2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Monday, January 5, 2026 – Saturday, January 31, 2026.
Info Session (In-Person)
We invite high school seniors, transfer and current UW students interested in majoring in one of our programs to attend a Preview session to learn about the School of Art + Art History + Design and its programs. Prospective students can prepare for the session by exploring our undergraduate degree programs on our website.
Sessions are offered both in-person or in a live zoom meeting on Thursdays at 3pm PST on selected dates. You must register at the link below.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: ART 312. Accessibility Contact: askadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, January 8, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Art Rm 312: Art Building, University of Washington, 1915 Chelan Lane, Seattle WA 98195.
For more info visit go.oncehub.com. Liberation Book Club: Liberation as an Intergenerational Project
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Our question to consider: How can we bring together emerging, established, and elder leaders in the conversation around liberation?
Join us for dinner and conversation.
This program is part of the Liberation Book Club at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. We look forward to being in community with you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Indira Allegra: The Book of Zero
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Death is a fundamental first step to rebirth, but this transition can be a daunting prospect without a compassionate guide. Our 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident, Indira Allegra, intervenes with The Book of Zero, a multimedia meditative experience that brings together powerful sensations and visuals that have emerged during Allegra’s investigations into doula work, death care, and cycles of the body and environment.
In The Book of Zero, water, weaving, and projections animate the earth and its afflictions. The structures of hate that have plagued our communities—white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, bigotry—are in their final death throes, but they need to be helped along the way to their ultimate dissolution. Borrowing from the narrative structures and poetic repetition of sacred texts, Allegra’s guidance in The Book of Zero pushes through the violence of a difficult ending with compassion in order to welcome the spirit of a new beginning.
Rebirth happens on both collective and individual levels. The…
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 – Saturday, April 4, 2026.
Info Session (In-Person)
We invite high school seniors, transfer and current UW students interested in majoring in one of our programs to attend a Preview session to learn about the School of Art + Art History + Design and its programs. Prospective students can prepare for the session by exploring our undergraduate degree programs on our website.
Sessions are offered both in-person or in a live zoom meeting on Thursdays at 3pm PST on selected dates. You must register at the link below.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: ART 312. Accessibility Contact: askadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Art Rm 312: Art Building, University of Washington, 1915 Chelan Lane, Seattle WA 98195.
For more info visit go.oncehub.com. Info Session (Zoom)
We invite high school seniors, transfer and current UW students interested in majoring in one of our programs to attend a Preview session to learn about the School of Art + Art History + Design and its programs. Prospective students can prepare for the session by exploring our undergraduate degree programs on our website.
Sessions are offered both in-person or in a live zoom meeting on Thursdays at 3pm PST on selected dates. You must register at the link below.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: askadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, February 12, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit go.oncehub.com. Liberation Book Club & the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Our question to consider: what does the work of Indira Allegra offer us when thinking about the project of liberation?
This program is part of the Liberation Book Club at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. We look forward to being in community with you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Kollar Lecture in American Art: Rachael Ziady DeLue
Division of Art History
Please save the date for the 2026 Kollar Lecture with Dr. Rachael Ziady DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art at Princeton University. The lecture is on February 26, 6:00 pm at the Husky Union Building's Lyceum.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 160: Lyceum. Accessibility Contact: Benny Shell at lbshell@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Info Session (In-Person)
We invite high school seniors, transfer and current UW students interested in majoring in one of our programs to attend a Preview session to learn about the School of Art + Art History + Design and its programs. Prospective students can prepare for the session by exploring our undergraduate degree programs on our website.
Sessions are offered both in-person or in a live zoom meeting on Thursdays at 3pm PST on selected dates. You must register at the link below.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: ART 312. Accessibility Contact: askadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Art Rm 312: Art Building, University of Washington, 1915 Chelan Lane, Seattle WA 98195.
For more info visit go.oncehub.com. Liberation Book Club: Movie Night
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
This program is part of the Liberation Book Club at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. We look forward to being in community with you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Info Session (Zoom)
We invite high school seniors, transfer and current UW students interested in majoring in one of our programs to attend a Preview session to learn about the School of Art + Art History + Design and its programs. Prospective students can prepare for the session by exploring our undergraduate degree programs on our website.
Sessions are offered both in-person or in a live zoom meeting on Thursdays at 3pm PST on selected dates. You must register at the link below.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: askadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit go.oncehub.com.