School of Art + Art History + Design

A new exhibition featuring UW art professor Zhi Lin at the Tacoma Art Museum focuses on a time in history when U.S. society rejected immigrants. 

An interactive recycling and composting station designed by a UW team will move to the HUB this summer. 

Four graduate students are receiving the A&S Graduate Medal along with their PhDs.

Zhi Lin has done extensive research on Chinese immigrants for his artworks, on view at the Tacoma Art Museum in June.

Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of Northwest Native American Art at the Burke Museum, Kathyrn Bunn-Marcuse, offered some choice words on cultural appropriation of native art.

Through an NSF grant, scientist Jennifer Nemhauser is hosting three artists in her UW Biology lab over three years. 

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. 

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)

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

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

"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.