UMMA News & Blogs

The Business of Art course helps students understand the economics of the art market by providing real word experience.

As UMMA’s exhibition Andrea Carlson: Future Cache prepares to close on November 30, 2025, visitors have a few final weeks to spend time with artist Andrea Carlson’s reflections on land, memory, and belonging.

This Fall, UMMA has teamed up with the Ross School of Business to ask one of the most complicated questions in the art world: What actually gives art value?

Julie Ault awarded inaugural commission, will open American Sampler: Activating the Archive on January 24, 2026

Groundbreaking exhibition celebrates decades-long friendship and dialogue between two trailblazers of geometric abstraction

Bass to premier Civilities in 2026 - a bold and inventive exploration of American identity for the United States Semiquincentennial.

There’s a shift that happens when students engage deeply with art. And for a group of Pioneer High School sophomores who visited UMMA recently on a class field trip, you could see that shift in real-time.

For Nicole Marroquin, an artist featured in the UMMA exhibition La Raza Art and Media Collective 1975–Today, all it takes to spark meaningful conversations about history, identity and activism is a simple handmade booklet.

Opening February 1, 2025, this powerful exhibition brings forward personal and intergenerational stories of identity, family memory, and diaspora within the Asian American experience.

In her role as the guest program curator for UMMA’s 'Silver Linings' Johnson looks to bring a collective vision to life in a way that transcends traditional museum programming.