December 21

UT Wind Ensemble Recording Chosen by New York Times
CD Bells for Stokowski recently selected by New York Times music critic James Oestreich as one of his favorite things for giving this Christmas season!

December 20

Blanton announces spring 2005 exhibitions
Last exhibitions before move to new museum include major Chilean acquisition

Blanton receives $3 million gift from Houston Endowment
Total raised now stands at over $71 million of $83.5 million goal

December 17

Blanton to integrate Latin American, American works in permanent collection installation
America/Americas to open in new building February 2006

December 3

Blanton supporters add over $1 million to building fund
Total raised now stands at $67.9 million of $83.5 million goal

December 20

Mazatlan dancers to be artists-in-residence
Lavista and Ruiz to work with Dance Reperatory Theatre

December 3

Professor Holly Williams creates new ballet for State Street
Dance professor to work with Austin composer on Santa Barbara performance

December 6

College of Fine Arts chooses employees of the semester
Representatives elected from each of five units

November 5

Music alum Tony Morris to play at White House for the second time.
He will be joined by flutist Renata Green, violinist Jennifer Bourianoff, and percussionist James Fenner, Jr., in a private performance for White House staff and administration officials.

November 16

Crist wins ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
Copland scholar honored by nation's premiere music publishing organization

School of Music bestows Eddie Medora King Award on George Crumb
Lauded composer to receive $25,000, give concert on campus

Daly collaborates on Texas A&M University's Bonfire Memorial
Studio Art Professor is serving as artistic director

November 12

Visual Art Studies lecturer Fred Woody given statewide award
Fred Woody named "Texas Outstanding Higher Education Art Educator"

October 22

Vote and Get a Free Ticket to PAC Show
As an extra incentive to vote, the Performing Arts Center is offering each UT student who votes one ticket to select shows

October 5

Maymester Abroad Courses for 2005 Announced
Maymester Abroad courses are intensive four week study abroad programs that take place following the spring semester at an international course location.

October 22

Molly Mae MacGregor Receives Martha Hill Award
Molly Mae MacGregor, has recently been awarded the Martha Hill Award for Young Professionals from American Dance Festival.

October 22

Gerre and Judith Hancock receive honorary degrees
School of Music senior lecturer Gerre Hancock and wife Judith Hancock both received honorary doctor's degrees this May for their distinguished service in The Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. and for achievements and contributions throughout their careers as church musicians

September 27

The University of Texas at Austin and Internet2 to host first virtual concert experiment Tuesday, Sept. 28
A live classical music performance by the Miro Quartet will be used as a technology showcase for some of the high-speed applications possible with the Internet2 networking capabilities

September 9

Hive: Recent Work by Faculty in the Department of Art and Art History
Exhibition Dates: September 10 - 30, 2004

September 1

H-E-B Gives $100,000 Sponsorship Gift to PAC
H-E-B has donated $100,000 to the Performing Arts Center (PAC) in support of the PACs 2004-2005 season

September 30

Mothership Connection: Alumni Exhibition
The Creative Research Laboratory of the Department of Art and Art History is curating an upcoming exhibition, with selections from an alumni slide registry

UT Theatre and Dance Alumna Joins Rockettes
Summyr Miller, who graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in Dance, is in New York City and soon will be fulfilling a longtime dream: dancing in the world-famous precision line of the Radio City Rockettes.

September 29

Professor Holly Williams, graduate students, perform at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Department of Theatre and Dance Associate Professor Holly Williams took her 2003 dance/video work "Bolero" to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in August

September 9

Kevin Puts receives commission from David Zinman
Music professor Kevin Puts has been commissioned to write a piece for two of the biggest names in classical music

John Clarke honored by Dallas Museum of Fine Art
Dr. John Clarke, art history professor in the Department of Art and Art History, has won the 2004 Vasari Award

September 29

Theatre and Dance Student Roen Salinas Wins Hispanic Scholarship Award
Roen Salinas, a second-year MFA/Dance graduate student in the Department of Theatre and Dance, has been honored with the Hispanic Scholarship Award from the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts.

August 31

College of Fine Arts Receives $2 Million Gift For the School of Music's Opera Theatre Program
In recognition of this gift, the program will henceforth be known as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Opera Theatre Program.

August 20

Blanton Museum of Art Celebrates Topping Out of New Museum Building
The final piece of structural steel has been put in place at the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art.

August 9

In Memoriam: Professor Nelson G. Patrick
Nelson G. Patrick, associate professor emeritus of music in the School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin, died Saturday, July 31, here.

August 24

Music Student Bustos Takes Top Honors at Three Guitar Competitions
School of Music student Issac Bustos, who recently completed his M.M.A. degree and will begin his D.M.A. degree at the School of Music this fall, took first prize at three competitions for classical guitar this year.

July 16

Lady Bird Johnson donates French Impressionist work to Blanton
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson presented Armand Guillaumin's oil painting Environs de Paris to the Blanton Museum of Art on July 6. Guillaumin, the last surviving member of the French Impressionist movement, counted among his friends and colleagues Pissarro, Cezanne, and Van Gogh.

July 30

Dance Professor Williams Work to be Showcased in Scotland
Holly Williams will present her video/dance work "Bolero"

July 19

College Appoints New Assistant Dean
Sondra Lomax, development officer and long-term faculty member in the Department of Theatre and Dance, has been appointed assistant dean of external relations and development in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, effective Sept. 1.

July 14

Laura Schwartz named head librarian in Fine Arts Library
Librarian Laura Schwartz has been named the new head of the Fine Arts Library.

June 4

Music alumna receives NEH funding for study of film music
Schwartz-Kates to study work of Ginastera in Switzerland

June 15

Music professor Henderson receives rave review from Gramophone Magazine
School of Music associate professor Rebecca Henderson has received a rave review from the British magazine Gramophone for her recently released album, entitled "Is But a Dream."

June 15

PAC's Judith Rhedin is Employee of the Semester
Judith Rhedin, of the college's Performing Arts Center, has been named Employee of the Semester for spring 2004.

May 19

Blanton receives gift from AT&T
The gift will fund "Luca Cambiaso: Master of the Renaissance in Genoa," the first major exhibition in The Blanton's new museum complex scheduled for January-May 2007.

May 17

Costa-Giomi wins Academic Innovation Award
Music faculty member to use $25,000 grant for arts education research

May 11

Louis Waldman Wins Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship
Dr. Louis A. Waldman, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, was selected as the recipient of the Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship for Fall 2004.

Jerry Junkin Appointed to Academy of Distinguished Teachers

May 5

University Named APIE Partner of the Year

May 12

College of Fine Arts Announces Winners of Staff Excellence Awards
The College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the winners of the 2003-2004 Staff Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to The University of Texas at Austin.

May 10

Mario Bermea Wins Staff Excellence Award

May 21

Music Senior Rian Craypo Selected for Prestigious Competition
Gillet-Fox Bassoon Competition to Take Place in Melbourne, Australia

M.F.A. Student Young-Min Kang Receives 2004 Roy Crane Award
Installation Artist Honored with Award Endowed by Alum Cartoonist

May 10

Student Wins Prestigious Beinecke Scholarship

April 21

Blanton Museum of Art Appoints Ann Wilson as Associate Director
Jessie Otto Hite, director of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, today announced the appointment of Ann Hume Wilson as associate director of the Museum, effective May 17, 2004.

April 20

Capital Campaign Goes Over the Top!
The College of Fine Arts has met and surpassed its capital campaign goal of $98.85 million.

April 7

Automated Lighting Program to host lunch, day-long seminar
A Conversation on New Lighting Techniques" to include some of industry's top names.

April 20

School of Music Alumna Lucy Schaufer Debuts at the Met
Schaufer recently made her debut as Suzuki in "Madama Butterfly" and the Page in a new production of "Salome.

Work by Alumnus Jared Huke Recognized in Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition

April 7

School of Music Alum Awarded ACE Fellowship
William Pelto, a 1993 doctoral recipient from the School of Music and associate dean of the Ithaca College School of Music, has been named an ACE fellow (Council on Education).

April 20

Art and Art History Faculty Garner Top Honors at Co-Op Awards Ceremony
Four of the 19 awards were presented to faculty members from the Department of Art and Art History.

2004 CoFA Teaching Excellence Awards Announced

April 29

Design Student Lydia Reynolds Wins Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship

April 27

CRL Announces Senior Design Show 2004

Sculpture Student Holly Fischer Honored by Umlauf Museum

CoFA Students Win Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence

April 7

Student to showcase at Cannes
Film by transmedia graduate student Karen Skloss to be screened at prestigious festival.

March 31

PAC to delay Bass renovation
Change comes in response to Long Center's construction schedule.

March 16

Blanton makes 'most significant single acquisition' in museum history.
The College of Fine Arts' Blanton Museum has made a purchase that chief curator Jonathan Bober calls "the most significant single acquisition the Blanton has ever made." The work is a painting entitled "Virgin and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist," by 16th century Genoese artist Luca Cambiaso.

March 15

Blanton Museum receives $1 million gift from Austin philanthropists
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin today announced the gift of $1 million from Austin philanthropists Dr. Ernest and Sarah Butler.

Early Painting by Luca Cambiaso Given to Blanton Museum of Art
Painting Further Distinguishes Blanton's Cambiaso Holdings, Already Finest in World Outside of Genoa

March 12

College Appoints new Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
Rachel Martin has been appointed assistant dean of student affairs in the College of Fine Arts.

March 2

Artist-in-Residence Kerry James Marshall receives award from College of Fine Arts
Kerry James Marshall, one of the most closely watched artists of his generation, has been selected as the recipient of the "Distinguished Artist Fellowship and Stillwater Foundation Grant".

March 24

Scott Hanna honored by student group.
The Eyes of Texas, an anonymous campus organization dedicated to unselfish devotion to the University, has selected Professor Scott Hanna, to receive an award for his contributions to The University of Texas at Austin.

Mirò Quartet releases new CD.
Entitled "Epilogue," the disc features Mendelssohn's last completed quarted in F Minor, Op. 80, as well as Schubert's C Major Cello Quintet, performed with famed cellist Matt Haimovitz.

March 2

Sculpture professor honored by City of Austin

March 15

Jonathan Bober asked to join prestigious international arts committee
Jonathan Bober, the Blanton Museum's Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings and European Paintings has been asked to join the International Advisory Committee of Keepers of Public Collections of Graphic Art.

March 12

Advisor in Department of Art and Art History honored by Texas Exes
Shane Sullivan has been honored by the Texas Exes alumni association with a James W. Vick Award for Academic Advising.

March 24

MFA students to exhibit in CRL
Opening Saturday, March 29, Creative Research Laboratory presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing the work of artists and designers completing their Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

March 12

Graduate student named gallery director for CRL
The Creative Research Laboratory (CRL) and the Department of Art and Art History have named MFA graduate student Hana Hillerova as the new Gallery Director for the CRL's gallery space, beginning in June 2004.

March 2

School of Music graduate student takes top honors at International Trombone Association Frank Smith Solo Competition
Raimundo Morales, a graduate student in applied music at the College of Fine Arts' School of Music, was recently named a finalist at the International Trombone Association Frank Smith Solo Competition.

February 24

Renowned pianist Fleisher to play Bates
Leon Fleisher, widely regarded as one of the finest pianists the United States has ever produced, will play a concert on Thursday, February 26th, 2004 at 8pm in Bates Recital Hall.

Cecilia Vicuna Reconstructs Precarious (1987) and Presents Poetry Performance at Waller Creek in Conjunction with Exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art
Chilean poet, performance artist, and sculptor will reconstruct Precarious, an installation displayed at the Blanton (then the Huntington) in 1987 in the seminal exhibition Latin American Artists in New York Since 1970.

February 19

Peter Walker and Mel Chin Selected by Blanton Museum of Art to Design Plaza and Garden for New Museum Complex
Team to Create Civic Gathering Place For University of Texas and Austin Communities

UT Wind Ensemble in the School of Music will perform newly commissioned work by celebrated composer.
The School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin has commissioned a major new work by John Corigliano, one of the most widely recognized and successful composers of concert music in America.

February 6

Blanton Museum of Art presents "Festival de cine cubano"
AUSTIN, Texas - A weekend film festival of Cuban films mainly made during the 1960s, not even a decade after the Communist revolution, will be shown at the Blanton Museum of Art, Feb. 6-8, in collaboration with the Austin Film Society (AFS).

February 13

Theatre alumna nominated for Oscar.
Academy nomination is second in three years for Marcia Gay Harden.

February 16

Christopher Adejumo receives award from National Art Education Association.
Dr. Christopher Adejumo, associate professor of Visual Art Studies in the College of Fine Arts' Department of Art and Art History, has been selected as the recipient of the 2004 J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Award by the National Art Education Association (NAEA).

January 27

College of Fine Arts Will Host K-16 Arts Education Summit
The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin will be hosting a K-16 Arts Education Summit, bringing together the collegiate and K-12 arts education leadership of Texas, on Jan. 31.

January 5

Blanton Reveals New Acquisitions and Rarely Seen Works from its Permanent Collection
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin presents two exhibitions opening January 30, 2004. The exhibitions offer a unique glimpse of the museum's rapidly growing collections of Latin American art and prints and drawings, two of the Blanton's four, key collecting areas.

January 12

College of Fine Arts Alumnus Named Curator at New York MOMA
Joachim Pissarro, who graduated in 2001 from the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin with a doctor's degree in art history, has been appointed one of three curators chosen to lead the New York Museum of Modern Art after its much-publicized $858 million renovation is completed next fall.

January 30

Department of Art and Art History Assistant Professor Melissa W. Miller Receives Anonymous Was A Woman Award

January 1

Ashman named Employee of the Semester for Fall 2003

January 22

Land Arts of the American West exhibit at Creative Research Laboratory
Opening Thursday, January 22, Creative Research Laboratory presents LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST 2003, introducing work by fourteen students in studio art at The University of New Mexico and design at the University of Texas at Austin.