USD Department of Art, Architecture + Art History

Visual Arts! Architecture! Art History! Music! Majors, Minors, Faculty, Staff, and Friends! Join us Tuesday, May 12, at our End-Of-The-Year Party!

Date: Tuesday, 05/12/26
Time: 12 - 2 pm
Location: Camino Patio West (by the podocarpus tree)

DAAAH Alum (Class of 2025) just closed his first year exhibition in UCS/ MFA show: “To All Who Shall See These Presents Greeting”, Commons Gallery, UC San Diego. Congratulations!

Springtime
Juried exhibition of artwork from USD’s Department of Art, Architecture + Art History
Visiting Juror: Malik Gaines, PhD
Exhibition dates: Tues April 14 - Thurs 23
Opening Reception: Thurs April 16, 4-7 pm
Location: Student Life Pavilion Exhibit Hall
Included artists: Aliyah Dickey, Angelica Gauptman, Victoria Merino Inzuza, Ian Mai, Maya Moranda, Mia Pfeiffer, Bailey Rune, Callie Schreiber, Sophia Shah, Ari Trette, Victor Quirch, Reid Willens
Special Juror’s Honors
1st Prize: Aliyah Dickey
2nd Prize: Victor Quirch
3rd Prize: Syncere Moore

Visual Arts Program Alumni panel presentations and discussion. Please join us to hear from our recent Visual Art Alumni - Audrey Gingras and Santiago Diaz. 4/17/26 Camino - Room -29 1pm -4pm

Our Juniors during their Mid Term Crits for the Junior Seminar (ARTV-395) and some guest faculty! Thank you all for participating!

Pre-Registration Meet-Up

Visual Arts Majors + Minors (+ curious!)

Tuesday, March 18th, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Big Picnic Table West of Camino Hall 29

Bring your questions about Fall 26 registration to the  !

Curious about a major (or double major…) in the visual arts? 

Questions about the visual arts minor?

Interested in taking a class to find out? 

Want to hear about what our alums are up to?

Looking for ways to be more involved in the visual arts on campus?

Bagels with advising questions while they last!

Pre-Registration Meet-Up

Visual Arts Majors + Minors (+ curious!)

Tuesday, March 18th, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Big Picnic Table West of Camino Hall 29

Bring your questions about Fall 26 registration to the  !

Curious about a major (or double major…) in the visual arts? 

Questions about the visual arts minor?

Interested in taking a class to find out? 

Want to hear about what our alums are up to?

Looking for ways to be more involved in the visual arts on campus?

Bagels with advising questions while they last!

Come stop by and check out Ono van Barren's work!

Shaped by Water
Date: February 2 - 6, 2026
Open: 9 am - 5 pm
Location: Visual Arts Galley - Sacred Heart Hall 102

Thesis Presentation on Thursday, 02/05 at 12:15 pm

"Come see my show this week. Shaped by Water marries my life as a waterman with my work as a graphic designer. I can't wait to share this with you." - Ono van Baaren

You can find the link in our bio or in the comment section of this post!

https://jobs.sandiego.edu/en-us/job/497197/teaching-pathway-postdoctoral-faculty

The Visual Arts area of the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History (DAA+AH) seeks a Postdoctoral Faculty in the field of graphic design. Our ideal candidate would fit USD's teacher/scholar model - a practitioner of graphic design who engages with the arts as intellectual disciplines. The terminal degree requirement for this position is a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA). We seek a candidate whose research advances understanding of the perspectives and contributions of historically marginalized communities, especially those in the contested border regions of the world. We will be looking specifically for a Postdoctoral Faculty who can apply contemporary approaches to teaching graphic design on our campus. Graphic design involves the strategic use of aesthetic principles to give order and meaning to visual content. Its traditional association with discrete printed materials (logo design, typography, and the wedding of text and image in everything from menus to political posters) now expands naturally to digital tools and virtual environments that can process experience, data, and information in innovative, expansive contexts. We are excited, as one example, about the possibility for a teacher/scholar to critically explore the influence of design as a tool for connection or division in our border region.

Spring 26 Course Alert!

ARTV 369 Intermediate / Advanced Sculpture
 
M/W 2:30 - 5:20
Instructor: Trevor Amery
 
A multi-level studio course designed to advance students’ technical and conceptual skills through a series of sculptural questions. Studio projects, technical demonstrations, lectures, readings and field trips create context within the history and practice of contemporary sculpture, expanding students’ knowledge of traditional and experimental approaches to sculpture, while aiding the development of a personal body of work.
 
This upper-level course is designed to offer intermediate and advanced visual arts students a continuing challenge, but can also provide motivated students with less experience (and the instructor’s permission) an exciting entry to the discipline.
 
PREREQUISITES: ARTV 105 Introduction to Sculpture, or permission of instructor!

CORE ATTRIBUTES: EARI

Student Work Images in order: Jill Grant; Cecelia Mariscal; Luke Weinbaum; Nina Montejano

Department of Art, Architecture + Art History's Visiting Lecture Series
with support from the Stone Family Lecture Fund and in partnership with the San Diego Asian Film Festival and Pacific Arts Movement presents:

A Lecture by Filmmaker and Writer:
Julian Castronovo

Wednesday, November 12 @ 4:00pm
Warren Auditorium
Mother Rosalie Hall
*APPROVED FOR 1 COMPASS POINT

Julian will discuss his recent creative work including his first feature film, Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued which premiered at the International Film
Festival Rotterdam in 2025.

Julian Castronovo (b. 1998) is a filmmaker and writer living in Los
Angeles. He is interested in the unsteady boundary between fiction
and nonfiction, and he is drawn to research, re-enactment, speculation, and other representational modes which involve a blurring of past, present, and future. His work has appeared in places like the Neuberger Museum of Art, REDCAT, the Chazen Museum of Art and the Wisconsin Film Festival, The San Diego Asian Film Festival, and in publications like The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, and Oxford American. In 2024 he was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. He holds BAs from Brown University’s programs in Literary Arts and Modern Culture & Media, and he received an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts in 2024.