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Preview of UT’s new Visual Arts Center
When it opened in 1963, the modernist Fine Arts Building boasted a gallery with a soaring ceiling. The space became the University Art Museum, later re-named the Huntington Art Gallery and then finally, in 1998, it was renamed the Blanton Museum of Art.
Today, the entity now known as the Blanton opened its major two-building complex in 2006. And now, the space in the Fine Arts Building undergoing a $5 million transformation and will be turnedmed into the new Visual Arts Center, a facility for exhibitions — with galleries inside and an outside courtyard gallery — along with graduate art studios and offices.
The VAC is scheduled for completion in 2010.
Read more about the plans here.
This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. you can tour the Visual Arts Center.
Tours will begin every half hour and meet at the he College of Fine Arts University Co-Op Student Center on the ground floor of the Doty Fine Arts Building. See a map here.
Designed by noted San Antonio architects Lake/Flato, the project will add an additional 22,000 square feet of space to UT’s Department of Art and Art History.
Places on the tour are limited. You must RSVP to 512-471-1655 or carolynp@mail.utexas.edu
And remember, it’s a construction zone: SAFETY REQUIREMENTS DO NOT ALLOW HIGH-HEELED SHOES OR OPEN-TOED SHOES ON TOURS.
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