UT Tyler Students Present Artwork in Spring 2026 Exhibitions

April 8, 2026 | Hannah Buchanan

Public receptions with artist talks set for April 16 and 23 on campus

Students at The University of Texas at Tyler are presenting their artwork in spring 2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibitions at the UT Tyler Fine Arts Complex Gallery.

“Animals?” is featured now through Friday, April 17. “What Once Was, and Will Be,” will begin Monday, April 20, and conclude Friday, May 1. Each exhibition’s public reception is 6 – 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, and Thursday, April 23, respectively, at the gallery.

UT Tyler students featured in the first BFA exhibition, listed by hometown, are:

JACKSONVILLE – Rebecca Longacre, sculptor.

TYLER – Anna Ashcraft, oil painter, and Arturo Alvarado, abstract painter.

UT Tyler students featured in the second BFA exhibition, listed by hometown, are:

HENDERSON – Brandelyn Cochran, printmaker.

JACKSONVILLE – Nicole Pierce, ceramic artist.

PITTSBURG – Guadalupe Villeda, oil painter.

CALIFORNIA – MaryJane Calderon, semi-realist charcoal artist and ceramicist.

Gallery hours at 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, contact UT Tyler gallery, community outreach and education coordinator Michelle Taff, mtaff@uttyler.edu or 903.566.7237.

With a mission to improve educational and health care outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 11,500 students. Through its alignment with UT Tyler Health Science Center and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.