Faculty + Alums in Show @gageacademy
Breadth: A Cross-Examination of Seattle Portraits is on display in the Steele Gallery at the Gage Academy of Art until 16 April 2011. Three School of Art faculty and a number of our alumni make up more than one-third of the artists in the exhibition: Photomedia Professor Ellen Garvens, Mandy Greer (MFA 1999), Lauren Grossman (BFA 1983), Sean Howe (BFA 2007), Jonathan Hudak (BFA 2008), Rumi Koshino (BFA 2008, MFA 2010), IVA Associate Professor Curt Labitzke, Anne Petty (MFA 2009), Mike Simi (MFA 2007), IVA Lecturer Timea Tihanyi (MFA 2003), Kimberly Trowbridge (MFA 2006), and Sara Zin (BA 2007). Petty was chosen to give the lecture during the opening on March 18th. The Gage galleries are normally open 10am-6pm daily.
Art Division Professor John Young was recently featured in a Huffington Post article. The article’s main focus was his Magnuson Park piece titled The Fin Project: From Swords into Plowshares, but some of his other work was also discussed. The article was written by Darby Roach (BFA 1982). Through his website, Roach maintains a blog called The Orbit Report, and last year he published a book titled Your Three Second Window: Changing Everyday Moments Into Extraordinary Opportunities for Success.
Ellen Garvens at Prographica
Photomedia Professor Ellen Garvens has work in a show opening 02 April 2011 and titled Three Photographers: Marsha Burns, Ellen Garvens, Kathy Vargas. The exhibition is at Prographica in Seattle. The reception is from 2-4pm on the first day. The show continues through 14 May 2011.
Jayme Yahr @kirklandarts
Art History PhD student Jayme Yahr is soon to finish her degree, but she has already started a new job at the Kirkland Arts Center. As of 21 March 2011, she is their Exhibitions Director. According to the KAC press release, “Yahr will set the vision for KAC’s Exhibitions program, which includes eight contemporary exhibitions in the KAC gallery, six to twelve satellite exhibitions throughout the region, and several public lectures, discussions, and art events. Yahr will also mentor graduate students through KAC’s flagship Emerging Curator Initiative (ECI), which provides a national model for training curators in the field.” The press release provides additional information about the ECI and Yahr’s background.
Akio Takamori Shows in Seattle and Korea
3D4M Professor Akio Takamori has work in two exhibitions opening in April. Terra-cotta, Primitive Future opens to the public at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in Korea on April 1st. Takamori will attend the preview and present a public lecture on 31 March 2011. That show remains up until 28 August 2011, and his pieces will be included in an exhibit catalog. On April 7th, he opens a solo show titled BOYS at James Harris Gallery, which closes on 30 April 2011.
Art History PhD Candidate Kolya Rice has lectured and taught at several institutions in the Puget Sound region. He currently is giving a lecture series at the Frye Art Museum titled “Live/Taped: Aspects of Performance Art and Video, Past and Present.” Three talks remain in the series, one each in March, April, and May. Tickets are available at the museum on the day of each talk.
Artists for Japan @RedCross
Many School of Art faculty and alumni have donated work to a Seattle event taking place on March 26th and 27th, 2011. Artists for Japan is raising money to support Red Cross relief efforts after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. The event takes place at KOBO at HIGO in the International District. Saturday hours are noon to 8pm, and Sunday hours are noon to 5pm. The growing list of artists involved is on the event’s website. The Murakami Family, who own Higo Variety Store, will match up to $10,000 of the money raised at this event.
Geraldine Ondrizek (MFA 1994) has been a professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, since graduating. Over the years, she has had residencies in New York State, Germany, London, Jordan, and France. She has also shown her work regularly around the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Ondrizek currently has a solo show at Portland Art Museum, which will remain up through 15 May 2011.
Labitzke Shows New Work at 2 Spaces
Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Associate Professor Curt Labitzke has a show titled Curt Labitzke: Expressions, New Prints and Paintings at The Island Gallery on Bainbridge Island. The exhibit opened on 04 March 2011 and remains up through the end of the month. Normal hours are Monday – Saturday, 11am-6pm, and Sunday, 1-5pm. Labitzke also has a show opening on Saturday, 12 March 2011, at PrintZero Studios from 5-8pm. He will give an artist talk there on 19 March at 2pm. That show will close on 10 April 2011; hours are Saturday/Sunday from 12-5pm or by appointment.
Featured in this morning’s UW Today is a new, unusual project from IVA Associate Professor Lou Cabeen’s Art 427 (Special Topics in Surface Design). UW Mailing Services partnered with Cabeen and her students so that the students could create artworks and install them on UW Seattle campus mailboxes. The connection between these disparate campus units happened through School of Art staff member Debra Cox and her husband, Marco Solis-Bethancourt, who is a supervisor at Mailing Services. The project was a lot of work, but it also was a great learning experience for all involved. A map, created by School of Art staff member Meg Zabielski, shows the location of the projects, and a selection of photos have been posted on Facebook (no account required).
Update: The Mailbox Project also was featured on the front page of The Daily for the Friday, 11 March 2011, issue.
