Join dynamic local storytellers as they take the stage and give voice to some of the stories that shape our bodies throughout our lives. Discussing her devotion to drawing and painting real human bodies, including her own, artist Bailey Doogan explained: “our bodies are full of stories.” Inspired by this phrase, UAMA and Odyssey Storytelling invite you […]
read moreArizona Arts presents a 2026 spring 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 moreAfter completing installation of a new, state-of-the-art HVAC system, the University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA) reopens on Jan. 17 with a major survey of work by celebrated Tucson artist and University of Arizona Professor Emerita, Bailey Doogan. The reopening also marks the museum’s move to free admission for all visitors — a transformative […]
read moreExplore the artistic life and legacy of Bailey Doogan in this conversation with fellow artists, former students, colleagues and collectors, presented by the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Panelists Terry Etherton, Doug Nielsen, Cynthia Miller and Ann Simmons-Myers will illuminate the personal and often collaborative processes Doogan used to create her work, as well […]
read moreCelebrate the opening of “Bailey Doogan: Ways of Seeing,” at the exhibition reception at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. This exhibition serves as a survey of work by Bailey Doogan — a celebrated Tucson artist, graphic designer and esteemed professor emerita at the University of Arizona. For the first time, selections from each phase of […]
read moreArt critic and writer Eleanor Heartney delves into the work and significance of artist Bailey Doogan in this virtual talk with University of Arizona Museum of Art. Bailey Doogan’s art is infused with the revolutionary ideas swirling around feminist thinking in the early 1980s. This talk by Eleanor Heartney looks at how feminist ideas about […]
read moreCurated by Grace Waldrip, a senior art history student in the School of Art, this pop-up exhibition seeks to highlight and define how portraiture has worked alongside social and cultural messaging around wives and wifehood throughout art history. Featuring portraits of, or related to, wifehood from 1589 to 2001, visitors are invited to explore and […]
read moreModern life means interacting with countless machines… In fact, most of us carry a mini machine with us at all times — one that wakes us up and tells us the weather, gives us the fastest route to our destination, hangs on to our credit cards and admission tickets, and even provides us with a […]
read moreA ripe banana affixed to a wall with duct tape doesn’t strike most folks as art, and even fewer would pay a few bucks for it… …unless they were hungry. And yet Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, composed solely of those two materials, sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction last fall. “Why in the world?” you […]
read more“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” — E. E. Cummings While the sea has an undeniable allure no matter the season, it looks especially appealing to us desert dwellers once summer arrives. That’s why, for July’s round of Virtual Art Trivia, we’ll spend […]
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