The School of Art is developing quite the record for Distinguished Staff Award nominees and winners. This year, Michael Van Horn (MFA 1987), Instructional Technician in Photomedia, has been nominated. We will know by later in Spring Quarter whether he is a winner.
Arts/Industry Residencies @ JMKAC
3D4M Assistant Professor Amie McNeel, who holds the Hermine Pruzan Endowed Faculty Fellowship until 2013, was recently chosen as one of eight recipients of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Residency. Happily, one of the other Arts/Industry residents will be Timea Tihanyi, Lecturer for the Division of Art. The Arts/Industry Residencies, which typically last two to four months, include housing, a stipend, and a featured exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. McNeel’s residency is joint with The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, so she will spend a month there as well.
Alumni News: Cassie Chinn
Cassie Chinn (MA 1997) is the Deputy Executive Director at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle. Last year, she was chosen for the Community Voice Award in the Arts by the International Examiner, a newspaper for Northwest Asian American communities.. A feature article in the newspaper describes her exemplary work at the museum.
Faculty News: Sang-gyeun Ahn
Design Assistant Professor Sang-gyeun Ahn has partnered with Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Jae-Hyun Chung to win a Commercialization Gap Fund grant from the UW Center for Commercialization. Their project is titled “Development of portable benchtop device for rapid DNA concentration and storage.” Last summer, Ahn presented a paper titled “Developing a Training Tool for Translating Form from 3-D Computer Model to 2-D Drawing in Industrial Design Education” at the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) Annual International Conference in Portland, Oregon. That paper is now available online. An article he co-wrote titled “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Asian Design Policies” was recently published in DMI Review.
Scholarships for Scholars XI a Success!
The 11th annual Scholarships for Scholars event took place on 08 February 2011, and it was a resounding success. Over 200 people attended, and $28,000 was raised for 3D4M graduate student scholarships. David and Jane Davis won the raffle prize, which was a suite of five plates, one by each of the 3D4M faculty. Jacob Lambert, New Media Specialist for the College of Arts and Sciences, took some photos that night and has posted them on the College’s Facebook page.
Faculty News: Sonal Khullar
Art History Assistant Professor Sonal Khullar recently received a Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant from the UW Office of Research. That grant supports a book project titled “The Art of Dislocation: Conflict and Collaboration in Contemporary Art from South Asia.” She will be part of the Simpson Center for the Humanities Society of Scholars during the 2011-2012 academic year to foster another book project titled “Worldly Affiliations.” Khullar also is a recipient of a 2011-2012 Collaboration Studio Grant from the Simpson Center, which allows her to develop projects with Assistant Professor Sasha Welland, who holds joint appointments in Anthropology and Women Studies. One of their projects will be development of a new 200-level undergraduate course on “Feminist Art and Visual Culture in Global Perspective.”
Burke Panels Win Prize
Jessica Katona, a senior in the Visual Communication Design Program, has created a large-scale project for the Burke Museum with support from Assistant Professor Kristine Matthews. The project, a series of recycled doors installed between the Odegaard Library and Kane Hall, was noted in UW Today. More recently, the installation received a CASE District VIII Communications Award, which will be handed out at their Vancouver, BC, conference in late February 2011. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is an international association of educational institutions, and District VIII includes the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. Multiple images of the installation, shot by another VCD student, are available on Flickr. The panels are part of a wider campaign, coordinated by Matthews, designed to promote the Burke Museum to UW students, including a new building banner, brochure, buttons, and t-shirts coming soon.
Faculty News: Mark Zirpel
3D4M Assistant Professor Mark Zirpel, holder of the Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair in Glass, has a show of recent work at Bullseye Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Titled Queries in Glass, the show opened on 05 January and closes 25 March 2011. He also has work in the current Washington State Convention Center exhibition titled Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate, which closes on 09 April 2011.
In October 2010, Art History Professor Susan Casteras presented a paper titled “Commodification in the 21st Century: Pre-Raphaelitism and Merchandise, Comic Books and Mysteries” at a University of Delaware conference titled “Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites.” Kyle Stoneman, PhD student in Art History, gave a presentation at the same conference titled “Frederick Judd Waugh: The New World and the American Galahad.” Casteras presented another paper in late January 2011 at the “Cultures of Aestheticism” Conference at UCLA. Her paper was titled “‘Wilde Things’: Visual Constructions of Male & Female Aesthetes.”
On 11 March 2011, Casteras will be chairing a session titled “New Directions in Victorian Art” at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, which is being hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the UW. Three Art History graduate students are presenting papers in that session: Katie Tuft’s paper is “The Hope of an Artist: George Frederic Watts and the Art of Translation;” Jennifer Henneman’s paper is “Selling the Self, collecting the Fragment: Professional Beauties & Cartomania;” and Trevor Doak’s paper is “Lie to Me: The Spirit Photography of William Mumler.”
Casteras also has an article forthcoming in the March 2011 issue of Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation. Her article is titled “Joseph Noel Paton’s Bond and Free: Five Sketches Illustrative of Slavery.”
Possible Fulbright Recipients
One School of Art graduate student and two alumni have made it to the Fulbright shortlist: Tivon Rice (MFA 2006) would like to study in Korea, Sean McElroy (MFA candidate) is interested in doing work in Iceland, and Laura Swytak (MFA 2010) plans to visit Spain. All three were chosen to go to the next stage in the application process where they are reviewed by their respective host countries.
Postscript: Swytak received a Fulbright award and is in Spain from late November 2011 through August 2012. Information about her award is on her website, and she is maintaining a blog during the project.
