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Undergrads in a Grad Seminar
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.

ART 390: Drawing as Thinking, Making, and Serious Play
Assistant Professor Sangram Majumdar joined the Painting + Drawing faculty at UW in autumn quarter. He and four students recently reflected on the Intermediate Drawing class that took place during winter quarter.
Alumni Stories

The Poetics of Barbara Earl Thomas
Alum Barbara Earl Thomas is featured in this article by Berette S Macaulay. In part, it discusses recent exhibitions of Thomas' work seen at the Seattle Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery.

A Window into Art
Das Schaufenster is an art exhibition space created by alum Anna Mlasowsky in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. All viewing is done from outside the windows, and a different artist is featured every month.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories

2022 Graduation Exhibitions
Each year the School proudly celebrates graduating Art and Design students 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. The School 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