News, Press & Stories
Zimmermann named school’s interim director
Professor Karen Zimmermann has been named interim director of the School of Art for the 2025-26 academic year, University of Arizona… Read More
2025 MFA Exhibition showcases 11 artists
Carrying on a tradition that began in 1970, 11 graduate students from the School of Art will present their work in the 2025… Read More
Kenneth Shorr, retired faculty member, dies at 73
Acclaimed photographer and artist Kenneth Shorr, a retired associate professor at the University of Arizona School of Art, died March 5 in… Read More
Student’s time as wildland firefighter shapes exhibition
In Alexis Joy Hagestad’s new solo exhibition, viewers can walk through a fictional burned forest, watch a video with a fire map of the… Read More
Field-study class sees borderlands with ‘new lens’
After they found discarded passports near the U.S. border wall with Mexico, graduate students and Professor David Taylor from the… Read More
Renovated grad studios sport new gallery, spaces to interact
Creating a more “communal atmosphere,” the School of Art has completed a full interior renovation of the grad studio building. Now… Read More
Beihua Guo takes 2nd in Grad Slam with ‘Ground Zeros’
University of Arizona School of Art student Beihua Guo captured second place in the campus-wide Grad Slam contest with his presentation,… Read More
Director Colin Blakely stepping down in June
Colin Blakely will step down as director of the University of Arizona School of Art in June, ending a 10-year tenure that saw him raise… Read More
Art and medicine: Helping tomorrow’s doctors
For future physicians Sabrina Ferrari and Thomas Brower, getting the chance to analyze paintings and sketch one with their peers helped… Read More
