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Outreach Activities

The School of Art has developed an exciting array of outreach activities to fulfill and expand the School’s mission through interactions with visiting artists and scholars, internship programs, exhibition of student and faculty work, social events, and many other endeavors that involve the greater Tucson community.

Programs include:

VISITING ARTISTS, SCHOLARS AND EXHIBITIONS SERIES

The School of Art focuses on bringing diverse artists and scholars from around the world to our campus. These artists and scholars bring their own unique influences to the program by engaging with community members, students, and faculty through salons, lectures, and exhibitions. Students and faculty may also participate in discussion groups, workshops, and residency projects.

Get current information online at: http://www.cfa.arizona.edu/vase/

ART EDUCATION INTERNSHIPS

In order to provide service to community institutions and real-world experience for our pre-service art teachers and museum educators, internships are arranged with businesses and institutions in the community that are part of the art education field.

Contact: Associate Professor Ryan Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu

ART EDUCATORS IN SCHOOLS

Local schools and experienced art teachers work together with the School of Art to enrich the classroom setting and give our pre-service art teachers real-world experience. Students arrange sample lessons and participate in classroom observation.

Contact: Associate Professor Ryan Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu

GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSHOP

The senior graphic design class can create excellent design solutions for various non-profit organizations, programs, and small businesses within the university and local community. The benefits are two-fold. The first gives the students the opportunity to work with clients in a classroom situation. The second offers the client quality design at a lower cost. The experience for clients working with engaged students is a rewarding experience as well. Often students can present ideas that are excellent and unexpected. The businesses selected must work with the class curriculum, be a fledgling business and/or a university-associated program, or not-for-profit organization that enhances the community. The business will make a donation to The University of Arizona Foundation Graphic Design Workshop fund. These funds are used to pay for lecture fees and exhibitions, benefiting all of the Illustration + Design students. If you like working with enthusiastic young professionals, this is a great opportunity for your organization.

Contact: Professor Jackson Boelts
(520) 621-1893 or (520) 544-3643
Email: jboelts@email.arizona.edu

WILDCAT ART

Saturday morning instruction sessions provide art education for gifted youngsters and experience for our art education teachers in training. Classes are taught for students K-12 and augment what is available in local schools. Students’ work is exhibited professionally in a closing reception for students and their families. The program is funded by fees from participating students and the division of Art and Visual Culture Education.

Contact: Associate Professor Ryan Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu

For more information visit Wildcat Art’s website.

Art, Design and environment

For over 20 years, in her studio/seminar Critical Issues in Design, Professor Ellen McMahon has led her students in putting their creative problem solving and visual communication skills to work by initiating pro bono design projects for organizations that are doing important work in the world. Working with groups such as Humane Borders, Oasis Center for Sexual Assault, Arizona Animal Rescue, Literacy Volunteers, and the Hopi Nation, students have come to understand their influence and responsibilities as artists and visual communicators. More recently, the class was re-named Art, Design and Environment attracting students from across disciplines to undertake a number of multi-year art/environment collaborations including: a tile mural with the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, joining their social justice and environmental conservation initiatives, and an educational pavilion at Tucson Village Farm, featuring large panels about the ecological role and value of Honey Bees.

Contact: Professor Ellen McMahon
(520) 621-1493

emcmahon@email.arizona.edu

TOURS OF THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Tours to the CCP provide an introduction to the appreciation of photography for children. The project is an ongoing collaboration between the Center for Creative Photography and the Art and Visual Culture Education program. Pre-service art teachers and museum educators serve as the docents for groups of students who come to the Center to see selected exhibitions of photography.

Contact: Associate Professor Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu

LETTERPRESS AND BOOK ART LAB

The development of the Letterpress and Book Art Lab in the Corleone Building has extended outreach efforts to build campus and community partnerships: Poetry Center collaborations, Paperworks, College Book Art Association, demonstrations, lectures, etc.

Contact: Professor Karen Zimmermann
(520) 621-7003
kzim@email.arizona.edu

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We are over the moon 🌙 to welcome Emily Miu as a first year student this fall!

At first, Emily's path to college was blocked by barriers that were steering her away from what she wants to explore and she considered not attending at all.

That changed after attending the Visions program offered by Scottsdale Arts. Through this program, Emily had the opportunity to work with professional artists and visited us for a workshop.

Through our partnership with Visions, we were able to offer Emily scholarships so she can start her journey as a Wildcat this August! Her parents were misty eyed at the Visions '22 opening reception, saying that she would likely not have attended college at all, if not for Visions and the School of Art!

"The scholarship opportunities I gained from this program made me change my major in college and goals for my academic future" - Emily Miu

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We are over the moon 🌙 to welcome Emily Miu as a first year student this fall!

At first, Emilys path to college was blocked by barriers that were steering her away from what she wants to explore and she considered not attending at all.

That changed after attending the Visions program offered by Scottsdale Arts. Through this program, Emily had the opportunity to work with professional artists and visited us for a workshop.

Through our partnership with Visions, we were able to offer Emily scholarships so she can start her journey as a Wildcat this August! Her parents were misty eyed at the Visions 22 opening reception, saying that she would likely not have attended college at all, if not for Visions and the School of Art!

The scholarship opportunities I gained from this program made me change my major in college and goals for my academic future - Emily Miu

Congratulations and welcome!
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We are looking for models for our fall courses!
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Model for Art classes as scheduled/needed involving drawing from the figure.Applicants must be willing to pose partially clothed and nude for the dura...
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2 months ago
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We're so proud of all of our 2022 graduates! This one holds a special spot in our hearts. ❤️

Lauren Paun is graduating with her BFA in Art & Visual Culture Education (emphasis on Community and Museums) and 3D Art. She has been a student employee in the School of Art for two years, working with our social media accounts. You might have talked to her about being featured here! Lauren has been an integral part of our team, doing a lot of heavy lifting to find the fabulous work y'all are creating and sharing it here.

"I would just like to say how grateful I am for the opportunity to have had such an incredible position within the School of Art; I loved supporting and promoting the amazing artists that attend this school and feel so lucky to be able to learn and create beside them. I have loved every minute working here for the past two years and we'll miss it terribly-- but I am so excited to continue my journey and pursue my career in museums. A special thank you to my friends, family, professors, and supervisors for the constant love and support!!"

We could fill encyclopedias with praise for Lauren but hopefully this small note of gratitude can be enough. Good luck!! 🥺😭
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Were so proud of all of our 2022 graduates! This one holds a special spot in our hearts. ❤️

Lauren Paun is graduating with her BFA in Art & Visual Culture Education (emphasis on Community and Museums) and 3D Art. She has been a student employee in the School of Art for two years, working with our social media accounts. You might have talked to her about being featured here! Lauren has been an integral part of our team, doing a lot of heavy lifting to find the fabulous work yall are creating and sharing it here. 

I would just like to say how grateful I am for the opportunity to have had such an incredible position within the School of Art; I loved supporting and promoting the amazing artists that attend this school and feel so lucky to be able to learn and create beside them. I have loved every minute working here for the past two years and well miss it terribly-- but I am so excited to continue my journey and pursue my career in museums. A special thank you to my friends, family, professors, and supervisors for the constant love and support!!

We could fill encyclopedias with praise for Lauren but hopefully this small note of gratitude can be enough. Good luck!! 🥺😭Image attachmentImage attachment+4Image attachment
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Congrats, Lauren!! 🙌💐

Congratulations on a job well done. 👏Very proud of you and your accomplishments.

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Graduation celebrations continue! Let's hear it for one of our newest PhDs, Kasey Stuart! 🎓

"I'm Kasey Stuart and I am graduating with my PhD in Art History and Education. My research explores and questions preservice teachers' reliance upon social media as a resource for lesson plans. Currently, I am developing a program to help art educators critically analyze and amend lesson plans found online before they have brought into K-12 classrooms."

Thank you for doing this critical work that keeps teachers relevant to their students, while also making sure they are intentional and accurate!
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Graduation celebrations continue! Lets hear it for one of our newest PhDs, Kasey Stuart! 🎓

Im Kasey Stuart and I am graduating with my PhD in Art History and Education. My research explores and questions preservice teachers reliance upon social media as a resource for lesson plans. Currently, I am developing a program to help art educators critically analyze and amend lesson plans found online before they have brought into K-12 classrooms.

Thank you for doing this critical work that keeps teachers relevant to their students, while also making sure they are intentional and accurate!Image attachment
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We are so glad to see everyone enjoying the incredible work done by our MFA graduates in the 2022 MFA Show! Featured in the @uazmuseumofart is Venessa Ball and her intricate project titled Crosscut: Mining and domesticity, creating a life in spite of and because of the mine.

“As a mining state, Arizona is among the leading producers of copper in the United States.
These large operations required an extensive workforce, from laborers, to geologists, engineers, and company representatives. The mine would often provide housing, schoolhouses and
gathering spaces in the surrounding area, creating an entire town owned by the company itself. Like so many other small communities in America these “boomtown” economies were built on what they believed to be stable and consistent growth. Should the ore deposit run out or the company no longer have the funds to dig any deeper, what then happens to the community? What should also happen if the very commodity the mine needs to keep going just happens to be right under the ground on which they built the town? If you ask the former townspeople of Ray-Sonora, AZ… there is no more town. In 1966, their town was demolished to continue the mine operations.
Thirty years after Ray-Sonora was removed from the map, in 1996, the Magma Copper mine where my father and grandfather worked for decades—and that had provided so much stability for my family—officially closed, because it was deemed too costly to continue operations.
The only way my father could continue his career in mining was to relocate his family to another mining town. This wouldn’t be the last time this happened in my childhood. Chasing the ore was my father’s way of ensuring our family always had a stable and comfortable life.
The delicate patterns cut from family and historical photographs highlight the tension often felt by my family and so many mining families as they attempted to build a life in the shadow of a brutal and unstable industry, dependent on an unsympathetic capitalist economy.” - @venessaball
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We are so glad to see everyone enjoying the incredible work done by our MFA graduates in the 2022 MFA Show! Featured in the @uazmuseumofart is Venessa Ball and her intricate project titled Crosscut: Mining and domesticity, creating a life in spite of and because of the mine.

“As a mining state, Arizona is among the leading producers of copper in the United States. 
These large operations required an extensive workforce, from laborers, to geologists, engineers, and company representatives. The mine would often provide housing, schoolhouses and
gathering spaces in the surrounding area, creating an entire town owned by the company itself. Like so many other small communities in America these “boomtown” economies were built on what they believed to be stable and consistent growth. Should the ore deposit run out or the company no longer have the funds to dig any deeper, what then happens to the community? What should also happen if the very commodity the mine needs to keep going just happens to be right under the ground on which they built the town? If you ask the former townspeople of Ray-Sonora, AZ… there is no more town. In 1966, their town was demolished to continue the mine operations. 
Thirty years after Ray-Sonora was removed from the map, in 1996, the Magma Copper mine where my father and grandfather worked for decades—and that had provided so much stability for my family—officially closed, because it was deemed too costly to continue operations. 
The only way my father could continue his career in mining was to relocate his family to another mining town. This wouldn’t be the last time this happened in my childhood. Chasing the ore was my father’s way of ensuring our family always had a stable and comfortable life.
The delicate patterns cut from family and historical photographs highlight the tension often felt by my family and so many mining families as they attempted to build a life in the shadow of a brutal and unstable industry, dependent on an unsympathetic capitalist economy.” - @venessaballImage attachmentImage attachment+6Image attachment
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“Small. Confused. And in Awe.”

In case you haven’t had the chance to see it yet, the 2022 MFA Exhibition is featuring this incredible body of work created by Florence Von Grote! The illustrations are based on treasured memories from the places Florence has lived. The little animals are stand-in protagonists inhabiting, exploring and experiencing dream-based worlds.

“Small. Confused. And in Awe. is based on memories of the places I have lived. Events, people, and places are contorted and blended together into a half-imagined/half-remembered architecture. The nod to children’s book illustration invites the viewer to blur the boundaries between animal and human, reality and imagination.” - @flovong

Featured images are:
Traveler
Progress photo
Cartographer
Gardener
Loiterer
Collector

We urge you to check out Florence’s amazing work in the @uazmuseumofart before the show ends on May 14!
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“Small. Confused. And in Awe.” 

In case you haven’t had the chance to see it yet, the 2022 MFA Exhibition is featuring this incredible body of work created by Florence Von Grote! The illustrations are based on treasured memories from the places Florence has lived. The little animals are stand-in protagonists inhabiting, exploring and experiencing dream-based worlds. 

“Small. Confused. And in Awe. is based on memories of the places I have lived. Events, people, and places are contorted and blended together into a half-imagined/half-remembered architecture. The nod to children’s book illustration invites the viewer to blur the boundaries between animal and human, reality and imagination.” - @flovong 

Featured images are:
Traveler
Progress photo
Cartographer
Gardener
Loiterer
Collector

We urge you to check out Florence’s amazing work in the @uazmuseumofart before the show ends on May 14!Image attachmentImage attachment+3Image attachment
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