UArizona’s Sama Alshaibi awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship

April 26, 2021

University of Arizona School of Art Professor Sama Alshaibi was awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City on April 8.

Audiences can vote on piano competition at the Trester Festival

April 15, 2021

The inaugural Trester Festival for Latin American Music includes student piano competition and the audience gets a vote.

Macias featured in four Texas exhibitions

September 29, 2020

Alejandro Macias, assistant professor at the School of Art, currently has his work showcased in four exhibitions in time for Hispanic Heritage Month all in Texas. Macias grew up in Brownsville, Texas, along the U.S./Mexico border. His work focuses on what it means to identify with more than one culture and how that can affect […]

Photographer Alex Turner Featured in Lenscratch

July 9, 2020

MFA alumnus Alex Turner’s Blind River project is featured in Lenscratch.

Arizona Arts stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

June 19, 2020

Arizona Arts and its units stand in solidarity with Black artists and voices. We are recommitted to effecting change within our communities.

A musical field experience in New York City

May 12, 2020

At the invitation of the New York Philharmonic Archives, several music graduate students researched the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), who spent his final years in New York City.

Other TARGET/s exhibition addresses border issues

March 23, 2020

The online art publication Hyperallergic featured the University of Arizona Museum of Art’s Other TARGET/s, a group exhibition in which artists condemn migrant detention, mass incarceration and the juvenile justice system while portraying resiliency, grace and dignity.

HarpFusion in Iceland: Q&A with Michelle Gott

March 6, 2020

Dr. Michelle Gott, director of HarpFusion interview about “Mirage,” a multimedia performance.

Alshaibi revives classic story for contemporary times

March 4, 2020

Art professor Sama Alshaibi was featured in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s State of the Art 2020.

Dan Asia tapped for National Council on the Arts

February 18, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Daniel Asia, a professor of composition at the Fred Fox School of Music, to serve a six-year term as a member of the National Council on the Arts.