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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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“Inside, Outside” is an impressive series of collages by School of Art student, Breanna Romero.
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Growing up I had a slight obsession with collecting Teen Vogue publications as well as anatomy textbooks. I was always drawn to the editorials within the magazines, but also the detailed and meticulous illustrations within the textbooks. This obsession would lead to myself finding beauty within the human body, its ability to contort and take numerous forms. Created through scans of my old magazines and textbooks, I wanted to combine the similarities I found into a photo spread of my own publication that meets in-between fashion magazine and informative medical textbook.
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“Inside, Outside” is an impressive series of collages by School of Art student, Breanna Romero.
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Growing up I had a slight obsession with collecting Teen Vogue publications as well as anatomy textbooks. I was always drawn to the editorials within the magazines, but also the detailed and meticulous illustrations within the textbooks. This obsession would lead to myself finding beauty within the human body, its ability to contort and take numerous forms. Created through scans of my old magazines and textbooks, I wanted to combine the similarities I found into a photo spread of my own publication that meets in-between fashion magazine and informative medical textbook. 
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This gorgeous manipulated digital photograph is titled "Triangular Melons," and is by recent @uarizonaphoto MFA Alumna, Leah Netsky!
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My work considers the growing interaction between animal and plant life, science and technology. I use physical and digital manipulation of subjects to explore the human drive to edit, define, and control the organic. I have recently been working on a series of "future fruit" which play on genetic modification in fruit production. This image imagines how melons might be designed in the future.
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This gorgeous manipulated digital photograph is titled Triangular Melons, and is by recent @uarizonaphoto MFA Alumna, Leah Netsky!
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My work considers the growing interaction between animal and plant life, science and technology. I use physical and digital manipulation of subjects to explore the human drive to edit, define, and control the organic. I have recently been working on a series of future fruit which play on genetic modification in fruit production. This image imagines how melons might be designed in the future.
- @leah_netsky
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These beautiful photographs are from Tamrin Ingram who received her MFA from the Photography, Video and Imaging program here at the UArizona School of Art!
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These two photographs contain the shadow of my granny.
In one she photographs her youngest daughter (my mother, now passed) on a swing set, and the shadow of mother and daughter is cast on the background. In another the same shadow of Granny is cast upon the freshly dug grave of her husband. I was struck by these self-shadow portraits of her, both photographs are quite plain yet both seem to whisper something about heartache, parenthood, and loss. In one, a wife documents the final resting place of newly dead husband, in another a mother documents her daughter just after the death of father and husband, and on the edge of it all is myself, daughter and granddaughter left with only shadows and dirt and two haunting photographs, seeing them at a time long before they ever saw me.
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These beautiful photographs are from Tamrin Ingram who received her MFA from the Photography, Video and Imaging program here at the UArizona School of Art!
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These two photographs contain the shadow of my granny.
In one she photographs her youngest daughter (my mother, now passed) on a swing set, and the shadow of mother and daughter is cast on the background. In another the same shadow of Granny is cast upon the freshly dug grave of her husband. I was struck by these self-shadow portraits of her, both photographs are quite plain yet both seem to whisper something about heartache, parenthood, and loss. In one, a wife documents the final resting place of newly dead husband, in another a mother documents her daughter just after the death of father and husband, and on the edge of it all is myself, daughter and granddaughter left with only shadows and dirt and two haunting photographs, seeing them at a time long before they ever saw me.
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This fantastic illustrative piece is called SIMPLIFY by School of Art student, Caroline Berkey!
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“I would hope my illustrations speak more for themselves than any written statement would. I also wouldn't want to discourage any viewer from applying a personal meaning to my work, especially since the nuance of visual narrative is so special. This piece means a lot to me. I made this piece while experiencing the worst artist block I've felt, to my memory. I made this piece when I didn't want to make anything at all. I made this piece at the beginning of a global pandemic, when all of my goals and plans were flipped upside down, and I ashamedly felt relieved. I made this piece because I think it's funny and honest. S I M P L I F Y.” @caro.carlitos
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This fantastic illustrative piece is called SIMPLIFY by School of Art student, Caroline Berkey!
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“I would hope my illustrations speak more for themselves than any written statement would. I also wouldnt want to discourage any viewer from applying a personal meaning to my work, especially since the nuance of visual narrative is so special. This piece means a lot to me. I made this piece while experiencing the worst artist block Ive felt, to my memory. I made this piece when I didnt want to make anything at all. I made this piece at the beginning of a global pandemic, when all of my goals and plans were flipped upside down, and I ashamedly felt relieved. I made this piece because I think its funny and honest. S I M P L I F Y.” @caro.carlitos
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Congratulations to Alex Turner for his recognition in the 2020 Lens Culture Black and White Awards. Alex placed 1st in the Single Image Category for his beautiful image, “29 Humans (Smugglers) and 12 Horses , 1-Week Interval, Patagonia Mountains, AZ, 2019” from the series “Blind River”! ... See MoreSee Less

Congratulations to Alex Turner for his recognition in the 2020 Lens Culture Black and White Awards. Alex placed 1st in the Single Image Category for his beautiful image, “29 Humans (Smugglers) and 12 Horses , 1-Week Interval, Patagonia Mountains, AZ, 2019” from the series “Blind River”!
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Beautiful acrylic portrait from School of Art student Sara Al Dabbagh. This work features her rendition of a Sumerian Noblewoman in the desert of Sumer, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Sara is a third year Bachelor of Fine Arts student majoring in Studio Art with emphasis in Two-Dimensional studies.
“I am a woman from Iraq, and I have always desired to have myself be represented in art and modern culture. I made this piece, to show the beauty of Iraq.” @artist.sakalda
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Beautiful acrylic portrait from School of Art student Sara Al Dabbagh. This work features her rendition of a Sumerian Noblewoman in the desert of Sumer, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 
Sara is a third year Bachelor of Fine Arts student majoring in Studio Art with emphasis in Two-Dimensional studies. 
“I am a woman from Iraq, and I have always desired to have myself be represented in art and modern culture. I made this piece, to show the beauty of Iraq.” @artist.sakalda
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