<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Wa Na Wari are thrilled to announce that Lauren Williams will be the 2022 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident. Williams, a designer, researcher, and educator based in Detroit, will be in residence at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery during the month of January 2022, and will present a new body of work, created in collaboration with Malcolm Cunningham.
<p>Each October, the School awards over $200,000 in scholarships to new and returning students studying Art, Art History, and Design.</p>
<p>Three recent scholarship recipients share stories about their journey to the UW, what their scholarships mean to them, and what they’re looking forward to after so long away from campus.</p>
<h2>Grace Sturlaugson</h2>
<p>BDes, Industrial Design, 2022</p>
<p><em>Steve and Gail Kaneko Endowed Scholarship in Industrial Design</em></p>
<p>Each summer quarter, students gather for a class titled Curating Contemporary Art, a Jacob Lawrence Gallery Practicum (ART 496 / ART H 498). Some of the students go on to work as paid interns in the gallery during the following academic year.</p>
<p>The class has been virtual in 2020 and 2021, but it has continued to provide students with an overview of the multifaceted world of contemporary art. Jacob Lawrence Gallery Director + Curator Emily Zimmerman wrote this in her most recent course description:</p>
<p>The Graduate Students of Art History (GSAH) is an organization that has existed off and on for decades. It is currently quite active, especially because of a reading group named Dismantling the Canon. PhD student Ananya Sikand, one of the reading group organizers, recently provided information about its origin, activities, and plans.</p>
<p>If you walk past the apex of the University of Washington quad at the end of this academic year, you will notice a buzz of construction activity in and around the Art Building. After years of planning, feasibility studies, and engagement with University leadership and the community, critical renovations to School of Art + Art History + Design spaces will commence in late June 2022.</p>
<p>It is typical for the School to see changes in faculty and staff from one year to the next, but this year was unusual for the number of staff departures. Two moved into higher level positions in other units, and three retired. We wish them all well in their new adventures.</p>
<h2>Staff</h2>
<p>This quarter's part-time faculty include five in the Division of Art, one in the Division of Art History, and four 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>Andrew Allen</h2>
<h2>Background</h2>
<h2>Exhibition</h2>
<p>September 21 – October 9, 2021</p>
<p>The School of Art + Art History + Design is excited to announce an opportunity for two faculty appointments, one each in the Division of Art and Division of Art History. As per the University of Washington’s Diversity Blueprint, the institution prioritizes attracting and retaining a diverse faculty that reflects our diverse student population. The School is the center for creative innovation and study at the University of Washington, one of the world's leading public research institutions.