Congratulations to Kim Martinez's Taft-Nicholson Painting Residency class for putting together an amazing exhibition in Gittins Gallery! In this class, held at the University of Utah's Taft Nicholson Center in Montana, artists were given the opportunity to spend a week learning to paint the landscape while being fully immersed in it. The intensive residency included…
Read MoreThank you everyone who came out for the Howard Clark Exhibition reception last week, and a very special thanks to Howard Clark for his continued support of our Painting and Drawing students! Emeri Fetzer, communications specialist for the College of Fine Arts, penned a feature on the exhibition and artists for the The Finer Points…
Read MoreThe Department of Art & Art History is pleased to welcome Dr. Virginia Solomon (B.A. Stanford University, 2004, Studio Art and Feminist Studies; M.A. 2007, Ph.D. 2013, Art History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California) as the 2019-20 Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History. Dr. Solomon’s research interests include contemporary art, curation, gender studies,…
Read MoreThanks to all who came out to support our students for the 2019 Annual Student Art Exhibition! The show will be on view in Gittins Gallery until May 3. Don't miss it! Reception Photos Exhibition Photos Award Winners Anita Hawkins - After Rothko - Best in Show & Faculty Awards Nikita Nenashev - Rolapp Award…
Read MoreGreat work at the Arts Technology Capstone Exhibition e-co-system. The culmination of the Arts Technology program, students collaborated on large scale media projects shown at Marriott Library on April 17, 2019. Refuse, Reduce, Recycle By Pisti Gamvroulas, Sarah Hogg, and Kyra Ott Art addressing the environment is hardly new, but as an increasingly pressing topic of conversation…
Read MoreBFA student Bea Hurd's public sculpture Suburban Wudu was installed in Katherine's Courtyard last week. A work in process for nearly the entire semester, Hurd's sculpture, along with another public art piece by architecture student Jaiden Hughes, will be on view at a reception this Thursday, April 18, 4-6pm, in Marriott Library's Katherine's Courtyard. Suburban Wudu addresses issues…
Read MoreThis semester, honors students from numerous majors across campus came together in Professor Wendy Wischer's class 'Art, Action, & the Environment'. A group of non-art majors, they recently visited the Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa for a weekend of ecology and art making in the red rock desert. Mostly using natural materials that the…
Read MoreProfessor 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 MoreUndergraduate student Sydney Porter was selected by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of Government Relations and the Office of Undergraduate Research to present at the Research on the Hill event at the Utah State Capitol this week. Porter, a senior in the Art Teaching program, presented research on the "We Are…
Read MoreEach year, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of Government Relations and the Office of Undergraduate Research select students to exhibit their work via posters to Utah State legislators. At this event, legislators and their staff members learn about the importance of undergraduate research and creative work through talking directly with…
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