| 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! | | | | We are excited to announce that Andrew Casto (Area Head, Ceramics) will serve as Director of the School of Art, Art History, and Design effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030.
Brenda Longfellow (Area Head, Art History) will serve as Associate Director.
We are grateful to Professor Downing Thomas for his leadership as Interim Director, and his dedication to the School, CLAS, and the University. | | | 3D Design attended the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in NYC, where students exhibited furniture in a variety of mediums.
MFA student Siyun Xue was selected to exhibit in WANTEDDESIGN's Launch Pad, which spotlights international emerging talent.
ICFF is North America’s leading platform for contemporary furniture and interior design.
@uiowa3ddesign | | | | Sammie Correa (MFA Photography student) curated the recent group exhibition Si No Sanas Hoy, Sanarás Mañana, which translates to, “If you don’t heal today, you’ll heal tomorrow.”
This exhibition brought together eighteen Iowa-based creatives of Latin American descent in a dialogue centered on healing—whether physical, emotional, or symbolic.
sammiecorrea.com | @sammie.correa | | | Amelia Goldsby (PhD Art History student) was awarded a 2025-2026 Linda Hall Library Residential Fellowship.
Goldsby will conduct research in the library's History of Science collection and examine rare books on botany, arboriculture, and silviculture to support her dissertation, Trees as Bodies of Communication: The Arboreal Aesthetic in French Painting, 1780-1870. | | | | Abbey Minor (PhD Art History student) will spend a year in Greece at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
She also received an Art History Summer Scholar Research Award to conduct field research in Pompeii.
Minor is specializing in Ancient Roman art and architecture. Her dissertation explores the spatial and visual relationship between domestic Pompeiian religion and water features. | | | riel Sturchio (Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography) and Bianca Sturchio's exhibition Soft Hold will be in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building, June 2-25. Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 5-7pm.
Soft Hold features photographs from Signal by riel Sturchio and before the last lilac blooms by Bianca and riel Sturchio—two series centered on care, connection, and witnessing.
begincollective.com | | | | Noah Jemison (MFA Painting and Drawing 1974) recently participated in the opening celebration of the Studio Museum in Harlem's new building. He will exhibit two watercolor paintings in the inaugural exhibition this fall.
Jemison also served on a panel for the retrospective exhibition of his mentor, Hayward Oubre, who inspired him to attend UIowa. Structural Integrity opens at the Stanley Museum of Art in August.
Jemison's painting Black Valhalla (1976) is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work will be showcased in a future exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art, which has acquired three of his paintings for its permanent collection. | | | | Craig Albright (BFA Painting and Drawing 1991) has a solo exhibition at Sioux City Art Center through September 14.
Chasing Light, Albright's first solo museum show, includes new and recent landscape paintings that he sees as both poetic and spiritual. Albright lives and works in Iowa City.
craigalbrightart.com | @albrightpainting | | | Jillian Moore (MFA Jewelry and Metal Arts 2008) has a solo exhibition at Gilded Pear Gallery in Cedar Rapids through June 21.
Mirabilia showcases work that is "an invitation to give in to wonder." Moore was awarded support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa Arts Council this year.
jillianmoore.net | @phlaznatch | | | |
