The American sculptor Sarah Oppenheimer, best-known for her works that disorient the viewer’s
perceptions between architecture and space, will unveil a $1.7m commission for the
Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) later this year. The sprawling but little-known outdoor art campus includes works by artists like Mark di Suvero, Louise Bourgeois and Sol LeWitt across a 433-acre campus.
The work, titled
C-010106, will be installed on the footbridge between the Gary Thomas Energy Building and the Engineering Education and Research Center, two new buildings of the Cockrell School of Engineering designed by the New York-based firm Ennead Architects with Jacobs. “Sarah’s work, and the process that she undertakes to make her work, seemed to have so much resonance with the space, and so beautifully complement engineering activities and processes,” says Andrée Bober, the
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Mia Stanley, UT21 Senior
Art history senior Mia Stanley on finding community with the Longhorn Band and deciphering ancient language mysteries during the pandemic. By: Diana Lee
Mia Stanley’s favorite UT memories are small moments: sitting on campus while birds chirp in the background; admiring the grass and trees, a welcome change of scenery from the desert of Odessa, her hometown in West Texas; and meeting people she wouldn’t have met otherwise.
Stanley says of her best friend, whom she met through Longhorn Band: “She’s from North Carolina. … I think of the weird off chance that she chose to play the saxophone in the sixth grade and the weird off chance that I chose to play the trombone in seventh grade and the circuitous routes that it took for us to meet.”
In 1901, Anthony Lucas struck black gold on Spindletop Hill in Beaumont. The massive gusher, which produced 100,000 barrels of oil that day, instantly made Texas the epicenter of American energy. Since then, oil’s allure has drawn hundreds of thousands of workers to the state, transforming Houston and West Texas’ Permian Basin into global energy hubs in the process.
Naturally, Austin, with its progressive support of green initiatives, is the last Texas town you’d associate with fossil fuels. Whether it’s new resident Elon Musk’s potential to transform the state with a giant battery connected to our energy grid or the city’s rapid transition from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles (EVs), Austin appears increasingly untethered from the state’s oil-rich days of yesteryear.
Lindauer Retained by the United States Marshals Museum
April 15, 2021 – Boston-based Lindauer has been called in by the United States Marshals Museum in Fort Smith, AR, to lead its search for a foundation president and chief development officer. The assignment is being spearheaded by Libby Roberts, senior vice president, and senior consultant Megan Abbett.
“The successful candidate will be a seasoned professional who thrives when faced with the opportunity to bring an organization to its full potential,” said Ms. Roberts. “They will have demonstrated success in working with individuals, corporations, and foundations on a national level and be strategic in creating opportunities for donors to support this nationally scoped museum located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The U.S. Marshals Museum is in the midst of a $48 million campaign and the foundation president and chief development officer will partner with the dynamic president and CEO of the museum and highly engaged board t
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Data Shows How Pandemic Changed Day-to-Day Life
AUSTIN, Texas – For an entire year now, the pandemic has upended life. Using publicly available data, researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have quantified the many ways day-to-day activity has changed since the pandemic began.
The researchers pulled data from 11 sources to create a new online dashboard that documents major changes in Austin. The dataset includes traffic patterns at hundreds of intersections throughout the city, COVID-19 case counts by ZIP code, water usage, real estate activity, retail spending, job postings, calls for city services and more.