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Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Eight students from the 3D Design Program exhibited at Salone del Mobile Salone Satellite in Milan with Professor Monica Correia (Program Head of 3D Design). Salone Satellite is the most prestigious design event in the world for design programs and young designers.
US Consul General Robert Needham in Milan visited their booth. Many people and several US companies demonstrated interest in the students’ work. A great success!
Vako Darjania, Lecturer in 3D Design, and alumnus Justin Bailey (MFA 3D Design 2016) also exhibited at this prestigious event. | | | Sean Tyler, MFA candidate in Painting and Drawing, recently completed a mural titled Our Roots Run Deep in Tipton, Iowa. Tyler designed the piece in collaboration with Tipton community members who also assisted in painting the mural. The design came from archived photos of Tipton’s downtown as well as ideas from local artists and students.
Tyler is also working in Manchester and Clinton this summer as part of Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities partnerships.
Follow Tyler's work on her website and Instagram. | | | | Rachel Cox, Program Head of Photography, is in The Regional at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art through September 11, featuring cyanotypes from her "Wake Up" series. The first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest, The Regional brings together 23 artists working across painting, photography, installation, and performance.
Follow Cox's work on her website and Instagram. | | | | Andrew Casto, Program Head of Ceramics, is in the international group exhibition Ceramics Now 2022 at Galerie Italienne in Paris through July 23.
See Casto's work in detail on his website and Instagram. | | | | Anna Clowser (BFA Sculpture 2022) has received a 2022 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center.
Clowser was selected out of 270 nominees from 101 colleges and university sculpture programs in North America and abroad. She will be included in a group exhibition, given a one year complimentary membership to the ISC, be included in a feature article in the January/February 2023 issue of Sculpture magazine, be included on a feature page dedicated to the 2022 student award recipients on the ISC website and presented with an ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award certificate.
See more of her work on Instagram. | | | Printmaking alumni Susanna Crum (MFA 2012) and Rudy Salgado (MFA 2012) are in the two-person exhibition On the Map at Mildred Complex(ity) in Narrowsburg, NY through July 4.
Tintypes were the first affordable means for Americans to share images with distant family and friends, as the photographs on metal could be reliably placed in the mail. Salgado and Crum traveled with a mobile darkroom around the state of Kentucky, investigating historical post office sites with this 170-year-old method.
In their hours spent producing hand-poured plates on site, they met property owners and history keepers who shared stories of the post office as a crucial community-powered site for information and social exchange. On the Map includes photographs, drawings, and postcards from this research-led journey.
Instagram: @susannacrum and @rivercitytintype | | | | Judy Collischan (PhD Art History 1972) recently published an essay in the monograph Walter Tandy Murch: Paintings and Drawings, 1925-1967 (Rizzoli, 2021).
The first complete monograph of artist Walter Tandy Murch explores the life of an unsung yet remarkable artist whose paintings and illustrations of everyday objects and mechanical devices are familiar yet mysterious, or as George Lucas puts it, “in a magical middle.”
Murch was the subject of Collischan's PhD thesis at University of Iowa. After careers in university teaching of art history and museum administration, she devotes her full time to her continuing career as an artist and painter. | | | Bruce Dorfman (BA 1958) has a solo exhibition, Affirmation: New Works in Combined Media, at June Kelly Gallery, NYC, through July 29.
Dorfman, with an impressive exhibition history exceeding more than five decades, has an abstract language of his own that underlines his dual focus in creating a strong art experience through geometric structure and through intriguingly sensuous luminosity.
See more on his website and Instagram. | | | |
