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October 2017 Newsletter


Jacob Lawrence Gallery

The Gallery is launching a new initiative called the Critical Art Writing Group, which is born out of the conviction that timely, robust, and well-researched art writing is integral to an arts ecosystem as well as in the ongoing effort to see our world anew. It is organized by Minh Nguyen (writer) and Emily Zimmerman (Director, Jacob Lawrence Gallery). Read more


Other News

Associate Professor Kristine Matthews and Professor Karen Cheng are UX Awards Finalists, and they will be speaking at the 2017 UX Awards conference in Palo Alto, California on November 9.

Associate Professor Sonal Khullar is organizer and chair of panel 7 at American Council for Southern Asian Art Symposium this month. She will be speaking at a symposium titled "The Idea of 'Global Modernism'" in Berkeley later this month.

Keegan Hall (BA 2003) has teamed up with seven Seahawks to auction an artwork and raise funds for a child with cancer.

A monograph titled Multiplex about the work of Professor Emeritus Paul Berger is in the works. Pre-order your copy to make it a reality.

Shay (Shaghayegh) Ghassemian (MDes 2015) will be a guest speaker at the International Association of Societies of Design Research 2017 Conference in early November.

Assistant Professor Michael Swaine, as a member of Futurefarmers, has an exhibition at Hunter East Harlem Gallery through February 4.

Staff member and alum Kim Van Someren (MFA 2004) has work in a two-person exhibition titled Adjunct Appendages at Hoedemaker Pfeiffer Gallery through December 1.

Lecturer Morten Steen Hansen has an article in the upcoming issue of The Art Bulletin (vol. 99, no. 3), which is titled "'Pro Bono Malum': Francesco Furini, Ludovico Ariosto, and the Verso of Painting."

Mary Ann Peters (MFA 1977) is having a solo exhibition titled slipstream at James Harris Gallery from October 19 through November 22.

Other alumni news from September and our ongoing post for October.


Contacts

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

Jeanette Mills, News + Events Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu

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