| School of Art, Art History, and Design Newsletter | SAAHD students, faculty, and alumni create extraordinary art and scholarship. Our monthly newsletter will keep you up to date.
Please submit your news and images for consideration for a future newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Shaun Peter Mallonga (MFA Ceramics student) collaborated on alum Jiha Moon's newly installed mural, One An Other, at the Stanley Museum of Art.
Mallonga shared their experience in a recent article: A Reflection on Working with Jiha Moon
Mallonga's graduate research is currently centred on merfolk and the wilderness of the sea as a means of recontextualizing their intersected identity as a queer Filipinx-Canadian.
@shaunmallonga | | | Faye Hadfield's (MFA Ceramics student) piece "Scary Vase in Tropical" is in the permanent collection of the Odunpazari Modern Museum (OMM) in Eskişehir, Turkey. The piece is currently on view in the museum's exhibition Creatures of Comfort through July 2025.
The exhibition features international artists and designers whose creations transcend traditional boundaries, redefining the relationship between form and function.
fayehadfield.co.uk | @faye__roc | | | | 3D Design students exhibited their work at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City for the 11th year in a row.
showcase practical designs. Iowa’s participation gives students the chance to network with professionals and gain valuable insight into the design industry.
Learn more in a CLAS feature article. | | | Al-Qawi Nanavati's (MFA Printmaking student) works are part of Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2024 in New Delhi, India.
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, held annually in the captial city, is one of the largest art events in India and showcases the best of contemporary art throughout the country.
alqawinanavati.com | @alqawi.nanavati | | | | Rachel Cox (Area Head, Photography) received an Art Project Grant through the Iowa Arts Council and NEA to support her current project, Portrait of a Woman.
This highly personal body of work chronicles Cox’s experience accessing fertility treatment to start a family.
Works from this series are included in a solo exhibition, Notes on Care, at the University of New Mexico Museum of Art until December 7.
rachelcoxphotography.com | @rayraycox
| | | Thalassa Raasch (Assistant Professor, Photography) is working with The New York Times to cover a busy political season in the Midwest.
From the Iowa Caucuses to the National Conventions, Raasch’s images regularly appear in the Opinion section. More coming soon with the upcoming election!
thalassaraasch.com | @thalassaraasch | | | | Elizabeth Catlett was one of the first three MFA recipients at the University of Iowa and the first African American to earn the degree in 1940.
A new retrospective is on view at the Brooklyn Museum. Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies features over 150 pieces that pay tribute to the artist and political activist.
The exhibition will reopen in the National Gallery of Art in Washington in March before traveling to the Art Institute of Chicago in August 2025.
| | | Hayward Oubre (MFA Painting and Drawing 1948) is featured in the first monographic retrospective of his work at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity celebrates a key figure in the history of Black American art through 52 sculptures, paintings, and prints.
The exhibition will travel to the Stanley Museum of Art in August 2025 and the New Orleans Museum of Art in January 2026. | | | | David Johnson (BFA 1977) has a solo exhibition at ArtiFactory in Iowa City, showcasing his color etchings, woodcuts, and artist’s books. Read a review in the Daily Iowan and take a video tour with the artist here.
Johnson taught visual arts at Ball State University in Indiana for 33 years. He has shown his prints, drawings, and books in approximately 400 exhibitions since 1982. | | | Jesse Albrecht (MFA Ceramics with Honors 2006) is in the exhibition Underwent at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics through March 2025.
Albrecht lives and works in Belgrade, Montana. He has focused on wheel thrown ceramics, art pieces, and functional wares since the completion of his studio in 2020.
jessealbrecht.com | @albrechtartco | | | |
