Alumni at Pilchuck
Originally poste on 22 Apr 10:
Saya Moriyasu (BA/BFA 1991) received a John H. Hauberg Fellowship to support a May 2010 residency at the Pilchuck Glass School. She will be working on a collaborative project with four other artists. Alyson Shotz (MFA 1991) will be an Artist in Residence for three weeks this summer during the school’s session two.
Student News – Lucienne Auz
Originally posted on 21 Apr 10:
Lucienne Auz, a PhD student in Art History, recently received a William P. and Ruth Gerberding Rome Studies Fellowship. She is currently in Rome participating in the Art History Seminar in Rome and pursuing her research on Arte Povera.
Student Technology Fee Winners
Originally posted on 20 Apr 10:
The SoA had three Student Technology Fee proposals funded this year. The largest grant was for improving computing resources at the SoA, primarily in the main labs in the Art Building, but also for student-use systems throughout our three locations. The proposal was written by Mark Rector, Director of IT, and received $72,837. Next was a grant for Wacom digital design tablets. This proposal received $19,984 and was written by Stephen Minarsch, an Industrial Design graduate student. The third grant has funded the purchase of three new and much safer table saws equipped with SawStop technology, one for each SoA building. This proposal was written by 3D4M Instructional Technician John Martin and received $12,747.
Larry Sommers Art Fellowship
Originally posted on 06 Apr 10:
It has been a year since the passing of long-time SoA staff member Larry Sommers. Many in the SoA still mourn losing him. One way to celebrate his life is to support the Larry Sommers Art Fellowship (administered by Seattle Print Arts) through donating funds and/or getting the word out about the first round of fellowship applications. Information about the fund and the application process is available online. The application deadline is 01 June 2010.
Originally posted on 04 Mar 10:
In mid-February, Associate Professors Estelle Lingo and Stuart Lingo traveled to Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, to give lectures. Professor Stuart Lingo’s talk titled “Michelangelo, Bronzino, and the Status of the Artful Body in Late Renaissance Florence” was part of the Moss Lecture Series. Professor Estelle Lingo spoke as part of the Ruffin Lecture Series and her topic was “Becoming Bernini: The Crossing of St. Peter’s and the Fortune of the Antique at the End of the Renaissance.” She also traveled to Rome in mid-January as an invited participant in an international conference and workshop titled “Bellori’s Terminology: Tradition, Construction, and Usage in his Lives and Art Literature in the Early Modern Period” at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut fur Kunstgeschichte). Her paper was titled “Putting a finger on it: Bellori and Sculptural Criticism”.
Faculty News – Cynthea Bogel
Originally posted on 03 Mar 10:
Associate Professor Cynthea Bogel received a one-year National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for a project titled “A History of Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo-e)”. Her book, With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyo Vision, was recently published by University of Washington Press. The book has won a design award from the American Association of University Presses in the category of scholarly illustrated books.
Design News – Prosthetics Class
Originally posted on 03 Mar 10:
An Autumn Quarter class, Human-Centered Design (Art 327), taught by Assistant Professor Magnus Feil has received notice in both A&S Perspectives, University Week and the Seattle Times. The class, with Seattle artist Joanne Tilley as an adviser, worked to develop prototypes for prosthetic arms.
Alumni News – Tamaki Maeda
Originally posted on 03 Mar 10:
Tamaki Maeda (BA 1992, MA 1997, PhD 2004), a lecturer at the University of British Columbia, published “Rediscovering Japan in China: Fu Baoshi’s Ink Painting”, in Writing Modern Chinese Art, edited by Josh Yiu and published by the Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press in 2009. She also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Modern China. In 2009, she presented papers at the College Art Association and Association for Asian Studies Conferences and at the University of the Arts, London, among other venues.
Burke Museum Artifact ID Day
Originally posted on 11 Feb 10:
Several current and former SoA people are usually involved in Artifact ID Day at the Burke Museum each year. For example, one photo shot by Ellen M. Banner of the Seattle Times, includes Bill Holm (Professor Emeritus, Art History), Katie Bunn-Marcuse (MA, 1998; PhD, 2007), and Robin Wright (Professor, Art History). This year’s January event was the museum’s 25th Artifact ID Day. The Burke Museum’s website has a podcast from the day and their blog has more photos.
Alumni News – Nancy Stoaks
Originally posted on 25 Jan 10:
Nancy Stoaks (MA, 2009) will be presenting a paper titled “Napoleon in Drag: Niki de Saint Phalle, the Shooting Paintings, and the Negotiation of Spectacle” at the 29th Annual Art History, Visual Art and Theory Graduate Symposium and Exhibition in Vancouver, BC. This year’s symposium is titled “Sights/Sites of Spectacle” and will be held on 29 and 30 January 2010.
