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Megan Hildebrandt moderating "Motherhood, Making, & Mental Health" panel at The Contemporary Austin featuring Scherezade García

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Art History Professor David Stuart's discovery of oldest Maya calendar fragment named one of "Top 10 Discoveries of 2022" by Archaeology Magazine

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Renee Lai (MFA Studio Art, 2019) opens solo show In The Water You Become at Grayduck Gallery

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Virginia L. Montgomery (BFA, 2008) part of Day Jobs now on view at the Blanton

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Oplontis Project featured episode of Science Channel's "Unearthed Science"

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Art History Professor Nassos Papalexandrou awarded UT Research and Creative Grant

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Zoë Fejeran (MA Art Ed, 2022) appointed Museum Educator at Western Gallery

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Jade Walker (MFA Studio Art, 2005) appointed manager and curator for Elisabet Ney Museum

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Art History Professor Eddie Chambers publishes "T’waunii Sinclair and the Ongoing Cultural Life of the Machete" in newest edition of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art

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Professor Richard Shiff's new book Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul illuminates the distinctive character of Whitten’s thought and the art it generated

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Robert Pruitt's (MFA Studio Art, 2003) portrait of Venus Williams now on view at the National Portrait Gallery

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Associate Professor of Instruction Donalyn Heise, Olivia Spiers (MA Art Ed, 2022) and current Art Ed grad Alisse Guerra present at 2022 TAEA conference