For two nights, the 2018 Studio MFA Colloquia will feature in-depth discussions between pairs of graduate students in Studio Art and Art History. Art History graduate students will introduce the graduating artists and engage them in critical conversations about the work presented in their thesis exhibition Affordable Dream House.

Affordable Dream House features ten artists from The University of Texas at Austin’s 2018 Studio Art MFA graduating class. Moving across disciplines, the exhibition includes work from each artist developed from two years of studio practice and research. The title of the exhibition, chosen to illustrate the tongue-in-cheek desire to carve out an individualized sense of self within a peer group, also reflects a feeling of community built not just from proximity to one’s neighbors, but through intersecting interests and collaborations.