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Winter 2024 Newsletter

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In This Issue

Featured Stories:

  • Director's Notes – January 2024
  • Art Faculty at Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2024
  • 2024 MDes Work in Progress
  • ARTH 480/533: Museums and Decolonization
  • Support the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Endowment

Student Voices Stories:

  • The BASEMENT, a new student run online art gallery
  • The Power of Storytelling in Art Curation
  • Design Pecha Kucha 2024: Summer and Fall of Design
  • Meet the 2023-24 Henry Art Liaisons

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories:

  • 2024 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident: Simon Benjamin
  • Photo Gallery: Reopening Celebration
  • Berette S Macaulay, Guest Curator for the 2024 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
  • Portrait celebrates Jacob Lawrence in his namesake gallery

Alumni Stories:

  • Awards for painters to honor the legacy of Alden Mason
  • Alumni Story: East & West
  • Alumni Story: Community Visionary

 

Support Us

  • Donors
  • Gallery Support
  • Graduate Student Support
  • Faculty Support
  • All School Funds

 

Featured Events

Glow in the Dark
January 9 – 27
Jacob Lawrence Gallery

2024 Jacob Lawrence Gallery
March 20  – April 4
Jacob Lawrence Gallery

COMPLETE CALENDAR


 

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Featured Stories

Jamie Walker, 2023

Director's Notes – January 2024

In this [Winter 2024] Newsletter, our students, staff, faculty, and alumni continue to be fully involved in their passions and actively making a difference for themselves and others. 

Sangram Majumbar, light peeks, 2023, oil on canvas, 65 x 78 in

Art Faculty at Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2024

Sangram Majumbar and Kuldeep Sigh's solo exhibitions are part of the 11th edition of the Mumbai Gallery Weekend in January 2024; featured on Architecture Digest India

2024 MDes Graduate Students

2024 MDes Work in Progress

Learn about the progress of the 2024 Master of Design thesis projects by the second-year design graduates. 

ARTH480 Highlights. Courtesy of Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

ARTH 480/533: Museums and Decolonization

UW Students visit Seattle area museums with Art History Professor Bunn-Marcuse. Written by Mariah Ribeiro, graduate student in Art History and student in ARTH 533.

Jacob Lawrence Gallery, 2023. Photo: Natalie O'Rourke

Support the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Endowment

Gifts helps us sustain the growth and cultural impact of our gallery. 

Student Voices Stories

The BASEMENT, 2023. Illustration by Jadelyn Drake

The BASEMENT, a new student run online art gallery

From the co-editors: 

Welcome to the The BASEMENT.

December 20, 2023
Elizabeth Xiong. Photo by Alborz Kamalizad

The Power of Storytelling in Art Curation

Featured on SAMBlog

January 04, 2024
Photo: Natalie O'Rourke

Design Pecha Kucha 2024: Summer and Fall of Design

Each year, the Division of Design puts together the "UW Design Pecha Kucha" where students from across Visual Communication Design (VCD), Industrial Design (ID) and Interaction Design (IxD) share about their past summer and fall of design through a series of brief presentations. Topics include design internships, conferences, travel, and also some revealing data about the who, what, how, why, and when of design internships.

January 16, 2024
The 2023-24 Henry Art Liaisons from left to right: Sven, Ayla, Rosaline, Isabella, Kae, and Sorel.

Meet the 2023-24 Henry Art Liaisons

We are proud to announce that six current students at the School of Art + Art History + Design students were selected for the 2023-2024 Cohort of the Henry Art Gallery’s Henry Art Liaison Program.

November 14, 2023

Alumni Stories

Alden Mason, Fortune Teller, 1988

Awards for painters to honor the legacy of Alden Mason

Established in 2017, the Alden Mason Foundation was formed to sustain and celebrate Alden Mason’s (BFA 1945, MFA 1947) extraordinary legacy as one of the Pacific Northwest’s most prominent artists and to acknowledge his influence on multiple generations of students as an influential professor of art at the University of Washington (1949-1981).

December 20, 2023
Cheryll Leo-Gwin, Iron Workers. Source: UW Magazine

Alumni Story: East & West

Cheryll Leo-Gwin (BFA 1975, MFA 1977) explores identity and history in her journey from jewelry designer to public artist. 

Featured on UW Magazine

December 13, 2023
Hoa Hong by Jordan Nicholson

Alumni Story: Community Visionary

Hoa Hong received a Bachelor of Art (Painting + Drawing) in 2017. 

Featured on UW Magazine

October 19, 2023

Jacob Lawrence Gallery Stories

Simon Benjamin

2024 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident: Simon Benjamin

January 17, 2024
Photo: Natalie O'Rourke

Photo Gallery: Reopening Celebration

Thank you to all those who attended the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Reopening Celebration on November 14. It was a wonderful evening celebrating the legacy of Jacob Lawrence, and we were so glad to share it with you. We are excited to share these photos by Natalie O'Rourke, which captures the magic and essence of community felt in the space.

December 01, 2023
Berette S Macaulay. Courtesy of Artist.

Berette S Macaulay, Guest Curator for the 2024 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is excited to announce Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist and writer, Berette S Macaulay as the Guest Curator for the 2024 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency.

November 14, 2023
Barbara Earl Thomas (American, b. 1948), Jacob and the Builders, 2023. Paper cut with hand-printed color. Photo by Spike Mafford, Zocalo Studios. Courtesy of the artist.

Portrait celebrates Jacob Lawrence in his namesake gallery

Featured on UW Magazine

November 25, 2023

Other News

Photo/Media Professor Rebecca Cummins has been very active on a number fronts including a presentation at ASAP14: The Association for the Art of the Present Conference “Arts of Fugitivity" in Seattle in October. She was also interviewed about her work and featured in two books: Entropia: Coleções Interlocuções and Experimental Engagements in Interdisciplinary Art: An Anthology of Contemporary Practices In Experimental Practices: Encounters across Arts, Sciences and Humanities. An image and mention appeared in Spike Magazine #77.

Visual Communication Design Associate Professor Kristine Matthews has been chosen to be a juror for the Society for Experimental Graphic Design (SEGD) Global Design Awards. Matthews will be joining the rest of the jury in Washington D.C. this March.  

Congratulations to Photo/Media alum Jenny Irene Miller (BFA 2013) who made the 2023 Silver List organized by Silver Eye.

Art History Associate Teaching Professor Kolya Rice presented a lecture at Cascadia Art Museum on January 17, 2024 titled "The Triumph of Purism and the Fate of William Mortensen".  

Mother Tongue at Sarah Spurgeon Gallery is a two-person exhibition featuring Photo/Media Associate Professor Victor Yañez-Lazcano and artist Rafael Soldi. The exhibition is showing from February 2 through March 9. 

Artist Trust has awarded Perri Howard (BFA 1996) with a 2023 Grant For Artist Progress.

The solo exhibition of Eirik Johnson (BFA 97) The Light That Gets Lost was on view at Koplin del Rio Gallery 

Yongqi Tang (BA 2019, MFA 2022) is selected as one of 30 contemporary artists for a Fountainhead Residency in 2024 in Miami, FL. She also received a 2023 Grant For Artist Progress from Artist Trust.     

In Overburden, Katie Miller (BFA 23) shapes the Vestibule into an installation inspired by mining and mineral extraction, on view through February, 12.

Keepsakes at SHIFT Gallery features alum and current staff Laura Todd (MA 20), alum and former staff Liz Copland (BFA 09, MA 22), and Genny Costin. Exhibition will be on view from February 1 through March 2, Opening Reception on Feb 1, 5-8pm 


Contacts

Leo Carmona, Media Relations Specialist, soanews@uw.edu

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