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Landmarks’ blog, Latest, features timely updates on new installations, public programs, event announcements, volunteer and internship opportunities, and a range of other initiatives. Learning with Landmarks is a dedicated blog series highlighting the unique and innovative ways that students and other scholars use the collection. To view the entire series, click the button below.

Learning With Landmarks

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Now in its fifth season, Listening with Landmarks is a digital initiative featuring playlists curated by prominent Austin musicians and music personalities. Inspired by works from the Landmarks

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Landmarks welcomes award-winning blues musician and handpan performer Kelly Richey to the Skyspace on April 6-8. For this special music series, Cincinnati-based Richey will premiere a new handpan composition, commissioned by Landmarks, along with other improvisations.

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Sound in Sculpture returns April 17, with a dynamic performance of new music inspired by Eamon Ore-Giron's Tras los ojos (Behind the Eyes). Now in its ninth year, the program showcases original

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Landmarks' Paws for Public Art, an annual wellness event that pairs works of art and animals to offer mental health breaks, returns to campus this spring. Hosted March 6 from 11 AM – 2 PM, the program

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Landmarks welcomes Maddie Cannings as its spring 2024 education intern. Maddie is a third year Art History major pursuing a minor in Arts Management and Administration and a BDP Certificate in Museum Studies. She will assist Landmarks education team with a variety of projects this semester, all of which will help prepare her for a career in the arts.

Learning With Landmarks

A Conversation with Larry Speck

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Larry Speck has spent nearly fifty years problem-solving, teaching, and advancing the study of architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. A staple of UT’s School of Architecture, Speck teaches more than a thousand students each year, including 100 incoming freshmen in the undergraduate studies class Creative Problem Solving, and 900 students in Architecture and Society.

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Landmarks celebrates its 15th anniversary with a blog series that profiles the contributions of key individuals who have made our program a success. This entry in our “Looking Back” series features conservator Meaghan Perry, whose expertise, care, and experience helps keep the collection looking its best.

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In celebration of Landmarks’ 15th anniversary, we developed a blog series profiling several people that have made our program a success. This entry in our “Looking Back” series features photographer Paul Bardagjy, whose images have helped define how people view, interpret, and access our collection. A celebrated photographer of both art and architecture, Bardagjy began his work with Landmarks in 2008. He documented the foundation of our collection–28 sculptures on long-term loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bardagjy began by immersing himself in the collection and considering the various ways he could interpret it through the lens of his camera.

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Landmarks welcomes two new interns, Itza Cantera and Camryn Smith, who joined our Communications and Education departments respectively. They are gaining real-world experience at Landmarks, amassing skills that will help prepare them for life after college and a career in the arts. Learn more about Itza and Camryn below.

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This fall marks the fourteenth season of Landmarks Video, a curated program of highly regarded and influential video art from the past six decades. Running September 2023 - August 2024, the new season showcases ten video works by national and international artists.