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UC Berkeley Art Practice, 347 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA (2026)

Your source for all Department of Art Practice events and other art events of interest on the UC Berkeley Campus including exhibitions at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery and the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The Worth Ryder Gallery is located at 116 Kroeber Hall, and is open Monday through Thursday, Noon to 5pm. The gallery has served as a cultural and artistic hub for students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, and the bay area cultural community since 1960.

08/27/2026

✨ Visiting Artist Lecture: Kainoa Gruspe ✨
Thursday, September 10 at 5:00 PM
Room 285, Anthropology & Art Practice Building, UC Berkeley

We are excited to welcome Kainoa Gruspe to the Department of Art Practice for our first Visiting Artist Lecture of the year! This event is free and open to the public.

From Kainoa: “I was raised in Waiau and then Mānoa and now live in Waiau again. I went to certain schools for an art education but am now learning that my education comes from a much larger list, some of which you can find here in no particular order:

Mom, Dad, the reef, Amber, Aunty Meleanna, Craft in America, Aunty Maile, RT, Anthony Watson, Donnie, gourd banjo, Emma, Pu’uhonua Society, Kainani, Tiffany, Hanu Boy, Alec, Noa, Uncle Umi, Reem, Junyi, Alvaro Barrington, ballpoint pens, Lise, the loʻi, Vincent, Juvana, Vico, Aunty Puamana, Cody, thrashermagazine, Tony, my students at Hālawa Correctional Facility, Peter, City Mill, Chris Windnagle, wood, Lawrence, the dump.

I have successfully gone two years without ordering anything from Amazon and everything is still okay.” Kainoa Gruspe

📍 Anthropology & Art Practice Building, Room 285
UC Berkeley

08/13/2026

‼️🚨Announcing🚨‼️
Our Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series 🌷🌻🪻

9/10 Kainoa Gruspe: looks at and digests the current and historical interactions of the location he finds himself in and finds ways to contribute. “I have successfully gone two years without ordering anything from Amazon and everything is still okay.:

10/22 Zeina Barakeh: examines the militarization of the body, surveillance, human enhancement, and the shifting boundaries between humans and machines across kinetic and cyberwarfare.

11/12 Carmen Argote: Investigates networks of labor, consumption, and systems that shape everyday spaces and examines the relationships between body, class, architecture, and personal history.

All lectures will take place in the Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB), Room 285 on Thursdays from 5:00-6:30pm. All lectures are free and open to the public.

05/28/2026

The Department of Art Practice is now accepting applications for a pool of temporary lecturers to teach studio courses, including but not limited to ceramics, printmaking, drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, video, foundations of visual thinking, and seminars in contemporary global art. Some of these courses are offered in summer sessions only.

Duties include teaching a studio and/or lecture course (or courses), advising enrolled students, and holding a regular office hour. A Lecturer helps students build conceptual and critical foundations, and practical studio skills that focus on materials, methods, form, content, history, and process. Advanced degree, or current enrollment in an advanced degree program required.

Complete applications received by Monday, June 8, will be given priority consideration for classes in the fall 2026 semester. Subsequent rounds of hiring may be conducted at later dates throughout the year.

Learn more and apply via the link in our bio or visit art.berkeley.edu.

05/13/2026

Art Practice is saddened to share the passing of Mary Lovelace O’Neal on May 10, 2026 at the age of 84. Lovelace O’Neal joined the faculty of Art Practice as an Assistant Professor in 1979, and retired after an illustrious career in 2006.

Over the course of her life, Lovelace O’Neal developed a singular visual language that was acutely personal and profoundly political. Drawing on a broad range of influences—from Minimalism to Abstract Expressionism—Lovelace O’Neal’s practice was at once worldly and philosophical, parsing social themes of race and gender while remaining fully immersed in conceptual and metaphysical investigations of joy, exuberance, nature, and the sublime.

Throughout her six-decade career, Lovelace O’Neal produced a remarkable body of work—paintings, drawings, and prints, all reconciling the intimate and the monumental, the minimalist and the expressionist, personal narrative and collective mythology. Often working on a grand scale, Lovelace O’Neal was renowned for her keen sensitivity to color and unexpected use of materials. Her practice moved fluidly between figuration and abstraction—the suggestion of human, animal, and architectural forms often lurking beneath vivid, painterly surfaces—while enigmatic, often inscrutable, titles hinted opaquely at narratives never fully revealed.

Lovelace O’Neal spent much the last 20 years of her life in Mérida, Mexico with husband and artist Patricio Moreno Toro. In 2024, the artist’s final body of work, The Mexico Works, debuted at Boesky Gallery in New York. With these monumental paintings—all made between 2021 and 2023—the artist mined the visual language she developed over her long career, iterating on the imaginative forms, innovative materiality, and inventive handling of color that characterize her oeuvre.

Portrait of Mary Lovelace O’Neal. Photo: Aubrey Trinnaman

Installation views, HECHO EN MÉXICO—a mano (MADE IN MEXICO—by hand), Boesky Gallery, New York. Photos: Lance Brewer

Photos and text courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery.

05/07/2026

Opening next week: The 56th UC Berkeley MFA Thesis Exhibition opens May 15! Join us at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) for the opening 4-5pm with reception and panel discussion after. Come celebrate these amazing artists and listen to them discuss their work with exhibition curators Omar Farah and Tausif Noor. Gallery admission is included with ticket purchase.

04/13/2026

ANNUAL STUDENT PRINT SALE
FRIDAY, April 17, 12-5PM
SATURDAY, April 18 (CAL DAY), 11-5PM
Anthropology and Art Practice Building rm 265
**CASH ONLY
* wide variety of student prints including screen prints, relief, etchings, monotypes, cyanotypes and more!

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