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Director's Notes – June 2023
Judith Clark reflects on her nearly three-decade tenure
Academic Advising Director, Judith Clark retires after 26 years dedicated to supporting students achieve academic and professional success.
Core77 Design Awards 2023
Design faculty and students are Core77 awards 2023 honorees.
2023 Design Show
The website featuring senior projects by the 2023 Bachelor of Design graduates is now live.
Sangram Majumdar awarded by Gottlieb Foundation
Assistant Professor of Painting + Drawing, Sangram Majumdar, awarded the Gottlieb Foundation grant in Painting
Cultural Partners at Seattle Art Fair
The School and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery are joining local art organizations to support and promote the growing art community in Seattle and beyond at the Seattle Art Fair 2023.
Student Voices Stories
Elizabeth Xiong – Discovering Art History + Exploring Career Options
Elizabeth Xiong came to University of Washington (UW) to get a degree in computer science knowing the growing demand in tech-related fields would help secure her employment opportunities upon graduating. During her first quarter (Autumn 2020), Elizabeth needed a writing credit, so she enrolled in ART H 220: Survey of American Art with Art History Assistant Professor, Juliet Sperling.
2023 Husky 100
Congratulations to Visual Communication Design senior, Shreya Balaji and Industrial Design senior, Jerred Mace, who have been selected for this year's Husky 100. The Husky 100 recognizes 100 undergraduate and graduate students who are making the most of their time at the UW.
Alumni Stories
Eason Yang – A resume loses its shine
Eason Yang (MDes, 2022) talks about his notorious competitive streak and the creation of Not Entirely Dead on Ten Thousand Things, a new podcast about Asian American stories from NPR and KUOW Public Ra
Not quite by the book
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For the past few years, Preston Wadley has been thinking about those people who visit a museum or gallery and spend—at most—15 seconds looking at a work of art. How could he keep them longer, he wondered. How could he change their views? His answer to that question is now on display at the Bellevue Arts Museum in an exhibition titled “Abstract Truth.”
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories
The School receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Seattle – The School of Art + Art History + Design has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency. This project allows black artists to create and exhibit a new body of work exploring themes of the African diaspora at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.
Other News
Assistant Professor of Art History Miriam Chusid was awarded the Anne van Biema Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art.
VCD Chair and Professor Kristine Matthews' Studio Matthews received a Communication Arts Award for the exhibition design in Designing Motherhood at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center.
Studio Matthews also recently designed the Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
Art History PhD Candidate Or Vallah was awarded the Harlan Hahn Endowment Fund in Disability Studies and the Dennis Lang Student Award.
Arely Morales (MFA 2017) was selected to participate at the National Museum of Women in the Arts' Women to Watch 2024 exhibition in Washington DC next April. Also featured in a KTRE 9 article.
Yongqi Tang’s (BA 2019, MFA 2022) exhibition Lullaby at Jupiter Contemporary in Miami was reviewed in an insightful article by Clare Gemima on Whitehot Magazine.
Eason Yang’s (MDes 2022) project Not Entirely Dead received an Art & Design honorable mention in the Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Two alumni published their first book. Max Cleary (BFA 2014) self published The Complex Number Zero, his first monograph made over a span of nine years. Rio Wrenn (BFA, 2002) released her book The Spirituality of Rust in June 2023 and is hosting a book release event at Nook and Cranny Books on July 15.
The Viewfinder as Canvas, a CommArts column, features photographer and director Lauren Crew (BA 2004), who talks about how her expansive practice uses varied modalities of photography.
We are saddened by the passing of two alumni earlier this year. Joanna Ngai (VCD 2015) passed away in March (memories and condolences can be shared on her online obituary). Prolific artist Alfredo Arreguin (MFA 1969) passed away in April 2023. We send our condolences to their families.
Read all alumni news since our last newsletter: April, May, and June.
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Leo Carmona, Media Relations Specialist, soanews@uw.edu