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2018 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice Lecture Series
This 7-speaker series starts on Jan 11 and ends on Mar 8. It is free and open to the public. Sponsored by The Boeing Company and The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation.
MDes Thesis Poster Session
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.
Arts in Collaboration
The School's advising team is thrilled to be co-facilitating a new course for undergraduates during winter quarter 2018 — ARTS 350: Arts in Collaboration. Alumni from the visual and performing arts are participating.
Suyama Space
Many in Seattle were saddened in 2015 when co-founders Beth Sellars and George Suyama announced that Suyama Space would be closing. A beautiful new book documents the exhibitions there.
Ahn an Amazon Catalyst Fellow
Industrial Design Associate Professor Sang-gyeun Ahn is co-PI on a project that will develop a modular kit to modify wheelchairs for the safe use of public restrooms. They have received Amazon Catalyst funding.
Hues at Cascadia
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.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Monday is a biannual journal that focuses on contemporary art and artists’ writings, with a particular interest in the intersection of theory, method, and practice. Through essays, reviews, poetry, interviews, and artist projects, each issue addresses a theme resonant with the exhibitions presented at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. The journal serves as a platform for emerging critical voices, emphasizing issues of education, social justice, and experimentation. The first issue of Monday will be released in January 2018.
Other News
Art History Associate Professor Sonal Khullar gave a presentation titled "Southern Lights: Art History and Postcolonial Modernism" at Harvard University's South Asia Institute at the end of November.
A Crosscut article titled "Tacoma reckons with its racist past" features the Tacoma Art Museum exhibition of work by Painting + Drawing Professor Zhi Lin, which continues through February 4.
Photomedia Professor Rebecca Cummins gave a presentation at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference in Arizona during November. She also had work in a conference-related exhibition.
Rodrigo Valenzuela (MFA 2012) was selected for an unrestricted $25,000 Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Caldwell Sculpture Studio (Judith Caldwell, BFA 1990) recently completed several artworks for the new Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center at Washington State University. More at the Projects and News sections of the studio's website.
Robert Yoder (MFA 1987) is one of the contributors to the book The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, which was published earlier this year.
Elissa Favero (MA 2011) published "Stepping, In Time: On a continuum of movement, from work to play" in Critical Read during November.
Shio Kusaka (BFA 2001) and Jonas Wood (MFA 2002) have their first European joint exhibition at Museum Voorlinden in The Netherlands through January 7. Wood also is soon to close a solo exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and LA Invitational at Gagosian in New York City.
Read November alumni news and the start of our December alumni news.
Contacts
Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu