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Upcoming Events for the CVAD Community
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Events, Activities
CVAD Galleries: Exhibitions
May 2025
Through May 2: Materials Hard + Soft Exhibition, jurored by Christine Miller, alum, and Alicia Eggert, associate professor, Studio
Art: Sculpture
Through May 6: "Bittersweet" Studio Art Drawing & Painting Exhibition, Art Building, Fourth Floor
Through May 8: "Inhale the Interruption 动弹" by Ranran Fan, assistant professor, Studio Art: New Media Art; Women & Their Work
Exhibition, 1311 E. Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX
May 1: UNT Day of Giving: Go CVAD!
May 2: Reading Day, no classes
May 2, 5–7 p.m.: Fashion Design Exhibition and Awards, Art Building, Room 101, the Cora Stafford Gallery, and Room C107, the
Paul Voertman Gallery
May 3, 2–5 p.m.: "Designers in Bloom" Interior Design Senior Exhibition, Paul Voertman Gallery, RSVP
May 7–July 25: "In the Making: Past, Present, Possibility" Communication Design Program Senior Exhibition, Paul Voertman Gallery, Art Building
May 8, 4 p.m.: Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony, UNT Coliseum
May 9: Last day of spring classes
May 9, 5 p.m.: UNT Graduation Block Party, University Union South Lawn
May 10, 10 a.m.: "In the Making: Past, Present, Possibility" graduation celebration & exhibition reception,
Communication Design Program Senior Exhibition, Paul Voertman Gallery, Art Building, RSVP
May 10, 4 p.m.: Master's & Undergraduate College Commencement Ceremonies, UNT Coliseum
May 12–16: Denton ISD District Art Exhibition, Cora Stafford Gallery
May 12, 5–7 p.m.: Denton ISD District Art Show Reception, remarks at 5:30 p.m.
May 12: Summer sessions begin
May 26: Memorial Day, campus closed
May 30: Deadline for submissions to University Research Day
May 30, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.: Education as Experimentation 4 Symposium, UNT EESAT Building, hosted by the Onstead
Institute
June 2025
Through July 25: "In the Making: Past, Present, Possibility" Communication Design Program Senior Exhibition, Paul Voertman Gallery, Art Building
June 2–6: Creative U — Precollegiate Summer Experience Week 1
June 9–13: Creative U — Precollegiate Summer Experience Week 2
June 11, 11 a.m. doors open; remarks at Noon: President’s Staff Lunch, University Union, Emerald Ballroom, Room 314, bring your own lunch or employee ID
card for light lunch options
June 19: Emancipation Day, campus closed
July 2025
Through July 25: "In the Making: Past, Present, Possibility" Communication Design Program Senior Exhibition, Paul Voertman Gallery, Art Building
July 4: Independence Day, campus closed
July 25: Last summer session ends
August 2025
Aug. 13, 9 a.m.–Noon: CVAD First Flight
September 2025
Sept. 1: Labor Day, campus closed
October 2025
Oct. 2: University Research Day
November 2025
Nov. 27 - 28: Fall Holiday Break
December 2025
Dec. 24 - 26, 2025 & Dec. 29–Jan. 2: Winter Holiday Break
January 2026
Jan. 1 & 2: Winter Break, New Year's Holiday Break