<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>

<p>Several projects by undergraduate Design students received recognition in the last month. Congratulations to all! The Core77 and EPDA awards received by <span>Thipok Cholsaipant for AeroLyze are especially notable since they are part of major annual award competitions.</span></p>
<h2>Luminaire Jar</h2>

<p>Visual Communication Design Professor Christopher Ozubko is retiring after 39 years. He began teaching in the School of Art in 1981 shortly after finishing his MFA in design at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Professor Emeritus Doug Wadden, who was on the hiring committee, says that Ozubko was recommended by Katherine McCoy. She headed the graphic design graduate program at Cranbrook, which was known at the time for being interdisciplinary and encouraging experimentation.

<p>Interaction Design Assistant Professor Audrey Desjardins has been busy with two research projects since 2019. She recently received a National Science Foundation grant that allows her to begin a third project. Below is her summary of what she and her collaborators have achieved so far and what is yet to come.</p>
<h2>(In)Visible Data: How Home Dwellers Engage with Domestic IoT Data</h2>
<p>Funded by Mozilla Corporation.</p>

<p>Below is a list of the awards given at this year's virtual Graduation Celebration, which was shared with the School of Art + Art History + Design graduating students on June 13, 2020. Congratulations to these award winners and our Class of 2020!</p>
<h2>Parnassus Graduating with Excellence – Undergraduate</h2>
<ul>
<li>Division of Art: Dani Clauson</li>
<li>Division of Art History: Sierra Stella</li>
<li>Division of Design: Sarah Strickler</li>
</ul>

<p>The School of Art + Art History + Design is pleased to announce the <a href="https://depts.washington.edu/soaahdgrd20/">2020 Graduate Showcase</a>, a website that documents the work of our graduating graduate students. It debuted on June 11. We are proud of their research and accomplishments.</p>
<p>Graduates included in the website are:</p>
<h2>Division of Art</h2>
<p>Master of Fine Arts (MFA)</p>

<p>Art History Assistant Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse is co-editor of a new book published by University of Washington Press: <em>Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast</em>.

<p>Each year the School of Art + Art History + Design 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. This year is so different in many significant ways as we all transitioned from real space to virtual space resulting in sharing our student accomplishments via three distinct websites: one for our BA students in Art, the second for the BDes cohort, and thirdly our MA, MFA, MDes thesis showcase.

<h2>Update</h2>
<p>While we started sharing the student work on June 1 through social media, circumstances made us decide to wait until later to continue that. We are also delaying the Instagram takeover by Kim Van Someren. In the meantime, feel free to peruse the work via the gallery and website links below.</p>