Thanks to your gifts, students learn from visiting artist lectures, hands-on workshops, and travel to major arts cities that expand how they see themselves and their work within the broader art world. 

In 2025, Studio Matthews received five major design awards across multiple projects, many of which included UW Design alumni as collaborators.

indira allegra’s "The Book of Zero" introduces a guided, meditative experience shaped by themes of rebirth and transformation. Featued on The Daily.

The winning projects that included design majors got awarded for Best Design and Best Impact.

Founded by Industrial Design alum Jerred Mace (BDes 2023), OneCourt is a Seattle-based startup dedicated to making live sports more accessible for people with blindness or low vision.

indira allegra's exhibition, The Book of Zero, navigates themes of death, rebirth, and transformation, encouraging visitors to consider what they want to let go of and reflect on the prospect of change.
 

Rachael Z. DeLue's lecture will examine the relationship between art and science in response to astronomical phenomena in nineteenth-century Europe and North America.

To be published in fall 2026, The Ill-Fated Afterlife examines the emergence of paintings of Buddhist hells in thirteenth-century Japan. 

Emma Teal Laukitis (MDes 2018) and her sister Claire not only catch and sell Alaska’s most famous fish, they help feed hundreds of thousands of Alaskans through their donations.

Anthony Sonnenberg (MFA 2012) is among this year's 50 artists across the country awarded the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship.