Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi is part of a collaboration, Axiomatic, with mathematician Jayadev Athreya. She exhibited work from this project during 9e2 and now has a show at Linda Hodges Gallery.

Eleven faculty from the Division of Art have work on display in the UW President's suite, Gerberding Hall. These works celebrate and honor the research mission that defines the University.

A new website about an Amie McNeel and Mark Zirpel project debuted at the end of November 2016. The College of Arts & Sciences chose this subject to represent the entire College in the University's Be Boundless campaign.

Photomedia Assistant Professor Aaron Flint Jamison and alum Matt Browning (BFA 2007) have been selected for the prestigious Whitney Biennial, which takes place in New York City from March 17 to June 11, 2017.

This exhibition is a wide-ranging selection of paintings by artists in the Greater Seattle area that will be on view at V2 from Nov 28 – Dec 17. Twenty-two of the artists have School connections.

A recent event hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences celebrated the completion of the School's glass facilities and the many people whose efforts and gifts made it all possible.

"To be a great innovator, you have to do things — bring people together, explore ideas, and experiment with different forms of realization," writes Axel Roesler, Associate Professor of Interaction Design.

The UW campus in Seattle is beautiful, but finding one’s way across it has often proved confusing. Now, thanks to 23 guide signs installed at the beginning of autumn quarter 2016, that situation is greatly improved.

Professor Denzil Hurley is one of the 2016 MoNA Luminaries. Several School alumni, including three Professors Emeriti, were involved in these awards from the Museum of Northwest Art.

A series of 2016–2017 exhibitions hosted by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Faculty work, student projects, and art by Jacob Lawrence are featured in separate shows. Several events accompany each exhibition.

9e2 takes place October 21 to 29 at King Street Station and other venues. Installations include work by Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi and two other alums. Another alum is involved in one of the performances.

The School invites applications for two full-time, tenure-track positions to begin in September 2017. One is in the Division of Art History (American Art), and the other is in the Division of Art (Interdisciplinary Visual Arts).

The Museum of Northwest Art hosts this exhibition from October 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017. Associate Professor Mark Zirpel, full-time Lecturer Claire Cowie, several former professors, and a number of alumni are included.

6pm on Thursday, September 29:  "The Enkolpion: Object and Self in Medieval Byzantium." Free and open to the public, but please RSVP.

Although most schools, colleges, and universities have already welcomed students to the new academic year, the UW maintains the tradition of offering classes within a quarter system resulting in a late September start of autumn quarter.

Welcome to the new website for the School of Art + Art History + Design. The creation of this site involved more than a dozen people and took over a year to complete.

Pottery Northwest, a Seattle institution both literally and figuratively, was founded in 1966. As part of celebrating their 50th anniversary, they are posting weekly interviews with notable people in their history, including some School-related folks.

Sep 1 – Oct 29 at Prographica/KDR: This thematic exhibition, curated by Professor Emeritus Norman Lundin, includes work by Photomedia Professor Ellen Garvens as well as several alumni. Interviews with some artists are on the Prographica blog.

September 2, 2016 – February 5, 2017: One current staff member and alumnus (Andrew Fallat), a professor emeritus, and fourteen other alumni are among the artists with work in this Bellevue Arts Museum exhibition.

Seattle Art Fair returns to the CenturyLink Field Event Center for a second year after its success in 2015. It runs August 4–7. As happened last year, there are numerous concurrent shows in local galleries. Alumni and faculty will have work on exhibit.

This massive exhibition in King Street Station surveys contemporary Pacific Northwest art. It opens at the same time as Seattle Art Fair, but it will run through August. Multiple School-related people are involved or are showing work.

Summer quarter 2016 is seeing a first-time collaboration between the University of Washington Department of English and the Division of Art in the School of Art + Art History + Design. It is a six-week colloquium...

Interaction Design Professor Tad Hirsch has had an article and book chapter published recently. He also traveled to two conferences — CHI 2016 in San Jose, California, and DIS 2016 in Brisbane, Australia — to give presentations co-authored with graduating MDes students.

In January 2016, Painting + Drawing Professor Zhi Lin was awarded a RRF Scholar grant to support his project titled “In Search of Lost History in the 19th Century: Chinese American in Puget Sound.” He spent portions of spring quarter traveling to specific venues of historical riots...

One Division of Art History and four Division of Art students (plus a non-Art student mentored by one of our faculty) are participating in this year’s symposium on Friday, May 20.

The School is very pleased to announce the hiring of two tenure-track faculty who begin teaching in early 2017. We have also hired five full-time lecturers who will teach during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Through August this year, MadArt Studio is hosting 3D4M Professors Amie McNeel and Mark Zirpel, along with Sam Stubblefield, as they research and experiment with materials and forms, ultimately creating an exhibit that opens on July 24.

We count three alumni and one faculty member who have received Creative Capital Awards with the most recent being this year.

A new installation at PACCAR Hall by UW design professors tells users how much money has been saved by correctly sorting items for composting, recycling or sending to the landfill.

April is upon us, mid-terms are around the corner, and we are now well into the final quarter of the year with spring break fading in our memories. Window shades filter the welcome sunshine as I glance up to view the Quad that is abuzz with activity...

Our four newest tenure-track faculty—Jason O. Germany, Aaron Flint Jamison, Adair Rounthwaite, and Michael Swaine—have been busy with developing their courses along with activities outside the classroom.

On April 6, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 Fellowships for the United States and Canada. Painting + Drawing Professor Helen O'Toole is on the list. She and two other UW professors...

Interaction Design Professor Tad Hirsch is featured in a recently published essay on the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities website, which discusses his research on and resulting creative work about the AR-15 assault rifle.

Visiting artists Anne Walsh and Jim Melchert will join 3D4M Professor Michael Swaine for a performance on April 21 and a conversation on April 23 (joined by Art History Professor Adair Rounthwaite). Both events will take place at the Henry Art Gallery.

Art History Professor Estelle Lingo has been selected for two prestigious visiting professor positions. One is at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, and the other is at CASVA, National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC.

December is a curious month at the School of Art + Art History + Design. It begins with the insular rush of finishing the quarter, immediately followed by the holiday break that can make one forget about school for a few weeks. The energy level ramps up in anticipation of finals, students actually study in Parnassus, lights glow...

Art History Associate Professor Sonal Khullar has not rested on her laurels since completing her tenure and promotion process a year ago. If anything, her activities have increased. Read more to see a list of her accomplishments beyond teaching and learn about her second and third book projects.

Early in December 2015, links were added to Division of Design pages on the School website directing people to a new microsite documenting statistics about Design alumni. This is the culmination of a multi-year project spearheaded by Professor Karen Cheng and involving a number of students.

United States Artists, an organization based in Chicago, announced this year’s USA Fellows on November 10, 2015. Among the 37 selected from over 400 nominees was Ayumi Horie (MFA 2000). It is a huge honor to be selected as a fellow, and each fellow receives an unrestricted $50,000 award. Learn more about our previous recipients.

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.

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.

We have had arrivals, departures, and other changes in faculty and staff since the start of the calendar year...Leena Joshi joined the school in March as our Marketing + PR Specialist. This new, half-time position was created in partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences...

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...