September 12

The movie house or the playhouse All roads open to recent set design grad Inseung Park

June 30

From the book to the City How do you educate the people who design everything?

March 31

Nascent Vision New Works Festival showcases works from emerging artists...

December 21

New Start for a Vanishing Breed Organ power couple Gerre and Judith Hancock have come to the university to begin one of the last sacred music programs in the nation...

November 15

Listening to the New World Dvorak music festival explores continuing quest for an American identity.

November 18

When Old Turns New Marketing director Ann Wilson talks about the vast changes in store as the Blanton transforms into central Texas' most important art museum.

October 4

Is it Live or is it Internet 2? Miró Quartet shows how technology may change the future of live performances.

September 17

Greater Tomorrow: Inside Professor Christopher Adejumo's experimental summer camp for the arts...

September 23

John Ferguson travels the world as director of American Voices...

September 27

It's All Child's Play Professor Coleman A. Jennings has made entertaining children into his life's work, but he wants you to know that children's theatre is serious business.

August 1

Kelly Fearing Artist and Faculty Profile.

July 2

Karen Skloss , a Transmedia graduate student, talks about installations, her trip to Cannes, and starting a career in the film world.

May 12

Alumni Profile: Gay Gaddis Studio art alumna Gay Gaddis has been redefining the ad agency with her highly successful, Austin-based company T3.

April 19

Urashima Taro Inside the making of one of the most ambitious plays of the season.

April 20

Behind the Board Staff members Andrew Murphy and Frank Simon take us inside the School of Music's recording studio.

March 1

Deepti Gupta , an MFA graduate student in acting, talks about working on three continents — and what it takes to 'make it' as a foreign-born actress in America.

January 27

Blanton turns 40... Unparalled collections and inventive programs move the museum into the future.

January 15

"Preservation in Rhapsody" A mural by faculty member John Yancey celebrates the history of Austin's East Side.

October 1

Tony Morris Most people with degrees in performance end up teaching. Tony Morris started his own national radio show...

October 1

No Time for Golf Famed cellist and School of Music professor Bion Tsang talks about his love of teaching, compares cellos to cars, and explains why recording a new set of J.S. Bach might be his biggest challenge yet.

October 1

Key Master Charles Ball and his team of technicians keep 260 pianos in top condition year round, balancing the demands of students, faculty and performers. Find out what it takes to be the Key Master

October 1

Opposite Attraction Installation and performance artist Leona Scull-Hons uses her work to explore contradictions— showing just how fine a line can separate what we call "repulsive" and "beautiful".

September 3

On the Trail of Inspiration... This year, as part of the Land Arts of the American West program, 12 visual-art students will "study abroad" just a couple states away—and spend 11 weeks finding art in the desert

July 16

All the drama you can... 10 days, hundreds of students, 45 performances, classes, and panels—the Department of Theatre and Dance breaks a leg with the sophomore David Mark Cohen New Works Festival.

July 1

Breakfast with Elliot Elliot Forrest, UT alumnus and host of A&E's "Breakfast With the Arts," shares his love of fine arts with a popular audience via radio, television, and a brand-new walking tour of the New York City theatre district.

July 2

Inside the Digital Stage Department of Theatre and Dance professor Yacov Sharir has been changing the definition of 'choreography'—using computers to design dancers and movement on the cutting edge of a new art form.

July 1

Scenester The PAC's Karen Maness works at the intersection of visual art and performance—"painting big" for the other side of stage production.

July 1

The View from the Top University of Texas at Austin graduate student and carillonist Kim Schafer talks about playing in the Tower, the difficulties of anonymous performance and her own "Stairway to Heaven."

May 19

The Case of the Missing Vase Denise Schmandt-Besserat first set foot in Iraq in 1971. She was a young Radcliffe Fellow researching the origins of the human use of clay, and she spent her days at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad poring through boxes of ancient artifacts. Now a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, she joins scholars the world over in questioning the fate of the irreplaceable antiquities housed at the museum, which was looted in April.

March 3

Deciphering the Maya Each year millions of tourists travel to Mexico’s Yucatán to visit the ruins of Chichén Itzá. For many, Chichén Itzá offers a first glimpse into the world of the Maya, the most advanced ancient civilization on the American continent. The grandeur of its buildings and the mysterious beauty of the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorn them inevitably stagger the visitor. And the treacherous climb to the top of Chichén Itzá’s central pyramid offers a view of the world that the Maya inhabited for thousands of years—dense jungle populated by jaguars, iguanas and myriad birds, and scattered with temples and religious structures.

January 5

Performers Unearth Fresh Terrain When the theatre collective Rude Mechanicals (known as Rude Mechs) decided to create a play about the genius and inventor Nikola Tesla, they didn’t opt to offer the audience the expected birth-to-death biography. Instead, they imagined a world where Tesla sits down on stage with a Martian, where Tesla and Thomas Edison speak into microphones while screwing and unscrewing light bulbs and where Tesla’s direct addresses are punctuated by dance numbers.

December 16

The Art of Light Amarante Lucero should be drunk with pride and satisfaction, but he’s really just too busy to indulge himself. Lucero, a professor in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, is head of the Automated Lighting Design Program. He leads the only university lab in the Western Hemisphere dedicated to the instruction of automated lighting design.