Community Engagement and Public Practice
The Office for Community Engagement and Public Practice (OCEPP) was launched in August of 2023 in the College of Fine Arts.
Its primary role is to partner with community and arts organizations in Austin and Texas as a whole to assist the different members of our CoFA community in intentional and coordinated engagement with local and state-wide partners, but also with each other. To that end, we seek to advance models for reciprocal partnership in research, creative practice and education that benefits all, our students, our faculty, our staff and the different members of our communities.
We also work on different ways to ensure that our public facing programming reaches a broad range of participants, with the intention to build future audiences. We are interested in ensuring that the varied artistic practices CoFA faculty and students are engaged in have a wide social, cultural and/or political role in the public sphere.
Our Portfolio
Artistic Citizenship Collaborative Creative Project Seed Grants for undergraduate and graduate students
The objective of these seed grants is to foster artistic citizenship among our students through multidisciplinary creative projects. Our students are an essential part of the wider artistic ecology, locally, nationally and internationally. Through these grants we seek to mobilize students to work in teams to involve practice and praxis, develop methods and implement practices on creative projects that advance their own interpretation of artistic citizenship.
COFA Arts Administration Fellowship Program
The objective of this fellowship program is to create collaborative connections with arts organizations within the University of Texas and the city of Austin. The two-year program will also support College of Fine Arts students in professionalizing their artistic ambitions within the context of community-based internships, exhibitions, performances or public programming for both the university and community at large.
Public Programming with Community Partners through Collaborative Curation
Through our developing partners in the Austin community and beyond, we work collaboratively in targeted curated public performance and visual art projects.
