Alumni in the News

Sean Reed (B.M., Brass, 1995) recently released an album with John Marcellus titled, "Trombone Songs." 

UT alumni Carlos Rosales-Silva (B.F.A. in Studio Art, 2017) and Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip (B.F.A. in Studio Art, 2011) present their work Place, Color y Sand, at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, opening April 6, 2019.

Studio Art MFA alumna Adriana Corral (2013) is exhibiting her work in the group exhibition Suffering From Realness opening on April 13, 2019 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. The exhibition, curated by 2018 Viewpoint lecturer Denise Markonish, explores the politics of representation — and the ways in which artists use the body to grasp at and re-center the “aura of realness” in an age of uncertainty. 

Jacqueline Lawton (M.F.A., Playwriting, 2003), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has researched, developed, and presented a staged reading of her play Edges of Time, which will premiere at PlayMakers Repertory Company. This one woman show is about the life and times of Marvel Cooke, a pioneering journalist and activist, who was the first African-American woman writer to work for a mainstream newspaper. The play will run from Apr. 29–May 3, 2020. Photo by Jason Hornick. 

Juliana Castro (M.F.A., Design, 2018) was placed in the seventh cohort of Mozilla Open Leaders.

Leah Dyjak (M.F.A., Studio Art, 2015) has accepted a position with Wheaton College Massachusetts as an assistant professor of photography. 

Erik Culver (B.F.A., Studio Art, 2008) has created ArtStartArt, an online business where student artists can sell their art. 

Jim Friedhofer (B.M., Music Education, 1986) has spring 2019 performances scheduled as a member of the Houston Symphony Chorus (Orff, Carmina Burana; Rachmaninoff, The Bells) and as a member of the La Jolla Symphony Chorus (Bernstein, Symphony No. 3, Kaddish). In June 2019, he will participate in the Longhorn Alumni Band at the 75th D-Day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy, France. He also continues practicing as a civil litigation lawyer in Friedhofer PC in San Diego, California. 

Gracelee Lawrence (M.F.A., Studio Art, 2016) is currently an artist-in-residence at Sculpture Space in New York, and will exhibit site-specific outdoor sculpture as part of Times Square Immersive. 

Emily Edwards (B.F.A., Art History, 2015) curated a solo presentation of Margarita Cabrera's work that opened January 2019 at the Dallas Contemporary, where she began as a curatorial assistant in June 2018. The Cabrera presentation was named a Critic's Pick by Artforum.