Every quarter design students engage in collaborative projects through valuable partnerships with peers, alumni, and businesses. This story highlights four collaborations from Autumn 2024.

UW Students visit Seattle area museums with Art History Professor Bunn-Marcuse. Written by Mariah Ribeiro, graduate student in Art History and student in ARTH 533.

Watch the 18 brief presentations by design students from across VCD, IxD and ID, about their past Summer and Fall of Design.

A collaborative Printmaking studio + Art History course focused on the History of Japanese Woodcut prints. An exhibition in Art building features work by participating artists.

Hayden Stern, a transfer student new to UW, shares their experience in this autumn quarter class taught by Interdisciplinary Visual Art Assistant Professor Rob Rhee. The class ultimately redirected Stern's focus in the Art major.

Summer 2022 fortunately enabled the reemergence of study abroad offerings through the School. We were pleased to send undergraduate students on a 10-week immersive Art History program…

Celebrate Pride Month and the history, progress, and power of the LGBTQIA+ community through a collection of works by College of Arts & Sciences faculty, students, and alumni.

Assistant Professor Sangram Majumdar joined the Painting + Drawing faculty at UW in autumn quarter. He and four students recently reflected on the Intermediate Drawing class that took place during winter quarter.

During winter quarter 2022, Art History Honors undergraduate students, Em Chan and Alexander Betz, engaged in the newly designed graduate seminar ART H 500 (Methods of Art History) taught by Professor Estelle Lingo.

Seniors Kristen Walter and Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby reflect on their experiences in Art 480: Cross-Disciplinary Honors in Art. The course was taught by Rob Rhee during autumn 2021.

This lecture series is held January 14 – March 4 and is hosted in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Each summer quarter, students gather for a class titled Curating Contemporary Art, a Jacob Lawrence Gallery Practicum. Some of the students go on to work as paid interns in the gallery during the following academic year.

Essays written by students in a new class about former Professor of Art Jacob Lawrence's work and teaching were combined into an online publication using Pressbook.

Art History Assistant Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse taught a winter quarter 2021 microseminar for graduate students titled First Nations Art, Resistance, and Governance: Haida and Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw Art Against Extraction.

During autumn quarter 2020, 3D4M Assistant Professor Michael Swaine taught an introductory sculpture class entirely outdoors. It was featured in an Arts & Sciences Perspectives article.

Two faculty members — Annabelle Gould and Whitney Lynn — applied to the Arts Division in the College of Arts & Sciences early last year to develop new courses for non-majors. Both were taught for the first time in winter quarter 2021.

The Henry Art Gallery and the School have long partnered on educational projects. One of these is the Museum Guide Program and its internship course. Eight students are participating and four have written about their experience.

This 2021 lecture series begins on January 15 and ends on March 5. All sessions are hosted online in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. They are free and open to the public.

Autumn quarter is over, but some work lives on digitally. We are pleased to share with you activities that occurred during the past few months within the UW and out in our broader community.

Associate Professor Curt Labitzke demonstrated printmaking from home for a virtual college fair, which supported Divisional Dean of the Arts Catherine Cole's vision that all students experience the arts while at the UW, regardless of their major.

Assistant Professor of Art History Juliet Sperling analyzes 18 pieces of art that tell the tale of American history. Paintings by two alums are included in this University of Washington Magazine article.

Several projects by undergraduate Design students received recognition in the last month: as an Editor's Pick on Bestfolios, in an article on the SEGD website, and as winner of Core77 and EPDA awards.

We are featuring three summer quarter 2020 classes that are open for registration: Printmaking without a Press, Curating Contemporary Art, and Handmade Book Arts.

As 2019 rolled to a close and ushered in a new decade, the waning weeks of December were filled with joy, not only for completing another energizing quarter of teaching and learning but also for a number of newsworthy announcements, events, and…

This 2020 lecture series begins on January 9 and ends on March 12. All lectures are hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. They are free and open to the public.

During summer quarter, twenty undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences worked with a teaching team of five to explore the topic of creating alternate worlds.

ART 361/561 — Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice — is a course taught each winter quarter. Several students from this year's course write about the opportunity to hear and interact with multiple guest artists.

UW's collaboration with Seattle-based company Hightower challenged undergrads to create workspace pieces from concept to prototype and present their final projects to industry experts.

At the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, curatorial interns get hands-on preparation for careers in the art world — and roles in the community.

Whether you are curious about studying the arts, need to fulfill your VLPA credits, or are just looking to further your education, these courses are sure to transform and inspire you!

This lecture series begins on January 10 and ends on March 14, 2019. All lectures are hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. They are free and open to the public.

Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Lecturer Claire Cowie and English Professor Maya Sonenberg brought together two classes to build artist books during spring quarter 2018.

Collaborations and connecting coursework to professional practice is a significant aim of the Industrial Design Program. The DESIGN 445 course during autumn quarter 2017 is an example of just how powerful these collaborations can be.

The School's advising team is thrilled to be co-facilitating a new course for undergraduates during winter quarter 2018 — ARTS 350: Arts in Collaboration. Alumni from the visual and performing arts are participating.

This 7-speaker series starts on Jan 11 and ends on Mar 8. It is free and open to the public. Sponsored by The Boeing Company and The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation.