UM Duluth Department of Art & Design

🐾 BIG NEWS: The UMD Week of Giving starts... NOW! 🐾

From now through Friday at 5 pm, we’re celebrating the power of community support and inviting you to be part of it. If Art & Design and/or the world surrounding it has been meaningful to you in any way, this is a simple moment to give back.

Your support goes directly toward our students—helping fund opportunities, strengthening studio and lab resources, and sustaining the creative work happening every day in our department.

Every contribution moves us closer to our goal! 🏆 Why give today? The program with the most individual gifts between now and April 19th wins a $1,000 prize. Whether it’s $5 or $50, your gift counts as a vote for our students!

Learn more or give here: http://z.umn.edu/Art26

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UMD Week of Giving kicks off next week (April 20–24)!
And we’re inviting our Art & Design community to take part in a simple but meaningful way.

If you’ve been looking for a moment to support our students, THIS is a great one. Gifts to Art & Design go directly toward student opportunities, studio resources, and the day-to-day experiences that shape their work.

Our goal this year is a modest $4,000—and every bit helps us get there.

Learn more or give here: http://z.umn.edu/Art26

🎉🎉🎉 Tomorrow’s the Big Day! 🎉🎉🎉

JOIN US
for the Art & Design Annual Student Exhibition Awards & Reception
In Bohannon Hall 90 (right next to the Tweed Museum!)
1–3 pm, remarks at 2 pm
Food and snacks!
(Tweed open 11–4)

Come celebrate our students, their work, and this incredible creative community—awards, recognitions, and catered food included. Your presence helps make this moment meaningful. We hope to see you there!

Tonight in Montague 80 the jurors, Jen White-Johnson and Mika Negishi Laidlaw, will give their jurors lecture! They will talk about their own work and the process of jurying the exhibition!

From safer crosswalks to reimagined waterfronts, UMD students are turning creative vision into real-world impact across Duluth!

Framing the future of Duluth: The city as canvas How many of us, when we think about cities, think of them as a work of art that can inspire people, bring them together, or simply keep them safe?Jennifer Webb is an associate professor of art history with the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), and her City as a Work of Art course asks students t...

The 2026 UMD Department of Art and Design’s Annual Student Exhibition is open from April 7th to May 9th. Come see more than art & more than design.

The 2026 UMD Department of Art and Design’s Annual Student Exhibition is open from April 7th to May 9th. Come see more than art & more than design.