| 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! | | | | Rachel Cox (Area Head, Photography) received an Iowa Arts Project Grant to support her series Portrait of a Woman. Cox’s powerful photographs document the IVF process she and her partner went through to conceive their daughter.
Works from this series are in the group exhibition Close to Me at Sioux City Art Center through May 18. This exhibition features portraits by some of the Midwest's most innovative artists.
rachelcoxphotography.com | @rayraycox | | | Art History students created an exhibition at the Stanley Museum of Art for the Brushwork in Chinese Art course taught by Assistant Professor Amy Huang. This event showcased calligraphy, landscape painting, Zen painting, and abstract paintings inspired by ink art from Asia.
Students also presented creative responses, including ink paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, and digital and zine formats. Learn more about Professor Huang's course and see the full catalogue here. | | | | Ali Hval (Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing) has two local solo exhibitions, This Charmed Life at Coe College and Surface Symphony at Kirkwood Community College.
Hval's work, supported by an Iowa Artist Fellowship grant, includes domestic objects which walk the line between jewelry and home decor and a performative garment.
alihval.com | @alihval | | | Welcome back, Hawkeyes! We are excited to welcome a variety of Visiting Artists and Scholars for on-campus and virtual events this semester. Visit our website for the current schedule.
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, Visiting Artist in Sculpture & Intermedia, Artist Talk: New Work, February 24, 2025, 7:00 pm, E125 Visual Arts Building.
| | | | Darrell Petit (MA Sculpture 1990) is featured in a new book about his sculpture work, Darrell Petit In Stone.
The book follows Petit's journey to becoming a renowned sculptor of granite monoliths and "chronicles ancient stone being quarried, hammered, burned, polished and transmuted by this singular artist."
Petit's sculptures can be seen in the US, Egypt, Japan, and Norway. The book is available at Amazon, Apple Books, and the University of Iowa Art Library.
darrellpetit.com | | | | Caitlin Lempia-Bradford (BFA Painting 2015) has an upcoming solo exhibition, Wondering, at Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, February 8 through March 8.
Bradford is an intuitive abstract painter whose practice is deeply rooted in play. She creates games for herself, making various rules to constrain and enable her creative process.
caitlinlempiabradford.com | @caitlinpainting | | | Cory Gundlach (PhD Art History 2019), curator of African art at the UI Stanley Museum of Art, is the new director of the African Studies Program, which provides research, teaching, and learning opportunities about African history and contemporary life.
Read more about Gundlach's vision for the program and how the museum’s world-renowned African art collection plays an important role. | | | | Julia J. Wolfe (MFA Painting and Drawing 2018) has a solo exhibition, Just Desserts, at Coe College in Cedar Rapids through March 14.
Wolfe's work includes paintings, prints, and handmade artist books.
juliajwolfe.com | @juliajwolfe | | | |
