Past Events

two images side by side on the left a woman with hoop earrings and to the right a protester holding a sign pleading for Dadus Dudus alone

“Death in Tivoli”: Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, Fugitive Sociality, and the Body of Photographic Evidence

This presentation by Dr. Krista Thompson is part of a larger book project, which explores how fugitives and the photographic representations surrounding them in Jamaica informed a fugitive sociality, opening up social, political, and representational possibilities for those seeking to reimagine the existing parameters of the colonial and postcolonial state.

Apr 29
2021

11:30 AM

Virtual

Reflecting on Reflections: Iron Ores Use by the Ancient Maya

In this presentation on behalf of the 2020-2021 Mesoamerica Center Colloquium Series, Barrientos Quezada discusses the problems derived from visual identification of reflective raw materials and how these can be improved by applied geochemical methods.

Apr 26
2021

4:00 PM

Facebook Live Event

Installation Image from University of Texas at Austin Studio Art alumna and graphic facilitator Virginia Lee Montgomery Solo Exhibition Dream Cocoon featuring projection of a moth cocoon in a room bathed in blue light

How to Conjure Portals between Physical and Psychic Realms via Video Art and Sculpture

Artist talk with UT Austin alumna and metaphysical artist Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM) presents her intermedia art practice spanning video, performance, sound, and sculpture alongside the panpsychic-intersectional philosophies that inform her art practice, and a her own practical studio tips for empathetic meaning-making in a time of chaos.

Apr 26
2021

2:00 PM

Virtual

white brunette woman looks down in front of waist height exhibition display in the Visual Arts Center while educating students behind her

2021 Art Education Graduate Research Symposium

The University of Texas at Austin Art Education Graduate Research Symposium is an annual event that provides an opportunity for Art Education graduate students to present their research to the campus community and the public at large.

Apr 16
2021

12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Virtual

Work by Dawn Kim titled Landers' World created 2021 at the St. Elmo Artist Residency for newly minted MFA graduates at the University of Texas at Austin involving assorted sculptural objects

If it ain't the windmill, it's the cows

Please join us for an artist talk with 2020-2021 St. Elmo Artist-in-residence Dawn Kim.

Apr 15
2021

5:00 PM

Virtual

A DIY Incense Workshop with Shanie Tomassini

Join artist Shanie Tomassini for an incense-making workshop in conjunction with her exhibition at the Courtyard Gallery, Water Whispering Through the Drain. Drawing from her sculpture practice, Tomassini will guide participants in balancing and mixing a variety of aromatic spices, binders, and powders to create homemade incense cones.

Apr 15
2021

2:00 PM

"Edge Of Chaos" by artist Chris Drury

The lecture by artist Chis Drury will cover key works over a career spanning more than 40 years starting with Medicine Wheel made in 1982-3 and ending with works about life, death and regeneration using fungi. Drury will cover early works walking in wild places, making shelters and baskets, commissioned works outside, works with biodiversity, cloud Chambers and large woven works, to working with scientists in Antarctica and physicians in hospitals.

Apr 14
2021

11:00 AM

Virtual