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Please submit your news and images for consideration for the SAAH newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Elizabeth McTernan (Visiting Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing) was recently in Doha, Qatar, to present a years-long project developed with artist Olafur Eliasson. She is the head curator of content for the Studio Olafur Eliasson Research map, a 120-foot-long assemblage of in-depth interdisciplinary research – equal parts image and text – that resonates with the ongoing work of Eliasson’s Berlin-based studio team. The project opened March 18 at the National Museum of Qatar as part of the exhibition The curious desert.
The items that fill the wall are organized alphabetically, comprising themes such as “Atmospheres” and “Bodies,” “More-than-human” and “Naturecultures,” “Yes” and “Zoom.” Content ranges from poems to theoretical texts, from artworks by other artists to internet memes, from decolonial projects to nonhuman perception. Some items have been added for the pleasure of their beauty or silliness, while others have been added with a deep sense of responsibility for their representation.
To see more of McTernan’s artistic research, visit her website and Instagram. | | | Rachel Cox’s (Program Head of Photography) recent work exploring infertility and reproductive agency will be included in the groundbreaking textbook Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood. This publication is the first of its kind to show what female and non-binary mothers see when they look at, and into, the home.
The summer programming for the book release will be held across UK institutions including the Royal Photographic Society and the Centre for British Photography. The book is now available for preorder via Amazon.
See more of Cox's projects on her website and Instagram. | | | | Jacqueline Banigan and Matt Bowman (Art History PhD students) have been awarded Graduate College Summer Fellowships.
Banigan studies eighteenth and nineteenth-century French painting and print media.
Bowman specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century American art.
| | | | Grant Wood Fellows Michael Dixon (Painting and Drawing) and Johanna Winters (Printmaking) recently held a two-person exhibition in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building.
Dixon’s paintings, displayed under the title “Miscegenation Nation,” explored the story of his white mother Peggy amidst the fear of racial mixing in America. Anti-Miscegenation laws enforced racial segregation by criminalizing interracial marriage in America until the landmark case Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
Winters presented “HOWW TO WAYT,” a new body of work comprised of videos, sculptural props, and collagraph prints that considers the condition of a puppet-protagonist who performs her sensuality for the camera.
See more of their work online:
michaeldixonart.com | @michaeldixonpainter
jojowinters.com | @unruffian | | | Kyle Agnew, Meghan Dehner, Molly Donovan, Annie Flood, Anita Jung, and Alison Kenaston from the New Media for Printmaking class have foil work on display at Arts Iowa City/ArtiFactory through May 21. Foiling is a printmaking technique developed by Professor Virginia Myers at the University of Iowa. | | | | Jiha Moon (MFA Painting and Drawing 2002) has been awarded a 2023 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Moon was one of 171 exceptional individuals selected from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2,500 applicants on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.
Visit her website and Instagram to see more. | | | Karin Tollefson-Hall (PhD Art Education 2009) has received the 2023 Virginia Art Educator Award from the National Art Education Association.
This prestigious award honors an outstanding member from each state or province association whose service and contribution to art education merits recognition and acclaim.
Tollefson-Hall is the Associate Director of the School of Art, Design, & Art History and Professor/Area Coordinator of Art Education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. | | | | Jered Sprecher (MFA Painting and Drawing with Honors 2002) has a solo exhibition, Wonder & Dread, at Whitespace in Atlanta through June 3.
Sprecher is a Professor of Painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Art. See more on his website and Instagram. | | | Yiran Li (MFA 3D Design 2022) is a winner of the 2023 SIT Furniture Design Award in Materials & Innovation.
Marshmallow Paper Seat is an experimental piece that combines handmade Kozo paper with soft seating. Kozo is a cultivated plant that can be used for paper and cloth making.
See more of Li's designs on her website and Instagram.
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