Featured Stories
Material Performance: Part II
This exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery brings together work by alums, faculty, and other artists. It runs Nov 8 through Dec 9 with a reception on Nov 9.
Wilson + Tropical Lab 11
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.
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.
Design Pecha Kucha
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.
Xu is Hamiltonian Fellow
Alum Ellen (Jing) Xu was selected as one of the five Hamiltonian Fellows for 2017–2019 from a pool of 158 artists. The Hamiltonian Fellowship program focuses on professional development.
Quackers is a Hit
Alum Liz Wong's first children's book, Quackers, is receiving widespread recognition, including being chosen for Jumpstart's 12th Read for the Record event, which took place in all 50 states and over 60 countries.
In Memoriam – Donghoon Lee
We are very sad to report that Photomedia student Donghoon Lee passed away during the summer. His family and friends have dedicated a memorial bench to him in the Quad.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
An Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on November 18, from 1–5pm, is continuing an initiative begun at the Gallery during May: to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of queer and womxn artists of color. This is supported by both Wikipedia and Art+Feminism through a stipend for a Wikipedia Fellow in the Gallery; this position is currently held by Art History PhD student Laura Stowell.
No previous Wikipedia experience is needed to join the edit-a-thon. More information is available on the Facebook event page or in our calendar entry.
Please note that there will not be free parking on campus that Saturday afternoon due to a football game. Check the Gallery's website for information about getting there.
Other News
Associate Professor Annabelle Gould will oversee the visual design and architecture for the new Design Teaching Resource. This initiative won an AIGA Innovate Grant during the summer.
Assistant Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse gave presentations at two conferences in October. The Entangled Gaze: Indigenous and European Views of Each Other was in Toronto, Ontario, and the Native American Art Studies Association Biennial Meeting was in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Koplin Del Rio has mounted an online exhibition of work by Professor Philip Govedare on Artsy. It will be viewable through December 31.
Associate Professor Sonal Khullar presents a paper on November 9 at a University of Hawaii Department of Art & Art History symposium titled Tradition and Contemporaneity in the Arts of Asia.
Watch a short video about a Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2017 workshop called Making Home that was co-led by Assistant Professor Audrey Desjardins.
Collin Bampton (BFA 2016) is one of five Pilchuck Glass School Emerging Artists in Residence this autumn.
Columns magazine has a feature story about Arely Morales (MFA 2017).
Jonas Wood (MFA 2002) received the amfAR Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS at a Dallas fundraising event on October 28. His painting sold for $1.2 million during the evening's auction.
Other alumni news from October and our ongoing post for November.
Contacts
Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu