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).

Virtual and in-person event, Stanford University. How does it feel to be in the lowest percentile group for life expectancy? When data artist Greg Niemeyer faced the need for a life-saving double lung transplant, he experienced first hand the massive gap between the medical statistics of survival and his determination to live. In this talk, Niemeyer will bridge that gap with data visualizations, animations and sonifications that pair the cold, hard and linear medical data with the more cyclical experiences of crushing fear, resilience, love and healing that come with most any serious medical journey. 

Artist Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations that explore trust, intimacy and self-awareness through interactive, reflective experiences.

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.

Young Joon Kwak (they/she) is a sculptor and performance artist whose work challenges the boundaries of representation through innovative techniques of masking and camouflage.

Join Chris Vargas, MFA Art Practice alum and editor of the newly released anthology "Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects" along with two local contributors, Craig Calderwood and Ralowe Ampu for a conversation on trans history/art and the politics of curating culture. Sponsored by the LGBT Citizenship Cluster, TSWI (Trans Students Wellness Initiative), GENEQ (Gender Equity Resource Center), Multicultural Community Center