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Winter 2021 Newsletter

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In This Issue

Featured Stories:

  • Director's Notes
  • 2021 Critical Issues Lecture Series
  • Winter 2021 Part-Time Faculty
  • Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance
  • 2021 MDes Work in Progress
  • Autumn Activities
  • A Snapshot of America, in 18 Portraits
  • In Memoriam – Bill Holm
  • Donors: January – December 2020
  • Q+A with Robert Yoder

Student Voices Stories:

  • Museum Guide Interns
  • Learning Ceramics at Home
  • Parnassus Gallery Online

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories:

  • Ilana Harris-Babou: Long Con
  • MONDAY – Volume 5
  • Ariel René Jackson: Descendance

 

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Featured Stories

Jamie Walker

Director's Notes

As I sat down to write these quarterly notes, I struggled to find the concentration to focus. Given the current state of our world, which has at times been all consuming, it has been a challenge…

January 12, 2021
Detail of Who’s teaching to hang dry? by SoiL Thorton

2021 Critical Issues Lecture Series

This 2021 lecture series begins on January 15 and ends on March 5. All sessions are hosted online in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. They are free and open to the public.

December 21, 2020
Andrew Allen

Winter 2021 Part-Time Faculty

The winter quarter 2020 part-time faculty are Andrew Allen, Romson Bustillo, Granite Calimpong, Alex Chang, Fiona Connor, Joe Costello, Stefan Gonzales, Arely Morales, Stephanie Simek, Rafael Soldi, Steven Watson, and Jayme Yen.

January 04, 2021
Code chit chat

Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance

A November 20 event launched a project website featuring research by Assistant Professors Audrey Desjardins (Interaction Design), Afroditi Psarra (DXARTS), and Bonnie Whiting (Percussion Studies). Discussion was moderated by Emily Zimmerman. Video is available.

November 03, 2020
MDes work in progress graphic

2021 MDes Work in Progress

Four Master of Design students are working towards graduation in June 2021. In mid-December, they shared their current thesis work in an online session, and they are now ready to share that further.

December 28, 2020
Book cover background image for The Creative Process

Autumn Activities

Autumn quarter is over, but some work lives on digitally. We are pleased to share with you activities that occurred during the past few months within the UW and out in our broader community.

December 18, 2020
Juliet Sperling by Miha Sarani

A Snapshot of America, in 18 Portraits

Assistant Professor of Art History Juliet Sperling analyzes 18 pieces of art that tell the tale of American history. Paintings by two alums are included in this University of Washington Magazine article.

December 08, 2020
Bill Holm in his studio

In Memoriam – Bill Holm

The School of Art + Art History + Design is sad to announce the passing of Art History Professor Emeritus Bill Holm, expert on Northwest Coast Native art, on December 16, 2020.

January 03, 2021
Kollar American Art Lecture Reception, spring 2016

Donors: January – December 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. Join them by selecting one of our top funds for your donation.

January 11, 2021
Robert Yoder in his studio

Q+A with Robert Yoder

Yoder received his MFA in Fiber Arts in 1987. Since then, he has worked on his own art practice, and he became a gallerist when he founded SEASON in 2010. Tela Real, an Instagram-only gallery, is his most recent venture.

December 21, 2020

Student Stories

Museum guide interns with Berette Macaulay

Museum Guide Interns

The Henry Art Gallery and the School have long partnered on educational projects. One of these is the Museum Guide Program and its internship course. Eight students are participating and four have written about their experience.

January 10, 2021
Carley Long's home work space for ceramics

Learning Ceramics at Home

Learning ceramics through an online class is a challenge, but it can be done. Read what two students — Carley Long and Shiuan Chu — have to say after their autumn quarter classes.

January 10, 2021
Students on Zoom planning online Parnassus Gallery

Parnassus Gallery Online

An online version of the gallery that has existed in Parnassus, the Art Building cafe, debuts on January 17 thanks to the efforts of four students: Yering Yang, Jentzen Mooney, Ashley Tseng, and Anna Shi.

January 08, 2021

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories

Ilana Harris-Babou Long Con exhibition banner

Ilana Harris-Babou: Long Con

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to present recent video work by Ilana Harris-Babou. The exhibition is on view November 19, 2020 – January 16, 2021. NOTE: the exhibition is currently only open to School students, faculty, and staff.

November 06, 2020
Monday volume 5

MONDAY – Volume 5

MONDAY is an arts journal produced by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. The title of volume 5 is "Angel of History." It is guest-edited by Marisa Williamson, the 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident.

December 01, 2020
Descendance exhibition graphic identity

Ariel René Jackson: Descendance

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to premiere Ariel René Jackson’s Descendance, a drone-shot video featuring interdisciplinary tap dance artist Michael J. Love and an original score by jazz musician Joseph C. Dyson Jr. The exhibition is on view from January 28 through February 23, 2021.

January 09, 2021

Other News

Associate Professor Marek Wieczorek contributed five essays to Mondrian and De Stijl, an exhibition catalog published by Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, during autumn 2020.

Assistant Professor Rob Rhee is featured in a Frye Art Museum Virtual Visit video in which he has a conversation with Amanda Donnan, the museum's chief curator.

Teaching Professor Timea Tihanyi contributed a photo of her 3D-printed ceramics and text to a book titled Illustrating Mathematics, which was released in the autumn.

Watch a video of Associate Professor Curt Labitzke presenting a sample class, "Printmaking at Home," during the National College Fair in October.

Professor Karen Cheng and two BDes 2020 graduates — Maya Flood and Eli Kahn — worked on a Guide for People Living in Vehicles project, which won a PRINT 2020 Citizen Design Award.

Lane Eagles (MA 2013, PhD 2019) was named as the new associate curator at Bellevue Arts Museum in early December.

Rumi Koshino (BFA 2008, MFA 2010) had a book of photographs, Solo Walks, The First 100 Days, published by RITE Editions in autumn.

Maygha Puri (BDes 2020) has had her Bridge project (a new way to participate in political conversation) shortlisted in the Disrupting category for Interaction Awards 2021.

Christie Tirado (BA 2013) has a print series titled America's Essential Workers, and Crosscut interviewed her about it in December.

Read all the alumni news since our last newsletter: October, November, December, and January.


Contacts

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

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

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