The Graduate School
Cultural and Entertainment Facilities on the UT Campus
The Performing Arts Center is a diverse complex that includes the 3,000-seat Bass Concert Hall, the 700-seat Bates Recital Hall with its 5,200-pipe tracker organ, the 400-seat McCullough Theater, the 500-seat B. Iden Payne Theater in the Winship Drama Building, drama workshops and rehearsal spaces. The public performance spaces with their support facilities and equipment rank among the top five located on any American campus.
The Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Special Events Center, with a total seating capacity of about 18,000, provides a variety of entertainment programs ranging from rock concerts to circuses. More than 250 events are booked there annually, including men's and women's basketball games.
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, one of the nation's foremost university art museums, features an encyclopedic collection of 12,000 works of art. Among the highlights are European art from the 14th-18th centuries, including the Suida-Manning Collection; 19th-20th century American art, including the Mari and James Michener Collection; contemporary Latin American art; and prints and drawings from the 15th-20th centuries. Plans for a major new museum facility are underway.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, the first presidential library to be built on a university campus, includes the papers of the 36th President of the United States as well as gifts, memorabilia and historical objects illustrative of political life of twentieth century America.