Learn the concepts, practices, and research that comprise the practice of design. Design creates positive change, is exploratory, and experimental. Designers can change the world we live in.
The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is widely seen as the greatest artist of the 20th century. Learn about the prolific career of what is really one of the great innovators of modern art.
Learn the theory and practice of curating contemporary art. Focus on lectures, conversations with curators, curatorial methodology, history of curating, skills of realizing an exhibition.
Learn printmaking processes at home. How to use stencils, relief printing, rubbings, and direct transfer methods along with hand-coloring and collage to create your own individual artworks.
Focus on creating handmade artist books in your own home or studio. Learn accordion fold, stab binding, and signature stitching. Investigate relationship of text, image, and structure.
<p>The School of Art + Art History + Design is very happy to announce the hiring of two new faculty members. Robert Rhee will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Visual Art, and James Pierce will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Interaction Design. They will join the UW faculty in September 2020.</p>
<h2>Robert Rhee</h2>
<p>Several faculty in the Divisions of Art and Design have received funding in the last few months for exciting research and teaching projects. Three sources of funding are mentioned below, signifying the largest amount of support ever directed to the Arts Division of the College of Arts & Sciences. The Kreielsheimer Arts Endowment was established in the College over a decade ago and is now being distributed to better support faculty in the Arts Division.
<p>Whether it is called an internship or externship, opportunities to learn outside the classroom can be important for students. They gain professional and personal skills and knowledge. We recently asked two undergraduate seniors in Art to write about their experiences.</p>
<h2>Anna Fotheringham</h2>
<p>The School of Art + Art History + Design has been sending study abroad programs to Italy for many years, but winter quarter 2020 saw something new. This was the first time that one program combined faculty and students from the Divisions of Art and Art History. Twenty-nine students participated in this program themed "Materials, Making, Meaning," which challenged them to think about how artistic decisions have fashioned visual meaning in art from the Renaissance to the present day.
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