School of Fine Arts

Minnie Negoro uses a potter's wheel during a ceramics course on December 5, 1967. (Courtesy of UConn Archives and Special Collections).

Benton Exhibit Honors Minnie Negoro, Pioneering UConn Ceramics Professor

UConn historians curated the exhibit to honor Negoro's impact on the University and her personal experience with a dark chapter of American history — the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII

Photographer Richard Termine ’75 (SFA), ’78 MFA talks to a crowd of people

Puppetry Exhibition Showcases Photographic Work of UConn Alum, 60 Years of Puppet Arts

'Puppetry brings out all of these really essential parts of being human,' says Cheryl Henson, curator of the exhibition and daughter of renowned puppeteer Jim Henson

Angelina Gadeliya, assistant professor in residence of piano and coordinator of keyboard studies program at UConn, plays the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts' new 2024 Steinway Model D concert grand piano

Jorgensen Celebrates New Steinway Piano with Concert Featuring UConn’s Angelina Gadeliya

'We needed a piano that could cut through an orchestra and still have a beautiful, warm singing sound. That’s a lot to ask for in one piano'

Four women hold up sock puppets with a crowded room behind them.

Feel Your Best Self Goes to High School

School counselors explore opportunities to integrate Feel Your Best Self into secondary settings at UConn’s School Counselor Day

Cristina Colón-Semenza, assistant professor in UConn’s Department of Kinesiology, talks with Clare Benson, a former UConn assistant professor of photography, at the Nov. 7 opening of their exhibition, "On the Move: Photographic Interventions in the Future of Parkinson's Disease," at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art at UConn Avery Point.

Exhibition Pairs the Unlikely – Photography, Physical Therapy – to Help Those with Parkinson’s

'Not enough people know that even though this is a progressive neurological disease there is something that can be done to help you manage it, live your life with it, maintain a high quality of life, and find some level of joy, happiness, engagement in spite of it'

Evan Wolfgang '25 (SFA) at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio

To the Lordy: UConn Student Crafting Dramatic Parable Based on Life of Notorious Assassin

'Never before have I had so much support for a project. I have so many enthusiastic voices around me'

Artist Blanche Şerban poses for a photo among her artwork that is featured in the Jorgensen Gallery's current exhibition, "A Year of Plein Art Painting on Horsebarn Hill."

In ‘Plein’ Sight: Jorgensen Exhibition Focuses on Horsebarn Hill

This style of painting allows an artist to repeatedly paint the same landscape or subject, and each painting will show a different scene

Illustrations of miscellaneous icons over a word bubble

UConn Magazine: If They’d Known Then…

Remember those rising first-years of the Class of 2024, whose touching, eager, and sometimes prophetic admissions essays we shared on the cover of our Fall 2020 issue? We wondered how those historic four years turned out for them — and where they are now

The David LaChapelle exhibit at the Benton Museum.

Benton Museum Exhibition Features Work of Famed Photographer of Artists and Musicians

Hartford native has photographed everyone from Elton John to Dua Lipa in trademark, hyper-clear style

Three master gardeners posing at the Collinsville Pollen Trail

UConn’s Hidden Gem: Master Gardeners

More than 700 master gardeners educate and beautify communities across the state