| 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! | | | | Sammie Correa (MFA Photography) was one of six international artists to receive a Fall 2025 Innovate Grant Honorable Mention in Photography.
Correa integrates photography, sculpture, and intermedia to examine themes of her maternal lineage, curses, and spirituality.
sammiecorrea.com | @sammie.correa | | | Perla Camacho Jimenez (MFA Ceramics) is featured in Iowa Magazine for her ceramic workshop, "Healing Through Clay," at the Iowa City Senior Center.
Her workshop provides community for seniors dealing with chronic pain and connects people with rheumatic conditions such as arthritis.
website | @pecaceramica | | | | 3D Design attended the Interior Design Show Toronto in January!
BFA students Julia Correia and Sarah Dockery-Jackson exhibited some of their recent work alongside other innovative and upcoming designers.
Professors Monica Correia and Vako Darjania also presented textiles and furniture in Studio North, where designers exhibit their custom creations in a gallery-like setting.
@uiowa3ddesign | | | | David Richmond (MFA Design 1987) was the principal artist in the Monarch Skyway Project at the Annett Nature Center in Warren County, Iowa.
The 11-foot sculpture is composed of 94 square tiles with abstract imagery of Monarch butterfly wings, wasp paper, and beehives. Richmond seeks to celebrate the role of pollinators in our ecology and educate visitors with their plight and what we can do to help them thrive.
Richmond also worked with Dante Leonelli on the Neon Ice Project on the Iowa River in 1978-79. He is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Simpson College. | | | Patricia Albers (BA 1971) has published Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész (Other Press), the first full-scale biography of the canonical Hungarian-born photographer (1894-1985).
Everything Is Photograph immerses readers in the heyday of a now-lost version of photography and the life of a consummate interpreter of the world around him. Kertész’s images speak of the medium as a tool for self-invention, self-narration, human connection, and inquiry about the world, even as they project the mysteries of life.
patriciaalbers.net | @palbers22025 | | | | Kyle Peets (MFA Printmaking 2015) is in the exhibition Unreliable Instruments at Eastern Oregon University through February 6.
The three-person show invites "deep looking, uncertainty, and exploration as a way to navigate the precarity of living in a world shaped by deep fakes and shifting truths."
Peets is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking and Book Arts at Whitman College.
kylepeets.com | @kyle.peets | | | | Donté K. Hayes (MFA Ceramics with Honors 2020) curated Ancestral Futures at ARC Gallery in Chicago, opening February 6. This juried exhibition shows works that meditate on wisdom, intentionality, and the responsibility of shaping a world that extends beyond ourselves.
Hayes is an artist and ceramicist represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery.
dontekhayes.com | @dontekhayes | | | Lorelei d’Andriole (MFA Intermedia with Honors 2021) has a solo exhibition at Luce Gallery, Cornell College through March 1.
Statements for Small Screens presents d’Andriole's video performances, sculptures, and interactive work.
d’Andriole is an artist, educator and writer whose work is at the intersections of intermedia and transgender studies. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Electronic Art and Intermedia at Michigan State University.
loreleid.art | @lorelei_td | | | |
