Student News – Jayme Yahr
Originally posted on 15 Oct 09:
Art History PhD student Jayme Yahr curated an exhibit at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle titled Open Roads and Bedside Tables: American Modernism in the Frye Collection. She will be giving gallery talks about the exhibit on 17 October 2009 and 05 December 2009. Yahr will have an article titled “A Philadelphia Story: Cultural Patrimony in ‘The Gross Clinic’ and Barnes Foundation Sagas” published this autumn in U.S. Studies Online produced by the British Association of American Studies.
Faculty News – Marek Wieczorek
Originally posted on 15 Oct 09:
Associate Professor of modern art history Marek Wieczorek participated with a paper on “The Nature of Spirit: Piet Mondrian between Physics and Metaphysics” in an international conference on “The Lives of Form: Abstract Art and Nature,” held at the Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, 13-15 August 2009. He also wrote the lead catalog essay for the traveling retrospective of the pioneer of abstract sculpture Georges Vantongerloo: Fur eine neue Welt: Georges Vantongerloo und seine Kreise von Mondrian bis Bill [For a new World: Georges Vantongerloo and his Circle, from Mondrian to Bill] held at the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 10 October 2009 to 10 January 2010, and at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 23 January 2010 to 16 May 2010. The titles of his contributions to the catalog are: “For the New World: Georges Vantongerloo and the Promise of Art” and “The ‘Incommensurable’ Georges Vantongerloo, 1945-1965.”
Alumni News – Perri Lynch
Originally posted on 14 Oct 09:
Perry Lynch (BFA, 1996) was awarded a 2009-2010 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to do research and create artworks in India. Her project runs from May-November 2009 and is titled “Pattern and Place: The Kolam Drawing Tradition of South India.”
Alumni News – Design
Originally posted on 14 Oct 09:
Congratulations to Kristen Clute, Sean Douglass, Kim Fulton, Nivi Ramesh, Christina Koehn and Allen Lau! These six UW alum have had their information graphics projects published in the latest Rockport information design book!
Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics That People Understand
By Connie Malamed
Kristin Clute, pg. 38, Politics + Potential
Sean Douglass, pg. 132, Coal: Powering Our Demise
Kim Fulton, pg. 181, Small Atom, Big Energy
Nivi Ramesh, pg. 176 The Future of Energy: From Grass to Gas
Christina Koehn, pg. 137, Alzheimer’s Disease: The Aging Brain
Allen Lau, pg. 173, Understanding the Obesity Epidemic: East vs. West
Faculty News – Sang-gyeun Ahn
Originally posted on 14 Oct 09:
Congratulations to UW ID Professor Sang-gyeun Ahn! Ahn’s project, “Green Seed” has been selected for Honorable Mention in the 2009 Taiwan International Design Competition.
This is an excellent achievement as there were only 20 awards selected by a distinguished jury:
Dr. Mark Breitenberg, President Elect of ICSID
Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, President, Red Dot
Ms. Shashi Caan, President Elect, IFI
Prof. Russell Kennedy, President Elect, ICOGRADA
Since its inception in 2002, the Taiwan International Design Competition has become one of the most prestigious and authoritative design competitions in Asia. Winning submissions will be exhibited from 2-18 October 2009 at the Taiwan Design Center (TDC). Ahn’s project will be retained in the permanent selection of the TDC. Ahn will be travelling to the 2009 Taiwan Design Expo next week to attend the awards ceremony and exhibition.
Faculty + Student News – Design
Originally posted 14 Oct 09:
The UCDA (University & College Designers Association) exists to promote excellence in visual communications for educational institutions. In their 2009 competition, UW faculty and students received four awards of excellence. This year, there were 1,300 entries and 257 awards.
Assistant Professor Annabelle Gould received an excellence award for the 2009 UW MFA catalog.
Associate Professor Karen Cheng received an excellence award for the 2008 KUOW annual report.
The student designed exhibit, Open to Question also received an excellence award, as did the WANT exhibit design team. Both exhibit design teams were overseen by Assistant Professor Kristine Matthews.
Open to Question exhibit student design team:
Erin Williams, Leslie MacNeil, Carina Skrobecki, Mia Pizzuto
WANT exhibit design student team:
Francis Luu, Terry Liu, Ivy Sa, Donica Ida
Alumni News – Erin Williams
Originally posted on 14 Oct 09:
Congratulations to Erin Williams, recent VCD MFA graduate from Spring 2009! Erin Williams’s thesis project, VeloCity, has won 1st place in the AIGA (Re)Design Awards, in the “Student Environmental Sustainability” category.
Her project (which was advised by Assistant Professor Kristine Matthews) was also selected as one of 3 Judge’s Choice Winners! The Re(design) Awards recognize projects that use design to support a sustainable world and/or social responsibility. Only 25 projects were selected.
The competition was judged by: Ann Willoughby, President and Creative Director, Willoughby Design Group; Marc Alt, President, Marc Alt + Partners; Jim Ales, Art Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Alumni News – Catie Cadge-Moore
Originally posted on 14 Oct 09:
Catie Cadge-Moore (MA, 1992) is a tenured instructor at DeAnza College in the Divisions of Creative Arts and Intercultural/International Studies. She has been there since 1999 after completing a PhD at the University of Victoria and teaching for three years at Southern Oregon University. She has traveled widely for research and study, including to Central America, South America, and the Arctic. In summer 2009, she was a participant in a Fulbright-Hays program in West Africa that emphasized textiles and contemporary art. This year she also had a textbook published titled Cultural Diversity in American Art History: An Introduction to Intercultural Studies Through Visual Arts.
Originally posted on 14 Oct 09:
Three SoA-related people have work in a current exhibit at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington:
Philip Govedare (Professor, Art)
Mary Iverson (BFA, 1989; MFA, 2002)
Margie Livingston (MFA, 1999)
The exhibit opened on 10 October 2009 and runs through 03 January 2010. The curator of the show is Kathleen Moles, a former SoA staff member.
Alumni News – Raymond Silverman
Originally posted on 14 Oct 09:
Raymond Silverman (MA, 1977; PhD, 1983) is a Professor in the History of Art Department and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. He is also the founding Director of the Museum Studies Program there. Silverman’s last book was a 2005 catalog to accompany the exhibit he curated at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, which was titled Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw. He continues to do research in Africa on a regular basis, and he is involved with the development of a cultural center in Techiman, Ghana.
