<p>Parnassus, the cafe in the basement of the Art Building, has also served as a gallery for student work and other exhibitions over the years. With the arrival of COVID-19 and the closure of the Art Building, this venue has not been available. A group of enterprising students, with help from two staff members, have come together to create an online version of the Parnassus Gallery.
<p>We have three part-time lecturers who are continuing from autumn quarter 2020: <a href="/news/2020/09/28/autumn-part-time-faculty#costello">Joe Costello</a>, <a href="/news/2020/09/28/autumn-part-time-faculty#morales">Arely Morales</a>, and <a href="/news/2020/09/28/autumn-part-time-faculty#yen">Jayme Yen</a>. Here are the other part-time faculty for this quarter:</p>
<h2>Andrew Allen</h2>
<p>The School of Art + Art History + Design is sad to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Bill Holm on December 16, 2020. He died at home in his sleep at the age of 95.</p>
<h2>Brief Biography</h2>
<p>Holm was born in Montana, and his family moved to Seattle when he was twelve. Shortly after that, he met Dr. Erna Gunther, director of the Washington State Museum. She helped to grow his already deep interest in Native peoples and their cultures.</p>
<p>Four Master of Design students are working towards graduation in June 2021. In mid-December, they shared their current thesis work in an online session, and they are now ready to share that further.</p>
<h2>Taylor Miles Hopkins</h2>
<ul><li>Title: Tomorrow’s Book: Artifacts in the Anthropocene</li>
<li>Thesis chair: Annabelle Gould</li>
<h2>Background</h2>
<p>Yoder received his MFA in Fiber Arts in 1987. Since then, he has worked on his own art practice, and he became a gallerist when he founded SEASON in 2010. Tela Real, an Instagram-only gallery, is his most recent venture.</p>
<h2>Interview</h2>
<p><strong>What made you choose the School of Art for your graduate studies?</strong></p>
<h2>Series</h2>
<p>The 2021 Critical Issues Lecture Series takes place on Friday afternoons during winter quarter. It is organized by the School of Art + Art History + Design in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. The general public is invited to join degree-seeking individuals studying fine art in order to share ideas and raise questions about contemporary art. In addition to the public lectures, undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in ART 361/561 interface with the speakers in additional sessions.</p>
<p>Warmest congratulations to our students, faculty, and staff for completing an autumn quarter like no other. While the hallways of the Art Building were unusually empty and void of end-of-quarter work for final critiques, the digital realm is very much alive. We are pleased to share with you some of the activities that occurred throughout the past few months within the UW and out in our broader creative community.</p>
<h2>Art</h2>
<h2>About</h2>
<p>The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to debut the fifth volume of its arts journal, MONDAY. Titled "Angel of History," the issue was guest edited by Marisa Williamson, the 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident and a multidisciplinary artist who makes work about history, race, feminism, and technology. The issue features timely essays, conversations, poems, and images by Williamson as well as artists and writers Billie Lee, Malcolm Peacock, Crystal Z. Campbell, Matt Shelton, Dawn Holder, Nora N. Khan, and Adrienne Garbini.</p>
<h2>Exhibition</h2>
<p>November 19, 2020 – January 16, 2021</p>
<h2>Project</h2>
<p>As voice assistants like Alexa and Siri become nearly ubiquitous, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are increasingly integrated in our lives, listening to our private conversations, and responding to our queries with automated replies. What does it mean that we’ve become familiar with these non-human interactions? What is the labor that goes into creating and supporting them? What are their limitations?</p>