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Spring 2019 Newsletter

Featured Stories

Jamie Walker

Director's Notes

On the first day of April, as I was enjoying that glorious rite of spring quarter — walking through The Quad in awe of the cherry blossoms and the vast crowds of fellow admirers — I overheard two couples exclaim… Read more
Steve Kaneko

Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award Recipient

The School is pleased to present the 2019 Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award to Steve Kaneko. With a passion for providing pathways for growth to generations of emerging talent, he embodies the power of arts leadership. Read more
Feather dance in Boas film

RRFs for Bunn-Marcuse + Jamison

Twice a year, the UW Office of Research awards Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grants to faculty who have submitted proposals for research-related projects. Two of our faculty received such grants in January 2019. Read more
Steel pennies

For Want of a Nail

3D4M Assistant Professor Michael Swaine is co-author of a new book documenting research that began with a 2014 Futurefarmers artwork responding to New Mexico's complex nuclear history and the Manhattan Project led by Robert Oppenheimer. Read more
Artifact by Philip Govedare

Bellingham National

The Whatcom Museum is showing Bellingham National 2019 Juried Art Exhibition and Awards through May 19. Painting + Drawing Professor Philip Govedare and three alums have work included. Govedare won the top juror prize! Read more
Interaction Design students at Cooper Hewitt

IxD Students at Cooper Hewitt

Five junior-level students in Interaction Design answered a challenge from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Their design was selected and shown at the museum plus they made a presentation there. Read more
UW x SFAI installation in progress

Cobblestones and Lumber: UW x SFAI

IVA Assistant Professor Whitney Lynn collaborated with a colleague at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) to organize a joint exhibition of MFA student work at the SFAI Fort Mason Campus. Read more
Chinaman's Chance video still by Zhi Lin

Zhi LIn Exhibitions

With the 150th anniversary of the golden spike and the creation of the transcontinental railroad taking place in May 2019, Painting + Drawing Professor Lin's research on Chinese railroad workers is being shared in multiple locations. Read more
Painted tiles by George Rodriguez

Rodriguez at MadArt + More

George Rodriguez (MFA 2009) joined the School's Advisory Board earlier this year and has a project at MadArt Studio in April and May. He has been receiving growing recognition for his artwork. Read more
4Culture logo

4Culture Collection Additions

At the end of January, 4Culture announced additions to its Portable Works collection for the first time since 2013. Artworks by the late Professor Emeritus Akio Takamori and thirteen alums were included. Read more
Kollar American Art Lecture Reception, spring 2016

Donors: April 2018 – March 2019

Gifts from our generous donors — individuals, foundations, and organizations — are critical to the success and morale of the School. We are deeply grateful for their support. Join them by selecting one of our top funds for your donation. Read more

Student Voices

Clare Ortblad

Q+A with Ortblad

Clare Ortblad will receive her Master of Design degree in June. She answers questions about her background and her experiences as a graduate student in the Division of Design. Read more
Critical Issues lecture by Carolina Caycedo

Students Respond to Critical Issues

ART 361/561 — Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice — is a course taught each winter quarter. Several students from this year's course write about the opportunity to hear and interact with multiple guest artists. Read more
Student receiving scholarship

Scholarships Make a Difference

The School distributes scholarships each year, and two of them are particularly important for students just entering the UW. We asked two recipients of these scholarships to write about their first two quarters here. Read more

Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Graduation exhibition reception in Jacob Lawrence Gallery

2019 Graduation Exhibitions

Each year we celebrate graduating Art and Design 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. Read more
Cover of Monday, volume 3

MONDAY – Volume 3

MONDAY is a limited-edition journal produced by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Each issue is thematically driven, and volume 3's title is Études. Purchase a copy online. Read more
Danny Giles and others in Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Curating the Future

At the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, curatorial interns get hands-on preparation for careers in the art world — and roles in the community. Read more

Other News

Visual Communication Design Associate Professor Annabelle Gould recently completed work on the AIGA Design Teaching Resource.

3D4M Associate Professor Doug Jeck will be Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School during their Session 3 in July.

Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi was one of three master ceramists at the International Ceramics gathering in Spain during March.

Industrial Design Lecturer Michael Kritzer had a class project that partnered with Hightower featured in GRAY magazine.

Art History MA students Miha Sarani and Juan Franco are two of the 2019 Husky 100.

Marvin Oliver (MFA 1973) will receive the Charles E. Odegaard Award in May from the UW Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity.

Wes Hurley (BA 2004) received a Creative Capital grant; read a Crosscut article about it.

Xiaoyi Gao (BFA 2018) won a first grant from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.

Mike Simi (MFA 2007) has a solo exhibition at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art through May 11.

Jonas Wood (MFA 2002) has a solo exhibition at Dallas Museum of Art through July 14; read related articles in the New York Times, artnet news, and Bloomberg.

Susie Lee (MFA 2006) talks about four elements in creating art — clay, water, glass, and light — in a series of KCTS9 videos. Watch them.

Shayla Alarie (MFA 2010) is the subject of pine | copper | lime podcast episode nine; a Beyond the Studio podcast featured Emily Gherard (MFA 2004).

Read all our alumni news since the last newsletter: January, February, March, and the start of April.

Contacts

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

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

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