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Jeff Beekman began serving as the director of the University of Arizona School of Art on July 1, 2026.
Coming from Florida State University, Beekman has chaired the Department of Art in Tallahassee since 2023 and held other leadership roles since 2013, including associate chair and director of Foundations and BA programs. Previously, he taught at the University of Oklahoma, Georgia Southern University and the University of New Mexico-Gallup.
As a community steward, Beekman received an Emerging Arts Administrators Fellowship by the National Council of Arts Administrators in 2023, in addition to being named a Leadership Award finalist at FSU for “those who have made a significant impact on the Tallahassee community.”
He received his BFA from the University of Florida in 2000 and his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2005.
As an artist, Beekman has focused his work “on our relationship with the landscapes we occupy,” including lens-based projects in recent years.
He has exhibited broadly across the U.S. and internationally at venues in New Zealand, Australia, China, South Korea, Hungary, England, Ecuador, Italy and Vietnam.
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