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Transitions: Bryan Florentin, Lisa M. Graham, Darryl Lauster, Andrew Ortiz, Beth S. Wright

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Transitions celebrates the enduring contributions of five recently retired faculty and professors emeriti to contemporary art, design, and visual culture. Featuring the work and scholarship of Bryan Florentin, Lisa M. Graham, Darryl Lauster, Andrew Ortiz, and art historian Beth S. Wright, the exhibition reflects the breadth of creative and intellectual inquiry cultivated at UTA and the ways these practices continue to evolve beyond the classroom and university. Transitions brings together distinct approaches to making and research, emphasizing the cultural questions that have shaped these faculty members’ careers while opening space for new questions about historical narratives, sociopolitical systems, material and visual culture. 

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

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 2025 exhibition features the work of 28 BFA students demonstrating a wide variety of skills in concentrations including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, glass, interactive media, cinematic arts, and visual communication design.

If You Could See What I See: A New Generation Explores Texas Art

The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present If You Could See What I See: A New Generation Explores Texas Art on view from February 2 – March 27, 2026.

Organized by Cheryl Mitchell, Associate Professor of Practice and Founder of the Museum Studies minor in the Department of Art and Art History, this exhibition is the culmination of an educational collaboration between UTA and TACO – the Texas Art Collectors’ Organization, whose members have generously loaned an assortment of amazing paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and sculptural objects from their private collections.

Faculty Biennial XX

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The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present its nineteenth “Faculty Biennial,” a showcase for recent work created by faculty from the University of Texas at Arlington Department of Art and Art History. Scheduled every two years, this exhibition presents a sampling of what the art and design professors accomplish in their creative and scholarly endeavors outside the classroom.

The Gullah Journey: West Africa to Mexico

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The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present The Gullah Journey: West Africa to Mexico curated by Jorge Baldor, historian, art collector, and founder of the Latino Arts Project. The densely layered exhibition Baldor has organized centers on the centuries-long journey of the Gullah-Muscogo people and their culture – from West Africa to South Carolina enslavement, then escape to Spanish Florida and intermingling with the indigenous Seminole Nation, to forced resettlement in Oklahoma, and finally to freedom and the founding of the town of Nacimiento de los Negros, Mexico.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

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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 2025 exhibition features the work of 28 BFA students demonstrating a wide variety of skills in concentrations including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, glass, interactive media, cinematic arts, and visual communication design.

Solace in Painting: Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century

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The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present an exhibition that explores how we raise awareness about and characterize the artwork of conflicted artists of the Asian diaspora who never produced overt “conflict art.” This traveling exhibition features three little-researched diasporic painters — Chao Shao-an (1905-1998), Keisho Okayama (1934-2018), and Ann Phong (1957-) — brought together through their unusual approaches to painting shared experiences of conflict in Asia.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

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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 2024 exhibition features the work of 20 students demonstrating a wide variety of skills in concentrations including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, glass, interactive media, cinematic arts, and visual communication design.

 Paper Trails: Cecelia Feld, Jessica Drenk and Rachel Livedalen 

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 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.