UConn Art & Art History Department

10/14/2026

10/14/2026

Upcoming Exhibition! ‼️‼️

“Let’s Have a Conversation at the Dining Table”, a groundbreaking exhibition curated by UConn MFA candidate Dakota Halliburton, facilitates a contemporary art dialogue between Deaf and hearing artists. This exhibition of artists from the United States, Australia, India, and Canada, invites viewers into a shared space with nine artists who connect through life experiences and creative conversations.

Curated by Dakota Halliburton | First Deaf Curator at Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art in Avery Point, Groton.

Opening reception on November 5th at 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Come and have a conversation!

10/14/2026

10/26: Art & Art History Virtual Career Panel | How do creative professionals turn their interests and skills into careers? Join the UConn School of Fine Arts for a conversation with four professionals working across the visual arts, design, and museum fields.

Moderated by Douglas Degges, Associate Professor of Art at UConn, the panel features:

Ashley Donovan — Owner of (a)squared, Senior Graphic & Web Designer, Illustrator & Artist
Madeline Eldridge — Studio Artist and Curator
Chelsea Garth — Curator at Fairfield Museum & History Center
Noemi Zelanski Kearns — Principal and Creative Director at Ink&Pixel

Hear firsthand about their professional journeys, the work they do, and the different opportunities available across the arts. The discussion will also include time for questions.

📍 Virtual | Monday, Oct. 26 | 3:35–4:35 PM
Register today for this free virtual panel: https://s.uconn.edu/art-panel-10-26

10/01/2026

Open House & Portfolio Days. October 10 & 25 / 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

09/09/2026

JORGENSEN GALLERY

Presents

AFARIN RAHMANIFAR
“Flesh and Fable”
Sep 8 - Oct 16

Opening Reception:
Fri, Sep 25, 6:30 pm
(prior to Pat Metheny)

Afarin Rahmanifar’s work explores the lives, histories, and resilience of women through her experience as an Iranian American woman shaped by exile. Using fragmented anatomical forms, Persian visual traditions, and the women of the Shahnameh, she examines how memory and cultural inheritance shape identity and belonging.

Through painting, drawing, collage, textile, and mixed media, she layers and reconstructs the female body as an act of remembrance and reclamation— honoring women whose stories have been overlooked or silenced.
Afarin Rahmanifar is an Iranian American mixed-media artist, curator, educator, and Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Eastern Connecticut State University. Working across painting, drawing, mixed media, installation, printmaking, animation, and virtual reality, she explores memory, exile, identity, and cultural inheritance. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is held in public and private collections.

For more information go to jorgensen.uconn.edu/jorgensen-gallery

09/09/2026

Opening reception tonight from 5:30-7:30 pm! Explore the exhibition, meet the artists and enjoy refreshments. We look forward to seeing you in the gallery!

After 5 pm parking is available anywhere on campus.

UConn School of Fine Arts Art + Art History Dept, UConn UConn Avery Point UConn

08/28/2026

Join us on Wednesday September 9 for the opening reception for Landscape: Revealed and Reframed. The exhibition features four artists’ contemporary perspectives on landscape in photography, print, painting, and drawing.

In Pamela Marks paintings on book pages from The Living Earth series, published in 1975 and focused on our world’s interconnectedness and precarious balance, Marks employs an orderly use of color and geometric abstraction to heighten the pages emotional impact.
Pamela Marks

UConn School of Fine Arts Art + Art History Dept, UConn UConn Avery Point

08/28/2026

06/04/2026

‘Out of the dog’s mouth to a gallery wall’

06/04/2026