| 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! | | | | The School of Art and Art History congratulates T.J. Dedeaux-Norris on their promotion to Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing with Tenure with a 25% appointment in African American Studies!
Dedeaux-Norris has also been awarded the MASS MoCA residency this summer and the Dora Maar residency next summer.
Learn more about their art and practice on their website and Instagram. | | | Robert Bork, Professor of Art History, has been invited to give a lecture series at Harvard University's Department of the History of Art & Architecture, Committee on Medieval Studies, and Digital Arts and Humanities Research Computing (DARTH) next spring about Notre-Dame de Paris and the laser scanning of cathedrals.
Bork specializes in Gothic architecture, and his current research emphasizes the geometrical analysis of laser-scan data from the cathedrals of Reims, Metz, and Notre-Dame de Paris. Learn more about his scholarship and publications on his website.
| | | | First-year MFA Graphic Design student Lauren Coghlan is designing a book based on the original Game Boy video games for the upcoming CMYK show. Read more in a Daily Iowan feature article.
Follow Coghlan's work on Instagram. | | | Andrew Casto, Ceramics Program Head, is featured in the exhibition Radical Pots at Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis through May 14.
Follow Casto's work on his website and Instagram. | | | | Elena Smyrniotis, Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking, has been published by the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere (MAHB) at Stanford University and by Post Carbon Institute for her article about her community installation The Bee Project.
The Bee Project is an outdoor, site-specific installation that uses modular structures to resemble a beehive with sculptures of bees attached to it, all made from recycled materials. The project urges viewers to protect fragile ecosystems and to help ensure the future of pollinators.
Learn more about Smyrniotis and The Bee Project on her website. | | | Serina Sulentic, Associate Professor of Instruction in Graphic Design, was awarded 4th Place in the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center's Spring 2022 Innovation Challenge for her project Common Ground.
The Challenge is a university-wide competition with the goal to identify, advance and support the most innovative and entrepreneurial projects on campus. | | | | Jiha Moon (MFA Painting & Drawing 2002) is in the exhibition This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, May 13, 2022 - April 2, 2023.
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases American craft like never before. The exhibition highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism—showing us a more relational and empathetic world. It centers more expansive definitions and acknowledgments of often-overlooked histories and contributions of women, people of color, and other marginalized communities.
Follow Moon's work on her website and Instagram. | | | Claire Whitehurst (MFA Painting and Drawing 2020) has a solo exhibition, Follow the Moon, at Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles through May 21.
The exhibition features recent relief paintings that depict colorful moon-like orbs in various states of fullness and eclipse, tree rings, eggs, stones, and rainbows, each painted on linen that was stretched over wooden supports that the artist carved to have undulating depth. Shadows appear at different times of day, causing the paintings to have their own daily phases. The works relate to transition, personal and geographic, to growth and decay, and the longing to return home.
See more on Whitehurst's website and Instagram. | | | | Amanda Strasik (PhD Art History 2016) recently served on the board of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture. During her term as secretary, Strasik collaborated on the development of HECAA's public-facing website, which was recently updated with the organization's new statement of values.
Strasik's essay "The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping" will be published in Eighteenth-Century Life with Duke University Press later this year.
Strasik is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Eastern Kentucky University.
| | | Eliza Reinhardt (BFA Painting 2018) is featured in Iowa Magazine for her re-creations of famous paintings with her dog: Iowa Art Grad and Her Dog, Finn, Re-Create Masterpieces
Reinhardt and Finn's portrayals of paintings like Grant Wood's American Gothic and Jackson Pollock's Mural have since attracted more than 10,000 followers on Instagram and drawn admiration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Inspired by a social media challenge from the Getty Museum, Reinhardt created hundreds of pieces using common household items, and also aims to spotlight underrepresented artists.
See more of her re-creations on her websites and Instagram. | | | |
