What are the opening hours?

Monday 9am - 4:30pm Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm Thursday 9am - 4:30pm Friday 9am - 4:30pm

UC Berkeley Art Practice

Home
United States
Berkeley, CA
UC Berkeley Art Practice

Call Directions Website Contact the school

UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice provides rigorous practical, conceptual, and critical und

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.

10/10/2026

Congratulations to our MFA students mark (ariella) and Bhavani Srinivas for being Cadogan Awardees! Join us at SOMArts Cultural Center on Oct. 16 for the opening celebration!

Repost SOMArts Cultural Center ✨40 years of the Murphy & Cadogan scholarships✨ Presented in partnership with San Francisco Foundation and curated by Kevin B. Chen

For four decades, the Murphy & Cadogan scholarships have supported hundreds of MFA students and emerging artists as they nurture their creative practices and transform the landscape of contemporary art.

Meet this year’s awardees at the 2026 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony on Friday, October 16, 6–9 PM!
Ceremony from 7pm-9pm!

10/05/2026

Art Practice is delighted and proud to announce that AP faculty alumna Katherine Sherwood Katherine Sherwood and current Assistant Professor Cathy Lu 🆑c a t h y l u have been awarded California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in the Visual Arts field!

Sherwood, who retired as a Professor of Painting in 2016, is the recipient of a $50,000 Legacy Artist Tier award. Sherwood’s solo exhibition Aggressive Women 1977-2025(link is external) is currently on view at George Adams Gallery (NYC) (link is external) through November 1, 2026. Sherwood has exhibited internationally and has been the recipient of several awards, including an NEA Artist Fellowship in 1989, a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 1998, a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2005, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2006. She continues to be an activist for disability rights and social justice, founding and teaching the course Art, Medicine and Disability at UC Berkeley for over a decade, as well as playing an active role at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA, which supports art created by adults that have physical or intellectual disabilities.

Lu, who is in her second year of teaching in Art Practice, and directing our legacy ceramics program, is the recipient of a $10,000 Established Artist award. In spring 2027, Lu will be featured in the Further Triennial, Crocker Art Museum,(link is external) Sacramento with an installation entitled Cathy Lu: A Body Across Time. Her work has been exhibited widely in the Bay Area, CA and at The Armory Show, New York, NY; Art Basel Hong Kong; Chengdu Biennial; Aldrich Art Museum, CT; Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MCA Denver; Prospect 6 New Orleans; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Lu was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow, and was a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award winner.

Congratulations! 💥 Read more at art.berkeley.edu
California Arts Council Further Triennial

10/02/2026

Thanks Prof. 🆑c a t h y l u for hosting a lecture series in Ceramics! 💥 Repost ♥ UCB CLAY ♥: Last week we had a great visit with artist Kristen Stain! They spoke about their journey starting in illustration and sportswear design, reclaiming their education, earth honoring practices, Black Clay workshops, and their work as a steward of Àrokò Cooperative.

Thank you, Kristen, for sharing your work, process, and journey with our students! 💫
ketchupstain

✨✨✨

From their website:
“My work merges ancestral traditions, emphasizing community, reverence for the earth, and Afro-Indigenous practices, with my technical design background. I use dark clay bodies and coil building to explore themes of beauty, identity, and Black ceramic history, often drawing from African diaspora jewelry, fabric, and hairstyles.

Alongside my artistic practice, I teach hand-building classes at Clay Clubhouse in Oakland and developed Black Clay, a ceramic workshop series for the Black community to connect, create, and learn. I also steward Aroko Cooperative, a design collective dedicated to Black Liberation, where we create tools for communal prosperity, including recent work for the National Black Food and Justice Alliance.”
✨✨✨
Stay tuned for more of our visiting artists!
Torreya Cummings Erik Scollon Maryam Yousif Wanxin Zhang 🔥

UC Berkeley Art Practice Dept.

09/24/2026

Repost Worth Ryder Art Gallery: Join us at Worth Ryder Art Gallery for one of the final events associated with our current exhibition “Hidden Layers.”

On Thursday, October 1, 6:30-8:00pm, the gallery will host a panel discussion titled “Water and AI,” organized by exhibiting artist and UC Berkeley Professor of Art Practice Greg Niemeyer. The event is free and open to the public with no registration required.

The Water and AI panel brings together four speakers with different answers to a simple question: What is water?

For Tiah Ross-Butner, a UC Berkeley student and enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe, water is family. For Sheena Conforti, a Stanford researcher who studies wastewater and public health, water carries information about community health. For Lance Legel, a UC Berkeley visiting scientist who uses AI to study ecosystems, water is a resource we need to understand more deeply. For Greg Niemeyer, a UC Berkeley professor and data artist, water is circulation. For Vivien Slagle, a UC Berkeley student studying art, anthropology, and law, water is a shared resource under competing demands from agriculture, data centers, and living systems.

Water also helps make AI possible. Many data centers use water for cooling, and producing the electricity they consume can require additional water. Together, the panelists will explore how their cultures and practices shape the ways we understand and talk about water, and how these conversations can support sustainable water management. What is water? How can we talk across our differences? And where can we find common ground?

This event is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative.

⏱️ Thursday, October 1, 6:30pm
📍 Anthropology and Art Practice Building Room 120 (next door to Worth Ryder Art Gallery)
🗓 Exhibition closing date/time Oct 3, 2026 12-3pm

09/15/2026

Congratulations Prof Stephanie Syjuco! 💥

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the selection of Stephanie Syjuco as the 2026 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography following an international search. The fellowship provides a $50,000 stipend to support a proposed project culminating the publication of a book.

Born in the Philippines (1974) and based in Oakland, California, Stephanie Syjuco is an artist and Professor in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. During her non-residential fellowship, she will develop Inherent Vice (Deeper Cuts), a multimedia project examining the preservation of Philippine cultural heritage and the political histories embedded in archives.

Known for innovative installations that merge photography and installation, Syjuco will photograph conservation efforts in Philippine cultural institutions and juxtapose those images with materials from the archive of The Manila Chronicle, a prominent newspaper shuttered in 1972 when President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law. Its vast collection of photojournalistic prints is now widely known as the “photo morgue.”

The title Inherent Vice draws on both politics and conservation. Syjuco describes it as referring to political systems in the Philippines modeled on U.S. democratic ideals compromised by colonial contradictions. In conservation, the term refers to an intrinsic condition that causes materials to deteriorate over time. Together, these meanings frame the project as an exploration of political and historical decay, as well as the labor required to preserve cultural heritage and collective memory.

Read more at art.berkeley.edu/news

HMSC

09/08/2026

Want to learn more about our MFA program? Join professors Asma Kazmi and Greg Niemeyer for information sessions about the Art Practice MFA program and admissions process. These Zoom sessions will be held on Wednesday September 30 and Thursday November 5, 5 - 6:30pm. Please see more info at art.berkeley.edu/degrees/master-fine-arts-mfa-degree

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.

Address

347 Anthropology And Art Practice Building, UC
Berkeley, CA
94720

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 4:30pm
Thursday	9am - 4:30pm
Friday	9am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+15106422582

Website

http://art.berkeley.edu/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when UC Berkeley Art Practice posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The School

Send a message to UC Berkeley Art Practice:

Want your school to be the top-listed school/college in Berkeley?