Arts Division

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."

The team of curators at the Henry Art Gallery discuss their vision for the museum.

In Gary Simmons's show The Engine Room, which is currently up at Henry Art Gallery, the Los Angeles-based artist experiments with elements of Seattle’s music history, particularly focusing on the contributions of Black musicians to the scene.

Incoming art history professor Mirian Chusid, explains her personal history with art.

Ada Limón, who graduated from the UW with a degree in Drama in 1998, has been chosen as the School of Drama's graduation keynote speaker.

This week at the UW, attend a concert with the UW Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band, the MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition, and more.

Divisional dean of the arts and professor of dance and English Catherine Cole's new book "Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice" receives high praise from The Daily.

This week at the UW, listen to the 2021 Samuel and Alethea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, watch Rage by B. Dance, and more.

The Henry Art Gallery is featured in this article highlighting the Seattle music and art scene.

Paleontologist Stan Mallory and archaeologist Robert Greengo from Seattle's Burke Museum are mentioned in this story about the giant sloth skeleton discovered near a runway at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 1961.

Jamie Walker, the current director of the School of Art + Art History + Design, discusses the Anne Focke Award recipient Ron Chew.

Jean Smart, who graduated from the UW in 1974 after studying drama, stars in new comedy series "Hacks," the "capstone atop a career resurgence."

The usual video game plot is that you’re some kind of hero going to some kind of castle or stronghold, to defeat an evil villain and save someone. Very rarely do you see racism as the primary enemy in a video game. But that is the villain at the center of a new game from Chanhee Choi, a doctoral student in digital arts and experimental media at the UW. [This is the third segment on "The Record"]

The Henry Art Gallery will be hosting three different residency performances in May, June, and July as a part of its exhibit 'Gary Simmons: The Engine Room.'

A collection of work by Arts & Sciences faculty, students, alumni and friends related to Asian American and Pacific Islander history, heritage and culture.