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Featured Stories:

  • Director's Notes
  • 2019 Graduate Showcase
  • 2019 Graduation + Teaching Awards
  • Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award Celebration
  • Design Presenting + Publishing
  • Artist Trust Awards
  • 2019 Seattle Art Fair and Beyond
  • Donors: June 2018 – May 2019

Student Voices Stories:

  • IDSA Student Merit Award Winner
  • Undergraduate Experiences
  • Husky 100

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories:

  • Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Camilo Godoy: Lugar del Trabajo
  • James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity
  • NEA Grant for Jacob Lawrence Gallery

 

Support Us

  • Donors
  • Graduate Student Support
  • Faculty Support
  • Gallery Support
  • All School Funds

 

Featured Events

June 27
Exhibition Opening – Lugar del Trabajo
Jacob Lawrence Gallery

July 31
Exhibition Opening – Exercises in Passivity
Jacob Lawrence Gallery

August 1–4
Seattle Art Fair
CenturyLink Field Event Center

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Featured Stories

Jamie Walker

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…

June 25, 2019
Work by Connor Walden, Brighton McCormick, Baorong Liang

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.

June 25, 2019
Graduation balloons

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.

June 17, 2019
Granite Calimpong and Steve Kaneko

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.

June 24, 2019
Bespoke booklets

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.

June 23, 2019
2019 Artist Trust fellowship recipients

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.

June 16, 2019
Work by George Rodriguez at Seattle Art Fair 2018

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.

June 20, 2019
Kollar American Art Lecture Reception, spring 2016

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.

June 24, 2019

Student Stories

Grace Budgett

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.

June 22, 2019
Joylyn Yang, Rachel Connelly, and Cody Scott

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.

June 24, 2019
Juan Franco Ricardo and Miha Sarani

Husky 100

Each year, the University of Washington recognizes 100 students from across all three campuses. Just-graduated Art History MA students Juan Franco Ricardo and Miha Sarani were both selected for 2019.

June 22, 2019

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories

Work by Camilo Godoy and Angélica Maria Millán Lozano

Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Camilo Godoy: Lugar del Trabajo

This exhibition in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is curated by Juan Franco Ricardo and shares work by two New York-based, Bogotá-born artists. It opens on June 27 and runs through July 20.

April 23, 2019
Still from Time-Clock by James Coupe

James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity

This Jacob Lawrence Gallery exhibition features the work of James Coupe, an Associate Professor at the UW's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). It opens on July 31 and runs through August 24.

July 11, 2019
National Endowment for the Arts logo

NEA Grant for Jacob Lawrence Gallery

A $25,000 grant from the Art Works program of the National Endowment for the Arts has been awarded to the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in support of the 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency.

May 17, 2019


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

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