Featured Stories
Director's Notes – April 2022
The coming of spring is always a reward for those of us living in the Northwest, perhaps this year more than ever as we gingerly emerge from the persistent Covid pandemic. The campus is bustling in ways that have been sorely missed…
Kollar American Art Lecture – ShiPu Wang
Hosted by the Division of Art History on May 5, this lecture is titled "Faces of Belonging: Intimate Portraits by Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo." It is free and open to the public, but please RSVP.
Online Symposium – Dismantling the Body
GSAH invites you to a two-day virtual symposium “Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and Limitations in Art Making” on May 18–19, 2022. The event features two keynote speakers and four panels.
2022 MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition
Nine Master of Fine Arts and eight Master of Design students are participating in this graduation exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. The exhibition runs from May 27 through June 26, 2022.
In Memoriam – Doug Jeck
The School is sad to announce the passing of Associate Professor Doug Jeck on February 7. He taught at the University of Washington from 1996 to 2022. A new student support fund has been created in his honor.
Spring 2022 Part-Time Faculty
The spring quarter part-time faculty are Romson Bustillo, Granite Calimpong, Melanie Enderle, Thomas Ham, Lawrence Hamlin, David Hull, E.E. Ikeler, Adam Jossem, Leisha Muraki, Amanda Salov, Vassilissa Semouchkina, Tarran Sklenar, Scott Tsukamaki, Ryan Weatherly, and David Willis.
Arts Capital Campaign + Renovations
The Arts Capital Campaign, to fund renovations in the Art and Music Buildings, is progressing. Work in the Art Building begins in late June 2022. Join us in supporting this important project.
In Memoriam – Michael C. Spafford
The School of Art + Art History + Design is sad to share the passing of Professor Emeritus Michael C. Spafford on January 29, 2022. He taught at the University of Washington from 1963 to 1994.
Free Materials Library
This resource for School students opened at the beginning of autumn quarter 2021. It contains new and gently used materials and books that students may choose for use in their classes. We welcome donations to the library.
Donors: April 2021 – March 2022
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.
Student Stories
Undergrads in a Grad Seminar
Background
During winter quarter 2022, Art History Honors undergraduate students, Em Chan and Alexander Betz, engaged in the newly designed graduate seminar ART H 500 (Methods of Art History) taught by Professor Estelle Lingo. Lingo is the current chair of the Division of Art History and also holds the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts.
ART 390: Drawing as Thinking, Making, and Serious Play
Background
Assistant Professor Sangram Majumdar joined the Painting + Drawing faculty at UW in autumn quarter, when students, staff, and faculty returned to campus after 18 months of pandemic-related remote teaching and learning. Majumdar taught Beginning and Intermediate Painting in autumn, and followed up in winter with Beginning and Intermediate Drawing.
Alumni Stories
The Poetics of Barbara Earl Thomas
In his 1969 speech, The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, James Baldwin began with two propositions: the first in which he said, “The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us.” He noted in the second that in our present times, it would be awful for a civilization to cease to produce poets or to believe in their observations.
A Window into Art
Travel up 14th Avenue NW in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood and you may notice intriguing art in the window of an old brick storefront. A month later, you’ll find different work on display. The building has no gallery or café or store within, yet the window features a different artist each month, thanks to UW alum and artist Anna Mlasowsky (MFA, 3D4M, 2016).
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories
2022 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. Join us for one or more of these in April, May, and June.
Emily Zimmerman Departs
After five years as the director + curator of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington, Emily Zimmerman will depart her post April 8, 2022, to become Assistant Director at the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. UW’s School of Art + Art History + Design will soon launch a national search for her replacement.
Other News
Painting + Drawing Professor Helen O'Toole has a solo exhibition titled What Was: unmarked at San Juan Island Museum of Art through May 30.
Interdisciplinary Visual Art Teaching Professor Timea Tihanyi is featured in Object Permanence: Timea Tihanyi & Sylwia Tur at Bellevue Arts Museum through May 29.
Painting + Drawing Professor Philip Govedare is showing new work in his solo exhibition Hinterlands at Winston Wächter Fine Art in Seattle through May 19.
Ceramics Professor Emerita Patti Warashina was selected to receive a 2022 Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship by the American Craft Council.
Fumi Amano, who taught in 3D4M during winter quarter, was selected as a winner of the 2022 Saxe Emerging Artist Award, which was announced in January by the Glass Art Society.
JR Henneman (PhD 2016) has been promoted to Curator of Western American Art and Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at Denver Art Museum.
Holly Ballard Martz (BFA 1988) is a finalist for the 2022 Neddy Artist Award.
mario lemafa (BFA 2013) has received one of the 2022 Arc Artist Fellowships from 4Culture.
Erin Corrales-Diaz (BA 2006) is now Curator of American Art at Toledo Museum of Art.
Cascadia Art Museum is showing A Luminous Journey: The Art of Maria Frank Abrams (BA 1952).
We are sad to announce the passing of Hideyoshi (Edy) Horikawa (BA 1958, MFA 1961), William Glenn Turner (MFA 1973), and Kristen Ramirez (MFA 2004).
Read all alumni news since our last newsletter: January, February, and March.
Contacts
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu