Graduate art students Lori Hennessy and Andrés Cabellero joined the “Roots for Resilience” cohort to build capacity in data science and AI skills at the University of Arizona. The 13-person cohort will learn best practices in open science, computational infrastructure, and artificial intelligence for research and discovery. The initiative aims to increase the University of […]
read moreAndrés Caballero attended a photography workshop in Snowmass, Colorado, thanks to support from the College of Fine Arts Medici Circle. Caballero is a third-year MFA student in the Photography, Video and Imaging department at the School of Art. He completed a one-week workshop, “Seeing Machines,” at the renowned Anderson Ranch Arts Center, under the direction of […]
read moreThe Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona has received renowned photographer Benn Mitchell’s archive and a $1 million gift. Esther Mitchell has donated her late husband’s photographic archive to the center, along with a $1 million gift to establish the Benn and Esther Mitchell Endowed Collection Fund. The gift provides a major […]
read moreDeadpan is not so much a type of joke as a mode of delivery, a manner of address to an audience that often provokes nervous laughter. Comedian Nathan Fielder’s persona is marked by deadpan. In his hit HBO comedy series “The Rehearsal,” he maintains a blank facial expression as he listens to contestants fumble their auditions for […]
read moreOver the last 10 years, American photographer Kelli Connell immersed herself in the archives of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, researching the lives and relationship of writer Charis Wilson and legendary photographer Edward Weston. That research led Connell and her previous partner Betsy Odom to retrace Wilson and Weston’s journeys through California and the American Southwest, […]
read moreArizona Arts presents a 2025 fall semester of arts experiences to engage audiences on campus at the University of Arizona and in the community. Arizona Arts and its units produce over 700 events each year, most of them free. The division integrates the arts throughout the university experience; gives all students – regardless of major – access […]
read moreIn 2015, AZPM’s Andrew Brown produced an outstanding video feature, “The Lives of Pictures” about the history of the Center for Creative Photography at the time of the 40th anniversary, interviewing co-founder Dr. John P. Schaefer and Founding Director Harold Jones. It is an important timestamp in the history of the center as we now […]
read moreThe Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona is celebrating its 50th anniversary with “Picture Party: Celebrating the Collection at 50,” an exhibition featuring more than 100 iconic images, recent acquisitions and archival objects from its world-renowned collection. Opening May 3, the exhibition offers a fresh, dynamic experience that invites visitors to explore photography […]
read moreIn Alexis Joy Hagestad’s new solo exhibition, viewers can walk through a fictional burned forest, watch a video with a fire map of the western United States and listen to trees moving and creaking in the wind. “This Forest Remembers Fire” not only explores the effects of fire suppression in the United States in the face […]
read moreUniversity of Arizona School of Art student Beihua Guo captured second place in the campus-wide Grad Slam contest with his presentation, “Designated Ground Zeros: Documenting Cold War Nuclear Targets with Uranium Prints.” Guo, a first-year MFA candidate in the school’s Photography, Video and Imaging program, vied with five other finalists for the best three-minute graduate […]
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