According to Americans for the Arts (https://www.americansforthearts.org/events/national-arts-and-humanities-month), "October is National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM)—a collective recognition of the importance of culture in America. NAHM was launched by Americans for the Arts more than 30 years ago as National Arts Week in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1993, it was reestablished by Americans for the Arts and national arts partners as a month-long celebration, with goals of: FOCUSING on equitable access to the arts at local, state, and national levels; ENCOURAGING individuals, organizations, and diverse communities to participate in the arts; ALLOWING governments and businesses to show their support of the arts; and RAISING public awareness about the positive impact of the arts and humanities in our communities and lives. The arts are a national asset and should be available everywhere to everyone—and while a majority of the public believes this based on public opinion polling and other research, it's often not their default way of thinking about the arts. National Arts & Humanities Month is an opportunity for everyone to help change public perception and promote the crucial role of the arts and humanities in promoting individual wellbeing, addressing trauma, connecting cultures, highlighting inequities, and making our communities healthier and stronger."

Presenters:Olivia Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate | Anthropology "Historic Shipwrecks as Part of a Maritime Cultural Landscape Survey of St. Croix, USVT" Alexandra LaGrand, Ph.D. Candidate | English "Britain in Breeches: Gender and British Identity in the Romantic Theatre" Abstracts:ThomasThe maritime cultural landscape is a multi-disciplinary theoretical framework that allows for a range of evidence to be compiled in order to interpret locations of interest. Shipwrecks is one of five components typically utilized in constructing and understanding a maritime cultural landscape. Historic newspapers and archival sources offer indications of when and where ships wrecked around the former Danish West Indian Island. Historic records and local geology were analyzed in the hopes of confirming the location, identity, and condition of potential historic shipwreck sites. This paper will present historic research into shipping and shipwrecks as well as the results of field surveys conducted in 2023 which focused on identifying historic shipwreck sites around St. Croix.LaGrand During the British Romantic period, young girls and women actresses would take on a substantial number of genderfluid theatrical roles. These roles were written in plays by William Shakespeare and others, and would feature actresses donning male breeches, or trousers, for the presentation of male gender identity onstage. Using archival materials, I argue that these actresses were both influential to the conception of British cultural identity onstage in the Romantic theatre throughout Britain's global empire. This paper will focus specifically on the Shakespearean boy prince character type—one of the several character types I discuss in my dissertation—and how actresses performed boy princes as manifestations of staged tomboyism.   Chair: Tanner Ogle | History  Please note that this is not a lecture, and thus, is not suited for class attendance. The Colloquium Series is intended to provide the presenter with a forum to discuss their research and receive feedback from colleagues and peers.

She made a name for herself as a professional artist at a time when the art world was marginalizing women. She was one of the few female faculty members at the Art Institute of Chicago prior to World War II, becoming an innovative teacher known for mentoring her students. During her over 30-year teaching career she influenced generations of art history students, embracing modernism, introducing them to African art, and instilling her constant drive to explore new things into her students. Join us for a Gallery Talk & Reception on Nov. 7, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Stark Galleries with guest speaker Victoria Hennessey Cummins, Ph.D.   This exhibition represents the eighth installation in the Texas Art Project (https://uart.tamu.edu/texasartproject/) series.

The concept of pattern in the arts provides artists with tools that can limit creativity or suggest new avenues for exploration. They can offer a maker innovative options to explore with their accustomed materials and techniques; at times present a designer a means of control; advance a range of new ornaments and motifs to work with; and impart a new understanding of the relation between functional and decorative form. This exhibition will look at the impact of pattern in the arts using the University Art Galleries collections. 

Austin-based artist Shawn Smith merges nature and technology in his two- and three-dimensional work featuring life-size animals, insects and abstract self-portraits, exploring "how humans use data as a lens for looking at the anthropocene, species loss and habitat destruction." On view at Wright Gallery, Langford A, Room 212, from Sept. 16-Oct. 24. Artist talk: Sept. 26, 4-5 p.m.; reception from 5-6 p.m.

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