November 13

AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center Houses New Art Gallery Featuring Works from Department of Art and Art History Faculty and Alumni
Courtyard Gallery Offers New Art Exhibition Space

November 14

The University Co-op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival Announces Roster
34 New Works to Premiere in 2009

October 27

Winners of 12th Annual Hamilton Book Awards Announced at Four Seasons Hotel Event
Art & Art History Professor Emerita Denise Schmandt–Besserat takes home Grand Prize

October 9

Blanton Museum of Art Poised to Become Largest University Museum in the United States
Grand Opening of the Edgar A. Smith Building in November

October 1

Grand Opening of the Co-op Fine Arts Student Center Monday, October 6
Please join us in Celebrating the Grand Opening

October 24

College Hires New Development Staff
The college has hired three new staff to its development team. Michele Baylor, Lauren Zachry-Reynolds and, Cathryn Seymour Dorsey.

October 22

The Huaca El Pueblo Archaeological Project
Department of Art and Art History Associate Professor Steve Bourget is directing a critically important archaeological project at Huaca el Pueblo, near the coast of Peru.

September 30

Free Public Lecture Series on Art in the Black Diaspora
Discussing African American art of the black diaspora

September 16

Metropolitan Museum of Art Loans Sculptures to The University of Texas at Austin for Public Art Project
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is lending 28 mid- to late-twentieth-century sculptures to The University of Texas at Austin to be installed across campus as part of the university's Landmarks public art program.

Mark di Suvero Sculpture to Become Campus Landmark
“Clock Knot,” a monumentally scaled sculpture by internationally renowned artist Mark di Suvero, will be dedicated on the northeast corner of Dean Keeton Street and Speedway on The University of Texas at Austin campus on September 26.

July 18

The Fruition of Recruitment
The Department of Art and Art History Welcomes Its New Creative Leaders

May 23

New Chairman in the Department of Theatre and Dance
Robert Schmidt Appointed Chairman of the Department of Theatre and Dance

April 24

Visual Arts Center
Bricks and Mortar: The Visual Arts Center Announces Renovation Funding

April 9

In Memoriam: Dr. Francis Hodge, Professor Emeritus
University of Texas at Austin Professor of Directing 1949–1979

April 24

College Hires New Development Officer
Andrea Keene Joins External Relations & Development Team

March 18

School of Music To Be Named for Ernest and Sarah Butler
Couple Gives $55 Million Gift, Largest at Public Music School

March 12

School of Music's Susan Jackson Recognized
2008 James W. Vick Texas Excellence Award for Academic Advising

March 27

School of Music Undergraduate on MTV!
A'keiba Burrell–Hammer Competes in Reality Singing Series

March 14

A'keiba Burrell-Hammer Competes on MTV's Rock the Cradle
School of Music Student to Premiere in Reality Singing Series

February 1

In Memoriam: Shirlee Dodge
University of Texas at Austin Dance Faculty 1943–69

February 8

Interim Director Chosen for Blanton
Ann Wilson Appointed Interim Director of Blanton Museum

February 14

COFA Students Dominate AMOA 20 to Watch List
Alumni and Current Students Exhibited in New Art in Austin Exhibition

January 9

UT Theatre and Dance Fall Season dominates "Top 10 of 2007"
Elephant's Graveyard, Fefu and Her Friends, and Ashes, Ashes recognized by Austin Chronicle

January 7

Blanton Museum Receives Major Award from AICA–USA for Exhibition Drawn from Caracas–Based Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection named "Best Thematic Museum Show Nationally"

January 30

Musical Theatre Faculty Direct “Porgy and Bess”
Musical Direction by Lyn Koenning and Choreography by Robin Lewis

January 4

Second Appearance of UT Faculty in Whitney Biennial
UT Art Professor Michael Smith selected to show in 2008 Whitney Biennial

January 8

Blanton Museum of Art Director Search
Committee formed to find successor to Jessie Otto Hite