School of Fine Arts

Sol LeWitt Mural Installation at Innovation Partnership Building

This past Fall semester, UConn School of Fine Arts students worked together with UConn Engineering students to install ‘Wall Drawing 867’ a mural conceptualized by Sol LeWitt, onto the walls within the glass lobby of the new UConn Innovation Partnership Building.  This collaborative project is one part of an overall plan for multiple STEAM (Science, […]

Spectrophotometry is the science of measuring chemical absorption and reflection of light. Illustration by Jessica Ortegon ’18 (CLAS)/(SFA), a double major in chemistry and art and art history. The animation was developed by Alexandra Sailer ’19 (SFA), a digital media and design major.

Animating Biological Concepts

Biology majors enrolling for next semester in the lab section of Biology 1107 will be among the first to benefit from a series of five instructional animations developed by students in digital media and art.

Earthtones Vocal Ensemble Performance Recalls Music of Vietnam War Era

“Voices of the Vietnam War: Music and Memories” will be performed by the UConn Earthtones Vocal Ensemble on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. in Louis J. von der Mehden Recital Hall, 875 Coventry Road, in Storrs. Earthtones is comprised of university students and community members in a Department of Music class who bring to […]

Jessica Ortegon, a senior majoring in fine arts, focuses on her work in Professor Brad Guarino's Basic Painting class. (Garrett Spahn/UConn Photo)

The Art of Concentration

Students paint from their mind's eye in a basic painting class.

Jonathan the Husky, UConn's current mascot visits the exhibit 'Mascots! Mask Performance in the 21st Century' at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry on Oct. 30, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Exhibit Puts Spotlight on Sports Mascots

Costumed mascots of college and professional sports teams are on display at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry.

Graffiti Ceramic Art Exhibit Brings Everyone to the Table

On Exhibit at UConn’s Contemporary Art Galleries Oct 30 – Dec 1, 2017 Artist Talk & Reception Oct 30 @ 5pm – 7pm Arena Gallery UConn Art Building with a Performance by the UConn Chamber Singers In New Life: A Table for Everyone, Philadelphia-based ceramic artist Roberto Lugo uses porcelain, earthenware, china paints, ceramic decals, […]

Puppets and Special Effects Entertain in New ESPN Fantasy Football Show

If you sit down at 5pm and turn on ESPN 2, instead of sports you may be bewildered by eagles falling from the sky, talking fish, sassy puppets, and much more. The Fantasy Show with Matthew Berry is a show dedicated to Fantasy Football, and we had the honor of sitting down with the creative […]

With an IDEA grant, Eva Hu ’18 (SFA), an undergraduate from China, is applying skills she learned at UConn to translate the traditional calligraphy of her homeland into 3-D sculpture. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Studio Art Major Draws Inspiration from Chinese Culture

An undergraduate from China is applying skills she learned at UConn to translate the traditional calligraphy of her native culture into 3-D sculpture.

‘Outside My Name or Through Other Eyes’ Reinterprets the Harlem Renaissance and American Modernism

Outside My Name or Through Other Eyes, an exhibit featuring the work of Brooklyn, NY artist William Villalongo, opens at UConn’s Contemporary Art Galleries on September 11. The artwork weaves the artist’s aesthetic and social interests together with aspects of Pablo Picasso and Aaron Douglas’s visual vocabulary. Villalongo’s paintings, collage works and prints draw upon […]

‘Be Our Guest’ in a Puppet Ant Building Workshop

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will once again offer fall community puppet-building workshops with acclaimed Boston puppeteer Sara Peattie, to design and build over-life-size puppets of army ants and their associated species (“guests”) for the Celebrate Mansfield Parade and a special Ant Migration Pageant with the Hartford Hot Several Brass Band in Storrs, […]