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Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Come celebrate the artwork and research of the SAAH Open Studios Event!
Faculty Open Studios
Saturday, May 11, 4-6pm
Oakdale Studio Facility
2575 Holiday Ct., Coralville, IA, 52241 | | | | Tony Orrico (Professor, Sculpture & Intermedia) is presenting three video works in “Body and Choreography: Dancing in the Museum” at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (CAFA) in Beijing, China.
Featuring CROSSWAKE, a 4-hour collaboration and performance installation with S&I MFA David Hurlin and filmmaker Philip Rabalais, filmed in the VAB Atrium.
signsandsymbols.art | @ajorrico | | | Isabel Baldrich (PhD Art History student) has been awarded a CLAS Dissertation Writing Fellowship. Only 10 of these prestigious awards are granted across the entire college.
Her dissertation, “Caribbean Stain: Erasure and Creoleness in Parisian Art,” examines ethnic omissions in selected 18th-19th century French paintings to better understand French colonialism and the concept of race.
Learn more about her research. | | | | Sydney Ewerth (Visiting Assistant Professor), Ali Hval (Lecturer), and Molly Duff organized Ephemeral Altars at this year’s NCECA conference in March. Ceramic installations by 10 artists explored permanence and transience through clay and mixed material.
The exhibition also featured work by Ceramics graduate students Abbey Peters and Javier Espinosa-Mómox.
@sydthekid09 | @alihval | @abbey_peters | @vientorebelde | | | | Brett Colley (MFA Printmaking 1994) has a solo exhibition, Uncertain Horizons, at St. Ambrose University through April 17.
Colley is a Professor of Studio Art at Grand Valley State University. His work assumes a critical perspective on a wide array of oppressive systems, while also highlighting the resistance borne of such conditions.
brettcolley.com | | | Rebecca Velde (BFA Painting) moved to Missoula, Montana after graduating from the SAAH, where she studied intaglio printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. She is now painting full time.
Velde is primarily interested in people and what they get up to, what they have to do to survive, and what they do for fun. Her subjects are everyday hard-working people, their pets, and their accoutrements.
rebeccaveldeart.com | | | |
Eliza Reinhardt (BFA Painting 2018) recently re-created a photo of Iowa Women's Basketball star Caitlin Clark!
Reinhardt's reinventions of famous paintings with her dog, Finn, have attracted over 20,000 followers on Instagram and drawn admiration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
| | | Jered Sprecher (MFA Painting and Drawing with Honors 2002) has a solo show, Monument of Dirt & Air, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden through June 3. The exhibition showcases 10 oil paintings that depict plants viewed through the lens of technology.
jeredsprecher.com | @jeredsprecher | | | |
