Professor Lela Graybill, Ph.D was awarded an ACLS-incentive Faculty Fellowship last month from the College of Humanities & Vice President's Office for Research.
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Maureen O'Hara Ure, not only for her current solo exhibition at Phillips Gallery
Read MoreCongratulations to Sculpture Intermedia Professor Wendy Wischer, who was named highlighted researcher by the Vice President for Research! Read the interview about her work below.
Read MoreCongratulations to Utah’s 15: The State’s Most Influential Artists, which include faculty from the Department of Art & Art History, as well as artists and creators from our University of Utah community! Please join us Friday, February 8, for the reception and book release party at Rio Gallery. Utah’s 15: The State’s Most Influential ArtistsArtist reception…
Read MoreJoin us at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts for two more gallery talks for the University of Utah Art Faculty exhibition Site Lines: November 7, 5-7pm, and December 5, 1-3pm. The show has garnered incredible coverage including pieces in the Deseret News, The Salt Lake Tribune, the Utah Review and The Daily Utah Chronicle.
Read MoreLenka Konopasek, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing, with current MFA candidates Etsuko Kato and Josh Graham participated in the Art Dialogue – Interspaces, a tradition of interaction of art professors and emerging student artists from selected art schools in the Gallery of Klatovy / Klenova, in the Czech Republic. The Symposium was a…
Read MoreA lively gathering of contemporary art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) this fall shows off the diverse and innovative talents of the department’s outstanding art faculty. Site Lines: Recent Work by University of Utah Art Faculty, opening Friday, September 28, presents more than forty paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, mixed media, letterpress and…
Read MoreAt the end of this academic year and on the occasion of her retirement, we celebrate the career of Elizabeth Peterson, Associate Professor of Art History, after twenty-six years as a dedicated and highly valued teacher, scholar and colleague in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah. A specialist in…
Read MoreAs the semester ends, we say a bittersweet goodbye to Professor Joe Marotta as he retires after 40 years of teaching photography in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah. Professor Marotta started at the University of Utah in 1978, and has run the photography program for the same amount…
Read MoreArt History faculty are presenting in the US and abroad! Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Hollenberg presented “Regionalism and Decolonization at the United Nations, 1952-1970” at the Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Los Angeles on February 21, 2018. On March 14 she presented “’Altar to the God of All’: Architecture, Faith, and International…
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