2024 A+D Research Highlights
Art faculty members Tannaz Farsi, Anya Kivarkis, Tarrah Krajnak, Charlene Liu, Stacy Jo Scott, Laura Vandenburgh, and Amanda Wojick all collaborated to participate in the exhibition Constellations, and Connections: Feminist Futures at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, at the University of Oregon. The exhibition was mounted as part of the Center for the Study of Women and Society’s 50th Anniversary and included a panel discussion at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, moderated by Nina Bozicnik, Senior Curator at Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington.
In addition to numerous grants and awards, Hiba Ali had a solo exhibition “Lullabies for the stars in our eyes” at Women and Their Work in Austin, TX, and participated in the group exhibitions “In the Loop – On Artificial Intelligence and Time” curated by Dreaming Beyond AI, re:publica in Berlin, Germany and “Lullabies for tears” for A phosphene rifts curated by Hearth for Vector Festival 2024, InterAccess in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Their work was screened at “in the weeds, SFMF Series 3: Spacetime Revolution, Small-File Media Festival, Cinematheque, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada and their Commissioned short fiction “The Pearl” was published by the Sarmad Fiction Writing Club, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Their curatorial projects included Repatterning and Practice: Incantation for the Apocalypse (with Amina Ross), School for Poetic Computation in NYC, Digital Dreamscapes- a two-part workshop series at Interaccess inToronto, Ontario, Canada and Dreaming Community: An Exercise in Decolonial Worldbuilding, a four-part digital art workshop series at Index Space in NYC.
John and Wonhee Arndt of Studio Gorm exhibited their stone bath stool in ‘Souvenirs of a Forgotten Past’ at Luminaire in collaboration with Solid Nature during NeoCon Chicago 2024. Their work was also published in “Why Minimalism Makes Me Happy” by Sang-Kyu Kim published by Readers One in “Introducing Studio Gorm’s Shaker Baskets from Furnishing Utopia Project.” They were invited to lecture at Lawrence Technology University in April.
Tannaz Farsi had a solo exhibition “Overleaf at Gallery 2, Washington State University in Pullman, WA and participated in the group exhibition “Labor of Love” Curated by Alexandra Terry at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU in Portland, OR. She completed a Public Art Commission [Asterisk] at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, gave the Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, and participated in panels Portland Monuments Project, Artist Perspectives moderated by Mack McFarland and Jess Perlitz in Portland, OR, and Labor of Love, Panel discussion with artists Tannaz Farsi, Midori Hirose, Charlene Liu moderated by curator Alexandra Terry at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Portland, OR. Her work was published in Monument Workbook, edited by Mack McFarland and Jess Perlitz, Portland, OR, and Amalgam #5- Alien-Nation, edited by Pouya Ahmadi, Chicago, USA, Ad hoc, since 2018.
The second edition of Ron Jude’s “Executive Model” was published by Libraryman. including unpublished images and a special edition of 25 copies. He also led a five-day workshop “Politics, Poetics and Personal Narrative: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century” in August as part of the Annual FotoFilmic Mentoring Program.
Anya Kivarkis’ work was acquired by and included in the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Her work was included in Sprekende Juwelen curated by Martin Akkerman at the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, and the PAN Amsterdam Fair represented by Galerie Rob Koudijs in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In April, Kevin Kripper participated in Now Play This: A Festival of Experimental Game Design at Sommerset House in London, England. The generative graphics software Kripper created called vsynth74 was utilized in visuals for H&M fashion events by artist Weirdcore in London in September, which can be seen here, here, and here, and in Times Square in November which can be seen here and here. He was also a 2024 artist-in-residence at Signal Culture in Loveland, Colorado.
Ellen Lesperance had a solo exhibition at Hollybush Gardens in London, a two-person exhibition at Ivory Tars in Glasgow, was included in the group exhibitions "Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, (Re)FOCUS at Philadelphia Art Alliance at UArts in Philadelphia, "The Apex is Nothing" at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in NYC and "Spider Cannibalism" at Ruschman Gallery in Chicago.
Charlene Liu was named a 2024 Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts by The Ford Family Foundation. Liu was included in the exhibitions Another Beautiful Country, Moving Images by Chinese American Artists at USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California which was reviewed in e-flux, Labor of Love at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University reviewed in OregonLive, Prototype 1.0 at Springs Projects in Brooklyn, NY, and Bound/Unbound, Books Made By Artists at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University in New York City. Liu was invited to the University of Buffalo as a Visiting Artist Speaker and the Breverman Artist-in-Residence in Fall 2024.
Christopher Michlig discussed his book “File Under: Slime” on the Flightless Bird podcast. His work was featured on CNN in Jacqui Palumbo’s article "Peer inside this tiny art fair, where major artists present at miniature scale" and reviewed on Chicago Gallery News in “A Visit to Barely Fair During Art Fair Weekend” by Bianca Bovain and also on New City Art in "Room Wide Open: A Review of “(No) Room for Doubt” at Devening Projects" by Alan Pocaro. Charlene Liu was included in Gathering at The Corner Gallery, Andes, NY.
Rick Silva was part of the group exhibition Sea Change at the PAMM in Miami and Prélude Eternal at Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, Türkiye. He also did a Light Box Commission for the Ray Theater, PRAx Center for the Arts at Oregon State University.
Susan L. Sokolowski curated “Inclusive Sports Product Design Exhibition for the Global Sports University Network (GSUN) Summit at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, was interviewed for articles in Outside magazine “How Often Should You Replace Your Sports Bra?" And Self Magazine “Alpaca Wool Is My Secret to Staying Comfy During Cold-Weather Runs” and published a peer-reviewed chapter “Could Commercializing Space Travel Influence Inequities Female Astronauts Face with Personal Protective Equipment?” in Space Feminisms by Bloomsbury Publishing. Sokolowski was chair for the “Inclusive sports product research and innovation” seminar where she gave a presentation “Towards inclusive lower body sports products” at the Global Sports University Network (GSUN) Summit at the University of Oregon. She recevied research funding for a TrueToForm 3D Body Scanning Correlation Study, and was a Nominated and Invited Committee Member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health. Sokolowski was issued a patent for her Apparel thermo-regulatory system.
Erdem and Hale Selek of Selek Design published an article "Shiny Objects" on Innovation, a quarterly magazine by Industrial Designers Society of America in their Spring 2024 Issue: Seduction. They were featured among "Eight Independent Design Studios to Know in Portland" by Dezeen and were interviewed by Sidewall Magazine. A Selek Design product "Priz," designed by Erdem Selek, was selected to be exhibited at Universo Satellite at Triennale in Milan, Italy, and also became a part of the permanent collection at Salone Satellite in Milan, Italy.
Claire Webb had a two-person exhibition Embedded in New York, NY during New York City Jewelry Week. She was included in the group exhibitions Ornamisms; Missed Connections at Art Produce in San Diego, CA and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY; Transforming the Prototype 2 at the Baltimore Jewelry Center in Baltimore, MD; Scrumptious: Jewelry as Nourishment during New York City Jewelry Week; and Dandelions: an Exhibition of Jewelers in the Field at Rago/Wright gallery in New York, NY. Eleven of Claire's Jewelry & Metalsmithing students traveled to New York City to attend New York City Jewelry Week, and nine of them exhibited work at Anonymous Brooklyn at Brooklyn Metal Works.