1. Sama Alshaibi: Generation After Generation

    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. […]

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  2. Ph.D. student Robinson receives Velez Diversity Leadership Scholarship

    As 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 […]

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  3. Alumnus Adam Rex mentors aspiring illustrators, writers

    Long 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 […]

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  4. VASE Lecture: Bethany Collins

    Bethany 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 […]

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  5. VASE Lecture: Tarrah Krajnak

    Tarrah 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 […]

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  6. VASE Lecture: Walid Raad

    Artist 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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