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Autumn 2025 Newsletter

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In This Issue

Featured Stories:

  • Coast Salish Traditions are "Woven in Wool" at the Burke
  • An Indian-American Artist’s Self in Pieces (Art Review)
  • Art Faculty Research + Exhibitions – Summer/Autumn 2025
  • Three Tenure-Track Faculty Appointments
  • Art History in the Digital Age
  • Autumnal Alchemy

Student Voices Stories:

  • Incoming Graduate Students 2025-2026

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories:

  • 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident: Indira Allegra
  • Liberation Book Club 2025-26
  • Inspired Acts: A Conversation with Rob Rhee & Dineo Sheshee Bopape

Alumni Stories:

  • Kim Van Someren: Fostering Community Through Printmaking
  • Recent MFA Grads Making Their Mark
  • New digs for Traver Gallery
A woven shawl with a decorative band at the neck.

Coast Salish Traditions are "Woven in Wool" at the Burke

An exhibition at the UW's Burke Museum features historical and contemporary Coast Salish weaving and highlights its importance to Coast Salish communities.  Continue reading on UW College of Arts & Sciences News 
October 29, 2025
Sangram Majumdar, "Control" (2025), oil on canvas (all images courtesy Nathalie Karg Gallery)

An Indian-American Artist’s Self in Pieces (Art Review)

John Yau of Hyperallergic provides a nuanced review of Sangram Majumdar's works in his solo exhibition, The Sleep of Reason, at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York. The exhibition will remain on view until October 6, 2025. 

September 30, 2025
Ann Gale, Gloria Reclining, 2025. Oil on canvas, 42 x 52 in (Framed 43.50 x 53.50 in)

Art Faculty Research + Exhibitions – Summer/Autumn 2025

Highlights include solo exhibitions at major galleries, a VIA Art Fund grant, residencies, and a curated show. 

September 18, 2025
Portraits of Amanda Lee, Leila Weefur, Akshaya Tankha.

Three Tenure-Track Faculty Appointments

Amanda Lee, Leila Weefur and Akshaya Tankha have been appointed as assistant professors and will begin teaching in Autumn 2025.

September 15, 2025
Overview of a data visualization featuring a global map

Art History in the Digital Age

Last spring, Adair Rounthwaite, Professor of Art History, taught "Introduction to Digital Art History," a course in which students explored open data from art museums and cultural institutions. Check out a selection of student projects.

September 04, 2025
Rob Rhee tending to his gourds at UW Farm

Autumnal Alchemy

Rob Rhee's eerie gourds blur the lines between nature and art in his recent exhibition "Crossings."

November 07, 2025

Student Stories

Incoming Grad Students 2025-2026

Incoming Graduate Students 2025-2026

Introducing the graduate students starting the MFA, MDes, and Art History MA/PhD programs this fall.

September 23, 2025

Alumni Stories

Kim Van Someren doing a live demo

Kim Van Someren: Fostering Community Through Printmaking

Kim Van Someren (MFA 2004) is an artist, educator, and advocate whose career has been dedicated to printmaking. For nearly two decades, she has worked to sustain and grow the printmaking community in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

November 07, 2025
Kyler Pahang, Double the Distance, Just as Close. 30 x 22 inches. Oil on canvas over panel. 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

Recent MFA Grads Making Their Mark

Only months after earning their degrees, these recent MFA graduates are making expressive moves in their artistic careers.

November 04, 2025
Inside the new Traver Gallery. Photo cortesy of the UW Magazine.

New digs for Traver Gallery

Alum Sarah Traver (2002) pushes the boundaries of an art gallery that's been in her family for nearly five decades.

October 06, 2025

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories

2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident Indira Allegra

2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident: Indira Allegra

Indira Allegra will join us in January 2026 to create new work, conduct research, and connect with our community as part of their residency.

November 03, 2025
Students participating in the zine workshop in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Liberation Book Club 2025-26

This year-long program series hopes to honor the gallery’s commitment to social justice and to gather community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops.

October 01, 2025
Visitors viewing Rob Rhee's exhibition, Crossings

Inspired Acts: A Conversation with Rob Rhee & Dineo Sheshee Bopape

Rob Rhee and Dineo Seshee Bopape discuss the power of living materials, ongoing processes, and finding levels of acceptability as artists.

October 07, 2025
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