The city’s newest visual arts space gives UT students a place to show their stuff, thanks to the University Co-op. The venerable department store on the Drag, which recently reclaimed its old digs at 2246 Guadalupe, is sponsoring Gallery 3, a new student-run exhibition space, on the third floor by its new art department. Developed in association with UT-Austin’s Department of Art & Art History, Gallery 3 will exhibit work by students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the department, as well as juried exhibitions and shows organized by gallery curator Amanda Douberley. The art history graduate student put together the debut exhibition, “No Place Like Home,” in which studio art grad students Ali Fitzgerald, Erick Michaud, Jared Steffensen, and David Woody use paintings, photographs, sculptures, and videos inspired by the places they live and work to explore the nature of home, as physical place and as memory and illusion. “No Place Like Home” runs Sept. 8-Oct. 1 at Gallery 3 inside the University Co-op, 2246 Guadalupe. An opening reception will be held Sept. 8, 5-7pm. For more information, visit www.gallery3atthecoop.com.
This article appears in September 9 • 2005.