Asian photography event is Friday

'Woman-Ochre' returns;

Prof. Ivey offers insight

School of Art Prof. Paul Ivey shares four things you may not have known about "Woman-Ochre" and artist Willem de Kooning. The painting has been in the spotlight after its return to the University of Arizona Museum of Art. However, as Ivey points out, "Woman-Ochre" held a significant place in the art world well before it was stolen in 1985.

Tenorio honors Nicaragua,

wins Indigenous design 

Creating art is helping Erika Tenorio honor the student’s Nicaraguan-Mexican Indigenous heritage and grandmother, who died from COVID a year ago. Not only is the two-spirit senior working on a printmaking project this semester titled “Linda Nicaragua, Mi Nicaraguita,” but one of Tenorio’s designs was chosen by the university’s Indigenous Cats Association to mark Indigenous People’s Day. November is Native American Heritage Month.

Prof. Sarah Moore gives

talks at Yale, in Taos

Art History Professor Sarah J. Moore criss-crossed the U.S. this fall, including presenting a paper on landscape at Yale University in Connecticut. Her paper, “Neither Land nor Landscape: Time Landscape as In-Between Formation,” examines artist Alan Sonfist’s environmental land art sculpture for New York City that visualized how the city looked before urbanization. She also spoke at the Southwest Art History Conference in Taos and presented a paper virtually in a series sponsored by London's Courtauld.

Turner, McIntosh talk

at L.A. alumni event

Director Colin Blakely enjoyed meeting up with UArizona Alumni at the Marshall Gallery in Santa Monica, California, to view The Intimacy of Distance and hear from School of Art professor and co-curator, Lawrence Gipe, and featured artists Regents professor Sama Alshaibi, and alumni Ryan McIntosh, '06 and Alex Turner, '20. Thanks to Douglas Marshall of Marshall Galley and the SoCal Cats alumni chapter leadership. The exhibition is on view until Dec. 3.