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Dear Friends,
We’ve all heard the University’s tagline, “What starts here changes the world.” And I wanted to take a moment to highlight the global impact of our faculty’s research and creative work in this issue.
Our students are learning from scholars, artists, curators and performers whose work is reaching global audiences and advancing conversations in their respective disciplines around the world. Below are just a few examples that I’m proud to share from the College of Fine Arts.
- Design Associate Professor Kate Catterall recently returned from Belfast, Ireland after staging her project "Drawing the Ring of Steel" at Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics. The project, which drew international press in The Irish News and ITV, facilitated public recollection of the Troubles by recreating the “Ring of Steel,” a security cordon that once encircled Belfast City center, protecting, while rendering suspect, an entire population.
- Associate Professor of Theatre Katie Dawson continues to train educators all over the world in the use of drama-based pedagogy. Originally developed in Central Texas schools, she has brought her innovative approach to creative teaching to multi-year projects in Australia and Taiwan, and to extended research partnerships with the U.S. Embassy System in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland.
- Studio Art Professor Beili Liu is currently on research leave in Norway as the 2021–2022 Fulbright Arctic Chair, one of Fulbright’s Distinguished Scholars programs, to support her project Dreams of the High North: Between Survival and Belonging. Liu was also just named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her project Dreams of the High North: Between Survival and Belonging, Sculptural Exploration of Environmental Challenges Facing the Circumpolar North. She’s been sharing stunning images of her time in Norway on her Instagram account this year, and I’m eager to see the work that emerges from this project.
- Butler School of Music Professor Robin Moore recently received a faculty research seed grant from Texas Global to support a partnership with University of Guadalajara, Mexico to cultivate faculty teaching and research, offer students international cultural learning opportunities and strengthen the university's regional and global connections.
- The University of Texas at Austin was recently recognized as being a top producer of Fulbright Students. Twelve Longhorns received Fulbright awards this academic year, making the university No. 17 overall and No. 2 among public universities. Butler School of Music Associate Professor Sonia Seeman has served as UT Austin’s Fulbright Chair since 2018, helping shepherd the success of this dynamic global program for students.
And this list only scratches the surface of the many ways our faculty are engaging with and reaching worldwide audiences in their work. I’m so proud of the global impact of our faculty in the College of Fine Arts.
Sincerely,
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