| School of Art, Art History, and Design Newsletter | SAAHD students, faculty, and alumni create extraordinary art and scholarship. Please submit your news and images for consideration for a future newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Faye Hadfield (MFA Ceramics student) was awarded a summer residency at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Hadfield has exhibited in London, New York, Brussels, and Paris this year. Her work is currently on display in the Alive & Unfolding contemporary ceramics exhibition at le Delta, Namur, in Belgium through August 17.
fayehadfield.co.uk | @faye__roc | | | | Amelia Goldsby (Art History PhD student) was awarded a Mary Vidal Memorial Award from the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA). This grant supported travel to present her dissertation research at the VariAbilities 2025 conference in New York City.
Goldsby's dissertation is titled Trees as Bodies of Communication: The Arboreal Aesthetic in French Painting, 1780-1870. | | | Maggie Adams (MFA Ceramics student) was selected for a highly competitive Summer Artist Residency at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading, PA.
A second-year MFA candidate, Adams is pursuing their passions for teaching and making art about queer identity through allegories of digestion and self-cannibalization.
maggieadamsart | @maddamms | | | | Brenda Longfellow (Division Head, Art History) has published her latest book, The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii.
Drawing on the art and architecture of Pompeii, Longfellow explores how historical women of all social backgrounds acted in public and exerted agency, finding that female initiatives were not only accepted but desired by the community to a greater extent than has previously been recognized. | | | Made in the Plains at the Joslyn Art Museum features new and recent work by twenty artists in Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota, including faculty Andrew Casto, Rachel Cox, and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris.
The exhibition highlights the diverse creativity of the Plains, exploring universal human themes of history, landscape, and representation alongside timely concerns such as climate change, land use, gender norms, bodily autonomy, and geopolitical conflict. The exhibition is on view through September 21.
Rachel Cox, gum dichromate prints from the Blood Mother series, @rayraycox | | | | Abbey Peters (MFA Ceramics and Sculpture 2024) is the spotlight artist in the summer issue of Ceramics Monthly, with an interview about her series A Month of Urns.
Her work references domestic interiors, decorative arts, and gardens to explore ideas of matrilineal knowledge and secret-keeping as a tool for survival.
Peters also recently participated in a residency at Vermont Studio Center. She is currently the 3D Studio Technician at Grinnell College.
abbey-peters.com | @abbey_peters | | | Myat Aung (PhD Art History 2024) received the University of Iowa's D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize in Humanities and Fine Arts, awarded to one graduate every other year. Her dissertation is titled Natural and Artificial Grottoes in Ancient Roman Villas: A Sensory Study.
A specialist in Roman art and architecture, Aung is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio. | | | |
