Arts Next: 2024

Small objects are projected at an enormous scale as part of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's installation "Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come"

Features

Small objects are projected at an enormous scale as part of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's installation "Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come"

Long-Buried Castoffs Now Big-Screen Stars
UT Professors Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler set working-class artifacts pirouetting through space in spectacular video installation at Austin’s Moody Amphitheater
by Avrel Seale

Students walk through a labyrinth as part of their Within Walking Distance class

Teaching Innovations
College of Fine Arts faculty seek novel and fun ways to boost student learning
by Alicia Dietrich, Neerul Gupta, Jennifer Irving and Cami Yates

Illustration showing a dialog and ideation concept

Charting Our Future Course

College of Fine Arts Five-Year Strategic Plan

Music Theory Professor Eric Drott

Q&A: Business of Music
Professor Eric Drott examines how streaming music has transformed the business of making and distributing music
by Alicia Dietrich

Two graduates of the Texas Performing Arts’ Emerging Arts Professionals program

Nurturing Careers Behind the Curtain
Texas Performing Arts’ Emerging Arts Professionals program helps launch recent graduates into arts administration careers
by Cami Yates

New Visual Arts Center Director Max Fields

Q&A: New Visual Arts Center Director
New Visual Arts Center Director Max Fields leans into experimental opportunities of a university art gallery
by Alicia Dietrich

Production still from Choreomaniac 1518

UT New Theatre Festival: Launching Ground for New Plays
Annual event presents innovative works from emerging playwrights, including a unique take on the historical dancing plague
by Cami Yates

Attendees discussing and admiring a collection from the Las Nietas de Nonó exhibition

Artists-in-residence Las Nietas de Nonó use SCOBYs to represent community in Visual Arts Center exhibition
by Jennifer Irving

Longhorn Band members view the eclipse through special glasses in front of the UT Tower

Total Eclipse of the Horns
University marks solar eclipse with campus-wide programming

News

Dean Ramón Rivera-Servera

Dean's Letter: Charting the future of the College of Fine Arts

Karol Murlak, the new chair of the Department of Design

Designer, researcher and educator Karol Murlak named chair of the Department of Design

Elizabeth Robles was selected as an artist-in-residence for the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative

Additional support from Mellon Foundation allows expansion of Puerto Rican Arts Initiative’s impact

A group of students show their tickets at a Broadway performance at Texas Performing Arts

Texas Performing Arts expands Broadway Experience for Youth programming

image of 4 people standing around Maya incense burner

Art History Professor David Stuart helps return important Maya artifact to Mexico

the Miro Quartet pose with their instruments

Miró Quartet nominated for Grammy Award

Interior of the inside seating of Bass Concert Hall

Performing arts “crossover” strategies fail to diversify core audiences, according to new study led by Professor Francie Ostrower

Mariachi Paredes performs with Portugal. The Man for a taped segment on the football field.

Mariachi Paredes ensemble performs with Portugal. The Man during Austin City Limits Music Festival broadcast

Darden Smith, a UT student and President Hartzell on stage in the Cactus Cafe

University hosts Darden Smith as inaugural songwriter-in-residence

A dancer wearing motion sensors waves a wand to manipulate projection on a screen

New Lab for Immersive Media supports research and creation of interactive experiences

Group photo of Black Arts Summit attendees

College hosts Black Arts Summit

Alumnus Don Bacigalupi addresses the Class of 2024 at their commencement ceremony

Arts leader, alumnus Don Bacigalupi addresses Fine Arts Class of 2024

Students with a donor who endowed their scholarships

Impactful Investments: College receives support for scholarships and new career support for students

The UT Wind Ensemble performs at Carnegie Hall

Wind Ensemble performs in Carnegie Hall to mark major milestone

An alumna installs butterflies from an archival collection into a new artwork in the Texas Science and Natural History Museum

Alumna's installation in museum lobby gives new life to butterfly collection specimens

Jazz musician Terence Blanchard performs with the UT Jazz Orchestra

Jazz musician Terence Blanchard visits, performs on campus as recipient of Eddie Medora King Award

Composite image with portraits of new faculty members in the College of Fine Arts for 2024-25

Meet the College of Fine Arts' new faculty members for 2024-25

Composite image of book covers published by College of Fine Arts faculty members in 2023-24

ON THE BOOKSHELF

Faculty publications from 2023-24

Production still from Romeo y Juliet with student actors in period costume

SNAPSHOT

Romeo y Juliet

Production still of two singers performing in Josiah Garza's opera "Maria"

BACK COVER

Composition senior Josiah Garza draws on family history, relationships in his first opera