Deborah Ruiz: Ultimate Adapter

February 23, 2021

Artist Deborah Ruiz (BFA ’20, Illustration + Design) definitely took the road less travelled. A story of personal persistence and grit.

Finding new ways of expression

February 23, 2021

Trent Pechon, 3D artist/graduate student, tells the Arizona Alumni magazine about how he has improvised teaching his sculpture students at the School of Art.

Five Fellows launch new Arizona Arts research program

February 23, 2021

Arizona Arts selects five faculty for the interdisciplinary research fellows program to lead interdisciplinary, collaborative arts research.

Students to pursue border-engaged arts research

February 23, 2021

Graduate artists Mariel Miranda and Bella Maria Varela (art) and Diana Peralta (music) were awarded border-engaged research scholarships.

Racial Justice Studio to promote understanding of anti-racism

February 23, 2021

Arizona Arts launches the Racial Justice Studio to promote a deep understanding of anti-racism by centering artistic and creative practice.

Emmy Tisdel, Mariel Miranda join 2020-21 University Fellows cohort

February 23, 2021

An accomplished violinist and an international visual artist from Arizona Arts, Emmy Tisdel and Mariel Miranda, have joined the prestigious 2020-21 University Fellows program, the flagship initiative of the University of Arizona Graduate Center.

From Graffiti to Coloring Books

February 16, 2021

Aaron Coleman’s early art took the form of graffiti art on trains. The assistant professor is now uses art to communicate about race.

HUEY COPELAND: Touched by the Mother

Huey Copeland is an art historian, critic, teacher, administrator, and occasional curator based in Chicago. Currently, he is Interim Director of the Black Arts Initiative, Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, and Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, where he also enjoys affiliations with African American Studies, Art Theory & Practice, Critical Theory, […]

Brisa Tzintzun describes working alongside muralist Mata Ruda

December 17, 2020

MFA candidate Brisa Tzintzun assists internationally renowned muralist, Karlito Miller Espinosa (MFA ’19) with School of Art mural.

Arizona Arts Studio Series … masked figure drawing

December 16, 2020

Find out how students at the University of Arizona School of Art are learning figure drawing through flex in-person class. Hear from artist and Assistant Professor Alex Macias, and student Bennett Tolar as they discuss the benefits of working in the studio. Arizona Arts Studio Series takes you inside the studios, labs and rehearsal halls […]