WSU Vancouver Fine Arts

04/11/2026

Celebrating 30 years of creativity 🎉

The Washington State University Vancouver Department of Art will celebrate a major milestone this spring with a vibrant, campus-wide exhibition marking three decades of student creativity.

The 30th Annual Student Art Exhibition and Alumni Showcase opens April 22, bringing together current students and alumni in a dynamic reflection of the program’s past, present and future.

04/19/2021

🟦🔴 For Immediate Release: The 25th Annual Fine Arts Student Exhibition, 4/19/21 🔴🟦

🟣🟧The 25th Annual Fine Arts Student Exhibition is now online, featuring work made in a wide range of art classes from the past year. In these classes, students from different majors across campus practice the building of form, the process of conceptual development, critical thinking, and the value of a commitment to craft. As the Annual is virtual for a second straight year, it is fitting that we are able to include sound art projects in this year's exhibition.🟣🟧

🟦🔶The Fine Arts Department at Vancouver believes that mark-making is an essential human activity, exploring the connection between contemporary art, culture, and the built environment, be it physical or virtual.🟦🔶

To view the show, go to:
https://labs.wsu.edu/aardwolf/

11/04/2020

WSUV Fine Arts is proud to present Line OnLine, its first show for Fall 2020.

Line OnLine presents a selection of work from the Fine Arts studio classes at Washington State University Vancouver. Line, one of the most basic elements in any design, is as artist Paul Klee puts it, ‘simply a dot out on a walk!”

The works in this show reflect the many ways in which line can be manipulated to create a range of expressions and images, from the most abstract to the representational. Made in a variety of analog media, these works are converted to digital images to accommodate an online platform that has become an intrinsic part of the current times.

10/09/2020

FINE ARTS FRIDAYS ARE BACK!!!
"Want to know how the sausage is made?" Come to this online workshop and learn how to MEAT all your documentation needs.

WHEN: Friday, 10/6 from 12-2pm

This workshop will cover the "how and why" of documenting art at home using the simplest tech and a DIY approach.
It will be lead by Noah Matteucci who is bound to have some tricks up his sleeve to make your at art looks stellar when presented digitally.
• Spots are limited to sign up soon!
• Email [email protected] to sign up.

06/23/2020

"Across the river at Washington State University Vancouver, Associate Professor of Fine Arts Avantika Bawa said that working with new restraints provided new possibilities.....
The result is an eclectic, charmingly curated show. While other institutions gave individual students their own capsule online portfolios, here pieces by different students in a range of mediums play off one another."

Briana Miller reports on the digital and virtual exhibitions of work from the graduating classes of 2020.

05/10/2020

Hello WSUV Fine Arts people. I am so sorry I missed the Zoom event. I had issues, so to say. To all of those students I knew when I was there, congratulations on achieving a goal that will become more important as the years go by. Just know that it may seem like an end to a long hard slog, and it is that. But it is also a testament to YOUR ability to overcome your worst fears. It is a proof of your ability to do what you may have thought you could not do. It is a realization of your best and better self. I am so grateful that for some of you I had a part in your progress. To be honest, I am a far more better person because of you. So, thank you to all of the students I was lucky to have been beside on your journey. Truly, thank you so much.

04/23/2020

This virtual show features work made in a wide range of Fine Arts classes from the past year, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and 2D & 3D art and design.

In these classes, students from different majors across campus practice the organization and construction of form, the process of conceptual development, and the value of a commitment to craft. The Fine Arts Department at Vancouver believes that mark-making is an essential human activity, emphasizing the connection between contemporary art, culture and the built environment, be it physical or virtual.

You can also check out the exhibit on our website labs.wsu.edu/aardwolf/news or on instagram instagram.com/wsuv_finearts/

03/27/2020

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Artists are bringing back Amabie, a 'yōkai' associated with protection from disease.

03/20/2020

03/13/2020

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