The annual First-Year MFA Showcase — “Nice to Meet You!” — celebrates incoming School of Art graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts program. The 2026 exhibition features the work of Athena Apodaca, Marcus Chormicle, Fiona Doherty, Rafaela Dittrich Guebert, Clarissa Kear, Keelin Miller, Melanie Montes, Sheldon Patten and Bryce Pol. A free public reception […]
read moreNew Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will talk about how he creates monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity in the final lecture of the School of Art’s 2025-26 Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) season. His Thursday, April 2, talk will be held at 5:30 p.m. at […]
read morePrinceton University scholar Eduardo Cadava will detail his more than two-decade engagement with the work of Fazal Sheikh, a New York-born and Kenyan-Pakistani photographer, as the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) lecture series continues. As part of his Tuesday, March 17, talk, “Making the Invisible Visible: Fazal Sheikh’s Photographic Journey,” Cadava […]
read moreEnvironmental artist Lauren Bon, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, will talk about the “cyborg watershed of the American West” as the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) lecture series continues at the Center for Creative Photography, co-sponsored by the College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture. The engineered network of […]
read more“A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back” features artworks drawn from — and created in response to — the 2022 anthology by former School of Art Professor gloria j. wilson and others, published by the University of Arizona Press. The exhibition, on view Jan. 13 to Feb. 20 in the School of Art’s Joseph Gross […]
read moreJoin Illustration, Design & Animation students for their BFA Capstone Fall 2025 show and reception on Friday, Dec. 12., in Room 205 and the lobby of the School of Art. Artists in Valentin R. Mancha’s ART 469 class showing their work are: Brittney Ruiz, Ashley Bambauer, Isabel Fernandez, Maddie French, Lauren Peppiatt, Morgan Erdman. Xavier Urias, […]
read more“More-than-Human Dialogue,” a pop-up exhibition hosted by School of Art Ph.D. candidate Ling-Yu Chou, will explore the relationship between humans, nature and art making. Featuring student landscape paintings from the “Nature, Place, and Belonging” project, the Thursday, Nov. 20, show from 9 a.m. to noon in the School of Art lobby, highlights how nature becomes a co-creator. […]
read more“Caring & Cultivating,” an art exhibition about community care, is part of a year-long, interdisciplinary, arts-based research project featuring University of Arizona College of Fine Arts graduate students. The Nov. 13 opening reception, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., will feature food, drinks, art, sound and dance at the School of Art’s Visual Arts Research Studios […]
read moreFounded in 1921, the non-Native, self-named “Smoki People” of Prescott, Arizona, appropriated Native dance and ceremony for nearly 70 years. Paradoxically, they also built a museum housing a collection worthy of interpretation, study and care. The 100-year institutional history and its important de-colonial transformation to the Museum of Indigenous People will be presented in this […]
read moreA tradition since 1970, the School of Art and the University of Arizona Museum of Art will host the 2026 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition along with the school’s Joseph Gross Gallery. During the last year of their coursework, graduates work closely with faculty to develop a body of original art to present to the public […]
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