The UC Climate Action Arts Network (CAAN) has been awarded nearly $2 million and leverages art and design to inspire public engagement in climate resilience and sustainability. Berkeley's participation will be co-led by Art Practice professors Jill Miller and Asma Kazmi, alongside collaborators across the UC system.
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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. Visiting artists include: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Anna Mayer, and Cathy Lu.
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Special Topics courses offer students opportunities for more concentrated focus beyond general curriculum offerings. Courses may align with an instructor’s own research, including topics responding to contemporary events and issues, or offering a specialized skill. Primarily intended for advanced undergraduates and graduates in Art Practice.
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Each semester Art Practice undergraduate majors are invited to submit applications for a $200 grant, and we are pleased to be able to offset materials costs and help so many students in producing their artwork!
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Prof. Al-An deSouza and MFA alums Shirin Neshat, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Yong Soon Min are included in the groundbreaking survey Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001).
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Congratulations to Art Practice graduate student Valencia James (MFA’24), and undergraduate Art Practice majors Christine Santos (BA’24) and Samantha Cruz (BA’25) for receiving grants through the Center for Race and Gender in support of their creative research projects!
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Brandon Sánchez Mejia, who will graduate in May from the Department of Art Practice, stands in front of his senior thesis project, "A Masculine Vulnerability."
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Mith & Co, the fifty-fourth annual UC Berkeley MFA exhibition is now open at BAM/PFA. Four artists - Salimatu Amabebe, Anamaya Farthing-Kohl, Valencia James, and Nivedita Madigubba are showing installation work. Artists' talks will take place Friday May 10 at BAMPFA, 6 p.m.
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The inaugural Bizarre Bazaar festival is on April 26th, from 1-7pm, featuring student projects across Platform Artspace and the Anthropology and Art Practice Building.
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Help us reach 100 gifts in honor of 100 years! Make your gift during Big Give on March 14 to support students and faculty in Art Practice.
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Worth Ryder Gallery presents Stitching Keffiyehs: Moving Images from Palestine Worth Ryder Art Gallery Department of Art Practice UC Berkeley Dates: 2/28/2024 to 3/16/2024
https://art.berkeley.edu/gallery
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Supported by the Peter Sather Fund, the AI exhibition in Worth Ryder Gallery is curated by Professor Jill Miller with colleagues from University of Bergen.
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Join us for a lunch-hour chat with new arts faculty members Marié Abe (Music) and Luanne Redeye (Art Practice), in conversation wi ARC Affiliated faculty member Angela Marino.
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Welcome to the 100th year of Art Practice at UC Berkeley! Founded in 1923, when very few universities in the country had formal art education programs, the State of California expanded its academic offerings into the visual arts.
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Congratulations to our current faculty and alumni who are part of Bay Area Now 9, Yerba Buena Center for the Art’s signature triennial exhibition highlighting artists working throughout the Bay Area’s nine counties: Sholeh Asgary (Lecturer), José Figueroa (MFA’16), Connie Zheng (MFA’19), Heesoo Kwon (MFA’19), champoy (MFA’21), and Shirin Towfiq (BA’17).
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The department hosted its first Summer Abroad course in the sacred and ancient site of Eleusis, Greece.
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Their artwork, Missing Objects Library, is one of five projects selected.
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Each semester Art Practice majors are invited to submit applications for a $200 grant, and we are pleased to be able to offset materials costs and help so many students in producing their work!
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