TODAY · 6:30pm
Black Horror Film Series: Double Feature
George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Past event
Adraint Bereal: As It Appears
Thursday, October 29, 2026 at Visual Arts Center, Austin
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About this event
Explore Adraint Bereal: As It Appears, an exhibition at UT Austin featuring more than 30 photographs, essays, and recorded conversations with Black college students, alongside historical photographs, documents, and video from UT and Austin archives. Building on Bereal’s project The Black Yearbook, the exhibition connects personal stories of campus life with broader histories of representation and inclusion at American universities. Visitors can expect a mix of contemporary portraits and archival materials that offer a closer look at Black collegiate experiences across generations. The exhibition is on view from October through March. As It Appears is a homecoming exhibition for the UT Austin alumnus, marking Adraint Bereal’s first institutional solo exhibition and featuring the largest presentation of works from The Black Yearbook series to date. Presented within the context of a university art center, the works demonstrate how the complexities of subjectivity and collective experience complicate institutional hierarchies and histories.
Who's playing
Adraint Bereal is an artist from Waco, now based in New York, who graduated from UT's School of Design and Creative Technologies. He began The Black Yearbook in 2019 as a student, photographing and interviewing Black peers on campus. The project grew to colleges nationwide and became a 2024 book from Penguin Random House. This is his first institutional solo exhibition, curated by VAC Director Max Fields.
What to expect
Portraits of current and recent students share the galleries with historical photographs, documents and video from UT and Austin archives. That material reaches back to the pre-segregation and civil rights eras and to recent social movements. The show favors personal narratives over a single linear history, so the essays and recorded conversations carry as much weight as the images. It runs through the winter and into early spring.
Why go
This is the largest presentation of The Black Yearbook so far, and it is shown on the campus where the project began. The Visual Arts Center is a 13,000-square-foot gallery in the Art Building, known for its concrete barrel-vaulted ceilings, and it is always free to enter. It suits a slow afternoon of looking and reading.
Where
Visual Arts Center · 2300 Trinity St. · Central, Austin TXDirections
