The School is awarding more than $200,000 in named scholarships to incoming and current students this year. The recipients and donors are recognized at an invitation-only event on October 18.

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents work by second year MFA students: Granite Calimpong, Lucy Copper, Abigail Drapkin, Jackie Granger, Baorong Liang, Sean Lockwood, Brighton McCormick, Charles Stobbs, emily charlotte taibleson, and Connor Walden.

The King County cultural funding agency announced over $1 million in project grants in mid-June. A faculty member (Tihanyi), current graduate student (Franco), and several alums are among the recipients.

Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Lecturer Claire Cowie and English Professor Maya Sonenberg brought together two classes to build artist books during spring quarter 2018.

One of my favorite sayings in Italian is fretta e furia, loosely translated as being in a somewhat frenetic hurry or rush, which is exactly what spring quarter often feels like…

The School is pleased to announce the website that documents the work of our graduating graduate students. We are proud of their accomplishments. Nine MFA, one MA, two PhD, and four MDes graduates are included.

Columns Magazine's June 2018 cover is a painting of Orin Smith by Miha Sarani, a BFA alum, current MA student, and former Starbucks employee. What's his painting's secret? Coffee.

Six graduate students and four undergraduates were recognized with individual awards during our Graduation Celebration on June 9, 2018. Four students also gave short presentations during the ceremony.

Doug Jeck, College of Arts & Sciences Associate Professor of the Arts, teaches students to think on their feet — by asking them to painstakingly create life-size human forms.

Several students, representing all three divisions of the School, are participating in this year's symposium on May 18. There are oral presentations, a poster presentation, and the Visual Arts & Design Showcase.

Beginning with this issue, we will be scaling back the production of our newsletter to a quarterly publication. While there is no shortage of interesting School-related news to share, we are also cognizant of inbox overload…

Associate Professor Kristine Matthews, her Studio Matthews, and students in DESIGN 467 have been involved in developing an exhibition to celebrate OMA&D's history. It is on view May 1 – June 13 in Allen Library North.

Nine Master of Fine Arts and four Master of Design students are participating in this graduation exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. The public reception is June 1, 7–9pm, and the exhibition runs from May 26 through June 24.

Each year we celebrate graduating Art and Design undergraduate and graduate students with a series of exhibitions in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Henry Art Gallery. Join us for one or more of these in April, May, and June.

A student-run Division of Art tradition, Strange Coupling brings together UW students and Seattle-area artists to create collaboratively. There are March events at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and a concluding exhibition later in the spring.

Collaborations and connecting coursework to professional practice is a significant aim of the Industrial Design Program. The DESIGN 445 course during autumn quarter 2017 is an example of just how powerful these collaborations can be.

MONDAY is a limited-edition journal produced by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Each issue is thematically driven, highlighting artists’ writings alongside other diverse perspectives on a particular topic. Volume 1 focuses on materiality and transformation.

This event for graduating students takes place on Saturday, June 9, before the University's commencement ceremony. Tickets are required for attending students and guests.

This event on Jan 4 allows Master of Design students to share their in-progress theses projects. Attendees are encouraged to give feedback to students in an informal setting.

Two print exhibitions are on view at Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington, through Jan 7. Among the artists in these exhibitions are several with School ties.

Caitlyn Wilson, a second year MFA student, attended Tropical Lab 11 in Singapore this summer. She has an exhibition of work inspired by that experience with a reception on Nov 13.

An annual event in which Design students give Pecha Kucha style presentations about their experiences over the summer. This year, it took place on Nov 2 with an overflow audience.

Graduate students in the Division of Art History are often busy with projects outside the classroom. Here are a few examples from 2017.

New graduate students started classes and were welcomed to the School in an evening event on September 27. We attract outstanding students with competitive financial packages built from a number of sources.

Thirteen students have work on display in the lower lobby of Meany Center on campus through May 2018. Be sure to view the exhibition the next time you attend a performance.

A number of named scholarships support more than thirty students this academic year. The recipients and donors are recognized at an invitation-only event on October 12.

An exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery featuring recent work by artists beginning their second year in the MFA program. Opens September 27 at 6pm and runs through November 4.

This past year, students in the Interaction Design (IxD) Program have explored the new possibilities of holographic interactions with a number of projects using the Microsoft HoloLens.

A painting titled Juan Jose by Arely Morales was chosen for the 2017 prize. The location in the HUB is being selected, so look for it during autumn quarter.

It is the third year for this survey exhibition of contemporary Northwest art, which opens at the same time as Seattle Art Fair in early August and then runs every weekend through the end of the month.

Many of our undergraduates do interesting and amazing things. Here are just a few examples of students and recent graduates furthering their education and experience in different ways.

The UW Simpson Center for the Humanities recently announced its Spring 2017 Awards to support work during the 2017-2018 academic year. Three people from the School are involved in these projects.

Five graduate students from the Division of Art History completed their degrees during the 2016-2017 academic year: Beetem, Budnick, Giffin, May, and Mayer.

Erin Giffin, who completed her PhD this month, was chosen by the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences as the Graduate Medalist in the Arts. The medalists are selected from faculty nominations.

Ten students were recognized with awards at our Graduation Celebration on June 10. One of the students, Erin Giffin, also was the recipient of the Arts & Sciences 2017 Dean's Graduate Medal in the Arts.

A dozen students, representing all three divisions of the School, participated in this year's symposium on May 19. There were oral presentations, a poster presentation, and the Visual Arts & Design Showcase.

What a night! The School hosted its first Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award event on April 29. We honored 2017 award winner Beth Sellars, heard from alum Jenny Sabin, and raised over $62,000 for graduate student support.

Nineteen Industrial Design juniors and seniors traveled to Portland in late April to participate in the IDSA West District Design Conference. They were accompanied by Assistant Professor Jason Germany who is also the IDSA UW student chapter advisor.

Fourteen Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design students are participating in this graduation show at the Henry Art Gallery. The public opening reception is June 2, 7–8:30pm, and the exhibition continues through June 25.

One unforeseen benefit arising from this particularly moist and chilly winter quarter was the delay of the annual burst of the Yoshino cherry blossoms in the Quad. There was a certain sense of relief and joy in the air as students...

In 2014, the Division of Design began hosting the Design Career Fair in response to growing demand from employers who increasingly wanted to invest in designers and design thinking to drive innovation in their organizations.

The 2017 Renaissance Society of America conference had an unusually high participation by people with ties to the School. We count four faculty, three graduate students, and three alums. Were there more?

A student-run Division of Art tradition for over a decade, Strange Coupling bridges the gap between the UW and the greater Seattle art community by pairing students with professional artists for a collaborative project.

Each year we celebrate graduating Art and Design undergraduate and graduate students with a series of exhibitions in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Henry Art Gallery. Join us for one or more of these events.

March Madness means something different in the clay world because that is when the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts holds its annual conference with attendance in the thousands. This year it is in nearby Portland.

Arts Wire was the 1989 idea of Anne Focke. She and five interns inventoried early records while also doing an Instagram takeover, exhibit, and podcast series launch in February; a second exhibit in June; and concluding essays in July.

This event for graduating students takes place on Saturday, June 10, before the University's commencement ceremony. Tickets are required for attending students and guests.

When Allan and Mary Kollar met as teachers at Bothell High School in the 1970s, Allan taught art and Mary taught English. They knew little about each other’s fields, but over time they discovered intriguing connections between the two disciplines.

A generous friend of the School has just pledged to match all donations up to $100,000 to support recruitment of excellent graduate students in Art, Art History, and Design, but only until December 27.