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The dynamic environment created within the department is fertile ground for those serious about art-making, graphic design, research, critical discourse, and teaching. Our faculty are dedicated to excellence and provides an open, respectful center for diversity and creative expression. The department mentors students in innovation, critical thinking, craft, exploration, and create exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations. The Department of Art & Art History is an excellent place for students interested in creating a life in the arts.

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Fall 2020 News

Fall 2020 News

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Urban Artworks CMES Mural

The University of Utah's Department of Art & Art History and the College of Mines and Earth Sciences began the ...
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Meekyung MacMurdie

Meekyung MacMurdie PhD to join Art History Faculty for Fall 2021

The Department of Art & Art History is delighted to announce that Meekyung MacMurdie, PhD, will join our faculty in ...
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Visiting Artist Brad Taylor with Ceramics Students at UMoCA

Visiting Artist Brad Taylor with Ceramics Students at UMoCA

Over the circuit breaker, ceramics students met with visiting artist and alum Brad Taylor to tour his exhibition that just ...
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The Remains of the Dream

The Remains of the Dream

The Remains of a Dream The American dream of “self-evident truths” and “unalienable rights,” is no longer a new concept ...
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Alumni Highlight: Catching Up with Alyssa Hood

Alumni Highlight: Catching Up with Alyssa Hood

Congratulations to Painting and Drawing alum Alyssa Hood (BFA 2019), who will start the MFA program at the Ernest G ...
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Online Performance by Professor Beth Krensky

O1ARTS – Social Distancing and Art, Episode 3
Dispatch from Solitude #1: Walking the Unknown Path
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Sydney Porter Williams talks to students about the Murray Murals project

Sydney Porter Williams included in Undergraduate Research Journal

Recent BFA graduate Sydney Porter Williams had her work on the Murray Murals project published in the newest volume of ...
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Illustration Emphasis Starting Fall 2020

Our department now offers an Illustration emphasis! Illustration is an expanding field with numerous career paths in publishing, editorial, concept art, ...
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Kylie Millward MFA

MFA Exhibition: Kylie Millward, Scribbling Outside the Margins

We're pleased to present Kylie Millward's MFA Exhibition Scribbling Outside the Margins
Visit the Exhibition Millward's Artist's Talk took ...
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University of Utah

Welcome to Spring 2021 semester and the return of

Welcome to Spring 2021 semester and the return of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowed Lecture Series! We’re excited to welcome Ilana Harris-Babou on Wednesday, January 27 for our first artist talk of the semester.

Ilana Harris-Babou’s work spans sculpture and installation, and is grounded in video. She speaks the aspirational language of consumer culture and uses humor as a means to digest painful realities. Her work confronts the contradictions of the American Dream: the unreliable notion that hard work will lead to upward mobility and economic freedom. She has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, including The Whitney Museum of Art and The Studio Museum, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts & Design and HESSE FLATOW (NYC). She has been reviewed in the New Yorker, Artforum, and Art in America.

The lecture will be at 5:30 pm (MT) via Zoom. All students and faculty in the Department of Art & Art History will receive information via Umail prior to the talk. Others interested may contact: info@art.utah.edu.

Made possible through the generous support of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowment, the Department of Art & Art History, and the College of Fine Arts.

Sculpture Intermedia Professor Wendy Wischer spent

Sculpture Intermedia Professor Wendy Wischer spent time over winter break doing video tests for an installation created through a @u.digitalmatters grant. “Battlegrounds” is a multi-media installation that looks at where land ownership, management and policy overlaps with the ownership, management and policy around the female body.

Land ownership, management and policy are pressing issues in the Western US, where over 46% percent of all land is owned and managed by Federal Agencies. Controversy exists around the current and future plans for managing this territory due to conflicting stakeholder values. At the same time, in many states throughout the US, women’s health and regulations of their bodies are also controlled by government agencies. Wischer is interested in exploring where management and policy of both land and the female body collide. Where metaphorical similarities exist in hopes of discovering a greater understanding that might hold the potential for solutions to better ways of managing and better policies.

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Video testing for “Battlegrounds”

Fall semester work from @uofu_graphic_design senio

Over the break, Painting and Drawing Professor Al

Over the break, Painting and Drawing Professor Al Denyer has been working in her studio, experimenting with different media and techniques for a new project ‘A Sense of Place; Responses to Belonging in the American West’, for which she was recently awarded a Collections Engagement Grant from the UMFA and Marriott Library Special Collections at the University of Utah. She will be working on this project throughout the Spring 2021 semester with Graduate students from the Dept. of Art & Art History.

Images: details of two of the new works she is creating, ink on paper and white charcoal on paper.
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So much beautiful work came out of Low-fire cerami

So much beautiful work came out of Low-fire ceramics class in fall semester! Today we’re featuring Kim Brown, Taylor Aucutt, Sophia Skedros, Andrea Fabrega, and Dani Okelberry

Recent MFA grad Kylie Millward was interviewed abo

Recent MFA grad Kylie Millward was interviewed about her thesis project, “Girls Can’t Ride the Giant Wild Boar”, for PBS Utah’s More Than Half podcast. Listen on their website, congratulations Kylie!
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VERY exciting news!!!
Some amazing folks at PBS Utah interviewed me about my book, “Girls Can’t Ride the Giant Wild Boar.” It is featured on the podcast, “More Than Half” along with an amazing interview by the brilliant Susan Madsen of the Utah Woman and Leadership Project. Research, interviews and production conducted by @alicialrice and Ashley Swansong. Audio mixing by Will Montoya. Narrated by Andrea Smardon. Link in bio 😺

The episode title, “Domestic Rebellion”, is a title that I love for so many reasons.

Here is the episode synopsis from their website:
“For many women, the balance between career and home can be difficult to find. But what happens if you’re told growing up you have to put your family first? One artist is using her work to explore the gender messages she grew up with and help raise a generation of confident girls.

In this episode we hear from artist Kylie Millward about her journey navigating her career and the gender expectations she grew up with. We also hear from Susan Madsen of the Utah Women and Leadership Project about how traditional gender roles can affect women long term.”

I am truly honored to have my work included in this important project🥰

You can find this on the More Than Half website or the link in my bio. Please listen to their other incredible episodes!

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