Galleries

Trajé del Bailé: Selections from the UTA Latin American Collection

September 8 – November 20, 2025
Visual Resource Collections & Gallery, 2109 Fine Arts Building

On view for the fall 2025 semester are a series of vibrantly painted and intricately decorated masks and dance costumes from Bolivia, Guatemala, and Mexico from the UTA Fine Art Collections. They represent the wide breadth of regional historical dance and parade traditions, ranging from the Bailé de los Animales to the annual Carnaval. Beginning with the indigenous cultures of the Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Olmec, the celebratory carnivals and festivals in Latin America evolved under the influence of European and African dance traditions to incorporate not only celebrational experiences but also used for expressions of faith, mourning, and resistance.

XX Faculty Biennial

October 20 - November 15, 2025
The Gallery at UTA, Fine Arts Building

Scheduled every two years, this exhibition presents a sampling of what the UTA art and design professors accomplish in their creative and scholarly endeavors outside the classroom. The twentieth edition features 32 faculty members working in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, glass, printmaking, cinematic arts, and design. In addition, the department’s art historians and art educators’ recent publications are on display.

The Gullah Journey: West Africa to Mexico

September 5 – October 11, 2025
The Gallery at UTA, Fine Arts Building

Curated by Jorge Baldor, historian, art collector, and founder of the Latino Arts Project, this densely layered exhibition centers on the centuries-long journey of the Gullah-Muscogo people and their culture. It pairs works by artists working in diverse media with historical documents, maps and artifacts to tell “a story of resilience, culture and freedom” of the Gullah-Muscogo people – from West Africa to South Carolina enslavement, then escape to Spanish Florida and intermingling with the indigenous Seminole Nation, to forced resettlement in Oklahoma, and finally to freedom and the founding of the town of Nacimiento de los Negros in Mexico. Among many works is a selection of portraits of the present-day people of Nacimiento by the renowned contemporary artist and former UTA faculty Sedrick Huckaby pictures who spent several months in the town as a Fulbright Fellow in 2023.

Solace in Painting: Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century

February 4 - March 29, 2025
The Gallery at UTA, Fine Arts Building

Solace in Painting explores how we characterize the artwork of conflicted artists of the Asian diaspora who never produced overt “conflict art.” This exhibition, which will travel from UTA to UNO Gallery at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in September 2 - October 31, 2025, features three little-researched diasporic painters – Chao Shao-an (1905-1998), Keisho Okayama (1934- 2018), and Ann Phong (b.1957) - brought together through their unusual approaches to painting and shared experiences of conflict in Asia. Curated by Dr. Fletcher Coleman, Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, with an exhibition catalogue produced by Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd.

Fables & Folklore: Selections from the UTA Asian Art Collection

February 3 - April 25, 2025
Visual Resource Collections & Gallery, 2109 Fine Arts Building

Fables are stories are often told to underscore a moral that is prominent or important in a society. Dating as far back as 1500 BCE, some of the world’s oldest fables originate in the Asian diaspora. These stories have been shared across the continent through oracular storytelling, literature, and compellingly beautiful artforms that illustrate and underscore their social philosophies. The tradition of Ðông Hò woodcut painting exemplifies this form of inspirational visual interpretation, sharing symbols of good luck wishes for the New Year and humorous tales of animals who have been placed into human settings. Also on display are a series of Chinese and Japanese woodblock prints that narrate stories of Immortals and supernatural, legendary figures as well as traditional landscapes and nature scenes.

Bart Weiss: Video Y'All

January 13-25, 2025
The Gallery at UTA, Fine Arts Building

Weiss’ illustrious artistic career includes many roles since 1972: festival programmer, TV producer, filmmaker, podcaster, critic, writer, cinematographer, producer, and cinematic arts professor at the University of Texas at Arlington since 1999, where he encouraged students to experiment with new technology as it developed over the years but ultimately emphasized the importance of cinema as a storytelling language.

This exhibition displays projects ranging from 1976 to 2024, shown in formats that defined these decades, from 16 mm film to Hi8, Betacam to 6K cameras and mobile media. Diverse genres, including documentaries, narratives, music videos, experimental projections, films about music, and comedies are included, as well as highlights from KERA’ Frame of Mind television show, and the annual Dallas VideoFest that Weiss co-organized and produced.

Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

December 2-14, 2024
The Gallery at UTA, Fine Arts Building

A showcase for recent work created by the graduating seniors of the Department of Art and Art History, the fall 2024 BFA Exhibition features the work of 20 students demonstrating a wide variety of skills in concentrations including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, glass, interactive media, cinematic arts, and visual communication design.