Featured Stories
Director's Notes
The advent of the summer solstice ushers in a welcome interlude following the excitement and intensity that accompanies the end of the academic year. This period of time also affords a respite to reflect…
2019 Graduate Showcase
The School is pleased to announce the website that documents the work of our graduating graduate students, and we are proud of their accomplishments. Ten MFA, seven MA, one PhD, and eleven MDes graduates are included.
2019 Graduation + Teaching Awards
Six graduate students and four undergraduates were recognized with individual awards during our Graduation Celebration on June 15, 2019. Four students also gave short presentations during the ceremony.
Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award Celebration
This spring, 150 friends of the School gathered for the Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award Celebration. Nearly $70,000 was raised in support of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery during the event and will be matched by an anonymous donor.
Design Presenting + Publishing
Faculty and students in our Division of Design have been writing for presentation at conferences and/or for publication, highlighting some of their recent research.
Artist Trust Awards
Alum Sherry Markovitz received the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Achievement. Alums Joe Feddersen and Kristen Ramirez won fellowships, and spring quarter faculty member Romson Bustillo won a fellowship along with a residency in Bali.
2019 Seattle Art Fair and Beyond
The School is once again a proud cultural partner of the fair. School-affiliated people are involved with the fair as well as having work shown at Seattle-area exhibitions during the fair.
Donors: June 2018 – May 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.
Student Voices Stories
IDSA Student Merit Award Winner
Grace Budgett, who just completed her Bachelor of Design degree, was selected in May by the Industrial Designers Society of America as the 2019 West District Student Merit Award Winner. She will attend and be recognized at the International Design Conference that takes place in Chicago during August.
Undergraduate Experiences
We asked graduating undergraduates to write about their time as a student and their plans after graduation. These are the inspiring responses we received.
Cayla Key
BDes, Interaction Design
Husky 100
Each year, the University of Washington recognizes 100 students from across all three campuses. The Husky 100 website says that these students connect activities inside the classroom and beyond to make a difference at the UW, in communities, and into the future.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Camilo Godoy: Lugar del Trabajo
Exhibition
June 28 – July 20, 2019
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 27, 5–8pm
James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity
Exhibition
August 1 – August 24, 2019
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 31, 5–8pm
NEA Grant for Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Announcement
National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairperson Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $25,000 to the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design in support of the 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency.
Other News
3D4M Assistant Professor Michael Swaine is one of the artists invited to create interactive experiences for participants in Seattle Art Museum's Rally for SAM on July 29. Also included are spring quarter faculty member Dan Webb plus alums Margie Livingston (MFA 1999), Cathy McClure (MFA 1997), George Rodriguez (MFA 2009), and W. Scott Trimble (MFA 2003).
Photo/Media Professor Rebecca Cummins, Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Professor in the Arts, showed work during April in Exhibition Retícula at ASKVII: UCSC Culture Gallery, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción during the Concepción Arte y Ciencia Biennial in Concepción, Chile. She is currently showing work in a special exhibition organized by Art Center Nabi, which takes place during ISEA2019 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) at Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
3D4M Associate Professor Doug Jeck, Jack and Grace Pruzan Endowed Faculty Fellow, has work included in two books published earlier this year. ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture was an exhibition at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (catalog link on Ferrin Contemporary website), and Duet is a commemorative catalog documenting collaborative sculpture created with Christine Golden.
Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Assistant Professor Whitney Lynn has a solo exhibition through July 13 at Bass & Reiner Gallery in San Francisco, and it has received notice in the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook.
3D4M Associate Professors Amie McNeel and Mark Zirpel, holder of the Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair in Glass, each have work in New Glass Now at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York State. The exhibition will be on view through January 5, 2020.
Three Division of Art students will have educational experiences this summer that are partly or fully supported by scholarship funds through the School: Ren Nguyen (BA student) is attending Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, Amy Wang (BFA 2019) is going to Pilchuck Glass School north of Seattle, and Shuo Yin (MFA student) is participating in Tropical Lab at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. Funds that provided support are the Rollin Austin Scholarship Endowment, the Walter Isaacs Scholarship Endowment, and the Art School Awards Fund.
The Bellevue Arts Museum has a solo exhibition of work by the late Ron Ho (MAT 1967) on view through September 15. It includes a reconstruction of his home studio, complete with a prominent photo of the late Professor Ramona Solberg (MFA 1957) who was Ho's long-time mentor and friend.
In May, Americans for the Arts announced that Tracy Montes (BA 2014) is one of an inaugural group appointed as Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Fellows. She is one of four in Chicago.
Erin Giffin (PhD 2017) is a post-doctoral researcher with the SACRIMA Project at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. She had an article published in the French art historical journal Perspective; the full text will be available online soon.
Read all our alumni news since the last newsletter: April, May, and most of June.
Contacts
Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu