Mar 28, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
Art is not monolithic. It is, in a sense, the oldest form of crowdsourcing, a product of perpetual revision. What gets traction, what gets left behind or elided by history is unpredictable. Genres and styles are constantly being parsed into smaller and more hybrid...
Mar 14, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
As I was writing the catalog essay for the Quadrennial Faculty Exhibition, I was thinking about Joseph Beuys, whose work is permanently installed in the Chazen Museum. Despite his international fame as a maker, Beuys was never far from teaching. Beuys initially taught...
Mar 7, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
One of our new initiatives in the Art Department is an open forum for graduate students held once per semester. This offers the grads an opportunity to have a voice in the department; to report back to us about their concerns and help us to make the department better....
Mar 1, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
One of the most valuable experience art students can avail themselves of, is the immediate and often unfiltered responses to their work in a public setting. The faculty and staff of the UW Art department devote a great deal of energy into creating opportunities for...
