2019 Research Highlights

• Wonhee Ardnt received a University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award.
• John Arndt and Wonhee Ardnt/Studio Gorm were invited to design an installation for Google SPAN 2019, an annual technology and design conference in Brooklyn, New York.
• “Creatures: When Species Meet” curated by Steven Majticio at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio included work by Carla Bengtson.
• Jovencio de la Paz had a solo show at HOLDING Contemporary in Portland, Oregon titled “Innumerable _______hold close the _______”.
• The 2019 Portland Biennial at the Disjecta Contemporary Art Center included work by Jovencio de la Paz and Colin Ives.
•  “Part and Parcel- Art of the Iranian Diaspora” curated by Taraneh Hemami at the San Francisco Art Commission Galleries including work by Tannaz Farsi.
• Tannaz Farsi was named the 28th Bonnie Bronson Fellow.
• “What Needs to be Said, Hallie Ford Fellows Exhibition” curated by Diana Nawi at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, in Salem Oregon and scheduled to travel around the state included work by Tannaz Farsi, Anya Kivarkis, and Jack Ryan.
• Ron Jude was named a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.
• Sylvan Lionni had a solo exhibition “Standard Stack” at Stene Projects in Stockholm, Sweden.
   
• Kiersten Muenchinger won a Fulbright Specialist Program Award to Tirana, Albania.
• Harmonic Laboratory’s John Park exhibited “Awash” at the High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon and “Color Sound” in collaboration with the Eugene Symphony, Hult Center, Eugene, OR
• Jack Ryan had a solo exhibition “Sound and Suspicion” at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
• Erdem Selek and Hale Selek/Selek Design exhibited a series of household object designs at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.
• Hale Selek was awarded an IDSA Young Educator Award.
• Rick Silva had a solo exhibition “Liminal Territory” at TRANSFER Gallery in Los Angeles, California and was included in “Border Control” at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
• The Tinker Hatfield Award for Innovation in Design was awarded to Susan Sokolowski to lead a team for Universal Design for Healthy Aging: Mobility, Metrics and Memory.
• Jessie Rose Vala, with collaborator Stephen Nachtigall, held The Yellow Forest Workshop at Truck Contemporary in Calgary, Canada.
• “Cherry Blossoms (weeping)” and “Cherry Blossoms (whirling)” by Amanda Wojick were commissioned by the Public Art Project for the University of Oregon Eugene campus’ Bean Hall.