School of Art

Congratulations to Nicole Antebi, assistant professor at the School of Art, for being honored as a 2025 Early Career Scholar Award recipient. She will be honored at the Luminaries Outstanding Faculty Awards this Thursday.

Thursday, Oct. 16
Stevie Eller Dance Theatre
3:30-6p
Register: https://bit.ly/luminaries25

The Luminaries Outstanding Faculty Awards showcase the extraordinary talent shaping the future of science, arts, innovation, and education. From groundbreaking discoveries to transformative teaching, these faculty members represent the pinnacle of intellectual achievement. Their work illuminates classrooms, labs, and communities alike, embodying the Wildcat spirit of curiosity, creativity, and commitment to student success.

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Hear from art students Izzy, Eden Squires, Esperanza Ries, and Olivia Cabelli, who share their experience with the 2024 Bachelor of Arts Exhibition, what their work means to them, and what it’s like to see their art on display.

The University of Arizona School of Art holds an exhibition annually for undergraduates to display their artwork to the community in the Joseph Gross and Lionel Rombach Galleries.

More on the 2024 BFA artists and their projects, visit:

https://azart.fyi/24BFAexhibition

Hundreds attended the Feb. 22 opening reception. (The exhibition ran until March 22.) Students, parents, alums, faculty and staff celebrated student artists graduating with a BFA in 2024. The exhibition features undergraduates from Photo, Video & Imaging; 2D Studies; 3D & Extended Media; Illustration, Design & Animation; and Art & Visual Culture Education.

“Those who attended the opening can attest to what a vibrant event it was and just how strong the student work on view is,“ said Andrew Schulz, dean of the College of Fine Arts.

The BFA Exhibition, juried by faculty chairs from each division, was curated and produced by Student Gallery managers with support from Galleries Director lydia see.

Visit art.arizona.edu for more information on the School of Art.

MFA graduate students Emily Kray, Jandey Shackelford and Mariel Miranda describe what it’s like to be in the MFA cohort at the University of Arizona School of Art. Go behind-the-scenes and watch these students as they prepare for their final exhibition as grad students, years in the making, the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Hear their advice, motivations and the benefits to work with a cohort of fellow students and supportive faculty. This year’s cohort included ...

- Alain Co
- Emily Kray
- Mariel Miranda
- Jesus Sanchez-Alvarez
- Jandey Shackelford
- Gabrielle Walter

Supported by University of Arizona Faculty...
- Carlton Bradford
- Alejandro Macias
- David Taylor
- Angie Zielinski
- Karen Zimmerman

Other support
- lydia see, School of Art Galleries director
- Megan Bartel, graduate adviser
- Albert Chamillard, University of Arizona Museum of Art

School of Art’s MFA students have presented their works in an annual exhibition since 1970 at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. This exhibition is the culmination of the MFA studio art degree. During the last year of their coursework, graduates work closely with faculty to develop a body of original art to present to the public. The result is new, cutting-edge art in a variety of mediums and styles.

This year the artwork was displayed in both UAMA and the School of Art’s Joseph Gross Gallery.

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Emily Kray, a School of Art graduate student, is the recipient of the 2022 Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize. She will use the $10,000 award to expand her project, “N is for Nightmare,” into an edition of 66 three-volume large accordion books and three art installations to serve as mental health spaces within the University of Arizona and community.

As Kray tried to analyze her nightmares, she said she started to write and create illustrations that depicted her dream-self conquering “the monsters.” But when that didn’t help her heal, Kray began to depict the monsters not “as villains, but instead as comrades, friends and lovers,” and she began to organize and curate the illustrations into alphabetical order.

“With this process, not only did I allow myself to cope with my mental illness, trauma and stressors in a compassionate way, but I also see it as a portal for others to see and understand this process themselves,” said Kray, 26. “My experience is not unique, and knowing this, I hope that this project allows others to reflect upon their own inner monsters.”

For more than 30 years, the Centennial Sculpture Prize has been given to an MFA candidate, specifically to support the completion of sculptural/3D artwork. The recipient is determined by a committee of staff and faculty through a proposal process. Recent honorees included Mariel Miranda, Benjamin Dearstyne Hoste, Marina Shaltout and Karlito Miller Espinosa.

“I’m honored and so excited about this project being financially supported,” Kray said. “This project, when compared to my other recent works, is highly personal and talks about feelings and modes of expression that took me a while to become comfortable enough with to share.

Produced by John Casamasa for Arizona Arts.

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Assistant Professor Nicole Antebi’s motion arts students were so enthralled by the ants during their class visit to Biosphere 2 that they created a short film, Who Put These Ants in my Biosphere?, from the perspective of an ant colony exploring Biosphere 2, later shown at The Loft Cinema.

Title Sequence: Julia Roth, Will Vaughn
Moss: Isaiah Acree, Min Tran, Robin Silverman
Agrivoltaics: Naz Bombata, Ashley Gutierrez, Gabe Spencer
Coral: Andrea Flores, Caroline Berkey, Dietz
Resilience: Mia Rosin, Sharon Grumbles, Autumn Weaver
Ant Transitions: Kat McGee, Julia Roth
Direction: Nicole Antebi

Special thanks to Aaron Bugaj, Dr. Caitlyn Hall, Dr. Betsy Arnold and the Moss Lab and Herbarium researchers, and Yuri Makino.

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Chris Gall (BFA ’85), an alumnus of the School of Art, has helped Wildcats and the University of Arizona get ready for Homecoming for the past 10 years by creating a special Wilbur and Wilma illustration.

Gall has received over 50 major awards from the Society of Illustrators, Communication Art Magazine, The New York Art Directors Club, and Print Magazine. His artwork has been shown in almost every publication in America, including Time, Newsweek, People, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

In 2004, his first picture book, America the Beautiful, became a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year, and his career in children’s publishing began. Since then he has authored and/or illustrated 16 more books, including the acclaimed Dinotrux, a 2009 Publishers Weekly Best Children’s book; Revenge of the Dinotrux; Awesome Dawson; Substitute Creacher; Dog Vs. Cat and The Littlest Train. For grownups, he also illustrated and designed the PDT Cocktail Book, the 2012 Best New Cocktail Book, awarded by Tales of the Cocktail.

Artist Website ... http://www.chrisgall.com

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