| 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! | | | | Josie Duccini (BFA Graphic Design student) is the Spring 2025 Learning & Engagement Intern at the Stanley Museum of Art.
Duccini has been a Gallery Host since 2022 and looks forward to developing visitor materials that encourage new ways to interact with art.
Learn more in the Stanley's Student Blog! | | | Laurel Farrin (Professor, Painting and Drawing) was awarded a prestigious Fellowship at Maison Dora Maar in Menerbes, France, in October 2024. She will also participate in a residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, from April to June 2025.
These opportunities continue to support her ongoing artistic practice and engagement with international and national creative communities.
laurelfarrin.com | @laurelfarrin | | | | Matt Bowman (PhD Art History student) was awarded the 2025-2026 Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Bowman's dissertation is titled Contested Lands, Fraught Waters: Images of Taos Pueblo and its Northern New Mexican Terrain, 1900-1970. | | | | Faye Hadfield (MFA Ceramics student) was featured on the Season 8 finale of The Great Pottery Throw Down.
The Great Pottery Throw Down is a television competition of amateur potters and ceramic artists from across the UK. Hadfield's work was presented as examples for the program, which showcases "innovation and shared passion for ceramics," she says.
fayehadfield.co.uk | @faye__roc | | | Eve Drewelowe: 1928-1929 World Travels Exhibition is on view in the Levitt Gallery, Art Building West until April 12.
The SAAHD is excited to showcase its first Master’s alum in Studio Arts, Eve Drewelowe (class of 1924), and her work inspired by her travels to Europe, Africa, and Asia. Assistant Professor Anna Isbell mentored Art History graduate students Rachel Epstein and Alyson Hurley in their creation of this exhibition. | | | | Mike Sneller (BFA Jewelry and Metal Arts 2010) is a Prototype Engineer at Protostudios, the UI's state-of-the-art rapid-prototyping facility. His creative approach to engineering challenges is deeply rooted in his fine arts education.
Standing at the intersection of art and medical innovation, one of his notable projects was designing a calibration phantom for MRI machines, an endeavor that required extensive research into materials and fabrication techniques to achieve optimal outcomes.
Learn more about Sneller's sculpture and engineering in an Office of Innovation feature article. | | | | Jaz Graf (MFA Printmaking 2019) will be speaking on a panel at the SGC International Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico on April 4.
“Mapping Personal Histories / Navigating Political Tides” brings together artists who situate projects within larger political and cultural movements, and examine artworks that challenge dichotomies of personal/political, private/public, and local/global.
SGC International is an educational non-profit organization committed to advancing public interest in printmaking, drawing, book arts, and handmade paper.
Image: @jazgraf making handmade paper during her fellowship at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY. | | | Lauren Krukowski (MFA Printmaking 2024) is the current West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY.
Krukowski spent six months on the Dieu Donné collaborative studio team and made her own work as part of the fellowship.
Dieu Donné is a leading non-profit serving established and emerging artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using the process of hand papermaking.
@lauren.krukowski, Meadow Constellation Quilt, 2024-25, sewn handmade paper with blowouts and pulp painting, pigmented abaca, cotton, and linen fibers, 50 x 58, featured in the exhibition Tacit Knowledge, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC. | | | |
