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panorama of SFA mural on the drag

Three Studio Art Alumni created one of the Drag's favorite murals – 50 years later they're still updating it

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Rowena Dasch (MA, 2001; Ph.D. in Art History, 2012) featured in the Austin American-Statesman for Neill-Cochran House Museum's "reckoning with race in Austin while celebrating three exceptional Black chefs"

painting of many people by Robert Pruitt

Robert Pruitt (MFA, 2003) featured in Art in America review by Noah Simblist (PhD Art History, 2015)

image of brown figure standing in a collage of trees

Zoe Charlton (MFA, 1999) featured in Artsy as part of "28 Overlooked Black Artists to Discover This Black History Month"

image of the inside of a living room in a Barbie dreamhouse

Photographs by Evelyn Putska (BFA Studio Art, 2016) published in "Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey," a new art book by PIN-UP

drawing in dark blues and black

Renee Lai (MFA Studio Art, 2019) opens solo show In The Water You Become at Grayduck Gallery

image of green moth with dripping liquid in the foreground

Virginia L. Montgomery (BFA, 2008) part of Day Jobs now on view at the Blanton

headshot of Zoe Fejeran wearing black shirt in front of a neutral background

Zoë Fejeran (MA Art Ed, 2022) appointed Museum Educator at Western Gallery

image of Jade Walker creating art while kneeling on the ground

Jade Walker (MFA Studio Art, 2005) appointed manager and curator for Elisabet Ney Museum

Portrait of Venus Williams

Robert Pruitt's (MFA Studio Art, 2003) portrait of Venus Williams now on view at the National Portrait Gallery

three women standing in front of their presentation at a conference

Associate Professor of Instruction Donalyn Heise, Olivia Spiers (MA Art Ed, 2022) and current Art Ed grad Alisse Guerra present at 2022 TAEA conference

woman wearing hat standing in a field in front of a sunset

Gay Gaddis (BFA 1977) named recipient of Texas Exes' 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Award