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.
Your Creative Work Is Research: How to Present It and Why It Matters for Your Future
Student events
Many students in Art, Art History and Design don’t always see their creative work as “research,” but learning to frame it that way can open meaningful academic and professional opportunities. Join us for a practical, student-friendly session that will help you: Understand why your art counts as research , See how presenting at the Undergraduate Research Symposium can support your future goals , Learn how to talk about your work in research abstracts, applications, and interviews , Hear from arts alumni who have successfully presented their work and what they gained from the experience, Whether you're preparing for the URS, building your résumé or simply curious, this event will give you concrete next steps and real examples from past student presenters. Please RSVP to let us know that you’re coming. Hosted by the Alumni + Friends Group in partnership with the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Parnassus. Accessibility Contact: uaskart@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Workshops.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
For more info visit forms.office.com. Reports from a Summer and Fall of Design: 2026 Pecha Kucha
Division of Design
Join us for the UW Design Pecha Kucha 2026: Short presentations on a Summer & Fall of Design. UW Design students report back on their design internships and related topics. All are welcome!
All info on this instagram post.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bank of America Executive Education Center (EXED). Campus room: EXED 110 (Boeing Auditorium). Accessibility Contact: rayser@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: UW Design students, alums, and those interested in studying Design at UW.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.instagram.com. Community Office Hours (2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency)
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Please join us for an informal Q&A and tea with the 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident indira allegra.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events. Workshops.
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 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.
indira allegra: The Book of Zero Opening Celebration
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: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Special Events.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 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, 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. Community Sit (2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency)
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Please join us for a guided meditation hosted 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident indira allegra.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Workshops.
Friday, February 6, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 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, 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.
Picturing the Heavens: Étienne-Leopold Trouvelot’s Astronomical Drawings
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.
In this talk, Rachael Z. DeLue will share insights from her current research and teaching on the relationship between art and science in nineteenth-century Europe and North America, focusing on a suite of extraordinary chromolithographs created in the 1880s by the astronomer and illustrator Étienne-Leopold Trouvelot. Based on his work at the Harvard Observatory and the United States Naval Observatory, the chromolithographs represent the cross-pollination of art and science in an attempt to generate knowledge about astronomical phenomena that eluded perception and resisted visualization. Prof. DeLue will consider Trouvelot’s prints in relation to other such attempts on the part of fine artists and scientific illustrators to picture the celestial sphere at a time when technol…
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. 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, April 9, 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.