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Unit Short Name
A+AH+D
Term Synonyms
School of Art + Art History + Design; Art + Art History + Design; Art; art

ART 390: Drawing as Thinking, Making, and Serious Play

<h2>Background</h2>
<p>Assistant Professor Sangram Majumdar joined the Painting + Drawing faculty at UW in autumn quarter, when students, staff, and faculty returned to campus after 18 months of pandemic-related remote teaching and learning. Majumdar taught Beginning and Intermediate Painting in autumn, and followed up in winter with Beginning and Intermediate Drawing. This spring quarter he is balancing the Advanced Drawing class alongside duties as interim program chair while colleagues are on sabbatical.</p>

Spring 2022 Part-Time Faculty

<p>This quarter's part-time faculty include eight in the Division of Art, one in the Division of Art History, and six in the Division of Design. Learn more about them below. We also have two part-time faculty who teach every quarter, so they are listed in the directory: <a href="/people/claire-cowie">Claire Cowie</a> and <a href="/people/jayme-yen">Jayme Yen</a>.</p>
<h2>Romson Regarde Bustillo</h2>

2022 Graduation Exhibitions

<p>Each year the School proudly celebrates graduating Art and Design students — both undergraduate and graduate — with a series of exhibitions at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery. Join us for one or more of these in April, May, and June.</p>
<h2>Undergraduate – Art</h2>
<p>The Jacob Lawrence Gallery features the work of students graduating from one of the School's BA in Art concentrations: 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Painting + Drawing, and Photo/Media.</p>

Emily Zimmerman Departs

<p>After five years as the director + curator of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington, Emily Zimmerman will depart her post April 8, 2022, to become Assistant Director at the <a href="https://arthurrossgallery.org&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arthur Ross Gallery</a>, University of Pennsylvania. UW’s School of Art + Art History + Design will soon launch a national search for her replacement.</p>

ART H 209

Academic Year
Course Credits
(5)
Course Long Name
Art Now
Meets Requirements
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Contemporary art today confronts viewers with a bewildering array of images, objects, and processes. This can leave viewers thinking: can anything count as “art?” And what’s the point of it all? Explore how contemporary art connects artists and viewers in forms of creative engagement with pressing social and political issues.

DESIGN 250

Academic Year
Course Credits
(3)
Course Long Name
Visualizing Ideas
Meets Requirements
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We live in a visual world. Everyone should know and understand how to communicate through design. Learn the principles inherent to the discipline of visual communication design, including the fundamentals of composition, typography, color theory, storytelling, and image-making.

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