Vol. 3, Spring 2001
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The University of Iowa School of ArtNEWSLETTER &History Volume 3 Spring/Summer 2001 Art 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 present 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 Chicago 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 Continuum: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.