Announcing the 2026 ATP Senior Show: ๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ง๐๐๐ค๐ฌ_๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ก_๐๐๐๐ผ๐.๐๐ฉ๐ฅ.
Join us for the opening celebration Thursday, May 21, 6โ8 PM at Dittmar Gallery, Norris Center.
Preview work by the artists at https://sites.northwestern.edu/atp2026/.
This exhibition and associated events are co-organized by Dittmar Gallery and the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University.
This week marks the opening of ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ,ย the 2026 MFA thesis exhibition at the Block Museum of Art.
Featuring artists Lamia Abukhadra, Pegah Bahador, Gabby Banks, naakita f.k. and Przemek Pyszczek.
The opening reception will be held Thursday, May 7, 5โ8 PM.ย
RSVP and view museum hours here: https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2026/2026-art-theory-and-practice-mfa-thesis-exhibition.html
Exhibition identity by Haitham Haddad, @studio.mnjnk . Drawing by Steve Reinke.
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Lamia Abukhadra
Pegah Bahador
Gabby Banks
naakita f.k.
Przemek Pyszczek
The Block Museum of Art and the Department of Art Theory & Practice are pleased to announce the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition, ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ.
Join us for the opening celebration Thursday, May 7, 5-8 PM.
Image: design by @studio.mnjnk
More info at art.northwestern.edu
Join us this Thursday, April 23, as we welcome KAMERON NEAL for a visiting artist talk.
Neal is an artist and designer working across video, installation, and performance whose work examines surveillance, public records, and the afterlives of recorded images. As a Public Artist in Residence with New York Cityโs Department of Records, he created Down the Barrel (of a Lens), an archival film installation interrogating NYPD surveillance. The project received first prize in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and is currently on view at the Smithsonianโs National Portrait Gallery and at MoMA PS1 as part of Greater New York 2026.
As a projection designer, he has worked on numerous productions, including Ryan J. Haddadโs Dark Disabled Stories at The Public Theater, for which he received Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Design Awards. His work has also received a Creative Capital Award, The Vineyard Theatreโs Colman Domingo Award, a Princess Grace Award, and an Opera America Award for his collaboration with Paul Pinto. With Shayok Misha Chowdhury, he collaborated on Rheology and MukhAgni, multimedia performance memoirs presented at Playwrights Horizons, The Bushwick Starr, and the Under the Radar Festival.
more info at art.northwestern.edu
It's EXPO week and ATP is fortunate to present an artist talk with ESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA this Wednesday, April 8 at 4:30 PM.
Cabeza de Baca (b. 1985, San Ysidro, California) is an American painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between Queens, New York, and the Southwest United States. He numbers among his influences San Ysidro, the liminal border town of his youth, and his parents, whose intersectional political awareness and respect for human dignity led them to shelter undocumented migrants during his youth. Cabeza de Bacaโs work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective.
More info at art.northwestern.edu
Joining us this week is artist RUSH BAKER IV, with a talk Wednesday, March 4 at 4:30 PM.
Baker (b. 1987, Washington, DC) is a painter whose work explores landscapes as vessels of cultural memory, transformation, and identity. Embracing uncertainty as a central methodology, Baker works through the tension between destruction and reconstruction, using abstraction as a strategy to unsettle preconceived ideas and fixed narratives.
Through experimental approaches to material, process, and scale, his paintings challenge the boundaries between abstraction and representation, inviting viewers to encounter landscape as an active, unstable participant in history.
more info at art.northwestern.edu
ATP welcomes TEMPESTT HAZEL for a talk this Wednesday, November 19, 4:30-5:30 PM.
Hazel is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a collective of editors, writers, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who have published and produced collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, and culture in the Midwest since 2010.
Across her practices and through Sixty, Tempestt has worked alongside artists, organizers, grant makers, and cultural workers to explore solidarity economies, cooperative models, archival practice, future canon creation, and systems change in and through the arts.
Join us!
more info at art.northwestern.edu
Join us for the annual ATP undergraduate salon, SHOW OFF, this coming Wednesday, November 12, 4:30-6:00PM.
Art by ATP students
Sounds by Gbenga
Donuts from Bennison's
Cider from apples
Raffle prize from Blick Art Materials
ATP welcomes JESSE CHUN for an artist talk this Thursday, November 6, 5-6 PM.
Chun's moving images, concrete poems, scores, and activations intimately unravel the dominant compositions of language and legibility โ invoking alternate semiotics and cosmologies of meaning, time, transmission, and infinitude.
more info at art.northwestern.edu
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Lulu Abathra
Isabella Bartling
Alex Bremauntz
Quentin Colson
Helaina Harris
Maggie Musgrave
Lucie Paul
Natalia Tapia Moreno
Grace Wang
Julianne Zane
Monumental congratulations to the 2025 ATP majors as they celebrate the opening of their exhibition, PERISTERONIC, at Dittmar Gallery this coming Thursday, May 22, 6-8PM.
PERISTERONIC will be open to the public and campus community May 22-June 2, 2025.
Digital collage by Quentin Colson.
more info at art.northwestern.edu
