OnCampus Events pulls timely information about events at The University of Texas at Austin from the all-new university-wide OnCampus events calendar.
Listings for Saturday, Nov. 7
Early example of conceptual film by Bill Lundberg featured at Blanton
All day event, Blanton Museum of Art. The Blanton Museum of Art is exhibiting, for the first time since its acquisition, the film installation "Swimmer" by Bill Lundberg, artist and professor at The University of Texas at Austin. The piece was created in 1975 and is one of the earliest examples of conceptual film work. The Blanton Museum's presentation offers viewers a rare opportunity to experience this important work by a forefather of film and video installation. "Swimmer" creates the illusion of a water-based environment within the museum. The sounds of splashing water fill the darkened gallery and the image of a man treading water is cast onto the floor. The horizontal projection brings the illusion of film into the realm of reality.
Briscoe Center presents exhibit of Eddie Adams' photography
All day event, Briscoe Center Reading Room, Sid Richardson Hall 2.101. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History presents "Eddie Adams: Selections from the Photographic Archive," until Jan. 16, 2010.
Major Blanton exhibit reconstructs long-lost Renaissance masterpiece
All day event, Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece
Blanton presents Teresita Fernández: "Blind Landscape"
All day event, Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape
"Transnational Latin American Art" forum promotes collaboration
All day event, ACES Building, Avaya Auditorium, rm 2.302. "Transnational Latin American Art" is a collaboration between the Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art (the University of Texas at Austin) and Meeting Margins (University of Essex and the University of the Arts London) and is designed to promote contacts and collaborative work between graduate students and emerging scholars.
UT Informal Classes Fall 2009 courses open
All day event, Texas Union, Room 4.304. Fall months lend themselves to seeking clarity and purpose. What better way to do so than by taking Informal Classes? Our new fall courses are wide-ranging and fun, focused and fulfilling.
Learn about Intellectual Entrepreneurship pre-grad school internship
All day event, Spring course. The Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Graduate School Internship is an
University Extension registration open for spring 2010 classes
All day event, Austin, Texas. Registration is open for spring 2010 evening courses with University Extension (UEX) at The University of Texas at Austin.
UT Leadership and Ethics Institute announces application deadline
All day event, Student Organization Center, 4th floor of the Student Services Building. LEAP, a component of the University of Texas Leadership and Ethics Institute (LEI) - a leadership initiative of the Office of the Dean of Students- is a leadership development program geared toward first-year students who are looking to grow and develop their leadership skills. Through an eight-week leadership workshop series, offered both in the fall and spring semesters, first-year students will interact with student mentors, create a network with other first-year students and build a solid foundation of ethical leadership principles and practices. Workshops will be held in the Spring semester from Jan. 26 through Mar. 23, 2010, every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Study in China: Scholarship opportunity announced
All day event, China. The Association of American Universities (AAU) is working with the Chinese Embassy to offer a third year of the AAU/Chinese government scholarship program for students at AAU universities to study at Chinese universities.
Nominate for 2010 Volvo Environment Prize
All day event, Sweden. The Volvo Environmental Prize is awarded for "outstanding innovations or scientific discoveries which in broad terms fall within the environmental field."
Nominate for the 2010 Kavli Prize
All day event, Oslo, Norway. The Kavli Prize is awarded for outstanding achievement in advancing our knowledge and understanding in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Each Kavli Prize consists of USD 1,000,000, a scroll and a gold medal for each scientific field.
National Security Innovation Competition (NSIC) calls for entries
All day event, Colorado Springs, CO. The fourth annual National Security Innovation Competition (NSIC) for college students will be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on May 7, 2010. NSIC 2010 is designed to stimulate interest among college students in national security-related innovations and expose novel technologies to a broad audience, including industry, academic and government organizations involved in aerospace, defense, security and first responder activities.
Kenneth J. Hale's New Works from Carmel, CA, presented on campus
midnight, AT&T Executive Education Conference Center Courtyard Gallery…. This exhibition features the work of artist Kenneth Hale. Hale received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. His paintings, prints and drawings have been widely exhibited and collected.
Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest announced
8 a.m., WAG 316. Announcing the Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest
IITAP 2010 "intent to enter" deadline for faculty is November 15
8 a.m., GSB 2.130. The Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment invites UT Austin faculty and faculty-student/staff teams to submit entries now for the 2010 Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (IITAP) event. The deadline for sending an email indicating your intent to enter is Nov. 15, and the deadline for submitting all materials is Jan. 25, 2010.
Limestone Sculptures on view at Wildflower Center
9 a.m., Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. An elegant exhibit of glass-and-limestone sculptures are being featured in the central gardens of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Damian Priour's largest piece in a collection of four chairs is more than 7-feet-tall. All were created in Priour's local studio, and several include glass inserts that evoke water. The sculptures will be featured in conjunction with a display of Priour's works at Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum.
Blanton features "Jerry Bywaters: Lonestar Printmaker"
11 a.m., Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). Jerry Bywaters is one of Texas' most loved and celebrated artists. A member of the Dallas Nine, a group of young painters from the 1930s that helped establish a regionalist artistic identity and recognition for Texas art, Bywaters was also a founding member of the printmaker's organization, the Lone Star Printmakers.
Work of Kelly Fearing featured in "Selections from a Life in Art"
11 a.m., Bass Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center, 5th floor lobby. Kelly Fearing is a living, national art treasure. An internationally respected artist and art educator, he has conducted the bulk of his career in Austin. A professor emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Art and Art History, Fearing co-authored four major textbooks in art education and mentored and inspired hundreds of art teachers during his forty years of teaching at UT.
Texas football plays UCF
11 a.m., Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Number 2 Texas football squares off against the UCF Golden Knights, presented by JetBlue Airways. Limited seats remain for this game and may be purchased online at TexasBoxOffice.com or by calling 512-471-3333.
"Tell me everything, as you remember it" is group art exhibition
noon, Creative Research Lab (CRL). The Creative Research Laboratory welcomes "Tell me everything, as you remember it," a curatorial project by University of Texas Department of Art and Art History alumna Leona Scull-Hons (M.F.A. 2004). Showcasing the recent work of 10 artists from across the country, Scull-Hons presents a group exhibition that explores the tenuous lines of communication that exist between us all. These artists conjure and thus examine the feelings of human connections or the lack thereof.
Ransom Center offers free tours of Poe and astronomy exhibitions
2 p.m., Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe. The Harry Ransom Center offers free docent-led tours of its current exhibitions, "From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe" and "Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works," every Saturday.
