Arts Division

Sarah Nash Gates reflects on two memorable decades as executive director of the School of Drama and welcomes successor Todd London.

The Burke Museum served as matchmaker and mentor for a project linking museums in Suquamish, Washington and Palawan Island, Philippines.

A review of Jeanne Sakata's one-man play about Gordon Hirabayashi, a Seattle native, and alumni of the College of Arts & Sciences, who defied internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Four recent PhD grads, with research ranging from human rights to ultrafast X-ray science, received the A&S Graduate Medal this spring.

International student Jueqian Fang (Photomedia, Cinema Studies, 2014) studied science in China but discovered a passion for art at the UW.

Though graduation and summer are approaching, there is still a lot to see on campus.

2014 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Performance and School of Drama professor, Valerie Curtis-Newton, sits down to talk about what inspires her and the philosophy behind her work.

As spring quarter comes to a close and summer quickly approaches, we encourage you to take advantage of some of the final arts events until next fall.

The UW School of Music's Ethnomusicology Program is helping to bring roots and hill music back to its place of origin, with teaching materials and local ceremonies.

UW School of Drama's production of "The Workroom" is a subtle yet poignant depiction of a notoriously difficult subject to explore.

With autobiographical oil paintings, informational graphics and a wall-sized photomontage, the annual spring exhibition of graduate student art at the Henry Art Gallery offers a lot for the visitor--as it does every year.

Here's a public service announcement if you haven't noticed: there's a monster residing in the Art Building. Curled in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is a loud, colorful, woven, feathered, bedazzled dragon of a show replete with gnashing teeth, wagging tongue, Hello Kitty decals, and multiple video screens.

UW School of Drama showcases the work of first year students in their Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) in the final show of their 2013-2014 season, Jean-Claude Grumberg's 'The Workroom,' May 28-June 8.

A review of Handel's myth-based opera "Semele," a coproduction of early-music company Pacific MusicWorks and the UW School of Music.

The nominees for the 2014 Genius Awards are in and included is School of Drama's own Valerie Curtis-Newton.