{"id":355298,"date":"2026-06-30T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355298\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:28:08","slug":"get-out-of-your-artistic-bubble-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355298\/","title":{"rendered":"Get out of your artistic bubble \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art does not exist in a vacuum. It is a conversation among artists of different backgrounds and disciplines. It can be easy to silo oneself off from other art forms and only focus on one\u2019s own craft, but it is important to branch out and experience all different kinds of art.<\/p>\n

Going out and interacting with other art forms not only inspires and heightens one\u2019s own artistic endeavors but works toward building a larger artistic community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLook into other disciplines and see how people are inspired,\u201d said Alexis Cabrera, radio-television-film graduate student. \u201cThat\u2019s very important for filmmakers, for musicians, for painters, for dancers, for actors to be inspired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building a community is one of the most important parts of life at university. Studying, class and tests are just a small part of what makes university so important. Every student on campus has their own story and something to learn from.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200b\u200bWe have to go to other art forms for \u2026 things because at the end of the day, we exist because of one another,\u201d said Mayra Estrada, radio-television-film senior.<\/p>\n

Every semester, UT is home to dozens of artistic showcases, from literature to sculpture to film. Making time to go to a musical performance or dance recital is not always easy as a busy student, but the benefits of trying something new and supporting the arts are incalculable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the movies that a lot of film students praise, they\u2019re not inspired just by films,\u201d Estrada said. \u201cThey\u2019re inspired by a lot of different paintings, pieces of music.\u201d<\/p>\n

When artists stay within their own bubble away from other disciplines, their projects can become stale, having only been inspired by other artists in their own department. Looking at other art forms allows artists to expand their ideas of what they can achieve through their work.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes when people direct films, especially at a student level, I feel like they don\u2019t look at composition as much,\u201d Estrada said. \u201cPaintings really help me examine composition a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every UT degree plan has electives built into it. Students should make use of these electives to try new things that their school or degree can not offer them specifically. A film major could learn blocking from a theater class, while a music major could learn story structure and drama from a literature class.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTry to pause and look around you,\u201d Cabrera said. \u201cMaybe something magical will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

No matter how confident and educated you are, art can always surprise you. Artists across campus, Austin and the world are innovating and creating new things. All you need to do is seek it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hay is a radio-television-film senior from Bryan, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art does not exist in a vacuum. It is a conversation among artists of different backgrounds and disciplines.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-355298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}