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Summer 2020 Newsletter

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Jamie Walker

Director's Notes

Each quarter of the academic year serves as a framework with a familiar pattern to those of us fortunate enough to study and work here. We are beholden to this particular rhythm, which provides structure… Read more
Christopher Ozubko

Ozubko Retires

Design Professor Christopher Ozubko — who served as the School's director from 1996 to 2014, taught both undergraduate and graduate students, and led the Design in Rome Exploration Seminar from 2005 to 2016 — is retiring after 39 years. Read more
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2020 Graduation + Teaching Awards

Six graduate students and four undergraduates were recognized with individual awards during our virtual 2020 Graduation Celebration. Four students also gave short presentations during the ceremony. Read more
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2020 Graduate Showcase

The School is pleased to announce the website that documents the work of our graduating graduate students. We are proud of their research and accomplishments. Eight MFA, five MA, and six MDes graduates are included. Read more
Reception for Design Show 2019

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. Read more
Data Epics by Jack Sinclair

Grant-Funded Research by Desjardins

Interaction Design Assistant Professor Audrey Desjardins has been busy with two research projects since 2019. She recently received a National Science Foundation grant that allows her to begin a third project. Read more
Marek Wieczorek

Wieczorek at NIAS

Art History Associate Professor Marek Wieczorek was in Amsterdam from February to mid-June as a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences where he did research and writing for a new book. Read more
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New Book for Bunn-Marcuse

Art History Assistant Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse is co-editor, with Aldona Jonaitis, of a new book published by University of Washington Press: Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast. Read more
Miles Miller

Fulbright for Miller

Alum Miles Miller has been selected for a Fulbright Fellowship. He will be doing research in South Korea on the indigenous innovations and modernization of traditional Korean residential architecture, design, and craft. Read more
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Design Student Projects Recognized

Several projects by undergraduate Design students received recognition in the last month: as an Editor's Pick on Bestfolios, in an article on the SEGD website, and as winner of Core77 and EPDA awards. Read more
Kollar American Art Lecture Reception, spring 2016

Donors: June 2019 – May 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. Read more

Student Voices

Pooja Krishnan

Graduation Speaker: Pooja Krishnan, Art

Pooja Krishnan received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art in June 2020. She was the Division of Art's undergraduate speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2020. Read more
Sierra Stella

Graduation Speaker: Sierra Stella, Art History

Sierra Stella received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History in June 2020. She was the Division of Art History's undergraduate speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2020. Read more
Jack Johnston

Graduation Speaker: Jack Johnston, Design

Jack Johnston received his Bachelor of Design degree in Industrial Design in June 2020. He was the Division of Design's undergraduate speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2020. Read more
Piper Loyd

Graduation Speaker: Piper Loyd, Graduate Student

Piper Loyd received her Master of Design degree in June 2020. She was the graduate student speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2020. Read more

Jacob Lawrence Gallery

The gallery is pleased to share interviews with ten just-graduated Bachelor of Arts in Art students on its Vimeo site: Marco Ammatelli, Mariya Apostolova, Dani Clauson, Anna Fotheringham, Ashley Grammer, Jovita Mercado, Ren Ngyuen, Matthew Tallorin, Maria Zamora, and Alina Zhak.

Other News

Art History Associate Professor Stuart Lingo, who is also a Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor at UW, has been appointed as a 2020–2021 Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), which is part of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He will be working on writing his next book, Bronzino's Bodies and Mannerism's Masks.

Photo/Media Professor Rebecca Cummins and just-graduated MFA Stephanie Simek will collaborate on an exhibition during the 4Culture 2020–2021 gallery season. Three additional alums will have exhibitions: Erin Elyse Burns (MFA 2009), Lucy Copper (MFA 2019), and Sara Osebold (BFA 2001; as part of JoSaTo).

In addition to her new book mentioned above, Art History Assistant Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse was a contributor to an exhibition catalog titled Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, which was co-published by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and University of Washington Press. Three alums were also contributors: Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi (MA 2007, PhD 2012), Bridget Johnson (MA 2014), and Jennifer McLerran (MA 1995, PhD 1999).

Sixteen of our Industrial Design students are participating in the IDSA NW Junior Show this year. The exhibition, which is available online, also includes work by Western Washington University students.

Alums Julia Harrison (MFA 2004) and Kalina Chung (BFA 2016) have each been selected for public art commissions in Seattle. Harrison will create an interior artwork for Miller Community Center on Capitol Hill, and Chung will develop an outdoor installation for a new park in Little Saigon, which is part of the International District.

MadArt, created by alum Alison Wyckoff Milliman (BA 1984), launched an Artist Relief Program this spring due to COVID-19. Among the many artists supported were alums Eroyn Franklin (BFA 2006), Victoria Haven (BFA 1989), Perri Howard (BFA 1996), and Robert Yoder (MFA 1987); links go to their short MadArt videos.

We are sad to share the passing of alums Daniel DeSiga (BA 1975) in April and Hellyn Moore Pawula (MFA 1967) in May; links go to obituary articles in The Seattle Times.

Read all alumni news since our last newsletter: April, May, and June.

Contacts

Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu

Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu

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