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Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | The Photography Program, in partnership with Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and the Obermann Center, welcomes A Yellow Rose Project to the School of Art and Art History.
Including work by over one hundred women, the project is a photographic collaboration of responses, reflections, and reactions to the hundred-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote in the United States.
The photographs in this collection express a rich, broad approach to the topics of women’s rights and the vote, the re-writing and erasing of our history, and speak to obstacles faced by women in 1920, as well as the issues women still face today. The women participating in the project represent a range of cultures, backgrounds and generations and are at varying stages in their artistic careers.
The exhibition is on view through September 30 in the Levitt Gallery, Art Building West. An opening talk and reception with curators Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths will be held in the gallery on September 9 at 5:00 pm. | | | The University of Iowa Ceramics Invitational Faculty and Graduate Exhibition is on view through September 30 in the Visual Arts Building. The exhibition features the work of over fifty faculty and graduate students from The University of Iowa, The University of Arkansas, The University of Colorado Boulder, The University of Nebraska, Penn State University, and The University of Florida.
The associated symposium on September 22-23 will feature lectures, demonstrations, and a tour of the new Stanley Museum of Art. Events include a keynote lecture on September 23 at 7:00 pm with California studio artist Amy Santoferraro and a closing reception on September 23 from 6-8pm.
All events are free and open to the public. Symposium events begin at 10:00 am on September 23 in the Visual Arts Building main ceramics studio, room W221.
For information please contact Ceramics Program Head Andrew Casto (andrew-casto@uiowa.edu) or visit art.uiowa.edu and social media at @uiowaart and @uiowaceramics. | | | | Please welcome riel Sturchio, Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography!
riel Sturchio (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice utilizes photography and its extensions. Sturchio uses their experiences as a queer, chronically ill artist to provoke, and criticize socially idealized normative fantasies of beauty, ability, and gender identity. They are interested in how their body is forced into disorientation through disease and use this perspective as a foundation for their work.
Learn more on their website and Instagram.
| | | Printmaking MFA student Lauren Krukowski recently returned from a six-week research trip to South Africa supported by the University of Iowa’s Stanley Award for International Research Fellowship.
While in South Africa, Krukowski spent four weeks in residence at the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg making prints and learning about collaborative printing and editioning.
Read about Krukowski's residency on the David Krut Workshop blog and visit her website and Instagram to see more. | | | | Rita Svoboda Tomanek (BFA 1980) has a new website showcasing her lifetime of art and creativity.
The paintings, mixed media, sculpture and photography of Rita Svoboda Tomanek express her love of God’s creation. Her more recent abstract art invites curiosity.
Rita was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and earned her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Iowa where she also did graduate work in Religion and Health.
She also developed the Art Cart program within Project Art at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. | | | Gretchen Beck (MFA Intermedia 1999) is in three current and upcoming exhibitions:
Autumn Battersea Art Fair, a group exhibition of drawings, paintings, and mixed-media art pieces sponsored by the NoonPowell Fine Art Gallery in London, England, October 2022
Contemporary Painting Exhibition, a group exhibition at Arts Visalia Visual Art Center in Visalia, CA, October 2022
ẸWA, a solo mixed-media and painting online exhibition at Dab Art based in Los Angeles, CA, through October 2022
See more on Beck's website.
Image: Ib Fu and Haabu Izey, 2021, mixed-media diptych on wooden panels, 18" x 24" | | | | Nicole Shaver (MFA Painting and Drawing 2017) will be the Artist in Residence at the Dome House in Door County with the Miller Art Museum this fall. She will receive a stipend and access to time, space, and resources to advance her work at Dome House, a creative haven for living artists.
“I have a specific interest in the human relationship to place: humanity's active role in construction, destruction, and idealizing landscape,” she says.
Learn more about Shaver's multi-disciplinary art on her website. | | | Alexis Beucler (MFA Painting and Drawing 2020) won Best in Show for her gouache and watercolor work "Butterfly Cave" in Area Show: 48 at the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum in Mason City. She will be featured in a solo exhibition at the museum in summer 2023.
The exhibition is on view in the museum’s Kinney-Lindstrom Gallery through October 5.
Follow Beucler's work on her website and Instagram. | | | | Hao Zhou (MA Photography 2022) is the new Assistant Professor of Film at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Zhou is a filmmaker from southwest China whose films often center on characters seeking joy despite structural oppression.
Zhou’s first feature film, The Night, premiered at the 64th Berlinale and won the Critics’ Prize at Black Movie (Geneva, Switzerland). In 2021, Zhou’s short film Frozen Out won a Gold Medal at the 48th Student Academy Awards and was selected by the British Council's Five Films For Freedom, a global LGBTQ+ rights campaign.
Learn more on Zhou's website. | | | Juan Correa (MFA Printmaking 2022, MA 2021) is the Fall 2022 Free Studio Resident at Public Space One.
Correa was born in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in Los Angeles, California. His work examines memory, identity, personal experiences, and mortality through a bifocal lens of his formative American and Latinx values; he works primarily through prints and drawings.
He plans to use the studio residency to continue exploring his MFA show's themes and ideas, focusing on drawings that expand the vernacular of his most recent pieces and using this body of work to cultivate new opportunities.
See more of Correa's work on Instagram.
Image: El Graduado, 2022
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