<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.
<h2>About</h2>
<p>Jake Seniuk (MFA 1983) had a long career in the arts, but his biggest impact was as director-curator of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center from 1989 to his retirement in 2012. He mounted more than 150 exhibitions and had made significant progress on a book of exhibition essays before his untimely passing in 2016. The project was picked up by his long-time partner, Donna James, and curator/writer/editor Kathleen Moles (a former staff member in the School).
<p>During the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery has created a <a href="https://vimeo.com/jacoblawrencegallery">Vimeo channel</a> to continue to create meaningful connections between artists and audiences.
Offered in conjunction with a special exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, John Akomfrah: Future History, this course examines the articulation of global and postcolonial identities, histories, and geographies in contemporary art.
<p>Sarah Strickler had every intention of pursuing a STEM degree when she arrived at the UW as a freshman. She’d done college-level microbiology research in high school through independent study, and earned top honors at an international high school science fair. But her second quarter on campus, out of curiosity, she took a course on color theory in the <a href="/">School of Art + Art History + Design</a>. By sophomore year she was an…</p>
<h2>COVID-19 Update</h2>
<p>There is an enhanced <a href="https://depts.washington.edu/soaahdgrd20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Graduate Showcase website</a> to highlight the work of our graduating graduate students since in-gallery exhibitions are not possible during spring quarter. Those graduates who choose to will show their thesis work in the 2021 exhibition at Henry Art Gallery.</p>
<p>Thursday, February 27, 5–7pm <a href="https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=0feg34w7cb78fnrn… now</a></p>
<p>The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to host the Seattle book release for Ceci Moss’ <em>Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First-Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu</em>.</p>
<h2>From the Publisher</h2>
View work by graduating seniors from the divisions of art and design.