Portraits of Kat Lew and Tom McAlister

2026 Bonderman Fellows

Industrial Design senior Kat Lew and Art senior Tom McAlister have been selected for the 2026 Bonderman Travel Fellowship.

Rob Rhee tending to his gourds at UW Farm

Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai: A Gourd

Assistant Professor and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Visual Art program Rob Rhee, recently joined Shin Yu Pai on the podcast Ten Thousand Things to discuss his creative practice through his exhibition Crossings.

Monthly Happenings — May 2026

We’re excited to share May's roundup featuring upcoming events, student opportunities, info sessions, and key deadlines across the School of Art + Art History + Design and UW Seattle.

Christie Tirado explaining the process of creating relief block prints to students.

Cosechando Historias

Featured on WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR affiliate, Christie Tirado (BA 2013) presents her exhibition “Cosechando Historias,” now on view at Milwaukee’s Latino Arts gallery.

Sangram Majumdar standing in front of one of his paintings.

Sangram Majumdar receives a Neddy Award

Associate Professor Sangram Majumdar is this year's recipient in the Painting category. Majumdar was also recently featured on Vogue India for his solo exhibition Bad Actors at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai, India.

Portrait of artist Nour Mobarak

Art Fwd: Nour Mobarak

We are excited to welcome artist Nour Mobarak as this year's Art Fwd lecturer on Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6–7:30pm in the Henry Art Gallery's Auditorium.

Three students selected for Husky 100

2026 Husky 100

VCD seniors Lee Hardisty and Emily Hao, along with MDes second-year McKinley Smith, have been selected for this year's Husky 100.

 

Chave standing in front of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Chave Pichardo: Spaces of care

Access, care, and community are at the center of graduating MFA student Chave Pichardo's practice. 

Exhibition view of The Book of Zero

Where Life and Death Meet: Representations of Sorrow and Growth in indira allegra’s "Book of Zero"

Maddie Rosales of TeenTix offers an introspective review of indira allegra’s recent exhibition, The Book of Zero, at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

Installation view, Dispersal Patterns: Honors BA Grad Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, 2025.

2026 Graduation Exhibitions

Join us for a series of exhibitions to celebrate our talented art and design students graduating this spring.