked remotely. Only a handful of faculty, staff, and graduate students were to be found in our buildings…

Alumni News – October 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of October 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Alumni News – September 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of September 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Visiting the Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Beginning on September 30, 2020, visitors may again view exhibitions at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. There are a few steps to follow in order to take advantage of this opportunity during the gallery's normal hours.

Sang-gyeun Ahn | Flint Jamison | Michael Swaine
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition that features work by three School faculty members. The exhibition runs from September 30 through October 17, 2020, and the gallery is reopening for individual, no-contact viewing.

BES begins new residency at Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Beginning this autumn, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington welcome The Black Embodiments Studio (BES) as a resident program for the next two academic years.

Alumni News – August 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of August 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Sean Sullivan: Dare to Judge
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery hosts the inaugural curatorial residency for a UW BIPOC graduate student. Curator Stefan Leandro Gonzales has created an exhibition that examines connections between queer experience and domestic space. Dates are September 4–26, 2020.

Lux Aeterna
This year-long online research platform and exhibition traces and troubles the currents of technical migration and image circulation. It is curated by Jacob Lawrence Gallery Director + Curator Emily Zimmerman and produced in partnership with Northwest Film Forum.

Women Get Out the Vote
Visual Communication Design Professors Karen Cheng and Annabelle Gould were among a group of women designers invited by AIGA to create Get Out the Vote posters to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

Strange Coupling
Strange Coupling has been a student-run tradition in the School's Division of Art since 2002. For the first time, this year's exhibition has a theme — Memory — and the exhibition is online. It launches August 21, and there is an online reception.

Alumni News – July 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of July 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

2020 Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair
While there is no Seattle Art Fair this year, a number of galleries from Seattle and beyond have banded together to create the SDAF during August. At least 20 galleries are showing work by alums, staff, and/or faculty.

Director's Notes
Each quarter of the academic year serves as a framework with a familiar pattern to those of us fortunate enough to study and work here. We are beholden to this particular rhythm, which provides structure…

Alumni News – June 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of June 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

2020 Graduation Exhibitions
Each year the School proudly celebrates graduating Art and Design students — both undergraduate and graduate — with a series of exhibitions at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery. This year they are all online.

IVA Open House
The students in several spring quarter Interdisciplinary Visual Art classes are sharing their work with you through a virtual open house. IVA is the largest concentration in our BA in Art major, and the students work in a variety of media.

Alumni News – May 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of May 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Photo/Media Open House
While Photo/Media faculty and students are not able to welcome you to the Art Building for an Open House on May 14 as originally planned, we are featuring Photo/Media work on Instagram and in online galleries.

Alumni News – April 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of April 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Alumni News – March 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of March 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

JLG Vimeo Channel
During the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery has created a Vimeo channel to continue to create meaningful connections between artists and audiences.

Alumni News – February 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of February 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

2020 MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition
We are planning an enhanced showcase website to highlight the work of our graduating graduate students since in-gallery exhibitions are not possible during spring quarter due to COVID-19.

As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes
An exhibition in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and at Non-Breaking Space. It is curated by Jerome Harris and is an incomplete historical survey of work created by African-American graphic designers over the last century.

Expanded Internet Art – Book Release with Ceci Moss
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to host the February 27 Seattle book release for Ceci Moss’ Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First-Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu.

3D4M Open House
Join us on February 25 from 6–9pm for an exploration of the facilities used by our 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture Program. Talk with faculty, staff, and students plus watch people work in the glass hot shop.

Director's Notes
As 2019 rolled to a close and ushered in a new decade, the waning weeks of December were filled with joy, not only for completing another energizing quarter of teaching and learning but also for a number of newsworthy announcements, events, and…

Alumni News – January 2020
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of January 2020. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Marisa Williamson: Angel of History
An exhibition in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery that features newly commissioned artwork by Marisa Williamson, the 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident. It opens on January 28 and runs through February 28.

Alumni News – December 2019
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of December 2019. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Alumni News – November 2019
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of November 2019. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

2020 Critical Issues Lecture Series
This 2020 lecture series begins on January 9 and ends on March 12. All lectures are hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. They are free and open to the public.

2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, the gallery of the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design, is delighted to announce that Marisa Williamson will be its 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident.

Empathy
Eight students have work on display in the lower lobby of Meany Center for the Performing Arts until mid-June. The exhibition was co-curated by students Elizabeth Calvillo and Raziah Ahmad through their work with the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering
An exhibition in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery presented by MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. It opens on November 15 and closes with a reception on the evening of November 22. NOTE: exhibition extended through Wednesday, November 27.

Director's Notes
It is a beautiful, sunny afternoon with the irrefutable signs of autumn accompanying the recent return of students and faculty to campus. The meetings and gatherings in preparation for the new academic year…

Irreducible Forms
An exhibition in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery that features artwork by eight second-year Master of Fine Arts students. It opens with an evening reception on October 23 and runs through November 9.

Alumni News – October 2019
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of October 2019. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Yin + Tropical Lab 13
Shuo Yin, a Painting + Drawing MFA student, attended this residency in Singapore during the summer. He has an exhibition of work created during and inspired by that experience opening on November 7.

Alumni News – September 2019
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of September 2019. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Faculty Lectures
During autumn quarter, six faculty members will each give presentations as part of the promotion process. They begin on September 26 and end on October 30. All three divisions are represented.

Alumni News – August 2019
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of August 2019. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Composite Gestures
This exhibition in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery highlights work by three Division of Design faculty members: Jason Germany, Annabelle Gould, and Axel Roesler. It opens on September 25 and runs through October 12.

2019 SDF Block Party
The Seattle Design Festival Block Party took place on August 24 and 25. Numerous installations in Lake Union Park addressed issues related to BALANCE, this year's festival theme. At least three of these involved School-affiliated people.

Alumni News – July 2019
This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of July 2019. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity
This Jacob Lawrence Gallery exhibition features the work of James Coupe, an Associate Professor at the UW's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). It opens on July 31 and runs through August 24.