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Opening Night Dinner at the UT Visual Arts Center
University of Texas officials beamed. Arts leaders cooed. Students poked their heads into the slightly formal dinner that opened the UT Visual Arts Center, waiting for the 9 p.m. late party that would let in a broader population.
Texas Performing Arts director Kathy Panoff, Professor of Music Education Hunter March and Graduate School Dean Victoria Rodriguez
Anyone with an eye could tell that, underneath decades of accretions, the former UT museum could open up into a viable artistic space again. (The Blanton Museum of Art migrated to a more public location at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and North Congress Avenue.) The barrel vaults alone were worth revealing at the renovated Visual Arts Center that now unites the L-shaped university arts district.
DJ Green and Emily Blanchard
Some of the conversation wandered to comparisons between the more traditional-looking Blanton and the more clean-lined VA Center. The general consensus: The two art nodes play complementary roles. The Art and Art History department’s new Center takes the part of studio and potentially playful test site.
Stratus developer CEO Beau Armstrong, Val Armstrong and Andrea Keene
From the evidence of this opening, it appears the Center will indeed become a center for student and faculty creativity on campus.
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