Lecture by Tom Marioni
Join faculty and students at 6pm on 01 November 2011 in the 3D4M / CMA Building for a presentation by Tom Marioni. This sculptor, based in San Francisco, has also created a large body of work in drawing and painting. In addition, he is the brother of Paul Marioni and uncle to Dante Marioni, both prominent glass artists in the Northwest.
Pecha Kucha Night
Senior Design Division students will give presentations about their 2011 summer internships on Thursday, 27 October 2011. The Pecha Kucha format will be used. All presentations take place in the Art Building; specific rooms are listed below. If you plan to attend and have a Facebook account, please RSVP on the event page.
5:30-6:30 – Visual Communication Design in room 247
6:30-7:30 – Interaction Design in room 236
7:30-8:30 – Industrial Design in room 232
Taylor at Pottery Northwest
3D4M Instructional Technician John Taylor is in the middle of a roughly six-month residency at Pottery Northwest adjacent to Seattle Center. Residents have 24-hour access to their studios and are expected to participate in the artistic community housed there. Taylor is enjoying the experience, learning new things and pushing himself in new directions. He feels that he is gaining knowledge he can apply to his work with 3D4M students and faculty, and it is allowing him to educate people at Pottery Northwest about the 3D4M Program. Over the years, a number of School of Art alumni have been Pottery Northwest residents, either before or after they were students here. Some examples are Alicia Basinger (MFA 2008), Evan Blackwell (MFA 2008), Natsue Makino (BFA 2009), George Rodriguez (MFA 2009), Kinu Watanabe (MFA 2008), and Ben Waterman (MFA 2009). A full list is on the Pottery Northwest website.
The projects designed for PACCAR Hall by Visual Communication Design Professor Karen Cheng and Assistant Professor Kristine Matthews continue to win awards. Foster Exchange has been selected for the AIGA 365 | Design Effectiveness competition. Just 135 projects were selected from over 1000 entries. Those selections were publicly displayed at the AIGA National Design Center in New York City during September 2011, and the exhibit will travel to AIGA chapters and galleries during 2012. Change Elevators was chosen for the Core77 Design Awards in the category of Graphics/Branding/Identity. A video about all the award winners in that category includes a nearly 3-minute discussion about the Cheng/Matthews project among the jurors (starts at 8:01 in the video).
The annual exhibition of work created by Bellevue College Art Department faculty is showing through 27 October 2011. The Gallery Space is open Mon-Thu, 10am-5pm; follow link for appointments. Just over half of the college’s art faculty are School of Art alumni:
Ross Brown (MFA 1981)
Pat De Caro (MFA 1982)
Lars Husby (BFA 1970, MFA 1972, MFA 1974)
Gretchen Lillie (BFA 1973, BFA 1982)
Dale Lindman (MFA 1982)
Ron Tanzi (BFA 1983)
Linda Thomas (BFA 1985, MFA 1996)
Many @artisttrust GAP Winners
10 of the 62 Washington State artists awarded Grants for Artists Projects this year are School of Art alumni. Congratulations! The GAP awards are given annually by Artist Trust in amounts up to $1,500. Information about the artists and their projects is available online.
Jacob Foran (MFA 2010)
Mandy Greer (MFA 1999)
Jason Huff (MFA 1996)
Lauren Klenow (BA 2007)
Isaac Layman (BFA 2003)
Anne Petty (MFA 2009)
Tivon Rice (MFA 2006)
Susan Robb (MFA 1995)
George Rodriguez (MFA 2009)
Bryan Schoneman (MFA 2010)
Videowatercolors @henryartgallery
Associate Art History Professor Marek Wieczorek has curated an exhibition titled Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries that opens at the Henry Art Gallery on 15 October 2011 and closes on 22 January 2012. Wieczorek first met Balth, an artist who has shown widely in Europe, in the mid-1980s and has since written several essays about his work, including the lead essay in a book titled Heart Beat. Wieczorek introduced Balth’s work to Henry Art Gallery Chief Curator Elizabeth Brown, leading to an invitation to curate this exhibition. He used works by Balth’s contemporaries from the Henry’s collection as part of the show, and he is teaching an Autumn Quarter course for the School of Art focused on the same subject as the exhibition. Wieczorek will give a lecture at the Henry on 09 December 2011, and there will be a student colloquium on 13 January 2012.
Update: Professor Wieczorek’s involvement with this project was featured in a UW Today article on 30 November 2011.
Cheng Co-Authors with Scientists
Associate Professor Karen Cheng has co-authored an article in Advanced Materials with Marco Rolandi, an Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and Sarah Pérez-Kriz, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. The article, titled “A Brief Guide to Designing Effective Figures for the Scientific Paper,” provides basic information to improve the efforts of scientists and engineers.
Student Artists Show Off
To kick off Autumn Quarter, three programs in the Art Division will have exhibitions of student work. Each show is in a different School of Art facility, and each has its own days and hours. All open to the public on Thursday, 29 September 2011. Follow the links below to learn the full information.
Govedare + Gale at Prographica
Professor Philip Govedare and Associate Professor Ann Gale from the Painting + Drawing Program each have work in a show at Prographica in Seattle. The exhibition is titled Studies: Preparatory Work That Stands Alone, and it will remain up through 23 October 2011.
