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Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | The Printmaking Program and Frogman’s Print Workshops are forming a new partnership that will result in one of the world’s largest and most well-known printmaking workshops being offered on Iowa’s campus.
Frogman’s Print Workshops offers accessible and affordable summer sessions for emerging and established artists. The annual workshop will take place during the first two weeks of July and will draw about 150 participants who will be able to select from an array of courses taught by twelve expert faculty from across the United States.
In addition to the courses, the workshop will also feature a faculty lecture series, open portfolio sessions, and more than a dozen gallery exhibitions.
Read more about this exciting partnership in CLAS news. | | | The Photography Program hosted the 2022 National Photography Invitational in October at the Visual Arts Building.
The exhibition gathered together the work of 27 students and 16 professors from five graduate photography programs: Syracuse University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Georgia, the University of lowa, and the University of Nebraska.
A screening of the 2019 multi-media work 2 Rivers + 30 Years by Laura Heyman and Luxin Zhang addressed the complicated dynamic of teaching and learning found throughout the exhibition.
The exhibition was juried by Ariel Pate, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Milwaukee Art Museum. | | | | Peter Feldstein is in the exhibition Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present at the Museum of Modern Art through February 2023. Two photogravures will be exhibited.
Feldstein (1942-2017) was a Professor Emeritus of Photography who taught photography and digital imaging at the University of Iowa for 43 years.
Feldstein is also known for his photographic opus The Oxford Project, which received critical acclaim and national coverage including The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Washington Post. | | | Sue Hettmansperger, Professor Emerita of Painting and Drawing, is in the exhibition Dreamscape: Surrealism from the Collection at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
This exhibition takes a look at both classic Surrealism (Dali, deChirico, Escher) of the 1930s and 1940s and more modern and contemporary artists who adhere to surrealistic principles. The show is curated by alumna Kate Kunau (MA Art History 2011) and will be up until December 31.
See more of Hettmansperger's work on her website and Instagram. | | | | MFA Printmaking student and teaching assistant Mariceliz Pagán Gómez has partnered with the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History for artistic research and audience engagement.
An artist and educator from Puerto Rico, Mariceliz has a BA in art from La Universidad de Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, and explored book arts, painting, and drawing in La Liga de Arte and Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina.
“My work deals with the relationship between artistic and biological processes. I convey this relationship using a scientific method of inquiry to investigate my own art as a living organism and dissect it in various ways through printmaking, drawing, and sculpture," she says.
Mariceliz recently displayed her work and led an interactive maker’s session at the museum's Art & Write Night. Access to the museum’s historic collections to observe and interact with specimens, storage, and preservation materials has also been a rich resource for her artistry. Learn more in a Pentacrest Museums feature article.
Her forthcoming MFA thesis show in the Visual Arts Building (Spring 2023) will showcase pieces inspired by her time in nature and at the museum.
See more of Mariceliz's specimen-like work on her website and Instagram. | | | MFA Photography student Annie Hodgkins was selected to present her research at the 2022 Society for Photographic Education Midwest Conference:
Enfleurage: Capturing the exhalations of my body and its labor
"Annie Hodgkins’ multimedia body of work, Enfleurage, contemplates the lack of value and presence placed upon women’s work and art. In this presentation, she introduces how using the perfumery process of enfleurage can capture and quantify the fleeting essence that exemplifies the body’s work and evidence of labor: sweat.
Through this ongoing project, involving photography, writing, sculpture and perfumery, Hodgkins uses her body as an example for the presence, absence, and genius within the spectrum of the female experience that often goes unrecognized or hidden."
Follow Hodgkins' website and Instagram. | | | | Jaz Graf (MFA Printmaking 2019) was awarded a West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NYC.
Graf will study with master papermakers at Dieu Donné, a leading non-profit cultural institution dedicated to serving established and emerging artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using the process of hand papermaking. At the culmination of her fellowship, Graf will have a solo exhibition in the gallery.
Image: Jaz Graf in her artist studio with an assortment of her handmade papers. Photo by Laos Fois, 2022.
Visit her website and Instagram to view more. | | | Ali Hval (MFA Painting and Drawing with Honors 2019) is featured in a UI Graduate College article and profile video, Shaking the "starving artist" cliché, about her artistic journey and success in the arts.
Hval explores provocative themes influenced by her journey to Iowa and inspired by femininity, excess, and how to challenge the “relentless critique and politicization of the body.”
Her work has been featured in galleries across the U.S., and she was cited in The New Yorker for the group exhibition The Ecstasy of Saint Britney. In addition, she has completed over 30 public murals and projects in U.S. communities.
See more on Hval's website and Instagram. | | | | Bruce Dorfman (MA 1958) is in the group exhibition Arriving at Byrdcliffe at the Woodstock Byrdciffe Guild – Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock, New York, through November 20.
The exhibition celebrates the history, nature, and legacy of the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts colony in Woodstock. It highlights the presence of a group of artists who created there, over the past 100 years. Arriving at Byrdcliffe includes, among selected artists, Philip Guston, Herman Cherry, Bruce Dorfman, Bob Dylan, and Milton Avery.
Dorfman and Dylan, as close friends, were frequently working together in Dorfman’s studio. Dorfman’s large work Cameo (1969), an early mixed-media, transitional work, was selected for this exhibition. This work was also shown at the Art Students League, January 2018: Artistic Vanguard: The 1960’s at the Art Students League.
The Bob Dylan work being shown, for the first time, is a pen and ink drawing of Bruce Dorfman.
Dorfman studied with Mauricio Lasansky and Stuart Edie at the School of Art and Art History and has three works in the collection of the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.
See more on Dorfman's website and Instagram.
Image: Cameo, 1969, assemblage painting, 46" x 48" | | | Amanda Strasik (PhD Art History 2016) recently published The Enlightened Mind: Education in the Long Eighteenth Century with Vernon Press. This edited volume features three essays by Iowa-affiliated scholars:
"Anatomy Lessons: Teaching Anatomy to Artists in Eighteenth-Century France," Dorothy Johnson, Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History, University of Iowa
"Painting Paradoxes: Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet’s Little Girl Teaching her Dog to Read," Amanda Strasik, Eastern Kentucky University
"Religious Education and the Lasting Effect on Goya’s Depictions of Saints," Karissa E. Bushman (PhD Art History 2013), Quinnipiac University
The contributors to this volume weave together methods in art history, gender studies, and literary analysis to reexamine “education” in different contexts during the Enlightenment era.
Visit the publisher's website to read the full summary and praise for Strasik's book. | | | |
