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In This Issue

Featured Stories:

  • Director's Notes
  • Advisory Board
  • IxD Research Awards
  • 2019 Critical Issues Lecture Series
  • Tihanyi + Digital Clay
  • Where Study Abroad May Lead
  • Art History at CAA
  • In Memoriam – Robert C. Jones
  • BAM Biennial 2018: Glasstastic
  • Student Work at Meany Center
  • Donors: January – December 2018

Student Voices Stories:

  • Practicing Art History
  • Students Win GRAY Award
  • Entry-Level Classes

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories:

  • Danny Giles: The Practice and Science of Drawing a Sharp White Background
  • Jacob Lawrence Gallery 25th Anniversary Celebration

 

Support Us

  • Donors
  • Graduate Student Support
  • Faculty Support
  • Jacob Lawrence Gallery Support
  • All Priority Funds

 

Featured Events

February 12
Painting + Drawing Open House
Sand Point Studios + Gallery

February 19
Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities – Whitney Davis
KANE 210

February 26
3D4M Open House
Ceramic + Metal Arts Building

COMPLETE CALENDAR


 

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Featured Stories

Jamie Walker

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…

January 14, 2019
Anne Traver and Carole Fuller

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.

January 12, 2019
Internet of Things collage

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.

January 12, 2019
Self-portrait by Lizzi Bougatsos

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.

November 20, 2018
Control and Release installation by Timea Tihanyi

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.

January 11, 2019
Marijke Keyser and Claire Peckham

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.

January 12, 2019
College Art Association logo

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.

January 12, 2019
Robert C. Jones

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.

January 12, 2019
Chorus of One by Anna Mlasowsky

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.

October 22, 2018
Student work exhibition at Meany Hall

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.

October 15, 2018
Kollar American Art Lecture Reception, spring 2016

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.

January 12, 2019

Student Stories

Anna Sexton

Practicing Art History

From Ben & Jerry's to the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and beyond, this is Art History undergraduate Anna Sexton's journey. She is now studying in Poland and looking forward to law school after graduation in 2020.

January 12, 2019
T1 Traveler

Students Win GRAY Award

Industrial Design students Grace Budgett, Perry Burke, and Andie Niebling won a 2018 GRAY Award for their T1 Traveler, a packing system for people with type 1 diabetes.

January 12, 2019
Sonny Assu lecture in Art History 233

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.

January 12, 2019

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories

Analysis of Beauty, Plate 1, by William Hogarth

Danny Giles: The Practice and Science of Drawing a Sharp White Background

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents this exhibition of work by Danny Giles, the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident. An artist talk and opening reception take place on January 22. The exhibition runs through February 28.

January 03, 2019
Jacob Lawrence Gallery 25th Anniversary

Jacob Lawrence Gallery 25th Anniversary Celebration

Join the evening of playfulness as resistance on Saturday, February 16, 2019, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Gallery being named in honor of renowned artist and professor Jacob Lawrence.

January 14, 2019


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

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