Anderson is AAMG VP
Kris Anderson is Director of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in the School of Art, and he is a PhD student in the Art History Division. In May 2011, he was elected to a three-year term as the Vice President of Communication for the Association of Academic Museums & Galleries (AAMG). On 21 September 2011, he will present a paper at the XI Annual Meeting of the ICOM International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC), which takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. Anderson’s paper is titled “The Collection of a Non-Collecting Institution: The Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the History of the University of Washington School of Art.” His attendance at the conference is supported by a 2011 Thelma I. Pell Art History Graduate Research/Recognition Award. Pell was a 1938 UW Nursing School graduate whose nursing career did not diminish a long-standing love of art history and her desire to support those who share her passion.
Public Art by Blackwell
Evan Blackwell (MFA 2008) recently finished installing Metropolis, a permanent outdoor sculpture designed specifically for Meadowdale Hall at Edmonds Community College. As the artist says, “The sculpture responds to the physical elements throughout the building as well as the programs operating within, including Visual Arts, Engineering, Construction Management and Energy Management. It is an assemblage of salvaged structural connectors and stainless steel hardware arranged in a pattern inspired by circuit boards to reflect physical operating systems as well as the connections between disciplines and the broader connectivity of the campus as a whole.”
The Digital Eye @henryartgallery
Opening Saturday is The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Digital Age. Curated by Henry Art Gallery Director Sylvia Wolf, the exhibit is accompanied by her 2010 book of the same name. Included in the book and show is Photomedia Professor Paul Berger, who will give a gallery talk on 02 September 2011. Isaac Layman (BFA 2003) and Martina Lopez (BFA 1985) also have work in the book. Layman has work in the show, and we hope to see Lopez’s work there as well. The exhibit will remain up through 25 September 2011.
From Wyoming to Turkey
Photomedia Associate Professor Rebecca Cummins is spending the first part of her summer as a participant in the Jentel Artist Residency Program based in the Lower Piney Creek Valley of Wyoming. On 15 September 2011, she will present a paper in a session titled “Data Visualization: Practice and Aesthetics” at the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, which is being held in Istanbul, Turkey, this year.
ID Alumna Designs Phone
Alice Chen (BFA 2009) studied Industrial Design with Assistant Professor Sang-gyeun Ahn, and she already has two products heading for production. On 30 May 2011, her employer, ASUS, had a press conference to announce the Padfone. Chen designed the phone portion of this combination pad/phone, and she appears in a video about the product. It has already received notice on several websites including PCWorld. Chen also designed a router that was debuted at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, this year.
Video for Graduation
Cole Benson (MFA 2011) was asked to create a video for this year’s Graduation Celebration. The video was meant to give people a sense of the School of Art and what it means to students. The capacity crowd in Kane Hall enjoyed the video on 09 June 2011, and now you can see it on Vimeo.
Back in March, we announced that Susie Lee (MFA 2006) was chosen as one of seven Contemporary Northwest Art Awards winners. Those winners now have a show of their work at Portland Art Museum; the exhibition opened on 07 June 2011 and will stay open until 11 September 2011. Lee and one of the other artists will give a lecture and exhibition tour on Friday, 08 July 2011, starting at 6pm. Tickets are available in advance or on site.
The Society for Environmental Graphic Design each year makes awards to top design projects. Just 28 projects out of 452 entries received recognition this year. The awards were announced on 02 June 2011 at the SEGD Conference in Montreal. Award winners will also be featured in an upcoming issue of segdDESIGN.
Change Elevators in PACCAR Hall, near the UW Art Building, received a Merit Award. The design was created by by Professor Karen Cheng and Assistant Professor Kristine Matthews from the Design Division. If you are on campus, be sure to visit PACCAR Hall to see the elevators as well as their other major project for the building, Foster Exchange.
Erin Williams (MFA 2009) had her thesis project, VeloCity, chosen for a Merit Award. As the project title hints, its focus was on providing information and signage for urban bicycle commuting. Her thesis adviser was none other than Assistant Professor Kristine Matthews, and Professor Karen Cheng was on her committee.
9 MAs + 2 PhDs
Eleven graduate students in the Art History Division completed their degrees in the last year. Nine of those finished in Spring Quarter 2011, an unprecedented number. Below is the list of projects, theses, and dissertations for these new alumni.
Shayla Alarie, MA, Autumn Quarter 2010, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: “Love Locked Out: Allegory and Aestheticism in the Early Works of Anna Lea Merritt”
Morgan Bell, MA (non-thesis), Autumn Quarter 2010, adviser: Robin Wright
project: “The Indigenous Photographers Project”
Gayle Clemans, PhD, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Patricia Failing
dissertation: “Parental Points of View: Photographic and Filmic Acts in Contemporary Art”
Trevor Doak, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: “Imaging the Invisible: An Examination of Belief, Authorship and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Spirit Photography”
Elissa Favero, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Meredith Clausen
thesis: “Navigating the Palimpsest: Reyner Banham Reads and Writes Los Angeles”
Garen Glazier, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: The Promise and the Threat of Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia: An Analysis of the Heroine in Selected Illustrations, 1894-1927″
Eleanor Gross, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: “Containing the Indian Threat: Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America”
Anna Hoover, MA (non-thesis), Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Robin Wright
project: “Statement in Fashion: Native Artists Against Pebble Mine”
Cindy Huang, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Cynthea Bogel
thesis: “Gauguin of Taiwan: Reconsidering the Artistic Works of Shiotsuki Toho”
Agata Morka, PhD, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Meredith Clausen
dissertation: “Brief Encounters and Lasting Impressions: Place and Placelessness in Postwar French Railroad Architecture”
Dionea Nadir, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Meredith Clausen
thesis: “La Grande Mosquée de Paris: A Hybrid Arabisance in the Age Of Imperialism”
Media Notice for ID + IxD
Seattle television station KOMO (channel 4) did a short segment on the Industrial Design student projects featured in the UW Design 2011 show at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. It aired recently and can be found on YouTube. Industrial Design Assistant Professor Magnus Feil has a cameo in the video.
Interaction Design Assistant Professor Axel Roesler was the focus of a Chronicle of Higher Education article on 08 May 2011. The article concentrated on a class project that had student teams build robots from Legos.
