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ASU School of Art

🎨 Degrees in Fine Art; Art Education; Art History; Art Therapy; and Museum and Curatorial Practices
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The ASU School of Art graduates are engaged and socially responsible, creative professionals who produce groundbreaking and impactful research that addresses today's pressing challenges, shapes our time's cultural narratives, and influences the systems that define our world. Students develop long-lasting relationships with renowned faculty and a network of professionals within leading industries,

cultural institutions and community organizations.

~Extensive Choice~

The School of Art is one of the country's largest and most respected public art schools, offering degrees in fine arts, art education and art history. The comprehensiveness of our program provides a range of specialties equaled by few other institutions. A rich well of artistic knowledge and ability is so important to us that a strong emphasis is placed on hiring faculty who further enhance and broaden it. The studio faculty are artists in their own right, many of whom are recognized nationally and internationally in their fields. They also take a personal interest in their students. Students find more than great teachers; they find mentors.

~Room to Grow~

This is a boundary-breaking school. Faculty from different disciplines team-teach some courses. Course structures encourage students to develop programs of study that explore a range of artistic specialties. This allows one to grow more freely as an artist, exploring creativity fully while developing an artistic identity. Four campus galleries – Harry Wood, Northlight Gallery, Step Gallery and Gallery 100 – provide space dedicated exclusively to student exhibitions.

~Inspiration and Connection~

Exceptional lighting, striking landscapes and unusual climate have attracted artists to Arizona for over a century. The unique landscape of the desert Southwest, home to one of the nation's largest cities, provides a culturally stimulating environment in which to study. Add the major museums in the metropolitan area, including the Herberger Institute's own cutting-edge ASU Art Museum and a large, diverse arts community, providing unique opportunities to connect with other artists and the natural environment for aesthetic and professional inspiration.

09/06/2026

Stays Cold Longer | Art Exhibition
Sept 11 – April 30 | 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. | Ross Blakley Hall, Room 197

Presented in collaboration with the School of Art, the exhibition is curated by school director and associate professor Hilary Harp. Explore unsettled animacies across video, photography, painting and sculpture in works by Krista Leigh Davis, Villamil & Villamil, Grace Piontek, Lily Regalia and Dawn Kushner.

The ghostly turn of the Waymo steering wheel, the weird agency of miracle weight loss drugs, the alluring sycophancy of our AI agents — the blurring of the boundaries between life and non-life is accelerating. It seems an opportune moment to return to Mel Chen’s seminal 2019 book “Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering and Q***r Affect” to consider the ways that queered animacies are appearing in the work of contemporary artists. As Chen says, the notion of animacy “activates new theoretical formations that trouble and undo stubborn binary systems of difference, including dynamism/stasis, life/death, subject/object, speech/nonspeech, human/animal, natural body/cyborg.” This idea is illuminated by the artworks within this exhibition.

“Stays Cold Longer” is drawn from the AI-assisted karaoke lyrics created by Felipe and Sebastian Villamil for their piece “Truly Madly Deeply.” The lyrics are compiled from phrases gathered in meandering walks through downtown Phoenix, where often the only signs of human life were littered big-gulp cups still tainted with chemically dubious liquids. How does a liquid “stay cold longer?” The phrase points to the agency of chemicals and to our bodily imbrication with inorganic compounds. Each featured artist destabilizes hierarchies of animacy, situating the human in surprising interminglings with domestic interiors, landscapes, AI agents, microscopic worlds and objects formerly known as inanimate.

09/05/2026

Synurbization | Artworks by Daniella Napolitano
Sept 8–24 | Eric Fischl Gallery, 1202 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85013
Opening Reception | Sept 8 | 5:30–8 p.m.

Through a collection of print works, Daniella Napolitano delves into the intricate narratives of animals navigating and adapting to the ever-evolving urban space. Step into a world where hawks hunt between parking decks, coyotes stealthily traverse highways and grackles ingeniously scavenge amidst backyard barbecues. Each piece in this exhibition captures the resilience, resourcefulness and sometimes even the whimsical interactions of these urban dwellers. By highlighting “ordinary” animals in her work, the artist reminds viewers that they share a space with wildlife.

09/04/2026

ASU Gammage Call for Art | "Animals on Parade"
Deadline to submit | Oct 2
Reception | Oct 21 | 6 – 7 p.m. | ASU Gammage, 120 S. Forest Ave. Tempe, AZ 85281

The world of animals is filled with a delightful variety of creatures – large and small, beautiful and bizarre, scaly and smooth, colorful and plain, furry and bare, spiny and soft, pretend and real. What catches the eye? What sparks your imagination? What memories and visions emerge?

Eligibility:
The ASU Gammage Art Group invites you to submit work for our exhibit that explores the theme outlined above. Our theme connects to the show(s) performing during that period, as shown below. Our call is open to Southwest artists working in painting, photography, digital, mixed media, printmaking, metal, clay, wood or fiber art.

Our Broadway touring show, related exhibit theme, timelines and deadlines are as follows:
• Tour: WATER for ELEPHANTS
• Exhibit Title: Animals on Parade
• Submission deadline: October 2
• Selected work onsite by: October 15 & 16
• Installation week: October 19 & 20
• Reception night : October 21
• Strike days: November 9 & 10

How To Submit
Send via email to: [email protected], in JPEG format, with image size set to 300 dpi. For any questions, please call Kaylee Alger at (480) 965-3445. Please clearly identify the dimensions of each work and the exhibit for which you are submitting your art to be considered.

Selection
If selected, we will need an artist’s statement plus a short bio, your website or QR code, artwork medium, measurements, insurance value and price (if for sale). All chosen art will be dropped off (by appointment only) at ASU Gammage, 1200 S. Forest Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85281.

Cost and Commission:
No cost to submit. No commission – sales are between you and the patron. Our aim is to showcase diverse artistic voices, offer sales opportunities and provide artists with community exposure.

09/03/2026

Vision Board Session
Sept 9 | 4:30–6:30 p.m. | Student Lounge, ART402

Join us to visualize goals for your college career through collage. Chat with your peers, share your goals and manifest your dreams.

Snacks and collage materials will be provided.

09/02/2026

Landscape And...
Sept 8–30 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | Sept 8 | 5–7 p.m.

"Landscape And…" features a semester's journey into the landscape and into the self. The exhibition showcases work from the Spring 2026 Landscape Painting class, including a rich collection of plein air paintings created at various locations around the valley.

The semester culminated in final projects, where each student chose a landscape that spoke to them emotionally and completed the phrase "Landscape And..." with a word or words of their own (for example, Landscape and Memory). Students carried forward the skills developed through plein air painting in the first half of the semester and applied them to these final pieces.

Alongside rich color, light, and each student's personal style, the exhibition captures a wide range of subject matter, from history to navigating grief and feelings of nostalgia.

09/01/2026

Museum and Curatorial Practices faculty launches three-volume critical history of Guatemalan art

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, head of the Museum and Curatorial Practices program in the ASU School of Art, launched “País Matinal: Historia crítica del arte de Guatemala (1871–2025)” across three cities in Guatemala and Costa Rica this summer. Co-edited by Fajardo-Hill with José Luis Falconi and Hugo Quinto, the publication was presented July 31 at Parque Intercultural in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; Aug. 4 at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC) in San José, Costa Rica; and Aug. 8 at the Centro Cultural Efraín Recinos in Guatemala City.

The culmination of a decade-long research project, “País Matinal” offers a fresh perspective on more than 150 years of art in Guatemala. Across three volumes, 38 authors from a range of disciplines examine artistic production in relation to cultural memory, Indigenous traditions and state policies, opening dialogue around the construction of both artistic and national identity. A vast visual archive of more than 900 artworks and 1,100 images accompanies the critical text.

Fajardo-Hill is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art. Her previous work includes co-curating “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985” and editing “Remains Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction.”

08/31/2026

📣 Call for art

The School of Art is looking for student and faculty work to feature in recruitment materials for School of Art programs. If you are interested in participating, please follow the link in our bio to fill out the form.

Submissions can include any medium and are not limited to visual art. Yes, art ed, art therapy, art history and museum and curatorial practices, we want your work too!

We ask that you submit work that was made within the past 2 years. Now let’s see what you’ve got!

08/29/2026

Habitar la abstracción/ Inhabiting Abstraction
Opening reception | Sept 3 | 10 a.m.–7 p.m. | Galería Árroniz, Tabasco 198, Roma. México City

“Habitar la abstracción/ Inhabiting Abstraction” is an exhibition curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill commemorating twenty years of uninterrupted work by Galería Árroniz in México City. Featuring twenty artists who have accompanied its journey and defined the unique character of this project, this show emphasizes situatedness through three thematic frameworks that suggest the intertwining of the outside and the inside, abstraction and reality and temporality and space: Inhabiting the Interior, the Ruin-Landscape and the Inside and Outside.

08/28/2026

BFA alumn accepted to New Mexico University post bacc program

Alumni Kate Arford, who graduated from the School of Art in Spring ‘25 with a BFA in Ceramics, was recently accepted into a fully funded Ceramics Post Baccalaureate program at Western New Mexico University located in Silver City, New Mexico.

This 1–2 year program provides post-bacs a personal studio space, advanced critique, housing and tuition-free study under the mentorship of Professor Courtney Michaud.

Arford’s work centers girlhood as a shifting, constructed space where identity is rehearsed, negotiated, challenged and reclaimed. Drawing inspiration from silhouettes and patterns in playground equipment, the ceramic forms mimic an early socialization language for storytelling.

At ASU, Kate studied under the mentorship of Professor Sam Chung, who helped develop her current work. Kate will begin at WNMU this fall, where she hopes to continue expanding her craftsmanship and artistic voice.

08/27/2026

ASU animation faculty member's new feature selected for Gotham Week Project Market

Geoff Marslett, animation faculty in the ASU School of Art, saw his new feature film "The Curse of Silver" selected for the 2026 Gotham Week Project Market, one of the most competitive development showcases in American independent film.

A narrative feature-length creature-feature Western, "The Curse of Silver" was co-written by Marslett and Rafael Ruiz. Marslett is co-directing with Kiowa Gordon ("Dark Winds"), who also stars. Liz Cardenas ("A Ghost Story") is producing, and Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone ("Killers of the Flower Moon") is attached as both executive producer and star. The film has not yet begun production.

The project was named to the Project Market's U.S. Features in Development section, and was one of a small number of titles singled out when The Hollywood Reporter broke news of the lineup on Aug. 4. The trade highlighted "The Curse of Silver" alongside work from "Reservation Dogs" alum Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and documentaries executive produced by Katie Couric, Julianna Margulies and Rachel Maddow. Now in its latest edition, the invitation-only Project Market is the oldest and largest curated marketplace for film and television creators in the United States, connecting 80 narrative and documentary projects in development with industry decision-makers through a meetings-driven forum.

The Gotham has described participating artists as often leaving with "career-spanning relationships." Recent alumni projects include "Dìdi (弟弟)" and "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt." -The Hollywood Reporter

Gotham Week 2026 runs Sept. 27 through Oct. 3 in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Additional press on the film is expected between now and the event. - The Gotham

Image credit: swerve pictures.

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