UTSA’s most academically diverse college, the College of Liberal and Fine Arts contributes to the education of virtually every student at UTSA. In addition to exemplary teaching, the college produces quality research and creative works in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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College of Liberal and Fine Arts Events
View All EventsJan - Mar
23 - 28
2026
Thorns & Living Systems: Jayne Lawrence, Leigh Anne Lester, cactusBRA/cactusBARNThis exhibition brings together works from the individual creative careers of Jayne Lawrence and Leigh Anne Lester and a variety of materials that reference their collaborative endeavors in cactusBRA and cactusBARN, the influential galleries they founded in San Antonio
Jan - Feb
28 - 28
2026
Fronterizx: Art by M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz with Jenelle EsparzaFronterizx: Art by M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz with Jenelle Esparza focuses on twenty-first century shared and socially-engaged art practices.
December 15, 2025
Endia Hayes, Ph.D. Publishes Article in Sage JournalsDr. Endia Hayes, Assistant Professor at UTSA publishes article, "Sensing the Black femme: Spit's obsessions and pleasures in Aunt Dicy Tales," in Sage Journals.
December 12, 2025
Dr. Catherine Clinton interviewed by The Guardian about the one-act play Oh, Mary!Dr. Catherine Clinton, UTSA Professor of History and author of Mrs. Lincoln: A Life, gives her take on the one-act play Oh, Mary! for The Guardian.
November 13, 2025
Ali Atabey Publishes Article in The Journal of Religious Minorities Under Muslim Rule“European Men, Ottoman Women, and Legal Agency in Early Modern Istanbul”
November 3, 2025
A Story Reclaimed, Marfa's Blackwell SchoolA Story Reclaimed How Marfa’s Blackwell School became a National Historic Site with the help of UT San Antonio faculty, students and alumni By Nick Ward, Cristobal Lopez and Kirsten Gardner
