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Detroit’s Grosscup Museum includes several works by Art Practice students in a show about Water Futures, integrating art, anthropology and science.

Not everyone meets the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spring, some graduate in the Fall semester. Cheers to the Fall Alumni!

Why does the world often seem like a web of coincidences? These questions lie at the heart of Synchronicity, a project by Data Art Prof. Greg Niemeyer that seeks to illuminate the strange, invisible threads tying our lives to the natural world and to each other.

Art Practice Senior Sophia Lavrov’s mural commission for the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital comforts patients and families in the ICU.

UC Berkeley Art Practice honors the life of Peter Simensky (BA, 1999).

The catalog for the compelling show with work from the MFA Class of 2024 is out now.
Image: Valencia James, Landship Valiant Star, 2023

Performance Artist NIC Kay begins the semester with a new class, exhibition, and public lecture. 

First year MFA students present new work as a form of resistance and reimagination.

Student Game Design trailers are out, updating and diversifying the range of games available today.

On National Handwriting Day, students reflect on the future of handwriting as a political choice as part of Prof. Greg Niemeyer’s L&S 25: Creativity in Practice course.

Installation in progress for the First Year MFA show at Worth Ryder Gallery

Mentorship was an important part of Bruce Cohen’s (BA 1987) practice, and with the launch of this scholarship, his influence lives on.

Art Practice wishes all graduating students in the class of 2021 a happy, productive and meaningful future. We also celebrate five BA students who shared their next steps to graduate school with us: Jaz Bryant, Benjamin Fedosky, Catherine Hsu, Camron King, and Xiaotan Yang.

Explore the VR creations of Art 172: Computer Graphics in Soundscapes, a novel animated orchestra experience.

A year ago today, on April 29, 2020, our beloved and respected alum Kirk Stoller passed away after a year-long battle with brain cancer. His close friend and cohort member, Molly Springfield [M.F.A. 2004] shared her remembrance with us to honor his life and work.

Congratulations! Despite the upheaval of COVID, Art Practice recruited and admitted a phenomenal Class of 2023 to their M.F.A. Program.

Congratulations to Prof. Stephanie Syjuco on her solo show, which opened last week at Catharine Clark Gallery. The cohesive, compelling exhibit focuses on representation as a strategy for creating an ethnic ‘Other’. Specifically, the artist’s research into the problematic construction of an American history of the colonization of the Philippines at the turn of the last century. Concurrent histories of photography, race, ethnicity and nationality inform deeply biased structures foregrounding whiteness as a normative subject.