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Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts

The Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts (AVPA) at Texas A&M University advances the arts on campus and in the Brazos Valley, providing opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to experience, study and make art.

Since 2003, we have been supporting the curiosity, passion and endeavors for the arts on the Texas A&M University campus and in the Bryan-College Station area. We host nationally and internationally renowned experimental artists, support innovative experiments by our faculty and students, but also engage our community in current dialogues about the arts. We hope you join us to make an impact on the arts, our community and society.

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AVPA In Transition

Dear Friends,

It is an exciting time of transition here at the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts: we are moving from the Office of Community Engagement to a new administrative home in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts. Despite the move, the mission and vision of the AVPA will not change. We remain committed to enhancing the arts across the Brazos Valley and making them accessible to all members of our campus and wider community.

With this transition, we will also be facing significant new fundraising challenges. With these challenges in mind, we have made the difficult decision to put our grant making programs on hiatus for the foreseeable future. We hope we will be able to begin these programs again soon.

We have an exciting season of presenting this year, including a new work by neurodivergent performance artist Daniel Oliver, Performance Dork, in September; the initial presentation of work made in our Forklift Danceworks residency in December; and the return of DNAWORKS' original adaptation of the queer novella, The Secret Sharer, in January. I hope you will join me at each of these programs and encourage your friends to attend as well.

As always, tickets to all our programs are available on a pay-what-you-will basis, and now more than ever I encourage you to consider what the value of our programming truly is to you, and whether you would be willing to make a sustaining contribution to ensure the work of the AVPA continues without interruption.

I look forward to seeing you at our events for many years to come.

Sincerely,

Jim Ball
Director, Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts | academyarts.tamu.edu
jimball@tamu.edu 

Pay-What-You-Will Tickets With Pay-What-You-Will ticketing, you decide what you pay for your ticket.

To continue bringing world-class artists to campus, we would have to charge around $174 per ticket – but we know that price is well beyond what many can afford. Therefore, free tickets will be available for every performance and suggested price for students is just $5. For all others, we leave it to you to decide what level of support you are willing and able to provide. If you can support our presenting financially, we are deeply grateful; if you cannot, we are still excited to see you at our shows!

Grants

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Faculty Grants

The AVPA now offers three competitive grants for faculty. The purpose of these grants is to enhance the arts on campus and in our community by supporting curricular innovations, arts research, and the public presentation of original performances and works of art in the Brazos Valley.

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Student Grants

In order to support Texas A&M undergraduate and graduate students with their research and career goals, the AVPA offers Grants to support students’ arts-related scholarly and creative projects, including travel, exhibitions, performances, and publications.