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Events

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EXHIBITION

Imaginary Possessions: Learning Tuscany 2025

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Sep. 26 – Oct. 25

Hundred Points

Opening Reception: Hundred Points: Contemporary Graphic Design from Austin, São Paulo, Cairo, and Helsinki

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Sep. 26, 5 – 8 p.m.

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Art History Lecture Series: The World in a Box: Aztec Rulership and its Precedents

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Sep. 29, 5 p.m.

Recent News

Troy Brauntuch opens new solo show Rodeo at The Warehouse September 27

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Current faculty, staff, and alumni part of 2025 WaterWork for Design Austin, on view September 26 and 27

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Hannah Spector's new solo exhibition if you stare at a cowboy's face for long enough, it turns into a sunset opening at Women and Their Work September 27

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Current Studio Art junior Maja Gray draws UT-themed coloring pages for National Coloring Book Day

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Lecturer Terra Goolsby presents new solo exhibition Totems at the Umlauf Sculpture Museum and Gardens

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Nassos Papalexandrou awarded 2025-26 Hellenic Research Fellowship with the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Center at Sacramento State University

Leticia R. Rodriguez (PhD Art History, 2016) publishes “Klazomenian Sarcophagi in the Borderlands: An Ionian (Re)Vision” in American Journal of Archaeology

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The Visual Arts Center announces three fall exhibitions

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Erin Miller, Alexandre Pépin, and Audrey Blood part of collaborative exhibition Big Pour at Mass Gallery this summer

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Art History PhD candidate Catalina Cherñavvsky Sequeira named inaugural ISLAA Research Fellow

Eli Durst publishes new monograph, The Children's Melody

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Irene June Chau (MFA Studio Art, 2024) and Pablo Tut (24-25 St. Elmo Fellow) part of inaugural Mass Gallery x Cobertizo Art Residency

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