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Connecting Black culture, music, and community with the built environment
Cacie Rosario Jackson

Weitzman MFA student Cacie Rosario Jackson.

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Connecting Black culture, music, and community with the built environment

One of eight artists in the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Weitzman School and Arthur Ross Gallery, Cacie Rosario Jackson uses circuitry to study Black performance in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Louisa Shepard

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Ani Liu: Motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display
Ani Liu standing at a table speaking to students.

Ani Liu is the Carrafiell Assistant Professor (Emerging Design) at the Weitzman School.

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Ani Liu: Motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display

Weitzman professor of fine arts Ani Liu explores the physiological and emotional transformations in motherhood through her multimedia artworks while teaching students how to conduct fine arts research.

From the Weitzman School of Design

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Announcing the Sachs Program 2026 Student Grant Awards

Announcing the Sachs Program 2026 Student Grant Awards

The 17 projects awarded incorporate film, visual arts, poetry, performance, and storytelling, with eight projects addressing the complexities of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the nation’s ongoing struggle to realize its founding principles.

Exhibition as conversation
Exterior view of “(Ex)Urban Futures of the Recent Past” artwork.

Exterior view of “(Ex)Urban Futures of the Recent Past” at Galleria Thomas Schultz in Berlin.

(Image: Courtesy of Weitzman News)

Exhibition as conversation

For three faculty members in the Department of Fine Arts, curating exhibitions offers the opportunity to explore relationships between works of art, art and politics, history, and the environment.

From the Weitzman School of Design

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‘Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth’
Eissa Attar and Alvin Luong standing in art gallery with arms around each other's shoulders

Artworks by the two master of fine arts students graduating in the Class of 2025, Eissa Attar (left) and Alvin Luong, are in a thesis exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery through a new collaboration with the Weitzman School of Design. 

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‘Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth’

A new thesis exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery features works by graduating Master of Fine Arts students Eissa Attar, from Saudi Arabia, and Alvin Luong, from Canada. On view through May 30,  “Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth,” was curated by Emily Zimmerman.

Louisa Shepard

4 min. read

Fine art and design using artificial intelligence
Jessica Mach standing outside with her arm resting on a low brick wall

Mach is majoring in psychology and design in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

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Fine art and design using artificial intelligence

Through the design course Artificial Intelligence in Art, second-year Jessica Mach has discovered AI's potential through creating several projects, including a video story and an interactive game.

Louisa Shepard

5 min. read

Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar
Image taken from above of people in an art museum taking photos and looking at large abstract paintings.

(Pre-pandemic image) Exhibition view of Hilma af Klint's 'The Ten Largest' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, 2018. (Image: Courtesy of Ryan Dickey)

Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar

The Weitzman School’s Jackie Tileston’s seminar looks at the ways in which alternative forms of knowledge have fed artistic practices, both in the past and for contemporary artists in cultures around the globe.