Past Events


ISLAA Forum Session Two: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop

Please join us for presentations by doctoral students on Jamaican artist John Dunkley and abstract art in Argentina and Central America informed by questions of race, gender, and sexuality, followed by robust discussion.

Apr 21
2023

9:30 AM – 12:15 PM

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image by Teddy Sandoval

ISLAA Forum Keynote: Teddy Sandoval – Palm Trees, Postcards, and the Butch Gardens School of Art with Dr. C. Ondine Chavoya

Chavoya has reunited with curator David Evans Frantz to develop Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, an exhibition co-organized with the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, the Williams College Museum of Art, and Independent Curators International that will open in fall 2023.

Apr 20
2023

3:00 PM

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ISLAA Forum Session One: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop

Please join us for presentations by doctoral students on womxn artists of Chicano Art Movement, Indigenous cultural production in Guatemala and Mexico, and art and memory in the Dominican Diaspora, followed by robust discussion.

Apr 20
2023

9:30 AM – 12:15 PM

DFA 2.204

Islamic art

The Art History Lecture Series and Graduate Student Art History Association present Dr. Nada Shabout: Iraqi Modernism: The Decorative and Istilham

This talk explores the context of in which Iraqi Modernist in the mid twentieth century introduced a prolific negotiation of the decorative as signifier of both continuity and modernity, to resolve their crisis or representation that is modernism. The decorative was the solution that connected their past with their present through what became coined as the concept of istilham

Apr 17
2023

4:00 PM

Zoom

headshot of Wanda Montemayor

Uvalde Love Project: The Power of Love with Wanda Montemayor

Following the tragic shootings on May 24, 2022, Wanda Montemayor decided to help create some healing for the community of Uvalde, TX. She created the Uvalde Love Project to promote healing through a combination of workshops and art. The final part of the project is a mosaic mural of handmade tiles by workshop participants and other members of the community. 

Apr 17
2023

2:00 PM

ART 3.408

Opening Reception for 2023 Student Exhibitions

Join us in celebrating the opening of three exhibitions presenting culminating work from graduating students in the College of Fine Arts.

Apr 14
2023

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Visual Arts Center

image of Marina Ancona

GAPP Visiting Artist Lecture: Marina Ancona, Print and Publishing as Collaboration

10 Grand Press is an independent publishing press with a mission to collaborate with artists through process and hands-on experimentation. Artists collaborate with master printer Marina Ancona to develop and produce ideas in traditional and expansive print forms. The press produces uniques and limited editions printed at Brooklyn, NY, and Santa Fe, NM shops. 

Apr 12
2023

3:30 PM

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Holland Hopson: Data as Medium

In this talk, interdisciplinary artist Holland Hopson will discuss his work across media, including sound, performance, and installation as well as his recent collaboration with students from the School of Information at UT Austin.

Apr 11
2023

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

ART 1.102

image of Dr. Mario Garza and Maria Rocha

Antiquities Action and the Art History Lecture Series Presents Repatriation: Return our Ancestors! with Indigenous Cultures Institute: Dr. Mario Garza and Maria Rocha

Since 2016 the Miakan-Garza tribe has sought the return of three ancestors unearthed from Hays County and held by U.T. Austin. Despite a promise from U.T. President Hartzell on September 25, 2020 that the ancestors would be “promptly” reburied, to date the three remains have not been returned for reburial.  

Apr 6
2023

5:00 PM

ART 1.120

black and white print by Sergio Sánchez Santamaría

Artist Talk: Print Artist Sergio Sánchez Santamaría in collaboration with the Mexic-Arte Museum

Sánchez Santamaría has exhibited his work throughout Latin America and Europe, in the United States, and in Japan and China. He describes his art “as contemporary, with a retro and a futuristic tendency.

Apr 5
2023

5:30 PM

ART 1.120

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