Activities

Make your very own 3D cardstock mask. Choose from an alien, cat, skull, or dragon. Print out the mask of your choice on heavy cardstock, cut it out, assemble, and decorate it! These 3D masks take some time and patience to create but are worth the effort! Each mask takes approximately 30 minutes or more to complete.

Enjoy the Landmarks collection using your smartphone, computer or tablet to access self-guided tours, audio guides, artist videos, Spotify playlists, and more. Open the app and share your experience.  During your visit, take a picture and tag Landmarks on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter (all @landmarksut) with the hashtag, #LandmarksUT .

Join us to learn how artist Nancy Rubins uses recycled materials to create large sculptures and discover how she collaborates with structural engineers to make sure the sculptures are very strong, even stronger than the buildings around them.  Learn how to make your own mini sculpture, including the structural engineering behind it, with activity guides for all ages.

The Moody College of Communication believes in diverse, talented people and their collective power to change the world through communication. Our community is what allows Moody College to stand out at The University of Texas, because our students, faculty and staff all share a spirit of solidarity that inspires creativity and collaboration. We believe studying the practice of human communication is vital because everything our society seeks to accomplish requires people working together. Please watch and learn more about what it means to “Keep Moody, Moody."

Moody College provides a platform of study that is significant and vast, and our expert teaching faculty stand out not only for their classroom leadership but their innovative approaches to discovery and scholarship in their respective fields. Our scholars are motivated to also bring their generated knowledge into the world to help provide real-world solutions and assistance. Please learn more through the Moody Mentors series, which provides evidence-based life hacks from our team of faculty experts.

Moody College of Communications' "study away" programs in Los Angeles and New York provide students unique opportunities to shape their future plans, progress toward their degrees and launch their careers. The semester-long UTLA program gives students the chance to live, work and learn in Los Angeles and discover what it really means to work in showbiz. Similarly, students in the UTNY program have the unique opportunity to study, work and play in the city where business, government, technology, entertainment and media converge.

Take a look into the classroom of one of UT's most well-known professors.  Matthew McConaughey joined the Moody College faculty full-time in Fall 2019 after serving as a visiting instructor since 2015, when he began co-teaching the Script to Screen production class with faculty member and director Scott Rice. 

Learn about the opportunities available to students in the Moody College. Our undergraduate students master the foundations and pursue innovations through seven major degree plans, including: advertising; communication and leadership; communication studies; journalism; public relations; speech, language, and hearing sciences; and radio-television-film.

In this video presentation, Art Education Majors at the University of Texas at Austin share inspirations, influences and future aspirations (why I want to teach art, what kind of art teacher I would like to be). Dr. Donalyn Heise, Art Education Faculty in the College of Fine Arts, and her students created this video as part of the statewide arts advocacy initiative known as "Big Art Day" in Texas. These undergraduate and graduate art education majors are future leaders in the field of art education, and will be prepared to share their love of art with K12 students in schools, art museums or community settings. https://youtu.be/8eVNC7vMH6w. https://art.utexas.edu/art-education

When the pandemic made it impossible to teach a hands-on robot building course in person, UT professors “went small” and collaborated with a teacher to create a remote Robot Club at Metz-Sanchez Elementary in Austin. Twenty amazing robots were created. Learn more about five of them and meet the robot makers. Discover how robots work, and a few lucky teachers will even get the chance to control one of the robots live via the internet. 

The Bass Concert Hall stage turns gallery as Texas Performing Arts presents Behind the Scenes: The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop. Visit mid-century Hollywood without leaving your home with guidance and insight from professor Karen Maness, Texas Performing Arts Scenic Art Supervisor.