<p>The UW Simpson Center for the Humanities <a href="https://simpsoncenter.org/article/announcing-spring-2022-funding-round-…; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced at the end of May</a> their second book fellowships, collaborative project awards, and support for graduate research clusters for the 2022–2023 season. Two Art History faculty and two Art History graduate students received funding.</p>
<p>Adam Kingman received his Bachelor of Design degree in Industrial Design in 2014. He won the third season of Making It, a television competition, in 2021. The College of Arts & Sciences published a <a href="https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2022-01/designer-reflects-making-it&…; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">story about his win</a> in early 2022.</p>
<p>Alexander Betz received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History with departmental honors in June 2022. He had a minor in Classical Studies and a second degree in Biochemistry. He was the Division of Art History’s undergraduate speaker for the School’s 2022 Graduation Celebration. Below is the text of his speech.</p>
<p>Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art in June 2022, with departmental honors and a concentration in Interdisciplinary Visual Art. They had a second major in Anthropology, specializing in Medical Anthropology and Global Health, and a Diversity minor. In 2021, Gatsby was selected as a member of the <a href="/news/2021/06/19/two-2021-husky-100">Husky 100</a>. Just prior to graduation, they were announced as a <a href="/news/2022/06/27/presidents-medalist">UW President’s Medalist</a>.</p>
<p>Below is a list of the awards given at this year's in-person Graduation Celebration, which took place on the morning of June 11 in Meany Theatre. Adam Kingman (BDes 2014) was the featured speaker during the event.</p>
<p>Congratulations to these award winners and our Class of 2022!</p>
<h2>President's Medal</h2>
<p>Two Industrial Design students have received recognition for projects over the last few months.</p>
<h2>Jerred Mace</h2>
No prior experience of art or math is needed in this studio course, consisting of a series of studio assignments. We will explore mathematical ideas through making projects in movement practice (string figures), textile crafts (Coast Salish weaving) and lensless photography (wallpaper tilings). Ideas from these will be further developed in the final project, which is open to each student’s specific focus and interest, resulting in mathematically inspired interdisciplinary projects, from educational games and exhibits, to all forms of art, performance, programming, digital or time-based media.
<p>Several students from the School participated in this year’s symposium on Friday, May 20. Below is a list of the students. Follow the session links to click on the presentation titles and see project descriptions.</p>
<h2>Poster Presentation</h2>
<p>In the fall of 2021, Fresh partnered with the senior class of Industrial Design students at the University of Washington to innovate on the future of robotics. Fresh posed the question, “How can robotics improve our standard of living?”</p>
<h2>Project</h2>
<p>The Black Embodiments Studio (BES) has a new, limited-edition collaboration from artist Nikita Gale and writer Mandy Harris Williams — and you can be one of the lucky few to get a physical copy.</p>