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Beginning with this issue, we will be scaling back the production of our newsletter to a quarterly publication. While there is no shortage of interesting School-related news to share, we are also cognizant of inbox overload…
MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition
Nine Master of Fine Arts and four Master of Design students are participating in this graduation exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. The public reception is June 1, 7–9pm, and the exhibition runs from May 26 through June 24.
OMA&D 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Associate Professor Kristine Matthews, her Studio Matthews, and students in DESIGN 467 have been involved in developing an exhibition to celebrate OMA&D's history. It is on view May 1 – June 13 in Allen Library North.
2018 Graduation Exhibitions
Each year we celebrate graduating Art and Design undergraduate and graduate students with a series of exhibitions in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Henry Art Gallery. Join us for one or more of these in April, May, and June.
Kollar American Art Lecture – Michael Lobel
Hosted by the Division of Art History on April 26, this lecture is titled "Iconic Encounter: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson in 1942." It is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to save a seat.
Student Work at Meany Center
Thirteen students have work on display in the lower lobby of Meany Center on campus through May 2018. Be sure to view the exhibition the next time you attend a performance.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
While the Gallery is filled with graduation exhibitions in the spring, plans are already in motion for summer exhibitions. Mark your calendars now for the first one:
Megumi Shauna Arai
June 26 – July 14, 2018
Reception: Thursday, June 28, 5–8pm
Other News
3D4M Assistant Professor Michael Swaine is a member of Futurefarmers, and they have an exhibition titled Out of Place, In Place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from April 20 through August 12, 2018.
Strange Coupling announced the 2018 collaborative couples at a March 29 event. Read the list of pairs in our news post about this year's events.
Yoko Ott (BFA 1999) was announced in Artforum as the new executive director of Yale Union in Portland, Oregon.
Julie Alpert (MFA 2008) received a one year Roswell Artist-in-Residence Fellowship that began in June 2017, and she currently has a residency exhibition at Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico.
Benita Cooper (BA 2000) is an architect/designer with her own firm. She also started a nonprofit organization named The Best Day of My Life So Far to support intergenerational engagement, which has a program site in south Seattle.
Alfredo Arreguin (BA 1967, MFA 1969) has his tenth solo exhibition at Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle during the month of April.
Fanny Luor (BDes 2013) is an illustrator/designer for Dropbox, and she was featured in a Q&A on the company's Drop Everything blog site.
Shaun Roberts and Anthony Sonnenberg (both MFA 2012) each have solo exhibitions at Art Museum of Southeast Texas through June 3, 2018. Roberts' is titled Rebels and Renegades, and Sonnenberg's is titled Still Stage, Set Life.
Read March alumni news and the start of our April alumni news.
Contacts
Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu