UCLA Department of Art

A glimpse of the artists behind the work 🎨📷 Studio portraits by from our annual graduate open studios ✨

Wishing everyone a restful and beautiful summer!!!

The 2026 New Wight Biennial opening in September 2026 at UCLA, curated by ,  and .f.austin,  will feature artists worldwide who are currently pursuing advanced education in art practice. We are seeking applicants engaged in a range of educational pursuits including MFA programs, apprenticeships, long term residencies and fellowships, craft/technical programs, and informal modes of study. Artists in advanced educational programs not listed here are encouraged to apply. Submissions are free of charge. 

Submission requirements 1-5 works, 200 word artist statement.

Theme: Global Fugitivty. Over the past two decades, the concept of fugitivity has influenced countless curators and artists. We understand fugitivity–with the help of Black scholars including Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, and Stefano Harney and others–as movement toward freedom carried out by those working within or alongside structures of oppression.

Join us for the end-of-year exhibition showcasing new work by UCLA’s graduating undergraduate art students.
📅 June 4–13, 2026

✨ Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4 | 5–8 PM
📍 New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday | 9:30 AM–4:30 PM
Free and open to the public.

One week from today!!! 🫨

Please join us next Saturday from 2–6pm for the UCLA Graduate Open Studios and come see what our incredibly talented grads have been working on all year ✨

Featuring the work of:



f.austin

Adrian Burrell
999



deva
maxine

n.haigh

vincent hernandez


ar.kay
Felix Li






jane.crumb




sungtaek

Candace Thatcher
Archive Scan # #
Acrylic on wood panel
36” x 36”

Candace Thatcher
Archive Scan Series
Acrylic on wood panel
36” x 36”

The Department of Art at UCLA is recruiting for a part-time Unit 18 Lecturer position to teach Advanced Printmaking. Selected studies in fine printmaking, historical and contemporary: woodcut, etching and engraving, and mixed media. This course will be offered twice next academic year (2026-27) in Fall and Spring quarters.

Please visit https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10977 to apply or clink the link in our bio 🖨️

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY 🌞

Applications for the Summer Art Institute close June 15th. Spend your summer making ambitious work, learning from working artists, and building a creative community with other young artists from around the world 🌎

Develop, print, and experiment in the darkroom 📸
PAINT G DRAW in Big studios, with Big light and Big views of Los Angeles 🎨

Come make a ridiculous amount of work with us 🤪

Apply by June 15th!!!

Yummy Bowl is almost here!!! 🍲✨

Join us next Thursday, May 21st, for our much-anticipated annual Yummy Bowl Benefit — a campus-wide collaboration uniting students, faculty, and staff to help combat food insecurity at UCLA. By purchasing a handmade ceramic bowl, you directly support the UCLA Community Programs Office (CPO) Food Closet and help ensure every Bruin has access to essential resources and nourishment.

Now in its fifth year, the event celebrates the power of art as a tool for social change — bringing together community and care through the beauty of ceramics.

Each bowl is a one-of-a-kind piece made by student artists in the UCLA Department of Art Ceramics Lab.
If preorder bowls sell out online, there will still be bowls available for purchase on the day of the event.

Donation + preorder link in bio!

☀️🎨 UCLA Summer Sessions are here! 🎨☀️

Spend your summer deep in the studio with Advanced Drawing and Advanced Painting at University of California, Los Angeles this Summer 2026.

Students enrolled in both courses will receive a UCLA studio space for the full 12 weeks ✨ PLUS the opportunity to exhibit work in the New Wight Gallery at the end of the summer.

Art 130 Advanced Drawing June 22-July 31. Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 1A. Drawing as both independent expressive medium and as means of visualization. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.

Art 133 Advanced Painting August 3-September 11 Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11A. Varied media and subjects to further develop students’ technical and expressive means to implement their ideas. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.

More information available through the link in our bio 😎

Summer 2026 is almost here!

And the Department of Art at UCLA is offering Advanced Drawing and Advanced Painting! Students taking both courses will habe a UCLA studio for 12 weeks and be eligible to participate in a show in the New Wight Gallery at the end of the Advanced Painting course.

Art 130 Advanced Drawing June 22-July 31. Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 1A. Drawing as both independent expressive medium and as means of visualization. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.

Art 133 Advanced Painting August 3-September 11 Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11A. Varied media and subjects to further develop students’ technical and expressive means to implement their ideas. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.

For more information check the link in our bio ✨