Congratulations 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 MoreThis fall, students in Professor Kim Martinez’s Urban Artworks class (ART 4185) have teamed up with the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program (BTSALP), Murray City, and Murray School District to create nine portable murals for the students and community of Murray. To start, students from the Murray elementary schools were asked to draw what…
Read MoreThe Ceramics area recently had the pleasure of hosting a workshop with artist Shasta Krueger. Krueger did a demonstrations, ran a wood firing with students, and presented an artist talk during her visit to campus.
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 MoreKaren Southam, a 2018 graduate from the Art Teaching program at the Department of Art & Art History, has been named the 2018-2019 Preservice Student of the Year by the Utah Art Education Association (UAEA). The UAEA’s mission “advocates for and increases the quality of visual arts education through professional development, collaboration, and leadership opportunities.”…
Read MoreWendy Wischer’s Site, Space & Installation class (ART 4460) recently returned from a trip to the Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa. This studio course explores the making of installations, art works which are environment-based and during this trip students explored their artwork for the camera lens in the remote desert landscape of eastern central…
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…
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