Arts Division

UW School of Art faculty member Akio Takamori, a renowned local ceramics artist, completed his final body of work just a day before dying from pancreatic cancer.

Susie Lee's (MFA, 2006) desire to make art accessible to more people led to Siren, an award-winning online dating app. 

Faculty from the School of Music and the DXARTS are—literally—getting inside the minds of the musicians of New York's JACK QUARTET in a year-long exploration on the frontiers of artistic creation.

A new exhibit at Seattle Art Museum features the work of iconic 20th-century painter and former University of Washington professor Jacob Lawrence. 

During a celebration of her work, the term "incremental heroism" was used to describe the career of Beth Sellars, now the namesake of the biennial Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award (AFALA)

A seven-hour, unfinished epic play about Nero? Daredevil playwright Anne Washburn might be the only one who could pull it off.

Akio Takamori, professor emeritus of art at the UW, died of cancer on Wednesday night.

A seven-hour, unfinished epic play about Nero? Daredevil playwright Anne Washburn might be the only one who could pull it off.

Dean and Tomilynn McManus's gifts to the UW Costume Shop range from donating vintage clothing to establishing a support fund.

Mary and Allan Kollar have combined their passions for writing and art through a graduate fellowship that honors both disciplines. 

The National Endowment for the Arts announces $30 million in fall grants to artists and arts organizations across the country — with $975,000 headed for Washington state.

Playwright Qui Nguyen has two plays running simultaneously in December:Vietgone at Seattle Rep and The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G at the UW.

More than 40 players will perform works composed or inspired by the experimental composer John Cage, all around Town Hall Seattle on Nov. 19. There will even be amplified plants. 

"To be a great innovator, you have to do things – bring people together, explore ideas and experiment with different forms of realization," writes Axel Roesler.

Timea Tihanyi with the UW's School of Art and Jayadev Athreya, associate professor of mathematics at the UW, say art and math are much more similar than we often think.