Featured Stories
Director's Notes
As 2019 rolled to a close and ushered in a new decade, the waning weeks of December were filled with joy, not only for completing another energizing quarter of teaching and learning but also for a number of newsworthy announcements, events, and…
Help Us Match $300k Gift
An anonymous alum and passionate supporter of the School has offered to match up to $300,000 in gifts to the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Donations of any amount are welcome.
American Art History
The School is very pleased to announce the hiring of Juliet Sperling for the Kollar Endowed Chair in American Art. Sperling will join the UW faculty in September 2020 as a tenure-track assistant professor.
2020 Critical Issues Lecture Series
This 2020 lecture series begins on January 9 and ends on March 12. All lectures are hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. They are free and open to the public.
A Fantastique Parisian Gift
Professor Meredith Clausen: "…Through this gift I’m able to do something for the University and make things easier for others who, like me, want to do research in Paris. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do."
Presenting Art History
Faculty from the Division of Art History regularly present their research at venues around the country and beyond. Several are doing so during this academic year.
Woods + Inneract Project at 15
While Maurice Woods was a UW graduate student in Design, he created the Inneract Project (IP). We recently spoke with Woods about his early years as a designer, the creation of IP, and its future.
Students Win GRAY Award
Industrial Design students Jack Johnston and Lulu McRoberts won a 2019 GRAY Award for PREPI, a new epinephrine delivery system and accompanying app for people with severe allergies.
Donors: January 2019 – December 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.
Student Voices Stories
Dani Elenga Art Scholarship
The Dani Elenga Art Scholarship is one of the newest scholarships in the School, and it is specifically for Painting + Drawing students. It was established in memory of alum Dani Elenga who tragically died in her 40s after an automobile accident in 2009. Art was important and meaningful for her, and it is the hope of her family and friends that this scholarship will extend Elenga's deep love of art and painting by facilitating aspiring students in the study of art.
Transfer Students
While some students enter the UW as freshmen, others arrive as transfer students after doing coursework at other colleges. The School regularly accepts transfer students who want to study art, art history, or design. We asked three who just finished their first quarter to write about their experience here.
Heidi Acuña
Division of Art
Alex Chen: Photographer + Videographer
We recently asked Alex Chen to write about the work he has done with the Center for 21st Century Liberal Learning (C21) in the College of Arts & Sciences plus any other extra-curricular projects. This is what he had to say.
My name is Alex Chen, and I am a senior majoring in Interdisciplinary Visual Art with minors in DXARTS, Informatics, and Art History.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories
Marisa Williamson: Angel of History
Exhibition
January 28 – February 28, 2020
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Artist Talk: Friday, February 7, 6pm in rooms 227/229
Free and open to all; exhibition reception to follow.
Marisa Williamson, the 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design, presents newly commissioned work in the exhibition Angel of History.
Empathy
Exhibition
November 1, 2019 – June 13, 2020
Meany Center for the Performing Arts
Other News
Professor Emerita Patti Warashina has been selected as the 2020 Visionary Award Recipient in conjunction with the Smithsonian Craft Show.
Associate Professor Marek Wieczorek will soon be a NIAS Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and he is working on a curatorial project with the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain.
Professor Emerita Patricia Failing has received a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to support her article about Henry Ghent (1926–2009).
Professor Ellen Garvens has work in a two-person exhibition exhibition at the Missoula Art Museum through March 7.
Associate Professor Kristine Matthews, a number of her students, and her Studio Matthews have won awards for their design of the OMA&D 50th Anniversary exhibition: one from Communication Arts in their 2019 competition for environmental design and two from the University & College Designers Association (Award of Excellence for Exhibit/Display Graphics and a Gold Award for Student Classroom Work or Assignments).
Associate Professor Doug Jeck's experience at Pilchuck Glass School last summer is included in a recent American Craft article.
Professor Philip Govedare has a solo exhibition of new paintings at Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle, which is on view through February 28.
Assistant Professor Whitney Lynn and alum Katie Miller were selected to create temporary artworks for FLOW 2020 in Seattle.
Alum Max Waugh won the black & white category in the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London.
Alum W. Scott Trimble has unveiled two new public artworks at the Seattle City Light North Service Center.
We are sad to report that alum Charles "Larry" Heald passed away in early October.
Read all alumni news since our last newsletter: October, November, December, and January.
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Jeanette Mills, Newsletter Writer/Editor, soanews@uw.edu