| 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! | | | | The SAAHD congratulates the outstanding students invited to join the Alpha of Iowa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's most prestigious undergraduate honor society! Members are elected from among the top 10% of the graduating class.
Studio Art: Scout Wyckoff, Meredith Onions, Caitlyn Guth, Elizabeth McCann, Ellie Anderson, Avery Behnke, Lila Eggerling-Boeck, Alli Fischer, Mikala Hess, Izzy Jurgens, Erik Moon, Mei-Ling Shaw Williams
Art History: Emma Fuchtman, Maryellen Lerg | | | Matt Bowman (Art History PhD student) began his year-long Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum this semester.
He is researching across the Smithsonian museums and working on his dissertation, Contested Lands, Fraught Waters: Images of Taos Pueblo and its Northern New Mexican Terrain, 1900-1970, under the mentorship of curators and staff members.
So far, Bowman has presented his topic to the Smithsonian community, given a gallery talk on Walter Ufer’s painting After Them, and enjoyed facility tours and professionalization activities with the other Fellows. He will also work at The National Archives and Library of Congress. | | | | Kurt Tomerlin's (MFA Printmaking student) solo exhibition delicate hold is on display at UIHC Project Art through December 1.
Tomerlin draws with hammers that are meant to pound and etches with clamps that are meant to hold. Their work explores themes of craftsmanship, identity, and the relationship between tools and the body.
@kurt_tomerlin_ | | | Perla Camacho (MFA Ceramics student) has a solo exhibition, Transitional Morbidity, at UIHC Project Art through February 9.
Camacho translates everyday objects into figurative pieces using texture, scale, and alteration to create more complex narratives, inviting the viewer to look with empathy and connect with kindness.
website | @pecaceramica | | | | 3D Design BFA Julia Correia and MFA Tagwa Mohamedani collaborated with Esposit, a brand based in Italy that creates eco-sustainable, interlocking wooden furniture using CNC technology and CAD virtual assembly.
Visit @uiowa3ddesign to see the making of the students' chair designs from creative concept to manufacturable product.
@juliacorreia_design | @tagwa.designs | | | The inaugural Iowa Art Field was held this fall. Hosted by Public Space One, the event was a multi-site exhibition of site-responsive installation art by eleven artists at unique spaces around Iowa City.
SAAHD students, faculty, and alumni among the 2025 Featured Artists included Savannah Bustillo, Jeremy Chen, Lydia Diemer, John Engelbrecht, Hannah Givler, and Tony Orrico. | | | | Oliver Lee Jackson (MFA 1963, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 2023) has two new sculptures installed outside the Stanley Museum of Art.
Untitled II and Untitled IV were recently in the solo exhibition A Journey on the High Line in NYC and are part of a five-year loan to the Stanley Museum.
Jackson is an acclaimed contemporary artist known for his transformative work over five decades, including expressive, figurative paintings and monumental steel sculptures.
oliverleejackson.com | | | Zhiheng Gong (BFA 3D Design 2020) is one of three artists selected for the 22nd Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition at Main Line Art Center in Bryn Mawr, PA through December 20. The show highlights emerging voices in sculpture and contemporary practice.
Gong's work explores folded structures, material tension, and the quiet dialogue between body and space. His practice bridges contemporary sculptural design and traditional Chinese lacquer craftsmanship (daqi).
zhiheng-gong.com | @gong_zhiheng | | | | Stevie Haley Delgado (MFA Sculpture & Intermedia 2024) has a solo exhibition, In the end, I just miss the before, at Cornell College through December 7.
Delgado builds transitory worlds through papier-mâché sculpture, constructed cardboard spaces, and the interplay of light and shadow. They are currently a Lecturer in Studio Art at Cornell College.
@stevie.doe | | | Katherine Lock (BFA Painting and Drawing with Honors 2000) has launched Katherine Lock Contemporary at Olson-Larsen Galleries in Des Moines.
Part shop, part gallery, the store presents a curated selection with a focus on telling diverse stories and illuminating subjects through the lens of acclaimed artists, designers, and makers.
katherinelock.com | | | |
