Sama Alshaibi is the recipient of the 2021 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award. Her solo exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum — on view through May 14, 2023 — showcases her latest projects of photographic imagery, video, and installation, which link themes of dispossession, mobility, peripheries, refuge, ecological entropy, and future and historical imaginings. Sept. […]
read moreGraduate student Emily Kray is the recipient of the 2022 Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize from the School of Art.
read moreTelling the stories behind ancient objects is the task for UArizona archaeologist, art history professor, School of Art’s Irene Bald Romano.
read moreDorsey Kaufmann’s immersive installation, “Ripple Effect,” was exhibited in Venice, Italy, at the ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition.
read moreArizona Arts is proud to present the Arizona Arts Signature Series, highlighting programs from Family Weekend to Homecoming this October.
read moreAs K. Lynn Robinson explores collective learning in her research, she’s convinced it can help change the art education profession in ways that better represent the nation’s diverse populations and communities. For her efforts, the School of Art doctoral student has been named the recipient of the 2022-23 Dr. Maria Teresa Velez Diversity Leadership Scholarship. The award is given […]
read moreLong before DreamWorks turned his children’s book into the 2015 animated film “Home,” Adam Rex sat in a University of Arizona art classroom and dreamed about his own career. “David Christiana taught me so much,” Rex said about the School of Art emeritus professor. “Anatomy, how to paint … but the greatest thing he did for me was […]
read moreBethany Collins, a multidisciplinary artist who works in Chicago, will talk about how race and language interact in her works as part of the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. In her Contranyms series, for instance, Collins transposes definitions from Webster’s New World Dictionary of American Language onto American Masters paper, then […]
read moreTarrah Krajnak will talk about her photography career and 2021 book project, “El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan,” as part of the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. Krajnak, an artist researcher with Unseen California based in Los Angeles, was born in Lima, Peru, in 1979. Named after a time-bending short story […]
read moreArtist Walid Raad will lecture as part of the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Series on March 23 at the Center for Creative Photography. Walid Raad: Artist Talk In this Artist Talk, Walid Raad will present images, stories, and concepts from his three ongoing long-term projects: The Atlas Group (1989-2004); Scratching On Things I […]
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