The inaugural Bizarre Bazaar festival is on April 26th, from 1-7pm, featuring student projects across Platform Artspace and the Anthropology and Art Practice Building.
Opening Wednesday, May 1st. 42 Pending Tasks, the Spring 2024 Senior Thesis exhibition at the Art Practice department, creatively interprets the complexities of human and societal dynamics through a multifaceted exploration of personal stories, societal issues, and artistic mediums, inspired by the enigmatic number 42 from Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.'
Join the Department of Art Practice Graduating class of 2024 on Tuesday May 14th 3-5pm at Hertz Hall (map). Graduates need to arrive by 2:00 pm and doors open for guests at 2:30 pm. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Anthropology and Art Practice Building breezeway (south facing entrance), with the Spring 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition open for viewing!
Tickets for friends and family may be purchased for $5.00 each (CASH only) beginning May 1st in the Art Practice office (347 AAPB). Graduating students do not need a ticket for themselves.
For updated information and FAQs please go HERE.
In-person meeting and orientation for all new Art Practice majors or intended majors, hosted by the Art Practice Student Services staff and Undergraduate Program Co-Directors. More information TBA.
We’re excited to open our doors for Cal Day to welcome incoming students! More info to come…
Please join us on April 8th for an hour long conversation about the artist’s work. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A. Light refreshments will be served.
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd. None but the Rain features work from Isaiah Acosta and Julia Kerley, awardees of the Spring 2023 Ramos Foundation Award. Both artists consider the slippery passage of time, the complexity of identity while shifting through various life transitions, and the role of ritual in both.
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd. Explore the intersections of self-identity, tradition, and the natural world through the innovative and diverse artworks of the Spring 2024 Honors Cohort at the 'Animal of Your Body' exhibition at Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
Please join us on April 1st for an hour long conversation about the artist’s work. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A. Light refreshments will be served.
UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice presents MFA Open Studios featuring the class of 2024
Join Raman Djafari for a live online talk about their 3D and 2D animations for award-winning music videos including “Cold Heart“.
Please join us on March 11th for an hour long conversation about the artist’s work. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A. Light refreshments will be served.
Opening Wednesday, February 28th. This important exhibition features works by renowned artists representing diverse communities from Palestine and its diaspora.
in conversation with Anneka Lenssen
Thursday, Feb 22, 2024, 12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23
Please join us for the closing reception of Collapsense, the First Year MFA exhibition. The reception will include the release of the exhibit catalogue. Designed by Olivia Ting, the catalogue includes an introductory essay by Madeline Morris, current PhD candidate in the History of Art Department, and features images and text by the exhibiting artists.
Last chance to see Zekarias Musele Thompson’s solo presentation, "ad infinitum (Fuck John J Clark)," one half of their presentation in "Collapsense."
Join a special session of Art 172 to learn from CGI expert Daryl Anselmo about novel workflows from Blender to AI, using depth maps, and enjoy Daryl’s stunning work.
In this workshop, Petra Kuppers will introduce one of her core working methods, crip drifting. Participants will discuss two short dancefilms, and then engage in experiential/video/writing/drawing experimentation (outside, weather permitting).
An evening with Artist and Scholar Petra Kuppers for an interactive performance/lecture. Kuppers grounds herself in disability culture methods, and uses somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures.
Zekarias Musele Thompson’s recent work ad infinitum (Fuck John J Clark) is on view at CNMAT on Wednesday, January 25th, 7 - 9 pm and Sunday, February 11th, 4 - 6 pm. This work is presented in conjunction with Musele Thompson’s work in Collapsense, the 1st Year MFA show on view at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery from January 24th-February 14th.
The Worth Ryder Art Gallery is pleased to present, Collapsense, the Art Practice Department’s 1st Year MFA Program exhibition.
An exhibition and live performance event by the ART 136: Radical Wearables class of the Art Practice Department at UC Berkeley!
Sponsored by the Art Practice Department
Opening Reception: November 29th, 4-6pm
Shifting Shadows, the Fall 2023 Senior Exhibition, invites visitors to explore profound themes of identity, memory, and transformation, showcasing a vibrant array of artistic expressions.
Join us for a lunch-hour chat with new arts faculty members Marié Abe (Music) and Luanne Redeye (Art Practice), in conversation wi ARC Affiliated faculty member Angela Marino.
This is an online informational event about applying to the UC Berkeley Art Practice Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) Program.
The San Francisco Public Library in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission's Artist in Residence program is pleased to present The Ink of Identity: Rereading Afghanistan, a multimedia installation by 2022 Artist in Residence Gazelle Samizay!
With filmmakers Nadia Shihab (MFA’21) and Al Wong in person!
Closing Reception and Performance: November 8th 5-7pm
Join us for a performance by Ashley Menstrina at the closing reception of Labkhand Olfatmanesh’s installation, BabyMaybe.
Ashley Menestrina is a movement artist, performer, and teacher, with deep connections to improvisation. She has been performing her own work around the world since 2016.
“The problem,” artist Brian Wall observes, “is making art.” Renowned for his large-scale abstract steel sculptures, Wall taught at UC Berkeley from 1972 to 1994, and he continues to live and make art in the Bay Area at age ninety-two. Born in London in 1931, he was involved with the Modernist art movement of St. Ives, Cornwall, in the 1950s, worked and taught in London during the 1960s, and came to the United States in the 1970s. Interviews with Wall in his studio, and with curators, collectors, and artists—including BAMPFA’s founding director, Peter Selz; Kenneth Baker; Roselyne C. Swig; Jon Carroll; and Jeremy P. Stone—detail the creative context of these times and places, and of Wall’s own artistic contributions.
With Brian Wall in person!
Opening Reception: October 25th, 5-7pm
Closing Reception: November 8, 5-7pm
Nice Knowing You, the Fall 2023 Honors Student exhibition, invites visitors to explore a rich tapestry of diverse narratives, each brought to life through a unique and compelling artistic lens.
Opening Reception: October 25th 5-7pm
Closing Reception and Performance: November 8th 5-7pm
BabyMaybe is an interactive project by Labkhand Olfatmanesh that delves into the taboos and narratives of individuals identifying as women and their connection to parenting throughout different ages and periods.
This talk tracks the use of a drone in Helena Sarayaku Manta, the 2021 documentary from Sarayaku Kichwa director Eriberto Gualinga that follows an Amazonian activist as she learns about the framework of Kawsak Sacha, or the Living Forest.
Apply for a $200 Materials Quik-Grant! Open to undergraduate Art Practice majors. Deadline: Sunday, October 15.
