Erika Tenorio wins Indigenous design award, honors grandma

October 7, 2022

Erika Tenorio wins Indigenous People’s Day design award and becomes inaugural scholar for a Latin American Studies program.

Delivery Systems

In Delivery Systems, 16 artists from across the United States will exhibit their work alongside the materials, mechanisms and collateral they used to ship that work to the gallery and plan their installation. All the artists live and work more than 100 miles from the Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona School of Art, […]

Panama inspires grad student Arias in her art, filmmaking

September 14, 2022

Born in Costa Rica, Jacqueline Arias was adopted by American parents and moved to the Panama Canal Zone at age 4. While she only spent three years there before moving to rural Ohio, the experience made a profound impression on the artist, independent filmmaker and educator. Now a University of Arizona School of Art graduate student, Arias […]

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. […]

Kray wins Centennial Award for nightmare project

September 2, 2022

Graduate student Emily Kray is the recipient of the 2022 Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize from the School of Art.

Telling the stories behind ancient objects

September 2, 2022

Telling the stories behind ancient objects is the task for UArizona archaeologist, art history professor, School of Art’s Irene Bald Romano.

Ripple Effect takes Dorsey Kaufmann to Venice

September 1, 2022

Dorsey Kaufmann’s immersive installation, “Ripple Effect,” was exhibited in Venice, Italy, at the ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition.

Arizona Arts Signature Series highlights October events

August 24, 2022

Arizona Arts is proud to present the Arizona Arts Signature Series, highlighting programs from Family Weekend to Homecoming this October.

Ph.D. student Robinson receives Velez Diversity Leadership Scholarship

August 15, 2022

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 […]

Alumnus Adam Rex mentors aspiring illustrators, writers

August 10, 2022

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 […]