Six graduate students and four undergraduates were recognized with individual awards at our in-person Graduation Celebration, plus one undergraduate received a President's Medal. Five students also gave short presentations during the ceremony.

Two Industrial Design students have received recognition for projects over the last few months: BDes student Jerred Mace with OneCourt and MDes student Zerong Yang with Customouse.

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.

We are proud that two students from the School were selected for the Husky 100 this year: Dustin Mara, Visual Communication Design, and Joyce Lin, Interaction Design. Both are graduating in June 2022.

Several students from the School participated in this year’s symposium on Friday, May 20. There was a virtual lightning talk, two in-person oral presentations, a poster presentation, and the Visual Arts & Design Showcase.

In the fall of 2021, Fresh partnered with the senior class of Industrial Design students at the University of Washington to innovate on the future of robotics.

The coming of spring is always a reward for those of us living in the Northwest, perhaps this year more than ever as we gingerly emerge from the persistent Covid pandemic. The campus is bustling in ways that have been sorely missed…

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.

GSAH invites you to a two-day virtual symposium “Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and Limitations in Art Making” on May 18–19, 2022. The event features two keynote speakers and four panels.

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.

Nine Master of Fine Arts and eight Master of Design students are participating in this graduation exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. The exhibition runs from May 27 through June 26, 2022.

Oh how grateful I am that we humans are known for being an adaptive species. Returning to campus in person at the start of the school year was so joyful and reminded us of how much learning happens during the non-scripted moments between fellow students and colleagues...

Eight Master of Design students are working towards graduation in June 2022. In mid-December, they shared their current thesis work in an online session, and they are now ready to share that further.

The typical energy and anticipation that comes with the beginning of the academic year was amplified by the joy and trepidation of returning to campus 570 days after classes were shut down on March 9, 2020. The start of the year…

Three recent scholarship recipients share stories about their journey to the UW, what their scholarships mean to them, and what they’re looking forward to after so long away from campus.

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.

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents The Reordering of Things, a group exhibition showcasing works in a variety of media by nine second-year MFA students. It runs October 19 through November 6.

This resource for School students opened at the beginning of autumn quarter 2021. It contains new and gently used materials and books that students may choose for use in their classes. We welcome donations to the library.

The Graduate Students of Art History (GSAH) is currently quite active. The student organization has a new website as well as a reading group called Dismantling the Canon, which received Simpson Center funding for this academic year.

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.

This year's Seattle Design Festival Block Party takes place on August 21 and 22. Four projects involve School faculty, students, and/or alums.

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.

The Henry Art Gallery hosted an exhibition and the School published a website featuring the final projects of talented graduate students from the School of Art + Art History + Design.

Elizabeth Xiong says: "I'm a computer science major, but it was an art history class that shaped how I understand our complex and broken world, and also allowed me to better know myself as an Asian American."

The late Tsutakawa was an alum (BA 1937, MFA 1950) and faculty. He started teaching at UW in 1946 and became a professor emeritus in 1976.

What a year it has been.

And suddenly the end of the academic year was in sight, heralding graduation time for over 200 of our students who persevered through unimaginable circumstances…

Jia Jia received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture in June 2021. She was the graduate student speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2021.

Ebrima Jassey received his Bachelor of Design degree in Visual Communication Design in June 2021. He was the Division of Design's undergraduate speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2021.

Alexis Calma received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History in June 2021. She was the Division of Art History's undergraduate speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2021.

Lily Stelzer finished her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art in December 2020. She was the Division of Art's undergraduate speaker for the School's virtual Graduation Celebration 2021.

Each year, the University of Washington recognizes 100 students from across all three campuses. Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby (Interdisciplinary Visual Art) and Han Eckelberg (Photo/Media) were both selected for 2021.

The School is pleased to announce the website documenting the work of our graduating graduate students. We are proud of their research and accomplishments. Nine MFA, one MA, one PhD, and four MDes graduates are included.

Six graduate students and four undergraduates were recognized with individual awards during our virtual 2021 Graduation Celebration. Four students also gave short presentations during the ceremony.

UW professors discuss their innovative adaptations to the challenges that remote learning has presented this past year. Associate Professor Curt Labitzke is included.

Sofia Krutikova, an undergraduate who is double majoring in Art and Cinema & Media Studies, has started a riot grrrl zine entitled Ra Ra Rebel.

Master of Fine Arts student Payton Cahill's thesis project, Ancient Future, "transcends the limits of the gallery space through a prompting of collective reflection."

Students in Timea Tihanyi's ART 400 (Interdisciplinary Visual Art Senior Studio) are wrapping up a rather unusual year with their online capstone exhibition.

Jerred Mace, an industrial design student in his third year, has founded the W/ Joy Project to spread joy through uplifting messages inside coffee sleeves.

In a ten-week project during winter quarter 2021, students in Professor Axel Roesler’s DESIGN 483/582 (Advanced Projects in Interaction Design) explored the future of digital health, sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company Design Labs.

Katherine Munoz-Castano arrived at the UW in autumn 2020. She is pursuing a double major in Art and Cinema + Media Studies with the goal of working in animation. She received one of the School's Crabby Beach Foundation Art Scholarships.

Art History Assistant Professor Juliet Sperling began teaching at UW in autumn 2020. She also quickly started researching Jacob Lawrence, the famous artist who taught in the School and after whom our gallery is named.

Gigi Costello-Montgomery first started at the University of Washington in 2000. She left after two years, partly because she still had no major. She returned in autumn 2020 and is now fully focused on art.

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.

Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design students — all graduating in 2021 and some from 2020 — are participating in this exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. The exhibition runs from May 29 through June 27, 2021.

Each year the School proudly celebrates graduating Art and Design students — both undergraduate and graduate — with a series of exhibitions at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery. We have a combination of online and in-person exhibitions this year.

Alexis Calma is a senior majoring in both Art History and English. She has taken advantage of study abroad in Italy, and she is pursuing the honors option in Art History.

Taught by Juliet Sperling, an Assistant Professor in Art History, this class centers around artist Jacob Lawrence.

Assistant Professor of Art History Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse explains what it's like to be a student in her class, Native Art of the Northwest Coast, in this University of Washington Magazine article.