January 2018 Newsletter

Featured Stories

Director's Notes

During the first half of autumn quarter, I had the good fortune to co-teach our Studio Art Program in Rome: the twentieth iteration of this exceptional and remarkable educational experience . . . Read more

Detail of When I Rub the Dead Skin of the Thing Against Me by C. Davida Ingram

C. Davida Ingram: A Book with No Pages

C. Davida Ingram is the 2018 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, supported by an NEA Art Works grant. Her exhibition, A Book with No Pages, opens on Feb 6 and closes Mar 13. Read more

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. Read more

Making our Mark

This Bellevue Arts Museum exhibition from Nov 10 through Apr 8 shows many artists who have taught at Pratt Fine Arts Center. Among them are a number of our alums, including three who work here now. Read more

Familiar Faces & New Voices

An exhibition at Tacoma Art Museum surveys Northwest art in their permanent collection. Eighteen of the sixty artists are School alums and/or faculty. The exhibition remains on view through summer 2019. Read more

Jacob Lawrence Gallery

C. Davida Ingram is in residence at the Gallery beginning January 3 as the 2018 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident. Her exhibition, A Book with No Pages, opens at the Gallery on February 6 and closes February 28. Read more

Save the Date

We have two events farther in the future that are worth noting on your calendar:

March 1 – Lecture by Visual Communication Design Professor Emeritus Doug Wadden
April 26 – Kollar American Art Lecture – Michael Lobel on Gordon Parks and Ella Watson

Other News

Painting + Drawing Professor Zhi Lin is showing Confronting History | Retrieving Memory at Prographica / KDR Gallery through January 27.

The Smart Bins project from Division of Design Professor Karen Cheng, Associate Professor Kristine Matthews, and others received Honorable Mention in the 2017 UX Awards.

Art History Assistant Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse received a December 2017 fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete a digital publication of the 1930 recordings done by anthropologist Franz Boas. She has been working in collaboration with members of the Kwakiutl First Nation.

Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Lecturer, Full Time, Claire Cowie has a solo exhibition, Selvedge, at James Harris Gallery through February 24.

Graphic Design Professor Emeritus Richard Dahn is showing prints at the UW Club during winter quarter 2018. See examples on his website.

Painting + Drawing Professor Emeritus Norman Lundin is showing Femme: Paintings and Drawings through February 17 at Greg Kucera Gallery. Whiting Tennis (BFA 1984) also has an exhibition there titled Drawing Room.

Victoria Adams (BFA 1979) has a solo exhibition, Wellspring, at Woodside / Braseth Gallery with a reception on January 11.

Do you watch The Crown on Netflix? If yes, then read this recent Daily Beast article by Levi Higgs (BA 2012) about the jewelry in that series.

Read December alumni news and the start of our January alumni news.

Contacts

Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu

Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu

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