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Art and Art History

Special Programs & Activities in Art History

Schedule of Activities in the Department of Art and Art History

Lecture Series: Art Hisory
These lectures are free and open to the public.

Casa Herrera
Casa Herrera, an academic center located in Antigua, Guatemala and run by the Department of Art and Art History, facilitates academic investigations into the art, culture, and writing of Mesoamerica.

Center for the Study of Modernism
The interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Modernism at UT Austin serves as an umbrella to focus and augment graduate study in the art of the modern period, from the eighteenth century to the present and across the sub-disciplines of critical theory, history of criticism, intellectual history, social history, feminist studies, history of science and technology, media studies, institutional history, and semiotics.

CLAVIS: The Center for Latin American Visual Studies
The Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS), a collaboration between the Department of Art and Art History and the Blanton Museum of Art, is a focal point at the University of Texas for the advanced understanding of modern and contemporary art between the Americas.

D.J. Sibley Family Conference on World Traditions of Culture and Art
Under the auspices of UT Austin, through a generous endowment from the D. J. Sibley family, this recurring symposium fosters the interdisciplinary interaction of research scholars currently working in the art, archaeology and iconography of pre-Columbian cultures, and their relation to other world art traditions.

GSAHA: Graduate Student Art History Association
The objectives of the Graduate Student Art History Association are to encourage and develop relations between M.A. and Ph.D. candidates, faculty, visiting scholars, alumni, and other professionals in the fields; to provide a forum through which graduates students may openly address issues related to their experience within the Department of Art and Art History; and to foster an alliance with other graduate students within the university.

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.

The Maya Meetings at Texas
The Maya Meetings at Texas are designed to bring scholars and interested individuals together once a year to study and explore a single theme in Mayan art and writing. The Meetings have featured lectures, forums, research workshops, and teaching practicums. A core component of the meetings centers around an open and experimental atmosphere that promotes collaboration among representatives from all over the globe, including the significant involvement of indigenous Mayan peoples.

The Mesoamerica Center
The Mesoamerica Center aims to facilitate knowledge and learning about Mesoamerican cultures and peoples, highlighting the interdisciplinary strengths of many faculty and students at UT Austin. Its primary focus is on the arts, languages, and archaeology of Mesoamerican indigenous cultures.

PAHSA: Pre-Columbian Art History Student Association
The Pre-Columbian Art History Association aims to advance investigations of Pre-Columbian art historical issues. Membership is open to any UT Austin student or faculty interested in Pre-Columbian art historical issues. PAHSA sponsors a yearly academic conference entitled Art History of the Ancient Americas.

Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art
Focusing on Latin American art, the permanent seminar is an open-ended research space dedicated to the creative production of knowledge; participation includes graduate students, artists, art historians, curators and critics from UT and from Latin America.

Portfolio in Museum Studies
Through a set of thematically related graduate courses, this portfolio program is meant to promote cross–disciplinary scholarship and study by bringing together faculty and students from a variety of disciplines whose interests and training transcend the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.

UAHA: Undergraduate Art History Association
The Undergraduate Art History Association was created to promote the visual arts, to investigate career and educational opportunities of its members, to plan events and museum tours, and to establish a dialogue between all four divisions of The Department.