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Top 6 Cohen New Works Festival must-see pieces

Top 6 Cohen New Works Festival must-see pieces

Gianna Means, Life&Arts General Reporter April 6, 2025

Hosted by UT Theatre and Dance, the Cohen New Works Festival is a week-long showcase of 40 student pieces, including performances, installations, dances and plays. With the festival running from April...

Visitors at the Austin Public Library Central Location view art history professor Moyo Okediji’s exhibition, “Beauty and the Beads: Divine Fire and Color in Transatlantic Beaded Art," on March 23, 2025. Okediji’s exhibition focuses on glass beads, one of Africa’s most widely used artistic mediums, and will be on display until April 27, 2025.

Beads of separation, unification: UT professor’s latest exhibition highlights complex African history

Sabrina Ye, General Life&Arts Reporter March 26, 2025

Shining under the lights of Austin Public Library, panels of colorful beaded glass twist and flatten to reveal a patchwork of geometric figures. At the center of this exhibition is Moyo Okediji, an artist...

Professor Ben Bays poses for a picture at the RTF Animation Celebration on Feb. 27, 2025. The event was organized by him as a way to introduce the field of animation to more people.

RTF department showcases student talent at their all-day ‘Animation Celebration’

Madison West, General Life&Arts Reporter March 4, 2025

Ultraviolet light casts a blue glow over the dark studio, and TV screens encircle long tables and chairs meant to seat the attendees of the Student Animation Exhibition. Electronic music thumps in the...

Adrian Aguilera's "East: Sun - Rise AR Intervention" plays on a television next to Adriant Bereal's prints in the Visual Arts Center on Feb. 26. Maps of the locations where the project focuses are next to the video.

East Austin augmented reality experience immerses users into Black, brown community history

Charlotte Karner, Senior Life&Arts Reporter February 27, 2025

Texas’ Blackland Prairies’ fertile soil allowed the building of homes, schools and churches which established the historically Black and brown communities of East Austin. Featured in the Blackland...

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