1. OUR STORIES: HIGH SCHOOL ARTISTS

    Whether in the classroom or at home, high school artists and art teachers are facing challenges in teaching, learning and creating that no one could have imagined. This annual exhibition—now online due to COVID-19—showcases the creativity and resourcefulness of emerging high school artists from across Tucson and Pima County. Artworks were created during the 2020-2021 […]

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  2. AZPM features School of Art’s Jessica Gonzales evolution as ‘The Muralist’

    Jessica Gonzales (BFA ’12, 2D Art), painted her first large-scale public mural in 2016. Since then, she’s churned out a seemingly endless cascade of instantly recognizable, colorful, murals all over Tucson in public locations, private business, and homes, making her one of the most prolific muralists in the region.  Those words and this beautiful video […]

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  3. “Lights Out” for American factories and workers

    Kaitlyn Jo Smith (MFA ’20, Photography, Video, Imaging) won a national juried showcase at the 2021 College Arts Association annual conference in Graduate Film/Video, Animations & New Genres in March.  In the film, “Lights Out,” Smith sourced over 50,000 portraits of factory workers from Facebook, which were then turned into deep-fake portraits by artificial intelligence, commenting on […]

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  4. 2021 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION

    Enjoy the very best artworks created by seven MFA candidates from the School of Art in the annual 2021 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition offered in 3D, 360-degree, virtual reality. Physically hung in the galleries of the University of Arizona Museum of Art and the School of Art’s Joseph Gross Gallery, the exhibition is […]

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