Faculty & Staff Highlights

SPRING 2024

Professor Irene Bald Romano just received a copy of her new book, Beth Shean Studies: Aspects of Religion, History, Art, and Archaeology in Hellenistic and Roman Nysa-Scythopolis. It was co-authored by Kyle Mahoney (Swarthmore College), with an Appendix by two scientists in Athens who conducted the analysis of the marble of the head of Alexander and identified the quarry. It was published by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, in a series that has been continuously published since 1771 (the oldest publication in America), now distributed by Penn Press. Read more

Assistant Professor Alejandro Macias attended a Feb. 23 reception for his first solo New York City exhibition, “Land of Wolves,” at LatchKey Gallery.

Associate Professor Jeehey Kim, who was formally honored Feb. 28 by the university for her Early Scholar Award, hosted a Q&A at the CCP after the South Korean film, “Witnesses to Democracy.”

Associate Professor Larry Gipe is participating in a Creative Research Fellowship at the Wolfsonian/Florida International University until March 17.

Regents Professor Sama Alshaibi screenED her videos “Iihya” and “See Without Being Seen” on Feb. 15 and led a walk-and-talk tour the next day to discuss her pieces in the exhibit “Crafting Resistance.” Both events were at the Arizona State University Art Museum. Her visit was co-sponsored by ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and ASU Art Museum.

Galleries Director lydia see wrote a profile of downtown’s Snakebite Creation Space, 174 E. Toole Ave., for Southwest Contemporary. Read the story

FALL 2023

New Assistant Professor Jenn Liv received the Silver Medal in the advertising category for this year’s Society Of Illustrators 66th Annual Competition. She was honored for a three-color risograph illustration series commissioned by the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways and art directed by VIRTUE NY. She’ll receive the award this spring at a ceremony in New York. Go to https://www.jennliv.com/ and Jenn Liv Illustration to see more of Jenn’s work.

Associate Professor Larry Gipe was selected for a Creative Research Fellowship at the Wolfsonian in Miami in spring 2024. The fellowship is a two-week opportunity for artists of all kinds to immerse themselves in the Wolfsonian collection and draw visual, conceptual, or storytelling inspiration from its wide range of historical materials.

Assistant Professor Jeehey Kim moderated a Q&A with the directors after the Nov. 30 screening of “Tour of Duty (2012) and the US Military Presence in South Korea.” It’s a documentary film being shown in conjunction with the Korean photography exhibition “Wonders and Witness” at the Center for Creative Photography.

For Art History Professor Irene Bald Romano, a five-year journey with 15 other international scholars culminated this fall when the authors saw their research published as a special online monograph, “The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era.” Edited and co-authored by Romano, it presents for the first time a comprehensive view of the fate of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern antiquities that changed hands during the Nazi period from 1933 to 1945. Story

Associate Prof. Joseph Farbrook’s solo exhibition “A Mirror in the Void” ran until Oct. 7 in Dallas.

Prof. Ellen McMahon’s work was part of the “Ecotone” exhibit at the Desert Museum. Details

The Tucson Museum of Art featured Prof. Gary Setzer in a 2023 Arizona Biennial artist spotlight. Details

Associate Prof. Larry Gipe curated “how swift, how far,” a group exhibition that included his work and  Ryan McIntosh‘s (BFA ’07) in L.A.

Assistant Prof. Alejandro Macias finished his CALA residency, and his Lehmann Award artwork is on display at the Phoenix Museum. Read story

Two members of the School of Art faculty now have artwork in the UAMA permanent collection. “Man on Fire” by Alejandro Macias was inspired by a Luis Jimenez sculpture with the same title that is also in the collection. UAMA also purchased. Ellen McMahon‘s series “Lost Language of a Desert Sea,” inspired by McMahon’s research as a Fulbright Scholar in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, where she worked on conservation and environmental education projects.

Faculty Emeritus

Retired School of Art Professor Philip Zimmermann saw his new artists’ book, “Melt,” short-listed in the Photobook Week Aarhus AI contest. More details. “Melt” also was named one of LensCulture.com‘s “Favorite Photobooks” of 2023. More info

SPRING 2023

Nicole Antebi
Assistant Professor, Illustration and Design

Paul Ivey
Professor, Art History

• Gave a successful lecture, “Women Build Museums,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 16. Details

Jeehey Kim
Assistant Professor, Art History

• Named a 2023 Early Career Scholar Award recipient by The University of Arizona. Kim’s groundbreaking research in Asian photography has earned her international recognition. Story

Alejandro Macias
Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing

• Received the Lehmann Emerging Artist Award, which includes an exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum with co-recipient Yaritza Flores Bustos. “Thank you to the panelists and the museum for this incredible and special opportunity. I am so honored,” Alex said on Instagram. His exhibition will premiere on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, with an art talk presented by Fronterizx Collective at 6:30 pm. More details
• Named the CALA Alliance regional resident this summer. CALA (Celebración Artística de las Américas) is a Latinx arts organization based in Phoenix. The alliance’s  residency program is one of the only programs that fosters Latinx artistic talent in the United States, providing artists with unparalleled resources that enable them to realize innovative, ambitious new work.
• The University of Arizona Museum of Art  acquired his painting “Man on Fire.”
• The “Soy de Tejas” exhibition in San Antonio featured work from Macias and Bella Maria Varela (MFA ’21). They are among 40 native Texan and Texas-based contemporary artists “who reflect the diverse and beautiful complexity of Latinx identities,” say the organizers of the exhibition, which is curated by Rigoberto Luna. The opening reception was Feb. 9 at the Centro de Artes.

Jonathan Marquis
Adjunct Instructor

• His exhibition “Downwaste” is on display at the San Francisco Airport Museum until Oct. 26. For the series, Jonathan visited glaciers in Montana’s Glacier National Park and produced cyanotypes that visualize glacial melt. More details about the exhibition, curated by Kai Caemmerer.

Ellen McMahon
Professor, Illustration and Design
Associate Dean for Research, Arizona Arts

• Received a Barbara Thom postdoctoral fellowship from the prestigious Huntington Library near Los Angeles for the 2023-24 school year. The fellowship will allow Saracino to revise her dissertation on the Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan into her first book manuscript. Uppsala is the earliest known map of Mexico City, painted by indigenous Nahua artists after the Spanish Conquest (c. 1540). Story
• Saw her chapter “Indigenous Artistic Practice and Collaboration at the Colegio de Santa Cruz in Mexico City (1534-1575)” published by the University of Florida Press as part of the edited volume “Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America.” It’s the result of a symposium she participated in at the University of Florida in 2019.
• Attended the College Art Association conference from Feb. 15-18 in New York City. She co-organized a panel entitled “Ecocritical Art Histories of Indigenous Latin America” on Feb. 18.

lydia see
Galleries Director

• Presented a talk, “Love, Kinship and Connection: Relationships at Black Mountain College,” on Feb. 9 as part of the University of Arizona Museum of Art’s Spring 2023 Speaker Series. From 1933-1957 in the misty Blue Ridge Mountains, BMC was a hub of experiential education and fertile ground for artistic developments. There, incalculable relationships were forged or compounded between the famed and lesser-known alike – including one between Willem and Elaine de Kooning. A year before joining the School of Art, lydia curated an exhibition connecting ephemera from the Black Mountain Dreier Archive with objects from the Asheville (N.C.) Art Museum’s collection, with a focus on underrepresented artists within the prevailing Black Mountain College narratives.

David Taylor
Professor, Photography | Video | Imaging

• Featured in a University of Arizona Communications story, “UArizona helps launch archive sharing stories of detained immigrants,” on Feb. 20. Taylor collaborated on the project, which contains the stories and images of artwork and memorabilia of asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants incarcerated in Arizona. “My goal in all of this is to ensure that people’s experiences do not disappear. These are people who don’t get to write history. They don’t usually have their say,” Taylor said.
• Gave a live-streamed artist talk on April 4 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts for the “Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea” exhibition, which includes collaborative work by Marcos Ramírez ERRE and Taylor. Details

Karen Zimmermann
School of Art Associate Director
Professor, Illustration and Design

• Helped organize a successful 2023 Wayzgoose gathering for the Amalgamated Printers Association June 1-4. The annual national APA get-together included a banquet dinner at the Lodge in the Desert, where David Shields gave an inspiring keynote talk about his research on the Rob Roy Kelly Historic Wood Type Collection. Other events included workshops at the School of Art’s Book Art & Letterpress Lab; a swap meet; and a field trip to the printshop of Jim Irwin, the last person to run an engraving machine in Arizona.

• Faculty members Amelia (Amy) Kraehe and gloria j. wilson and Ph.D. student K. Lynn Robinson helped lead a Feb. 16 webinar, “Creative Pathway to Servingness through the Arts,” part of the University of Arizona Hispanic Serving Institution – HSI Initiatives “Centering Servingness” series, presented with Faculty Affairs. They shared three new student programs from Arizona Arts: JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts; SALON, Student Artist Live Opportunity Night; and Rehearsals in Anti-Racism.

Affiliated Faculty

• Kathy Short, a College of Education Professor of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies, was appointed a Regents Professor by the Arizona Board of Regents. Short is also director ow Worlds of Words. Details

Former Faculty

• Mark McKnight, a former visiting assistant professor, was named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. List of Fellows

Faculty Emeriti

• The Rodeo de Tucson Group Show featured four paintings by Moira Geoffrion, chair of the School of Art Advisory Board and professor emerita. The opening reception was Feb. 3 at the Medicine Man Gallery. The show showcased more than 30 artists, including Howard Post (BFA ’72, MFA ’78). Details

FALL 2022

Sama Alshaibi
Regents Professor, Photography, Video and Imaging

• Presented the Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture Nov. 9 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Art, Art History & Design.
• Gave an artist talk on Sept. 28 in support of her solo exhibition “Sama Alshaibi: Generation After Generation” at the Phoenix Art Museum. It was part of Arizona Arts’ 2023 Signature Series. The museum also awarded Alshaibi the 2021 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award. Watch her Scult Lecture (6:25 mark)

Nicole Antebi
Assistant Professor, Illustration and Design

• Antebi’s Illustration II students collaborated with the Florence Immigration Project in the spring. The group’s recent newsletter and annual report featured Robin Silverman’s and Gabriel Spencer’s artwork that accompanied a story about an Albanian teen named Luan, who was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border and coped with his sorrow by playing chess with himself on a makeshift board. Students contributed other projects being rolled out on social media. “I’m very proud of this group and how sensitively they approached the subject matter,” Prof. Antebi said. Read story
• Her spring motion arts students were so enthralled by the ants during their class visit to Biosphere 2 that they created a short film, “Who Put These Ants in my Biosphere?” The animated film is shown from the perspective of an ant colony exploring Biosphere 2 and was screened at The Loft Cinema for the School of Theatre, Film & Television’s Magic Hour. Eight motion arts students were then selected to dive deeper into focused animation work that reflects Biosphere 2 and Arizona Institutes for Resilient Ecosystems and Societies (AIRES) research through a Science in Motion 2022 Summer Residency in Animation, co-directed by Antebi and Aaron Bugaj. Watch video
• Antebi was selected for the Center for University Education Scholarship 2022 Spanning Boundaries Challenge. Antebi joins faculty and staff from Biosphere 2, CAPLA and the W.A. Franke Honors College who will engage students, faculty and Borderland communities in community-driven research around sustainable food and water solutions. The project aims to lay foundations for strong bi-national relationships, while providing new opportunities for students and faculty to have a measurable societal impact.
• Her Animation 1 students created a video for a November character turnaround assignment that encouraged them to use unique characters to offer more inclusive and diverse story possibilities. Watch video
• In October, Antebi’s animation students wrapped up a puppet animation/rig exercise. Watch video

Aurore Chabot
Professor of Art & Ceramics

• Chabot’s commentary and images of sculptural work were included in the hand-building section of “Experience Clay,” 3rd edition, by Maureen Mackey, Davis Publications, Inc., Worcester, MA, 2022.
• “Surface Treatments for Ceramics,” an upcoming book on a group of international artists’ ceramic surface treatments by Claire Ireland, will include text description, commentary and imagery of Chabot’s “reverse inlay” technique of “memory fossils and fragments.” The technique transforms the surfaces into what appear to be fossils and archaeological remains that Chabot uses in sculptures and tile murals. The book is set to be published in early 2023, London.
• Chabot gave a lecture about her work on Sept. 15 at the Recital Hall at Pima Community College’s Center for the Arts complex. Her work was part of “A Tribute to Clay,” an invitational group exhibition at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery that ran from Aug. 29 to Oct. 8.
• Other recent exhibitions: “My Body My Choice” Group Invitational Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; “Three Artist Invitational, Stage(s)(ing),” Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson (new eccentric porcelain), 2021-22. Her work is represented by Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson, 2020-23

Carissa DiCindio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Art & Visual Culture Education

• DiCindio taught a graduate special topics course that is the first class-in-residence at the Center for Creative Photography.  She worked with Meg Jackson Fox at the CCP to design and implement an exhibition on color photography using visitor-centered practices. More information
• From fascinating telescopes to a Coke can camera, the School of Art’s Graduate Certificate Program in Museum Studies and co-directors Carissa DiCindio (AVCE) and Irene Bald Romano (Art History) hosted an event on Nov. 4 in the John E. Greivenkamp Museum of Optics in the Meinel Optical Sciences Building. Museum interns Grace Gousman (undergraduate major in History with minors in Art History, Spanish, Linguistics, and Psychology) and Jennifer Weiss (graduate student in the M.A. program in Art History and in the M.S. program in Geosciences) gave a tour of the collection of cameras, telescopes, lenses, opera glasses, and many other objects and works of art related to optical science. Photos

Lawrence Gipe
Associate Professor, Painting and Drawing

Ellen McMahon
Professor
Associate Dean for Research, Arizona Arts

• McMahon was featured during Women’s History Month in a series spotlighting women researchers working on climaterelated issues. “Motivating people to work together… will require a cultural shift only possible through a well-considered combination of artistic and scientific means,” said McMahon. “I have seen how art/science collaborations can raise awareness about and catalyze a public response to environmental risks and help us to imagine and work together toward more sustainable futures.”

Sarah J. Moore
Professor of Art History

• Moore was the Terra Foundation for American Art visiting professor at the Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan for the 2021-22 academic year. The foundation is considered the most prestigious in support of American art scholarship. Moore taught virtually in the fall and in-person this spring classes in American art in the global studies program. Moore also served as a keynote speaker at the Inaugural Biennial International Conference, Institute for the Study of International Expositions, a global network of researchers interested in world’s fairs and expositions.
• She presented research, “Slow Trees in Manhattan,” related to her current book project at the Counter Image International Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in July. The manuscript, “Slow Landscape: Trees and the History of Art in the United States,” is framed on the argument that trees are among the primary drivers of history in the United States and have informed shifting discourses of national identity from the moment of earliest contact with European settler colonists to the present day.  Each chapter of the book comprises a close visual and contextual analysis of a particular moment, image, or place when trees played a defining role in the construction of contested notions of nation-ness.  The entanglements of history, time, materiality, and nature serve as the conceptual framing device of the text while eco-criticism provides the methodological model.
• Moore criss-crossed the U.S. this fall, including presenting a paper on landscape at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on Sept. 30. Her paper, “Neither Land nor Landscape: Time Landscape as In-Between Formation,” examines artist Alan Sonfist’s environmental land art sculpture for New York City that visualized how the city looked before urbanization. The paper is part of a larger book project for which Moore was granted a sabbatical leave in Spring 2023.

Irene Romano
Professor

• Romano edited and co-authored a major publication with 15 scholars from the U.S., Germany, Italy, Poland, Britain, France, Greece), entitled “The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era.” It’s scheduled to be published soon as a special issue of the Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes.

• Romano was featured in a story by UANews’ Kyle Mittan: “A Woman’s Dying Wish Leads to Returning a Piece of History,” after receiving an intriguing voicemail from a woman speaking English with a French accent. The woman said she had a collection of artifacts acquired from the African country of Mauritania and wanted the artifacts returned because, “I’m dying of cancer.” The voicemail led to the repatriation of artifacts to Mauritania.
• Romano’s research was featured in a story by the New York Times’ Milton Esterow, “New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Stolen by the Nazis,” and republished nationally and internationally in other outlets.
• She was featured in story, “MFA Boston to return marble head looted during world War II to Italy,” and also featured in a news release and the Boston Globe.
• Romano gave two public lectures in the fall on different topics: Sept. 22 — “ASMOSIA at 34 years: The Trajectory of Research on Ancient Stone and its Relevance to Art Historical Questions,” public keynote address at the 13th International Conference of the Association of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Oct. 14 – “Exhibiting Classical Antiquity during the Nazi Era,” invited lecture, Department of Art History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Jennifer Saracino
Assistant Professor

• Over the summer, Saracino participated in “Plantation Knowledge,” an international workshop organized as part of the Migrating Knowledge Project. It was hosted by the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne, Germany. All the participants are presently working on essays for an edited volume to be published by an academic press.
  

  

  Saracino presented a paper, “The Ayer Map of Teotihuacan as Embodied Action & Performance,” after being invited to the 21^st Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago. This year’s event, held Nov. 3-4, was titled, “Mapping as Performance.”

• How might a Charles Dickens tale find a homeland in the Sonoran Borderlands? Saracino participated in an interdisciplinary collaboration with other UA faculty on Oct. 25, . From digital installation to performance, sonic experiments to film, cartography to micro-publication, the exhibition explores questions about the relationship between arts and public-engagement, literature and everyday places, and authors and readers.. Professors across departments are participating in a field studio together and producing creative projects based on our reading of the Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield. The products of this studio form a key resource for a new undergraduate 15-week GE course, conceived as the pedagogical outcome of the studio, where UArizona students might forge their unique authority as readers with the power to make such books matter in our time. This course will be offered through the Department of Public and Applied Humanities, as part of UArizona’s College of Humanities Fearless Inquiries Project, whose aims include supporting curricular (re) design work as part of the Dorrance Dean’s Award for Opening the Canon. We will debut our creations at the Public Humanities Festival at the end of October.

lydia see
Gallery Director / Joseph F Gross Endowed Curator

• She participated in a Nov. 3 panel, “The Critical Eye: Curators in Conversation” — at the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. Joining her was Taína Caragol, curator of painting, sculpture, and Latinx art and history at the National Portrait Gallery; Julio César Morales, an artist, educator, writer and senior curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum; and TMA’s chief curator, Dr. Julie Sasse.
• School of Art Galleries opened its first show of the 2022-2023 year, “Delivery Systems,” in the Joseph Gross Gallery in September. “Delivery Systems” asked artists to exhibit artworks alongside the materials, mechanisms and collateral that they’ve utilized to get that artwork to the gallery, communicate its specific installation, and present it in a thoughtfully resolved manner. The show was juried, installed, programmed and interpreted by students in the Gallery Management class, with guidance from gallery director/curator lydia see and a dynamic group of preparators, exhibition designers and registrars from local museums, including the UA Museum of Art, Arizona Historical Society, Center for Creative Photography and Tucson Museum of Art. The exhibition served as the experiential learning framework for the class, providing students with experience in all aspects of exhibition design, curation, and planning. Follow along @gallerypraxis for behind the scenes Gallery Mgmt. class content and details about this and other upcoming shows.

Gary Setzer
Professor / First Year Experience Program Chair

• Over the summer, Setzer finished an overview video his project exhibited at the 2021 Venie Biennale. “The Corridor: Climate Change, Border Permeability, and Ecosystem Resilience” — an installation with Dan Majka of The Nature Conservatory, asked where will animals move to survive as climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems. It utilized a three-channel video and sound immersion to address the relationship between border permeability and ecosystem resilience in a time of climate change.

Ryan Shin
Professor, Art & Visual Culture Education

• Co-edited the 2022 book, “Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice Beyond the Western Paradigm,” along with Maria Lim, Oksun Lee and Sandrine Han. An e-book is available now, and the hard copy will be out later. It’s his second book released this year – and he was the leading editor on both.
• Received the COMC J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Award from the National Art Education Association in spring 2022. The Committee on Multiethnic Concerns award honors individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of art education in advancing and promoting education, investigation, and celebration of cultural and ethnic heritage within our global community.
• Co-edited the 2022 book, “Borderless: Global Narratives in Art Education,” with Karen Hutzel. In collaboration with: Margaret Baguley, Jesús Caballero, Paulo Esteireiro, Jana Jiroutová, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Martin Kerby, María Isabel Moreno Montoro, Elle Pierman, Petra Sobánová, Fu-ju Yang.

David Taylor
Professor

• Taylor collaborated on a project called, “DETAINED: Voices from the Migrant Incarceration System” with Principal Investigator Anita Huizar-Hernández, associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Taylor captured images taken via drones of 28 privately operated ICE detention center on the border throughout Arizona and the Southwest. The project documented the experiences of former asylum seekers and undocumented migrants who were incarcerated by immigration authorities in Arizona.

• Co-edited the 2022 book, “A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back,” with Prof. Amelia (Amy) Kraehe and Joni Boyd Acuff. It honors the 1981 seminal book by Chicana feminist intellectuals Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, “This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. wilson talked about the book with her other contributors on Oct. 21 at the School of Dance’s Stevie Eller theater. Photos

Karen Zimmermann
Professor, School of Art Assistant Director

• Zimmermann and her Visual Narratives and the Artist Book students were featured in the Fall 2022 issue of “Parenthesis,” the Journal of the Fine Press Book Association.

Group collaborations

• A triple collaboration between Nicole Antebi‘s Illustration II, Lisa Watanabe‘s Typography I, and Karen Zimmermann‘s Letterpress and the Multiple resulted in a Riso-printed book featuring text, recipes, and illustrations designed by students in these courses and inspired by UAMA’s The Art of Food exhibition.
• Students enjoyed their first project — “Chancescapes” — in the special topic Process + Play class (Art 404), as they try to create an illustration or design for a poster of a fictitious play, environment or world. The class, led by Associate Prof. Kelly Leslie and Asst. Prof. of Practice Lisa Watanabe, is being developed to better integrate illustrators, designers and animators. “This way, (students) can share their unique approaches to visual problem solving,” Leslie said. “The new class, when on the books, will be required and explores play, chance and failure as components to growth and discovery.” Photos

FACULTY EMERITUS

• Philip Zimmermann (Illustration + Design) was a winner in the AIGA ‘50 Books | 50 Covers’ competition for the best designed books of 2020 with his book, “Delirium.” Zimmermann retired in 2019 after 10 years of teaching at School of Art. The competition is considered the most competitive and coveted honor for book design. AIGA, the professional association for design, had 696 design entries from 36 countries this year.
• Robert H. Colescott, a Regents’ Professor Emeritus at the School of Art, is being remembered with a retrospective traveling exhibition, “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott.” Considered one of the most important and critical painters of his generation, the Colescott exhibition has been venerated by no less than Roberta Smith, the co-chief art critic for The New York Times.
• Margaret (Bailey) Doogan, a School of Art professor emerita, died on July 4 at age 80. Doogan taught art at the University of Arizona for 30 years. An acclaimed artist, Doogan’s paintings and drawings addressed issues of women and aging in society. She inspired students in her classroom and was an outspoken advocate for women artists and designers across the nation. “With powerful imagery, combining bite and humor, (Peggy) called out sexism and misogyny in academia as well as in the Tucson art community and the art world,” said Ellen McMahon, a School of Art professor. Doogan mentored McMahon, a graduate student who took all three design courses that Doogan taught. Obit