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

The second-year Painting + Drawing MFA student was featured in the Seattle Times, NW Asian Weekly, and International Examiner for his participation in Wing Luke Museum’s exhibit Lost & Found: Searching for Home.

Art History faculty promotions and grant awards, PhD students get published and receive fellowships. An ongoing compilation of recent news and awards in the Division of Art History. 

Explore the 2024 Graduate Showcase, an online publication featuring the culminating work of the graduating students receiving Master of Fine Arts (MFA) and Master of Design (MDes) degrees. 

Two student design projects recognized with Core77 Awards 2024. 

The Division of Design launched the 2024 Design Show website featuring the Bachelor of Design (BDes) capstone projects and Master of Design (MDes) thesis projects.

Congratulations graduating students from the UW School of Art + Art History + Design! Families are invited to join us to celebrate our graduates on Saturday, June 8, 9-11am. 

We are thrilled to announce that three Design seniors have been selected for the Husky 100 this year!

IVA senior Rosaline Dou shares how her experiences as a curatorial assistant at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Henry Art Liaison at the Henry Art Gallery, have informed her artistic practice translating meaning through gestures.

Elizabeth Xiong (2024), a double major in art history and computer science, shares how she gained different and complementary skills from each major.

2024 brings the year of the dragon, a symbol of creativity, luck, and growth. Inspired by the new year, The BASEMENT publication #1 is live online. 

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.

Art History senior, Elizabeth Xiong, reflects on her experience as a Seattle Art Museum's 2023 Emerging Arts Leader on SAMBlog.

A welcome letter from the co-editors; introducing Publication #0 featuring works from the 2023-2024 honors in art cohort and the publication's founding team. 

Learn about the progress of the 2024 Master of Design thesis projects by the second-year design graduates. 

Six students at the School of Art + Art History + Design selected for the 2023-2024 Henry Art Liaison Program.

Thanks to the generosity of donors, $218,000 is being awarded in scholarships this year: $101,000 to incoming students and $117,000 to current students.

Explore the online showcase to discover how each graduate student transformed their ideas, passions, and skills into a body of research.

Congratulations to this year’s HUB Director's Art Award winners: Neylan McCormick, Leah Matsumoto and Jai Sallay-Carrington.

The website featuring senior projects by the 2023 Bachelor of Design graduates is now live.

A Computer Science/Art history double-major shares her journey to exploring her passion for art history and potential career opportunities as the 2023 Emerging Leader at Seattle Art Museum

A compilation of alumni, student and faculty news sourced from social media, newsletters, emails, RSS feeds, and more. You can send your news to soanews@uw.edu.

Design faculty and students are Core77 awards 2023 honorees. 

A compilation of alumni news sourced from social media, newsletters, emails, RSS feeds, and more. You can send your news to soanews@uw.edu.

Art History PhD Candiate Or Vallah is among the UW students who received awards from the Harlan Hahn Endowment Fund in Disability Studies, Dennis Lang Award, and Barbara Greenberg Distinguished Scholarship for Disability Studies.

As we enter the second half of spring quarter and seniors inch closer toward graduation, the School of Art + Art History + Design begins a new set of exhibitions called “Material Latitudes” in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

Each year the School proudly celebrates graduating Art and Design students with a series of exhibitions at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery. Join us for one or more of these in April, May, and June.

Congratulations to Visual Communication Design senior, Shreya Balaji, and Industrial Design senior, Jerred Mace, who have been selected for this year's Husky 100. 

Every new year promises many expected, and undoubtedly unexpected, changes for us all who are brought together by the School of Art + Art History + Design. Great strides are being made with the partial renovation of the Art Building…

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.

When Nathan Jones transferred to the UW, he chose majors based on interest rather than career security: Creative Writing in the Department of English and Painting + Drawing in the School of Art + Art History + Design. That decision paid off. 

Four Master of Design students are working towards graduation in June 2023. On December 8, they shared their current thesis research at an in-person poster show, and they now want to share that research more widely.

The School is proud to share this year's scholarship recipients. This includes awards to incoming freshmen / transfer students as well as those to continuing undergraduate and graduate students in all three divisions.

Despite the unusually warm summer glow still with us, we welcomed the start of autumn quarter last week and the influx of students and faculty to campus. The beginning of the academic year brings…

Each October, the School awards over $210,000 in scholarships to new and returning students. Two recent scholarship recipients — Zoë Tsai and Finn Johnson — share stories about their journey at the UW, their scholarships, and returning to campus this autumn.

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…

While the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is undergoing renovation, this exhibition of MFA student work will be on view at SOIL Art Gallery. It opens on the evening of October 6 and runs through October 29.

Tour a Henry Art Gallery exhibition with UW senior Em Chan, and you can expect to do more than just look and listen. In addition to providing information about the works on display…

We are pleased to announce publication of the 2022 Graduate Showcase. This website presents the work of 19 recently graduated students who received Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Master of Arts (MA), or Master of Design (MDes) degrees.

“We made it!”, or some more colorful sentiment, was a common refrain that I heard from students, staff, and faculty as the academic year came to a close and we eased into summer...

Congratulations to Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby! They were one of two graduating University of Washington undergraduates awarded a 2022 President's Medal. UW President Ana Mari Cauce presented the medal to Gatsby on June 9 at the Awards of Excellence ceremony.

Two Art History faculty — Adair Rounthwaite and Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse — and two Art History graduate students — Nicole Block and Ananya Sikand — have received 2022–2023 funding from the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Adam Kingman received his Bachelor of Design degree in Industrial Design in 2014. He won the third season of Making It, a television competition, in 2021. The School invited Kingman to speak at our Graduation Celebration in June 2022.

Eason Yang received his Master of Design degree in June 2022. He was selected to be the graduate student speaker at the School’s 2022 Graduation Celebration, and he is Not Entirely Dead.

Dustin Mara received his Bachelor of Design degree in Visual Communication Design in June 2022. Joyce Lin received her Bachelor of Design degree in Interaction Design at the same time. Mara and Lin were the Division of Design’s undergraduate speakers for the School’s 2022 Graduation Celebration.

Alexander Betz received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History with departmental honors in June 2022. He was the Division of Art History’s undergraduate speaker for the School’s 2022 Graduation Celebration.

Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby received their Bachelor of Arts degree in Art, with departmental honors and a concentration in Interdisciplinary Visual Art, in June 2022. Gatsby was the Division of Art’s undergraduate speaker for the School’s 2022 Graduation Celebration.