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...
Feb 22, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
Where does an idea come from? How do we know if it is an idea worth pursuing? And, why do some ideas get “traction”, while others do not? Throughout the history of art we find artists inventing novel ways to circumvent their id (and ego as well) so as to allow ideas...
Feb 15, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
I am writing while on a very quick trip to New York. I have been coming to New York to see art, make art, talk about art or just to feel connected to art since my early 20’s. It is a rite of passage for young artists to come here at some point in their...
Feb 8, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
In recent days, I have been thinking about the following question: Why do students come to the arts? What do they want? Of course the answer to that question would be relative to each student, however, my experience tells me this: that often, they have been putting...
