| School of Art, Art History, and Design Newsletter | SAAHD students, faculty, and alumni create extraordinary art and scholarship. Please submit your news and images for consideration for a future newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Clayton Salley (MFA Jewelry and Metal Arts student), U.S. Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan 2024-2025, was invited to lecture at the National Taiwan University of Arts.
Salley explores themes, ideas, and influences of the American conceptual art jewelry movement in his work. His presentation was "an exciting chance to engage in dialogue about the diverse forces shaping studio arts in the Taiwanese, East Asian, and Western jewelry and metalsmithing fields."
claytonsalley.com | @clayton.salley | | | Monica Vree and Tina Zhang have achieved PhD candidacy in Art History with their dissertation proposals.
Vree's dissertation topic is "Designing the Façade of Reims Cathedral: Principles, Precedents and Proportions." Zhang's research is titled "Telling a Story in the Landscape: 'Narrative Landscape' Painting in 14th-16th-Century China." | | | | Thalassa Raasch (Assistant Professor, Photography) received a Big Field Fund 2024-25 Research / Development Grant.
Raasch's project Siren will initiate collaborations to create both an ephemeral and responsive live performance and an immersive multi-channel audio-video installation.
thalassaraasch.com | @thalassaraasch | | | Elizabeth McTernan (Visiting Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing) received a Big Field Fund 2024-25 Project Grant for her project Meandering River.
Meandering River is an interdisciplinary collaboration to create an iterative, site-specific multimedia performance illuminating intricate ecological networks between people, water, and infrastructure around the Iowa River passing through Iowa City.
elizabethmcternan.com | @liz_mcternan | | | | Jewelry and Metal Arts is in the CraftForms 2024 International Juried Exhibition, featuring work by students Clayton Salley and Jack Edecker and Studio Specialist Bethany Laranda Wood. Salley and Wood were selected for Awards of Merit.
The exhibition is on view at Wayne Art Center, PA through January 25.
Bethany Laranda Wood, R-Hysterectomy, sterling silver and patina, 5″ x 8″ x .5″
@uiowajewelrymetalarts
| | | Heidi McKay Casto (Visiting Assistant Professor, Ceramics) is the current Visiting Artist in Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (The Bray) in Helena, MT.
Casto's work explores the intersections of utility and sculpture, featuring a variety of playful design elements, anthropomorphic animal portraits, and vibrant colors.
heidimckaydesigns.com | @heidimckaydesigns | | | | Ranelle Knight-Lueth (PhD Art History 2015) was recently hired as the project manager of the Grant Wood Catalogue Raisonné initiative at the Grant Wood Art Colony.
Over the next three years, Knight-Lueth will lead the creation of the digital catalogue to become the definitive resource on Wood’s works of art, their materials, and their histories.
This repository for scholarship and creative works related to Wood and Regionalism will be freely available to the public.
grantwood.uiowa.edu | @grantwood.artcolony | | | Ben Shirk (BA 2002) has been selected as part of Team USA for the World Photographic Cup (WPC). A 10-time Team USA member, Shirk has had 12 images named as top ten in the world and holds the record for the most WPC medals globally. He has helped Team USA win the WPC trophy four times.
The WPC is an Olympic-style competition with over 80 nations participating, each submitting three images in 10 categories. This year, Shirk will represent Team USA in Illustrative, Illustrative Portrait, and Commercial categories. Finals take place in March 2025 in Quito, Ecuador.
shirkphotography.com | @shirkphotography | | | | Jon Fasanelli-Cawelti's (MFA Printmaking 1985) solo exhibition Hiking from Memory is on view at UIHC Project Art through January 3.
Fasanelli-Cawelti's (1953-2021) work reflects his physical limitations due to ALS, restricting him to a chair. These creations became his maps, a visual "armchair" voyage, with each piece echoing and archiving steps previously taken.
jonfasanellicawelti.com | | | Greg Van Dusseldorp (MFA Ceramics 1993) has a solo exhibition, You're Invited, at UIHC Project Art through April 17.
Van Dusseldorp is an Iowa City artist who studied under Chuck Hindes, Clary Illian, and Bunny McBride. His art reflects fragmented narratives of memory, loss, and desire, and invites a meditative confrontation with the present moment.
@woodfirefunk | | | |
