Department of Art & Art History
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present Paper Trails, a three-person exhibition featuring artists Cecelia Feld (Dallas), Jessica Drenk (Rush, NY) and Rachel Livedalen (Fort Worth). The exhibition curated by Gallery Director Dr. August Jordan Davis and Visual Resources Curator Lilia Kudelia focuses on how each artist engages with the materiality of paper and books in their artworks, often to unexpected ends.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition honoring the life and creativity of longtime faculty member, Pauline Hudel Smith, who died in 2024 after a battle with cancer. Organized by colleagues, friends, and family members, the exhibition displays over 100 sculptural and mixed media works along with graphic design and illustration posters created throughout her long career, ranging from 1980 to 2020. Many of her early works have rarely been seen and attest to her creative design and conceptual process, setting the stage for her later award-winning commercial graphic designs.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition is a showcase for recent work created by the graduating seniors of the University of Texas Arlington’s Department of Art and Art History. The spring 2024 exhibition features the work of 35 students demonstrating a wide variety of skills in concentrations including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, glass, ceramics, cinematic arts, and visual communication design.
and Chaffee + Huerta Collaborative: Post Modern Fulcrum January 22nd – March 30th, 2024 (Closed March 11th through the 16th for Spring Break.) Reception: Friday, January 26th, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM.Huerta Gallery Talk: Wednesday, February 7th, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM.Chaffee + Huerta Gallery Talk: Thursday, March 7th, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM. The … Read more
The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition is a showcase for recent work created by the graduating seniors of the University of Texas Arlington’s Department of Art and Art History. The fall 2023 exhibition features the work of 47 students demonstrating a wide variety of skills in concentrations including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, glass, ceramics, cinematic arts, and visual communication design.
The Art & Art History Department of The University of Texas at Arlington is pleased to present the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition in The Gallery at UTA. The Master of Fine Arts is a professional graduate degree in the practice of art unique in that it is the artist’s terminal academic degree. The MFA in the Art + Art History department offers students a broad range of study and exploration within the areas of Intermedia, Film and Video, Glass and Visual Communication Design.
ARLINGTON The Gallery at The University of Texas at Arlington is pleased to present its sixteenth Faculty Biennial, a showcase for recent work created by the Department of Art and Art History faculty. Scheduled every two years, this exhibition presents a sampling of what the art professors accomplish in their creative endeavors outside the classroom. The 2017 exhibition, which runs October 16 through November 18, features 35 faculty members working in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, glass, printmaking, film/video, digital imaging and visual communication design. In addition, the department’s art historians have examples of recent publications on display.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present the MFA Program 10th Anniversary Exhibition, featuring forty eight works by twenty five alumni of UTA’s Art & Art History Department. Since its inception ten years ago, the MFA program has produced over fifty talented graduates, many of whom are rapidly becoming nationally and internationally known professionals in their fields. Nancy Palmeri, Associate Chair of the Art & Art History Department and Director of the MFA Program states, The 10th Anniversary MFA Alumni Exhibition celebrates a dynamic collection of convention-defying international artists, designers and film-makers, brought together in a powerful and diverse show. The exhibition offers an inspired collection of works that give testimony to the continued and impactful success of the department’s MFA post-graduates. Visually and conceptually involved, work in the exhibition effectively frames a group of superb artists, designers, and film-makers in a single retrospective.
Arlington The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present two complementary exhibitions showcasing contemporary portraiture. Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at UTA, selected Robert Pruitt’s drawings and the diverse works in the associated group show to illustrate the ways contemporary artists continue to update and reinterpret a mainstay of art historical practice: the portrait.
The Gallery at The University of Texas Arlington is pleased to present the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The Master of Fine Arts is a professional graduate degree in the practice of art – unique in that it is the artist’s terminal academic degree. The MFA in the Art + Art History department offers students a broad range of study and exploration within the areas of Intermedia, Film and Video, Glass and Visual Communication Design. As a requirement for completion of the degree, candidates are required to present a culminating exhibition demonstrating excellence in their chosen field. The Spring 2016 exhibition features eight artists David Diaz, Laura Garcia, Ginnie Hsu, Seth Lorenz, Jean-Patrick Nova, Michelle Pennington, Gary Joe Uribe and Shuhong Wang — showcasing their work in film/video, glass, visual communication design and studio intermedia art.