| 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! | | | | Antonia Baafi (MFA Jewelry and Metal Arts student) was accepted into three juried exhibitions with her piece “Magnifique: Greatness, a dance of colors.”
• Artistonish magazine, Issue 54, January 2025
• Circles, Squares, Triangles by Exhibizone Exhibitions
• Signs and Symbols by Gallerium and The Book of Arts
Copper wire, polymer clay, paper, resin
@antoniabaafi | | | Delaney Hoffman (MFA Photography student) received a 2025 Marcus Bach Fellowship. The fellowship’s goal is to foster intercultural communication and/or the understanding of diverse philosophies and religious perspectives.
Hoffman’s work is concerned with the intersection of the mystical and the institutional, from still lifes of venerated specimens in museum displays to self-portraits interrogating the efficacy of the Prophet.
delaneyhoffman.com | @delaney.online | | | | Painting and Drawing graduate students, faculty, and alumni are in Body Boundaries at Project Project in Omaha until March 7, curated by Professor T.J. Dedeaux-Norris.
This group exhibition explores the ways we think about, confront, and abstract the body through diverse artistic practices.
@uiowapaintingdrawing | @tj_dedeaux_norris | | | | Amelia Goldsby (PhD Art History candidate) presented her dissertation research at the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture 2025 Emerging Scholars Showcase.
Her dissertation, Trees as Bodies of Communication: The Arboreal Aesthetic in French Painting, 1780-1870, proposes that an “arboreal aesthetic” contributed narrative complexity to paintings while reflecting contemporaneous notions of tree-human relationships. | | | Mark your calendars! Wednesday, March 26 is One Day for Iowa, the University of Iowa’s 24-hour online giving day.
Last year, more than 5,000 Hawkeyes gave back, driving meaningful change across campus. Please visit our social media accounts in March for a donation link to support the SAAHD. | | | | Bruce Dorfman (MA 1958) was honored with a $100,000 extension to the Bruce Dorfman Grant for Assemblage and Mixed Media at the Art Students League of New York.
The grant, extended by the Niner Foundation, was established by artist and business leader Ron Strackbein for student artists working in mixed media and assemblage, in which Dorfman has played a significant role as an artist and teacher since 1964.
brucedorfman.com | @brucedorfman | | | Drawn Between: Possibility and Inevitability is on view until March 8 at Public Space One. The exhibition was curated by Jeremy Chen (MFA Printmaking and Sculpture 2006) with drawings by Jen P. Harris, R Kauff (MFA Printmaking and Sculpture 2017), Kathranne Knight, and Ajdin Kulić.
According to Chen, the show explores the connection between possibility and inevitability that comes with the act of drawing. Learn more in a Daily Iowan feature article. | | | |
