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

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

Art History Professor Nassos Papalexandrou awarded UT Research and Creative Grant

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 Stephennie Mulder reviews The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam for Hyperallergic

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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

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Gay Gaddis (BFA 1977) named recipient of Texas Exes' 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Award

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Eli Durst's new book The Four Pillars featured in i-D