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Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | The Sculpture and Intermedia Program, Vertical Cinema, and the SAAH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee hosted the dedication of the new Ana Mendieta Gallery (E260 Visual Arts Building) with a special exhibition of Mendieta's work in Iowa, film screenings, and celebration of Mendieta’s birthday on November 18. Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, the artist’s niece and film archivist for the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, introduced the events.
Ana Mendieta earned her BA in art (1969), MA in painting (1972), and MFA in intermedia and video (1977) at the University of Iowa. Her work in Intermedia was pathbreaking in the development of performance art, photography, film, sculpture, and land art in the modern era. Her groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed earth-body works on identity and belonging remain profoundly relevant today. | | | Four Ceramics students were selected for the 2023 NCECA Juried Student Exhibition: fourth-year MFA student Brant Weiland, first-year graduate students Patrick Ryan and Randi Bachman, and senior BFA Ivy Jewell.
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts annual conference hosts the largest ceramics student exhibition of the year.
"We’ve had folks get in before, and one year we even had two people in the show… but 4 is unprecedented," says Andrew Casto, Ceramics Program Head. "Jurors selected 39 works total out of 659 submitted, of which 4 of our students were picked… over 10% of the show. Furthermore, only 12 of those pieces were from undergraduates... I’m really proud of our group, and very excited for us to be so well represented at the conference."
The exhibition will be held at DAAP Galleries on the University of Cincinnati campus from January 26 to March 18, 2023. | | | | The Ceramics Program will travel to Italy this winter for the first installment of the European Ceramics Studio study abroad course. Every three years this course will be offered in a new international location, beginning with C.R.E.T.A. Rome. Students will split their time between working in the C.R.E.T.A. studio, where they will learn the traditional Italian glazing technique of Maiolica, and visiting historical sites in Rome.
Learn more about this exciting study abroad opportunity in a Daily Iowan feature article. | | | Johanna Winters, 2022-23 Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking, has a solo exhibition at the H&R Block Artspace in Kansas City through December 10. The show, EN CAYSS UV ROMANSS, features new video, sculpture, and print work.
Winters is teaching Advanced Printmaking this semester and will have an exhibition on campus, in addition to speaking at the Stanley Museum and working with local middle school students, this spring.
See more on her website and Instagram. | | | | The Printmaking Program will open classes to the public this summer. Frogman’s Print Workshops will teach stone lithography, book structures, and wood engraving in the Visual Arts Building through its first two-week summer intensive in Iowa City from July 1-14, 2023. Learn more in a Daily Iowan feature article. | | | Jacqueline Banigan and Alan Carrillo (Art History PhD students) received 2023 Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowships.
Banigan studies eighteenth and nineteenth-century French painting and print media. Carrillo is specializing in French Medieval architecture. | | | | Andre Wright (BFA Graphic Design 2005) will open the Wright House Of Fashion in Iowa City in May 2023. It will be the first educational space in Iowa City to learn about the fashion industry.
"Our mission is to empower underrepresented populations using design, art, and sustainable practices as vehicles for change," he says.
Wright is also the co-founder of Humanize my Hoodie, a global fashion movement including an appearance at New York Fashion Week and nationwide ally workshops.
Learn more about Wright's fashion activism in a Daily Iowan interview and on social media. | | | LeAnn Erickson's (MFA Intermedia 1992) new film premiered at the 31st Philadelphia Film Festival in October.
I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir uses animation and a memoir structure to weave a comedic and dramatic coming out story. Featuring a playful aesthetic and humorous tone, the filmmaker—a lesbian feminist baby boomer—uses animation and exercise guru Jack LaLanne to explore the impact of role models on children, coming out as gay in a less tolerant era, and dealing with a late-in-life disability.
Erickson is a professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University and worked with Hans Breder at the University of Iowa. | | | | Huda Al-Aithan (MFA 3D Design 2020) recently exhibited new work. Her living sculpture Numinous Najd (above) is in the Noor Riyadh Festival.
Anamil (Fingertips), a pendant light for Tashkeel's Tanween design programme 2022, was featured in Interior Design's Top Products from Dubai Design Week.
Al-Aithan is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the American University in Dubai. Follow her work on Instagram. | | | John Wallace-Smith (BFA 1975) was inducted into the archives of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Wallace-Smith had an exhibition in Henri Gallery in Washington, D.C. in 1994, where the archive originated.
Image: Second Choir, 1994, marble, granite, electric light, 12" x 12" x 10" | | | |
