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Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | 3D Design held an exhibition, 3D Design Junction, featuring works by students and faculty in the 3D Design program. The show was on view in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building, in December.
The exhibition consisted of furniture such as lamps, tables, and chairs that were crafted from different types of wood and materials or 3D printed.
Learn more in a Daily Iowan feature article. | | | MFA Painting and Drawing student Kayla Rumpp had a solo exhibition, Soma, at Channel to Channel in Nashville in December. The painted sculptures in this series are all entirely unique individuals that come together in this space to form a new body of work. Like each discrete cell in a body holding a separate yet significant function, each painted sculpture is entirely independent but dependent on the others to serve as a whole.
See more on her website and Instagram. | | | | Jeremy Swanston, Program Head of Graphic Design, designed a social justice-oriented poster titled Say Their Names during the George Floyd protests last summer.
The poster received the Silver Medal award from Graphis, an international publisher of yearly hardcover books celebrating global talents in Design, Advertising, Photography and Illustration art.
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the poster lists the names of African Americans who have been victimized by police brutality and is intended to promote awareness and encourage critical action.
See the poster in detail on Swanston's website and learn more in a Daily Iowan feature article.
| | | T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, was featured in the group exhibition Drawn Together at Jane Lombard Gallery in New York.
This exhibition of works on paper highlights the relationship between artist, medium and surface, and the marks made in the process. Dedeaux-Norris’s handmade papers act as a site for grief work - reclaimed surfaces made from a mixture of her late Mother's insurance, hospital papers, estate paperwork and bits of the artist’s hair.
Pictured: "The Burden of Administration Related to Ownership, Caregiving, and Death #1-9" (2021, USPS mail, organic fibers, art studio floor detritus, and grief, 14 x 11 in.)
See more on Dedeaux-Norris's website and Instagram. | | | | Andrew Casto, Program Head of Ceramics, is in the group exhibition Vivacité at Galerie Italienne in Paris through January 15.
Curated by Florian Daguet-Bresson, the exhibition conveys a positive feeling of life and energy carried towards the future.
Follow Casto's work on his website and Instagram. | | | Rachel Cox, Program Head of Photography, is in The Regional at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center through March 2022. Prints from her "Wake Up" series are featured.
The Regional is the first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists in the Midwest shaping the current and future discourses of contemporary art and culture.
See more of Cox's photography on her website and Instagram. | | | | Jane Gilmor (MFA Painting and Drawing 1977) has a solo exhibition, Jane Gilmor: Breakfast on Pluto through February 6, 2022 at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport.
Breakfast on Pluto features sculptures created by Gilmor using repurposed past work and found materials from the recesses of her studio. Activated with motion and light, the installation will encourage visitors to contemplate the interplay between light and darkness, the familiar and the strange, and the past and the present.
A virtual conversation with the artist and art historian Joy Sperling will be held on January 27 at 6:30pm. Learn more and register here.
Visit her website and Instagram for more intermedia art. | | | Vinicius Lima (MFA 3D Design 2009) received the American Graphic Design Award from Graphic Design USA for the Seating by Design exhibition catalog, out of more than 10,000 entries.
Seating by Design was curated by Professor Monica Correia and featured over 50 pieces of innovative furniture designs by 3D Design alumni and students at the Figge Art Museum from September 2020 to January 2021. Browse the full catalogue here.
Lima is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI.
See more of Lima's designs on his website. | | | | Jiha Moon (MFA Painting & Drawing 2002) has a solo exhibition, Stranger Yellow, at Derek Eller Gallery in New York, January 6-February 5.
Moon was also recently in the main fair at Art Basel Miami Beach, a show featuring works by masters of modern and contemporary art.
See more on her website and Instagram. | | | Andrea Ferrigno (MFA Painting and Drawing 2013) has a solo exhibition, Opulent Aperture, at the American University of Paris through January 2022.
Ferrigno is a Lecturer in Art History and Fine Arts at the American University of Paris and an Associate Professor at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. View more of her art on her website and Instagram. | | | |
