Art Practice

The UC Climate Action Arts Network (CAAN) has been awarded nearly $2 million and leverages art and design to inspire public engagement in climate resilience and sustainability. Berkeley's participation will be co-led by Art Practice professors Jill Miller and Asma Kazmi...Read more about Profs. Jill Miller and Asma Kazmi play pivotal role in Million Climate Action Arts Network Initiative

The UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice presents the Spring 2025 Lecture series with a focus on contemporary Ceramic artists who combine a deep research practice with experimental processes and materials. All lectures take place from noon-1:30pm Room 285, Anthropology and Art Practice...Read more about The Spring 2025 Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Most of the Art Practice undergraduate students complete their studies in the Spring semester, and some graduate in the Fall semester. They meet the requirements for a Bachelor of Art degree in the middle of December, and go on to pursue their professional lives. While they are honored for their...Read more about Congratulations Fall Semester Alumni

Art often invites us to see the unseen. But sometimes, it takes a turn and asks us to reflect on the strangeness of what we do see. Why do unrelated things sometimes feel connected? Why does the world often seem like a web of coincidences? These...Read more about "Synchronicity" at Salesforce Tower SF

From December 2023 through to March 2024, Art Practice Major Sophia Lavrov painted a 5x17 foot long mural for the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. The mural is dedicated to organ donors, families, and organ receivers. Greg Niemeyer interviewed Sophia about the work:

Greg:...Read more about Tree of Life at Santa Rosa Memorial

The Art Practice Department is pleased to offer five upper-division ART 160 Special Topics courses for Spring 2025!

View the poster/flyer for an overview, or...Read more about ART 160 Special Topics Courses announced for Spring 2025!

Each semester Art Practice undergraduate majors are invited to submit applications for a $200 grant, and we are pleased to be able to offset materials costs and help so many students in producing their artwork! Applications are juried by members of Art Practice staff, faculty, graduate students...Read more about Congratulations to Fall 2024 Materials Quik-Grant Awardees!

The Worth Ryder Art Gallery & Trans Student Wellness Initiative...Read more about VIDRINE Call for Submissions: Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Video Artists – Fall 2024

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The Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley is seeking a dynamic ceramic artist for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Ceramics. A qualified...Read more about Assistant Professor in Ceramics search

Dear Art Practice Community,

Welcome back to campus, and welcome to an exciting new semester! As we embark on this Academic Year, we also step into a new era for the department, celebrating 101 years of creativity, exploration, and groundbreaking art at Berkeley!

I’m thrilled to...Read more about Welcome letter from the Chair, Fall 2024

Congratulations to Art Practice graduate student Valencia James (MFA’24), and undergraduate Art Practice majors Christine Santos (BA’24) and Samantha Cruz (BA’25) for receiving grants through the Center for Race and Gender in support of their...Read more about Art Practice students awarded CRG Grants for 2023/2024

Prof. Al-An deSouza and alums Shirin Neshat (MFA), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (BA, MA, MFA), and Yong Soon Min (MFA) are included in the groundbreaking survey...Read more about Prof. Al-An deSouza and alums in historic Asian American art survey

Congratulations to Christine Santos (BA’24) for being awarded the prestigious Art Practice and University Library Printmaking Award for 2023/24!

From the...Read more about Art Practice and University Library Printmaking Award 2023/24 Winner: Christine Santos

As a kid, he learned men don’t cry. As an art practice student, he’s challenging that.

Photographer Brandon Sánchez Mejia, whose cohort is part of UC Berkeley's Department of Art Practice's 100th year, showcased his senior thesis project, "A Masculine Vulnerability," in the campus's Worth...Read more about Brandon Sánchez Mejia (BA'24) featured in Berkeley News

Titled MITH & CO, the fifty-fourth annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition is now open at BAM/PFA. Four artists—Salimatu Amabebe, Anamaya Farthing-...Read more about Art Practice class of 2024 MFA Exhibition Open at BAMPFA May 1 to July 21

Bizarre Bazaar
April 26 | 1-7pm
Platform Artspace & Anthropology and Art Practice Building

The extended Art Practice community is invited to attend our inaugural Bizarre Bazaar festival – featuring artwork from our talented students and celebrating the 100th...Read more about Bizarre Bazaar Festival kicks off on April 26

Help us reach 100 gifts in honor of 100 years! Make your gift during Big Give on March 14 to support students and...Read more about Big Give: Support 100 Years of Creativity

Congratulations to the Spring 2024 Materials Quik-Grant Awardees!

Each semester Art Practice majors are invited to submit applications for a $200 grant, and we are pleased to be able to offset materials costs and help so many students in producing their work! Applications...Read more about Spring 2024 Materials Quik-Grants awarded

The Worth Ryder Art Gallery is currently presenting Stitching Keffiyehs: Moving Images from Palestine. The beautiful and timely show features contemporary film and video art by renowned artists from Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora. The works date from from 1987 to 2022, are poetic...Read more about Stitching Keffiyahs exhibition at Worth Ryder Art Gallery

This summer we are offering 18 courses in Art Practice! Art Practice majors can consider completing required courses toward their degree, and non-majors can enroll as well. See the ...Read more about Art Practice Summer Classes now open for enrollment

Worth Ryder Art Gallery, 116 Anthropology and Art Practice Building

EVENTS
Reception: Oct 10, 5-7pm
Artist Roundtable: Oct 11, 3-4:30 pm
Internet Bus Tour (sold out): Oct 12, 9am-1pm PDT

“More than Meets AI” conducts an artistic...Read more about More Than Meets AI Exhibition

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 ...Read more about The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye

Dear Art Practice Community,

Welcome to the 100th year of Art Practice at UC Berkeley! Founded in 1923, when very few universities in the country had formal art education programs, the State of California expanded its academic offerings into the visual arts. Its first Department Chair was...Read more about From the Chair: Celebrating 100 years!

Congratulations to our current faculty and alumni who are part of...Read more about Art Practice faculty and alumni included in Bay Area Now 9

“How Art Practice honors student Jacob Li Rosenberg is resurfacing family history to honor his Bay Area roots” by Sarah Fullerton, Berkeley News, May 8, 2023.

Each year, nine seniors in the Department of Art Practice are selected to receive an honors studio for their final semester. Each...Read more about Jacob Li Rosenberg (BA'23) spotlighted in Berkeley News

Congratulations to Heesoo Kwon (MFA’19) who was recently featured in Berkeley News.

Article excerpt:

“Converting to Feminism: A Berkeley-trained artist invents a religion”

“A few years ago, when Heesoo Kwon was visiting South Korea during a...Read more about Heesoo Kwon (MFA’19) on feminist resistance

After some strike-related uncertainty, the MFA class of 2024 including Salimatu Amabebe, Anamaya Farthing-Kohl, Valencia James and Nivedita Madigubba created an amazing First Year show at the Worth Ryder Gallery.

The show was called “Cacophonies of Resistance”. With...Read more about Cacophonies of Resistance catalog release

We are proud to share that a number of Art Practice faculty and alumni are included in the prestigious list of awardees for the...Read more about YBCA 100 Honorees from Art Practice

Congratulations to the Spring 2023 Materials Quik-Grant Awardees!

Each semester Art Practice majors are invited to submit applications for a $200 grant, and we are pleased to be able to offset materials costs and help so many students in producing their work! Applications...Read more about Spring 2023 Materials Quik-Grants

Applications are due March 15, 2023. Financial aid and scholarships are available! Learn more about the course here: https://studyabroad.berkeley.edu/program/...Read more about Summer Abroad class in Greece

Organized by the Arts...Read more about Al-An deSouza awarded Poetry and the Senses Fellowship

The next deadline to apply to the Art Practice undergraduate major is coming up! Please review these important resources and workshops.

Spring 2023 application deadline: Sunday, February 19, 2023, 11:59pm.
...Read more about Undergraduate Major application deadline: Feb. 19, 2023

Professor Jill Miller's solo exhibition FUTURE PERFECT opens at FAB Gallery at the University of Alberta in Canada on January 17th and runs through February 10, 2023. She presents a public lecture at 5pm on January 17th prior to the opening reception.

In the exhibition...Read more about Prof. Jill Miller’s FUTURE PERFECT exhibition

We enthusiastically welcome the internationally acclaimed performance artist NIC Kay to the Department of Art Practice as the Adjunct Assistant Professor for Performance Art. NIC Kay is an interdisciplinary artist,...Read more about Welcome new faculty NIC Kay

We're excited to share that we have SIX new upper division studio courses for Spring 2023, some of which just got officially listed in the class schedule. Here is a brief outline of them, but please see the linked Google Doc that shares their descriptions, or view them directly in the class...Read more about Six new courses for Spring 2023

Congratulations to the Fall 2022 Materials Quik-Grant Awardees!

Each semester Art Practice majors are invited to submit applications for a $200 grant, and we are pleased to be able to offset materials costs and help so many students in producing their work! For Fall 2022...Read more about Fall 2022 Materials Quik-Grants awardees

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired four photographs by Art Practice Associate Professor Stephanie Syjuco: Pileup (Herbaria) (2021) and Applicant Photos (Migrants) #1 – 3 (2017) for its permanent...Read more about Getty and Smithsonian Museums acquire work by Stephanie Syjuco

Congratulations to MFA alum Olivia Ting for her Fall 2022 awarded artist in residence at The UC Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)!

From the CNMAT ...Read more about Olivia Ting (MFA'18) named CNMAT artist in residence

MFA grad student Juniper Harrower is the lead author on a new article which discusses her work with the Algae Society BioArt Design Lab. The article was published in the Leonardo journal for Art and Science through MIT and it is featured as their cover article!
...Read more about Juniper Harrower (MFA'23) in Leonardo, MIT

The de Young Museum in San Francisco has recently acquired the works of three UC Berkeley Art Practice members: Professor Stephanie Syjuco, Sahar Khoury (Ceramics Lecturer and MFA alum) and Miguel Arzabe (MFA alum).

“The Fine Arts Museums...Read more about de Young Museum acquires work by faculty and alumni

This year we are proud to congratulate four MFA recipients of the prestigious Murphy and Cadogan Awards: Gericault De La Rose (Murphy Award), and Irma Yuliana Barbosa, Eniola Fakile,...Read more about MFA students receive 2022 Murphy & Cadogan Awards

My name is Professor Ronald Rael, and I am the new Chair of the Department of Art Practice. I have been affiliated with Art Practice for many years, and am also a...Read more about Welcome from Ron Rael, new Chair of Art Practice

The four new graduate students joining the UC Berkeley MFA program this year represent the brightest hopes for all that art can be. The first show this amazing cohort of creators will present at UC Berkeley is the MFA 1st Year show, opening at the Worth Ryder Gallery on January 25, 2023....Read more about Welcome MFA Class of 2024

Congratulations to Art Practice Professor and Chair Al-An deSouza, for their exhibition review in The New York Times by Holland Cotter!

Al-An deSouza:
Talwar...Read more about Prof. Al-An deSouza reviewed in New York Times

Congratulations to Art Practice Professor Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 Peder Sather Grant! Greg Niemeyer's project's topic is "Optimizing Affective and Cognitive Impact of Network Visualizations" in the Engineering and Design field. Greg will be working with Roger Antonsen from the...Read more about Greg Niemeyer awarded 2022 Peder Sather Grant

After a long semester of hybrid instruction, the students of Niemeyer’s Art 178: Game Design Methods are proud to present 7 new games. URL’s for the games will be posted on May 5, 2022. We also present the games live and in person during the first ever Art Practice Pop-Up show, in the...Read more about Game Design Trailers

Professor Jill Miller and collaborator Melody Chang have created an augmented reality (AR) sculptural installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, on view through April 30th. The ICASF exhibition, Dog Pack, is an AR environment that uses the Institute of Contemporary...Read more about Prof. Jill Miller at ICA SF

The Department of Art Practice is thrilled to inaugurate the Art Practice New Major Award, an unrestricted $500 monetary award in recognition that early support of undergraduate students can make a difference. Along with the creation of the Materials Quik-Grants in Spring 2021, the Art Practice...Read more about Inaugurating the Spring 2022 New Major Awards

Platform reopens for spring programming, and this semester has an exciting focus on alumni and lecturers! Stay tuned for detailed information each week. Follow us on IG to stay up-to-date: ...Read more about Platform Artspace opens its Spring season

Clement Hil Goldbergis an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that...Read more about MFA Alum Clement Hil Goldberg awarded 2022 Creative Capital grant

In December, Art Practice’s Worth Ryder Gallery was tremendously fortunate to welcome a new Gallery Director, Gazelle Samizay. Gazelle’s supported the recent installation of WRAG’s upcoming show, OPTIMAL CONDITIONS (first year MFA show, Jan 26-Feb 17), and will be working with faculty and...Read more about Gazelle Samizay joins as WRAG Director

In Fall of 2021, the 100 or so students in Greg Niemeyer’s “L&S 25: Creativity in Practice” course responded to a simple prompt with urgent creativity. The prompt: Write a note from the future to the present, by hand. Many students generated innovative language systems, alphabets and...Read more about The Future of Handwriting

Optimal Conditions presents works of the class of 2023 MFA candidates in their first year of creative research and practice at the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice Worth Ryder Art Gallery.

The exhibit explores themes of contingency and the limits of objectivity through...Read more about MFA’23 show Optimal Conditions opens at Worth Ryder Art Gallery

Zygote quarterly has a feature article of MFA’23 Juniper Harrower's environmental art practice in Joshua Tree National Park that you can read about in issue 30 of their biomimicry-focused publication.

Read here: https...Read more about MFA'23 Juniper Harrower featured in Zygote quarterly

Professor Jill Miller and undergraduate student Nassirah Nelson have created a collaborative work, Food Art Bank (FAB), that is featured in the "Art Prospect: Forms of Unity" exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia throughout the month of October. FAB is one of twenty international projects...Read more about Food Art Bank included in Art Prospect Festival 2021

Bruce Geoffrey Cohen (1964-2017) was an American painter and sculptor who graduated from UC Berkeley in 1987 with a Bachelor of Art degree in Art Practice. With colorful compositions and bold angular forms, the artist’s work encourages viewers to perceive urban landscapes and various scenes from...Read more about Bruce Geoffrey Cohen Scholarship

Curator: Adrianne Ramsey
Exhibition Dates: July 9 - August 14, 2021 / On view in the gallery
2nd Saturday Receptions: July 10 & August 14, 2021 / 3-7pm Gallery Hours | 7-9 pm Opening Reception

Exhibiting Artists:...Read more about Root Division Presents: "I Am..."

Art Practice: When did you discover that you wanted to become an artist?

Anaya Crouch: I decided to pursue art as a career choice in middle school. I had always loved making art, and it was what I was known for as a kid, so around that time there was a lot of discussion about...Read more about Student Anaya Crouch on art commissions

Bay Area Artists Celebrate Juneteenth

For over half a century, BAMPFA and the University of California, Berkeley Department of Art Practice have collaborated to present an exhibition of works by Berkeley Master of Fine Arts graduates. This year’s exhibition includes the exceptional work of champoy, Fred Marque DeWitt, Emily Gui, Biz...Read more about 51st Annual MFA Exhibition

Art Practice wishes all graduating students who belong to the Class of 2021 a happy, productive and meaningful future. We will miss you, and we will never forget the many challenges of 2021 we all braved together. We also celebrate five BA students who shared their next steps to Grad School with...Read more about BA to Masters: Moving On Up

ANNOUNCEMENT: Summer Chair for June & July 2021

Art Practice Community! Allan deSouza, Chair of the Department of Art Practice is taking a much needed summer break for June and July! For June, Professor Jill Miller will be filling in as chair. And for July, Asma...Read more about 2022 Summer Chairs

Current MFA student Ahn Lee interviewed Chrystia Cabral [M.F.A. 2019] aka SPELLLING about friendship and her new album "...Read more about SPELLLING on Friendship

Art 172 animators successfully launched a novel media experience: A fully animated tour of 30 orchestra solos performed by members of the UC Berkeley Orchestra. Some of the collaborations generated very dark and...Read more about A Piece of the Future

A performance, informed in part by Iranian Shia mourning rituals and in part by contemporary politics of protest, includes chants and poetry, theoretical recitations, intonations, laments, electro-acoustic improvisations, expanded cinema, interdimensional contact, finger dancing, black light...Read more about Sholeh Asgary in UnTerminal

A year ago today, on April 29, 2020, our beloved and respected alum Kirk Stoller passed away after a year-long battle with brain cancer. In his time, he built an impressive body of work which is both...Read more about In Memoriam Kirk Stoller [M.F.A. 2004]

Despite the upheaval of COVID, Art Practice recruited and admitted a phenonmenal Class of 2023 to their M.F.A. Program. The new students include, in alphabetical order:

Irma Barbosa, a photographer based in Los...Read more about Seven New M.F.A. Students

By Parul Sehgal

For all the chaos of which he seems singularly capable, the ex-boyfriend remains a strangely underrepresented character in literature. We might have Gatsby, Baldwin’s Giovanni, any number of Emma...Read more about NYT Reviews Purnell's '100 Boyfriends'

Art Practice faculty and staff stand in solidarity with Asian and Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) students, staff, faculty, and the larger community as we witness a new and brutal wave of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia. We unreservedly condemn anti-Asian racism in all forms, and we...Read more about Solidarity with Asians and Asian American/Pacific Islanders

Diasporic Rhizome is a virtual exhibition that explores how the future of our present - one that derives from our past - manifests itself through a South Asian lens.

The concept of ‘diaspora’ itself is constantly evolving and mutating and in an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the...Read more about Asma Kazmi in Diasporic Rhizome

Congratulations to Prof. Stephanie Syjuco on her solo show, which opened last week at Catharine Clark Gallery...Read more about Stephanie Syjuco's "Native Resolution"

At a time of increased anti-Asian American violence, we're proud to support the exhibition “WOMEN我們: From Her to Here”. https://www.cccsf.us/women-from-her-to-here currently on display at The...Read more about WOMEN我們: From Her to Here

Support the Department of Art Practice and help our students become the next generation of artists, changemakers, and thought leaders!

Despite a challenging year, Art Practice students stepped up to produce compelling artwork...Read more about Big Give: Donations Please!

Featuring the work of Erica Deeman, Edgar Fabián Frías, Kavena Hambira, Hala Kaddoura, Ahn Lee, and Rivka Louissaint.

The UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice MFA Class of 2022 has produced a catalog for the exhibition “When Things Get Back...Read more about “When Things Get Back to Normal” Catalog Now Available!

The water from the mountains would flow to the ocean naturally, just not this way, that fast, and as dirty. To show a part of this massive process, Niemeyer sonified and visualized a year’s worth of water data (2020) from his home town, Richmond CA as a short data music video. He combined the...Read more about Art and Climate Change

"Stephanie Syjuco: Vanishing Point (Overlay)"
February 17, 2021 — May 16, 2021
Baltimore Museum of Art

Filipino-American artist Stephanie Syjuco’s three-part installation at the BMA examines how images construct and fortify white supremacy and exclusionary narratives of history and...Read more about Professor Stephanie Syjuco's Solo Exhibiton "Vanishing Point (Overlay)" Opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art

While we rightly celebrate Black History Month, it's also a reminder of the ongoing work that needs to be done towards equity, justice, and inclusion. Here are some of the celebrations, critical discussions, and resources on campus:

...Read more about Commemorating and Celebrating Black History Month

Over the last eight months, the lines separating private from public domains of grief, protest from mourning, dying from being killed, the dead from the living, the fleshly from the pixellated, have been blurred. Through sound, theory, image, and affect, Farman and his collaborators explore some...Read more about Terminality as Performance

We are very enthusiastic to welcome you all to our Water Webinar Series! The series is jointly-organized by staff members at Ghent University, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Queensland. The webinars aim to offer you a wide-range of perspectives on the topic of Water,...Read more about Water and the Arts Event

Nadia Shihab's (MFA, '21) feature-length film Jaddoland is featured in current issue of the the Visual Anthropology Review (VAR). As the Journal for the Society of Visual Anthropology, VAR highlights innovative forms of ethnographic production and anthropological practice that explore the...Read more about Nadia Shihab's JADDOLAND featured in Visual Anthropology Review

Dear Campus Community,

I wish to inform you that our request to un-name Kroeber Hall has been approved by University of California President Michael Drake. The name “Kroeber Hall” is, today, being officially and physically removed from the building. For now, until a new name has been...Read more about Un-naming Kroeber Hall: Now Anthropology and Art Practice Building

The Fall 2020 ART 185 Senior Projects class taught by Associate Professor Stephanie Syjuco created an amazing website, PDF catalog, print-on-demand catalog, and physical mini-gallery exhibition featuring student artworks by: Manduhai Baatar, Seongeun Bak, Jaz Bryant, Jaime Chavez, Kelly Cheah,...Read more about "PARADIGM SHIFT" Senior Show

Art in the Plague Year: https://www.artintheplagueyear.com

Professors Stephanie Syjuco and Jill Miller are featured in an exhibition at "Art in the Plague Year" at UCR ARTS: California Museum of...Read more about Profs Stephanie Syjuco and Jill Miller in "Art in the Plague Year" Exhibition

Fruit from Elsewhere is a multimedia project about the Indian mango installed at the Kala Art Institute from September 24, 2020 — January 23, 2021. The installation unfolds with a rhizome-like logic—documenting South Asian and colonial representations of the fruit, hearsay and scientific reports...Read more about Kazmi's "Fruit from Elsewhere" at the Kala Art Institute

Asma Kazmi, assistant professor in Art Practice and BCNM installed a new media art project called Urban Forest at the Oh Bay Coastal Culture Park, Shenzhen, China. This permanent large-scale metal and augmented reality sculpture creates a contradictory and unusual juxtaposition of construction...Read more about Kazmi's “Urban Forest” in Shenzhen, China

Lightspace Gallery
International Art Museum Of America
1023 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: 9/22/2020 - 12/20/2020

Labor pains and giving birth in a mask. This show is a snapshot of the current landscape that surrounds becoming a parent.

...Read more about Christina Klein's “Forty Weeks” Exhibition at Lightspace Gallery

Students from the Fall 2020 Art 12: Drawing Foundations class taught by lecturer Christina Klein-Tross showed their work side by side for the first time this year. As a group, we've discussed how online classes has changed our perspective of art created purely for viewing on a...Read more about “Self,” the Art 12: Drawing Foundations Online Exhibition

SIDE EFFECTS: The Art 173: Electro-Crafting final show, taught by Chris Kubick, is online! Come check us out! We've got games, virtual museum shows, animations and visualizations galore and even a stormtrooper rave. online now...Read more about Art 173: Electro-Crafting Online End-of-Semester Exhibition

Spring 2021 exhibition
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
Napa, CA
exhibition link

The Bay Area has a longstanding tradition of radical experimentation in ceramic...Read more about “ceramic interventions: nicki green, sahar khoury, & maria paz” at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Associate Professor Stephanie Syjuco has a major solo exhibition up at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, featuring multiple projects spanning four years.

"Stephanie Syjuco: The Visible Invisible"
October 17, 2020—January 9, 2021

Stephanie Syjuco’s work confronts the media-...Read more about Professor Stephanie Syjuco's solo exhibition "The Visible Invisible" at the Blaffer Art Museum

LaiSun Keane is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Nicki Green (MFA 2018, Ceramics Lecturer) titled Between Washing and Unwithering from October 8 to November 7, 2020, online and in person at 460C Harrison Ave Boston MA.

Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in...Read more about Nicki Green presents "Between Washing and Unwithering" at LaiSun Keane, Boston

Anthony Meier FIne Arts
1969 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Erica Deeman (MFA 2022, expected) presents...Read more about Erica Deeman presents "Familiar Stranger" at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, SF

On View July–August 2020

Anglim Gilbert Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

Art Practice and Disability Studies Professor Emerita Katherine Sherwood presents Brain Flowers, an...Read more about Katherine Sherwood: "Brain Flowers" at Anglim Gilbert Gallery, SF

June to September, 2020

Minnesota Street Projects, SF.

https://ex.minnesotastreetproject.com/Ex/Invincible/Invincible.html

Artist:...Read more about Heesoo Kwon: “Invincible Summer” at Minnesota Street Projects, SF

AN ETERNITY AGO, the death of Little Richard reignited some debate around the Black queer image in contemporary music. In terms of visibility, we’ve certainly come leaps and bounds since the early days of Queen Richard. Survival is another story. But at that cultural nexus emerging from the...Read more about Brontez Purnell: What Are You Waiting For?

Juneteenth celebrates the commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. In 2015, Dr. Reginold Royston and Dr. John Scott, Berkeley grad students at the time, produced an innovative video for an Art Practice course on Data Culture about the history of Juneteenth. They examine why...Read more about Juneteenth: Resonance and Diffusion

Global Urban Humanities is a remarkable interdisciplinary teaching and research initiative connecting the Arts & Humanities with the College of Environmental Design. Jose Figureoa [M.F.A. 2016] participated in one of the “GLOHUM” courses in 2016. He was interviewed recently about his...Read more about Jose Figueroa [MFA 2016] Interview

We are at the beginning of a new age, but how do we account for the past? How did and how will black lives matter at the Department of Art Practice? I look back on what Art Practice did for its black students, faculty and staff in the past, and I can say that I learned more from them than...Read more about A personal message from outgoing Chair, Greg Niemeyer

Congratulations Class of 2020!

Published in the throes of Covid-19, Ark of Martyrs is Art Professor Allan deSouza’s rewriting of the first part of Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella, Heart of Darkness. In the vocal traditions of gospel, toasting, and rap, deSouza...Read more about Ark of Martyrs by Allan deSouza

Dear Art Practice:

Due to Coronavirus, the Department of Art Practice unfortunately closed all studios and workspacesuntil further notice. We have no way of guaranteeing that the spaces are safe for all.

However, all Art Practice courses will continue online. All faculty are...Read more about Studios Closed, Courses Online

Congratulations to Painter Becky Suss [MFA 2010] who received a great review of her current show at Shainman Gallery, NYC. in the March 3 issue of the...Read more about Becky Suss's Distortions

Artist and Art Practice Ceramics Technician Ehren Tool is featured in an in-depth news story on news.berkeley.edu: Ehren Tool’s cups aren’t for sale. They’re for starting conversations —...Read more about Artist Ehren Tool Featured on news.berkeley.edu

The Worth Ryder Gallery presents EXTRA/INFRA, an exhibition of work from UC Berkeley’s first year graduate students- champoy, Fred M. DeWitt, Emily Gui, Biz Iqbal, Anna Riley, and Nadia Shihab. This show exhibits the culminating efforts of these student’s first semester in the program,...Read more about "extra/infra" : First Year MFA Exhibition Spring '20

Every year, Film Independent, the Los Angeles non-profit supporting independent filmmaking, awards 4 unrestricted grants to filmmakers for their contributions to cinema. This year, the Truer Than Fiction Award, a $25,000 unrestricted grant presented to an emerging non-fiction filmmaker, was...Read more about Nadia Shihab wins Spirit Award for Jaddoland

The Senior Thesis Exhibition is now open featuring hobbie, Angela Buencamino, Zhongjie Cao, Jade Cohen, Hugo N. Coweins, Aisha Faria, Madison Griffith, Kia Guillaume, Scout Handford,...Read more about Senior Thesis Fall Exhibition Celebrates Student Work

Every year, SFMOMA awards the prestigious SECA prize to three exceptional artists. It so...Read more about SFMOMA, The Historical Present, and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle.

As the Honors exhibition comes to a close, the Art Department would like to recognize our Honors students for their work this semester. Each semester a select few art majors who are creating outstanding work are chosen for the Honors Studio Program by the Department of Art Practice Faculty. They...Read more about ‽‽‽ Interrobang: The Fall 2019 Honors Exhibition

The Worth Ryder Gallery is proud to be exhibiting Hyperobjects, open from Wednesday October 16th - Thursday November 7th 2019.

Scott...Read more about Hyperobjects: Humans, the Planet, and What Else?

Presented by East Bay Booksellers

Over the past decade, artist Anne Walsh has created an ongoing, multipart response to surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's novel The Hearing...Read more about Anne Walsh to Read From Her New Book: Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh.

The latest season of the PBS Art21 Series features Prof. Stephanie Syjuco at work in her studio, as she navigates the deeply embedded visual tropes of American history applied in her practice. Describing the shift in priorities associated with progressing in a career as an artist, Syjuco notes a...Read more about Syjuco in the new Season of PBS Art21

The San Francisco Foundation & SOMArts Annual Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition surveys new work from the 17 recipients of the competitive Jack K and Gertrude Murphy Award and the Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarships...Read more about Murphy Cadogan Honors Four Art Practice Students

What are you doing at the Headlands?
Hiking, admiring the surrounding plant life, watching the gold dust of the sunset. I'm also working on a film and book project called The Lonely Age that I started in my last semester of grad school. It's about seeds that...Read more about An Interview with Connie Zheng [MFA 2019], Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts

Congratulations to our Summer Studio students who mounted a very impressive show at the Worth Ryder gallery with the support and guidance of Instructor Carrie Hott. The show will be up until...Read more about Summer Studio Success

We sat down with Sahar Khoury, who received her BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 and her MFA from UC Berkeley in 2013. We discuss her recent return to the Ceramics Studio in Art Practice, where she is completing new work for her...Read more about Interview with SECA winner and MFA alum Sahar Khoury.

In the heart of Richmond, a thriving multi-building arts center called NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development) serves artists with a full range of arts resources, from ceramics to support for openings...Read more about Full Range at NIAD Arts Center

From Art Practical: “How does one survive and thrive as an artist in the San Francisco Bay Area? The art world is inundated with stories from the community and media about artists being displaced in the face of...Read more about How does one survive and thrive as an artist in the San Francisco Bay Area?

Applications will be accepted beginning September 16th, 2019. The application/portfolio period will close at 12:00AM (EST) on December 16th 2019. Letters of recommendation are also due by 12:00AM (EST) December 16th, 2019.

Final decisions will be made mid-to-late March....Read more about Art Practice MFA Applications Will Begin Being Accepted September 16th, 2019.

Call to all artists: the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is launching a grant to support art projects that engage substantively with cybersecurity in themes, topics, audiences, and/or...Read more about Cybersecurity Arts Contest

Every year, Art Practice graduates somewhere between 50 and 100 artists, including 5-7 Masters of Fine Art. We are proud of the achievements of the Class of 2019, with 63 Bachelors of Art and 5 Masters of Fine Art. Already, they have created a wonderful MFA show, received numerous awards, and...Read more about Art Practice Graduates 68 New Artists

Congratulations to UC Berkeley Art Practice Ceramics Studio Manager and Lecturer Ehren Tool for his full profile in the NYT Magazine on 05/01/2019...Read more about Ehren Tool, the full Tool and nothing but the Tool in the NYT Magazine

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury and Marlon Mullen received the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s biannual SECA Art Award. This award honors artists that have yet to “accorded substantial recognition from a major institution” and each artist will have their work exhibited in SFMOMA in...Read more about SFMOMA’s SECA Award winners

Ronald Rael has been an affiliated faculty member of Art Practice since 2012. He is a professor of architecture and art practice at UC Berkeley. He works closely with Ehren Tool, Stephanie Syjuco, Virginia San Fratello and Greg Niemeyer.

Mr. Rael and Ms. San Fratello, are leading 3-D...Read more about Prof. Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello Pioneer 3-D Printing for Buildings

Allan deSouza’s new book on art pedagogy, “How Art can be Thought” inspires engaged dialog about the role of art as a force of renewal, memory, identity and community. What terms do we use to describe and evaluate art, and how do we judge if art is good, and if it is for the social good? In ...Read more about How Art Can Be Thought: New Book by Allan deSouza

Stephanie Syjuco’s photographic series revisits historical ethnographic studio portraiture via fictional display: using mass-manufactured goods purchased from American shopping malls and restyled to...Read more about MOMA Acquires Stephanie Syjuco's Cargo Cult Series of Photographs

Teaming up with Internet Archive and data artist Greg Niemeyer, composer/multimedia artist Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky created QUANTOPIA: The Evolution of the Internet, featuring performances by DJ...Read more about DJ Spooky and Greg Niemeyer Launch Quantopia