As the state capital and home to The University of Texas, Austin has a population of over 500,000 and over 1,000,000 in the metropolitan area. The Texas State Capitol, actually 14 feet taller than the nation's capitol, is the largest domed statehouse in the country.
Austin was recently ranked the most entrepreneurial city in the country and has a thriving economy with an innovative professional community of artists, physicians, technologists, and visionaries. Home to over twenty museums and dozens of art galleries, it is one of the only U.S. cities with professional ballet, symphony, opera, and theater companies.
Austin also has been called The Live Music Capital of the World, having more than 100 live venues on any given evening. With a temperate year-round climate and 300 days of sunshine a year, the city has nature trails, parks, wilderness preserves, spring-fed swimming pools, and lakes enjoyed by residents and visitors alike. Not to mention, Austin has plenty of great restaurants, with cuisines ranging from Interior Mexican and Tex-Mex to BBQ and Southwestern to Asian and Vegetarian.
For a comprehensive guide to Austin- including information on current events and attractions; hotel and visitor accommodations; and maps and directions- visit the Austin Convention and Bureau Web site.
Maya Meetings 2008 on Google Maps
For those of you who are Google Earth users, clicking on the place mark below will take you to the 2008 Maya Meeting on-campus location where there are placed a couple of overlays onto the top of the Art Building where we will be meeting (the VAC building footprint and the 2008 logo).
Zooming out of the picture slightly allows you to see symbols of a vertical knife and fork -- these stand for restaurants. If you click on them, you will see restaurant names, phone numbers and addresses and sometimes their WebPages. Most of those symbolized are off campus. Also, if you zoom out more you should see things that look like small beds. These are nearby hotels. .
If you have not downloaded Google Earth and would like to do so, navigate here: http://earth.google.com
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The University of Texas at Austin's main campus covers more than 350 acres. The 307-foot-tall University of Texas Tower is the university's most distinguished landmark. The university has the largest single-campus enrollment in the nation, including students from all 254 counties in Texas, all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. The faculty at The University of Texas at Austin is composed of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur fellows and hundreds of members of prestigious academic and scientific organizations.
The University of Texas at Austin's museums, libraries and research facilities offer some of the world's greatest collections of artifacts, art, manuscripts, photographs, musical recordings and historical documents. Museum offerings include Latin American, Renaissance and Baroque art, 40 million documents relating to the career of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 30 million literary manuscripts, five million photographs and five million natural sciences specimens.
For a comprehensive guide to The University of Texas at Austin - including information on its academic programs, landmarks and history - visit the official UT Austin Web site. For campus maps and directions, look here.
For a printable .pdf University of Texas Campus Map, click here.
Visiting The Department of Art and Art History
Founded in 1938, the Department of Art and Art History is comprised of four divisions; Studio Art, Art History, Art Education, and Design. With a distinguished faculty of 89 artists, designers, educators, and historians, and a diverse body of 758 undergraduate and graduate students, the Department continues to educate the next generation of creative leaders.
The Mesoamerica Center an integral part of the Department of Art and Art History. Its leadership brings us the annual Maya Meetings, and allows students to engage in the very highest level of research and scholarship.
For additional information on the Department of Art and Art History, please visit http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/.
For a self-guided tour and map of the Department of Art and Art History, click here.
last update 04 May, 2007
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Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Mesoamerica Center - The University of Texas at Austin