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Department of Art and Art History

Special Programs & Activities in Studio Art

Schedule of Activities in the Department of Art and Art History

Center for Art of Africa and its Diasporas (CAAD)
The Center for Art of Africa and its Diasporas at the University of Texas at Austin is an intellectual organization involving scholars, historians, and critics that appreciate, study, support, foster, and promote the arts of Africa and its Diasporas.

Learning Tuscany: Art and Culture in Italy
The Learning Tuscany program exposes deserving students to art and culture first–hand. Students are given the opportunity to be ambassadors from Texas, the United States and UT Austin, sharing their experiences with students and citizens of Italy. The program focuses on the landscapes of Tuscany in order to consider what defines particular places and the ways we represent them.

Lecture Series: Lectures on Art of the Black Diaspora
This series is an outreach effort that promotes intellectual interest in and scholarship surrounding art produced in the African Diaspora. It explores the notions of diaspora and cultural and ethnic dispersal. The program not only emphasizes the growing importance of diasporic studies and of Africa and the African Diaspora in contemporary art but also underscores the increasing significance of these fields at the University of Texas at Austin.

Lecture Series: Studio Art–Viewpoint
Annually the department presents Viewpoint, a series of concentrated visits by distinguished curators, scholars and critics. This program is comprised of several multiple-day residencies throughout the spring semester. This format enables these leading commentators and critics to fully share their perspectives from the diverse and multifaceted contemporary art world. The lecturers are always brought in pairs and present various programs including public lectures, seminars, and individual studio critiques with graduate students. Lectures are free and open to the public.

Lecture Series: Studio Art–Visiting Artists
Internationally known artists visit the department every fall semester to give lectures and to meet with graduate students for seminars and critiques. Lectures are free and open to the public.

Ox-Bow Summer Scholarship Program
This annual scholarship opportunity provides support for 6 to 7 selected students to participate in a 2-week workshop. These special-topic workshops usually offer training in fields beyond what the Department of Art and Art History offers and may range from glass blowing to digital animation.

Printmaking Convergence
The intent of Printmaking Convergence is to highlight and strengthen personal and professional connections among students, the various printmaking studios, collectors, curators, critics, journalists and artists of the printmaking community in Austin, at the University of Texas at Austin and beyond. Our mission of the Printmaking Convergence Program is to bring focus of the richness, challenges and the pleasures of the fine art print to the student body and others at the University of Texas, and in partnership with the International Print Center New York, to our local, regional, national and international constituencies. The Guest Artist in Printmaking Program is an integral component of the Printmaking Convergence. It is an annual visiting artist program that takes place in the printmaking studios of the Department of Art and Art History. The educational goal of GAPP is to take advantage of the inherent collaborative, and more communal nature of printmaking and to use these characteristics as a unique teaching tool.