The University of Iowa School of ArtNEWSLETTER &History Volume 3 Spring/Summer 2001

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Greetings Warm greetings from the School of Art and Adams, who taught contemporary African Art History! After one of the coldest and art with us this spring will be joining us from harshest winters on record here we as an assistant professor of art history this enjoyed a magnificent spring (although we fall. Over the next few weeks we expect Dorothy are all keeping an eye on the river which to add a faculty member in graphic design is getting higher every day). As the and several visitors in art and art history Johnson, spring semester draws to a close we are for the next academic year. looking forward to the M.F.A. show in the Director Museum of Art and are still enjoying the Growth & Development faculty show at the Museum which is one The School continues to grow every year. of the largest and most diverse we have The numbers of our faculty members seen. This year, thanks to the generosity increase as we try to keep up with ever- of the College, the Vice President for growing enrollments at the undergraduate Research and the University Foundation, and graduate levels. This year we have we are going to have a catalogue of the well over 700 undergraduate majors and faculty exhibit in full color. over 200 graduate students. In addition, we serve thousands of non-majors, espe- Farewells cially in our General Education classes in This is also the time of year for farewells. art history. We also now have several GE Hans Breder and Stephen Foster are classes in studio—in Ceramics, Sculpture both retiring after decades of teaching and Elements of Art. The faculty are Inside this Issue and will be greatly missed. As most of working overtime to keep pace with new you remember, Hans founded our technologies—especially in digital art Studio Division Intermedia Area and helped to create and which is fast becoming a component of pp. 2-13 define this field. He will be busy on his most of our areas. Our wonderful chief latest time-based art projects and also on curator of the Office of Visual Materials, Obituaries establishing an intermedia program for Eric Dean, has begun a Digital Image pp. 9, 17 the University of Dortmund. Stephen, Library which faculty and students in who is completing his multi-volume many of our classes are already using. Center for the Book history of DADA, among many other Another exciting development that we are p. 13 projects, will be returning to the east seeing in the School is cross-disciplinary coast where he embarks on new endeavors and interdisciplinary teaching and cur- Art Education in the art world. Hans and Stephen leave ricular development. Faculty in the p. 13 big shoes to fill, but we are working hard School are working together to develop to ensure the continuity of intermedia new courses along interdisciplinary lines Art History Division and our 20th-century art programs. as the spirit of cooperation among for- pp. 14-17 merly disparate fields increasingly be- New Members comes the national norm. Administrative This year we welcomed several new faculty Office members. In Painting and Drawing Will Honors p. 18 Mentor and Susan White joined us, I also wanted to let you know, as you will adding even greater diversity and breadth see in the following pages, that our Notes from Alumni to this flourishing area. Kee-ho Yuen students and faculty continue to win pp. 19-22 came aboard as associate professor of honors and awards as they make wonder- metalsmithing and has joined Chunghi- ful contributions to their fields. The Announcements Choo, thereby doubling the already high College bestowed high and much-deserved pp. 23-24 energy level of that program. Sarah honors this year on Keith Achepohl and

NEWSLETTER Richard De Puma. Keith became our first Elisabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Fine Ceramics Area Arts and Richard was named F. Wendell Bunny McBride Miller Professor. You will find more Bunny McBride received an AHI Grant information as you read along. from the University to research Ancient Chinese Kiln sites and existing ones and New Art Building to document them on a CD Rom that will The changes in the size, diversity and be utilized for class study in Ceramics interactivity of all components of the classes. This was a Collaborative Grant School come at a time when we are with Professor Henry Serenco who teaches entering the final planning stages for our 2 at The University of Nebraska at Omaha. new Art Building. Next year will be filled They traveled to China for six weeks in with great excitement as we work together May, June, and July for a very successful on the programming for the new art study. Mr. McBride has been invited back building with our architect, Steven Holl. to China to a paper at a Sympo- The final phases of the building’s design sium in Shanghai at the Shanghai Ceramic will be completed next year as well. In Institute fall of 2001. In the spring of our next newsletter I will update you on 2001, Bunny received a Semester Research the latest developments and hope to Leave in which to compose the kiln include the plans for this great new research CD Rom. building. Chuck Hindes A Final Note Chuck Hindes had a busy 2000-2001

Studio Division In this issue we are including an expanded season. His work was exhibited in numer- section on news from our alumni. It is ous shows, including: wonderful to hear from our alums who are “Suited to a Tea” (invitational), Sioux doing such exciting things around the City Art Center, Sioux City; country. Please send in your news for our Woodfired Ceramics (invitational), The next issue. It was great seeing so many of Signature Gallery, Atlanta; you at our CAA breakfast in last “Ten Years in Retrospect” (invitational), March. Next year the CAA will be in Northern Clay Center Gallery, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and I hope many of you will Minnesota; be able to attend our annual CAA event. “Paper Pots”(invitational drawing show), John Elder Gallery, New York, New York; Losses “Great Teachers:Great Legacies” (invita- It is with deep regret that I announce the tional), W.D.O. Gallery, North Carolina loss of two distinguished emeriti, John (held in conjunction with the Annual Schulze and Stephen Prokopoff. Please National Council on Education for Ceram- see the In Memoriam sections under ics Arts conference); Photography and Art History. “A Ceramic :Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence”, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana; “American Shino” (invitational), Babcock Gallery, New York; “Faculty Choice” (invitational), Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. Professor Hindes also participated in several workshops; “Yuma Symposium 21”, Yuma, Arizona, and woodfire work- shops at University of Missouri, Columbia, and University of North Texas, Denton. He was featured as guest artist at Ander- son Ranch Center for the Arts in Snowmass Village, Colorado and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. national and interna- Design Area tional theater shows Digital Worlds by van Vliet since Hu Hung-Shu Digital Worlds began its third year of 1963. In 2001, the After Professor Hu’s serious sickness and activity, providing an imaging "garden,” book will be published with one year of sick leave to recover, he web access, a new bluescreen structure, in the Netherlands. is planning to be back for full-time and classes to the art community. We are teaching in fall 2001. During this recov- proud to announce that professor Fisher's Recently, a re-designed ery period, he had finished one public art research assistant, Adam Brown, has been and streamlined work in Taipei, Taiwan and he is one of hired by the University of Oklahoma as an website for the School the finalists for the art commission for the assistant professor. Adam, who received of Art & Art History Great Fire of Jacksonville of 1901 commis- his Masters of Fine Art in Intermedia, will was presented to the 3 sion, Jacksonville, Florida. Hu had an oil be starting his own digital arts program. faculty. The design was painting in a group show at Chi-Zen made by a graduate Gallery in Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan in October John Freyer, a graduate student in pho- student in graphic 2000 and also had an oil painting in a tography, has come on board as our new design, Andres Salinas. group show at “Grands et jeunes research assistant. John brings welcome It is anticipated that experience running a community media d’aujourd’hui,” Paris, France in November the new website will center at the nationally acclaimed Light 2000. This painting was selected with soon be made opera- Work in upstate New York. His digital other elite art works for the traveling tional. show for the 2002 World Cup. fortitude is underscored by his current effort to orchestrate a dramatic satire on Over the last number US consumer culture using the internet Hu was invited as a keynote speaker at of years graphic design auction house, eBay. John's the Thirty-Ninth Annual Iowa Junior students graduating allmylifeforsale.com launched in Novem- Science and Humanities Symposium from the design ber, 2000. The response by the media has sponsored by the Iowa JSHS of the Univer- program with M.F.A. been phenomenal: major media, from sity of Iowa on February 23, 2001. The degrees have been National Public Radio to the Associated students and teachers commented on the extremely successful in Press to the New York Times, picked up on evaluation forms how much they enjoyed terms of receiving John's internet event. Even the Today Professor Hu’s talk. offers for university Show broadcast a live interview with John teaching positions. from his Iowa City Apartment. Professor Hu will give a speech at China Graphic Design is National Industrial Conference in Tsing- fortunate to have been Since the last newsletter, many features Hua University in Beijing, China in June able to create its own have been added to the Digital Worlds 2001. “in-class” computer "garden,” including digital video editing, cluster in answer to new 3D modelling software, and new Ab Gratama the inevitable and digital cameras and lighting equipment. A During the Spring Semester 2000, Ab necessary growing bluescreen area with curved walls was Gratama travelled to Germany and visited need for digital tech- built into the classroom. Students have with Dr. Michael Erlhoff, Dean of the nology. University of Cologne School of Design begun to digitize figures against a seam- (Fachhochschule Köln/Fachbereich De- less backdrop which could then be sign). Discussions centered around par- "dropped out" electronically. Environ- ticular graduate and postgraduate design ments, shot at the University of Iowa's curricula, and possibilities for some formal Natural History Museum, were then cooperation and exchange of faculty and/ inserted behind each subject. or students. "Where Stephen Spielberg could float live While in the Netherlands, similar discus- human beings in front of digital dino- sions were held with the of the Post- saurs,” remarked Ebon Fisher, coordinator graduate Graphic Design program of the of Digital Worlds, "this generation of St. Joost Akademie in Breda. independent world creators will now be able to do something along the same lines, Presently Ab is working on the design of although with more imaginative freedom. an “anthology” on Paul van Vliet, a We may not have the budget for a two- famous Dutch comedian and entertainer. hour juggernaut of highly detailed, The book will contain van Vliet’s songs drooling pterodactyls, but our indepen- and texts, and many designs of posters dence as artists permits us to take the and programs Ab created in relation to the technology somewhere far more subtle and probing. We've had some amazing presented by the students passing through here who are Encyclopedia Drawing Area beginning to tap the poetic potential Britannica as one of Continuing faculty who taught in the area of this new medium." their "Best of the this year were David Dunlap, Laurel Web." His Zoacodes, a Farrin, Sue Hettmansperger, Joseph Mr. Fisher has been introducing his system of evolving Patrick, Gelsy Verna, and Margaret students to a method of world creation ethics for cyberspace, Rochelle, Lecturer. We also enjoyed the which not only involves 2D and 3D have made appearances contributions of the two new faculty hired software, but also a heightened orien- this year at the P.S.1 in the Drawing and Painting areas, Will tation to feedback from peers and a Museum (now part of Mentor and Susan Chrysler White, who wider world audience. "In this age of the Museum of Modern joined us in the Fall of 2000. 4 networks and continuously evolving Art) and at a new net media systems," says Mr. Fisher, "it art exhibit for the The TA’s in the Basic Drawing classes seems appropriate to cultivate a living South by Southwest continue to devote much effort and media space which evolves in concert Festival in Austin, responsible guidance to the undergraduate with its technological, social and Texas. Fisher's work BFA students enrolled in their classes. We environmental support also appeared in appreciate the contributions of this past structures." Fisher's green aesthetic, Jonathan Fineberg's years’ TA’s : Peter Axelson, Christine which he dubs "wigglism,” delves into 2000 edition of his art Buckton, Hilary Ciment, Melissa Furness, such issues as artificial life-forms and history textbook, "Art Carianne Mack, Jiha Moon, Heidi Neff, subjective ecology. Since 1940: Strategies Dawn Roberts, Andy Rosen, Jered of Being," published by Sprecher, and Steven Vickers. Many Ebon Fisher Prentice Hall. thanks also are due to the TA’s assisting Part of Fisher's own digital world, faculty with a broad range of drawing OlulO.net, was broadcast in video to a classes in the Fall and Spring. They were live audience in Venice for the Venice Joshua Huyser, Jiha Moon, and Abel Ortiz. Guggenheim Museum last Spring, accompanied by a panel discussion 2000 saw continuing school-wide discus- with Mr. Fisher and Ralph Abraham, a sion and planning for allocated space pioneer of chaos mathematics. Mr. assignment in the proposed new building Fisher's website has recently been and in the existing art building once renovations are made. Plans were put forth for locating two classrooms to house Basic Drawing sections, with adjacent storage space for props and materials. This long-term plan would free the exist- ing second floor drawing rooms for sched- uling the full roster of upper division drawing classes, such as Media of Drawing, Life Drawing I, II, III, Graduate Drawing, as well as Undergraduate Seminar in Drawing and Painting and the Methods and Media course. There is increasing demand for all classes in our regular program, as well as the Saturday and Evening course offerings in Drawing. We currently fill twice as many sections of Basic Drawing as were offered a few years ago.

Students in the Digital Worlds “Garden” hit the start button. Research Assistant John Freyer is at right. world. The University Finally, the Painting and Drawing Areas Painting Area of Iowa, Cranbrook culminated a successful search this past Academy of Art, The year in the hiring of two new faculty The last two academic years have seen the School of the Art members who began teaching in the fall of development of new studio spaces for both Institute of Chicago, 2000. The areas feel very fortunate to the graduate and undergraduate programs. and The University of have Will Mentor and Susan Chrysler In the fall of 1999, painting was presented at Berkeley White join the faculty. Both have substan- with the opportunity to move its graduate were selected to tial teaching experience and their work studios from the east side of the river to a contribute statements. has been exhibited widely with represen- site that would place them within the In addition, 36 addi- tation in New York and Los Angeles. existing art complex and directly beside tional M.F.A. candi- the proposed location for the new art dates were chosen for Ronald Cohen 5 building. This was welcomed as an oppor- “The M.F.A. Annual” Ronald Cohen chaired a panel discussion tunity to be included in the general online exhibition at this year’s CAA entitled “The Art of the activities and discussions that take place (www.newamerican Figure in Contemporary Art.” He is now in the larger graduate community. The paintings.com) and exhibiting with the Tatistcheff Gallery in new graduate painting building is located three of these were New York. at 109 River Street, across the street and also from the Univer- up the hill from the Museum of Art. It is a sity of Iowa: Melissa very large, former fraternity building and John Dilg Furness, Carrie Pollack, has studios for approximately 20 students. John Dilg’s paintings were the subject of a and Mary Sanders. The main floor has a wonderful, large one-person exhibition last spring at Luise space for critiques and seminars, and Ross Gallery, in New York, 24 February - 1 Other recent accom- another space that houses a gallery. In the April 2000. He was also a visiting artist plishments by former fall of 2000, renovations took place that and gave a public lecture in February, at graduate students in increased the size of 6 main studios. The the University of Pennsylvania. Dilg’s painting include the new studios are both large and gracious as work was part of a two-person show in tenure-track faculty working spaces. April - May, 2000, at Bradley University, appointments of Anne with colleague Robert Glasgow. Five Beffel (M.F.A.,’98) to The beginning of the fall semester also paintings were included in the “Iowa Syracuse University saw the undergraduate painting program Artists 2000” exhibition, curated by and of Mille Guldbeck moved from Seashore Hall to North Hall. It Senior Curator Jeff Fleming at the Des (M.F.A.,’96) to Bowling now exists in a beautiful room overlooking Moines Art Center, August-October, 2000. Green State University; the Iowa River. It has two complete walls A print by Dilg is traveling at present as the awarding of major of windows and space for classes of part of the Normal Editions Workshop’s grants from the Pol- approximately twelve students. retrospective of contemporary prints lock-Krasner Founda- published since the workshop’s inception tion to Colin Brant The graduate painting program was in 1976. The exhibition is titled “A Print (M.F.A.,’95) and honored in the spring-summer of 2000, in Retrospective” and is being circulated Hamlett Dobbins having three of its students, Peter through the Illinois Arts Council Artstour (M.F.A.,’99); the Axelsen, Jered Sprecher, and Christopher Program. In January, 2001, a one-person reception by Mark Thomas, included in the first “M.F.A. exhibition of Dilg’s paintings opened at Takamichi Miller Annual,” published by Open Studios Press Gallery 210 of the University of Missouri, (M.F.A.,’91) of The of Wellesley, Massachusetts. The Press has St. Louis. He gave a public lecture on his Behnke Foundation’s been publishing regional catalogs of “New work and made a lithograph in conjunc- 2001 Neddy Artist American Painting”, juried by significant tion with this show. Dilg’s work was Fellowship, “estab- arts professionals, for approximately six included in “Patient Process” at Faulconer lished to identify, years. This was the first time for both a Gallery, Grinnell College this spring, from acknowledge and national edition and one focused on February - April, 2001. This show was support an especially current graduate students in painting. The curated by Lesley Wright, Director and visionary artist in the juror for this competition was Klaus Donald Doe, Curator, whose essays are field of Painting”, and Kertess, independent curator and writer. included in the excellent catalog that the inclusion of Jon Over 650 students from 122 schools accompanies the exhibition. This fall, Dilg Haddock (M.F.A.,’91) in participated. From these, 25 were selected will have two one-person exhibitions. The the spring, 2001, for inclusion. The chairs or heads of first will be at the Art Academy of Cincin- “Bitstreams” exhibi- painting from “four prominent institu- nati in Ohio, from 27 September - 26 tion at The Whitney tions” were asked to comment on their October. The other will take place at Museum of American school’s philosophy and the role of gradu- Luise Ross Gallery in New York, NY, from Art, New York. ate art programs in the contemporary art November 2001 to January 2002. Laurel Farrin She was part of several group exhibitions Laurel Farrin was a visiting artist in including: “Iowa Artists 2000” at the Des December 1999 at St. Mary’s College, St. Moines Art Center (curated by Jeff Mary’s City, MD in conjunction with a Fleming, chief curator) and the “2000 group show, Reclamation, at the Boyden Rockford-Midwestern Exhibition” at the Gallery, St. Mary’s College. Rockford Museum in Rockford, Illinois In April 2000, Farrin had a solo exhibition (juror: James Yood, Northwestern Univer- at Anton Gallery in Washington, DC. sity, Evanston, Illinois); December 1999, Farrin Participated in an invitational print January 2000, “12 Attitudes, part II” at workshop in June 2000, funded by a non- the Porter Troupe Gallery in San Diego and profit organization, Celadon Inc., at Count Down group exhibition at the 6 Virginia Commonwealth University. Her Bucheon gallery in San Francisco, an monoprints will be exhibited in the exhibition curated by Sheila Cohen and coming year at the Anderson Museum, Leslie Wilkes; in November 1999, the VCU and the Richmond Museum of Art. Bucheon gallery from San Francisco presented her work at the First Austrotel Sue Hettmansperger Contemporary Art Fair in Vienna, ; Completing her last semester of the October 1999, group show “Sketchbooks” Faculty Scholar Award in the fall of ‘99, curated by Hamlett Dobbins at the Professor Hettmansperger mounted a one Marshall Arts gallery in Memphis; person exhibition of her work at A.I.R. in September 1999, her work was included Gallery in . A catalogue in the 17th September Competition at the accompanied the show, which was held in Alexandria Museum in Alexandria, LA. The October. She also participated in an exhibition was curated by Beth Handler, invitational show, “Generations II” in the an assistant curator at the MOMA in New same venue, and “Pa D’ Angel,” U.S. York. Convida a L’Exposicio, artistes d’ aqui i d’ alla’, Article 26, Carer de Ferlandina, Susan Chrysler White Barcelona, Spain. Curated by Katherine Susan Chrysler White joined the School of Slusher, this invitational also produced a Art and Art History as Assistant Professor catalogue at its traveling venue in Athens, in Painting and Drawing in August 2000. Greece. Currently Prof. Hettmansperger is She has previously taught at The Cooper working on a UI Arts and Humanities Union School of Art and Architecture, Initiative grant, collaborating with Profes- Tyler School of Art both in Philadelphia sors in Music and Mathematics to produce and in Rome, and at Carnegie Mellon a digital multimedia work for video University. projection and eight channel sound. During the Spring Semester of 2000 In July, she exhibited her new series of Professor Hettmansperger served as Head paintings in a two person exhibition at of Drawing. Davis and Hall Gallery in Hudson, New York. In September 2000, she developed a Will Mentor series of paintings that were featured Will Mentor joined the School of Art and during the Hispanic Awards at Art History as Assistant Professor in Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She Painting and Drawing in August 2000. He has been commissioned to create original had a one-person show in New York City art for this televised event on an annual at PPOW Gallery that opened November 21 basis. and ran through Christmas. The artistic cooperatives she developed in Gelsy Verna Mexico in 1998 continue to thrive. She Gelsy Verna was awarded a departmental will be visiting the project in December to leave for the fall 1999 semester. The help reorganize the groups and develop University of Illinois purchased one of her more distribution for the women’s work. paintings for the Hospital’s new Medical She is currently working on her upcoming Center. The Chambers Hotel in New York one person exhibition at the Kim Foster purchased a number of drawings and laser Gallery in NYC in 2001. A catalogue is prints for its permanent collection. Verna being published in conjunction with the was visiting artist at Syracuse University exhibit. in February 2000. graphs and a review of his work in: Mention, “Force and Jewelry and Metal Arts Contemporary Silver, by Benton Seymour Fire: Old Techniques/ Kee-ho Yuen Rabinovitch and Helen Clifford, Merrell New Technologies, at Publishers; and The Metalsmith’s Books of the Worchester Center The Jewelry and Metal Arts Program is Boxes and Lockets by Tim McCreight, Hand for Crafts, Worchester, very happy and fortunate to have an Books Press. MA, “Art in Boxes: additional instructor, Kee-ho Yuen. He Hers and His Stories” received a B.A. from the Chinese Univer- The following new courses have been at the Noyes Museum sity of Hong Kong and an M.F.A. from the added: Mixed Media Workshop, and Ad- of Art in Oceanville, University of Iowa. Kee-ho Yuen taught vanced Jewelry and Metal Arts in which NJ, “The Third Na- at the University of Northern Iowa for the basic 3-D computer modeling is part of the tional Juried Art past ten years. Kee-ho joins the UI as an curriculum. For more information about Exhibition” at the 7 Associate Professor of the Jewelry and our program, please visit our web site: Baker Arts Center in Metals Arts program last fall. He teaches http://www.uiowa.edu/~art/metals Liberal, KS, “Northern beginning, advanced and graduate work- National Art Competi- shop courses. Kee-ho’s work has been In spring semester, 2001, the program tion” at LRC Gallery in shown at numerous international and established its own computer lab in the Rhinelander, WI, national invitational group and solo graduate studio. The funding is from the “Contemporary exhibitions, as well as competitive exhibi- College of Liberal Arts Educational Com- Metalsmiths 2000” at tions, including those at the Goldsmith puting Grant awarded to the graduate the Young & Hall in London, England; Museum Für students for their proposal. As a result, Constantin Gallery in Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany; the studio is equipped with a 3-D CAD Wilmington, VT, “New American Craft Museum in New York City system and a variety of current hardware Metal, Emerging Views” and Aaron Faber Gallery in New York City; and software (4-axis desktop milling at the Contemporary Mobilia Gallery in Massachusetts; Pionine machine, PC, slide scanner, digital camera, Crafts Gallery in Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan; Art flatbed scanner, printer). With this new Portland, OR, and Museum in Seattle, Washington; Museum equipment and close collaboration with “Fine Art of Craft” at of Art at the Chinese University of Hong industry, students are able to explore the Maryland Federa- Kong; Fortunoff in New York City, and progressive concepts with unlimited tion of Art Gallery and many times at the National Ornamental technical possibilities. the Mitchell Gallery in Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. Kee-ho’s Annapolis, MD. They work is included in the collections of the Scholarships also continue to be American Craft Museum in New York City; Thanks to our 130 private donors, the accepted into national the Museum of Art, Chinese University of program continues to provide all of our 8 student competitions, Hong Kong; the University of Iowa Mu- to 10 graduate students and outstanding such as the “SNAG seum of Art, and other places. Most undergraduates with full or partial tuition (Society of North recently, the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery scholarships and material scholarships American Goldsmiths) of National Museum of American Art is in from its own funds. Because of these National Student the process of acquiring one of his works. donations, the students are able to freely Juried Exhibition and Among his awards and honors is the explore their creativity without worry of Slide Show,” and “2001 Certificate of Excellence and Outstanding material costs and tuition bills. All of the NICHE Student Achievement in Metal Work at the presti- students have been researching the use of Awards.” Each student gious Artitude International Art Competi- new and unconventional materials, such was also accepted into tions in New York City. At the 1998 as rubber, carbon fiber, use of foil stamp- many other exhibi- national conference of the Society of ing with metal, plastics, paper, and tions. North American Goldsmith, Professor various pigments to be applied to metal. Yuen’s works were chosen to be presented In the summer of in Dawn Nakanishi’s lecture titled “Asian Student accomplishments 2000, Cody Bush was Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in In 2000-2001, outstanding works of our selected for an intern- Metal.” Kee-ho is currently organizing an graduate students, Cody Bush, Beth Reilly, ship at GM, in which international metalwork exhibition that Rachel Lundberg, Sunghee Yoon, and Julie he and five other will travel to Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Swanson, have been accepted into many interns from different Japan, United States and China. This major competitive national exhibitions for countries designed and summer he is invited to give presentations professionals, including “Materials: Hard made a one-third-scale in the Art Center in Hong Kong and and Soft,” at the Greater Denton Arts model of a concept Nanjing and Beijing Universities of China, Council in Denton, TX, “Metalsmiths 2001” Cadillac. Also, Beth and will teach a one-week course at the at Arts Iowa City in Iowa City, IA, where Reilly had painted Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennes- Sunghee Yoon received an Honorable stained glass windows see. Kee-ho is presented with photo- installed at a United Methodist Church in Mountain School of Fairfield, IA, a Catholic cathedral in San Crafts in Deer Isle, Multimedia and Video Art Francisco, CA and in other churches and Maine, where she The Intermedia (Multimedia and Video public buildings across the U.S. Beth has exhibited her work and Art) Area, founded by Professor Hans been selected by Henry Dunay to be an gave slide presenta- Breder in 1968, is devoted to experimental apprentice in his jewelry industry in New tions on UI Students’ and interdisciplinary art forms. In exist- York City this summer. work and her own ence now for over 30 years, the program is work. In December well-known for being on the cutting edge Visiting artists program 1999, she was invited of aesthetic thought and practice. Hans Most recent visitors include Kenneth R. to the Seoul Interna- Breder’s early work in intermedia, perfor- Trapp, Curator-in-Charge of the tional Metal Artists mance-oriented work and later in video 8 Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of the Seminars and Work- art, led to the creation of the Center for National Museum of American Art, who shop, where she gave a the New Performing Arts (CNPA) in 1970, came to review student work and lectured workshop in Forming which was supported by the Rockefeller on “Collecting for the Nation.” We thank a Metal primarily by Foundation (1970-1975). Since 1976, major supporter, Mark Ginsberg, for hand, with minimal Intermedia has emphasized a Visiting sponsoring Henry Dunay, a distinguished use of tools. There, Artists Program which brought in notable one-of-a-kind and commercial jeweler who she gave slide presen- artists early in their careers. To mention a gave a workshop about marketing jewelry. tations on the techni- few: Robert Wilson developed “Deafman Other visiting artists include Professor cal innovations of the Glance” here in 1970; Viro Acconci, Ida Sarah Perkins of Southwest Missouri UI Metals program, and Applebroog, and Karen Finley, among University who gave an workshop in her students’ and her others, also spent time in Iowa City. enameling. own work. Her mixed Additional participants include well- media piece was known artists and critics such as Donald exhibited with other Chunghi Choo Kuspit, Dennis Ooppenheim, Nam June international metal In January, 2001, Chunghi had the honor Paik, Lucy Lippard, and RoseLee Goldberg. artists’ work at the of being invited by the Smithsonian Three decades later, the Intermedia Area Seoul Arts Center in Archives of American Art for a two-hour continues to highlight experimental, Korea. interview about her life story for their interdisciplinary and intercultural modes Oral History program. They also invited of art making. Hans Breder has conducted Citations and reviews her to leave her personal papers to the a number of intermedia workshops in with photographs of Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Mexico, Italy, and The Netherlands since Chunghi’s work were 1973. Last May, he returned to the recently published in During 2000-2001, Chunghi’s silver hol- University of Dortmund, Germany, to two books: Women lowware pieces were exhibited in “Defin- conduct another intensive intermedia Designers in the USA ing Craft” at the American Craft Museum performance workshop. in New York City, and in “Women Design- 1900-2000, Diversity and Difference, Pat ers in the USA 1900-2000: Diversity and It is also worth noting some of the activi- Kirkham, editor, Yale Difference” at the Bard Graduate Center ties of former Intermedia students who University Press; and for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design have kept in touch. Please see the alumni Contemporary Silver, by and Culture, in New York City; her jewelry information at the end of the newsletter. pieces were exhibited at the Ewha’s Benton Seymour Traveling Exhibition at Gallery Wooduck, Rabinovitch and Helen Hans Breder Clifford, Merrell Pub- in Seoul, Korea, and the Wacoal Ginza Art Hans Breder, F. Wendell Miller Distin- lishers; among other Space, in Tokyo, Japan; her textile panel guished Professor of Art, continues to publications. was exhibited in “A Century of Design, work in a variety of media. His CD-ROM Part III: 1950-1975,” Metropolitan Museum installation The Nazi-Loop has recently of Art, New York City; nonfunctional been shown at Hobart and William Smith mixed media Basketry were exhibited in Colleges, Geneva, NY; Centro de la Imagen, “Sheen of Silver, Weight of Air” at the Cuidad de Mexico; Virginia Film Festival, Schnider Museum of Art, Ashland, , Charlottesville, VA; Dallas Video Festival and in “Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Poetry in Metal” at the Gabrillo College Angeles, CA. In 1999, Breder’s paintings Gallery, Aptos, California. and digital photographs were exhibited at the Hachmeister Galerie, Munster, Ger- In the summer of 2000 Chunghi was many in a one-artist exhibition. Breder, invited to give a two week workshop on whose work has been included in three “Silent Metal Forming” at the Haystack Whitney Biennial Exhibitions, premiered his performance Opera for Suitcases at ings, we recognize the Experimental Intermedia, New York. His Photography Area impact that the photo documentation from the late sixties traditional, camera was presented by the Mitchell algus derived image has Gallery, New York at the Armory Show In Memoriam within both the fine 2000. This May, commissioned by the John Schulze arts and the culture at University of Dortmund, Germany, he large. The new build- premiered a major intermedia performance A year ago last fall, the Photo area was ing will offer extensive work Mass in A-minor for Suitcases at the saddened to learn of the death of Emeritus new digital facilities St. Petri Church in the City of Dortmund Professor John Schulze. Initially trained and the renovation of accompanied by intermedia artists Russ as a painter, John studied and taught the old building will Nordman and Scott Siegling. Design at Iowa before turning to the provide both expanded 9 medium of photography. As a founding conventional facilities member of the Society of Photographic and the opportunity Education in the early 1960s, John estab- for the Photography lished what would become one of the classroom to move largest creative photography programs in above ground. In the the country. At that time, there were very meantime the College few such programs, and John provided an of Liberal Arts has environment for students to investigate generously provided a the expressive potential of the medium. significant equipment He also founded Refocus, the annual film funding initiative to and photography festival that helped expand our digital establish Iowa as a leading program in the facilities. 1970s. John was a dedicated teacher who inspired hundreds of loyal students for This past Spring, we more than 30 years. In 1985, John’s were pleased that two lifelong contribution to teaching was of our students re- acknowledged when he received the ceived school-wide Honored Educator’s Award from the Soci- recognition in the ety for Photographic Education. John’s form of scholarships. work, which ranged from evocative and Carol Carter, an M.A. and Hans Breder transformative studies of light to unique student from Intermedia Studio, 1973 photomontages, was shown and collected Burlington, Iowa internationally. Upon his retirement in received both a Len 1985, a retrospective exhibition of his Everett and a Paula work was shown at the University of Iowa Patton Grahame, and Museum of Art, The Museum of Contempo- Jen Moon, a B.F.A. rary Photography at Columbia College in student, received the Chicago and The Photo Center Gallery- Iowa Center for the Tisch School of Art at . Arts Undergraduate A portfolio of his images, with an intro- Scholarship. Congratu- duction by Marvin Bell, is in the Special lations also go to Collections Department at the Main Lincoln Phillips Library. (M.F.A. ’99) who is in his second year of teaching at the Com- The Photo area today, though much munity College of smaller, continues John’s vision of encour- Denver where he is aging students to explore the vast poten- heading up the Multi- tial of the medium. The rapidly changing media Design Area. technology makes this a challenge for both faculty and students alike. Cur- rently, students are working in a range of media, from traditional, large format, silver prints to digital, on-line magazines. While we are building up the digital component in many of our course offer- Jim Snitzer Hugunin on represen- Jim Snitzer is currently head of the tations of prisons, Printmaking Area which will be accompa- Photography Area and is also one of three It has been a very active year for the nied by a group exhibi- Studio Division coordinators. He has graduate printmaking students. Several tion. Last summer continued his work in a series of photo- students attended the Southern Graphics Margaret made photo- graphic tableaux which investigate the Print Council Conference in Austin, Texas graphs of Hooker Hall culture’s perception of the landscape. and participated in the print exchange. Museum of History in Last spring he received a juror’s award at Other print exchanges included the Weiser, ID (part of an the Philadelphia Print Center’s 74th Coralville Express Exchange, which will be ongoing series depict- International Competition. This year his shown in St. Joseph, Missouri, at Northern ing endangered Land- work was exhibited in a two-person show Illinois University and at the Kansas City 10 mark buildings), and at Hollins College in Virginia and in a Art Institute. group show entitled “Is Seeing Believing” learned digital video editing. Finally her at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Student work was chosen for a number of work was added to the Raleigh. regional and national shows this year collection of the including The Bradley National Print and George Eastman House Peter Feldstein Drawing Exhibition, Delta National Small in Rochester, New York. Peter Feldstein had heart valve replace- Print Exhibition, Los Angeles Print Society She was a visiting ment surgery last summer. Although the Show, Pacific Rim International in Hilo, artist at the University recovery took longer than anticipated, he Hawaii, Boston Printmakers North Ameri- of Miami in Florida and was involved in an exhibit at the Bayly can Print Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of was promoted to the Art Museum at the University of Virginia Art “Winners Circle” exhibit, and Iowa rank of full professor with William Klein, Duane Michaels, Nancy Printmakers at Wellesley college. The this spring. Burson, Tina Barney, Abelardo Morell, work of three graduate students has been John Pfahl, and James Welling. juried into the Tallinn International Print Triennial in Estonia this fall. Margaret Stratton Margaret Stratton had a particularly busy Thanks to grants and fellowships, gradu- year. She finished the last semester of her ate students Nathan Haenlain and Jason Faculty Scholar Award and was an artist in Urban are visiting Poland and the Baltics residence at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, this summer to meet printmakers and California, where she began production on investigate workshops. Robert Tillman’s a video comparing actual prison condi- “Popomo,” the Journal of the Post Post tions with the fictional accounts in Modern, was one of several graduate television and film. She worked closely student projects funded by an Iowa Art with Elmwood Correctional Institute’s drug Fellowship. An Iowa printmaking under- rehabilitation for women in Milpitas, CA, graduate has been chosen by Bucknell lectured at San Jose State University, and University as intern fellow for the year. published an article about video and pedagogy in Exposure, a Journal of the Keith Achepohl Society of Photographic Education. Professor Achepohl accompanied 15 Margaret’s work on abandoned prisons will students from the University and other be featured in a book published by Center schools to Italy in July 2000 for The for American Places in 2002. Her work University of Iowa’s Summer in Venice was included in an exhibition about Program held at the International School immigration at The Southeastern Museum for Graphic Art. Trips to Verona, Padua of Photography in Florida and Iowa Artists and Vicenza gave students a look at other 2000 at the Des Moines Art Center. Addi- parts of the Veneto. 2001 is a Bienale tional venues include two solo exhibi- year and they plan to observe artisans of tions, one at Worrell Studio in New York, Venice as they engage in puppet making, and an invitational show at the Robert mask making, papermaking, and frame Menschel Photography Gallery through construction and gilding. Light Work in Syracuse, which will include a catalogue. Her photograph of a barber Achepohl’s Turkish weaving projects were chair at Eastern State Penitentiary is part part of the fall 2000 opening of Family of Light Work’s Fine Print Program. Marga- Holdings, Turkish Nomad Weavings, at the ret is also in the process of co-editing a Elmhurst Art Museum west of Chicago. special issue of U-Turn with James The show goes to the Dubuque Art Mu- seum in summer 2001. Achepohl gave a three-person panel “The Esthetics of The years which have lecture entitled “From family holdings - a Lithographic Washes – A Conversation,” elapsed between look at embellished necessities in the organized by Juergen Strunck from the publication of these Turkish nomad tent” at the Textile Mu- University of Dallas. two major articles have seum in Washington, DC in October 2000 seen significant during the rug convention devoted to the At the 88th Annual Conference, CAA, in developments in the weaving of Anatolia. A videotape is in New York, Glasgow presented, “The Matrix Foil Stamping Program. the works. In May of 2000, Achepohl was and Serial Monoprinting: Marking Time, Two traveling shows of visiting artist at the University of Space and Change,” on the panel session foil stamped prints by Osnabruck, Germany, accompanied by an “Reflections of the Past/Intimations of the students enrolled in exhibit of current work by University Future: Printmaking at the Millennium.” foil stamping classes printmaking graduate students and This slide talk included the work of four have been shown at 11 faculty. A print by Achepohl received a other artists whose interests merge serial- more than 30 exhibi- juror’s award this year in the Pacific States ity with monoprinting processes. In April, tion sites as far east as Bienale Print Exhibit in Hawaii. Another Glasgow had a visiting artist residency at North Carolina and as print was juried into the Mid-American Bradley University resulting in the publi- far west as Colorado. Print Council Members Exhibit in Cincin- cation of a mixed media edition print and The invention of the nati. Also, a print edition was completed accompanying monoprints by the Art Iowa Foil Printer to be part of “The Big Portfolio,” a collec- Department’s Cradle Oak Press. Iowa received a listing from tion of work by instructors and graduate graduate students Joe D’Uva and Joel Peck Underwriters Laborato- students from five universities. were also contracted by Cradle Oak to be ries, May 7, 1998. in residence for three days to print the Graduate and under- Achepohl became addicted to opera while lithographic components of the project. graduate students living in Italy from 1962-64 and recently Glasgow’s work was included in Digital: majoring in studio art accepted the challenge to get actively Revolutions in Printmaking at the Brook- continue to make involved in opera production. He de- lyn Museum of Art. major contributions to signed the sets for the Cedar Rapids Opera the aesthetic and Company’s production of Rigoletto which Virginia Myers technical foundation was performed in January 2001, the 100 The major priority for the Foil Stamping for a new art form. year anniversary of Verdi’s death. Program today is publication of the Also, the essential second definitive book on foil stamping as routines for manufac- This year, Achepohl was appointed Eliza- an art form. Titled Creating Fine Art with ture of the Iowa Foil beth M. Stanley Professor of Fine Arts. Hot Stamped Foil and The Iowa Foil Printer, Printer are in place, it has gone to press and will be available making it available to Robert Glasgow for purchase this fall. More than 40 artists and educational During the Spring 2000 semester, Associ- undergraduate and graduate students will institutions. ate Professor Robert Glasgow received a see their written aesthetic and technical developmental assignment to focus atten- contributions acknowledged with by-lines. On June 5, 2000, a tion on serial monoprinting. He had a Many color reproductions of foil stamped Gala Celebration and one-person exhibition, Calvin Time and work are planned. Publication is expected Reception, marking Family Group, at the Apex Gallery, College in 2001. We are grateful to those who are the 10th Anniversary of of Interdisciplinary Studies, South Dakota making this book possible by their gener- the annual Intensive School of Mines and Technology, Rapid ous contributions to the Iowa Foil Print Summer Workshops in City, South Dakota, followed by a two- Fund for the books at The University of Foil Stamping, was person exhibition with colleague John Iowa Foundation. welcomed by over 150 Dilg, Sojourns: the Art of John Dilg and visitors. On exhibit in Robert Glasgow, at the Hueser Art Center, The Foil Stamping program in the the E109 Gallery and Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. An Printmaking Department continues to the Print Department essay entitled, “Memory and Meaning in grow. The Journal of the Print World, a were more than 75 foil the Art of John Dilg and Robert Glasgow,” quarterly publication with national and stamped works created by exhibition curator Catherine Clader, is international circulation, published a full- during these work- forthcoming. One of Glasgow’s lithographs page article in its Spring 2000 issue, “Foil shops. The record was also included in the invitational Stamping Initiative at The University of enrollment of 19 exhibition, Wash Images – Tusch and Toner Iowa Expands”. It cited an earlier article, students for the 10th at the 28th Southern Graphics Council “Foil Stamping as an Art Form”, Fall 1993, Annual Summer Conference at the University of Miami. At by William Benson (M.F.A., Printmaking - Workshop included five that same conference, Glasgow was an 1962 - and Professor Emeritus, University out-of-state partici- invited moderator and presenter on a of Wisconsin-Eau Claire). pants. positions. Michelle Tom Aprile Sculpture Area taught sculpture at Tom Aprile had an exciting and productive Grinnell College this The energy in the Sculpture Area contin- year. During his research leave in the fall spring, and David will ues to build. We have eight graduate of 1999, he produced the sculpture and be teaching at his students; four new students from across drawings for his solo exhibition at Sonia undergraduate alma the country and four returning students Zaks Gallery in Chicago. The work in the mater, Buena Vista in their second and third years. Most are show is a continuation of his interest in University in Storm supported by teaching assistantships and chains that was seeded from his 1992-93 Lake, Iowa, this scholarship money, and we are proud to Fulbright experience in Nigeria, with the coming fall 2001. have one on an Iowa Arts Fellowship. Six addition of narrative elements, found Congratulations, BFA candidates are preparing portfolios to objects and a cryptic alphabet he has been 12 Michelle and David! enter M.F.A. programs next fall, and 70 developing since last fall. The exhibition Grad student Elise undergraduates have enrolled in sculpture was reviewed in the March 2001 issue of Kendrot was awarded a classes. This fall, several students wrote Sculpture Magazine by the art and culture summer research grant the charter for a university-recognized critic of the Chicago Reader, Jeff Huebner. from the UI Student student organization called “Armature.” This spring Aprile was in a group show at Government and They will receive funding for visiting “16 Patton Gallery” in Asheville, NC. He chosen for an “Out- artists and field trips. received a grant for his summer 2001 standing Teaching residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, Assistant Award”. Grad Our facilities continue to improve. Last NY, which will fund his work for upcom- student Allison Bush semester, our ceramic shell facility became ing solo shows at Monmouth College in won third place in the fully operable, and the addition of a Illinois, University of Minnesota, Mankato, “25th Annual Rock double wide trailer given to us by Facili- and Sonia Zaks Gallery. Island Fine Arts Exhibi- ties Planning has increased our graduate tion”, and grad stu- studio spaces and provided a new class- Last spring, Aprile made a proposal for an dents Matt Milden, room and gallery space. Our lab techni- Ida Beam Distinguished Scholar Award in Elise Kendrot and cian, Tony Sutowski, has been a great help collaboration with Pam Trimpe, curator of Allison Bush were in reorganizing the studio areas and painting and sculpture at the UI Museum selected to be in the equipment. of Art; Mike Stutzer, professor of finance National Society of at the Henry J. Tippie School of Business; Arts and Letters With the support of the University of Iowa and David Hensley, director of the Entre- regional competition, Foundation, the UI Museum of Art and UI preneurial Center, to bring noted Chicago “Small Sculpture 2001” Speaker’s Bureau, sculpture professors Tom and New York art dealer Allan Frumkin to at the Leedy-Voulkos Aprile and Isabel Barbuzza collaborated in campus. Mr. Frumkin and his wife Jean Art Center in Kansas bringing renowned artist and U of I Martin Frumkin, U.S. book editor of the City. Undergraduate alumnus Charles Ray to the Sculpture scholarly publication The Art Book, were Sue Pak helped to Area. He presented a fascinating lecture on campus for a week. He gave a public create the welded steel to students, faculty and the arts commu- lecture on the “History of the Frumkin components for the nity as well as conducting seminars for Gallery” and gave critiques in sculpture, “demon horse” for a students. In the spring, sculptor Andy painting and printmaking classes. At the recent production of Yoder visited from New York for a public business school he conducted seminars on “Equus” at Riverside lecture and critiques. “Starting an Art Business” in the Entre- Theatre. She also preneurial New Business and International builds sets for Univer- Last spring we received the wonderful Business classes. Mr. Frumkin also partici- sity Theatre and Opera news that graduate students David Boelter pated on a panel at the UI Museum of Art productions. and Michelle Acuff had won the “Out- with Aprile, Trimpe and Stutzer, moder- standing Student Award” from the Inter- ated by Serena Stier. Some recent graduates national Sculpture Center and Sculpture news: Eric Ouren is Magazine. This entitled them to a free teaching sculpture and subscription, registration to the 2000 3D design full time at International Sculpture Conference in Minnesota State Houston and a photograph of their win- University in Mankato. ning sculptures in the October 2000 issue Last summer, he of the magazine. They also represented finished a commission the U of I last fall in the “Outstanding piece for Bethany Student Exhibition” at Grounds for Sculp- College of a life-size ture in Hamilton ,NJ. Both of these chess and checker set. students were recently hired for teaching Isabel Barbuzza She was awarded a Isabel Barbuzza participated in two group flexible leave semester Center for the Book shows: “Latin American Artists”, at the assignment to work on Timothy Barrett her project “Inquiry Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco, California, SAAH Adjunct Associate Professor Tim into Terror” which and in November of 1999, “Veredas Barrett, and UI Center for the Book Paper deals with the history Argentinas/Argentinean Pathways”, at The Facility Manager Lynn Amlie worked with of Argentina from Latino Museum of Art, History and Culture students to make 100 sheets of handmade 1973-1984. She was in Los Angeles, California. Her group paper for the National Archives and also awarded an Arts project, Women Beyond Borders, was Records Administration last year. The and Humanities exhibited in Akino Fuku Museum. Tenryu, special 100% cotton paper is being used to Initiative Grant for her Japan; Gallery One, Tokyo, Japan; Newport rehouse the Charters of Freedom (The “Art/Book Project” and 13 Community Center, Newport Co., Mayo, Declaration of Independence, The Bill of a CIFRE grant to Ireland; Tinsheds Gallery - University of Rights, and The Constitution) in new state continue her research Sydney, Sydney, Australia; The Boral of the art enclosures. The paper serves as on Argentina. She was Timber Gallery -University of Sydney; a cushion under the documents and also awarded two residen- Faculty of Architecture, Sydney, Australia; helps regulate the moisture content in cies: Sculpture Space, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, the inert gas atmosphere inside the Inc. in Utica, New Australia and Broken Hill City Art Gallery, protective cases. In addition to teaching York, a funded two Broken, Australia. There was also a Benefit classes in papermaking history and months of residency, Exhibition at the Contemporary Arts technique, Barrett also serves as the and Djerassi Artist Forum in Santa Barbara, CA in 2000. She Director of the UI Center for the Book. is presently preparing for a solo exhibition Residency Program in at Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco for Woodland Hills, Cali- fornia. January 2002. Art Education In 1999/2000 Isabel Barbuzza wrote entries for The New Encyclopedia of Con- Steve Thunder-McGuire temporary Latin American Culture, pub- From August through October 2000, Steve lished by Routledge and Taylor and Francis Thunder-McGuire performed and con- Group. UK. Entries included Contempo- ducted workshops at several universities rary Latin American Sculpture, Experimen- including the University of Illinois, tal Theater, Happenings, Kitsch, Art Indiana University, Arkansas State Univer- Periodicals, Furniture Design, and BKF sity, Colorado State University, and the Furniture. University of Missouri as part of his storytelling research project “Adding Something Known to Something Seen.”

Tom Aprile (right) and Alan Frumkin at the opening of Aprile’s recent solo show at Sonia Zaks Gallery in Chicago. Richard De Puma Dada movement in New York, Paris and Richard De Puma spent the fall semester Berlin are due to go to press before the 1999 doing research in Rome at the end of this year. In addition to his American Academy, the German Archaeo- publication work and teaching schedule, logical Institute, and the Finnish Insti- Professor Foster is also involved in a series tute. He had an NEH grant and is working of three coordinated conferences at on a book about Etruscan forgeries. Osnabruck, Yale and Edinburgh dedicated During the spring semester he taught a to re-defining the concept of “avant- seminar on Thracians, Scythians and garde.” At the first he presented “Dada Celts, and chaired the art history division Global: Avantgardistische Destruktion- in Joni Kinsey’s absence. He spent an Dekonstruktion der Avantgarde” which 14 exciting summer (2000) visiting a number was subsequently published in the Avant- of Etruscan museums and archaeological Garde Critical Studies by Rodopi Verlag in sites in Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, then Amsterdam. At Yale he presented his settled down to work on writing at home. paper, “Dada and the Constitution of There was a brief vacation to Santa Bar- Culture: (Re-) Conceptualizing the Avant- bara to attend the annual orchid exhibi- Garde” which is currently at press with tion there and to visit the Hearst Castle. the same publisher. Professor Foster is scheduled to deliver a paper at the third In early July he was surprised and de- conference in the Fall of 2001. He de- lighted to learn that he has been made F. cided to take early retirement this June. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor, an honor for himself and the School. Decem- Julie Hochstrasser ber break was spent in Rome working at In September 2000 Julie Hochstrasser the Soprintendenza Archeologica where he presented a paper in London at the had an office in a courtyard designed by thirtieth International Congress of the Michelangelo. Prof. De Puma’s latest History of Art, “Time: Art History for the article is “Francesco Martinetti and the Millennium.” Entitled “Goede Dingen Cista Pasinati: Some Observations on the Nemen Tijdt (Good Things Take Time): Enhancement of Ancient Bronzes” in Time as Meditation on Painting in 17th-

Art History Division SOURCE 20 (2000). His most recent book, century Dutch Still-life Painting,” her Etruscan Painted Pottery, was published by contribution was also invited for publica- the J. Paul Getty Museum in late Decem- tion with selected proceeds; the book, ber, 2000. During the summer he will be Symbols of Time, is presently in press with excavating with a team of Italian archae- Brepols International. Several other ologists at Crustumerium, an archaic site articles by Hochstrasser have just recently just north of Rome. appeared: “Seen and Unseen in the Visual Culture of Trade: the Conquest of Pepper,” Stephen Foster in The Low Countries and the New Professor Stephen C. Foster is currently World(s): Travel, Discovery, Early Relations, finalizing plans for a large exhibition from University Press in 2000, and entitled Excavating Abstract Expressionism “Imag(in)ing Prosperity: Painting and which will open in late fall 2001 at the Material Culture in the Seventeenth- Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago century Dutch Household,” in The Culture de Compostela, Spain. The exhibition, of Home in the Netherlands, c. 1400-1800, which will be accompanied by a book from Waanders Uitgevers in 2001. In length catalogue/monograph, is the first December Hochstrasser delivered a talk comprehensive exhibition of the Abstract “Global Vision? Learning from Dutch Art,” Expressionists to be mounted in Spain. to President Coleman and other distin- Professor Foster is also in the process of guished guests at the Oakdale Presidential beginning work on a series of three Seminar. She gave another talk at CAA in exhibitions for the National Museum of Chicago in February: “Let Us Now Praise Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. Along with his Anonymous Men: Pieter van Anraadt’s Still curatorial work, Professor Foster also Life with Tobacco and Beer,” for the continues to progress on the Franz Kline session “Still Life in Motion.” In March catalogue raisonné as well as his ten she spoke at the Blanden Memorial Art volume monograph entitled Crisis and the Museum in Fort Dodge on “Four Artists, Arts: The History of Dada. Volumes on the Four Objects, Ten Centuries,” in conjunc- tion with a still-life exhibition there. She Joni L. Kinsey of its regular Director, helped to organize the Obermann sympo- Professor Kinsey took the second semester Professor Dorothy sium “Fleeting Objects: Assessing the of her Faculty Scholar leave in the spring Johnson. Allure of Material Culture” at the Univer- of 2000, working on a book about the sity of Iowa in April, which hosted an history of polyptych imagery in the international and interdisciplinary gather- United States. She also gave birth to her ing of scholars, speaking herself on first child, a daughter named Ellen Louise, “Memory, Emotion, Consciousness: How in January 2000. In addition to a number Still Life Speaks,” and also coordinating of book reviews, in the past year she has graduate student involvement in the published three essays: “Through Succes- conference. This summer she travels to sive Stages of the Beautiful,”(in The the Netherlands with funding from Inter- Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and 15 national Programs, for a workshop in Commentaries, edited by Curt D. Meine Maastricht on “The Painter’s Palette,” in and Richard Knight, Wisconsin, 1999), preparation to team-teach a new course and “Ending Up and Landing Out in the with painting professor Maggie Rochelle: Prairie,” (in The Iowa Review), and a “Inside Baroque,” a hands-on introduction catalogue on the work of Harold Gregor to Baroque painting techniques incorpo- (for the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe). rating both studio and art history compo- Another, entitled “Prairie Prospects: the nents. Aesthetics of Plainness,” which she wrote Dorothy Johnson with Robert Sayre and Rebecca Roberts, This year saw the publication of Professor was republished in an anthology, Recover- Johnson’s essay, “Delacroix and the French ing the Prairie (Wisconsin, 1999). She Classical Tradition,” published as a chap- presented lectures this year at the Frick ter in the Cambridge Companion to Art and Historical Center, Hendrix College, Delacroix. The book she is editing and co- and the Dubuque Art Museum, and has authors, The Cambridge Companion to plans for another at the Joslyn Museum of David, was accepted this spring for publi- Art. She acted as head of the Art History cation. She contributes the introductory division in fall of 2000. essay and a chapter on “David and Napole- onic Painting”. This summer she contin- Robert Rorex ues work on her translation of David’s Robert Rorex was on leave during the published writings for the University of spring semester of 2000 and was granted a California Press and on her book-in- Research Leave for the fall. He is continu- progress, Romantic Hellenism in French Art ing research into topics in Chinese narra- from David to Delacroix. Professor tive painting (texts and pictures and their Johnson most recently presented research interrelationships). He is also continuing from this latter book in a lecture entitled work on East Asian influences in European “Girodet’s Two Danae,“ given at the and American decorative arts during the American Society for Eighteenth-Century later 19th century. Two articles in this Studies that met in New Orleans in April. second series have been published in the Last year she gave lectures on Girodet at Haviland Collectors Internationale Founda- the University of Virginia, the University tion Newsletter, and a third is in press. of Kentucky and the University of Cincin- nati. She also gave a paper at the CAA Rorex assisted Professor Wallace Tomasini this year on “David’s Symbiotic Pendants: in curating an exhibition of 19th century The Death of Socrates and the Loves of French porcelains, “Dining with Flowers,” Paris and Helen.” held June-August in the University of As a member of the Board of Directors of Iowa Art Museum. A publication also the CAA, Professor Johnson serves on titled “Dining with Flowers” and based on several national committees, including the the exhibition includes a text written by committee for Women in the Arts. She co- Rorex. It was sponsored jointly by the chaired a session at this year’s CAA Museum and by the Haviland Collectors sponsored by this committee entitled, Internationale Educational Foundation. “Playing the Odds: the Prospects for Employment in the Visual Arts.” Rorex continues to serve as Interim Director of the U.I. School of Art and Art History during the summer Research Leave John Beldon Scott Japanese prints. Prof. Tomasini’s major For the academic year 1999-2000 John activity last Spring was curating the Graduate Beldon Scott was appointed Marta Sutton summer exhibition at the university of Students Weeks Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Iowa Museum of Art: Dining with Flowers: Center, . During this Haviland Porcelain from 1860-1910. He was Gitti Salami has been period he also received external funding responsible for the exhibition catalogue awarded a Fulbright- from the Graham Foundation for Advanced that contained an essay by Associate. Hays Dissertation Studies in the Visual Arts for on-site Prof. Robert A. Rorex. Prof. Tomasini also Grant ($31,465 total) research in the architectural history of was responsible for the catalogue pub- for her work in Nigeria seventeenth century institutions of social lished for the same museum’s exhibition next year. Gitti taught welfare in Rome. A Sabbatical fellowship of the paintings of Gretchen Caraccas. He at Southern Methodist 16 from the American Philosophical Society also completed two other catalogues of University in Dallas supports the continued research on this the paintings of two Iowa alumnae for this spring. topic at the American Academy in Rome museum exhibitions elsewhere. Prof. during the fall semester of 2000. Tomasini continues to work on a projected book on the history of the visual arts at Professor Scott presented lectures at the University of Iowa and is interested in Stanford and at the International Congress interviewing or receiving from alumni or on the History of Art in London. He co- former faculty any information, remem- Emeritus chaired a session on architectural patron- brances, comments, or opinions that will age at the College Art Association meeting assist him in this endeavor. Faculty in Los Angeles and will chair a session on Prof. Charles D. the social history of architecture at the Sarah Adams Cuttler, Emeritus, Art upcoming meeting of the Society of Sarah Adams, visiting assistant professor History, prepared a Architectural Historians in Toronto in the for African art, has worked with Lyneise review for The spring of 2001. Williams and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz on an Sixteenth Century exhibition titled, “Call and Response: Journal, lectured on His article on Guarino Guarini’s late Journeys of African Art” which was on Bosch “inhouse,” seventeenth-century Chapel of the Holy display at the Art Gallery attended the CAA in Shroud in Turin appeared in the Italian from December 15-March 25, 2001. Sarah Chicago (briefly, journal Sindon last year. A study of contributed two essays to the catalog particularly the Iowa urbanism in Baroque Turin is to appear published in conjunction with the exhibi- Breakfast), and later this year in the Acts of the Third tion. Wellesley College awarded her a participated in the International Congress on the Study of Horton-Hallowell Fellowship and Yale Board and Member’s the Shroud. His book, Architecture for the University gave her a Mellon grant to do meetings during the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin, 1578- research in Nigeria related to the exhibi- Midwest Art History 2000, will be published in 2001 by the tion and her doctoral research. Because of Society meeting in Press. these generous grants, Sarah was able to Minneapolis in early purchase equipment and create a digital April. Further work on Professor Scott has recently been ap- video installation for part of the exhibi- Bosch is in pointed to the U.S. National Committee tion. Overall she found it to be an incred- preparation. for the International Congress on the ibly satisfying experience, and the exhibi- History of Art. tion was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. There was also a feature Wallace Tomasini about the exhibition that aired on Con- Professor Tomasini was on a Faculty necticut Public Television. At this year’s Research Development Leave during the meeting of the College Art Association, fall semester completing his research on she presented a paper titled, “The Divided the art of collecting and the art collection Market: Uri Body Painting in Arochukwu.” of an American entrepreneur and industri- Sarah is currently working with Vicki alist, Charles Edward Haviland (1840- Rovine, the curator of African Art at the 1921), who was a resident of France for University of Iowa Museum Art, to put almost his entire life. His diverse and together a conference for next year on significant collection was the largest to be themes of dress, personal adornment and auctioned in Paris during the twentieth the body. Ms. Adams will be joining the century. Mr. Haviland was one of the faculty in the fall as assistant professor of earliest patrons of the Impressionists and Art History. one of the world’s major early collectors of In Memoriam finally, the University of Iowa Museum of In addition to his wife, Stephan Prokopoff (1930-2001) Art (1992-1999). Throughout his career Lois Craig, Stephen he combined his museum work with Prokopoff is survived Stephan Prokopoff, who died on March 28 teaching at the Universities of Pennsylva- by his father, Stephen, in Iowa City of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nia, Chicago, Boston University, Illinois, of Sacramento; two was a unique individual who as Director of and Iowa, where he held a tenured faculty sons from his first the University of Iowa Museum of Art appointment. marriage, Alexander, of (1992-1999) made a tremendous contribu- Chicago, and Ilya, of tion to the University and to the School of Perhaps more indicative of Stephen San Francisco; three Art and Art History by raising the profes- Prokopoff’s contribution and significance stepchildren, Stephen sional level and standards of the Museum. as scholar and artist is a perusal of a list Craig of Chicago, His death deprived us of a friend, advo- of some of the exhibitions which he Carolyn Craig of Davis, 17 cate, and supporter of the arts, the conceived and curated throughout his California, and Jenni- Museum, the School, and the University. career. These exhibitions include those of fer Craig of Woodland, The depth of his training in both the Lucas Samara, Will Insley, Robert Indiana, California, and one visual arts and music as scholar, artist, Robert Irwin, Jim Nutt, Joel Shapiro, grandchild. and performer particularly enriched his Richard Artschwager, Manierre Dawson, intellectual and critical understanding of Lee Bontecou, George Platt Lynes, Florine - Submitted by the arts. His judgement, taste, and Stettheimer, the architect Eleanor Wallace Tomasini perceptive insights were formed by his Raymond, Hans Bellmer, Fred Sandback, as training and practice as a painter, as a well as an exhibition of Chinese Contem- performing violinist, and as an art histo- porary Painting, and that of the Prinzhorn rian. His almost forty year career in the Collection of Outsider Art. In addition museum field especially benefited from there were the numerous exhibitions at the diversity of his training and the Iowa, and particularly the retrospective richness and perceptual sensitivity of his exhibition which introduced the outsider intellect. artist Henry Darger to a larger audience. Internationally, he will be remembered for Stephen Prokopoff’s training in art and the exhibition he curated music began at the University of Califor- as co-commissioner of the American nia-Berkeley. A Fulbright grant (1956) section of the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil provided further advanced training in (1974). painting in Paris while not neglecting more experience on the violin. While in Stephen Prokopoff brought to Iowa a Europe he enjoyed also the rare privilege professionalism that demonstrated his of two invitational exhibitions of his ability to direct a museum efficiently and painting. When he returned to the United creatively. Introducing a vigorous and States, however, his intellectual proclivi- diverse schedule of exhibitions in all ties encouraged him to further his art media and historical periods, he worked historical studies. He earned the Ph.D. well with faculty and supported their degree in art history from New York interests in exhibitions of national impor- University’s Institute of Fine Arts (1962). tance. He assisted and encouraged his While teaching at Skidmore College (1961- curators as well as the faculty to apply for 1967) he realized his future lifelong career grants from both public and private interest, that of directing a gallery/ foundations to assist in creating exhibi- museum and curating exhibitions. The tions, and in this, the Museum was more conceptual and creative aspects of educat- successful than it had ever been before. ing the public through curating selective He encouraged and supported the efforts exhibitions became his life endeavor. to conceive and manage traveling exhibi- Beginning with the part-time work direct- tions and work with other museums in a ing Skidmore’s Hathorn Gallery, he then more active participatory manner than the directed the Institute of Contemporary Art Museum had in the past. Collaborative in Philadelphia (1967-1971); the Museum exhibitions include those with the of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1971- , the Royal Acad- 1977); the Institute of Contemporary Art emy of Art in London, and the Frick in Boston (1977-1981); the Krannert Art Collection and the Museum of American Museum at the University of Illinois at Folk Art in New York City. Champaign-Urbana (1982-1992); and, Office of Visual Materials Administrative Office

It has been a productive and busy year in Diane Schaeffer, Administrative Assistant the Office of Visual Materials. We produced for the School, has overseen several 7,701 new slides which are labeled and in changes in the administrative office the collection ready to use. Over the past during the past year, including saying year we circulated 66,721 slides, 139 good-bye to SuZanne Hoofnagle after 12 videos, and 520 pieces of equipment. years of service to the school. SuZanne accepted a promotion and moved to the 18 Chief Curator, Eric Dean, completed Department of Microbiology in September. development work on the Digital Image Kevin McGlynn joined the office as the Library and it went online this fall sup- new account clerk for the school. Kevin porting four courses. We supported nine had been working for the Travel office at courses this spring semester. There were the University and has quickly made the 392,337 requests for images by students adjustment to the variety of work pro- studying for their classes over the past cessed at the departmental level. academic year. Over 6,000 slides were Annette Niebuhr, the School’s reception- scanned and 4,357 slides were data ist, not only greets visitors with a pleas- entered in support of the Digital Image ant smile, and kind (often witty) word,

dministration Library. but also has been able to use her com- puter skills in designing notices for

A On August 2, 2000 we celebrated Betsey upcoming events at the school. Marlo Kosier’s first anniversary with the Office Jack as the Director’s Secretary stays busy of Visual Materials. Her efforts have had a managing the Director’s and the School’s major impact on the increased productiv- calendars, processes scholarship applica- ity of the OVM. Curator, Julie Hausman tions, maintains faculty and staff search is currently on a leave of absence. We records, and other correspondence for the were able to hire art history graduate School. Laura Jorgensen is the Academic students Mike Dooley, Shannon Cody Secretary for the graduate students at the and Gitti Salami as part-time temporary School. She conducts tours for those additions to the staff in Julie’s absence. interested in graduate school and answers Gitti was only able to work for us for a questions from applicants, students and brief time, while Mike and Shannon’s faculty. She takes care of most paperwork appointments continued throughout the for the graduates, from application to year. Both Mike, Shannon and Gitti have graduation. In an effort to better serve made significant contributions through our more than 750 undergraduate stu- cataloging numerous slides. dents, the School added a new permanent staff position of Undergraduate Academic The Art Building auditorium underwent Adviser last fall. Evelyn Acosta-Weirich, major changes last summer. Assistant joined the School on November 1. Evelyn Professor, Julie Hochstrasser received a is currently preparing for the early advis- student computer fee grant to upgrade the ing period for the Summer and Fall semes- audio visual systems. The auditorium has ter. Evelyn has been working with several been outfitted with a VHS video player, a offices across campus to fine-tune our DVD player, an overhead projector, and a advising procedures. She has been instru- computer with internet access, all of mental in assisting students and faculty in which are projected through a new digital the interpretation of the degree evalua- video projector. A new screen, sound tion forms. With the addition of this system, and podium complete the modifi- position, we look forward to better com- cations. munications with our undergraduate population regarding their progression toward completing their degree program. REGGIE AMOS Hill, am refurbishing a 1945 brick home, Graduated 1985/Intermedia and am trying to keep up with my two- Senior Project Designer with the George P. year-old son, Will. Johnson Company, Los Angeles, an inter- national integrated marketing firm. Over RICHARD BLOES the last 10 years Mr. Amos has designed Graduated 1977/Intermedia large scale public exhibits for Xerox, Intel Represented by Feature Gallery, NY, where and IBM. Last year he established the he is scheduled for an one-artist exhibi- “Reggie Amos Project Grant for Intermedia tion this coming October. In 1995, he was Development” for the Intermedia Area at the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. the School of Art & Art History. SANDRA G. CHARLSON 19 SARA BELL MA 1988/Art History MFA 1995/Painting I’ve been a lecturer in Art History in the Sara's show, BOX OF STARS, was shown at School of Art & Design at Southern Illinois the Sioux City Art Center, Waterloo Mu- University, Carbondale since January 1989, seum of Art and St. Ambrose University. teaching courses in Tribal Arts, African This body of work deals with various Art and Pre-Colombian Art. Teaching aspects of constellations. Her solo show at part-time allows me to spend time with the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, NEAR my husband, Chris Lant (Ph.D. Geography, AND FAR, dealt with the passage of time UI 1988) and daughters Hannah (born and combined aspects of the Iowa land- 1991) and Helen (born 1995). scape with stillifes of various artifacts. At Quad City Arts Center, in Rock Island WAYNE C. CLOSE Illinois, her show KINDERSPIEL (child's Graduated 1985/Studio game) was an installation which included I saw in your newsletter that you want paintings, children's games, and other info on alums, so here goes. I’m a studio artifacts. There was an interactive match- arts grad from 1975. I retired from the ing game book for children. Illinois Air National Guard last year at the

Notes from Alumni Notes from Group shows include the Keny Galleries in rank of Lt. Colonel and am now enrolled Columbus Ohio, Iowa Artists at the Des in my second year of grad school at Moines Art Center, and the Bi-State University of Illinois at Chicago majoring Exhibit at the Davenport Museum of Art. in art history. I have a GPA of 4.5 and Sara's paintings have been included in plan to do my thesis on Gothic architec- New American Painting in September, ture. I am also the webmaster for the 1999, and on the cover of the Christian department and plan the work with art Science Journal in May 2000. websites after I graduate. Dr. De Puma and Her next show will be with her husband Dr. Cuttler were both very influential in Leslie Bell at the Quad City Art Center in my decision to pursue art history and I Rock Island in February. This show will be want to thank them both for their inspira- based on antique game boards and in- tion. structional materials such as dot-to-dot and how to draw books and vintage DONALD COLE advertising of children's products. She will Graduated 1963/Painting also be featured in a two-person show at Had shows at the Jeffrey Moose Gallery in the Quincy Art Center with Western Seattle, Washington February 1, 2001- Illinois University Professor Julie March 17, 2001 and the Foster/White Mahoney. Her photographs will be in- Gallery in Seattle March 1-April 1, 2001. cluded in the DNR traveling exhibit of Iowa Landscapes. HENRY COLEMAN MA 1963/Studio ANDREW WILLIAM BERNER Retired after 35 years teaching at College BA 1992/Art, Communications of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Received MFA in 1995 from Milton Avery Virginia. Participated in over 50 invita- Graduate School of the Arts at Bard tional and juried exhibits in U.S. and College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. I now abroad plus eight solo shows. Drawings manage all publications and public rela- and paintings are in many private collec- tions for the Ackland Art Museum at the tions from Missouri to Virginia. Recently University of North Carolina at Chapel had five drawings purchased by a curator for the university president’s me, faithfully validating my efforts family. collection at College of William and towards developing the whimsical, Mary. Served as juror for many cartoonish aspect of my work. DOUGLAS A. FAIRFIELD local and regional exhibits; served I continue to paint, mostly because MFA 1978/Art History as department chair from ‘78-’90 I love to. I’ve also continued to Earned Ph.D. in Art History from and on numerous college-wide and write music, and I’m scheduled to The University of New Mexico departmental committees, including cut a CD of some of my original (1997) and is currently associate initial and later expansion commit- songs. I’ve also recently become professor of Art History at New tees for Muscarelle Museum of Art. engaged to the greatest guy in the Mexico Highlands University in Las Locally served on Yorktown Arts world. Art is long, and Life is Vegas. foundation; appointed by city short—but GOOD! Believe it. 20 council to the Williamsburg Arts JOHN FILLWALK Commission and presently serving MICHELLE EDWARDS Graduated 1990/Intermedia second term on the Williamsburg MA, MFA 1984/Printmaking Has taken a position at Ball State Architectural Review Board. My Working as a children’s book au- University where he is developing replacement in a tenure-track thor/illustrator. Seventh and the curriculum and facilities for a position is Carlos Ferguson, a recent newest book, Pa Lia’s First Day, is new Electronic Arts degree. Prior MFA from the University of Iowa. the first book in a new series called to his current position, he chaired jackson Friends. Is published by the Film and Video Department at LYNN CURTIS Harcourt Brace and is a Junior Minneapolis College. MFA 1988/Painting Library Guild selection. Originals of Started new job as Assistant Profes- other books were included in an KELLY (MURRAY) FRIGARD sor of Art at Providence College exhibit of Children’s Book Art at the Graduated 1997/Intermedia (Rhode Island) in September 1998 National Museum of American Teaching art at McPherson College teaching drawing and painting. Jewish History in Philadelphia and in Kansas, received grant from Recent shows at Providence College maybe be viewed online at the American Scandinavian Foundation and at Full Circle Gallery in Provi- museum’s website. Married and for study of contemporary and dence. mother of three daughters. traditional fiber art in Sweden, summer 2000. In September 2000 KATHY DEE LEANN ADELE ERICKSON was guest artist at the American BFA 1986/Drawing, MA 1989/Painting MFA 1992/Intermedia Swedish Museum in Philadelphia I have been residing in Albuquer- In fall 1999 accepted a position as and showed work, “The Land, the que, New Mexico since 1991. This an Associate Professor in the Path, the Stitches Back.” place is crawling with artists— Department of Film and Media Arts which, of course, does NOT mean at Temple University in Philadel- CINDY L. GOULD that everyone is a good artist; but phia, PA. I’m doing well at Temple, Graduated 1998/Design it’s not considered suspect or am chairing the Technology Plan- Hired as tenure-track assistant anything. I remember one of my ning Committee where I get to professor in August of 1999 at the teachers told a group of us graduat- oversee spending $8 million on department of Art & Design at Iowa ing seniors that our art degree plus computer-based equipment-defi- State University. Recent exhibition a quarter might buy us a cup of nitely a fun job! I wrote two awards include “Best In Show”, coffee! Well I’m here to tell you articles – one for the spring issue of 1999 On/Off Paper National Compe- that my art degree from Iowa has Afterimage, profiling film/video tition Chowan College, purchased me an ocean full of fests surviving without government Murfreesboro, NC: “Award of Excel- coffee, and it’s the best thing I ever money (which features UI’s own lence”, 24th Annual Juried Exhibi- did for myself. THAW fest); the other article was in tion, Bloomington Art Museum, Armed with my Art degree, along spring in Arts Around Boston Bloomington, MN, “2nd Place 2D with teacher certification thanks to magazine and features Running Visual Arts”, Design Educator’s Steve Thunder-McGuire and com- Arts, Inc., a Boston-based company National Exhibition, Oklahoma pany, I’ve been busy teaching at a which programs/curates indepen- State University, Stillwater, OK. In local middle school for a number of dent film theaters and festivals. I 1999 received research grants from years. I also own my own business finished an experimental video in the Iowa Arts Council and from the called Albuquerque Caricatures. May 1999, titled “hours, minutes, ISU Institute for Design Research This job is not only loads of fun but seconds, frame”, and it’s doing well and Outreach. also quite lucrative. I have Joe in festivals internationally. I’m Patrick to thank for drilling us currently working on an animation MILLE GULDBECK relentlessly in the art of quick and piece which I’ve received some Graduated 1995/Painting fluid sketching. And thanks to grant funding for. So things are In 1999 accepted position as David Dunlap who always supported just peachy here with me and my assistant professor at Bowling Green State University; recipient of Vegas, I am doing the planning and intermedia performance “Faust/ Ragdale Foundation residency; solo design of a research and interpre- Faustus: A Duet for Devils.” In show at Knox College in Illinois. tive center for the original springs 1998 he was selected for the Ersted from which Las Vegas takes its Award for Distinguished Teaching by KAREN GUNDERSON name. The project is dedicated to the . Graduated 1968/Intermedia preserving, managing and interpret- Represented by Donahue/Sosinski ing the wildlife habitat, prehistoric TRUDY SHIMKO KAWAMI Art, New York. Long active in the and historic cultural record of this MA 1969/Art History New York art world, she recently 180 acre site in urban Las Vegas. It Received MFA Ph.D. from Columbia exhibited paintings and drawings is also dedicated to encouraging University in 1983. Author of entitled “Moral courage During environmentally sound living in the “Monumental Art of the Parthian World War II: Denmark and Bul- Mojave Desert. It will feature a Period” (Brill;Heiden, 1987) and 21 garia” at The Hebrew Union College, museum and visitor center, desert “Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the New York. living center, botanical garden, Arthur M. Sackler Collections” constructed wetlands, interpretive (Abrams 1993). Curator of “Wit and SHELLY HAVEN trails, and desert restoration. Wine: Ancient Iranian Ceramics MA, MFA 1978/Printmaking A second major project is the From the Arthur M. Sackler Founda- Was a resident artist at the Virginia alumni walk at UNLV featuring a tion” which was at the Krannert Art Center for the Creative Arts in 1998 rock garden, a wind garden, a water Museum, University of Illinois, and the Constance Saltonstall garden and an amphitheater. Champaign-Urbana, February 14- Foundation for the Arts in 1999 and Nine years ago I founded a land- December 14, 2000. was the recipient of a summer 1999 scape architecture and planning scholarship at the Manhattan department at UNLV. Since then my ANN MARIE KENNEDY Graphic Center. She had a show of designs have won several awards MFA 1978/Intermedia monoprints, etchings and pastels at from the American Society of Currently employed at Penland Shakespeare’s Sister Gallery in Landscape Architects and other School of Crafts, Penland, NC Brooklyn, March 16-April 15, 2001, organizations. (located in the Blue Ridge Moun- and a show of pastels at Pfizer Inc With a background in painting and tains) as studio coordinator of Book World Headquarters in New York drawing I was faced with the need & Paper, Printmaking, Photography City, March-early summer 2001. to make a living in landscape and Drawing. Exhibits include: She has been selected to exhibit architecture, which turned out to Quad City Arts, Quad Cities, Iowa in work at the Maude Kerns Art Center be a blessing, for it forced me to March 2000 and Artspace, Raleigh, in Eugene, Oregon in April 2002. incorporate landscape design, NC in November 2000. Her work is in public and private painting and sculpture into the collections in the U.S. and abroad. built environment. Oh yes, I still MARGO KREN draw and paint and belong to CAA. Graduated 1979/Painting TONYA HERBER-KEHOE Professor at Kansas State University. MA 1995/Art Education COLIN IVES Five paintings were reproduced in Art specialist at McKinley Middle Graduated 1994/Intermedia the book “Le Blues Braillant” (the School-Program of the Arts in Cedar Is an assistant professor of Imaging Blues Cryin’), poems by Beverly Rapids, Iowa. and Digital Arts at the University of Matherne (Cross Cultural Communi- Maryland, Baltimore County. His cations New York/Krakow, 1999). MOSES HOSKINS work is part of the Hechinger Four person show at Olson Larson BFA 1981/Painting Collection, recently displayed at the Galleries, West Des Moines, Iowa, Has had several recent shows National Building Museum in March 2000. Will begin phased including a multi-cultural group Washington, DC. He was also retirement in May 2000 in order to exhibit at Doral Bank in New York selected for the Delaware Art work more in the studio. in January-May 2000, a solo show Museum’s Biennial and is currently of paintings at Show Walls in New in an exhibit entitled “Sci-Art: MUNIO T. MAKUUCHI York, February-March 2000, and a Extensions of Being.” MA 1963/Intaglio show of collages at O.K. Harris Taught as associate chair at the Gallery in New York, February-March LEON JOHNSON University of Wisconsin at 2000. Graduated 1994/Intermedia Janesville, Wisconsin for four years Has been promoted to Associate and seven years at the University of MARK ELISON HOVERSTEN, ASLA, AICP Professor in the art department, Ife, Ile Ife in Nigeria, Africa. Men- MFA 1983/Painting School of Architecture and Allied tioned in Yellow Light by Amy Ling As Associate Professor & Coordinator Arts at the University of Oregon. and in University of Wisconsin, of Landscape Architecture & Plan- Last summer Leon toured the Madison alumni magazine “On ning at University of Nevada, Las United Kingdom with his Wisconsin” (with photos). MOLLY MASON Mass Financial Services, Fidelity print shop producing folios of MFA 1976/Ceramics & Sculpture Investments and McDonald’s Corpo- artists and printmakers. Her works are found in many ration, among others. My work has public, corporate and private been seen at the Drawing Center, CHERIE SAMPSON collections across the U.S. and in the International Center for Photog- Graduated 1997/Intermedia other countries. She taught at raphy, and the Hudson River Mu- Was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship major universities for 16 years seum in New York. In 2000, my to Finland in 1998 where she did including the State University of paintings were featured in research on vernacular art and New York at Stony Brook, Tulane Provincetown’s Silas-Kenyon Gallery architecture. She is teaching University and the University of at the Schoolhouse Center. In 1994, Digital Art at Maharishi University New Mexico and was the recipient I completed a documentary video in Fairfield, Iowa. 22 of a Fulbright Senior Research entitled “A History of American professorship in Japan. She had a Landscape Photography.” I have SARAH SMELSER solo museum exhibit, “Sun and been writing reviews for Art New MFA 1997/Printmaking Shadow”, at the James A. Michener England since 1994. My book of I am currently an Assistant Profes- Art Museum in Doylestown, Penn- photocollages, Outer Cape Journal - sor (teaching printmaking and sylvania, September 26, 1998-March a Cape Cod Book of Hours is being drawing) at West Virginia University 14, 1999, and a public sculpture reviewed for publication. in Morgantown. I had a solo show commissioned for West Palm Beach, I currently teach photography, in the Laurua Mesaros Gallery at Florida, was dedicated in 1999. electronic imaging, painting and WVU (January 2000) and had drawing, as well as issues in con- another solo show at Bridgewater/ GAIL JONES MCCLELLAN temporary art, at Middlesex Commu- Lustberg & Blumenfeld in New York MA 1978/Art History nity College in Massachusetts and at City in May. My show was very After receiving my degree, I moved Rivier College in New Hampshire. I generously reviewed in a journal to Los Angeles where I received an am represented by galleries in called Art On Paper (the Sept/Oct MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School Boston, New York, Chicago, New 2000 issue). of Management in 1981. Since then Orleans, and in Provincetown and I’ve worked in the entertainment Wellfleet on Cape Cod. SATRE STUELKE industry, and am now the Director Graduated 1988/Photography of Corporate Planning and New PHILIP DOUGLAS PORTOGHESE I received a Maryland State Arts Business Development for E! Enter- MFA 1993/Sculpture Council grant and started out the tainment, an entertainment- Living in New York as an artist year 2000 with shows and auctions oriented cable channel based in Los doing painting and sculpture. of my work through Sotheby’s in Tel Angeles. Aviv, Israel; Vienna, Austria; and JOLENE REYNOLDS Chicago. My work can be seen at RICH MCKOWN MFA 1991/Painting www.artlink2000.net/main.htm in MA 1971, MFA 1972/Photography Current Positions: the Virtual Studios section. In the late ‘60’s I began my long 1) Art Instructor, Community association with the Provincetown College of Vermont, Painting and JOHN A. STEFANIK artists’ community. The noted Drawing MFA 1973/Painting artist Richard Florsheim became my 2) Art Instructor, Burlington I have been teaching for ten years mentor during that time. In the College, Painting and Drawing now (1990-2000) at Suffolk Commu- early 1980’s, I began volunteering 3) Student Loan Counselor, Vermont nity College in the field of photog- with the Fine Arts Work Center in Student Assistance Corp. raphy. As of last August, students Provincetown. In 1984, I studied can receive their two-year Associate porcelain enameling with Claude CONRAD ROSS degree in photography. Since I live Jensen, to complete a large mural Graduated 1959/Printmaking very near the Atlantic Ocean and for Southeast Bank in Florida. Emeritus professor of art, Auburn many bays, all my photographs are After Jensen’s death, I took over University, Auburn, Alabama, 1997. of water and the interaction of the task of fabricating historical Recent exhibitions: “Conrad Ross: light. Long Island is a great place plaques for the town. I have China Colles”, Montgomery Museum for photographers. exhibited his work in over thirty of Fine Arts, Montgomery Alabama, one-person shows and 180 group June/July 1999. “Envisioning exhibitions around the United Space Technology: Ten Alabama States and in Europe. Printmakers”, Huntsville Museum of I am represented in the collections Art, Huntsville, Alabama, June/ of Chemical Bank of New York, The August 1999. Owner/manager of Prudential, The Putnam Companies, Wycross Press, an experimental THANKS for the Great Response - We Want to Hear More!

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