Art

Ashley Mask presents "Mapping a Constellation: Research as Personal Waymaking"

two art education specialists pose in front of a velvety black curtain

2025 Metro Art Access: NYC info session is January 23

a spidery sculpture of spindly metal against a twilight sky

WWU's Ryan Kelly has work featured in new Museum of Northwest Art exhibit

"humpty": ceramic scupture of the character Humpty Dumpty, seated on a brick with one hand on their forehead and an expression of distress

Professor Seiko Purdue's work featured in Kyushu, Japan

Side by side artworks made of woven thread: on the left, a vertically rectangular patterned tapestry; on the right, threads with the same pattern enclose three wood pegs attached to a triangular wood block.

SOUND.OUT.RADIO presents Radio Italia broadcasting from Florence, Italy

hazy panorama of florence italy rooftops

Art students discover local treasures, from the mentorship of local treasures

Jeff Jewell smiles and points at a large landscape photo that he holds up to show students

Studio Art BFA grad Lena Miltimore exhibits in Olympia, Lynden

an artist with their hand on their chin smiles at you. They hold two small paint brushes.

NEH award goes to "Disappearing Threads: Textile and Fiber Art in South America since 1964"

full frame shot of rich, natural colors of dyed yarn, displayed side by side in stripes of loose thread.

Fibers and Fabrics summer course open for non-majors

detail of loose yarn and the end of a yarn-wrapped knitting needle resting on a knitted background

Geheim Gallery featured Art BFA alumna Elly Minagawa

artwork of a young girl and adult man holding a large fish. A sign reads SuperMall: Great Outdoors Court

Art History Students present at UW Undergraduate Symposium

a group of Art History students pose for a photo betwwen to spiralling balloon arches

Scholars’ Week in the Department of Art & Art History

window glass reflects bricks, trees, buildings, and students on a campus

Your support makes life-changing education accessible

two actors in sill masks and outfits

Seiko Purdue's "Above the Line" installation on view at Queen through May 17

molded textile art installation that looks like curious mountain peaks floating in or above a fog.

Art and Art History Alumni Gathering at Chihuly Garden

a group of students and staff in a well-apointed conference room

See Cynthia Camlin's BOG at Geheim this April

a oval painting of a patch of bog

Alum Holly Hudson at Smith and Vallee through April 28

Interior of an art gallery

Call for Applications: Marine Sciences and the Arts Summer 2024 Artist Residency

two artists at a residency at Shannon Point Marine Center

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman Artist Lecture: “Works Against Genocide: Gaza, Shoah, Oak Anfal”

a person sitting in an empty parking lot, blindfolded

Chris Vargas publishes "Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects"

the cover of a book called Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

Metro Art Access 2024 Final Info Session

Lisa Turner exhibition "Bodily Impressions" shown at Furman, Tennessee Tech

abstract screen print with organic pastel shapes overlaid with x-rayed plastic trash

Coming this summer: "Super 8 Filmmaking and the Neo-Retro"

Fibonacci Footprint, featuring work by Cara Jaye, leaves an Impression at Bellevue College

side by side textured canvases with an organic grid pattern and detailed rectalinear abstract shapes within the grid.

Arts of Italy Global Study is open for registration

students pose for a photo on a bridge in italy

It's National Museum Mentoring Month: Learn more about mentoring from Ashley Mask

Ashley Mask wears glasses and is smiling

Seiko Purdue curates Katazome exhibition in Italy

a pair of hands gently remove a thin stencil from a piece of fabric on a table

Renee Noelle Cheesman, BFA Studio Art '17, awarded Jury Prize at Whatcom Museum Exhibition

hundreds of strands of white rope spill from the ceiling to pool and puddle on the floor like water

Metro Art Access: NYC Summer 2024 info session on January 24

Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming - symposium and exhibition

Series of images each depicting densely packed wiggly lines that show waterflow on bodies of land

What do new museum educators go through? How do they find their way?

a book cover depicting small robots made of bits of discarded hardware. one robot leads the others through a museum.

Grad Tesla Kawakami, professors Cara Jaye and Sasha Petrenko featured in Surge 2023 at Museum of Northwest Art

side by side textured canvases with an organic grid pattern and detailed rectalinear abstract shapes within the grid.

Brazen Shop + Studio presents "Asteroid Autopsy" - paintings by Christopher Hartshorne

surreal painting in bright colors suggestive of craters, mineral crystals, and outer space

Henry Jackson-Spieker joins University of Washington Art Faculty

Henry Jackson-Spieker works with molten glass

Getting your hands dirty with ceramics

a person molds a clay urn on a pottery wheel

Student-run B_Gallery seeking proposals for next year

a small gallery with blue light behind white walls

Art alum Henry Jackson-Spieker at Seattle's MadArt

$floor to ceiling acrylic rods refract prismatic light throughout the warehouse-like room$

Michelle Bates, Author of “Plastic Cameras: Toying With Creativity”

black and white photo of an old roller coaster

Whatcom Museum’s “Katazome Today” curated by WWU professor and alum

diaphonous fabric panels with delicate images of a partially defoliated maple tree

From the Court to the Kiln: A WWU Basketball Star's Journey of Discovery

Lisa Turner's "Plastic Bodies" on display in Seattle public art project

A large artwork in the window of a shop shows medical illustrations juxtaposed with plastic consumer items.

SOUND.OUT.RADIO is live

glass atrium of the Western Gallery

Ceramics professor Ryan Kelly featured at Circa for November 4 ArtWalk

a ceramic turkey with a cartoonishly vacant expression. or maybe it is suprised.

Debbi Kenote opens international, bi-coastal exhibitions

a pinwheel shaped painting with many colors

Christen Mattix creates "Roots to Rise" mural for Burlington, WA

a woman stands in front of a brightly painted mural of Mexican folk dancers

Alum Kelly Bjork is The Stranger's "Artist of the Week"

an artist reclines on a stoop or patio in an urban environment

Three Ways of Seeing Color: from a florist, an art historian, and an art teacher

a person stands in front of a very large colorful mural on an exterior building wall

The B-Gallery wants you!

people in the b gallery

Art Professor Cara Jaye featured in Seattle Art Museum's "Mélange"

yellow golden field of color with red, orange, and pale green organic shapes running diagonally from upper left to lower right

In Memoriam: R. Allen Jensen

a beared fellow in a hat sitting in a chair in front of a window. outside it is leafy.

What does a global history of architectural modernism look like?

Cover of a book called Rethinking Global Modernism shows a large ball of string

Chris Vargas and MOTHA featured in Artforum

colorful objects, like a blue blazer, and posters in frames hang on a wall with monochromatic kitchy wall paper. In the foreground is a vitrine with documents.

Fiber Arts grads Kate Sechrist and Stephanie Le featured in Marshall University exhibition

a diaphonous work of fiber art with weaving that appears to be writing

Kumihimo Wishes: Current Times by Seiko Purdue at Jansen Art Center

dense collection of fiber circles suspended from the ceiling trailing yarn

Virtual Studio Tour with Fiber Arts Professor Seiko Atsuta Purdue

fiber art, six wall mounted ecru squares, several organic-looking bright red vertical structures

Art History Professor Julia Sapin curates "Silk for Suffragettes and Schoolchildren" at the Whatcom Museum

Detail shot of guazy pale pink dress with lace and gold embroidery at the neckline

Cynthia Camlin's "Swamp/Garden" at Perry and Carlson Gallery

surreal underwater scene in transparent teals, submerged statuary

B Gallery call for submissions - open to all students and faculty

gallery interior, white walls with mounted artworks, blue lighting from somewhere in the back.

Associate Professor Monique Kerman on the legacy of Okwui Enwezor

Professor Kerman wears a floral sleeveless blouse, and sunglasses on her head holding back her hair.

Open to all majors this summer: Soundscape Ecology

digital recorder, grass, something shiny on the grass

Alumni discuss impact of COVID on working as an artist

drawing of a color wheel

Red Clay Rambler interviews Ryan W. Kelly

bearded man in a red shirt flanked by the giand heads of Ben Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt. A large papier mache parrot head in lower front.

Ryan Kelly's Anxious Assembly at The Clay Studio

Art Alum Til Will releases EP "Immortal Wound"

Art students contribute to Vancouver BC COVID exhibition

$a dozen panels with fractal images that combine in a linear fashion into a single image a face$

Prof. Jimena Berzal de Dios publishes "Chthonic Restitutions: Madness and Oblivion"

medieval monster with two heads, one biting the other on the neck

Follow the journey of our newest BFA Studio Art students on Instagram

tiled images from Instagram, each showing a member of the class

Collaborative Dialogue: Art & Identity

a gallery with several large three dimensional works on display

Art alum Matthew Palmgren, assistant curator at the Columbia River Maritime Museum

matthew sits on a stool in front of a window. he wears a mask.

Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to Associate Professor of Art Chris E. Vargas

Chris Vargas sits at a dining table with a cheetah and a dolphin

Amanda Kartes Outstanding Artist

a young person with brown hair and a gray sweater

6/4/2020 Message from Julia Sapin, Chair

Julia Sapin portrait

Outstanding Graduate in Art & Art History Jessamyn Irvine

a smiling student

Art & Art History Valedictorian Elyse Miyake

portrait of young person with straight black hair in a parklike setting

19th Century Art and Architecture course offered online this summer

a water color image of a monumental nineteenth century building

3/27 Update from Julia Sapin, Chair

Julia Sapin and two happy doggies

Henry Jackson-Spieker: Artist Residency at Chateau d'Orquevaux

Artist Henry Jackson-Spieker smiles while working in the studio. A paned window in the background.

Emily Freidenrich and the “Almost Lost Arts”

Art Historian Emily Freidenrich

WWU illustrators win city-wide art contest

Miranda Ward’s illustration of coho salmon

Ryan W. Kelly "A Forest for the Trees" at Method Gallery

A giant head of Ryan Kelly. Behind are carnivalesque caricatures of animals, demons, witches

Kate Sechrist: Road to Kyoto

textile art by Kate Sechrist

Quinton Maldonado Selected to be Artist in Residence at Shannon Point

left: tentacled sea creatures. Right: Quinton Maldonado smiles surrounded by camera equipment

Exhibit Receives Honorable Mention in Publications Design Competition

small photos of heads mounted on pins in a patterned array

Art Alumni Fight to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Through Jewelry Business

Jewelry on display at APSE

Joe Rudko's "Tiny Mirrors" at Von Lintel Gallery L.A.

Joe Rudko Tiny Mirrors photomontage

Chris Vargas and MOTHA at the New Museum in NYC

Students welcome new sculpture to WWU

Students study near Sarah Sze's sculpture SPLIT STONE (NORTHWEST)

Gabe Virgen Builds Ceramic Career at Bellingham Business

Gabe Virgen sits in the studio and inspects mugs

Time-lapse of Christopher Hartshorne collaborative installation

R. Allen Jensen, Professor Emeritus

’Drawing - Untitled’, mixed media, 28”x 21” by R. Allen Jensen

Cynthia Camlin featured in North Seattle Art Gallery show MULTI

Cynthia Camlin | Water Fragment, 1-10, ink, watercolor and vinyl polymer emulsion on paper panels, 12 inches x 9 inches each. Image courtesy of the artist.

Cynthia Camlin Awarded Fellowship

Cynthia Camlin,Detail: "Angle of Repose," polymer emulsion on wood panel, 48" x 36", 2014.

Shibori demonstration for Art Inquiry Night at Wade King Elementary

Seiko Purdue demonstrates shibori fabric dyeing

Berzal de Dios publishes interdisciplinary examination of sixteenth-century theatre

Cover of book: Visual Experiences in Cinqyecento Theatrical Spaces

'Lunar Drift' inauguration with Rebecca Cummins & Paul DeMarinis

Kinetic sculpture Lunar Drift

Whipping It Up: A Collaborative Alchemy

small photos of heads mounted on pins in a patterned array

Congratulations Anastasia DeVol, Outstanding Graduate

Anastasia DeVol in front of her artwork holding the award

Clinton Sana, 2018 Presidential Scholar

student receives award from dean in a classroom

In Memoriam: Sebastian Mendes

Professor of Art, Sebastian Mendes

Kids visit Seiko Purdue's fiber arts studio

Aitana de la Jara & Cara Jaye at ArtsWest Gallery

detail of Animal Noises by Cara Jaye, 2014

Art faculty Chris Vargas wins $50,000 Creative Capital Award

WWU Assistant Professor of Art Chris E. Vargas

Garth Amundson, SPENW Honored Educator

smiling fellow in black shirt

Studio BFA Julie McPheters lands position at Seattle Opera

felted wool masks of hyenas, lizaards, and sheep

Discover the fascinating Teatro Olimpico: an essay by prof. Jimena Berzal de Dios for Khan Academy

Palladio, Teatro Olimpico

Western Washington University students collaborate on proposal for major Bellingham waterfront public art project

A group of people standing in a circle outtside, listening to someone talk, at the Whatcom Waterway Park site

Building a Body of Work - Creative Exploration in the Arts

Bennerstrom Prize matching gift campaign

Susan Bennerstrom and Abby Kuchar

Art History students present at Undergraduate Research Symposium

Ruby Jones and Abigail Kuchar present at Shannon Point Marine Center

Classes offered on Modern, Colonial Architecture

modern architecture

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