Featured Stories
Director's Notes
Although the return to campus following spring break typically means maneuvering through the crowds of visitors admiring the cherry trees, the anticipation of graduation, and laughter in the Quad, this year…
New IVA + IxD Faculty
The School is very happy to announce the hiring of two new faculty members: Robert Rhee in Interdisciplinary Visual Art and James Pierce in Interaction Design. They will join the UW faculty in September 2020.
2020 MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition
We are planning an enhanced showcase website to highlight the work of our graduating graduate students since in-gallery exhibitions are not possible during spring quarter due to COVID-19.
Support for Faculty Projects
Several faculty have received funding in the last few months for exciting research and teaching projects. This is from the largest amount of support ever directed to the Arts Division of the College of Arts & Sciences.
Jake Seniuk's Strait Art
A new book of essays by alum Jake Seniuk has been published. He was director-curator of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center for many years. A number of School alums and/or faculty are included.
Donors: April 2019 – March 2020
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.
Student Stories
Art + Art History in Rome
The School has been sending study abroad programs to Italy for many years, but winter quarter 2020 saw something new: one program that combined faculty and students from the Divisions of Art and Art History.
A Love of Research — and Design
Sarah Strickler had every intention of pursuing a STEM degree when she arrived at the UW as a freshman. That changed after taking a color theory class in the School of Art + Art History + Design.
Intern / Extern
Whether it is called an internship or externship, opportunities to learn outside the classroom can be important for students. They gain professional and personal skills and knowledge. We recently asked two undergraduate seniors in Art to write about their experiences.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories
2020 Graduation Exhibitions
Each year the School proudly celebrates graduating Art and Design students — both undergraduate and graduate — with a series of exhibitions at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery. This year they are all online.
MONDAY – Volume 4
MONDAY is a journal produced by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. The title of volume 4 is "White Pictures," and its content is available on a new website. It is guest-edited by Danny Giles, the 2019 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident.
JLG Vimeo Channel
During the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery has created a Vimeo channel to continue to create meaningful connections between artists and audiences.
COVID-19 Links
- If you have the means right now, give to emergency funding for students in the School and/or at the UW.
- View images of 3D printed PPE face shields created by IVA Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi at her Slip Rabbit Studio, part of a UW-wide collaboration.
- Read UW stories about responses to coronavirus on the Together We Will webpages.
- Explore the links on the UW Alumni Association's Stronger Together community pages.
- If you are a creative needing support, be sure to check out the lists of local and national resources created by Seattle Arts & Culture and King County’s 4Culture.
Other News
We have two faculty members (Claire Cowie, IVA; Kolya Rice, Art History) and two graduate students (Todd McKinney, Painting + Drawing; Laura Stowell, Art History) nominated for UW teaching awards. Look in the College of Arts & Sciences section of the nominees webpage to see their names.
IVA Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi has published a book titled Making and Breaking Rules: Algorithmic Forms and Tactile Processes – A Technoceramist's Adventure with Mathematical Thinking. It is available for download, and physical copies will be available in the future.
Art History Assistant Professor Adair Rounthwaite will be a UW Simpson Center for the Humanities Society of Scholars Fellow during 2020–2021. She will be working on her book titled This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb.
3D4M Lecturer Stephanie Hanes was selected as a 2020 NCECA Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
Professor Emerita and alum Patti Warashina graces the cover of the March issue of University of Washington Magazine. The feature article includes many images, a video, and a short interview.
Julianna Jones, the School's Executive Assistant to the Director and Manager of Faculty Affairs (and an alum), was nominated for a UW Distinguished Staff Award.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Director + Curator Emily Zimmerman was interviewed on Art Zone about the exhibition As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes. She will be participating in the Art Curators Conference in May as organizer/moderator of a panel discussion titled "Local Voices: Collaboration at the University of Washington."
Ellen Lesperance (BFA 1995) just received a 2020 fellowship in the field of fine arts from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read the April 9 announcement from the foundation.
Arely Morales (MFA 2017) received a 2019 first grant from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Montreal; this is one of the largest and most prestigious grants specifically for figurative artists.
We are sad to report news we recently learned: Victoria Josslin (MA 1995) passed away in 2019.
Read all alumni news since our last newsletter: January, February, March, and April.
Contacts
Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu