News from the School of IAS
Alum Avery Viehmann teaches approaches to queer and trans activism
Avery Viehmann (they/them pronouns) grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the M.A. in Cultural Studies (MACS) program in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in Writing and Composition. They have 10 years of teaching experience and spent the last 5 years teaching English at Highline College in Des Moines where they formally served as their Writing Center Director. In February...
March 28, 2019
Barbara Noah selected for the exhibition “Art of the Cosmos”
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah was selected for the exhibition "Art of the Cosmos", which will open in April of 2020 in Pasadena. CA. The exhibition celebrates the Hubble Space Telescope and is organized by Fulcrum Arts. The image below is one of the works that will be exhibited in the show ...
March 28, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in Kuala Lumpur at the inaugural “Democracy In Action” Festival
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited photo documentation from her “The Public Square” series, last performed as a 24-hour durational public action in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The exhibition, curated by Intan Rafiza Abu Bakar, brought together artists navigating the arts and activism worlds in an inaugural Democracy Festival program hosted in Kuala Lumpur. The accompanying exhibition “Democracy In Action” featured a group of ...
March 28, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali honored with 2018 Public Art Network Year in Review Award
The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture shared their award, a 2018 Public Art Network Year-in-Review national award for their exhibition BorderLands, with nine other regional artists, including IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali. Commissioned to respond to issues of nationalism and belonging, Ali was prominently featured in an iteration of her renown series on Islamophobia titled “The Red Chador.” Annually, the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review recognizes outstanding ...
March 28, 2019
Alumni Shout Out!
Jaime Fajardo (’12, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior) earned his Master’s in Social Work in 2016 and is now serving as Program Supervisor for Snohomish County Superior Court’s Youth Enrichment Services program. Tera Figueroa (’98, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior) is the Administrative Specialist for the Career & Internship Center and Disability Services at UW Seattle and was recently interviewed about her career journey as part of the “Ask an Alum” blog series. Emily Olson, Salvador Salazar Cano, Markus Smith ...
March 26, 2019
Streamkeeper Nick Chen shares career navigations with IAS students
IAS alum Nick Chen recently spoke with faculty member Raissa DeSmet’s senior students about his career navigations since graduating in 2016. Chen is a Restoration Technician and Ecologist at Adopt A Stream Foundation who earned his bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies. Chen originally ...
March 26, 2019
Aarshin Karande publishes “I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings: Between America’s Blackness and Whiteness”
IAS alum Aarshin Karande has published “I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings: Between America’s Blackness and Whiteness” in The Republic. In his essay, Karande reckons with America’s identity and its binaries. He contends, “America as we know it is in the midst of many changes—the postponed reckoning of its many discontents. Changes that will decide, among other things, whether the journey from President Obama to President Trump represents a triumph of diversity or an omen of immorals. The looming answer lies ...
March 26, 2019
Winners Announced in MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics and Essay Press Book Contest
Essay Press and the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Poetics are happy to announce the winners of their collaborative book contest: of color by Katherine Agard and The War Requiem by Kaia Solveig Preus! Both books will be published in the coming year, and the authors will be invited to read on campus at part of the From the Convergence Zone reading series. This year's ...
March 26, 2019
Discovery Core: The Science and Medicine of Harry Potter
Seldom is there a college class where students have read more on a topic than the professor, but that might be the case with The Science and Medicine of Harry Potter. It’s one of the Discovery Core classes for first-year, pre-major students at the University of Washington Bothell. IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz is a Harry Potter fan...
March 19, 2019
Faculty and students collaborate on Viaduct podcast: Taxpayer Time Machine
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft and Community Radio Journalism student Kristine Kim (Interdisciplinary Arts) collaborated with the Culture Hustlers to record thoughts and reflections from attendees of a public festival where Seattle residents said goodbye to the “Alaska Way Viaduct” – a crumbling two story freeway that runs across the waterfront in downtown Seattle. The interviews were done in four vintage 1950s trailers on ...
March 15, 2019