The Whatcom Museum is showing the second Bellingham National Juried Art Exhibition until September 10. Sixty artworks by twenty-nine artists from around the country are on view. Four are our alums.

This Jacob Lawrence Gallery exhibition presents the work of artists recovering the unwritten histories of immigrant communities shown alongside the work of contemporary poets. Opens July 7 and runs through August 18.

This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of May 2017. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Two of our Painting + Drawing professors — Denzil Hurley and Zhi Lin — each have solo shows at regional museums. Hurley's is May 20 – Nov 5 at Seattle Art Museum, and Lin's is Jun 27 – Feb 4 at Tacoma Art Museum.

In February, Jenny Sabin Studio won this annual competition from a pool of fifty firms that was narrowed down to five finalists. Her project, Lumen, is on display at MoMA PS1 beginning in late June.

This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of April 2017. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

We rarely write about First Thursday, but this month we cannot ignore the unusual number of solo shows by our alums. We currently count eight one-person shows in the Pioneer Square area for May.

UW art professor Zhi Lin has spent nearly a decade researching the men’s lives and remembering them through his artwork, on view at the Tacoma Art Museum beginning this summer.

Fourteen Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design students are participating in this graduation show at the Henry Art Gallery. The public opening reception is June 2, 7–8:30pm, and the exhibition continues through June 25.

One unforeseen benefit arising from this particularly moist and chilly winter quarter was the delay of the annual burst of the Yoshino cherry blossoms in the Quad. There was a certain sense of relief and joy in the air as students...

In 2014, the Division of Design began hosting the Design Career Fair in response to growing demand from employers who increasingly wanted to invest in designers and design thinking to drive innovation in their organizations.

This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of March 2017. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

A student-run Division of Art tradition for over a decade, Strange Coupling bridges the gap between the UW and the greater Seattle art community by pairing students with professional artists for a collaborative project.

This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of February 2017. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Each year we celebrate graduating Art and Design undergraduate and graduate students with a series of exhibitions in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Henry Art Gallery. Join us for one or more of these events.

March Madness means something different in the clay world because that is when the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts holds its annual conference with attendance in the thousands. This year it is in nearby Portland.

Arts Wire was the 1989 idea of Anne Focke. She and five interns inventoried early records while also doing an Instagram takeover, exhibit, and podcast series launch in February; a second exhibit in June; and concluding essays in July.

A listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of January 2017. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

This event for graduating students takes place on Saturday, June 10, before the University's commencement ceremony. Tickets are required for attending students and guests.

While the long nights, inclement weather, and state of the world could rightly challenge anyone’s enthusiasm for this winter quarter, I remind myself how fortunate we are to be engaged in the teaching, research, and creation of the arts...

A listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of December 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi is part of a collaboration, Axiomatic, with mathematician Jayadev Athreya. She exhibited work from this project during 9e2 and now has a show at Linda Hodges Gallery.

Anne Focke invited fellow Art History alum David Mendoza to join her in a conversation about their lengthy and ongoing careers. It took place on Nov 21 in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

This 7-speaker series starts on January 12 and ends on March 9. All lectures are free and open to the public, but registration is recommended. Sponsored by The Boeing Company.

A listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of November 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Photomedia Assistant Professor Aaron Flint Jamison and alum Matt Browning (BFA 2007) have been selected for the prestigious Whitney Biennial, which takes place in New York City from March 17 to June 11, 2017.

This exhibition is a wide-ranging selection of paintings by artists in the Greater Seattle area that will be on view at V2 from Nov 28 – Dec 17. Twenty-two of the artists have School connections.

A listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of October 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

The School is pleased to present the 2017 Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award to Beth Sellars. Curator, artist, museum leader, teacher, and public art manager, she embodies the power of arts leadership.

Hosted by the Division of Art History, this lecture by Wendy Bellion on Nov 17 is titled "Performing Iconoclasm: New York, 1776–1976." It is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to save a seat.

Ashley Verplank McClelland, a PhD Candidate in the Division of Art History, has curated a show of work by Susan Point. It is at Western Gallery through December 3. She has also organized a series of related events.

A series of 2016–2017 exhibitions hosted by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Faculty work, student projects, and art by Jacob Lawrence are featured in separate shows. Several events accompany each exhibition.

A listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of September 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Seventeen pieces were selected by School Director Jamie Walker for display during the 2016-2017 academic year. The next time you attend an event at Meany Hall, be sure to see the exhibition.

9e2 takes place October 21 to 29 at King Street Station and other venues. Installations include work by Senior Lecturer Timea Tihanyi and two other alums. Another alum is involved in one of the performances.

The Museum of Northwest Art hosts this exhibition from October 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017. Associate Professor Mark Zirpel, full-time Lecturer Claire Cowie, several former professors, and a number of alumni are included.

The dawning of the 2016-2017 exhibition cycle at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is resplendent with the work of 2nd-year MFA students from Painting + Drawing, Photomedia, and 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture.

6pm on Thursday, September 29:  "The Enkolpion: Object and Self in Medieval Byzantium." Free and open to the public, but please RSVP.

Although most schools, colleges, and universities have already welcomed students to the new academic year, the UW maintains the tradition of offering classes within a quarter system resulting in a late September start of autumn quarter.

A listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of August 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Sep 1 – Oct 29 at Prographica/KDR: This thematic exhibition, curated by Professor Emeritus Norman Lundin, includes work by Photomedia Professor Ellen Garvens as well as several alumni. Interviews with some artists are on the Prographica blog.

September 2, 2016 – February 5, 2017: One current staff member and alumnus (Andrew Fallat), a professor emeritus, and fourteen other alumni are among the artists with work in this Bellevue Arts Museum exhibition.

A listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of July 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of June 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.

Seattle Art Fair returns to the CenturyLink Field Event Center for a second year after its success in 2015. It runs August 4–7. As happened last year, there are numerous concurrent shows in local galleries. Alumni and faculty will have work on exhibit.

This massive exhibition in King Street Station surveys contemporary Pacific Northwest art. It opens at the same time as Seattle Art Fair, but it will run through August. Multiple School-related people are involved or are showing work.

Summer quarter 2016 is seeing a first-time collaboration between the University of Washington Department of English and the Division of Art in the School of Art + Art History + Design. It is a six-week colloquium...

In January 2016, Painting + Drawing Professor Zhi Lin was awarded a RRF Scholar grant to support his project titled “In Search of Lost History in the 19th Century: Chinese American in Puget Sound.” He spent portions of spring quarter traveling to specific venues of historical riots...

This exhibition is the Tacoma Art Museum’s most recent survey of regional contemporary art. Six of the twenty-four artists included are School alumni. The exhibition will be on view through September 4.

This is a listing of alumni news as posted to our social media outlets during the month of May 2016. Most news like this goes onto our Twitter feed; you can receive it in real-time by following us there.