Art Department News

Food Forest Futures draws from Indigenous, permaculture, and bio-intensive design strategies to introduce seven layers of a food forest, attract beneficial animals, microbes, and insects, and integrate plantings of beneficial, medicinal, edible plants.

Senior art and art history majors with a studio emphasis exhibited their thesis work in December 2021 at the Clifford Gallery.

Professor Lakshmi Luthra showed photographs from her series All Supply as part of the exhibition Opacity and Radiance at Ben Hunter Gallery in London

Professor Kaimal recently published Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space with University of Washington Press.

Professor Margaretha Haughwout exhibited work with her Coven Intelligence Program collective (with efren cruz cortes and Suzanne Husky) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in late 2020.

Advanced Studio students and Professor Margaretha Haughwout organized an online exhibition to showcase students' exceptional work in the spring 2020 semester.

For Queer Paranormal, curated by the Two Chairs collective and Anne Thompson, Professor Margaretha Haughwout's Coven Intelligence Program collective (formerly known as APRIORI) shared spell-to-seed packets, a (BETA) SpellWeaver application, a large diagram of their speculative history, maps, mugwort harvested from nearby fields on summer full moons, and a film in which witches and herbalists are asked what plants they would choose to teach ethics to machines. A self-guided walk offered plant stakes marking "signs" important to the collective's speculative history.

Professor Hatton has written a catalog piece for the recent show at Twelve Gates Arts in Philadelphia.

“The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.” -William Kentridge

Professor Luthra participated in Full Haus: The Seeld Library, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art storefront exhibition space, as part of the research collective Seeld Library.