The University of School of Art NEWSLETTER &History Volume 2 November 1999

Art

Greetings Warm greetings from the School of Art and Faculty and Students . I returned in January from my The faculty this year have been busier from fall developmental assignment to find the than ever with exciting creative and School flourishing. John Scott, Head of scholarly research, new teaching initia- Dorothy the Art History Division, served as Interim tives and developments and plans for the Director in my absence and did a wonder- 21st century, many of which involve the Johnson, ful job. new art building and renovations of our current structures. The newsletter will also Director New Members of the School bring you up-to-date on our exceptional Four new faculty members joined the students who continue to win awards, School this year: Rob Bork () national and international scholarships and Julie Hochstrasser (Northern Ba- and fellowships and distinctive venues for roque) in Art History, Laurel Farrin in their work. I wanted to announce that we Painting, and Ebon Fisher who has have a new category this year for under- created our new program in Digital Worlds. graduate and graduate support and recog- You can read more about these exciting nition provided by the School—the new faculty members and their work in the Alumni Scholarship Fund. Thanks to the pages of this newsletter. We have certainly generous support of our alumni we have appreciated the energy and enthusiasm been able to use this new fund to provide they have brought to the School and their support for undergraduate students and fresh perspectives have infused all of us graduate students. with a renewed vitality. We also welcome this year our new Chief Curator of the Equipment office of visual materials, Eric Dean, who This was the best year yet for equipment comes to us from the University of Michi- funding. Combined funds from the College Inside this Issue gan. Eric brings an extraordinary range of and the Student Computing Fees enabled administrative skills and seasoned experi- us to provide desperately needed comput- Studio Division ence combined with a strong vision of ers and related technologies for Graphic pp.3-16 where the OVM is headed in the 21st Design, Digital Worlds and Photography as century as we move from slide to digital well as the Office of Visual Materials. Center for the Book technology. He is busy working with Almost all of our instructional equipment p.16 Curator Julie Hausman on many new requests were filled in all Areas for this initiatives. You will find details in the year and we are very hopeful that next Art Education section on the Office of Visual Materials. year will bring the additional funding that p.17 we need. The School also has a new Administrative Art History Division Assistant, Diane Schaeffer, whose calm New Art Building pp.18-23 demeanor and warm smile have helped to We have very exciting news to report in smooth many a ruffled feather in the Main this domain. Last fall we hired world- Administrative Office Office. Diane comes to us with many years renowned Steven Holl to design p.24 of University experience and we have all our new art building and to oversee quickly come to depend upon her know- renovations of our current structures. Obituary how. Steven Holl is one of the most exciting p.25 today. He is very enthusiastic about creating a building that unites Announcements artists and art historians. He captivated pp.26-27 the search committee and the faculty with

NEWSLETTER his vision of the new art building, one in A new center for the which an environment of beautiful yet Steven Holl Architects, history and practice of functional space and light would bring the visual arts is now together all the diverse units of the , Selected for at an advanced stage School. The building will be located on the of planning. The gentle slope across Riverside Drive from New Art Building Project 40,000 square-foot the Museum and former Alumni Center and structure will be will be integrated through landscaping located in the lot with the pond and the bluff (Steven Holl across Riverside Drive was especially excited by these natural from the University features). He plans to link thematically Museum of Art. The 2 the new building with the beautiful design facility will represent a of our current structures. significant net gain of space serving the The new art building will house a splendid expanding needs of the gallery for the exhibition of student work School’s faculty, staff, but will also make possible the exhibition and students. Other of work in many spaces, including corri- buildings in the School dors and our communal space at the complex, in particular entrance which will house an arts cafe the historic old Art that will be accessible to the entire fine Building from the arts campus on our side of the river. We 1930s, will be restored will finally have an informal space in as part of the project. Kiasma Museum of , , which faculty, students and visitors can , designed by Steven Holl Architects of Freeing the space in meet, chat and exchange ideas. New York, 1998. Holl has been commissioned the old building where to design the new 40,000+ square-foot center the Art Library is now You can read more about the new art for the study and practice of the visual arts in located and restoring building in the pages of this newsletter. the School of Art & Art History complex on the to it the original Arts Campus. (copyright function as a large A Final Note Steven Holl Architects) exhibition gallery is The CAA breakfast in Los Angeles was a one of the major tremendous success. It was delightful to anticipated achieve- see well-known friendly faces as well as to ments of the project. A meet alumni who live in the West and second gallery will also usually do not make it to the CAA in New be programmed into York. The CAA is being held in New York the new building. The once again next February and we hope to Art Library and the see you there! Office of Visual Materi- als, now suffering from I also wanted to mention that I was exceptionally serious elected to the Board of Directors of the space problems, are to CAA and will serve until 2003. I look receive state-of-the-art forward to representing the School in this facilities. new capacity into the early years of the 21st century. School faculty and University administra- tors determined that the new building should fulfill the many new curricular needs of the unit and should also be a showpiece of design appropriate to the history and stature of the institution. It Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, was felt that this Finland, Steven Holl Architects, New York, building should reflect 1998. View of entrance foyer. (copyright the latest trends in Steven Holl Architects) contemporary architecture as already The Studio Division’s fall semester was represented on campus with facilities highlighted by the 1998 edition of the designed by and Charles Faculty Exhibition at the UI Museum of Gwathmey. To that end a committee of Art. Thirty-one faculty participated, School faculty and University administra- including nine faculty new to the Division tors interviewed six finalists from a list of since the last show in the spring of 1997. national architectural firms. Steven Holl All areas and media were represented in Architects of New York received the this exhibition which continues to provide commission for the project. Holl’s recent a valuable opportunity for the regional work at the University of ’s St. audience to see the diverse outcomes of Ignatius Chapel, a major wing for the our faculty’s visual research. Most of our Saarinen-designed Cranbrook Institute of faculty exhibit nationally and internation- 3 Science, and, especially, the Kiasma ally, but not often locally, so this is an Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, especially important chance for our Finland, has put him in the top ranks of students to see the work of their instruc- architects now designing innovative tors. Kathleen Edwards, in her first season buildings in Europe and the U.S. His works as Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photo- have been widely published and received graphs at the Museum, acted as coordina- much praise internationally. During his tor with the faculty for the exhibition. She initial visit to campus, Mr. Holl expressed is already developing plans with us for the his excitement about the possibilities of next faculty show to be held in the spring the project and its site, especially in of 2001. connection with topographical features such as the lagoon and limestone bluff Working in concert with the Director for adjacent to the lot for the building. He Studio Division the past two years, the Studio Division has also praised the old Art Building for its been developing a plan for a new adminis- distinguished design and indicated his trative structure designed to augment the hope for reviving its former glory. Noting efforts of the Director and the Area Heads. the proud inscription above the original This past year, three faculty were desig- river façade entrance—ARS LONGA VITA nated as Studio Division Coordinators with BREVIS EST—Holl said this should be the responsibilities in the areas of Graduate thematic starting point for the entire Advising, Curriculum Coordination and project. Faculty Coordination. With full faculty participation, significant progress was made in the Division towards increasing division-wide perspectives, creating new collaborative initiatives and facilitating better communication links between faculty, students and administration.

Among the new initiatives developed and approved for implementation next year in the Studio Division are comprehensive plans for undergraduate academic advis- ing, undergraduate outcomes assessment and a revised review procedure for gradu- ate students entering the MFA program upon completion of the MA. The under- graduate advising program will include annual update training sessions for all faculty and provide the mechanisms necessary to insure that all students majoring in the Division receive regular advising by faculty during their junior and senior years. The new undergraduate outcomes assessment Ceramics Area Design Area plan underscores the Division’s commitment Bunny McBride Hung-Shu Hu to strong undergradu- Professor McBride has been invited to Immediately after completing and attend- ate education and participate in “Suited to a Tea,” a spring ing the opening ceremony of his monitored transition to exhibition at the Sioux City Art Center, “D Forever” for the Levitt Center postgraduate life. The Sioux City, Iowa and “A Tisket a Tasket a in May 1998, Professor Hung-shu Hu plan begins with an Bountiful Basket,” a fall exhibition at the traveled to , . While in China, enhanced BFA Clear- Native Soil Gallery, Evanston, Illinois. he gave a one-month Basic Design work- ance procedure in the shop at the Central Academy of Arts and 4 junior year and tracks In July, McBride presented a five day Designs in Beijing and also gave lectures student progress and workshop and slide lecture at the Univer- at University and Eastsouth outcome through 5 sity of Alaska, Juneau. University in Nanjing. years following gradua- tion. Important com- McBride will serve as curator for the During the fall of 1998, Professor Hu had ponents include an Alumni Ceramic Exhibition to be held in an article “The right for M.F.A. degree” annual BFA Exhibition conjunction with the International Wood published in Bimonthly by and a new Senior Fire Conference “Different Stokes” Septem- Fine Arts Museum in . In Seminar course focus- ber 29 through October 2, 1999. Alumni January 1999, another article, “Hu Hung- ing on contemporary works will be installed in the new exhibi- shu’s Public Art,” was published in Art and studio art issues and tion space at the Levitt Center for Univer- Design by the Central Academy of Art and transition to profes- sity Advancement. Design in Beijing to introduce his public sional practice. artworks in the U.S.

Interest in interdisci- In February 1999, Hu finished a hanging plinary study and sculpture, “Twinkle, Twinkle” for Iowa collaborative teaching Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, initiatives resulted in Iowa. During the spring break of 1999, he the development of was invited to Taipei to do a sculpture in a another new course new railroad station near Taipei. In late awaiting approval from May Professor Hu returned to Taiwan the Board of Regents. where two of his were chosen Titled “Inter Area and collected in the building of Taipei Topics,” the course Education TV Station. He then traveled to provides a long-needed China to give invited lectures at Suzhou mechanism for team University and Nanjing University, before teaching within the returning to Taiwan to give workshops for School. This proposal- the National Tainan Art College. based course enables two or more faculty to Ab Gratama engage students in In the Spring Semester 1999, Graphic special cross-media or Design was able to establish its own cross-disciplinary computer lab with funding from the topics at the advanced College of Liberal Arts and ITS (Student undergraduate and Computer Fees). Graphic Design has now a graduate level. total of 15 Macintosh G3 workstations, scanners, a color printer and a LCD data projector. Teaching, demonstrations and sharing of ideas have been greatly en- hanced. Students are now able to work on their projects in class and share them through projection. This creates stronger and more collaborative relationships. Ab Gratama traveled to seeking poetry is being born. I’d like to the during Digital Worlds see Digital Worlds come to terms with the the summer of ’98 and emerging potential of independent media visited several Art The School of Art & Art History has and become not only a hub in its Academies. He dis- enlisted New York media artist Ebon discourse, but an incubator of great cussed possibilities for Fisher to organize a new digital studio. digital visions.” student and/or faculty With the technical support of research Fisher has spent the last decade studying exchange. The Royal assistant Adam Brown, Fisher has been the dynamics between people and ma- Academies of Art & orchestrating a laboratory full of chines. In Williamsburg, , he Design in The Hague Macintosh computers, plants, and trees initiated a series of “media rituals” to and Den Bosch, and into a “digital garden.” Classes in digital explore these “bionic relationships,” the St. Joost Academy imaging, interactive media, and virtual 5 including 1993’s “Web Jam,” a collabora- in Breda were very world creation are being offered. tion which drew over 2,000 people to an interested. During the abandoned mustard factory in a 15-hour summer of ‘99 Gratama One of the first instructors at MIT’s Media multimedia jam. Currently Fisher has been further investigated Lab, Fisher approaches computers and creating his own digital world, The AlulA the various options. their evolving software as an organic Dimension, which presents allegories for extension of culture: “It may not be too human-machine ecosystems. In connection In November 1998, peculiar to characterize the digital realm with such ecosystems he is developing a Gratama traveled with as an evolutionary spinoff of our collective series of essays on the possibilities of a number of students nervous system. Since the invention of the “ecological subjectivity” which he calls to the Cranbrook printing press we have been rapidly “Wigglism.” Last summer Fisher’s essay, Academy of Art in evolving communication systems—and “The Future of Wiggling Things,” was the Bloomfield Hills, computers, because of their programmabil- cover article for the -based journal, Michigan to attend the ity, are the most evolvable inheritors of “Digital Creativity.” ArtByte will be pub- design symposium that process. Immersing oneself in the lishing an interview with him this Spring “Whereishere” in digital realm is like jumping into a raging in which he discusses Wigglism and Digital conjunction with the river of constant change.” Adam Brown, Worlds. design exhibition who is the systems engineer for the lab “Behind the Scene: and provides technical instruction, puts it Fisher’s work has been discussed in numer- Studio Dumbar.” It was this way: “Digital Worlds is trying to de- ous media including Japanese television, an inspiring and mystify the computer as an object which is Wired Magazine, Domus, FlashArt, The stimulating experience alien from culture and encouraging its use Drama Review, and he has been quoted for all. as an organic offshoot of the creative twice in the New York Times. He has process.” presented his creations at Boston’s Insti- In November ’98 tute for Contemporary Art, The Krannert Gratama was invited to Fisher uses the term “Digital Worlds” to Art Museum at the University of Illinois, exhibit his design work suggest the integration of all the arts into and The Kitchen and Exit Art in New York at the Viterbo College coherent realms of experience. “If you can City. His “soft ethics for cyberspace” Galleries, La Crosse, forgive a Wagnerian indulgence,” he says, project, the Bionic Codes, have appeared Wis. He also was “I’m a sucker for a good cybernetic in the Wall Street Journal and are cur- involved in the Group gesamtkuntswerk. We’re working towards rently presented by the Guggenheim exhibition “each child’s the possibility of wrapping the senses in a Museum through its website. story illuminates the complete digital dream.” According to others,” organized by Fisher Digital Worlds is committed to The Digital Worlds website is currently Arts Iowa City, Iowa developing psychologically complex forms under construction by three students, City, Iowa. of virtual reality to create “antidotes to Sophie Canade, Laura Watral and Carrie the hyper-violent games industry.” He Pollack. Ebon Fisher’s website can be found For his “contribution likens the experimental side of digital at: www.interport.net/~alula to the quality of culture to independent film and pop teaching at The Uni- music: versity of Iowa” Ab Gratama received the “The personal computer is allowing many Collegiate Teaching more artists to become independent Award for 1998-99. media creators. A lot more reflection, compassion, and soul can enter the popular media than the large media producers have supported in the past. The electronic equivalent of bold, truth- Joseph Patrick Drawing Area Patrick returned from a Spring 1998 semester research leave spent in Oaxaca, Visiting faculty members for the 98-99 Mexico to his last full year of teaching. academic year, Sarah Mast and Kelly Next year he will begin a phased retire- Spalding, added to the diversity of the ment appointment which will see him program. We give them our thanks and teaching only during the fall terms. The best wishes. termination of his responsibilities as Professor-in-Charge of Drawing will see the TA’s in Basic Drawing continue to provide end of an era. For Joe and his students engaged and solid teaching to students in this period has been exemplified by 6 their foundation drawing class. We all enthusiasms they have shared for the benefit as these students progress through processes and discoveries of perceptual subsequent courses with noticeable drawing. Joe has consistently refused to attentiveness and enthusiasm. The weekly write a syllabus for his classes, contending Mezzanine Gallery exhibitions from each of that he can only outline broad objectives, the sections of Basic Drawing are varied, but that day-by-day events must respond stimulating, and good examples for exhibi- to the dynamics of interaction among the tors and viewers alike. Thanks this year to students, the teacher, the models, and all a great roster of TA’s: Hamlett Dobbins, the visual stimuli which unfold. This keeps Karen Doten, Joe D’Uva, Jessica Fuller, Wes everyone alert, intuitive, inventive, and Lockwood, Helen Neumann, Michael less likely to rely on predictable precon- Pittard, Rebecca Roberts, Gene Romero, ceptions. David Tallitsch, and Noah Williams. This spring Joe has taught a Media of TA’s in general drawing classes make life a Drawing class, restricting its topic to bit easier for the teachers and students by “Heads.” He was surprised by the interest hiring the models, making the setups, the offering generated and ended up keeping the rooms in order, and offering a having to turn students away after the critical word of advice. For the fall they class reached an enrollment of 20. He was were Aaron Holst and David Tallitsch, and pleased that he was able to take them on a in the spring Justin Nostrala and Leigh field trip to an invitational exhibition, The Landry. Figure Confirmed, at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois in which his own work Media of Drawing allows the faculty the was included. Joe had an installation of 42 opportunity to teach classes with desig- drawings of heads of students, mounted nated topics of their own strengths and of unframed and unglazed, an inch apart special interest to students. This year from each other, on a 25 foot long wall. David Dunlap offered a course focused on There were three groups, each comprised collaborative drawing and Joe Patrick one of students during a different semester, on drawing the human head. including some of those on the field trip. The Mezzanine Gallery continues to offer every class a week’s opportunity to show what is going on in the program. It’s an essential teaching and learning tool, and we put it to good and constant use.

Thanks to equipment funding next year we will see a large new mirror reflecting everything in life drawing classes in room W205, and new track lighting will high- light the drawings that get displayed on the walls in Basic Drawing classes in room W200. John Dilg Painting Area John Dilg was on leave during the fall semester, 1998-1999. In October, he The faculty in the Painting area for the presented a lecture at the Midwest Print 1998-1999 year were Ronald Cohen, John Council Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Dilg, David Dunlap, Laurel Farrin, Sue “The American Trade Card: Form and Hettmansperger, Sara Mast, Maggie Narrative in the 19th Century Advertising Rochelle, Kelly Spalding and Gelsy Print.” In the summer-fall, 1998, Dilg took Verna. Visiting Assistant Professors Sara part in the Ragdale Foundation’s “Alumni Mast and Kelly Spalding brought the Exhibition,” and also had a drawing energy and insight that visitors can bring. included in “Artemesia Gallery-25th We thank them for their contribution. Anniversary Exhibition,” both occuring in 7 Assistant Professor Gelsy Verna returned Chicago. This June-July, l999, he will have from her year-long residency Fellowship at work in the exhibition, “On the Verge of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Abstraction,” at the Center for Creative MA. She will be on developmental leave in Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and curated the Fall of 1999. Professor Sue by Dennis Nawrocki. A catalog on Dilg’s Hettmansperger completed the second work, John Dilg, Paintings 1994-1998, semester of her three semester Faculty with an essay by Jo-Ann Conklin, Director Scholars Award during the Fall of 1998. of the Bell Gallery at Brown University, She will complete her third semester in was funded by the University of Iowa’s the Fall of 1999. Associate Professor Support Program for the Arts and Humani- Ronald Cohen continued his joint appoint- ties, and published in July, 1998. This ment in the Painting Area and Elements. catalog is available from Dilg and will be He taught during the Fall semester this sent without charge to any alumni of the year and will do the same next year. School of Art & Art History requesting it.

At the beginning of the Fall semester, David Dunlap 1998 Laurel Farrin joined the faculty as David Dunlap, in collaboration with an Assistant Professor in Painting. Maggie Hamlett Dobbins, Ingell Doyle, Peter Rochelle continues to serve as a Lecturer Feldstein, Gerald Gomez, Ab Gratama, in the Painting Area. Sarah Kirk, Gwen Oulman and Jeffrey Pegram, presented the second of a two- The Painting Area faculty congratulate part installation at Arts Iowa, Iowa City Hamlett Dobbins, Karen Doten, Aaron from December, 1998 through January, Holst, Leigh Landry, Wes Lockwood, Justin 1999. These two installations were orga- Nostrala, Nathaniel Parsons, Michael nized around the commemoration of the Pittard and Gene Romero who will receive murder of Laura Van Whye and the human their MFA degrees in May of 1999. We rights issues that are directly or indirectly thank them for their contributions. associated with this murder.

Ronald Cohen On October 25, 1996 Laura Van Whye was In March of 1998, a one-person exhibition found, critically injured, by the side of the of Ronald Cohen’s work was on view at the road in northern Missouri. She was taken Lyons-Weir Gallery in Chicago. His work to the nearest hospital in Quincy, Illinois was also represented in the gallery’s booth where she died the next morning. For this at the Navy Pier exhibition in May. In July reason, the first installation, in collabora- of the same year his art was represented in tion with Sarah Kirk, Laura’s sister, was “The Water Show” at the Anton Gallery in presented at the Quincy Art Center in Washington D.C. Fifteen of his paintings January of 1998. Both of these installa- and numerous studies may be seen at the tions took place during the celebration of Quincy Art Center in Quincy, Illinois this Martin Luther King’s birthday and both July. Additionally, this summer Cohen will included this celebration as part of the teach a multidisciplinary graduate seminar installations. At the Arts Iowa installation entitled “Vision, Voice and Process” at the this included a parade. Both the parade Maryland Institute College of Art in and the installation were part of the Baltimore, Maryland. University’s “Global Focus: Human Rights 98.” Laurel Farrin fly Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA. A two- In the last year, Verna Laurel Farrin joined the School of Art and person exhibition at Flanders Contempo- has been a visiting Art History as Assistant Professor in rary Gallery in , MN, was held artist at the following Painting / Drawing in August 1998. In May July 10-September 1, 1999. institutions: the Rhode of 1998 she exhibited an installation Island School of Design entitled “Linked/Longing” in Baltimore, Maggie Rochelle (R.I.S.D.), Fisk Univer- Maryland at School 33. Her work was also Lecturer in Painting and Drawing in the sity (Nashville, TN), seen in the show “Art Sites 1998” at the School of Art and Art History, Maggie and the School of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Rochelle, was a guest at Yaddo artist’s Art Institute of Chi- community in Saratoga Springs, New York cago (S.A.I.C.). Verna A one-person exhibition of Farrin’s work in May/June of 1998. has a developmental 8 was shown last October at Anton Gallery in leave for the Fall Washington D.C. This summer her work has Kelly Spalding Semester of 1999. been included in the “Iowa Artists 1999” Visiting Assistant Professor Kelly Spalding exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center. participated at Brandeis University in The Rose Art Museum’s annual survey of Sue Hettmansperger Boston-based contemporary painters. This During her second Faculty Scholar semes- year’s exhibition was entitled a “Quiet ter assignment this Fall (1998), Professor Revolution” and featured thirteen of Sue Hettmansperger continued to work on Spalding’s small works, many painted in paintings and drawings which referenced Iowa City last fall. Concurrently, Spalding’s ideas of nature, culture and art. She work could be seen in a group exhibition concentrated her time between New at the Genovese Gallery in Boston through Mexico and Iowa City while producing March. The artist has collaborated with work for an upcoming major show. A artists and dealers in Boston in support of component of the project was gathering an organization called Abstraction Made information in on historical Elementary, engendering art awareness in and contemporary precedents, in order to public schools, and will participate in an incorporate that material into teaching. exhibition at the Harvard School of Educa- While in New York she exhibited a painting tion in May called “Pattern Pop and in a group Affiliate Members show at Layer.” A.I.R. Gallery. Last year she also partici- pated in the 25th Anniversary Invitational Gelsy Verna at A.I.R., which has been recorded by the Gelsy Verna returned from the Fine Arts Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Work Center in Provincetown residency. Institution, New York Center. Professor The residency was a great opportunity Hettmansperger was recently listed in the because it allowed Verna not only to San Francisco based Women Environmental concentrate on her work, but to be intro- Artists Directory and was interviewed for duced to a number of people in the arts in the Iowa Women Artists Oral History New York and to participate in a number Project (to be archived in the UI Library of exhibitions on the east coast. system). She has given lectures on her work this year at Tyler School of Art in Verna had a solo exhibition at the Hudson Philadelphia and the University of Ne- D. Walker gallery in Provincetown, MA, at braska, Lincoln. An upcoming one-person Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, and a solo exhibition of her work will take place Fall exhibition is in the works at the Porter of 1999 at A.I.R. Gallery in New York and Troupe gallery in San Diego. Verna was will be accompanied by a catalogue. invited to participate in a number of group exhibitions, namely in Hamburg Sara Mast (Germany), Boston, MA, and New York for Sara Mast, a Visiting Assistant Professor the most recent exhibit, at The Stroke at for 1998-99, received a Montana Arts Exit Art Gallery (an overview of contempo- Council Individual Artist Fellowship for rary painting practices from the perspec- 1998. Most recent group exhibitions tives of nine painters), for which the artist include: The Art Museum of Missoula, MT, Kerry Marshall chose Verna’s work. Verna’s Bridge Street Gallery, Bigfork, MT, Fresh work was included in a group exhibition at Paint Gallery, Culver City, CA, and Dragon- Porter Troupe Gallery in July. intermedia perfor- Intermedia & Video Art mance for their annual Metalsmithing and meeting entitled The Intermedia Area of The University of “Interrogating Images” Jewelry Area Iowa’s School of Art and Art History was at the University of created in 1968 and has been directed, California at Irvine in The Metalsmithing and Jewelry Program’s since then, by Hans Breder. In fact, the May, l998. major exhibition “30 Years of Inspiration: University of Iowa was the first University Works of Chunghi Choo with her Former to grant the MFA in Intermedia. Three This year, in context and Current Students” was held at Studiolo decades later, the Intermedia Area at The with the Global Focus: Gallery in Iowa City from May 1 to 30, University of Iowa continues to highlight Human Rights ‘98 1999. In order to give graduating students experimental, interdisciplinary and inter- conference he pro- a well-rounded and broad range of career 9 cultural modes of art making. Last sum- duced an intermedia options, the Metalsmithing and Jewelry mer, Professor Breder was designated a event entitled Blonde course work also emphasizes designing Gambrinus Fellow by the University of Shadow. The Blonde and making prototype pieces for multi- Dortmund. He and some of his students Shadow performance is production art works. Some of the gradu- were invited to spend a month at the conceptually complex ate students’ art works have been pro- University collaborating on site-specific and formally daring. duced in multiples by industries for the installations which explored “Places of The work consists of market place. More students are learning Desire.” By juxtaposing installations and multiple layers of and taking 3-D computer modeling courses performances in a medieval cathedral, the interwoven text, image and creating their designs in digital rubble of a brewery shot up in WWII and a and sound, creating a images. 2-D wire frame designs of their contemporary pedestrian mall, Places of cross media, immersive digital images are converted into 3-D Desire became a collective meditation on environment which plastic forms through Rapid Prototyping at the historical and urban development of utilizes the latest the University of Iowa Department of the city of Dortmund. During a reciprocal digital applications. As Engineering. The plastic forms are then visit, 10 art students and their professor an act of historical- transformed to metal by casting or electro- spent a month in Iowa City collaborating political memory, forming at the metals studio or using the with The University of Iowa’s intermedia Blonde Shadow bears plastic form as is. students. These collaborations—mostly witness, in the manner digital, video and performance works— of an ethical or politi- Metals students continue to work without revolved around the concept Rites of cal act, for today and boundaries of media and have been Identity. for tomorrow. The producing diverse, innovative art works. event will travel here They have been actively entering their It is also worth noting some of the awards and abroad. work at major national and international and opportunities granted to individual competitive exhibitions, working toward students who major in Intermedia. On an professional goals. Some of the current individual level, several students received graduate students’ accomplishments from awards which allowed them to work in 1998 to present include: other countries. The students doing intercultural work include Cherie Sampson Sean Doyle who has just returned from Finland where Sean was one of two recipients in the a Fulbright Fellowship allowed her to United States to be awarded the Education collaborate with Finnish artists in the Foundation Scholarship for 1998 - 99, from creation of site-specific sculptures. Her the Manufacturing Jewelers and Silver- work was exhibited at the prestigious Pori smiths of America of Providence, RI and Museum of Contemporary Art. Li-Hua Lei five other scholarships and grants at the was invited to Skowhegan. Gretchen Beck University of Iowa. In 1998, his works accepted a position as Chair of the Art were accepted into eleven national and Department at Concordia University, international competitive exhibitions Irvine, California. including “International Competition of Two and Three Dimentional Art” at Hans Breder Lafayette Art Gallery, Lafayette, LA. He Hans Breder, whose work has been in- received the Joanne Rapp Juror’s Choice cluded in three Whitney Biennial Exhibi- Award at the “Wearable Expressions,” a tions, was commissioned last year by the national show, in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. International Association for Philosophy In 1999, Sean’s works were accepted into and Literature to produce a high-tech four national competitive exhibitions including “Materials: Hard and Soft” at tional juried exhibitions since she enrolled Metalsmith Marilyn da Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX, in the graduate program. In 1998, she Silva were the jurors juried by Michael Monroe. He received received an Invitational Award at “Art Fair for the National Honorable Mention in “Metal Works: on the Square” in Madison, WI. Presently, Competitive Exhibi- 1999,” a national juried exhibition at Arts Justine is involved in research and experi- tion, “Metal Works: Iowa City Art Center. mentation with patinas and surface 1999” sponsored by the treatments of steel and explorations of Iowa Arts Council. Este Hart painting, etching and drawing on steel. In 1998, all four of Este’s entries were Choo has been working accepted into the national, juried exhibi- Chunghi Choo with graduates on a tion, “Vessels for the Journey,” Angels’ Chunghi Choo’s work took a new direction catalogue of the 10 Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA; “Best during her Developmental Assignment in creative work of of 1998” national, juried show, Ohio Craft the Fall of 1998, producing sculptures, approximately 50 Museum, Columbus, OH and “Aesthetics mostly using the industrial computer artists, University of ’98" national, juried exhibition, Sandzen numerical control equipment. She also Iowa former and Gallery, Lindsborg, Kansas. completed a series of designs for func- current metalsmithing tional and non-functional objects and students, including Louise Rauh jewelry, some to be produced in multiples Choo. This catalogue Every year, Louise’ works have been using various advanced industrial tech- will cover work pro- accepted into many national, competitive nologies. duced during the 30 exhibitions and her works have been years Choo has been reviewed or illustrated in various publica- Some of Chunghi Choo’s activities since teaching at the Univer- tions including American Craft and twice June, 1998, include: gold jewelry pieces sity of Iowa. A part of in Metalsmith. In 1998, her work was shown at the invitational exhibition “East the funds for produc- accepted into “Sheen of Silver, Weight of Meets West - Ewha Metal Artists Biennial ing this catalogue will Air: Aluminum in Art, History and De- International Exchange,” jewelry from come from the discre- sign,” a traveling exhibition sponsored by Germany and Korea at Craft Space tionary fund from the the Museum of History and and Industry, Mokkumto, , Korea and at Galerie in bequest awarded to Seattle, WA. This year, two pieces of her Drediger, Schwabisch Gmund, Germany. Choo upon her receiv- works were chosen by the University of Her functional and non-functional vessel ing the F. Wendell Iowa Studio Art faculty to represent the forms were shown at the invitational Miller Distinguished University of Iowa at the Big Ten Confer- exhibition, “Benchmarkers: Women in Professorship. ence Room in Chicago. Metal,” which was opened at the National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN Dean Spencer and is now showing at Schick Art Gallery, Dean received Faculty Honorable Mention Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY for his Fountain, a digital image, and the until June, 1999. This exhibition was People’s Choice Award for his Tea Serving curated by Rosanne Raab Associates of Set, another digital image. His work was New York, and “Benchmarkers” celebrates accepted into “Crafts National 32” at Penn the achievements of 31 women who have State University’s Zoller Gallery, State succeeded in the metals field in America College, PA. He gave a workshop and during the past 50 years. Three showed his work at the invitational show “Benchmarkers” are from the University of “Metalsmiths” at Gallery 100 in Cape Iowa Metals Program: Choo and two Girardeau, MO and he was featured with graduates. his work in Southeast Missourian newspa- per, October 3, 1998. Chunghi Choo’s works were shown in the acquisition section of American Craft, Sung Hee Yoon June/July issue, 1998, and a feature Sung Hee’s works were exhibited at two article, “Of Silver and Soul,” on Choo and invitationals and won a First Place at the her work by Elsebeth Wedervang “1998 Lois Jecklin Flatware Competition” Mathiesen in the Iowa Alumni Quarterly, at the University of Iowa, an award she summer issue, 1998. At the 1998 Society also won in the previous year. of North American Goldsmiths Conference in Seattle, Washington, Choo and her Justine Zimmer works were presented in the slide lecture, Justine’s works have been accepted into “Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry almost all major, national and interna- in Metal” by Dawn Nakanishi. Choo and Peter Feldstein In addition Margaret’s Photography Area Peter Feldstein had four of his cliché verre architectural studies of prints published as photogravures by New York made while The Photography Area continues to offer a Galamander Press in New York. One of on leave for her broad sequence of courses designed to these was purchased for the collection at Faculty Scholar award introduce students to the theory and the Fogg Museum in Cambridge. This year have been successfully practice of photography both as a Galamander Press is planning to publish marketed in , medium and as a cultural phenomenon. another suite of photogravure prints. Germany and San Courses emphasize visual literacy and Gottheimer, Ltd. Contemporary Art, a print Francisco, California. encourage students to develop and articu- dealer in St. Louis, has also been repre- late a critical self-awareness of their work senting Peter’s photogravures and he is Margaret is in the final while recognizing photography’s changing also represented by Guild.com on the stages of completing 11 relationship to other media and its ever- Internet. Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New her videotape, Except increasing impact on society. In addition York has also taken some of his large A Miracle, which to its conventional film-based curriculum cliché verres. Last June Peter’s house and chronicles her journey which includes courses in black and white, studio were the victims of a mezzo- to articulate why the color, large format, and graphic arts, cyclone, though they didn’t receive as miracles of the Virgin Photography also offers a digital compo- much damage as the building in between, Mary have made such nent in several of its advanced courses. the American Legion. Peter bought the an enormous impact on With the recent acquisition of some key 4800 sq. ft. building for $10 to rescue it women of all faiths computer equipment, Photography will from demolition and has been restoring it over time. She is offer a digital imaging course in the Fall of ever since. beginning research for 1999. her next video work, Jim Snitzer which will investigate Like many other studio areas, Photography Jim Snitzer has continued his work in how media interpreta- is anxiously awaiting improved facilities in photographic tableaux and offset printed tions of prison life the new art building. Until then, we have artist’s books. His current photographic reconstruct our social secured additional studio space for our work, which has been exhibited both attitudes toward graduate students and are sharing a regionally and nationally, humorously incarcerated popula- computer classroom with Graphic Design. investigates the culture’s often ambivalent tions. relationship to the landscape. Under the There are currently seven graduate stu- auspices of the University’s Center for the dents in the program, each working in a Book, he is planning to produce an artist’s distinct manner and medium, from view book next Spring Semester with Ester camera to digital imaging to video installa- Parada, a Chicago-based photographer. He tion. This past year, the graduate students is currently serving as Chair of the Photog- organized an exhibition of their work and raphy Area. gave a gallery talk at Indiana University in South Bend. In the Fall Semester, the Margaret Stratton Photography Area hosted two visiting Margaret Stratton is a professor of photog- artists—Deborah Goldman from the raphy. Her main interests lie within the University of Denver and Patrick Nagatani realm of large format photography, which from the University of . Recent is reflected in both her personal work and graduates of the program continue to her teaching. Margaret specializes in the exhibit regionally and nationally and black and white fine art print. She teaches many have secured jobs in the field, 4 x 5 and studio lighting as well as a 3- including teaching positions throughout week intensive fine print class every the country. Sarah Smelser (MFA 97) began summer. teaching at Pasadena City College this past Fall Semester and Deb Golden (MFA 94) is This year Margaret’s photographs of currently teaching at the University of prisons, Sentencing the Sentence: Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Robbie America’s Abandoned Prisons, will be Steinbach (MFA 92) published “Lifeworks: featured in the June 1999 issue of Contact Portraits of Iowa Women Artists,” the Sheet published by Lightwork in Syracuse, culmination of a long-term photographic New York. Her work is currently featured project which she began in graduate in an exhibition of Swanstock Photographs school. at the Kodak Image Bank in New York City. This 12th trip was to videotape nomads or from landscape to Printmaking Area now semi-nomads who may well be the mnemonic responses to last of a tradition of weavers who weave places visited, 15 years Keith Achepohl for personal use. Achepohl and Professor of response have 1999 was the 5th year Keith Achepohl Ron Marchese from Minneapolis (a fellow produced a lot of directed the University of Iowa Summer in Fulbrighter) put together a show of nomad drawings, prints, Venice program. Fifteen people from weaving, organized by former Iowan Craig paintings, some done different parts of the United States par- Subler and UMKC gallery in Kansas City in , most in the ticipated in the one-month (July) session almost a decade ago. That show was seen studio in Iowa City. held at the facilities of the International at the University of Iowa. Achepohl is busy School for Graphic Art in Venice. Using reorganizing that show and adding pieces Shows of some of this 12 Venice as a source for ideas for drawing acquired recently to begin travelling to a work have been seen and printmaking the program proved again number of museums starting in the Fall of in the past year at the to be a successful means of getting to 2000. Current research involves visiting Morgan Gallery in know an incomparable city and its glorious compounds of shepherds, videotaping in Kansas City and at past, but also a means to meet and know yurts, tents and the semi-nomadic villages Gallery 72 in Omaha. artists from other parts of the world. to assess the state of weaving now. Little Prints this year were is made to be kept by the weaver. Virtually included in the Bradley The weekly trips to Padua (Giotto), Verona nothing is woven for storage use. Since in National, and Achepohl (opera in the Roman Arena and the great, the past a good deal of time was spent at represented Iowa in Giusti garden), and Vicenza (Palloddio) the loom, much in the way of communica- the Colorprint USA add to a further knowledge of the Veneto. tion has been lost. The videotape under show. Achepohl was The biennale this year gave a great incen- way hopes to explore some of the vital one of 5 Americans tive to the group to come up with our own questions concerning the great losses selected for the Premio proposals for art works or projects for suffered when traditions die. Internazionale per when the call comes to fill one of those l’incisione at Biella in glorious spaces allotted artists participat- The weaving includes the great kilims of Italy this past summer. ing in the biennale. A great way to go the past, as well as knotted rugs. All tell 56 countries with 180 beyond usual works on paper. Some really stories since each piece contained sym- artists participated. inventive ideas were seen. bolic design. Gathering information and That show is to travel process has been fascinating, especially to other parts of Italy We keep working enthusiastically with the since it seemed obvious the generation this year and next. school in Venice to expand our connec- weaving now may be the last of its kind. Invitationals also tion, and we hope in the future to take Hopefully one more trip to southeastern include two in Michi- advantage of their offerings on a yearly Turkey will yield more information and gan in winter of 1999- basis. Our almost decade-long relationship visual material for taping. 2000 at Grand Valley with Venice keeps being very fruitful, and University and the as they expand their facilities in the near One of the great pleasures of travel in Muskegon Museum of future we hope to add to their interna- Turkey over the years has been getting to Art, and a show tional connection. Plans are well under know perceptive dealers who are aware of celebrating the Loess way for summer 2000 in Venice. the great treasures to be found of unor- Hills area of Iowa in thodox variety such as felt pieces—the 2000. Preparations are Turkey is the other country Achepohl first use of animal fur as comfort material. also under way for a keeps revisiting. A University of Iowa The show currently being curated will travelling show of CIFRE grant for research funded travel to bring together these pieces with others to watercolor of shells southern Turkey this spring to videotape show the great variety in nomad use of the from the Venice Lido nomads who are part of the weaving animal. It may be that the tan that for 2000 and 2001. traditions Achepohl has been working with Achepohl seems to always be sporting is since a Fulbright grant took him to Turkey really tea stain acquired through years of fifteen years ago to teach in Ankara. At looking at or talking about weavings with that time, the abundance of extraordinary one person or another over the ubiquitous weavings coming on the market provided a tulip-shaped glass of tea. means of discovery of a tradition that could be dying out as the containers for The past 12 or more trips to Turkey have family goods became replaced by tin and yielded a great deal of visual material for plastic. work in the studio. From mosaics to architectural forms to decorative weaving, Robert conducted a lithographic workshop and Associate Professor Robert Glasgow’s also served as a consultant during the past creative research continues to involve a year in the establishment of a new lithog- mixed media working method which can raphy facility. In March, he also lectured include all of the print and paper media. and conducted serial monoprinting dem- Interested in both edition and unique onstrations involving lithographic, inta- printed works, Glasgow’s recent focus has glio and processes during a resi- been with the grey area in between, serial dency at the University of – El Paso. monoprinting, which draws upon the At “Pressing Issues,” the 3rd Biennial inherent capability of the printing matrix Conference of the Mid America Print to produce exactly repeatable, variant, Council held in Cincinnati in October, serial, cognate and uniquely inked impres- Glasgow presented “The Monoprint Matrix: 13 sions. Results often take the form of A Conceptual Catalyst for Mixed Media” on polyptychs for two ongoing series. Calvin the panel, “Mixed Media Printmaking.” He Time is an autobiographical narrative will make another presentation, “Beyond series based on the abstract depiction of Editioning: Rediscovering the Printmaking events, people and sites experienced Matrix” for the panel, “The Impact of during childhood visits to a family farm in Theoretical Structures and Contextual Calvin, . The Family Group Practice,” during the IMPACT UK Confer- Series is based on the genre of portraiture ence at the University of the West of with subjects represented by distilled, England in September, 1999. This year, in somewhat calligraphic symbols, rather collaboration with Professor James Snitzer, than physical likenesses. Each portrait is Glasgow secured an Instructional Improve- an attempt to imbue an abstract form with ment Award which contributed to the a tangible aspect of human personality acquisition of a sophisticated new com- with little or no recognizable information puting and scanning workstation to be present.Glasgow’s prints, paperworks and used jointly between Printmaking and mixed media combinations have been Photography. This new equipment further included in a number of invitational enhances each Area’s capability to offer exhibitions in the past year: “The Midwest increasingly specific methodologies to on the Rio” Robert Glasgow, Karen Kunc students interested in creating digital and T.L. Solien at the University of Texas- image files for translation to traditional El Paso; “Paper at the Edge,” at the print production processes. Katherine E. Nash Gallery, ; and “Rock and Roller,” at Our M.F.A. graduates continue to seek and Xavier University, a national juried exhibi- gain professional affiliations within and tion of lithographs for which he served as outside academia. This year some of our juror. Glasgow’s work was also included in recent graduates are employed as follows: the following recent national and interna- Edwin Jager (MFA 98), Visiting Assistant tional juried exhibitions: the “27th Brad- Professor, University of Wisconsin- ley National Print and Drawing Exhibi- Oshkosh; Gesine Janzen (MFA 98) Gallery tion,” Heuser Art Center, Bradley Univer- Assistant, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City; sity; “Printmaker’s ‘98,” Pittsburgh Center Tom Reed (MFA 98), Printer, Big Cat Press for the Arts, Pennsylvania; “Pressed and and Landfall Press, Chicago; Sarah Smelser Pulled VII,” Blackbridge Hall Gallery, (MFA 97), Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia College & State University; “Con- Pasadena City College; Carlos Ferguson tents and Contexts: Lithography After 200 (MFA 97), Visiting Assistant Professor, Years,” International Exhibition of Con- Ithaca College and assuming position as temporary Lithographs, Academy Art Assistant Professor, College of William and Center Gallery, Honolulu Academy of the Mary next year; Michael Barnes (MFA 96), Arts; and the “1998 Juried Members Assistant Professor, University of Northern Exhibition of the Mid America Print Illinois; Gene Flores (MFA 96), Gallery Council” shown at the Art Academy of Director and Assistant Professor, Univer- Cincinnati. A two-person show with sity of Texas-El Paso; and John Martinek Professor John Dilg is being planned for and Doug Russell who returns from Turkey next year at Bradley University. Professor after two years teaching English and Glasgow was a visiting artist and lecturer Printmaking. this spring at Grinnell College where he Virginia Myers sented in the E-109 Gallery by undergradu- the Print Department, Work on the new book on foil stamping is ate and graduate students: Barbara K. June 7-25, 1999, using in process at The University of Iowa Press. Nwacha, graduate Design major, presented the Patented, UL Listed The “blue cover manual,” “Creating Origi- the 4th Honors Exhibition, August-Septem- Iowa Foil Printer units nal Prints with Hot Stamped Foil and The ber, 1997. She used Barbie Dolls as “recur- now available for Iowa Foil Printer,” 1993, is being revised, ring subject matter” in the development of acquisition by private updated and typed in manuscript form. her prints, “as a communicator, message individuals or schools. New information, written by undergradu- maker, and artist.” Her exhibition was a ate and graduate students in article or major stepping stone towards finalization thesis form since 1993, is being edited for of her MFA written and illustrated thesis inclusion with appropriate by-lines in the titled “Arcana Barbie,” July 1998. She 14 new book. Because the aesthetic and skillfully and sensitively combined foil technical research accomplished by the stamping, screening, and digital imaging students has gone beyond printmaking, to create an outstanding series of the tentative title for the new book is editioned prints. Creating Original Fine Art with Hot Stamped Foil and The Iowa Foil Printer. We Becky Lamphier, undergraduate, BFA are grateful for the contributions by Printmaking, December 1999, presented generous donors supporting publication of her exhibition of foil stamped prints, the books. The Iowa Foil Print Fund is November, 1997. Her images and portraits maintained by the University of Iowa were revelations of penetrating insight Foundation. into personalities and county fair experi- ences gleaned from her Iowa background. The invention of the Iowa Foil Printer The show was characterized by memorable “received rave reviews from the selection and brilliant touches of humor while rising committee and was one of three finalists above the level of cartoons. chosen,” in a University-wide competition and “forwarded to President Mary Sue Gek Choo Yeo, graduate Printmaking major Coleman,” for consideration in the “First from Singapore, hung her Honors Exhibi- Annual Competition for the President’s tion, March 1998. By combining elements award for Technology and Innovation,” from ancient Chinese calligraphy with September, 1998. human figures and the luminosity of foil and roll leaf, she presented an unusual The Foil Stamping curriculum, raising the tableau which, while remaining true to her level of foil stamping from craft to fine Asian heritage, graciously incorporated art, proceeds apace. The prints of Sunghee aesthetic aspects of Western civilization. Choo Yoon, graduate Metalsmithing major, celebrated her research with foil stamping “Perceptions Past and Present” was the in her April, 1999, Honors Exhibition in title of Louis Wiederrecht Fink’s Honors the E-109 Gallery in the Art Building. Exhibition, April 1998. Her strong compo- These works dramatized her success sitions were illuminated with layered devising highly sophisticated textures and applications of metalized, pearlescent, and color relationships while stamping vibrant transparent foils. These imparted intrigu- and fascinating surfaces over wire mesh ing dimensions for changing light and and other non-traditional surfaces. She color not found in other printmaking benefited greatly by studying the MA media. Her landscape compositions were Thesis by Louise Rauh, “Creating Three especially noteworthy. Dimensional Forms Using Roll Leaf Foil,” 1997. Rauh succeeded with research which Eugene Malone, graduate majoring in Art defined a basic aesthetic and technical Education, presented the 8th Honors foundation for stamping foil over copper Exhibition titled, “Moonlight,” April 1998. wire mesh. Sunghee has added to this By manipulating a variety of foil surfaces body of information. with alcohol and steel wool, an extended series of sensitive luminous images of The 1997-98 Academic year was high- heavenly bodies was created. lighted when a record number of Honors Exhibitions in Foil Stamping were pre- The ninth annual Intensive Summer Workshop in Foil Stamping was offered in Francisco Bay Area and professor at the Sculpture Area San Francisco Art Institute and PixArt Studios, Laurie Palmer, sculptor/installa- The Sculpture Area continues to grow. We tion artist from Chicago Art Institute and now have a very strong undergraduate member of the “Ha-Ha Group” and Chris major and BFA program. This can continue Berti, a stone carver from Illinois, gave to be attributed to faculty stability in the lectures, critiques and demonstrations in area and the fact that undergraduates now the Spring 1999 semester. have studios in the mezzanine of the undergraduate area, W161. We are proud Tom Aprile to announce that a BFA candidate Kate Tom Aprile traveled to Wisconsin this past Dengler won the “Best in Show” prize in summer in search of folk art sites. Guided 15 the 17th Annual Student Art Exhibit by the book, Self -Made Worlds, Visionary sponsored by the Fine Arts Council. Folk Art Environments, by Mark Sloan and Congratulations Kate! Roger Manley, he and his wife Laura Young, adjunct on the School Art and Art The Graduate Program has also met with History Faculty in the Elements Area, and success. Last year Pat Boutelle, of Facilities several friends, charted a course into the Planning, located and organized the southwest of Wisconsin. Starting in delivery of a double-wide trailer to be Dickeyville with the legendary Grotto, placed in the sculpture courtyard in front they visited several folk art sites including of the foundry. This has created studio “Sid’s Sculpture Yard” in Madison, Dr. space for four graduate students, a class- Evermore’s “The Force of Fancy” room area and a new exhibition space (Forevertron) in Baraboo and “Grandview” called “Trailer Space.” This building makes in Hollendale. This summer he and his the Graduate Program more attractive to friends plan to go further north to see the prospective students and has created new renovated Wisconsin Concrete Park by Fred space for students who are currently Smith in Phillips, Wisconsin. enrolled in the program. Three graduate students, second year MA candidates Matt This year Tom was awarded a Flexible Lowe and David Boelter, and first year MA Research Leave for the Fall of 1999 and a candidate Olabayo Olaniyi, won Beall and Central Investment Fund for Research Bodine Scholarships in this year’s school- Enhancement (CIFRE) Grant. While on wide scholarship competition. Michelle leave he plans to create a new body of Acuff, a first year MA candidate, won two work and pursue galleries in New York and scholarships, the Len Everert Scholarship San Francisco. The CIFRE grant has pro- and Art Guild of Burlington Scholarship vided him with the funds to produce a and a Paula Patton Graham Scholarship. twenty-four page color catalog of his The graduate students have also been sculpture and drawings for his one-person active in showing their work and doing show at the Evanston Art Center held in research: Michele Acuff exhibited her June 1999. The catalog essay is written by sculpture and drawings in: “Corporeal Harriet Zinnes, New York poet and art Evidence” at Arts Iowa City and in the critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the 23rd Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition. forward is by Allan Frumkin, well-known Olabayo Olaniyi recently returned from art dealer from New York. Nigeria, where he studied Epa masks. Christopher Whittington showed his work In addition to his one-person show in at Coe College in an exhibition of Graduate Evanston, he has shown and is currently Students from the University of Iowa. The showing in several national juried and scholarship committee of the School of Art invited exhibitions, including: The 33rd and Art History also awarded incoming National Drawing and Small Sculpture graduate Sculpture student Michael Show at Delmar College in Corpus Christi, Baggarly from Western Kentucky Univer- Texas and The International Juried Exhibi- sity an Iowa Arts Fellowship for the Fall of tion 1999 at the Center for the 1999. Visual Arts, juried by Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Visiting Artists in the Sculpture Area for Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York. the 1998-1999 school year have been: He was invited to show in the following Pamela Blotner, sculptor from the San exhibitions: “Drawn Together,” Annual Exhibition of Distinguished Alumni Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Center for the Book and “IN/FORM 5,” Saint Louis, Missouri. This spring he passed his third-year Timothy Barrett review, and is enthusiastic about continu- Timothy Barrett and his paper research ing to help the Sculpture Area grow and and production shop manager Lynn Amlie achieve national recognition in the future. have been commissioned by the National Archives and Research Administration to Isabel Barbuzza develop a special handmade paper to be In the Summer, 1997 Isabel Barbuzza used in the rehousing of the “Charters of received an Old Gold Research Fellowship Freedom.” These documents, the Declara- 16 from the University of Iowa to work on tion of Independence, the Bill of Rights direct metal techniques in Mendoza, and the Constitution, together comprise 7 Argentina. She was invited to a Summer separate leaves of parchment. Each leaf Residency at the Taller Eliana Molinelli and will be encased in its own special enclo- presented lectures at the Universidad sure, resting on paper made at the Univer- Nacional de Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina. sity of Iowa. The paper is necessary to A direct result of the Old Gold Fellowship help stabilize the humidity in the special was an instructional video on the tech- argon gas atmosphere that will surround nique of metal hammering. The work the documents. Paper made by Barrett and produced in Argentina concentrated on co-workers was selected over other alter- the body as a site for the exploration of natives because of the UI reputation for personal, social and political issues and expertise in the production of papers was included in “The Fragmented Body, specially designed for use in the care and Violence or Identity?” exhibition at the conservation of rare books and works of Kellog University Art Gallery, at California art on paper. State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. During the past year her work When Tim isn’t busy with paper research was also exhibited in “El Arte de los Libros or production, or teaching the history and de Artista” exposición internacional at the technique of papermaking, he is very busy Centro Fotográfico Manuel Alvarez Bravo, with administrative duties in his capacity Oaxaca, Mexico and traveled to the as Director of the UI Center for the Book. Biblioteca Nacional de México, México City, Tim’s position as Director was recently México, where she has been invited to renewed for another three years. The participate in an upcoming panel. A Center for the Book is committed to traveling exhibition, “Women Beyond directing resources to students, faculty Borders,” was shown in Nepal, Croatia, and and departments with strong interests in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in creative book production or the study of Oaxaca, Mexico. This exhibit is scheduled the book in culture. The Center’s end goal to travel through 2000 in galleries and is an internationally known interdisciplin- museums in Canada, , Australia, ary program in Book Studies. For more Vietnam, Singapore, England and Greece. information on Tim or the Center for the Book, contact the Center at 335-0438. told by Iowa seniors. Look for his itinerary Art Education on the Art Education Program web page, Art Education has a new faculty member! and, look for a documentary, “1,000 Miles Rachel Williams-Northway, a graduate of of Iowa Stories” on IPTV. The recent book, Florida State University with an MFA in Issues and Approaches To Art For Children painting and a PhD in Art Education, with Special Needs, published by the began her tenure-track position at the National Art Education Association, University of Iowa this Fall, 1999. Rachel’s includes a chapter written by Steve, research is on the production of art by “Narrative Accounts of Context, Meaning women incarcerated in prison. and Purpose.” An essay, “Completing Images That Are Demanding,” will appear The first group of students to compose this Spring in Visual Arts Research. 17 electronic portfolios alongside the comple- tion of Art Teacher Certification graduates this May, 1999. These portfolios, accom- plished as web pages, example and docu- ment extended practicum teaching experi- ences and “student teaching.” Upon graduation students who choose to do so can have their portfolios uploaded on the Art Education web page. Emily Paulos, who graduated in May with her MA, has done terrific work over the past two years with students to bring to fruition students’ electronic portfolios.

Emily’s work as a digital artist and art teacher resulted in a very successful MA thesis. Emily was the first University of Iowa student whose digital work was archived, as the work itself, through the Graduate College’s pilot program, “Elec- tronic Theses and Dissertations.”

Connie Bethards and Wen-Shu Lai, both doctoral students, presented their research this year at the National Art Education Association Conference, Seminar for Research in Art Education, in Washington, D.C. Their presentations will be published in Marilyn Zurmuehlen’s Working Papers in Art Education.

Steve Thunder-McGuire continued his travels this year telling stories, recently in Montreal, Canada at Concordia University, and he is currently working on setting up a tour in North America in which he will work on recording “Images Are Demand- ing.” He began teaching a new course this year through Literature, Science and The Arts, “What Is Storytelling For?” This summer he will be riding around the perimeter of the state stopping at senior centers and public libraries to tell and collect stories, as part of “1,000 Miles of Iowa Stories.” Steve plans to produce a corresponding CD of collected Iowa stories, The 1998-1999 academic year in the Art Palmyra. Annette Lermack’s topic focused History Division of the School opened with on the fourteenth-century illuminated a well-attended annual reception for prayer book of Bonne of Luxembourg now faculty and graduate students at the home in the collection of the Metropolitan of Professor Joni Kinsey, Interim Head of Museum of Art, New York. David Caccioli’s Art History. Two new faculty members and dissertation examined elements of a group of eight entering graduate stu- Romanization in Etruscan banquet scenes. dents were welcomed to the program. Assistant Professor Julie Hochstrasser A number of advanced graduate students (University of California at Berkeley, won highly competitive and prestigious Ph.D.) teaches seventeenth-century university, national, and international 18 Northern European art and Assistant research grants this year: Aida Audeh (Ada Professor Robert Bork (Princeton, Ph.D.) Louise Ballard Dissertation Year Fellow- offers courses in the field of Medieval art ship, Gerald and Iris Cantor Foundation, and architecture. and Chateaubriand Fellowship will research Rodin’s Gates of Hell in Paris; Curt The faculty was saddened to learn of the Germundson’s year in Germany to study death of Emeritus Professor Robert the work of Kurt Schwitters is funded by a Alexander on August 14, 1998. He was 78. DAAD (German Academic Exchange Ser- Professor Cuttler delivered the eulogy at vice) grant; Karen Milbourne will continue the memorial service, the text of which is her study of kingship among the Lozi printed below. people of Zambia with support provided by a Hays-Fulbright Fellowship; and Jessica The Art History Faculty/Graduate Student Locheed will research Degas’ sculpture Colloquium series continued this year. A with a T. Anne Cleary Fellowship and an wide range of presentation topics and Alumni Fellowship. discussions took place in the three meet- ings of the Fall Semester colloquium Curt Germundson also represented the series: human rights and art history, School at the annual Art Institute of “minor” monuments and the shaping of Chicago Graduate Student Seminar. He the canon of art history, and the signifi- presented his work on Schwitters’ idea of

Art History Division cance of interdisciplinary exchange in the the cathedral in early twentieth-century field. The Spring Semester topics included Germany. The Art Institute event brings presentations on restoration ethics in the together every year representatives of the reconstruction of damaged monuments, best graduate work being done at the seventeenth-century still-life painting and major art history Ph.D.-granting institu- Dutch material culture, and publishing in tions of the Midwest region. the field of and archaeology. A major technological initiative of the Art Our distinguished visiting lecturer series History Division came to fruition this past also continued this year with lectures by Fall semester with the installation of the Robert Rosenblum (), full range equipment for the delivery of Jacques De Caso (University of California- electronic imagery in one of the main Berkeley), and alumnus Mark Rosenthal lecture rooms. Visual materials can now be (Guggenheim Museum of Art). Dr. presented not only in the form of color Rosenthal was invited by the Dean of the slides but also, CD-ROM, video, video disk, College of Liberal Arts, Linda Maxson, to and overhead projection of book and come to campus to lecture and be recog- photograph illustrations. We hope to have nized as an exceptionally accomplished similar equipment in place in one other alumnus of the School and the graduate medium-size room and, especially, in the program in Art History. He was one of a auditorium as soon as funding becomes handful of College alumni to be so hon- available. ored. These and many other initiatives essential Three students successfully defended their to the enhancement of the programs in art dissertations in the Art History Division history will continue next academic year during the 1998-1999 academic year. as Professor Kinsey assumes duties as Head Cynthia Finlayson’s dissertation examined of Art History. female funeral portraiture in ancient Robert Bork Institute of Arts (where he gave four Robert Bork, currently completing his first lectures on Etruscan jewelry), New York year teaching Medieval art in the depart- University, Montclair State University (NJ), ment, is looking forward to a summer and the Scarsdale (NY) archaeological unclouded by the need to move his entire society. The NYU lecture was a special household from state to state, as he has honor because he was selected to inaugu- had to do for the previous several years. rate a new lecture series in honor of Having been hired in March 1998, Bork Vartan Gregorian. Research projects took spent most of this past summer in De Puma to Boston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, on an NEH Seminar, an opportunity that Madison, and Barcelona, Spain. He at- permitted him to scrutinize and measure tended conferences in Washington, Los the late Gothic portions of Metz cathedral, Angeles, and New York. De Puma has also 19 one of the largest but least studied of been awarded an NEH Summer Stipend. Gothic churches. The results of this survey were summarized in a talk at the Interna- The summer of 1999 was almost as busy, tional Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo in but with less emphasis on academic May of 1999. At this time Bork also pursuits. He attended the wedding of his participated in the annual governance son Julian, now a computer animator, to meeting of AVISTA, an association dedi- Katie Swanson, a mathematician who cated to the study of medieval art and works for Boeing, in Seattle. But before science to the board of which he was that he visited family in Pennsylvania for elected last year. In the summer of 1999, his niece’s wedding and went hiking in the Bork will return to Metz briefly to photo- Sierra Nevada. graph certain zones of the cathedral that need to be illustrated for the article on the De Puma is looking forward to a semester building that he is preparing. In addition, research leave that he will spend in Italy Bork will attend the International Medi- during the Fall Semester, 1999. He is eval Congress in Leeds, England, where he working on a book on the history of will chair a series of three sessions on Italian forgeries of . His most integrated approaches to the history of recent article appeared in Etruscan Studies late Gothic architecture. With participants 5 (Dec. 1998) and his next book, Corpus chosen from a wide variety of European Vasorum Antiquorum: Etruscan Painted countries as well as from the U.S., these , is now in press and will be pub- sessions will hopefully provide a forum in lished by the Getty Museum probably in which the somewhat fragmented field of 2000. late Gothic studies can begin to come together. Similarly, Bork was pleased to Stephen Foster learn recently that his proposal to chair a Stephen Foster has had another productive series of sessions on the taxonomy and year. The Crisis and the Arts: A History of classification of medieval architecture at Dada, for which Foster is the General the Society of Architectural Historians Editor (funded by the Getty Grant Program annual meeting in the summer of 2000 and published by G.K. Hall/Macmillan) saw had also been accepted. Last but not least, the publication of its fourth volume in the Bork is working to revise the work on Spring of 1998: The Eastern Dada Orbit: Gothic spires that originally comprised his Russia, Georgia, the Ukraine, Central dissertation. One portion of this material, Europe and Japan, Gerald Janeck, editor. dealing with the openwork spires of Volumes V and VI are expected out in late Cologne and Freiburg-im-Breisgau, should 1999 and the remaining three volumes are soon be completed as an article, while slated for 2001. work proceeds on the revision of the larger manuscript in which the whole history of One of the most exciting outgrowths of the the medieval spire-building phenomenon is Crisis and the Arts: A History of Dada series outlined. this year is a two-hour national PBS documentary on Dada that Foster is Richard De Puma authoring in collaboration with producer During the past academic year Professor De Jan Legnitto (Media Frontiers). Puma was invited to lecture on various aspects of Etruscan art at the Minneapolis A new project that Foster has launched this year is a comprehensive Franz Kline and fall. In addition to her continued catalogue raisonné. This ambitious under- research for her book on Romantic Helle- taking will consolidate, for the first time, nism in French Art, she was researching an the complete work of this important essay she was asked to write for the American artist. Due to the enormity of Cambridge Companion to Delacroix entitled the task, this extensive monograph is “Delacroix’s Dialogue with the Classical forecast for publication in the year 2003. Tradition”. 1998 marked the bicentennial of Delacroix’s birth and Dorothy was lucky The coming months will see Foster on the enough to be in Paris for the celebrations lecture circuit. He will be presenting at an which included several significant international conference on the history Delacroix exhibits and a major retrospec- 20 and theory of the avant-garde in tive show of the artist’s works. During her Osnabruk, Germany and will be giving a leave she completed an essay on Jacques- lecture at a Kurt Schwitters conference in Louis David for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ramsbottom, England. Also, look for the Enlightenment and is currently working Foster at the CAA conference in February on an essay entitled “Painting in the 2000 where he will be giving a paper Enlightenment” for the same series. entitled “Harold Rosenberg and the Dorothy is under contract from the Univer- Historical Individual.” sity of California Press to translate, edit and annotate The Published Writings of Julie Hochstrasser Jacques-Louis David for which she will This year Julie Hochstrasser will see the write accompanying essays. Her book culmination of several years’ work on the chapter, “The Origins of Romantic Mythol- Committee of Advisors and Authors for a ogy in French Art,” appeared this summer major exhibition of Netherlandish still life in a volume of essays on Comparative paintings that will open at the published by Monash Univer- Rijksmuseum in June 18 and sity Press. Dorothy has the honor of being proceed to the Cleveland Museum of Art in the only art historian invited to contrib- October. She was one of only two American ute to this book which consists primarily art historians also invited to submit an of essays on comparative literature. essay for the catalogue of the show, co- authored primarily by Dutch colleagues. This July Dorothy is giving a lecture, This past semester Dr. Hochstrasser has “Girodet’s Sleep of Endymion and the been participating in an interdisciplinary Renascence of Mythology” at the Tenth workgroup on material culture with International Congress of the Enlighten- faculty from anthropology, history, En- ment in Dublin. She has been invited to glish, Native American studies, and several give a talk on the early 19th-century museums. She submitted a paper to the history painter, Sophie Frémiet, at an group based in part on research she international conference on “Women in conducted in February at the Provenance Literature and Art” to be held at Indiana Index of the Getty Art History Information University in September. Project. She also shared this work in a departmental Colloquium with Art History Last fall Dorothy was elected to the Board faculty and graduate students. This spring of Directors of the College Art Association Dr. Hochstrasser received an nTitle grant and will serve until 2003. for computer training to get her large GER courses on the Web, and an Old Gold Joni Kinsey Fellowship for summer research. She will Joni Kinsey (Associate Professor, American travel to the Netherlands for further work Art History) served as Head of Art History on still life in relation to Dutch material this past fall and will again this fall. She culture, and to Istanbul, Turkey, to inves- has recently seen her third book in print, tigate Dutch trade in Oriental carpets that The Majesty of the Grand Canyon: 150 Years appear in seventeenth-century still life in Art (First Glance Books) and has taken paintings. the first semester this spring of her Faculty Scholar Award to begin researching Dorothy Johnson another, E Pluribus Unum: Polyptychs in Dorothy Johnson traveled to Paris for her American Art. developmental assignment in the summer Robert Rorex sity of Iowa Museum of Art on March 26. Robert Rorex served once again as Interim The exhibition includes 220 Director of the School during the summer pieces, many from eastern and southern leave of Director Dorothy Johnson in 1998 Africa. The exhibition was organized by and during the 1999 Summer Session as the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover, well. Germany, then traveled to the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, and the Rorex was invited to write a review of a Kunstbau Lehnbachhaus, Munich. From one-person exhibition, held in the UI Art Iowa it travels to the Neuberger Museum at Museum, of art jewelry by Visiting Artist SUNY Purchase, where it opens September Donald Friedlich (March 6-April 8, 1998). 25, 1999. The review was published in the journal 21 American Craft. Rorex also wrote an essay John Beldon Scott on the work of another Visiting Artist, the John Beldon Scott received funding from Korean metalsmith Hong Kyung-Hee, who the University’s Support Program in the was also honored with a one-person show Arts and Humanities to carry out on-site in the UI Art Museum (April 10-May 17, research in Turin, Italy, and Chambéry, 1998). The essay was published in a France, last summer. There he examined brochure which accompanied the show. two chapels that once housed the Shroud Rorex is currently working on a review, of Turin. The chapel in Turin was severely intended for American Craft, of another damaged by fire two years ago and is now exhibition of jewelry and other work, held being studied to determine how to ap- at Iowa City’s Studiolo Gallery in May of proach restoration. The devastating fire 1999. This show centered on the School’s revealed many new aspects of this unusual Metalsmithing area and featured work by building’s structure, which nearly col- Metalsmithing’s Professor Chunghi Choo lapsed following the disaster. The material and also by a cross-section of her current gained from this trip will appear in Scott’s and former students. This event celebrated book Architecture of the Shroud: Relic and Professor Choo’s thirty years of teaching at Ritual in Early Modern Turin. Iowa. Two of Scott’s studies have recently Rorex offered the course Chinese Narrative appeared in print. He contributed a Painting during the Spring Semester of chapter to the memorial volume published 1999 as part of a project which will in Rome on the last hundred years of eventuate in a book examining aspects of historical and scientific research on the Chinese scrolls and albums as book for- Shroud of Turin. His contribution focuses mats, concentrating on those incorporat- on Guarino Guarini’s late- Shroud ing pictorial elements. He will continue Chapel in Turin. This is a study of archi- work on this project during a Research tectural patronage and the importance of Leave in the Spring Semester of 2000. ritual in the design of the chapel. Another recent article is the published text of Christopher Roy Scott’s presentation at the international Christopher Roy has been marketing the conference on the Roman Baroque painter CD-ROM he created with funding from the Pietro da Cortona and has been issued in NEH and the Department of Education. The the volume, published in Milan, of the program is titled “Art and Life in Africa: conference proceedings. This study exam- Recontextualizing African Art in the Cycle ines the painter in the context of patron- of Life.” We trained 100 Iowa K-12 teach- client affiliation in seventeenth-century ers to use it last summer, and have plans Rome. to train a large number of Washington DC teachers this summer. Schools, universi- Scott has been named Senior Fellow at the ties, museums and individuals all over the Stanford Humanities Center for the 1999- world have been ordering copies at $50 2000 academic year. There he will initiate each. You can find out about it on our web work on a new research project. This will site http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart. be part of a larger project to result in a Chris’ large exhibition of African art titled book on the social “Kilengi: African Art from the Bareiss in early modern Rome, which will focus on Family Collection” opened at the Univer- little-studied but important utilitarian buildings such as prisons, hospitals, orphanages, and schools. In particular, Emeritus Alumni this sociological approach to the study of architecture will analyze the buildings’ Faculty Patricia Albers floorplans and how room function reveals In April, Patricia Albers (Studio Art Major societal concerns about criminals, the ill, Professor Emeritus BA 1971) published Shadows, Fire, Snow: the insane, and the homeless. Charles D. Cuttler The Life of Tina Modotti (Clarkson N. 1. Attended 26th Potter, New York), a biography of the During the Fall Semester 1998 Scott served annual Midwest Art Italian-born photographer. as Interim Director of the School and, in History Society the Spring 1999, resumed his duties as meeting, Detroit, Stan Brodsky (MFA 1950) 22 Head of Art History. In service to the Cranbrook, Toledo, The University Gallery at the University of profession, he continued in his position as as a board and Bridgeport has been awarded a grant from member of the Board of Directors of the founding member. the Richard Florsheim Art Fund in Stan Society of Architectural Historians. Brodsky’s honor. The award will assisted 2. Attended Medieval the gallery to stage an exhibition and Wallace J. Tomasini Institute, produce a catalog. The University Gallery Wallace Tomasini requested that the Kalamazoo, May 5-9. presented a retrospective of Brodsky’s following statement by him be printed: “I work (70’s, 80’s and 90’s), while the June want to thank again those of you who 3. Scheduled to lecture Kelly Gallery featured “Layered Light: New have been keeping me informed of your on Bosch’s Lisbon Painting.” Brodsky was Professor of Art at activities. I promise that I will soon begin “Temptation of St. C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University responding. I thought that I would do so Anthony” at St. Brookville, NY from 1959-1991. He has 8 this year, but the Fall Semester had me Louis University one-man shows in NYC—still going—and out-of-town almost every weekend lectur- Nov. 6 in program in has been to artist residencies at Yaddo ing, and then in late January I enjoyed honor of Father (twice), Virginia Center for Creative Arts (3 the surprising new experience of a heart McNamee, S.J. times), and MacDowell (once). attack which did interfere a bit with my plans. I missed only four classes and 4. A book on Bosch Henry Edwin Coleman returned to teaching insisting that the completed and now Henry Coleman retired after 35 years of ‘The Show must go on.’ However, I do under consideration teaching at the College of William and regret that my hospital visit did prevent for publication. Mary. He has participated in over 50 me from attending our CAA Iowa Reunion invitational and juried exhibits in the in Los Angeles. United States and abroad plus 8 solo shows. His drawings and paintings are held “Besides taking pills, exercising, and in many private collections from Missouri teaching, most of my time is spent with to Virginia. Five of his drawings were the research project for which I received a recently purchased by curator for the Developmental Leave for the Spring of President’s Collection at William and Mary. 2000. This project is an outgrowth of my He served as the juror for many local and work on Haviland/Limoges Porcelain and regional exhibits, served as department concerns the reconstruction of the art chair from 1987-90, and on numerous collection of C.E.Haviland, the CEO of college-wide and departmental committees Haviland & Co., an American citizen and a including initial and later expansion Quaker who spent all but two years of his committees for Muscarelle Museum of Art. long life in France. He was an early patron Locally he served on Yorktown Arts Foun- of the Impressionists and a major collector dation, appointed by city council to the of . After his death in 1922, Williamsburg Arts Commission (7 years) his collection was the largest art collection and presently is serving a second term on auctioned in Paris in the 20th century. The the Williamsburg Architectural Review project does tell us much about collecting Board. His replacement at William and and the last half of the 19th century.” Mary is Carlos Ferguson, a recent MFA from The University of Iowa! Application design will include an extraor- Office of Visual Materials dinarily user friendly and self-evident web-based interface requiring virtually no The School of Art and Art History Office of user training. Instructions will be included Visual Materials is an instructional re- in class materials for participating courses. source of over 270,000 35mm slides A proven system of intellectual property documenting major works in the fields of right protection will be an integral part of African, Asian, European, and American the application design. art. The collection is used by faculty and graduate students to present visual infor- Our new Chief Curator of Visual Materials, mation in the classroom as well as for Eric Dean, will administer the project. Eric research. At the present time the resources Dean comes to the University of Iowa from 23 of the Office of Visual Materials are not the University of Michigan where he available to undergraduate students for worked as the Curator of Visual Resources individual study. To remedy this and for the Media Union. Prior to the Univer- extend substantially the usability of our sity of Michigan Mr. Dean was the Curator vast image resource, we are in the process of the Visual Resources Collection in the of creating a Web-based database of College of Design at Iowa State University images and descriptive textual data in where he created a similar project called support of undergraduate courses in the “Plato’s Cave.” With 15,000 images on-line School of Art and Art History. supporting six classes per semester “Plato’s Cave” was receiving over 1.2 million The Digital Image Library (working title) requests in its first full year. One faculty will make images available in the same member noted that “Plato’s Cave” freed order as they were presented in class. him and allowed him to concentrate on Images will also be available through a teaching ideas and concepts, others noted random access interface with title, artist, general improvements in student perfor- subject and keyword searching using mance. Boolean operators. These search strategies will allow students to review material We received initial funding for the project shown in class and to explore beyond the through the College of Liberal Arts equip- limitations of their prescribed course- ment fund and a grant from the Student work. The process of memorization and Computer Fee pool. The equipment is on identification will become one of real order and we should receive it during the understanding and interpretation through Fall Semester 99. Our goal is to provide the individual review of images. The digital image support for the undergradu- Digital Image Library will become a paral- ate class “Western Art and Culture” in the lel text for many classes. Fall Semester of 1999 and to continue to increase the number of classes supported The Digital Image Library has the potential each successive semester. to impact positively the learning experi- ence of every student at the University of Iowa. Initially, the project will focus on supporting entry-level courses in the School of Art and Art History. We will continue to add material and eventually provide support for all courses in the School of Art and Art History with the final goal of including the entire Office of Visual Material collection. Other depart- ments including History, Foreign Lan- guage, English, Philosophy, Anthropology, Music, Theater, and Religion use the slide collection regularly and would greatly benefit by having this material available on-line. SuZanne Hoofnagle Diane Schaeffer SuZanne Hoofnagle, in addition to attend- In January, Diane Schaeffer joined the ing to the School’s material and budgetary School as the new Administrative Assis- needs, is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator tant. After working with engineers at both and also provides a halfway house for the Institute of Hydraulic Research and homeless and abused ferrets as a member the Department of Civil & Environmental of the Eastern Iowa Ferret Association. Engineering for nearly ten years, Diane is Recovering at her home again this year is enjoying familiarizing herself with the a threatened species, an ornate box turtle world of art. Diane holds a Bachelor’s named “Speedbump,” that was run over by degree in Business Administration from a car and is wired and fiberglassed back the University of Iowa. 24 together. SuZanne has discovered through her experience with Speedbump that When not at the School, Diane’s three turtles heal very slowly indeed. children keep her entertained with band, choir, track, softball, t-ball, soccer, volley- Marlo Jack ball, etc. She also enjoys perennial garden- ing—the kind where the weeds provide a Marlo Jack can now be found in the back lovely array of “au natural” foliage as a corner of the School’s administrative backdrop to the few hardy flowers that office, although she has been seen lurking survive Diane’s low-maintenance tech- around the “front” desk—it’s really hard niques! to break old habits! Even though her job now, among other things, is to juggle the Director’s schedule, make posters for guest artists and lecturers, organize and expe- dite scholarships, and schedule the Drewelowe and Checkered Space, she will help with all other office matters when- ever possible. 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Robert Alexander Professor Emeritus Robert L. Alexander, University of Iowa, born in New York, a graduate of Queens College’s first class, died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 14, 1998. His wife, Marga- ret Ames Alexander, a fellow Ph.D. of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, preceded him in death in 1996. He served in the Army from 1942-44, was a Teaching Assistant at Queens College 1944-45, an Instructor at RISD 1947-48, returned to tutor at Queens College 1945-51, was an Instructor 1952-58 at the University of Pittsburgh, an Assistant Professor from 1958-61 at Pennsylvania State University, and moved to the University of Iowa in 1961, 25 the year he received his Ph.D., where he rose to Professor in 1969 and retired in 1987, continuing to publish (but not exclusively) in two fields of expertise, the Hittite art of and Baltimore architecture of the early decades of the 19th Century. He was the author of three monographs, The Architecture of Maximilian Godefroy, Balti- more, the Johns Hopkins Press, 1974; The Architecture of Russell Warren, Charleston, SC Historical Society, 1979; The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya, Associated University Presses, London, Toronto, 1986. Both editor and writer, he also published thirty-five articles in seventeen scholarly journals, among them, the Art Bulletin, Anatolica, and the Journal of Anatolian Studies (separately and with Hans G. Guterbock of the Oriental Institute, Chicago) and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; also contri- butions to joint studies, biographies, festschrift articles, and book reviews. His primary interest was always in the work of art as such. Several academic years were spent in Turkey on research fellowships and numerous trips were made to North Africa in assisting his wife on her work on the Corpus des Mosaiques Anciennes de Tunisie. He generously turned to the task of completing the volume she left behind at her demise despite the onset of the brain tumor from which he died. He was an active member of ten scholarly organizations, a director 1960-63 of the Society of Architectural Historians, a founding member of the Midwest Art History Society, and he gave papers at all of them. His research on the late 18th, early 19th Century French engineer and architect Joseph François Mangin, designer of new York Harbor fortifica- tions and work on architectural projects that included the Wall St. Presbyterian Church, Old St. Patrick’s, and City Hall in New York City, is almost completed and will be submit- ted for publication in the near future to the Winterthur Portfolio as he wished. A dedicated and well-loved teacher, open and helpful, he inspired majors and non-majors in art history; as a result he supervised many advanced degrees. A man with a wonderful sense of humor, generous, with the gift of making friends readily, supportive of high standards of scholarship, he was widely respected by his colleagues, and eminent teach- ers and scholars, such as Henry Russell Hitchcock, Richard Krautheimer, and Ernst Kitzinger. (Submitted by Prof. Emeritus Charles D. Cuttler) We Want To Hear From YOU!

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