| 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! | | | | Lauren Krukowski (MFA Printmaking student) has received a 2022 Stanley Award for International Research for her project Printmaking and Print Collaboration in South Africa.
She writes: “For six weeks this summer, I will participate in a Print Workshop Residency at the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, and visit print workshops, artist studios, and institutions in Johannesburg and Cape Town. During my residency, I will learn about collaborative printmaking, research intaglio and monotype processes, and hone my technique in these mediums. While in Johannesburg, I will also research the history and contemporary legacy of printmaking and protest in South Africa. My Stanley Award for International Research travel will enhance my understanding of the field of printmaking, collaborative printmaking, and the global community of printmakers working today.”
Follow Krukowski's work on her website and Instagram. | | | Rielle Jones-Teske (BFA Art History student) is one of the twelve College of Liberal Arts and Sciences scholars recognized in the 2021 Dare to Discover banner campaign, which showcases researchers, scholars, and creators from across the University of Iowa.
Jones-Teske's research focuses on the life of Venetian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini. By analyzing archival legal documents, her work provides clarification on Bellini’s lineage and family relationships, topics that are highly contested by Renaissance scholars.
After graduation, she plans to pursue a graduate degree in Renaissance art history in England or Italy and eventually would like to become a professor or a researching curator.
Learn more about Jones-Teske and her research here. | | | | Matt Bowman (Ph.D. Art History student) has been awarded a Humanities for the Public Good Summer Internship by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.
Bowman will be working with Jennifer Banta at the Iowa City Area Business Partnership, focusing on ecological and environmental facets of the upcoming civic improvement campaign Better Together 2030: A Shared Future for Johnson County.
He will research and address ways to involve regional Indigenous peoples in decision-making processes for future sustainable usage, development, and recovery of the Iowa river and other local bodies of water.
Bowman specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century American art. His interests lie in public art and its receptions, landscape painting, representation of Natives by American artists, intersection between Indigenous and American art histories, and art of the American West and Southwest. | | | Amelia Goldsby (Ph.D. Art History student) has been awarded a Humanities for the Public Good Summer Internship by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.
Goldsby will be working with Public Space One to research their newly acquired historic buildings. This research will aid adaptive reuse efforts and make connections between alternate histories, community building, and contemporary art practices.
She is particularly excited to learn about the intersections of historic buildings and contemporary art, as well as explore the applied humanities with the internship cohort.
Goldsby focuses on modern and contemporary art. Her current research examines the political maneuvers of sculptor Marjetica Potrč's interventions in Caracas. She received her BA in art history from Truman State University. Prior to coming to Iowa, she completed internships at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Flood Plain, a St. Louis-based experimental art space, and worked at Washington University in St. Louis.
| | | | The Donna L. Friedman Curry BFA Spotlight Exhibition featured work by seven undergraduate students: Anna Clowser, Mariana Dal Pra, Benjamin Eastman, Molly Erickson, Sophie Hass Schenkel, Danielle Huante and Bobi Knox.
This exhibition was made possible by the generous donation of Donna Friedman Curry for the Donna L. Friedman Curry Spotlight Grant Program. Each Spotlight Artist is the beneficiary of this wonderful grant.
Donna Friedman Curry (BA 1966, MA 1969, MFA 1973) taught art for more than 30 years and wanted to create a program for student exploration in the School of Art and Art History. Her intentions for the Spotlight Program are to inspire creativity and risk-taking among undergraduates by providing grant funding for supplies and materials.
Click here to take a virtual tour! | | | Ali Hval (Visiting Assistant Professor and MFA Painting & Drawing 2019) is in the group exhibition The Ecstasy of Saint Britney opening June 11 at Ceysson & Bénétière in New York City.
This show celebrates and gives space to hyper-femininity with works by Anna Cone, Ali Hval, Yvette Mayorga, and Rachael Tarravechia.
According to curator Francesca Pessarelli: "The artists on view see excess as an asset. Beyond their glittery saturated surfaces, the works are rich with confident declarations of self worth and vulnerable insights on how the perceive the world around them. Each in their own ways, the artists heal from the confusion and pain of girlhood, exchanging repression for radical and joyful expression."
Follow Hval's work on her website and Instagram. | | | | The 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships were recently announced. Chosen from almost 2500 applicants, the fellows were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. There were 26 fellowships given in the Fine Arts, and out of the 10 specifically for Painting and Drawing, two were awarded to graduates from our MFA program:
Lynne Woods Turner (MFA Painting and Drawing 1977) Gallery | Instagram
Colin Brant (MFA Painting and Drawing 1995) Website | Instagram
The Guggenheim Fellowship is at the highest level of what can be attained by an artist in the fine arts. | | | | Robert Schefman (MFA 2006) is currently exhibiting in The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.
The exhibition runs to 2023 at the Smithsonian, and then travels to museums in Massachusetts and North Carolina through 2024.
In Love With My Best Friend, The Secrets Project, 2019, oil on canvas, 72" x 56"
View more on Schefman's website and Instagram. | | | J. D. Whitman (MFA in Photography and Sculpture with Honors, 2019) started researching Ireland’s Blaschka glass models as a SAAH graduate student in 2016. The first article on this ongoing, collaborative research was recently published in the Journal of Natural Science Collections.
Citation: Whitman, J. D., Viscardi, P., and Reynaud, E. G. 2022. Recording of Blaschka glass invertebrate models: A method and workflow for imaging using standardized methods. Journal of Natural Science Collections. 10. pp. 115-145.
The glass models of marine invertebrates, made by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka from 1863 to 1890, encompass more than 700 species and hold significant historic, scientific, and artistic value.
Learn more on Whitman's website and Instagram.
Image courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History | | | |
