Featured Stories
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…
Help Us Match $300k Gift
An anonymous alum and passionate supporter of the School has offered to match up to $300,000 in gifts to the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Donations of any amount are welcome.
Faculty Searches for 2020
The School of Art + Art History + Design is excited to announce an opportunity for three faculty appointments, representing each division within the School. Application deadlines vary.
RRF Scholar Award for Swaine
3D4M Assistant Professor Michael Swaine is working on a project titled "Debugging" that received support from a UW Royalty Research Fund Scholar Award.
Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities
During summer quarter, twenty undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences worked with a teaching team of five to explore the topic of creating alternate worlds.
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.
Q+A with Cooper
We interviewed Interdisciplinary Visual Arts alum Benita Cooper to learn more about her UW experience, her life since graduation, and her non-profit that works to decrease isolation for older adults.
In Memoriam – Kenneth Pawula
Professor Emeritus Kenneth Pawula passed away in late June. He began teaching painting in the School during 1965 and continued until his retirement in 2000.
Transitions 2019
The School typically experiences at least a few staff and faculty changes each year. As autumn quarter begins, we summarize the shifts during the last September.
2019–2020 Scholarships
Due to the generosity of donors, over $225,000 in named scholarships is being awarded to incoming and current students this year. The recipients and donors are recognized at an invitation-only event on October 16.
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.
Donors: September 2018 – August 2019
Gifts from our generous donors — individuals, foundations, and organizations — are critical to the success and morale of the School. We are deeply grateful for their support. Join them by selecting one of our top funds for your donation.
Student Voices Stories
Art History Grad Student Activities
Graduate students in the Division of Art History are often busy with projects outside the traditional classroom. Here are a few examples from 2019.
Tori Champion
incoming MA student
Summer Learning
We asked one undergraduate from each of the School's divisions to write about a summer experience. Learning comes in many forms and takes place both on campus and farther afield.
Ren Nguyen
Division of Art
Yin + Tropical Lab 13
Tropical Lab
Shuo Yin is a second-year MFA student who was selected by the Painting + Drawing faculty to attend Tropical Lab 13 at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore this summer. His participation was supported in part by funding from our School's Rollin Austin Scholarship Fund. The theme for this year's Tropical Lab was Erase, and it took place July 19 through August 1.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories
Composite Gestures
Exhibition
September 26 – October 12, 2019
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 25, 5–7pm RSVP now
Irreducible Forms
Exhibition
October 24 – November 9, 2019
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 23, 5–7pm
Other News
Art History Assistant Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse is giving this year's Artist Images lecture for the UW Libraries on October 29. It will be about a collaborative restoration of Kwagu’ł films. More information and link to register.
Interaction Design Assistant Professor Audrey Desjardins has been selected as one of six 2019–20 UW Mellon Faculty Fellow in Arts, a project that is part of UW’s Arts and Creativity Initiative sponsored by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi was featured in two online publications this summer: an interview in Studio Potter and "A Brave New World for Clay" from the College of Arts & Sciences.
Visual Communication Design Professor Karen Cheng and Selina Nguyen (BDes 2019) have received a 2019 Sappi Ideas that Matter grant to refine and produce Nguyen's brochure explaining Seattle parking regulations to people living in vehicles.
Photo/Media Assistant Professor Aaron Flint Jamison is showing work in Europe this autumn: at Felix Gaudlitz through October 12, at Air de Paris opening October 20, and a solo exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen opening October 26.
Painting Professor Emeritus Michael Spafford was selected for the Washington Governor's Legacy Arts Award. An event in Olympia on November 19 will celebrate all the recipients.
Constituency Relations Officer Merith Bennett was given the Robert C. Stacey Award during the summer for the exemplary service she provided to the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences team in the College of Arts & Sciences in relation to the Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award events earlier this year.
We are sad to note the passing of Marvin Oliver (MFA 1973) on July 17. He was a well-known First Nations artist and a Professor Emeritus in American Indian Studies at UW.
Alison Atwell (BDes 2013) was named to the Fortune 40 under 40 in Tech list this summer for her work as a Voice User Interface Designer at Amazon.
Jordan Nicholson (BA 2012) was featured in an article and on the cover of the newly re-imagined University of Washington Magazine in September.
Maria Phillips (MFA 1997) has a solo exhibition titled Hidden in Plain Sight opening on October 4 at Bellevue Arts Museum. It runs through March 8, 2020.
Read all alumni news since our last newsletter: June, July, August, September, and October.
Contacts
Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu