Faculty + Alumni News: Critical Messages
Professor Philip Govedare is one of twenty-six artists included in a group show titled Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment. A discussion he had with Sarah Clark-Langager at Western Gallery, Western Washington University, was the starting point for developing the exhibit, which was eventually funded by a 2009 Visual Arts grant from the NEA. One School of Art alumna, Susan Robb (MFA 1995) is also in the show. Critical Messages showed at the Western Gallery in April-May 2010. The exhibit is currently at the Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, until 07 November 2010, followed by a showing at the Boise Art Museum from 18 December 2010 through 11 April 2011.
Faculty News: Marek Wieczorek
Associate Professor of Art History Marek Wieczorek gave a lecture titled “Expansive Connections: Van Doesburg’s Diagonal, between Painting and Architecture” as part of the Abstract Connections conference at the Tate Modern in London during March 2010. He is currently preparing an essay for the catalog of De Stijl, an exhibition opening in December at the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris.
In February 2011, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in the School of Art will feature an exhibition with artworks by Joe Davis, whom the Washington Post recently dubbed the “éminence grise of the ‘Bioart’ movement.” The show will feature works Davis made while in residence at the Pilchuck Glass School in the summer of 2010. Joe Davis holds positions as research affiliate at both MIT and Harvard. For more information on Davis, and to get a sense of the breadth of his pioneering work in both the arts and sciences (including links to publications on him), see this article about him.
Alumni News – Eirik Johnson
Originally posted on 20 Jul 10:
In 1992 Eirik Johnson received a BFA in Photography and a BA in History from the UW. He went on to receive an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has become an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Opening last October and running into January of this year, Johnson had an exhibit titled Sawdust Mountain at the Henry Art Gallery; the show was most recently seen at the Aperture Gallery in New York City. These two venues partnered to produce a book of the same title. A brief interview with him about the book was featured in the 06 July 2010 edition of The Morning News. This spring his work was included in the exhibit titled The Road to Nowhere? as part of the FotoFest 2010 Biennial. Johnson has been chosen as a finalist for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; work by all the finalists will be exhibited from 22 September 2010 through 17 January 2011.
Originally posted on 16 July 10:
Each year the Behnke Foundation in Seattle has a committee nominate several artists for the Neddy Artist Fellowship in two media. For 2010, the SoA had an alumni in each category: Margie Livingston (MFA 1999) in painting and Marvin Oliver (MFA 1973) in glass. Livingston was chosen as finalist for the painting fellowship. Congratulations!
Work by all of this year’s nominees is currently on exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum in Honoring 15 Years of Neddy Artist Fellows. The show also includes work by all of the fellows from 1996-2009, which includes current faculty (Akio Takamori), retired faculty (Michael Spafford), and several alumni: Donnabelle Casis (MFA 1997), Lauri Chambers (BFA 1996), Claire Cowie (MFA 1999), Eric Elliott (MFA 2007), Claudia Fitch (BFA 1975), Brian Murphy (MFA 1999), Mary Ann Peters (MFA 1977), Barbara Robertson (MFA 1979), and Whiting Tennis (BFA 1984).
Alumni News – Shan (Susie) Lu
Originally posted on 14 Jul 10:
Shan (Susie) Lu just graduated from the UW with a BS in Industrial Engineering and a BA in Painting and Drawing. If that weren’t unusual enough, she also received the Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence in the College of Engineering and the Dean’s Medal in the Arts from the College of Arts & Sciences. The second link above includes two short video clips of her talking about study abroad and one of her artworks.
Article – Art of Darkness
Originally posted on 07 July 10:
Suzanne Beal (MA 2008) wrote an article for the June 2010 issue of the Seattle CityArts. The article features the work being done by Kris Anderson, Director of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, to document faculty and student artworks that are in SoA storage.
Faculty + Alumni News – HAG DIG
Originally posted on 02 Jul 10:
The Henry Art Gallery has been working at providing better access to its collections through Digital Interactive Galleries (DIG). Their most recent DIG is titled Northwest Artists. It includes a feature piece on Claire Cowie (MFA 1999) and links to items in the HAG collection for several groups of people: UW School of Art faculty (past and present), members of Northwest Designer Craftsmen, and members of the former Northwest Printmakers group. More DIG are planned for the future.
Faculty News – Axel Roesler
Originally posted on 01 Jul 10:
Axel Roesler, Assistant Professor in Design, has had a presentation/workshop accepted for the Fifth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, which will take place in Rome, Italy, in February 2011. The title of his workshop is “Interaction Design in High Stakes Domains: The Impact of Design at the Intersection of Expertise and Technology”. This conference produces both a scholarly journal and a book series. A project from his autumn 2009 Art 383 class was featured in a June post on one of Wired magazine’s blogs.
Student News – Shayla Alarie
Originally posted on 01 Jul 10:
MA student in Art History Shayla Alarie has had an article published in the most recent issue of the The International Journal of the Book. Her article is titled “Failure in a Successful Interpretation: The Problem of Visual Literacy in Hablot Knight Browne’s Illustrations for Bleak House“.
