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. 

Tamara Johnson (B.F.A., Studio Art, 2007) is the co-founder of the new outdoor sculpture venue, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park located at 402 Fabrication St. in Dallas. The park will present its third exhibition, Outdoor Cat, based on a shared nickname for sculptures that "live outside." The works will explore notions of landscape, environment, habitation and histories of site. Photo by Trey Burns. 

Dr. Noah Simblist (Ph.D., Art History, 2015) and artist Lauren Woods will lead a conversation at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, titled "Reading Monuments: An Introduction." The discussion is in conjunction with the national project, Reading Monuments, where Dr. Simblist serves as artistic director. 

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.