School of Art, Art History, and Design

Celebrating artist and educator Dee Clements (she/her) — founder of The Weaving Workshop and a visionary working at the intersection of materials, craft, and ethnography.

With an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from SAIC, Dee’s work has earned major recognition, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Center for Craft Teaching Artist Grant.

Her pieces live in the permanent collections of Cranbrook Art Museum, Stanford’s Anderson Collection, and Yale University Art Gallery...

Nichole N. Bridges is the Morton D. May Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the St. Louis Art Museum and previously served as associate curator at the Newark Museum; as well as the head of the Department of the Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific Islands at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Bridges recently curated Narrative Wisdom and African Arts (2025), which explored how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives rooted in collective and...

Corinne Teed is a research-based artist working in printmaking, book arts, time-based media, and social practice. Their work lives at the intersections of queer theory, ecology, and critical animal studies in the context of settler colonialism. Much of their creative practice centers on relationships, through collaboration, participation, interview-based research, and encounters with the more-than-human. Their work is supported by ongoing relationships with communities working toward social...

Join the University of Iowa photography area in welcoming Joel Whitaker, artist and Professor at the University of Dayton.

Bio: Joel Whitaker is an artist and educator living in Dayton, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Art from the University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama and a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. In 1990 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and in 1993 he joined the faculty...