Deborah Ruiz: Ultimate Adapter

February 23, 2021

Artist Deborah Ruiz (BFA ’20, Illustration + Design) definitely took the road less travelled. A story of personal persistence and grit.

Wonder makes me tell the story

February 23, 2021

Lindsay Utz, who edited Academy Award-winning documentary, “American Factory,” discusses the beginning of her career on campus in Tucson.

Finding new ways of expression

February 23, 2021

Trent Pechon, 3D artist/graduate student, tells the Arizona Alumni magazine about how he has improvised teaching his sculpture students at the School of Art.

Brisa Tzintzun describes working alongside muralist Mata Ruda

December 17, 2020

MFA candidate Brisa Tzintzun assists internationally renowned muralist, Karlito Miller Espinosa (MFA ’19) with School of Art mural.

Karlito creates new mural on Speedway

November 5, 2020

The School of Art is getting a new mural. Recent alumnus and internationally renowned muralist Karlito Miller Espinosa, aka Mata Ruda, is creating a mural on the School of Art’s Joseph Gross Gallery during the month of November 2020. The mural is part of the arts renaissance at the University of Arizona. The Arizona Arts […]

Dual degree approach to storytelling

November 2, 2020

Roxanna Ibarra hopes to use her two degrees to convey storytelling visually and aurally, while embracing her Mexican and American cultures.

Conversations on collaboration with film alumni

August 7, 2020

A veritable who’s who of industry luminaries – all School of Theatre, Film & Television alumni, participate in I Dream in Widescreen 2020.

Lani Villanueva: ‘Aloha and Bear Down’

July 31, 2020

“I am becoming a middle-school band teacher!”

Sadie Shaw creates neighborhood oral history project

May 18, 2020

Sadie Shaw (BFA ’19, Art & Visual Culture Education) is the neighborhood president and creator of the Sugar Hill Oral History Project. A conversation Shaw, and dusty funk musician, Jacki Blu, reveals the hidden history of the Sugar Hill neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona. From its formation in the 1950s, Sugar Hill was unofficially redlined for […]

Music alumna Dr. Lori Wiest appointed school director

May 13, 2020

Dr. Lori Wiest, the new Director of the Fred Fox School of Music, received her doctorate from Arizona 30 years ago this spring.