Featured Stories
Director's Notes
Happy New Year and welcome to winter quarter in the School of Art + Art History + Design. Winter in the northwest is somewhat notorious for being a bit dark and damp, but with the solstice behind us…
Advisory Board
The School’s Advisory Board is comprised of local artists, art historians, designers, and supporters of the arts and education in the arts. They provide counsel to the director and act as a link between the School and community.
IxD Research Awards
Our Interaction Design professors — Audrey Desjardins and Axel Roesler — recently received awards from major industry partners that will allow them to further their research and involve students in the process.
2019 Critical Issues Lecture Series
This lecture series begins on January 10 and ends on March 14, 2019. All lectures are hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. They are free and open to the public.
Tihanyi + Digital Clay
IVA Senior Lecturer and alum Timea Tihanyi has a background in medicine and ceramics. Her recent work, supported by multiple awards, focuses on 3D-printed clay in collaboration with mathematicians and others.
Where Study Abroad May Lead
Alums Claire Peckham and Marijke Keyser met in 2013 while on the School's Tuscany Exploration Seminar. Several years later, they both attended graduate school in England. Learn about their journey.
Art History at CAA
Three Art History faculty members — Sonal Khullar, Estelle Lingo, and Adair Rounthwaite — and PhD student Laura Stowell are all participating in the College Art Association conference in New York during mid-February.
In Memoriam – Robert C. Jones
The School is sad to announce the passing of Painting Professor Emeritus Robert C. Jones on December 23, 2018. He joined the School faculty in 1960 and taught until his retirement in 1995.
BAM Biennial 2018: Glasstastic
Associate Professor Mark Zirpel plus alums Anna Mlasowsky and Katie Miller have work in this glass-themed exhibition at Bellevue Arts Museum, which runs from November 9, 2018, through April 14, 2019.
Student Work at Meany Center
Ten students have work on display in the lower lobby of Meany Center on campus through May 2019. Be sure to view the exhibition the next time you attend a performance.
Donors: January – December 2018
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
Practicing Art History
After Anna Sexton took advanced placement history classes in high school, she was inspired to continue studying world events but hesitant to commit to history as a college major. She did not want to lose the excitement of understanding and interpreting the past to rote memorization of names, dates, and places. She was also interested in art, and she knew that the images and objects produced by different cultures and societies offered deep insights into historical periods.
Students Win GRAY Award
The GRAY Awards are held by GRAY Magazine, a Seattle-based publication that focuses on design in the Pacific Northwest. From more than 300 entries for the 2018 awards, eleven winners were chosen. The student category was won by Industrial Design students Grace Budgett, Perry Burke, and Andie Niebling for their T1 Traveler.
Entry-Level Classes
The School regularly offers 100- and 200-level classes, some of which are open to non-majors. We asked students in several of the autumn quarter classes to write briefly about what they learned. Here are their responses.
Art
ART 140 paired with ART 101
Rui Chen
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories
Danny Giles: The Practice and Science of Drawing a Sharp White Background
Exhibition
January 23 – February 28, 2019
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
The Black Embodiments Studio Talk: Tuesday, January 22, 5:30pm
Reception: Tuesday, January 22, 6:30–8:30pm
Jacob Lawrence Gallery 25th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, February 16, 7pm–midnight
Tickets: $15 general / $5 UW students; Facebook event page
Other News
Just announced! Assistant Professors Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse (Art History) and Aaron Flint Jamison (Photo/Media) are recipients of January 2019 UW Royalty Research Fund Awards. Bunn-Marcuse also received a Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Watch for more about their projects in the next newsletter.
Visual Communication Design Associate Professor Kristine Matthews and her Studio Matthews are featured in a recent SEGD article about Design with the 90%, an exhibition on view at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center through May 2019.
A Seattle PI article focuses on a painting project by Art History graduate student and alum (BFA 2015) Miha Sarani.
Staff member and alum (BFA 2016) Ruth Kazmerzak has a solo exhibition at Gallery 4Culture through January 31.
Luminaries 2016 opens January 19 at Museum of Northwest Art and includes work by Professor Emeritus Denzil Hurley, Saya Moriyasu (BA/BFA 1991), and George Rodriguez (MFA 2009).
Emma Teal Laukitis (MDes 2018) and her sister — founders of Salmon Sisters — made the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs list and were featured by National Fisherman.
The New York Times listed the Instagram account of Levi Higgs (BA 2012) as 1 of 6 to follow for jewelry. He was also interviewed by Phillips auction house.
Anna Mlasowsky (MFA 2016) won the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence for her work in Glasstastic at Bellevue Arts Museum. She also has a solo exhibition at CoCA through February 23.
Kathleen Ash-Milby (BA 1991) was announced as the new curator of Native American Art at Portland Art Museum; she begins work there in July 2019.
We were saddened to learn of three alums who passed away during the autumn: Yoko Ott (BFA 1999), Laura Pizzuto (MFA 1973), and Jean Griffith (MFA 1963).
Read all our alumni news since the last newsletter: October, November, December, and the start of January.
Contacts
Merith Bennett, Constituency Relations Officer, mab4@uw.edu
Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu