Winter- Spring 2006 r•University-~-•- ••••of Washington I -SeattleIE USA School of Art UW SCHOOL OF ART The State of the Art School Christopher Ozubko, Director MOVING TOWARDS DIG ITAL II-We n eed your help! OirisionofArtfaculty SoA OPEN HOUSE In the autumn 2004 issue of Artifacts, we described SoA Visual Ceramics Friday 28 April, 2-lpm DougJeck Senrices' newly intensified work. to transition from analog Akio Takamori IJW SoA joins Music, Drama, Dance, DXARTS, (35mm slides) to digital images. A year and a half later, much Jamie Walker Meany Theater, and the Henry Art Gallery for an has been accomplished, but much still remains to be done. Fibers All Arts Open House during the Second Annual Lou Cabeen Several thousand slides have been scanned, and over 4,000 Layne Goldsmith Washington Weekend . Our event will be Friday, of those images are now in our digital image database. Two Metals 28 April, and Washington Weekend events are classes have been taught using these images. Cataloging and Mary Hu scheduled on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday image processing is currently being done for two more classes, Painlina:+Drawinz Riley Brewster (http//www.washington.edu/alumnVweeken d/). and several more classes are in the queue. Notes from the Director David Brody This year we celebrate our Fifth Annual Demand for transitioning to digital images has grown This time of year is an extremely busy one for Ann Gale every quarter, but we now face a dilemma. All of our gift funds, PhilipGovedare Open House, and it will be bigger than ever. all of us at the SoA. I thought you might be Denzil Hurley Stay tuned to the SoA web site (http//WWW. which have paid for the majority of this work., are now depleted. interested to know just a little of what happens Zhilin art.washington.edu) for up-to-the·minute Our regular budget cannot handle the impact of transforming behind the scenes. Helen O'Toole entire classes, especially since digital images are more expensive information about activities. In the meantime you Our Advising staff considers Wi nter Photoa:raphy to produce (an average of $9.30 each versus $6.go each for Quarter to be somewhat chaotic because MFA Paul Berger can look forward to the following activities: Rebecca Cummins 35mm slides; long-term costs should balance out since digital applications come in, are sorted by program, Ellen Garvens exhibits of art and design, presentations and images last much longer than slides). Unless we receive additional and, in many cases, slides of applicants' work Printmakina: artists' talks, sale of student work, sale of alumni gift funds in the very near future, the whole process will stall . are loaded into carousels and then distributed Curtlabitzke work, auction of graduate student work, open Shirley Scheier This would be a shame, since interest in and excitement about to fac ulty for critical review and selection. Art Sculpture studios and classrooms, special exhibit of digital images is developing rapidly among faculty and students. History faculty also evaluate graduate John Young graduating student work in the Jacob Lawrence Please help us keep the ball rolling with a donation to the applications at this time. Just as prospective stude nts are applying to enter the SoA, Art OMsionofArtHistoryFaculty Gallery, and the presentation of student awards Art Slide Library Fund. The enclosed envelope can be used to send in your donation. Thank. you! and Design faculty are working closely with Cynthea Bagel and scholarships. Rene Bravmann the second year grad uate students to assist Susan Casteras them in refining their thesis work and preparing Meredith Clausen for its installation at the Henry Art Gallery for Patricia Failing the annua l MFA Thesis Exhibition, which opens ChristineGtittler Shih-shan Susan Huang MfA Thesis Exhibition on Friday 26 May. Anna Kartsonis Opening: Friday 26 May, 7pm • Henry Art Gallery Preparations for our upcoming Open Margaret Laird House on Frid ay 28 April, 2-7 pm , also are Joanne Snow-Smith the creative results of work by graduating class Marek Wieczorek Come join us in recognizing intensive study and this year's progressing. Advising staff organize student Robin Wright of Master of fine Arts students. Family, friends, alumni, faculty, staff, gallery owners, museum curators, and intern s to assist with all aspects of planning collectors will be there. If you cannot make the opening, the show will be up through Saturday, 24 June 2006. and execution of this colossal event. We expect OivisionofDesignFaculty in excess of 2,000 guests this year and are Karen Cheng Crystal Anderson Photography Anna l ambert Fibers CarlySione Painting working with the other Arts units on campus Annabelle Gould Timothy Brown Painting SusieJungunelee Ceramics Christianelran Metals to make everyone's experiences memorable. ~~;s::~~;~ ~ Christopher Carter Painting Elizabeth Majewski Metals Ki mberly Trowbridge Painting Immediately following the-close of the Open John Rousseau Michael Cepress Fibers Matthew Mitros Ceramics Shane Wa lsh Painting House, the School mu st quickly resolve its Douglas Wadden Elysha Diaz Photography Callie Neylan Visual Communication Design Chang-Ling Wu Visual Communication Design plans for our Graduation Celebration on Auxiliary faculty Timoth y Fair Visual Communication Design Stephanie Pierce Painting Saturday 10 June. With the overwhel ming James Nicholls Benjamin Hirschkoff Ceramics Tivon Rice Sculpture success of last year's event, we will be moving Anne Hayden Stevens to Kane Hall to accommodate the 500+ guests Timea Tihanyi of our gra duating students. DXARTS Affiliat8d Faculty On the undergraduate front, students ROGER SHIMOMURA -Distinguished Alumni Award are in the midst of selecting courses to take Stephanie Andrews Shawn Brixey On 18 May 2006 SoA alumni R oger Shimomu r a will be honored with a Distinguished Alumni Awa rd next year, and, with high demand for popular at th e UW Celebr ati on of D istinction. Shimomu ra, born in Seattle to a family who has lived in the Pacific classes, many students don't get their first SoA Advisory Board choice. With everything now being done online, Gayle Barker Northwest since the 1910s, is a distinguished artist and educator whose u n ique background and experien ces courses sometimes fill within an hour or two Judi Clark have informed his artwork in a way that reaches beyon d th e visual. GaryCrevling of being open for registration. Madelaine Georgette After Japanese airplanes bombed Pearl Harbor during WW1I, Shimomu ra's family was forcibly Our graduating Art and Design Billingham relocated by the U.S. Government to Camp Minidoka in sou thern Idah o where they were held for ten Harold Kawaguchi sen iors are busy preparing for their required Jack Kleinart months. This defining experience is explored in the artist's paintings, assemblages, and performance pieces capstone course in which they exhibit work in Alida latham that address racial stereotypes, cross-cultural relationships, and acts of prejudice against Asians in America. the Jacob Lawrence Ga llery in one of the four Larry Metcalf He also draws much inspiration from the diaries of his paternal gran dmother, Toku Machida, kept for BFA shows scheduled during Spring Quarter. Alison Milliman And, naturally, all students are wondering what Bryan Ohno the fifty-six years she lived in America. Elaine Ethier they will be doing this summer-working, Shimomura received his bachelor's degree from th e UW in Commercial Design in 1961. After traveling, or perhaps taking a summer course, a two-year stint in the military, he worked as a freelance graphic designer until entering Syracuse University which many of our faculty are preparing to to study painting. He graduated in 1969 with an MFA and accepted a full-time teaching posit ion in the teach. Those fac ulty not teaching are most S,UPfORT! art department of the University of Kansas soon after. In 1994 Shimomura was designated a University likely busy in their studios or offices, working Distinguished Professor, and in 1998 he was the recipient of the Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievemen t on their artwork, research, and scholarly activities. Finally, the staff of the School are ART Award. He was also the recipient of the Chancellor's Club Teaching Professorship for exemplary teaching. assessing studios and operations for needed Shimomura retired from his teaching career in May 2004. improvements in the upcoming yea r. Over the course of his artistic career, Shimomura has had over 100 solo exhibitions of h is paintings and prints (he is locally represented by the Greg Kucera Gallery) and h as presented his experimen tal I invite you to attend our Open House on 28 theater pieces at such venues as th e Franklin Furn ace, New York City; Walker Art Center, M in n eapolis; April and see for yourself what we're doing! and the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC. He is the recip ient of four NEA Ch ristopherDzubko Fellowships in painting and performan ce art, a McKnight Fellowship, a Civil Lib erties Public Education Oire ctor, UWSchoolofArl Fellowship, a japan Foundation grant, and the Kansas Arts Commission's Artist Fellowsh ip Ali son+GienMilliman EndowedChair inArt in Painting. In 2002 the College Art Associatio n presented him with the "Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body ofWork," for his 4-year, 12-mu seu m national tour of the painting exhibition, An American Diary. His personal papers are being collected by the Arch ives of American Art , Smithsonian In stitution, Washington, DC. In Febr uary 2005 the UW Press published a book about Shimomura's work titled Minidoka Revisited: The Paintings of Roger Shimomura by William Lew. His web site is at http://www.rshim.com/. Faculty, Staff+ Student notes Stephanie Andre ws Ass_istant Professor, DXARTS received _a UW Ro_yalty School of Art Research Fund award 1n June 2005 to study stereoscopic and lenticular imaging using an integrated 3D production process VISITING ARTIST Kate Bajtey Academic Adviser left the SoA in mid-January 2006 after ten years of service. Her new ful~time job is as a mother. Stefan Budian, a painter from Germany, will be a visitor at the UW during Spring Quarter 2006. His visit is Cynthea Boa:el Assistant Professor, Art History had her book manuscript, Secret jointly sponsored by the Germanics Department and the SoA, and h e will he u sing studio space in the SoA's Matrix: Kukai and Buddhist Visual Culture in Early Medieval Japan, building at Sand Point. He will also spend time painting in Winthrop, WA. Two shows of his work will open formally accepted for publication by UW Press in September 2005. She rec~ived a grant to support public.ation of this book from the at the end of May, one at FenomenA Gallery (http:!/www.fenomena.us/), Seattle, and one at Confluence Gallery Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Stud1es. (http://www.confluencegallery.com/), Twisp, WA. The paintings that he creat es while here will be interpreted by David Brody Associate Professor, Pai~ting +Drawing was. awar~ed a l.MI Royalty German students of American Studies. This is a companion project to work that he did in 2005 in which Research Fund Scholar grant 1n June 2005 to mvestlgate formal and textu~l _figure-ground relatiNetherlands Institute of Advanced Study; she also taught as a guest professor at the University Two undergraduate students, Ashley Lyon of Z_uri~h. During he~ leave sh~ co~pleted a book manuscript on (Ceramics) and Molly MacGregor (Printmaking) worked in Novt~sJma: Art and V!sual Pract1c~s m the Age_ of Reform and began one of the Flex-Spaces throughout summer 2005 on a workmg on new proJects regarding the relations between art and science and the culture of emotions in early Baroque art. She is currently collaborative project with sculpture s and prints. The result WffllBI!. preparing the Intersections Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, vol. 9, of their collaboration was presented at the CMA gallery in on Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern the fall in an installation entitled Living Room. European Culture. Philip Govedare Associate Professor, Painting+ Drawing has work in a show titled Recent Acquisitions: Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works ART Collection at the Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, which runs from 06 January- 31 March 2006. SUMMER CLASSES IN THE SoA 19 June - 18 August 2006 Shih -shan Susan Huana: Assistant Professor, Art History has received a UW 0 00 Did you know that during summer our nationally-recognized faculty are joined by visiting artists to teach classes in art, art history, ~~~f!\Ya~~s~~d~hhis~n~s~~r~~~u~=~~d~~d~~e~~ ~h~ne;_ bshek !ill~ehc;i~~ and design that are open to everyone interested in participating in a challenging visual art experience? panel on Chinese art and transnationalism at the CAA Conference in 2007. Completion of one short application makes it possible for you to enroll in dozens of SoA classes. Information about Denzil Hurley Professor, Painting +Drawing had a solo show titled Variant! summer classes at the UW is online at http:fj www.outreach.washington.eduj uwsqf. This site lists the dates, times, and topics Glyphic/Negation/Redact at the Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, from of all classes. It will also provide you with information about costs, applications, and registration. The SoA web site, 27 January- 26 February 2006. The exhibit featured new paintings from 2002 tllrough 2005. http://art.washington.edu, will give you additional information about our summer programs. This information should be available Ooua: Jack Associate Professor, Ceramics was the keynote speaker and by 01 April 2006. exhibited his work at the June 2005 International Conference on the Our special summer offerings will include classes in ceramics, metal, sculpture, drawing, furniture design, color theory, Fragmented_ Fig~re hel~ at The University of Wales Institute, School of Art and Des1gn, 1n Cardiff, Wales. photography, printmaking, papermaking, and design. We wi ll also offer art history classes in Impressionism, African-American art, Robert C. Jones Professor Emeritus, Painting+ Drawing had a show of recent and Western European art from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. Check the web sites listed above for the comp lete list of paintings at Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, in September 2005. courses. Join us for an experience that will be the highlight of your summer! Mara:aret (Pea:l Laird Assistant Professor, Art History is co-author of a book titled Walls and Memory: The Abbey of San Sebastiana at AJatri (Lazio), from late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond, which ARTIST TRUST GRADUATION CELEBRATION 2006 r;;~::li:~~nfr~~H~~;;;~a~~~n~~~~ ~~ t~~~~~fs=~~~ Once again SoA alumni have done well with Artist Trust. Seven alumni Overseas Research Centers as well as a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation travel grant. On Saturday, 10 June 2006, the SoA will hold its Annual received Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) awards: Yuki Nakamura '97 , Dick law Instructional Technician, Ceramics will be retiring at the end of June Graduation Celebration for undergraduate and graduate Rosemary Pham '98, Sally Schuh '90, Timea Tihanyi 'D3 (also an SoA Lecturer), W. 2006 after 27 years of service to tlle SoA. students in the class of 2005-2006. This year the event Scott Trimble '03 , Laura Wright 'll4, and Robert Yoder '87 . The press release about Zhi Lin Associate Professor, Painting+ Drawing has been named a Fellow of these awards is at http:/,lwww.artisttrust.org/newsjpress/05gaprecippr.html. the Humanities Council and the Tang Center for East Asian Art at wi ll be hel d in Kane Hall and will be followed by a reception Pri~ceton University; ~e wil_l g_ive lectures and work~hops there duri_ng under tents in the Quad. Last year our celebration included Last year we forgot to mention one alumnus who received a 2004 spnng 2006. One of h1s pa1ntings was in Re-Presenting Representation Artist Trust;Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. That was Sami VII at the Arnot Art Museum, New York, in the autumn. Also in the 700 excited students, family members, and friends who Ben Larbi '01. His work can be seen at http:/jwww.s-b-l.org/. autumn, he presented at the 2005 AICAD Academic Symposium in gathered to honor the achievements of 35 7 undergraduates Philadelphia, he was a juror for the 2006 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation .Artist Fellowship in P ain~ng, ~nd he ~as a visiting artist at the Pennsyt.Jania and 30 graduate students who, with hard work and a creative Academy of Fme Arts 1n Ph1ladelph1a. spirit, completed their degrees. This year the faculty will LARSEN'S WISDOM Mielle Riu:ie MFA student, Fibers had work included in the show Pi/chuck: The 15th Year of Emerging Artists in Residence at tlle Friesen Gallery, once again present five Graduating with Excellence Jack Lenor Larsen '49 was the 2005 UW Alumnus Summa Laude Seattle, from 06 October - 26 November 2005. Awards and two Teachin& with Excellence Awards to Dignatus. Information about him is available in two articles in UW larr'/ Sommers Instructional Technician, Printmaking curated an exhibit at G. students who have earned the highest honors in the SoA. publications: http:llwww.washina:ton.edu/alumnilcolumnsljune05/dre amweaver01 .html Gibson Gallery, Seattle, titled Ink+ Paper, 'Nhich ran from 01 December 2005 -14 January 2006. The show included several SoA alumni: Claire and httpJiwww.artsci.washinaton.edu/newsletter/summer05/Jacklenorlarsen.hlm. Cowie '99, Kamla Kakaria '89, 'DO , Barbara Robertson '79, and Sally Schuh '90. SoA Director Christopher Ozubko invited Larsen to speak to Joanne Snow-Smith Professor, Art History presented an Advent son et Jumiere the SoA graduating class last year, which Larsen was not able to at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, in December 2005. She coordinated do. Instead he sent comments to be shared with the students. art images with Mel Butler's playing of Olivier Messiaen's Suite "La Nativitee du Seigneur' on tlle organ. She is preparing a Lenten son et Below are excerpts from those comments: lumiere with the Seattle Choral Company, which will be at St. Thomas What I'm saying is that your major step today is but a first Episcopal Church, Medina, on 24 - 25 March 2006. Information is available at http://www. seattlechoralcompany.org/SonEtLumiere.html. step. Never stop learning. Welcome opportunities to be stretched. Pamela Jaynes ~ stude~t._Art History has assisted Snow-Smith by making Look outward, wherever possible. Travel widely and soon; you can tllese presentations d1g1tal. always come home. If so lucky as to attend graduate schoollnot Michael_Spaff~rd Profes~rEmeritus, Pain~ing + Drawi~g_had his 7f! high mural, necessarily now) make sure that school is far away, and quite Tumbltng Ftgure - FIVe Stages, wh1ch was ongmally des1gned for the Kingdome, installed on the outside of the new King County parking different from the world you know ... As importantly as anything ~gQ~e at Sixth Avenue and Jefferson Street, Seattle, in December else, find your Vocation -that is, something, any focus engaging your passion ... Another way of looking at this is that, in your 20s, Anne Hayden Stevens Lecturer recently collaborated witll a student you can have a Day Job and good times after hours. In your 40s, Educators for Social Justice, to create two murals on the----·-" "1-" -- of Miller Hall on campus. An article about this is at http://uwnews.org/ without energy for both, the day job better be the right one ... In uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleiD= 13930. relation to Vocation, this isn't something you "could do" or "should Time a Tihanyi Lecturer had a show of recent work, titled intelligentdesign, do," rather, Vocation is your calling- what you want to do - no at the HelenS. Smith G_allery, Gr.een River Co~munity ~olteg~, during January 2006. More mformat10n about th1s work IS ava1lable at matter how absurd that might seem. If you really want it, you probably http://timeatihanyi.com. ------,-.. can. But don't freeze the path, or the steps you will climb. They Patti Warashina Professor Emeritus, Ceramics had her work chosen for the may be quite different than what you now imagine ... Somewhere UW Libraries' Artist Images Series. She spoke at Suzzallo Library on in the Henry Art Gallery was inscribed the proverb: "Be an open 28 October 2005, and a commemorative bookmark representing one of her pieces was handed out at the event bowl that some opportunity may fall in." Opportunity is the key .. Last year Marek Wiecz~rek ~sistant Professor, Art History was at t:tJe Institute By the same token, learn to find your gut reaction and believe in it. for Advanced Study 10 Prmceton, where he worked on h1s book on The mind can rationalize most any wrong decision . The heart is Mondrian and participat~d in teaching seminars at P~in~eton University much more reliable. Trust it... Don't hurry to embark as no one and The Cooper Um~n I~ New xork. He has been InVIted to pr~sent papers at two upcom1ng mternational conferences: the Association of pays much heed to those under 25. Time wise, whether you travel Art Historians in Leeds, England, in April on a panel titled ~ In stitutional the world, work, or go back to school, doesn't make much difference. ~ r itique as l~stitution~ and at a conference titled "Art_ and Me~ph:(Si~s 10 the Twent1eth Century and Beyond" at the International Umvers1ty 1n Rather, learn who you are and what you most want. .. Go well and Bremen, Germany, in May. stay well. ROMA REPORTA During early fall 2005 Christopher Ozubko Professor, Design led a group Winter-Spring '0 6 of fourteen students in the first Visual Communication Design Exploration Seminar in Rome . The five-week program included a field trip with visits beatslrlfntllld-tool ualess--natotl. to Pisa, Carrara, and Parma. The focus of the course was the study of ,._.Chtt:k filii__ SIA~ Callltltlar..,., IJf Errnts ______onlinll II http-/IBtt.WISb/nfllltl.lldullfiSir/llrlfn.1111t tor 1111111iD1W M1111 the development of the Roman alphabet and included site visits to museum and library collections where stone inscription s, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, and other early books were carefully analyzed . Students also studied Italian and researched assigned sites for the art history component, 08 March- 01 April taught by lisa Schuttz 'OJ prior to their departure for Rome. D;,;tal Video + Time-Based Worlrs 2008 In Spring Quarter 2006 the Division of Art History will offer its annual Sem i n ar i n R om e . The CJ::::,nt,~,;,,e,r::,~~J;:~~:Jf~":,~~ln~pm program will be led by Christi n e Gottler Associate Profossor, Art History wh o specializes in early modern A juried exhibition of digital video, sound, and installation from SoA and DXARTS students. European art. Two graduate studen ts and ten undergraduate students have been accepted as participants. Works were seleoted by Eric Frederickson , Director, Western Bridge. Two courses will be offered: "Art and Visual C ulture in Rome from Augustus to Mussolini" and "Art, Bollery H...., Iunday- Satunloy, 12-4poo. For morelnfon11111oo pill.. caii2116.BI5.1805. be for Bru~ Scien ce, and Religion in Ro me, c. 1600." Students will take an active role in presenting art historical The Bllilry wil closetl20- 2511mb Spr1111 sites to the class based o n preparation and research begun in Seattle. The program includes overnight excursions to Siena and Florence as well as Ravenna, Ferrara, Venice, and Padua. 01 April- 21 April Coup/in, IV: Secret Handshake What do the artists Di.irer, Bernini, Caravaggio, Turner, Klee , Twombly, and Clemente all have in common? They Ave N, Seatlfe all claimed that living in Rome had a profound impact on their lives and their work. Many of them returned time Students=~~eg== selected to participate ~~~1:in this exhibition If8'0ex1er are 'coupled ' wrth an artist working in a and again, some eventually making Rome their permanent home. medium different than their own, granted a small stipend, and given time to work on a The 12th Annual Studio Art Rome Program will be returning to Rome once again this fall . This collaborative pieoe which is uHimately sold in an auction. Of the artists participating this year, quarter~ong program offers a unique opportunity to study and create art in the vibrant and historical city of Rome . two are SoA alumni, Rebecca Kardong '01 and Todd Simeone '05. The UW students chosen are Through site visits in Rome and field trips to selected major cultural centers in Italy, students will have the amazing Andy Falla!, James Ryan, Elysha Rose Diaz, Ross Sawyers, Keeara Rhoades, Amy Johnson, Julia chance to experience first-hand some of the most influential art in Western civilization. This year the group will visit selected sites in Umbria and Tuscany at the beginning of the program and will spend a week on the island ~~~:::r.,M:=m~ · =,lf~"F~r::.A=:u..- ...... orcal of Sicily just before Thanksgiving. The program culminates with a public exhibition of student artwork produced 2116.721.1980. during their stay in Rome. For more information about this exciting program contact: Lori Moskal Academic Adviser, 206.543.0646, 06April lulls Fish • lecture lmoskal@u .washington.edu; Curt Labitzke Associate Professor, Printmaking, cwl®u.washington.edu; or Jamie Walker 6pm, 003 Art Bulkllnc Professor, Ceramics, [email protected] . Artist Julia Fish will speak about her work. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at ~~~ ~:1~~~~i~:s. c!:~W.543 . 097o . 12 April- ZZ April Bachelor of Fins Arts 1: Cer~mics lmii'/IMofrBp/ly SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SCHOLARS IV CJ:Int.~~r:.:JJ.Lt~~ The Ceramics Program held their 6th Annual Scholarships for Scholars celebration Group exhibition of work by graduating students earning their bachelo(s degrees in ceramics on 07 February 2005. Some 200 students, faculty, and supporters enjoyed a lively evening at the studio accompanied by the Cuban rhythms of ='=~~-Satanay , 12-4poo. FOf..,..ilfonoltlaopiuslcai 2116.BI5.1805. Picoso, led by Eli Rosenblatt. The first year grads- Amy Johnson, Mike Simi, Matt Van Horn, and Kristine Veitll-- 13April exhibited new work in the Ceramics Gallery and there was bren Chen, • desifnillf lypll • boolr tllk a fine selection of smaller pieces in the silent auction. 6pm, Henry Art Gallety Professor Emeritus Patti Warashina announced that Mary Cheng Associate Proless01, Oesign will speak about her book, designing type, at the Henry Art Kay McCaw was the lucky raffle winner and the proud owner of two pieces made by Robert Sperry. Over $25,000 ~'L,~r:~::~=!=. f,oJ:.S:."=I~~~l~-8f;';..,.. -..p~usecan 2116.543.2280. was raised to provide scholarships for the graduate students, -IIIIer boobtore' 1930 Fin! An, Slltlle. Bookslon-., _,_ Salunlay, illll-lpol. For....., and the Ceramics Program would like to thank everyone who idormoti011 plom con 2116.441.4114. helped make this event such a success.
PHOTO DEVELOPMENT IN MEMO RIAM Many alumni will remember Stephen Dunthorne '49, The Photography Program received a who was one o f the academic advisers for the SoA from Curriculum Development Grant from the 1961 to 1990. He passed away on 17 September 2005 College of Arts and Sciences for the at the age of 80. An obituary is available at http:// development of a large gateway introduction www. legacy.com/nwclassifieds/D eath Notices.asp by scrolling down and searching on his last name. His to photography class. A prototype was family asks that contributions in his memory be made developed for Winter Quarter 2006. During 22April to the Boyer Gonu.les and E li'laheth Bole Coruales Zml AilfliJIII firadulll Spnposi1Jm for tin Humanities Summer Quarter 2006 the entire Photo faculty Sch olarship Fund, UW School of Art, Box 353440, 9am-4pm, 003 Art Bu/ldlnfr Seattle, Washington 98195-3440. This event, organized by the Graduate Students of Art History, will feature papers by UW graduate wi ll assess, revise, and expand the cla ss for students from several areas of the humanrties and two keynote speakers, Cynthea Bogel Assistant ProfesSlJr, Art History and Marek Wieczorek Assistant Professor, Art History. The symposium's Winter Quarter 2007. theme is "Constructed Identities, Modern Mythologies, Agendas, Fallacies, and Misperceptions in the Humanities,'' and the speakers will explore the constructs that have shaped contempo
WITH APPRECIATION The SoA has recently received two signific ant gifts: Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence's estate bequeathed $250,000 to establish the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Endowed Art Scholarship. This gift provides $12,500 per year that will be used to support SoA students. We are very grateful for the many years that the SoA enjoyed the presence of both Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence, and we are happy that their memory will live on in this way. ART in AMERICA The Division of Art History is the grateful recipient of a new $375,000 The September 2005 issue of Art in America contained an article titled American Art History Endowed Professorship. Donations by Seattle "Report from Seattle: Plua:a:ed tn and Calleinated" by Janet Koplos. art dealer Allan Kollar and his wife, Mary Kollar, and Tom Barwick, a This article mentioned a number of SoA faculty, alumni, and students: Alfredo Seattle businessman and collector of American art, were matched by the Arreruln '67, '69; Suzanne Beat MA student, Art History; leo SauiBerk '99 ; David Brody University to create this fund. Income from the endowment will be used to Associate Professor, Painting+ Drawing; Jaq Chartier '94 ; Dan Corson '92 ; Claire Cowie support teaching, research , and visrting scholars focusing on American art '99 ; Victoria Haven '89; Robin Held PhD candidate, Art History; Billy Howard '94; Dour history from the colonial period to 1950, beginning in the 2006-2007 Jeck Associate Professor, Ceramics; Robert C. Jones Professor Emeritus, Painting+ Drawing; academic year. Howard Kottler late Professor, Ceramics; Zhi Un Associate Professor, Painting + Drawing; Alden Mason Professor Emeritus, Painting+ Drawing; Brian Murphy '99 ; Glenn Rudolph '68 ; Roa:er Shimomura '61 ; Robert Sperry late Professor Emeritus, Ceramics; Akio Takamori SIJPPOR1J Professor, Ceramics; Jamie Walker Professor, Ceramics; Patti Warashina Professor Emeritus, Ceramics; and Keith Yurdana '96 .
Sap Moripsu '91 exhibited her work at the Richard 61111 Rymarcsuk '03 has received a ~tudio_ residency The show defrne: book at Art Books Press, Seattle, ART from 10 September- 29 October 2005 included ~~%-~;ew~a~n~~~~at~=~r ~~~~~=~~e~~~~~~-: onecurrentstudentandseveralalumni: Nola Alumni notes platlormgallery.com. Ch =~~~dL~~~~~!!?~f;t~,e~tial :~: ·~:n ~r ~~6S~~te~ge~a2bb;~e 'ls. The Shawn htrick Undis '02 exhibited his new ~~efr: ~~~~io~~~\~ 8!~~~~&r~ ~ansfor_ming sculptures and interactive air Sheryl ~e~tef)ree n '96_recentty completed five ~i~~~~';a~~-~~S:~~·~~n~~ his exhibit on 09 February, alOng with Chris [fiiNI1 f.e~ITU~:~~~r~:~g~~th~: ~~~. '03. Kristen T. Ramirez '04 had a mixed media installation website he also illustrations o'P'~: ais'~:~fe~n:~~o~~t ~r~f~~~~9~t u,a; ~~~~~t~ityS~c~~~~~,tant =~~~1Z:g5~~tJ:~~aa~ ~~4Currure, appeared in the traveling eKhibit by the same ~~ty, name. Foundation Program, 2005-2007. Sand ra z. Richardso n '84 exhibited her work in the one of Laura MacCary '04 h~s work featured in_a new bo_ok Foster;White Gallery, Seattle, 05- 28 January the featured artists at the Alexis otel'swinter Jeff DeGolllr '02 ~ad work in Almost 30, ~ group titl~d Makers: _All Krnds of People Makrng Amazrng 2006. exhiJition, Abstraction X 3, 05 January- 04 April shc_>w a~ th~ Ulnch Museum of Art, Wichita State 2006. UniVersity, 1n January 2006. ~~~ '~a~~i~' Backyard, Basement or Garage !~Pt~~~~~aTI~hi~i~a~~Qd;n~e~1~m~/!~~ DionYannatos'S4launchedhiswebsite, Ann Mlthem '04 had a show~ ~ Gocx1 Company October 2005. ~e was the recipient of a 2005 http;//dioi:'Yannatos.cOfl!, where he featur~s. over at Gallery4Culture, Seattle, n December 2005. grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundat1011. 1 ~i~~~n~r~~~a;:'~~s~~fg,e~:bited Rachel lletinnes '05 had work in Found in ~~d:!o ~al:~i ~ ~:~ttl~,' :~k J~a~6v~~r ~~~~~~~b~~~mroRt.'ta1::~ ~na:~e:e~on, - 26 November 2005. ~~~~~S ~;t~rW~o~~u~'J!~~~t~tors August 2005. WA, from 05 November- 04 December 2005. :C~~a~i~i~~i.s!s)~~~~s 1a: ~e~ Robtrt Yoder '87 exhibited his work in a show titled 2006. He also exh1b1ted h1s work at Klemens ~o~i~~~ed~.' 6f~~~t&io~e~~~~l1ery, r:;us:~ ~ ~n~eg~~~~rt ~~k New York, 05 2 SOIL SubmiSSIOn deadl 1ne Jill Rull koe ner '84 has been named the Director of was Education and Audience Oevelopme~t at the Frye for next newsletter Art Museum, Seattle. She was preVJOusly the DirectOf of Education and Public Programs at the 07 July 2006 Seattle Art Museum, where she had Worked since 1981.