UTeach Fine Arts

RSVP for UTFA’s Fall Kick-Off & Faculty Share by Dr. Laurie Scott. We are excited to see everyone at this event. There is so much to TACO about, see you there! Use the link on our bio or scan the QR code to RSVP.

We had a blast at Gone to COFA yesterday, and met so many new Fine Arts students! Hope to see you all at UTeach Fine Arts events this semester. We prepare teachers. You change the world.✨🌎

I am super excited about a weekend of UT Alumni events at the premiere opening of Lyric & the Keys (written by two Alumni- myself and Jenn Hartmann Luck)! Hope to see you in San Antonio September 28-29! DM me for full schedule.

Summer News: The K12ArtChat podcast (hosts Matt and Laura Grundler) interviewed UTeach Art Education Associate Professor Dr. Christina Bain for their July 2024 episode. The interview explores ethics in the art room and discusses her upcoming book, Ethical Decision-Making in Art Education. To listen to the episode and learn more, click the news link in our bio. 🎨🤘🏽

Summer News: The Exploring the Arts, Exploring the Self camp allowed youth to connect and learn about the arts disciplines. It occurred July 15-19, 2024, and comprised youth in grades second through fifth.

Under the guidance of Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Associate Dean of UTeach Fine Arts, UTeach Theatre 2024 Alums Valeria Najera and Yobany Pizano, and UTeach Theatre student Daijha Mainor, the students explored art, music, dance, and theatre. Each day, the group engaged the arts to present and perform ideas of who they are as individuals and as a community. ☀️ ☀️

UTeach Fine Arts is excited to share all the fantastic news of what faculty, students, and alums are up to this summer.

UTeach Dance students Hayley Jeansomme, Emily Figueroa, and Sarah Johnston were awarded an Arnhold Summer Fellowship from the Arnhold Foundation to attend the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) Summer Intensive at 92NY in New York. The Three-Week Intensive includes week-long mini-intensives on the DEL dance framework, Dance for early childhood, and an embodied dance history of 92NY. Hayley, Emily, and Sarah arrived last week and have been enjoying every New York minute!

Meet Ana Maria Solis, our 2024 UTFA Outstanding Educator Award honoree. She is the current Orchestra Director at Austin High School in Austin, Texas. Throughout her 26 years of service, she has also directed at O. Henry Middle School, Lamar Middle School, and McCallum High School. Ana believes all her students can foster their ability through hard work and team collaboration. Her philosophy is that each member is vital to the continued success and support of the orchestra program. Ana's objective as a teacher is to allow students to express themselves through music. 

Originally from Mexico City, Mrs. Solís has performed internationally with several orchestras in Asia, Latin America, and the United States. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in violin performance from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master's Degree in Music Education from the University of Texas at Austin. UTeach Fine Arts extends our gratitude and congratulations to Ana on being the 2024 Outstanding Educator honoree. 🎼

We are thrilled that our annual UTFA Spring Celebration event was a success!

On May 1st, 2024, students, staff, faculty, program partners, and performers gathered to acknowledge the tremendous work of all those involved in UTeach Fine Arts, especially our graduating students, now ready to enter their own classrooms as fine arts teachers.

At the event, we honored Ana Maria Solis, our 2024 UTFA Outstanding Educator Award honoree. Ana Maria offered a heartfelt speech to our students with images of her own orchestra students at Austin High School. A warm thank you to Music teacher and alumnus AJ Marks and his 5th-grade students from UT Elementary School, who wowed our guests with their talented musical performances.

Congratulations to all our graduates, wishing you all the very best. Now, go out and make a difference as arts educators! Hook ’em!

UFASAC hit the road! UTeach Fine Arts UFASAC members participated in the 2024 Del Valle Fine Arts Fest on April 20th, 2024. These students took part in a panel that educated students, parents, and community members on what it is like to be part of the UTFA program at UT Austin. Students shared their experiences as college students and future fine arts educators. The fest also included music, art, dance performances, a live art show, crafts and activities. 🚐🤘🏽

For anyone who knew Dr. Adejumo and would like to honor him in community. This has been organized by his students and will take place this Friday at UT.

Making in Memoriam: Two Days of Creating and Celebrating in Honor of Dr. Christopher Adejumo The Graduate Art Education students are pleased to invite you to a clay-based communal memorial art-making and celebration in honor of Dr. Adejumo's legacy and impact. This two-part community memorial and celebration will connect to the quarter century of Dr. Adejumo’s life work as a community art...

UTeach Fine Arts (music, theatre, and dance) students joined us Tuesday, April 2, for their Professional Development Sequence (PDS) Orientation. They are taking the next step in their teacher preparation. Great to have you all there and Hook ‘Em. 🤘🏽🧡

Join us at our final event for the Spring 2024 semester, the UTFA Spring Celebration! Event will be held at Under the Oaks Cafe at the Thompson Conference Center. We can't wait to celebrate the great work of UTFA students, faculty and staff. *Seniors be sure to attend for your special gift* Please RSVP using the QR code or link in our bio.

Our third Spring event, the UTFA Resource Fair, was held on March 21, 2024. This event featured various presentations by current UTeach Fine Arts students, including graduate, fourth-year and first-year students. They shared their newest, most engaged teaching practices, their current work with their students, and the work they have developed in their fine arts courses. Thank you to all our presenters!

The Graduate Art Education students are pleased to invite you to a two-part community memorial and celebration of Dr. Adejumo’s life work as a community artist and educator by providing a communal space for making, healing, honoring, and grieving. Please RSVP (link in out bio) if you will be attending one or both days.

Our sincerest congratulations to Dr. Donalyn Heise on being the 2024 Lowenfeld Award recipient. The Lowenfeld Award is given to extraordinary educators who have made significant contributions to the art education field. As the recipient of this award, Dr. Heise will present the Lowenfeld Lecture “Resilience in Art Education: Contexts, Concepts, and Connections” on Friday, April 5th, at the National Art Education Association Conference.

Preceding the national convention, the National Art Education Association Conference, April 4-6, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dr. Christina Bain will chair the NAEA 2024 Research PreConvention. The NAEA 2024 Research PreConvention is a 1-day in-person event designed to ignite the research network in art and design education across our dynamic field. From elementary classroom practitioners to community educators to higher education professors, research presents a powerful range of possibilities for the future of schools, cultural institutions, and community contexts.

Our 3rd Spring 2024 event the UTFA Resource Fair will be an opportunity to hear from current UTeach Fine Arts students and see what teaching practices they’ll share. See you on 3/21/24! Please join us or sign up to be a presenter. Link for both on our bio.

📢📢Attention all UTFA students: we are excited for our next event on 03/21/24, but we need you to make it a success. We are looking for presenters to showcase their most engaging teaching practices. Have an IDEA? Pitch it to us by clicking the link in our bio or scanning the QR code on this post.

BIPOC PoP 2024 will bring together creatives, scholars, and industry leaders working in the comics, gaming, animation, and multimedia arts for 3 days to focus on strengthening community through the sharing of cutting edge creative critical knowledge making in the graphic storytelling arts.
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Associate Dean of UTeach Fine Arts will be presenting during Panel III: Performing Pop Cultura: Theories and Practice, Friday, March 8th 1PM-1:45PM.

Event Location: UT Austin | Patton Hall
Glickman Conference Center
305 E 23rd St
Austin, TX 78712

From Feb 27-29, the Planet Texas 2050 Symposium: Resilience Research in Action will convene University faculty, researchers, students and community stakeholders dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research on climate resilience, adaptation and environmental justice 🌎

Multiple faculty members in the College of Fine Arts who received grant funding from PT2050 will represent the college in the symposium through workshops and talks:

- Artistic Response: Ecocentric Futures by Design Assistant Professor Jiabao Li

- Climate of Failure, Embodied Hope with Dance Associate Professor Leah Cox & Adam Rabinowitz (Department of Classics)

- Butoh Ecologies Movement Workshop with Performance as Public Practice Associate Professor Rosemary Candelario

- Workshop Session: Towards a Sustainable Production Process led by Kate Freer

- Lightning Talk Cluster: Community-Based Research and Scholar Activism featuring Theatre Education Associate Professor Roxanne Schroeder-Arce's Mother Earth, Youth Activism, and Applied Arts

- Talk Cluster on Data and Visualization Storytelling featuring Design Assistant Professor Cathyrn Ploehn's Visualizing Resilience at Festival Beach Food Forest

- Theatre Assistant Professor Lara Dossett's Participatory Action Research for Climate Change Resilience: Co-creating and researching arts-integrated climate change curriculum in K-12 education

Read more and register at the link below 👇
https://finearts.utexas.edu/news/college-fine-arts-faculty-members-featured-2024-planet-texas-2050-symposium-explore-climate

We can’t say a big enough “THANK YOU” to our New Arts Education Teacher Panel guests and panelists. This event created a space for both current educators and future educators to come together and learn. Our audience was engaged and received great advice from our panel. Hope to see you at our next event! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Program Coordinator position in UTeach Fine Arts is now posted here:

UTeach Program Coordinator Job Posting Title: UTeach Program Coordinator ---- Hiring Department: College of Fine Arts ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt ---- Earliest Start Date: Immediately ---- Position Duration: Expected to Continue ---- Location: UT MAIN CAMPUS -...

We ❤️LOVED❤️ (see what we did there) that this past Saturday UTeach Fine Arts students were able to participate in UFASAC’s clothing drive. Thank you to everyone who donated items, and all our UFASAC members past and present that pitched in or came by to the event. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Art Ed faculty, students, and alumni present their research at conferences across the U.S. 🤘

At the heart of what art educators do is to create new ideas and implement visions with each other. Many in the art education department present at conferences around the country to share and further their research in group settings with other educators.

🔗 Read more at the link below:

https://art.utexas.edu/news/art-ed-faculty-students-alumni-present-their-research-conferences-across-us

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UTeach Fine Arts 2023 Fall Kick-Off......with TACOS! 😍

❤️❤️❤️ See y'all next semester! ❤️❤️❤️