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 Sunday, July 20
University Extension open for summer, fall registration
All day event, Admin Office, Lake Austin Center (LAC), 3001 Lake Austin Blvd, Suite 1.314. University Extension (UEX) is open for fall and summer registration. UEX at The University of Texas at Austin offers a wide range of classroom and online courses from the university's course inventory. UEX courses count for college credit and are included in your cumulative UT GPA. UEX classroom courses meet evenings on the UT Austin campus. url=http://web.austin.utexas.edu/uex/courses.html Check out the full classroom course listing now! /url Need more flexibility? University Extension's online courses can be taken any time, any place. Students have up to nine months to complete an online course and earn university credit. Register now to meet fall 2008 graduation requirements! url=http://web.austin.utexas.edu/courses/dec/college/searchcollege.cfm Take me to the full online course listing now! /url Questions? Call 512-471-2900.
Ransom Center presents "On the Road with the Beats"
All day event, Harry Ransom Center. An exhibition tracing the travels of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and their friends across America and the globe. Manuscripts, books, photographs and visual art from the Ransom Center's collections tell the story of the Beat Generation and the literary and social revolution they inspired. The scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" will be on display Feb. 5-Aug. 3.
Fall course schedule available online
All day event, Online. Find classes for fall 2008.
Year-long series of events celebrates legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson
All day event, Various locations in Texas and Washington, D.C.. On Oct. 4, organizers of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Centennial, commemorating the 100th birthday (Aug. 27, 1908) of the 36th President, announced that the official Centennial celebrations will begin Jan. 1, 2008, with a year-long tribute to the LBJ legacy. To kick off the Centennial celebrations, seven LBJ-affiliated groups and GSD&M's Idea City unveiled a Centennial logo and web site. A series of programs and events in Texas and Washington, D. C., will highlight the Centennial salute. The logo will be used by all seven organizations throughout 2008, and a comprehensive Web site with a detailed calendar, historical information, and photographs will launch Jan. 1, 2008.
Students: Apply for Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Graduate Internship
All day event, see Web site. The Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Graduate School Internship is an opportunity for undergraduate students to work closely with a graduate student mentor and/or faculty member. Throughout the semester, interns discover those unique aspects of graduate study that make it distinct from the undergraduate experience, such as conducting research, serving as teaching and research assistants, and participating in seminars.
Blanton showcases Japanese art
All day event, Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). The Blanton Museum of Art presents "Exquisite Visions of Japan: Prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts." The exhibition is on view June 29-Aug. 24 at the Blanton. Michener assembled one of the finest collections of Japanese woodblock prints in the country. The distinguished writer began his collection in the 1950's and published "The Floating World" in 1954, one of the first book-length studies of Japanese prints published in English. Much like his longstanding connection to the Blanton Museum, and his donation of 20th century masterworks to its collection, Michener found the Honolulu Academy an ally in the study and advancement of another of his interests, Japanese prints. In 1988 and 1991, he donated his extensive collection to the Academy. Featuring some of the most beloved and familiar ukiyo-e (images of the floating world) prints, this exhibition of 50 works bring this quintessential Japanese tradition into the 20th century.
L. Ray watercolor exhibit debuts at Wildflower Center
9 a.m., Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. This summer, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center presents "Butterfly Portraits Beyond Scale," a collection of more than 25 watercolor paintings by Texan artist L.Ray. The paintings of butterflies, dragonflies and wildflowers at larger-than-life sizes were created by combining portrait techniques and traditional still-life painting. Come to the Wildflower Center's McDermott Learning Center to get a closer look at Texas wildflowers and butterflies. For more information about this exhibit, call 512.232.0100 or visit www.wildflower.org. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and students, $3 for children, and free for Wildflower Center members and children under 5.
Blanton presents "The Language of Prints"
11 a.m., Blanton Museum of Art. Opening on April 19 at the Blanton, "The Language of Prints" features around 100 of the museum's finest and most distinctive prints. Prints are the most frequently experienced but least understood works of art. In the history of art, and most exhibitions, the medium is usually presented in terms of its great masters, from Albrecht Durer through Jasper Johns, or explained solely in terms of technique. Instead, this exhibition explores the medium as a uniquely rich and largely collective system of expression, a "language", with distinctive principles, persistent tendencies, and special processes that are shared across time and space. The exhibition coincides with the annual meeting of the Print Council of America, the first ever in the state of Texas.
Blanton exhibit features Argentine artist Fabian Bercic
11 a.m., Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). Argentine artist Fabian Bercic will provide a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Zen Garden in his site-specific installation for Workspace. As a critique of consumerism and the commercialization of culture, Bercic transforms the usually sacred rock garden, replacing its natural and organic elements with synthetic, day-go, plastic materials. The work, in this contemporary context, reflects the artist's interest in product design, medieval manuscript illustrations and his own imagination, asking how one can create a meaningful Zen Garden with the materials of a late-capitalist society. The artist's process of repetitively and painstakingly assembling his materials recaptures the traditional function and purpose of the Garden, in that the artist achieves the loss of self through these Zen actions. Conversely, it serves as a comment on disposable, industrial production. A seating area will be incorporated into the work, allowing viewers an area from which to contemplate the complex dichotomies of the Garden. On view June 7 through September 21. Join us for an opening reception on Third Thursday, June 19, 5-9 PM at the museum. (FREE) Media sponsor: ArtLies magazine
Ransom Center offers museum theater program in galleries
1 p.m., Harry Ransom Center. In conjunction with the current exhibition "On the Road with the Beats," the Harry Ransom Center presents performances in the galleries of the museum theater program "Beat Voices" every Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m. through August 2. The series of brief plays are written, directed and performed by students in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. The pieces illuminate objects and people featured in the exhibition, including Beat figures Peter Orlovsky and Diane DiPrima, specific letters exchanged by Beat authors, and a painting by artist Alfred Leslie. The performances allow audience members to engage with artifacts and historical figures in the exhibition through live performance. For more information, visit http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/beatvoices.
Blanton hosts summer class on "The Art and Culture of Japan"
2 p.m., Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). Join the Blanton Museum for a four-week course in conjunction with "Exquisite Visions of Japan" and take a tour of this radiant country from the comfort of a classroom. Explore myriad topics on Japanese art, architecture, history and culture. Includes a themed tour at 1 p.m. each week before the class. For more information please call 512-471-9205. This week's session is "Reinventing the Past in Modern Japanese Literature and Film" with Kirsten Cather, assistant professor in the department of Asian studies.
Blanton tours "Exquisite Visions of Japan" exhibit
2 p.m., Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). Discover the beauty of Ukiyo-e, images of the "floating world" found in Japanese woodblock prints during this Blanton Museum of Art tour.
Creative Research Laboratory hosts the Summer Salon 2008 Exhibition
6 p.m., UT Austin. Art Building, 23rd and San Jacinto Streets, Room 1.105.. Reception: June 28, 6-9 p.m.. Background: Summer Salon exhibits a refreshing variety of artworks by studio graduate students in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. In true salon style, the exhibition establishes a flexible framework for artists to present their diverse techniques and thematic concerns. Working in the media of painting, photography, sculpture and video, 10 artists offer a mix of perspectives to create a unique artistic dialogue. These artists express themes of representation, landscape, industry, materiality, and time; in collaboration their artworks reveal meaningful differences among subtle yet indicative connections. Ranging from expressive portraiture to conceptual narratives, the works in this exhibition share the conceptual undertones of spatial relationships and material identity. The artists thus contribute to a broad pattern while their individual styles appear in striking contrast. Curators/Artists: Summer Salon is curated by Art History Graduate Students Vanessa Garcia and Rose Salseda-Gomez with special assistance by Thao Vo. Artists include Studio Art Graduate Students Alec Appl, Jonathan Aseron, Sonya Berg, Samuel Dahl, Santiago Forero, Felice House, Daniel Lane, Tahila Mintz, Cecelia Phillips, and Joseph Winchester. visit: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/
Shakespeare at Winedale features three summer shows
7:30 p.m., Winedale Theater Barn. The Shakespeare at Winedale Program's 2008 Summer Class will perform "Romeo and Juliet," "The Merchant of Venice" and "Antony and Cleopatra" in the Winedale Theatre Barn. For 38 years, Shakespeare at Winedale (a University of Texas program) has drawn students with different cultural and academic backgrounds from universities around the United States and the world. As in previous years, the students will give public performances the last two weekends in July through the first two in August, Thursday - Sunday, with matinees Saturday and Sunday. This year's season features the timeless romance, "Romeo and Juliet," the complex tragicomedy "The Merchant of Venice" and the passionate epic, "Antony and Cleopatra." For reservations, visit our online ticketing site, www.shakespeare-winedale.org. Tickets are $10, $5 for students. Shakespeare at Winedale has now expanded to include year-round activities, including special programs for younger children such as Camp Shakespeare (performances at the Winedale Theatre Barn on June 21 and July 12 at 1 p.m.) and our Educational Outreach Program. For more information and for a full summer performance schedule, visit www.shakespeare-winedale.org.
EPIC UT Summer Project invites students faith-based events
8 p.m., 26th and Pearl. EPIC UT Summer Project is an event welcoming all those who would like to share the hope of Christ to students living and learning at UT this summer. Those interested in finding a community of Christ-centered believers, learning and practicing how to share their faith, and praying for the UT campus are encouraged to attend the EPIC Summer Project Get-Togethers. Please contact Joy at jooooyjoy@yahoo.com or Rachel at rachel_k@mail.utexas.edu for more information.
