<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Neshyba-Hodges is a dance and architecture alum who graduated </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">summa cum laude, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was a Mary Gates Research Scholar, and a Husky Promise Student. He is also a celebrated dance artist who received Best Male Dancer by the European Critics’ Choice Awards in 2003, and the Astaire Award for outstanding male dancer in Twyla Tharp’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come Fly Away. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">After graduating, Charlie did a lot of work with underprivileged children  in CA and then entered the ArtCenter College of Design, majoring in product design with a concentration in design for social innovation. He has designed a new toy for 6+ year-olds that looks delightful. </span><a href="https://www.archamelia.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.archamelia.com/</span></a></p&gt;
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read Hodge’s statement about the toy below: </span></p>
<h3><b>Archamelia; The House of a Thousand Stories</b></h3>
<h4><b>Exercising Creativity, Building Imagination</b></h4>
<h5><b>Inventor Statement:</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The audience saw me as a dancer. They watched as I used my body to express for them what couldn’t be said with words. This was done in full view, with only one shot. They saw me chase perfection in everything I did, quietly agreeing that how I recovered from my myriad mistakes inevitably carried more weight. They applauded when I won the European Critic’s Choice Award as Best Male Dancer of the Year, and again when I won the Fred Astaire Award as the Best Male Dancer on Broadway. But for the audience, the experience was really a culmination sandwiched between a rising and lowering curtain. In truth, that single performance was born from hours, days, weeks, months, years of accumulated practice, perseverance, failure, and effort. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Neshyba-Hodges is a dance and architecture alum who graduated </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">summa cum laude, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was a Mary Gates Research Scholar, and a Husky Promise Student.

<h2>Background</h2>
<p>We periodically do a question and answer session with an alum to learn more about their experiences while at the UW and since graduation. Tamar Benzikry received her bachelor's degree in 2005; her majors were Art History (with distinction) and Jewish Studies through the Jackson School of International Studies. After two years of graduate study in New York City, Benzikry returned to the Greater Seattle area to begin a career in curating and coordinating art projects.</p>
<h2>Interview</h2>

<p>The School typically has several part-time faculty each quarter. These are the people filling those roles during autumn quarter 2020:</p>
<h2><a id="morales"></a>Arely Morales</h2>
<p>Painting + Drawing, <a href="https://www.arelymorales.com&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a></p>

<h2>National Winner</h2>
<p>Congratulations to recent alum Thipok (Poom) Cholsaipant! His breath glucometer, AeroLyze, is winner of the US national <a href="https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-us/home/&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">James Dyson Award</a>, and it is part of the competition for the international award from the James Dyson Foundation.</p>

<h2>Exhibition</h2>
<p>Online: September 4–26, 2020</p>

<p><a href="https://luxaeternaexhibition.com&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Research Platform Online</a>: August 19, 2020</p>
<p><strong>Exhibition</strong>: July 29 – August 28, 2021</p>

<p><strong>Online Exhibition</strong> (launching August 21): <a href="http://strange-coupling.com/&quot; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">strange-coupling.com</a></p>

<p>While there is no Seattle Art Fair this year, a number of galleries from Seattle and beyond have banded together to create the Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair (SDAF) during August. Gallery owner and alum Greg Kucera sparked the idea for SDAF in a mid-July email to other galleries, and the concept developed quickly.</p>
<h2>Galleries</h2>

<p>Yale Union was co-founded by Photo/Media Assistant Professor Flint Jamison in 2010 and held its first public programming in 2011. Jamison is currently president of the Yale Union Board of Directors. The organization has occupied an historic building in Southeast Portland, Oregon. It has presented the work of hundreds of artists, hosted numerous events, provided subsidized studio space to local artists, facilitated community programs, housed a publicly accessible art library, and published ten books through its imprint.</p>