Fall 2026 Open Studios

Explore the McMurtry Building during Fall Open Studios, an afternoon event offering a rare opportunity to step inside the Department of Art & Art History’s normally closed studios and see work by undergraduate students in Art Practice. Take a self-guided tour through the building and experience student work in the spaces where it was created.

Featuring work from Fall 2026 Art Practice courses including Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sound Art, 3D and Digital Animation, Photography, Sculpture, Digital Art, Film, and more.

Open Studios also marks the last day to view the following exhibitions:

• Tangling the Digital: Weaving, Printmaking, Computing
  Coulter Art Gallery, McMurtry Building
• TNT Traysikel: Never Gonna Give You Up!
  Miller Discussion Room and Vitrine Gallery, McMurtry Building
  This exhibition’s closing reception coincides with Fall Open Studios. Artist Michael Arcega (MFA '09) and his collaborators will present a special activation of the mobile sculpture, inviting attendees to engage with the work through collective singing and storytelling.
• Touch Me Not: 12th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
  Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Watch a recap of Winter 2026 Open Studios on YouTube.

Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne White at [email protected]. 

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