| School of Art and Art History Newsletter | The students, faculty, and alumni of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa create extraordinary art and scholarship. Our monthly newsletter will keep you up to date.
Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | T.J. Dedeaux-Norris's (Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing) solo exhibition Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulez is on view at Galerie PJ in Metz, France, through April 8. Browse the online catalogue.
Visit their website and Instagram to learn more. | | |
Andrew Casto (Program Head of Ceramics) recently exhibited work at COLLECTIBLE Fair 2023 in Brussels, a platform for the showcase and discovery of the best in 21st-century collectible design.
See more on his website and Instagram.
| | | | Heidi Casto (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ceramics) was selected as an 2023 NCECA Emerging Artist. Along with this major recognition, Casto gave a lecture, presented in a panel discussion, and was featured in a solo presentation at the annual conference in March.
See more on Casto's website and Instagram. | | | Ali Hval (Lecturer and MFA Painting and Drawing with Honors 2019) received an Artist Catalyst Grant from the Iowa Arts Council.
This grant will go toward producing new work for her upcoming solo show, Backwards and In Heels, at the Arts Center of Burlington in April. The opening reception will take place April 7, 5-8pm.
See more on Hval's website and Instagram. | | | | Dadisi Curtis, Jr. (MFA Printmaking 2022) will be starting a new position as Master Printer / Print Fellow at the Wassaic Project in upstate New York this May.
Learn more about Curtis's art on his website and Instagram.
Image: Ultra-Violet Monsters, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Building. | | | | Juan Correa (MFA Printmaking 2022) has a solo exhibition, Los Performers, at Public Space One in Iowa City through April 29.
"Through highly rendered and detailed drawings and prints, I create pieces that reference memory, mortality, identity, and their influence on self-perception. My work is a careful construction of visual alterations and reinterpretations of Latinx traditions, experiences, and symbols of my formative years," he writes.
See more on Correa's website and Instagram. | | | Kimberlee Rocca (BFA 1991) has a solo exhibition titled Walls of Whimsy with Project Art at UI Hospitals & Clinics through May 1.
Rocca reimagines common fabrication substrates that have been cast aside, each work telling a story of rescue and transformation. Her artistry is filled with bold colors and wild shapes with intentional imperfections. No piece is too broken, and nothing is too marred, in her quest to reconfigure beauty.
Visit her website and Instagram. | | | | The Pandemic Portraits by Nicholas Hill (MFA Painting and Drawing 1977) exhibition catalogue, edited by Dr. Janice Glowski, has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Alfred H. Barr Award by the College Art Association.
The Pandemic Portraits Series (2020-present) visually chronicles the Covid-19 pandemic. The catalog contains 105 curated portraits from the series (5,000+ portraits to date). Made with black ink and bamboo brush, each portrait uses a page from the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal as its ground.
View more of Hill's work on his website. | | |
Amy Worthen (MA Printmaking 1969) was featured in Printed Ladies: A Women's History Month Event of limited-edition prints and books at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store.
Worthen is a printmaker, scholar, and Emerita Curator of Prints at the Des Moines Art Center. Learn more about her art and career.
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