| 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! | | | | Terry Conrad (Assistant Professor, Printmaking) has a solo exhibition, Pseudofossils, on display at Monmouth College through March 7.
Conrad describes his work as “somewhere between print, drawing and sculpture.” See more at @terryjamesconrad. | | | Sue Hettmansperger (Professor Emerita, Painting and Drawing) was recently interviewed by Hudson River Gallery about her solo exhibition RECOMBINANT, sharing the driving inspirations and message behind her work. Watch the full interview here.
See Hettmansperger's recent work on her website and Instagram. | | | | Thalassa Raasch (Assistant Professor, Photography) recently showed an expanded version of their book draft In Over My Head at Washington University's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
This collaborative work with gravedigger Everard Hall honors the fading role and craft of the traditional gravedigger and a quotidian understanding of death.
Learn more about this project on their website and Instagram. | | | Heirlooms: The Enduring Legacy of Ceramics at the University of Iowa is on view at the Fountain Lobby, UI Hospitals and Clinics through April 15.
This Project Art exhibition is a collection of current and past contributors to the program. Current faculty featured are Andrew Casto (Program Head of Ceramics), Heidi McKay Casto (Visiting Assistant Professor), and Benj Upchurch (Studio Specialist).
Also featured in this exhibition: Gerry Eskin, Chuck Hindes, Clary Illian, Bunny McBride, Dan Murphy, Glenn Nelson, and Reagan Yoder. | | | | Printmaking welcomes Lynne Allen on March 5, 6:00 pm, E125 Visual Arts Building for her lecture “Real Culture, False Representations: Tattered Histories.”
Her art focuses on the historically marginalized: animals driven to extinction, Native traditions, the homeless, prisoners, and myths about how the West was won.
Allen is a Professor of Art, Printmaking at Boston University College of Fine Arts.
lynneallen.com | @inmyredglasses | | | Jewelry and Metal Arts will host Doug Bucci for a lecture on March 22, 7:00 pm, E125 Visual Arts Building. Bucci's work utilizes digital processes to explore biological systems and the effect of disease on the body.
Bucci is Assistant Professor and Head of the Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Program at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia.
dougbucci.com | @doug_bucci | | | | Brant Weiland (MFA Ceramics 2023) is currently featured at Project Art, UI Hospitals and Clinics. Tracing Legacy is on view through May 15 on the 6th Floor, John Colloton Pavilion.
Weiland is interested in the way a physical collection preserves and forms connections, seeking to better understand how objects influence an individual's perception of place and identity.
brantweiland.com | @brant_weiland | | | Lindsey Beal (MFA Photography 2011) is currently in On Her Terms: Feminine Power Embodied at Fitchburg Art Museum, an exhibition featuring New England artists who foreground the human body to engage contemporary women’s rights issues.
Image: Foundations: Split Busk, 2014, daguerreotype (becquerel method), lindseybeal.com | | | | N. Dia Webb (MFA Ceramics 2021) has a solo exhibition, TO THE SAINTS OF MY SANITY, opening March 1 at ARC Gallery in Chicago.
Webb's art delves into divergent issues that come from mental health while combating societal stigma surrounding speaking about these struggles.
thediawebb.com | @n.diawebb | | | |
