The 10-Foot Line assignment in Cal Poly’s introductory art courses challenges students to explore the element of line within architectural space. Beginning with 2D contrast designs on paper, students then manipulate and transform that same material into large-scale, 3D murals stretching up to 10 feet long, displayed throughout the Dexter Building. Reporter Sedona Harris spoke with art professor Travis Neel about the goals of the assignment and with student artist Riley Hauber about the inspiration and process behind her original design.

In ART 466, Liliana Monge and Maya Benham are among around a dozen students taking creative strides to develop their craft. They utilize techniques ranging from traditional oil painting to the use of physical models. Discover how they blend culture, identity, and ingenuity into their works as reporter Kimber Draughon brings us more.

Graphic Design students from Spring Quarter's ART 437: Graphic Design III win Second and Third Place in the Paperboard Packaging Alliance 2025 Student Design Challenge.

Working with craft and architectural materials, Conlon creates large-scale sculptural installations that fuse the ornamental with the structural. Her work uses tactile processes to examine how we inhabit, uphold, and challenge the frameworks that shape our lives—whether built, inherited, or imagined. November 5th - December 5th

Jayme Yen brings her unique vision to the Frye Art Museum with the debut of Frye Parlor, on view through January 2027. Known for her thoughtful blending of design, language, and visual culture, Yen reimagines the museum’s shared spaces as an immersive environment where visitors are invited to slow down, reflect, and see themselves as part of the art.

An installation of film and video works by Gibson + Recoder spanning two decades, Object Lessons in Obsolescence, features many of their signature pieces in which the materiality of the media object itself overshadows its original use value as a mere functional “medium” for the moving image.
September 25 - October 24

Join us for the Studio Art BFA show, Act Natural. An opening reception will be held at the University Art Gallery on June 6 from 5 – 7 p.m. The show will run through June 15.

Join us for a photographic BFA show, “F/6”, celebrating six graduating photographers. An opening reception will be held at the University Art Gallery on May 22 from 5 – 7 p.m.