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.