The annual First-Year MFA Showcase — “Nice to Meet You!” — celebrates incoming School of Art graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts program. The 2026 exhibition features the work of Athena Apodaca, Marcus Chormicle, Fiona Doherty, Rafaela Dittrich Guebert, Clarissa Kear, Keelin Miller, Melanie Montes, Sheldon Patten and Bryce Pol. A free public reception […]
read moreNew Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will talk about how he creates monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity in the final lecture of the School of Art’s 2025-26 Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) season. His Thursday, April 2, talk will be held at 5:30 p.m. at […]
read morePrinceton University scholar Eduardo Cadava will detail his more than two-decade engagement with the work of Fazal Sheikh, a New York-born and Kenyan-Pakistani photographer, as the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) lecture series continues. As part of his Tuesday, March 17, talk, “Making the Invisible Visible: Fazal Sheikh’s Photographic Journey,” Cadava […]
read moreEnvironmental artist Lauren Bon, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, will talk about the “cyborg watershed of the American West” as the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) lecture series continues at the Center for Creative Photography, co-sponsored by the College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture. The engineered network of […]
read more“A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back” features artworks drawn from — and created in response to — the 2022 anthology by former School of Art Professor gloria j. wilson and others, published by the University of Arizona Press. The exhibition, on view Jan. 13 to Feb. 20 in the School of Art’s Joseph Gross […]
read moreJoclyn Flynn has always been a leader with an eye for creativity. The sophomore majoring in 3D and extended media at the School of Art now brings that leadership to student government as the College of Fine Arts senator within the Associated Students of the University of Arizona (ASUA). In the role, Flynn serves as […]
read moreArizona Arts will celebrate the Class of 2025 on Dec. 18 at Crowder Hall, honoring students whose work has shaped the creative life of the College of Fine Arts. Selected for their artistic excellence, leadership and drive to push their disciplines forward, this year’s Outstanding Seniors represent the very best of the College of Fine […]
read moreSchool of Art alumna Shiloe Fontes has always loved science and art, so she decided to combine the two at the Flandrau Science Center. “The art and science connection is so strong, but it gets overlooked. I wanted to figure out how to bring that back in,” she said. Fontes (BA ’07, Visual Communications; MA […]
read moreA dozen College of Science students, intending to minor in the arts, received the 2025-2026 Mars Science Plus Scholarship, which promotes exploration and helps offset the students’ educational costs. Made possible by a $2 million gift from John and Adrienne Mars to the College of Science, the scholarship is designed to help science students broaden […]
read moreJoin Illustration, Design & Animation students for their BFA Capstone Fall 2025 show and reception on Friday, Dec. 12., in Room 205 and the lobby of the School of Art. Artists in Valentin R. Mancha’s ART 469 class showing their work are: Brittney Ruiz, Ashley Bambauer, Isabel Fernandez, Maddie French, Lauren Peppiatt, Morgan Erdman. Xavier Urias, […]
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