The Art Practice Department Graduation will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 3pm in Hertz Hall.

The April program features Andy Shanken (Architecture) and Stephanie Syjuco (Art Practice) in conversation with Lauren Kroiz (Art History).

A total of 9 undergraduate senior Art Majors will be accepted each semester and given the opportunity to strengthen their studio practice and independent projects. Program students are given a dedicated studio space in the Advanced Studio and Critique Program Studios at Bauer Wurster Hall, with 24-hour access.

UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice presents MFA Open Studios featuring the class of 2025 and 2026.

Eligible undergraduate Art Practice majors are invited to submit short project proposals to support immediate cost of art supplies and materials for one or more Art Practice classes.

The UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice presents the Spring 2025 Lecture series with a focus on contemporary Ceramic artists who combine a deep research practice with experimental processes and materials. All lectures take place from noon-1:30pm Room 285, Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB), UC Berkeley. Free and open to the public.

Sign up here for a special event with Valencia James to celebrate Black History at UC Berkeley Art Practice.

The UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice presents the Spring 2025 Lecture series with a focus on contemporary Ceramic artists who combine a deep research practice with experimental processes and materials. All lectures take place from noon-1:30pm Room 285, Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB), UC Berkeley. Free and open to the public.

The UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice presents the Spring 2025 Lecture series with a focus on contemporary Ceramic artists who combine a deep research practice with experimental processes and materials. All lectures take place from noon-1:30pm Room 285, Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB), UC Berkeley. Free and open to the public.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair, to discuss fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,” as a third culture kid.

The ART 136: Radical Wearables class at UC Berkeley presents a live event/exhibition: Black Friday but it’s Monday and Nothing is On Sale!

Exact time and more information TBA.

Current MFA students will each present 20 minute talks about their process and practice, with a short Q&A moderated by Prof. Stephanie Syjuco. Free and open to the public. Note this event will take place in 002 Physics Building.

Deadline: Nov. 17. The ASCP offers senior Art Practice majors semester long access to one of nine studio spaces in Bauer Wurster Hall. Students participate in weekly hour-long group critiques led by a rotating Art Practice faculty member, a group exhibition in the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, and an open studios event.

Two artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection—Aria Dean and Mary Weatherford—discuss the ways they approach and reenvision the genre of gestural abstraction. Katy Siegel, Research Director at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, moderates.

The November program features Asma Kazmi (Art Practice/BCNM) and SanSan Kwan (Theater, Dance & Performance Studies) in conversation with Carolyn Chen (Ethnic Studies).

This is an online informational event about applying to the UC Berkeley Art Practice Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) Program.

Current MFA students will each present 20 minute talks about their process and practice, with a short Q&A moderated by Prof. Stephanie Syjuco. Free and open to the public. Note this event will take place in 002 Physics Building.

Congratulations to MFA awardees Priyanka D’ Souza (Resting Museum) and Viviana Martinez Carlos! The reception will be held on November 1 at SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco.

Artist talk by Courtney Desiree Morris, a visual/conceptual artist and associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

To mark the opening day of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, art collector and philanthropist Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, recount with BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton their journey organizing the exhibition

A performance event at Gray Area, San Francisco, featuring Zekarias Musele Thompson (MFA’25), Jasmine Nyende (MFA’25), and Gaia WXYZ (lecturer).