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Remembering Igor Galanin

I recently learned that the artist Igor Galanin passed away this fall on Saturday, November 16. I was so sorry to hear of his passing and know that there are many who will miss him dearly. Although I was not part of the team that traveled to New York to collect or return the paintings...

December 16, 2024December 16, 2024
Trapped Inside the Glass

Trapped Inside the Glass

When I first began at the Stark, I heard tales told of binders assembled by Susan (former Director of Photography for Athletics) and Jim Sigmon (former Assistant AD for New Media) that contained the history of hard copy photos for the University of Texas Athletics programs before photography went digital with the evolution of DSLR...

November 25, 2024December 17, 2024
Cover of The Strong Man June 1931 V1 N1

The Strong Man

The Strong Man journal was a monthly publication for and of muscle culturists. We have made the first 6 issues of The Strong Man from June 1931 to November 1931 available to flip through or view in PDF format on The Strongman Project website. June 1931 Vol. 1 No. 1 – First Issue To view...

The Battle Casts

The Battle Casts

Beauty, Art, and Form are all Around Us I’m a sucker for history. Really, any kind of history. I’m the nut who takes forever at a museum reading every single description. I took an Art History class in college in my last semester as a blow off class before I graduated and spent the week...

September 20, 2024December 17, 2024
The SEC Celebration and New Exhibits

The SEC Celebration and New Exhibits

As many Longhorn sports fans are now very well aware, the University of Texas Athletics was officially welcomed into the Southeast Conference on Sunday, June 30th, beginning a new era of Longhorn sports history. To commemorate the occasion, the President’s office and Texas Athletics partnered up to host a campus-wide event that Sunday, opening all...

August 14, 2024August 16, 2024
A photograph of Dr. Mary Evelyn Buice Alderson as she stands in front of a class seated on a gymnasium floor. She is teaching or lecturing.

All About the Aldersons

The latest collection processed at the Stark Center is the Doctors Curtis Jackson (Shorty) and Mary Evelyn Buice Alderson Collection. The Aldersons were both faculty of what is now the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education (KHE) at the University of Texas (UT). Between the two of them they taught at the university from 1939...

July 29, 2024August 9, 2024