Past Events
Dec 3
2021
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The Fact of Blackness: Black Student Panel Discussion
In this panel discussion, moderated by Chasitie Brown (PhD candidate, Art History), four Black undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin discuss how they experience community and define their identities while navigating daily life at a predominantly White institution. Attendees are invited to join for a reception following the event.
CORE Lecture Series Artist Talk: Ilana Harris-Babou
Ilana Harris-Babou’s work spans video, sculpture, and installation, adopting the aesthetics of aspirational media. She uses the tropes of advertising and popular culture as a trojan horse to get into the viewer's line of sight. In this talk, she will explore the way these themes have manifested in her most recent work.
Nov 11
2021
2:00 PM
Virtual
Learning Tuscany 2022 – Info Session #2
Meet Professors Ann Johns and Eli Durst via Zoom and learn about how you can study art and culture in Italy this summer.
Nov 10
2021
5:00 PM
Virtual
Nov 10
2021
5:00 PM
Maymester Info Session 4: Ancient and Colonial Heritage in Latin America: Cultural Treasures of the Maya
Attend this in-person info session to learn about 2022 program details, housing, excursions, and activities for a program in Guatemala and Belize.
Art Curators Networking Night presented by Fine Arts Career Services and the Visual Arts Center
Come meet some of Austin’s most important art curators for an evening of networking held at the Visual Arts Center. Curators from The Blanton Museum, the Contemporary Austin, Galleries at Black Studies, and UMLAUF will be present to share insights into career paths in the curatorial world, and talk about opportunities at their institutions. Drinks and light refreshments will be served.
Artist Talk with Justine Kurland
RESCHEDULED TO WEDNESDAY, NOV 3
This lecture will follow the trajectory of Justine Kurland’s work with an ear to photography’s inherent world building. Here photography imagines a social space, part fiction part reality that forges a historical present, a shared liveable world. It is a call for freedom – freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world.
Guest Artist in Print (GAPP) Visiting Artist Lecture: Be Oakley
GAPP Fall 2021 artist Be Oakley is a writer, facilitator, and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2015, they started GenderFail, a publishing and programming initiative that seeks to encourage projects that foster an intersectional queer subjectivity. This lecture will explore their practice.
Oct 28
2021
5:30 PM
Virtual
The Blessings of the Mystery Roundtable Discussion
In this roundtable discussion, artists Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas (Fall 2021 Artists-in-Residence, Visual Arts Center) will be in conversation with Dr. Martha Menchaca (Department of Anthropology, UT Austin) Dr. Fred Valdez (Director, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, UT Austin), and Juan Mancias (Tribal Chair, Carrizo/Comecrudo).
