Arizona Arts is proud to announce the 2026–27 JustArts Fellowship cohort of five students, using the arts as a vehicle for meaningful change at the University of Arizona. JustArts Fellows deliver student-led solutions to complex societal topics, leveraging creative expression to address sensory access, climate resilience, grief, homelessness, and community health. Inspired by the vision to create positive impact […]
read moreGraduate students from the University of Arizona School of Art will hold a public reception for a new participatory arts-based research exhibition, “Material Matters: Endeavors in Arts-Based Inquiry,” at the Lionel Rombach Gallery from 4 to 6 p.m. Featuring works by art education researchers Andy Julo, Mandi Smith, Ziyu Feng, Yuqing Wang, Aru Zhao, Jackie […]
read moreExplore the history and legacy of the Golden Record. Launched in 1977, this record is attached to NASA’s Voyager I and II space probes, which were designed to explore the outer Solar System. Ancient Beacons Long for Notice is Dario Robleto’s third installment in a trilogy exploring the history and legacy of the Golden Record. Launched […]
read moreArizona Arts presents a 2026 fall semester of arts experiences to engage audiences on campus at the University of Arizona and in the Tucson 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 – […]
read moreAnything goes and everyone shows in the University of Arizona Undergraduate Art (UAUA) Exhibition, which is open to all School of Art undergrad students enrolled in classes. Installed in the gallery salon-style, this exhibition offers many students their first opportunity to exhibit their artwork in a gallery setting. Join us for a public reception on […]
read more“PLAZA: Etymology of Place” is a traveling exhibition that unites MFA photography artists from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. Curated by U of A School of Art graduate student Marcus Xavier Chormicle (Photography, Video & Imaging) and ASU photo graduate student Oscar Montes, the exhibition invites artists to reflect on their personal […]
read moreRenowned artist/photographer Cara Romero will give a career-spanning talk about the making of a contemporary Native American artist — from her training at the Institute of American Indian Arts to founding the Cara Romero Gallery and Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her lecture is the second of the 2026-27 Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) series. […]
read moreGraduate students from the University of Arizona School of Art present a new participatory arts-based research exhibition, “Material Matters: Endeavors in Arts-Based Inquiry,” at the Lionel Rombach Gallery. Featuring works by art education researchers Andy Julo, Mandi Smith, Ziyu Feng, Yuqing Wang, Aru Zhao, Jackie Zhao, and interdisciplinary artist Camden Hardy, the show frames artmaking […]
read moreThe School of Art exhibition, “Relative Impulse,” features artworks for which the making — or destroying — of family archives is material and metaphor. Funny, heart-wrenching, or bizarre, using the ephemera of memory itself or a copy of a copy, each artwork reminds us that everything’s relative.
read moreHouston-based artist, writer and filmmaker Dario Robleto will discuss his interdisciplinary approach to crafting and conveying messages of emotion and identity into the cosmos — a kind of “humanities off-planet” — to kick off the 2026-27 Visiting Artists & Scholars Endowment (VASE) lecture series. Robleto’s work has been exhibited widely and held in prominent collections, […]
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