Arts Division

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.

Since 1994, alumni and friends in the Multicultural Alumni Partnership have worked together to promote diversity at the UW and address issues of equity and diversity on our campuses and in our community. This year’s promising scholars range from early undergraduates who are still zeroing in on a major to those pursuing graduate and professional degrees.

This week at the UW, attend a lecture on revolutionary reforms to the metric system, "Asian American Women Rising: NOT the Model Minority," and more.

Jean Smart, who graduated from the UW in 1974 after studying drama, stars in the new HBO Max comedy "Hacks."

Adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s emotional and political play, “Rosmersholm,” are no small task — especially over Vimeo livestream. But third-year MFA director Andrew Coopman was up for the challenge, and with the help of an accomplished cast, their UW School of Drama production proved to be a well-illustrated and inventive take on surprisingly relevant issues.

A new course explores rap music and its musical influences, with guest musicians and creative assignments.