Professors Danielle Dean, Teddy Cruz in exhibition After School

August 23, 2025 - January 11, 2026

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

The exhibition brings together architects, artists, and educators to study the state and stakes of public education. Through spatial propositions, installations, alternative playgrounds, and curricular proposals, the participants consider architectural, pedagogical, and representational structures that shape how knowledge is created, shared, taught, or withheld.

Visual Arts MFA at Graduate Programs Open House

September 10, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Zoom Events Platform, UC San Diego

Learn about the Visual Arts MFA program at the Graduate Programs Open House. Note that the PhD program will have a separate event on September 19th. The Visual Arts MFA program is designed to provide intensive professional training for students who wish to pursue a career within the field of contemporary art—including all aspects of art making, criticism, theory and curating.

Professor Danielle Dean in Villa Medici Film Festival

September 10 - September 14, 2025

Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

Since its creation in 2021, Villa Medici Film Festival has explored the links between cinema and contemporary art. The International Competition presents twelve recent films of all genres and lengths. At the end of the festival week, two prizes are awarded by the jury at a ceremony attended by the public and artists: the Villa Medici Prize for Best Film and the Special Jury Prize.

Professor Amy Adler podcast About Art

Heidi Zuckerman's About Art Podcast

Adler's current solo exhibition NICE GIRL is on view at the Orange County Museum of Art. She and Zuckerman discuss Leonardo DiCaprio, family as subject matter, girls, and nice girls, protecting the vulnerable, power dynamics, the vulnerability in making art, self-love, time well spent, drawing in negative, her studio practice, working standing, technique and texture, and how there is always more!

Professor Ricardo Dominguez podcast Watching the Watchers

PARA/normal Borders Podcast

In this episode, Ricardo traces the origins of his practice to a formative moment in early childhood: the instant he poured warm milk onto his beloved RCA television and watched it explode. This gesture inspired Ricardo’s artistic practice, one which is committed to the destruction of repressive technologies and the formation of digital solidarity networks.

MFA student Andrew Wharton, BA alum Kiko Thomas in Soft Launch

August 23 - September 4, 2025

Material Projects, Los Angeles, CA

We are pleased to announce Soft Launch, the inaugural exhibition of Material Projects. We are an artists run space in downtown Los Angeles. This show features some of the best emerging talent from across the region, capturing the diversity and depth of the Los Angeles art scene.

Big Mother's 6th Annual Artists in Solidarity Auction

August 23, 5:00 p.m. - September 6, 11:00 p.m.

Silent Online Auction

BA allumna Marisa DeLuca asks you to please join her in supporting local immigrant families directly affected by immigration enforcement by supporting Artists in Solidarity's sixth annual art auction. All proceeds after expenses will be disbursed as cash grants to three immigrant families who have experienced kidnappings recently.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Text Messages presented on Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen

July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.

Professors Memo Akten, Robert Twomey, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alum Ash Eliza Smith in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

CLOSING SOON

MFA student Nube Hawk Cruz in America (Soy Yo!)

July 19 - August 30, 2025

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

A group exhibition curated by Los Angeles artist, curator, and gallery director Ever Velasquez. America (Soy Yo!) brings together artists from across the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Canada who collectively interrogate ideas of forced migration, land ownership, and the man-made borders that separate us.

MFA alum Deanna Barahona exhibition Stars Love Being Alone

June 6 - August 31, 2025

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA

Barahona’s art is full of bright colors, glitter, photos, ceramic tile, and cartoons. She draws inspiration from family parties, the decorations in her childhood home, and everyday objects like Valentine’s stickers or leftover balloons. New works made for this exhibition include images from important rites of passage and cultural events.

Professor Amy Adler exhibition Nice Girl

April 26 - September 7, 2025

Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA

Nice Girl presents a new body of oil pastel works that investigate the ubiquitous social media mirror selfie, reflecting how people both see themselves and share outward their own reflections. Across the 20 canvases that comprise the show’s installation, a series of anonymous young women meet our eye, each having made the choice to share their likeness online with the public.

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