News Alumni Feature: Dave Titensor, U Creative Director Graphic Design Alum and University of Utah's Marketing & Communications Creative Director Dave Titensor was recently featured in... Read More U of U Artists at Three Creeks Confluence Park, SLC Painting & Drawing Professor Al Denyer, and alumni Joshua Graham (MFA Community Based Art Teaching, 2019) and Claire... Read More Wendy Wischer at Oolite Arts Sculpture Intermedia Professor Wendy Wischer shows her new video installation, Where Water and Rock Collide, in a group... Read More Alec Bang & Douglas Tolman at Finch Lane [in]land | Finch Lane Gallery | 6.25.21 - 8.6.21 BFA Alumni Alec Bang and Douglas Tolman open their... Read More Jaclyn Wright, Spring 2021 Digital Matters Grant Read about Photography / Digital Imaging Professor Jaclyn Wright's Digital Matters Exhibition and Performance grant work in the... Read More Art History Alumni News Congratulations to our Art History MA Alums Jennifer Sales and Emily Citino for their recent accomplishments! Jennifer Sales... Read More MA Graduate 2021: Laura Johnson Congratulations to Laura Johnson, who successfully defended her MA thesis, “Uncovering the Embedded Histories of Gender, Race, and Hairstyling... Read More MA Graduate 2021: Kiki Karahalios Congratulations to Kiki Karahalios, who successfully defended her thesis and earned her MA in Art History! We're happy... Read More John Erickson at Phillips Gallery Painting & Drawing Professor John Erickson shows new work in an exhibition opening Friday, May 21, from 6-9pm... Read More Al Denyer at Modern West "Time and growth are a dependent pair. This exhibition exemplifies their mutual reliance as the three selected artists... Read More Wendy Wischer + Brenda Bowen at Granary Arts “Artist Wendy Wischer and Geoscientist Brenda Bowen explore the intersections between art and science within the lure of... Read More MA in Arts Teaching student Danielle Waters talks about the Youth Activist Art Archive Danielle Waters, MA in Arts Teaching graduate and Digital Matters Spring 2021 Exhibition & Performance DM Graduate Student... Read More 2021 Outstanding Senior Malithi Gunawardena Congratulations to Malithi Gunawardena, this year's College of Fine Arts Outstanding Senior for the Department of Art &... Read More Urban Artworks Mural Installed at CMES Browning Building The winning mural design from Professor Kim Martinez's Urban Artworks Fall 2020 class, Walking in Beauty, has been installed in... Read More 2021 Arts Technology Capstone Exhibition Congratulations to the Arts Technology certificate and minor students for their capstone exhibition, As We Are, featuring work... Read More 2021 Photography Digital Imaging Capstone Exhibitions We're excited to announce the 2021 Photography Digital Imaging Capstone Shows! Home Sweet Home, by Nate Francis, is... Read More Wendy Wischer & Reilly Jensen in Artivism for Earth Event Artivism for Earth: Expressions of Loss and Hope is an interdisciplinary collaboration out of the University of Utah... Read More Covid, Coincidence, and a Book Arts Connection Marriott Library asked Art Teaching senior and Book Arts intern Victoria Dennis and Book Arts K-12 & Community Education... Read More Art & Art History Students Present at Undergraduate Research Symposium Congratulations to Art History student Adrienne Krueger and BFA Photography/Digital Imaging student Nate Francis for presenting their Undergraduate... Read More A4/Letter Exhibition Students in Painting and Drawing Professor Al Denyer's Drawing 2/3 class in fall 2019 saw the completion of... Read More Art History MA Student Presents Research Art History MA student Cory Wayman is presenting a paper this week at the University of Arizona Art... Read More CALL FOR ENTRIES: U OF U 2021 STUDENT ART EXHIBITION U of U 2021 Student Art Exhibition Call for Entries ELIGIBILITY All currently enrolled U of U UNDERGRADUATE... Read More Fall 2020 News & Snaps Students During this semester, students in ART 4720: Contemporary Photography Projects have been working on individual bodies of... Read More Tom Hoffman Drawing Exhibition Painting & Drawing Professor Tom Hoffman retired at the end of the summer 2020 semester, and the Department... Read More MFA Alum Nancy Rivera at Granary Arts Alum Nancy Rivera (MFA 2016) opened a new exhibition with Denae Shanidiin last month at Granary Arts: “Facing... Read More Urban Artworks CMES Mural The University of Utah's Department of Art & Art History and the College of Mines and Earth Sciences... Read More Meekyung MacMurdie PhD to join Art History Faculty for Fall 2021 The Department of Art & Art History is delighted to announce that Meekyung MacMurdie, Ph.D., will join our... Read More 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... Read More The Remains of the Dream The Remains of a Dream The American dream of “self-evident truths” and “unalienable rights,” is no longer a... Read More 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... Read More Online Performance by Professor Beth Krensky O1ARTS – Social Distancing and Art, Episode 3 Dispatch from Solitude #1: Walking the Unknown Path Beth Krensky... Read More 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... Read More Illustration Emphasis Starting Fall 2020 Our department now offers an Illustration emphasis! Illustration is an expanding field with numerous career paths in publishing, editorial,... Read More 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... Read More MFA Exhibition: Dana Hansen, Perception is Reality We're pleased to present Dana Hansen's MFA Exhibition Perception is Reality. View the exhibition here! Hansen's Artist's Talk... Read More Professor Beth Krensky wins Distinguished Teaching Award Congratulations to Art Teaching Professor Beth Krensky, winner of a University Distinguished Teaching Award this year! “Dr. Krensky... Read More Photo/Digital Imaging Capstone Exhibition: Araceli Haslam Araceli Haslam - Left Lonely These urban ruins were originally built in response to the post-industrial boom and... Read More Congratulations to CFA Outstanding Senior Pisti Gamvroulas Congratulations to the College of Fine Arts Outstanding Senior for the Department of Art & Art History, Pisti... Read More The Art of Quarantine "In light of the pandemic and the transition from in-person classes to online classes, we as part of... Read More Photo/Digital Imaging Capstone Exhibition: Carson Melrose a place i've never been - Carson Melrose a place i’ve never been explores the distance between the... Read More 2020 Juried Student Art Exhibition Catalog Released We're excited to announce the catalog of the 2020 Juried Student Art Exhibition exhibition is available to view... Read More A New Decameron: Art students respond to Covid-19 with special group project This is a guest post by Edward Bateman, artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art... Read More Student exhibitions have gone online! Due to precautions being taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in our community, our student exhibitions are... Read More Photo/Digital Imaging Capstone Exhibition: INFRA, Natalie Hopes Natalie Hopes - INFRA The Infrared-sensitive process was developed during World War 1 by the United States to... Read More Spring Semester Update CLASSES CANCELED ON MARCH 16 & 17 ONLINE LEARNING ONLY THROUGH END OF SEMESTER The University of Utah... Read More Things & Pictures of Things Exhibition Opening Thanks to all who came to the reception of Things & Pictures of Things, the Photo and Sculpture... Read More Professor Jaclyn Wright opens solo exhibition in Houston Congratulations to Photography Professor Jaclyn Wright, winner of the Texas Photographic Society National Photography Award. Along with the... Read More Professor Michael Hirshon featured in ‘Magnifying’ Professor Michael Hirshon was just featured in Magnifying, a series dedicated to showcasing the talent of our students, faculty,... Read More Art History MA Alum appointed West Coast Editor at New Art Examiner Congratulations to Art History MA alum Alexander Stanfield for his recent appointment as West Coast Editor in the... Read More Xi Zhang at Kimball Art Center Xi Zhang: Dream Dust Milkshake February 14 – April 12, 2020 Exhibition Community Reception | February 28 |... Read More Objects of Desire & Disgust Photography Exhibition Objects of Desire & Disgust ART 4720 | Color Photography From the very beginning photographs were employed to... Read More Wendy Wischer’s ‘Written on the Wind’ at NHMU Written on the Wind by Wendy Wischer, Professor of Sculpture Intermedia, is part of Nature All Around Us, a special exhibition... Read More Professor Ed Bateman featured on KSL News Photography/Digital Imaging Professor Ed Bateman was recently featured on KSL News, watch the video below! “Bateman started taking... Read More Taft Nicholson Painting Residency, 2019 Congratulations to Kim Martinez’s Taft-Nicholson Painting Residency class for putting together an amazing exhibition in Gittins Gallery! In... Read More 2019 Howard Clark Scholarship Exhibition Thank you everyone who came out for the Howard Clark Exhibition reception last week, and a very special... Read More 2019-20 Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History, Virginia Solomon The Department of Art & Art History is pleased to welcome Dr. Virginia Solomon (B.A. Stanford University, 2004,... Read More 2019 Annual Student Art Exhibition Thanks to all who came out to support our students for the 2019 Annual Student Art Exhibition! The... Read More Arts Technology Capstone: e-co-systems Great work at the Arts Technology Capstone Exhibition e-co-system. The culmination of the Arts Technology program, students collaborated on large... Read More BFA student Bea Hurd unveils public sculpture in Katherine’s Courtyard BFA student Bea Hurd’s public sculpture Suburban Wudu was installed in Katherine’s Courtyard last week. A work in process for... Read More Honors Art, Action & the Environment trip to Rio Mesa This semester, honors students from numerous majors across campus came together in Professor Wendy Wischer’s class ‘Art, Action,... Read More Spring 2019 Art History Faculty News Professor Lela Graybill, Ph.D was awarded an ACLS-incentive Faculty Fellowship last month from the College of Humanities &... Read More Art Teaching student Sydney Porter presents Murray Murals research to UT legislature Undergraduate student Sydney Porter was selected by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of... Read More Art History student Cory Wayman presents at ‘Posters on the Hill’ Each year, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of Government Relations and the Office... Read More Sculpture Club’s “Art in Form” Exhibition What does wax, photography, metal, clay, wood, plastic, virtual reality, video, trash, yarn and paint have in common?... Read More Professor Maureen O’Hara Ure releases “Stranger & Stranger” Congratulations to Professor Maureen O'Hara Ure, not only for her current solo exhibition at Phillips Gallery Read More Professor Wendy Wischer named highlighted researcher by VPR Congratulations to Sculpture Intermedia Professor Wendy Wischer, who was named highlighted researcher by the Vice President for Research!... Read More Congratulations to Utah’s 15! Congratulations to Utah’s 15: The State’s Most Influential Artists, which include faculty from the Department of Art &... Read More Urban Artworks Fall 2018: We Are Murray Murals This fall, students in Professor Kim Martinez’s Urban Artworks class (ART 4185) have teamed up with the Beverley... Read More Ceramics Visiting Artist Shasta Krueger & Wood Firing The Ceramics area recently had the pleasure of hosting a workshop with artist Shasta Krueger. Krueger did a... Read More Site Lines: Press & Gallery Talks Join us at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts for two more gallery talks for the University of... Read More Art Dialogue – Interspaces, in the Czech Republic Lenka Konopasek, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing, with current MFA candidates Etsuko Kato and Josh Graham... Read More Alumna Karen Southam wins Utah Art Education Association Award Karen Southam, a 2018 graduate from the Art Teaching program at the Department of Art & Art History,... Read More Site, Space & Installation Class visits Rio Mesa Wendy Wischer’s Site, Space & Installation class (ART 4460) recently returned from a trip to the Bonderman Field... Read More Site Lines: First Look A lively gathering of contemporary art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) this fall shows off... Read More Art History Professor Elizabeth Peterson Retires At the end of this academic year and on the occasion of her retirement, we celebrate the career... Read More Photography Professor Joe Marotta Retires As the semester ends, we say a bittersweet goodbye to Professor Joe Marotta as he retires after 40... Read More 2018 Rolapp Award Winner, Rachel Urban Please join in congratulating this year’s Ethel Armstrong Rolapp Endowed Award for Excellence recipient, Rachel Urban. A graduating... Read More Glass Casting Workshop with visiting artist Mark Anderson We had the pleasure of having visiting artist Mark Anderson run a glass casting workshop for sculpture club... Read More Art in the Community, Spring 2018 Students in Jorge Rojas’ Art in the Community class have been working with Go Girlz (The U’s Women... Read More 2018 Student Exhibition Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the opening of the Annual Student Exhibition last week! Special... Read More Art History Faculty Presenting in the US and abroad Art History faculty are presenting in the US and abroad! Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Hollenberg presented “Regionalism and... Read More 2018 BDAC Statewide Competition Congratulations to all of the artists in the Bountiful Davis Art Center 2018 Statewide Competition! We were proud... Read More Aaron Coleman Visiting Artist in Printmaking Aaron Coleman is a mixed media artist and printmaker creating works focused on political and social issues. He... Read More 2018 Student Show Call for Entries ELIGIBILITY All currently enrolled U of U UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO ART MAJOR students (all emphasis areas) are invited to... Read More Sue Tirrell Visiting Artist in Ceramics Visiting Artist, Sue Tirrell, held demonstration and workshops for ceramics students February 23 and 24, 2018. She also... Read More Paris/Rome Journal ’17: Joe Marotta Thank you to all who came out for the opening reception of Joe Marotta’s exhibition, Paris/Rome Journal ’17! Read More Xi Zhang Solo Exhibition in NYC MARC STRAUS is pleased to present our inaugural solo exhibition of new paintings by Utah-based Chinese artist Xi... Read More 2018 Warnock Artists-in-Residence Lecture The Department of Art & Art History will host a free and public lecture by this year’s Warnock... Read More Simon Blundell: Fragmentation and Language Simon Blundell, Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Photography, opened his exhibition Fragmentation and Language at the Gallery at Library Square... Read More New Photography Minor So much of how we know our world comes to us through photographs. There is almost no discipline... Read More Sustainable Design Exhibition With the mounting pressures on our planet’s resources along with the adverse effects of climate change, it is... Read More MFA Interim Exhibition 2018 Featuring work from our current MFA candidates: Nolan Flynn, Etsuko Kato, Natalie Oliver, William Curtis, Josh Graham, and... Read More Printmaking Workshop with Lesley Dill Students worked with artist Lesley Dill earlier this month in a printmaking workshop, utilizing text and storytelling to... Read More “Mini Series” Student-Run Exhibition Spaces “Mini Series” Student-Run Exhibition Spaces During the Art and Art History SAC open house held last fall, a... Read More Spatial Perception — Shawn Porter’s TRAX platform project Shawn Porter recently completed a piece for Salt Lake City’s TRAX line. The sculpture is at the Airport... Read More Greetings from Brazil Art History Professor Elena Shtromberg sends her best wishes from Rio, where the Art History Study Abroad students... Read More
