| School of Art, Art History, and Design Newsletter | SAAHD students, faculty, and alumni create extraordinary art and scholarship. Our monthly newsletter will keep you up to date.
Please submit your news and images for consideration for a future newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Printmaking attended the Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference in October.
MAPC 2024, "From The Ashes: Printmaking, Preservation, and Renewal," explored the relationship between printmakers and the natural environment.
Students, faculty, and alumni represented the SAAHD with open portfolio displays, an indigo dye demo, and panel discussions.
See more photos at @uiowaprint. | | | Matt Bowman (PhD Art History student) was awarded a fellowship at the Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum. His dissertation is a critical study of the Taos Society of Artists, intertwining settler art with Taos Puebloan perspectives from 1900 to 1945.
Bowman's research at Gilcrease Museum uncovered unique insights into the contributions of Taos Puebloan artists and deepened his understanding of this pivotal art movement.
| | | | Jesus Santa Cruz (MFA Printmaking student) recently had a solo exhibition, Afterparty, at Arts Visalia Visual Art Center in CA.
Cruz is a Mexican-American queer artist who uses abstract forms and shapes to explore queer identity, queer narratives, and intersections of race and gender through printmaking, ceramics, drawing, and mixed media.
@lithoterps | | | Javier Espinosa Mómox (MFA Ceramics student) was awarded Best in Show for his piece Talisman of Power at the Iowa Clay Conference National Juried Exhibition.
Mómox is a Mexican artist living in Iowa City. His ceramic-sculptural work highlights his roots and cultural heritage as well as his background as a Traditional Talavera pottery artisan.
@vientorebelde | @vientograffiti | | | | Heather Parrish (Area Head, Printmaking) is in Water Stories at BioBAT Artspace in Brooklyn. This exhibition places bodies of water in conversation with global narratives, historical legacies, and imagined futures.
Parrish uses printmaking, experimental photography, and installation with video projection to explore notions of perception and belonging, centering water and light as both subject and medium.
heatherparrish.net | | | | Shelley Haven (MFA Printmaking 1978, MA 1976) recently exhibited her work in One Peaceable Kingdom at the Drawing Rooms Gallery in Jersey City and in Neighboring Visions: Westchester Artists Then and Now at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. She was also awarded a 2024 BRIO grant in painting.
Haven taught at Cooper Union and School of Visual Arts in NYC for 30 years. She has received numerous grants and residency fellowships in the U.S. and abroad. She can most often be found in her Yonkers studio or in parks and gardens locally, across the country, and abroad.
shelleyhaven.com | @shelley.haven.art | | | Jane Gilmor (MFA Painting and Drawing 1977) has a solo installation with Project Art at UI Hospitals and Clinics through January 2025.
Windows '95 is a walk-in structure covered with embossed foil transfers from original drawings by pediatric and long-term care patients at UIHC. The piece is a testament to hope and the recording of human presence.
Gilmor is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Mount Mercy University and is associated with A.I.R. Gallery in NYC and Olson-Larsen Galleries in Des Moines. She maintains a studio in Cedar Rapids.
janegilmor.com | @janegilmor
| | | | Bill Stamats (MA Printmaking 1989) has a retrospective exhibition, Two of a Kind, at Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge.
Stamats' neo-regionalist aesthetic honors the Midwest and "elevates the people and the centuries of love and labor that sculpted everything we see."
billstamatsfineart.com | @billstamats.fineart | | | Melissa Mohr (MA Art History 2006) has been appointed as the new Executive Director and CEO of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport.
Mohr has served the Figge for over 15 years in the education department and, most recently, as Interim Executive Director, bringing a wealth of experience, strategic insight, and deep commitment to the arts community. | | | |
