Director Notes
Greetings from the School of Art + Art History + Design. Winter quarter is in full swing here on campus and students are braving the elements to focus on ideating, writing, drawing, experimenting, prototyping, and making. The days are short and dark so the tendency is to want to stay in bed and sleep until spring. Despite living in Seattle for more than 20 years, I concur with that sentiment! But on we must go, and the gift of a deadline is a powerful motivator.
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Associate Professor and Chair of 3D4M, Michael Swaine was the Merwin Conservancy Artist in Residence in September 2024. Watch this video by Pacific Story Tellers (courtesy of The Merwin Conservancy) highlighting Swaine's and Wessell's reflections on their residency.
Congratulations to Photo/Media + New Genres Professor, Rebecca Cummins, who was part of the group exhibition Engaging the Margins, co-curated by Antoinette LaFarge and Jesse Colin Jackson at UC Irvine Beall Center. The exhibition is on view through April 29, 2025. Dr. Cummins also completed a residency at UC Irvine in January during the exhibition's opening week.
MDes student Lisa Bambach is showing her object-based sculpture project developed in autumn “relics of communal memory” at SEATAC in Concourse A. The piece will be displayed next to two 3D4M MFA students for 3–6 months starting in January 2025.
Painting + Drawing Professor Zhi Lin is one of the artists featured in The Other Side of The Tracks, a group exhibition curated by Jorge Rojas at 516 ARTS—Contemporary Art Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The exhibition was on view from November 9, 2024 through February 8, 2025.
Timea Tihanyi is featured in MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025: Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around? The exhibition is curated by Stefano Catalani and is on view through May 11, 2025. A VR and percussion performance is happening on March 22, 2025.
Tihanyi also recently had an artist talk at The Shop hosted by LMN Architects. She has another artist talk at Kirkland Arts Center on February 21, 5:00 pm.
Peter Millet’s (MFA 1975) first museum survey, Built Forms, features artworks from Northwest private and museum collections in a review of the artist’s expansive body of work. The exhibition was on view at the Museum of Northwest Art from October 12 through January 12, 2025, and was accompanied by a major catalog.
Miha Sarani's (BA 2015, MA 2019) selected work titled ”Art Matters” is now on view through March at the UW Tower. He has an artist talk on Wednesday, February 12, 5:30 pm.
Emily Gherard (MFA 2004) is a 2024 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation recipient. Gherard is one of the 20 artists awarded an unrestricted grant of $20K each to produce new work and push the boundaries of their creativity.
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