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Laura Hart Newlon

Associate Professor

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Education:

MA, Cultural Anthropology
MFA, Studio Art

Bio

Laura Hart Newlon’s work has recently been exhibited at the Anatolia International Film Festival (Istanbul), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), Frye Art Museum (Seattle), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), Specialist (Seattle), Bellevue Art Museum, SOIL (Seattle) and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. Her work appears in the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection and Photographic Center Northwest. Laura holds an MFA in Photography and an MA in Cultural Anthropology

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Research Interests

Laura researches the messy intersection of materiality, gesture, labour and image-making. Working across photography, video, sculpture and installation, their recent work explores ideas of visibility and tactility related to image-making processes, and the entwined ideas of labour, interdependency and physicality. Laura’s sculptural and image-based works attempt to create a dialogue between ideas of care and the politics of gesture, touch and looking as acts that can play out both tenderly and forcefully upon a body. Within the studio, she explores these precarious relational systems through her approach to materials and her exploration of the paradoxical relationship between image and object. Laura’s work frequently draws on photographic archives and found images, as well as written texts influenced by investigative poetics.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Photography PHOT 410 27/SP

Description

This senior course, a continuation of Photo Practice 400, allows students in their final semester of study to work with peers and faculty to plan and execute a graduation project, complete a portfolio and written artist statements, as well as to undertake research to support their emerging practice. Students will participate in presentations, critiques and discussions of ongoing, self-directed projects as well as preparing their own bodies of work for art-based and /or applied presentation. Students may substitute VAST-410 Senior Studio for PHOT-410 Senior Photo Practice.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Photography PHOT 220 27/SP

Description

In this studio course participants will acquire skills in both digital and analogue media with a focus on colour. Demonstrations, assignments, and critiques will include the use of various analogue and digital cameras, colour printing and management, scanning and other digital applications; all aimed towards the production of strong and challenging bodies of work. In addition, students will begin to contextualize their photography within historical and contemporary critical frameworks through readings, presentations, and the study of a variety of photographic practices.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Graduate Studies Masters GSMA 651 26/FA

Description

This course helps to further develop student's practice-led research through critiques, with an increased focus on their thesis work. Student-led group critiques will serve as a site for collaborative investigation, inquiry, and refinement.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Photography PHOT 200 26/FA

Description

This studio course offers students a comprehensive and hands-on experience in traditional black-and-white film photography. Students will work with SLR, medium and large format film cameras, employ continuous lights, and utilize the full potential of the black and white darkroom as a creative space for photographic inquiry, experimentation, and production. Lectures, assignments, and critiques will introduce students to the critical, historical, and theoretical language necessary to discuss and formulate ideas, and enable them to articulate their artistic identities within lens based art.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.