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Associate Professor Nicole Antebi's Art, Design and the Environment students produced a pop-up exhibition earlier this week in the SOA lobby of illustrated “Object Stories.”

In collaboration with Creative Writing Professor Ander Monson and visiting filmmaker and curator Jessica Oreck (Office of Collecting & Design), students were challenged to think about the concept of border objects or objects that translate from one language or use to another.

MFA student Melanie Montes (pictured ) presented her Object Story exploring the translation of the word “chapulín” (grasshopper from Nahuatl) into slang: someone who steals a friend's partner.

@uarizonaarts @nicoleantebi @angermonsoon @office.of.collecting @uazmuseumofart @uarizona by @uazschoolofart

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TONIGHT and TOMORROW: The sixth-annual Asian Photography Symposium, co-organized by University of Arizona School of Art Associate Professor Jeehey Kim and the Center for Creative Photography, will be held at the CCP, 1030 N. Olive Road, and with online participation on Zoom.

🔎 Registration for in-person and Zoom in School of Art 🔗, or https://tinyurl.com/SOAasian26

This year's theme, “Asian Photography and Archipelago,” brings together scholars, curators and artists from the U.S. and Asia, including a keynote by Patrick Flores, to explore photography across the islands and seas of the Asia-Pacific. The symposium includes a two-part screening of the 2024 film, “From Island to Island,” which explores the experiences of Taiwanese soldiers and civilians living under Japanese colonization during World War II.

Friday, Oct. 16

🎥 5-7:30 p.m.: Opening remarks, Hasan Elahi, Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona; and “From Island to Island” screening, first part (2.5 hours, only for in-person participants).

Saturday, Oct. 17

9:30-10:30 a.m.: Keynote speech, Patrick Flores, Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, Singapore

10:30 a.m.-noon: First panel — Fumiaki Kagegai, Chief Curator of Photography, Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art; Jeehey Kim, Art History Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Arizona; Shinwook Kim, photographer, South Korea.

🎥 1:30-4 p.m.: “From Island to Island” screening, second part (2.5 hours, only for in-person partcipants)

4:20-5:50 p.m.: Second panel — Musquiqui Chihying, photographer, Taiwan; Kek-Huat Lau, “From Island to Island” director, Malaysia; Lu Pan, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Polytech University

6 p.m.: Closing remarks, Jeff Beekman, Director, School of Art, University of Arizona

@uarizonaarts @uarizona @cntrforcreativephoto @uarizonaphoto @arthistoryclubua @uazhistory @uazjschool by @uazschoolofart

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Meet Brooke Bachman, one of our student artists in “UAUA,” the University of Arizona Undergraduate Art Exhibition.

Join Brooke and others for a public reception on Thursday, Oct. 22, from 4 to 6 p.m., in the School of Art lobby and Lionel Rombach Gallery.

“UAUA” will be on view until Oct. 30, Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

@lil_bachy_ @bachman.studios @uarizonaarts @uarizona @uazmuseumofart @uatheatrefilmtv @cntrforcreativephoto @mocatucson @tucsonmuseumofart @gallerypraxis by @uazschoolofart

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More thanks to Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. for visiting the University of Arizona campus this week!

Image 1: The acclaimed printer and book artist (center) met School of Art Director Jeff Beekman and Theatre, Film & Television Director Frances Gateward at Monday's screening of his documentary at the Marroney Theatre.

Images 2-7: Amos hosted a print workshop with students in Professor Karen Zimmermann's class Wednesday at the school's Book Art & Letterpress Lab. (Photos by Karla Torres Martinez)

On Tuesday, Amos held a print workshop at the MLK Dream Student Space and a print sale and meet & greet at the UA Poetry Center.

@uarizonaarts @uarizona @uatheatrefilmtv @kennedyprints @karenzimhere by @uazschoolofart

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PLAZA | MFA Exhibition

ASU
Oct 16–31 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | Oct 16 | 6–9 p.m.

U of A
Nov 12-26 | Lionel Rombach Gallery
Opening reception | Nov 12 | 4-6p.m.

PLAZA is a meeting ground. This traveling exhibition unites photography artists from the University of Arizona in Tucson & Arizona State University in Tempe-Phoenix. Artists were invited to reflect on their relationship to place in regards to belonging, meeting, ancestral roots and isolation; artists were encouraged to reflect on the idea of what it can mean to feel at home in a place or between places.

Curated by Marcus Xavier Chormicle and Oscar Montes.
1h taken in ASU Step Gallery by @uazschoolofart

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Where are they now? Wednesday: Timur Si-Qin (BFA ’08, Studio Art) is a New York-based artist and writer whose 3D-printed sculptures and other work imagine new protocols of spirituality in the face of climate change and biodiversity collapse.

He's currently presenting his work at two different locations in London: at the @albionjeune gallery, where the exhibition, “Pristine Part I,” reflects his ongoing engagement with the Peruvian Amazon; and at Regent's Park, where his “Last of the Wild and Free (Rhododendron calophytum)” — pictured — is a “monument” to a shrub that grows in the high-altitude forests of Sichuan, China. The work, created for Frieze Sculptures in 2025, is part of “In the Shadows,” curated by @fatosustek.

Born in Berlin, Si-Qin grew up in Tucson in a German, Mongolian/Chinese and San Carlos Apache Native American family. He moved back to Germany after high school but returned to the Southwest a few years later to study photography and studio and digital art at the University of Arizona.

“First I was ‘undeclared,’ which gave me the opportunity to take a wide range of courses outside of art,” Timur said in a 2017 interview with Living Content. “Looking back I’m grateful for this period for helping me expand my horizons.”

Timur’s interests in contemporary philosophy, the evolution of culture and the dynamics of cognition, take form in “branded ecosystems“ and installations of 3D-printed sculptures, light-boxes and VR. His long-term project is the proposal of a secular religion of the future called “New Peace“ — which re-establishes the sacredness of nature in a contemporary globalized and technologically saturated world, his bio says.

His work has been extensively shown in solo exhibitions in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. He also has participated in international group exhibitions such as 2026 Art Basel Unlimited, where he showcased a stainless steel sculpture of a tree that he recreated from the Peruvian Amazon using photogrammetry “to remind people these extremely beautiful habitats are in danger and need to be protected.”

• Instagram: @timursq
• Website: timursiqin.com

@uarizonaarts @uarizona @arizonaalumni @uarizonaphoto @friezeofficial by @uazschoolofart

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𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙨𝙚 is OPEN!

Exhibition on view: 10/13/26-1/28/27
Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm
Reception: 10/22/26 4-6pm

𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙨𝙚 features artworks for which the making—or destroying—of family archives is material and metaphor. Funny, heart-wrenching, or bizarre, using the ephemera of memory itself or a copy of a copy, each artwork reminds us that everything’s relative.

Juried from an open call, the exhibition brings together UA students, alumni, and faculty alongside local, national and internationally-exhibiting artists to present hyper-intimate yet universal ruminations on the impact family plays on artmaking.

Featuring: David Weed, Destini Ross, Elizabeth Burden, Epiphany Knedler, Ghazal Hesami, Jesse Hinson, Jonathan Ade, Kaitlyn Jo Smith, Karen M Zimmermann + Tomiko Jones, Katherine Wang, Kimberly Anderson, Kira Keck, Lex Turnbull, Madeleine G Welsch, Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Melissa Zexter, Molly Etchberger, Shirley A Wagner, Ulli Hain.
Design: Tara Shoe

Joseph Gross Gallery is situated in @uazschoolofart , part of the dynamic Arts Oasis at University of Arizona adjacent to @uazmuseumofart and across Olive rd. from @cntrforcreativephoto. by @uazschoolofart

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Thank you to Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., who is holding a free interactive printing event today until 3 p.m. at the MLK Dream Student Space on campus, 1322 E. First St.

Amos also will host a “Print Sale & Meet and Greet” today from 5 to 7 p.m. at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St., along with a “Citizen Printer” book signing with Desierto Books. (Cash and Venmo accepted to purchase prints).

@uarizonaarts @uarizona @kennedyprints @uapoetrycenter @mlk_uofa by @uazschoolofart

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National Portfolio Day!
Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Help us encourage high school and community college art students to register for National Portfolio Day on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the University of Arizona School of Art from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A dozen art schools from across the nation will share information about their programs, review students' artwork, offer critiques and discuss university and college plans. The event is FREE.

🔗 Click on the link in the School of Art bio for details and registration, or go to tinyurl.com/SOAnpd26

The lineup:

Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, OH

Iowa State University College of Design
Ames, IA

Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, MO

Laguna College of Art + Design
Laguna Beach, CA

Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN

Montserrat College of Art
Beverly, MA

Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles, CA

Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University
Portland, OR

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL

School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
Boston, MA

University of Redlands, Los Angeles (URLA)
Los Angeles, CA

University of Arizona School of Art
Tucson, AZ

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Emerging Conversations 2026 | Revitalizing Visual Culture & Educational Futures: An Open Call for Presenters

Deadline for Submission: November 1st, 2026
Acceptance Notification: Acceptance status notifications for all submissions will be e-mailed by November 14th, 2026
Emerging Conversations 2026 Symposium: Saturday, December 5 | Tucson Museum of Art

Emerging Conversations: Revitalizing Visual Culture & Educational Futures is the 2026 annual art education symposium organized by graduate students in the Art & Visual Culture Education (AVCE). This year's gathering will be hosted at the Tucson Museum of Art on Saturday, December 5.

We invite participants to examine how we teach, learn, and navigate a world increasingly driven by visual culture.

Continuing the tradition of Emerging Conversations, we invite submissions from graduate and undergraduate university students, K-12 and higher education educators, artists, art historians, researchers, and community members.

🔎 Submissions can be made in the School of Art 🔗 or at https://tinyurl.com/SOAec26

Questions: Contact the Planning Committee — Andy Julo (andyjulo@arizona.edu) or Mandi Smith (amandajsmith@arizona.edu).

@uarizonaarts @uarizona @uazmuseumofart @tucsonmuseumofart @andyjulo @3ambittersweet @ua_avce @uagradcollege by @uazschoolofart

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Erin Patrick O’Connor, a former senior video reporter at The Washington Post covering climate and immigration enforcement in the Southwest, visited Anna Watts’ First Year Experience class, ART 104: Photo, Video, Experience, this week

O’Connor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and an Alfred I. duPont Award winner, shared his work and creative process with students. See his earlier work at https://tinyurl.com/SOAerin26

Watts, a graduate teaching assistant and first-year MFA student, is a freelance photojournalist. The New York Times recently published her images along the Tohono O’odham Nation’s 62-mile border with Mexico.

Photos by Sheldon Patten

@wattsanna_ @mr_erin_o @uarizonaarts @uarizona @uazjschool @cntrforcreativephoto @uarizonaphoto @sheldon_patten @payusova @washingtonpost by @uazschoolofart

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Come work with us! The School of Art at the University of Arizona invites applications for a full-time Administrative Assistant.

Applicants should be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, Zoom, Doodle Poll, and database management systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for front office coverage, general administrative duties, managing the Director's calendar, occasional travel coordination, and some event assistance.

🔎 Apply in our School of Art 🔗, or go to https://tinyurl.com/SOAadmin26

@uarizonaarts @uarizona @arizonaalumni @uazmuseumofart @cntrforcreativephoto by @uazschoolofart

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