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UT Assistant Professor of Practice Yuliya Lanina Wins Fulbright Award

  • Aug 26, 2020

Yuliya Lanina, assistant professor of practice in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies, has won a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. The Russian-born artist will spend summer 2021 in Austria creating a hand-painted animated short film.

Her piece, entitled “The Mystery of Freedom,” is inspired by the legacy of Viennese-born artist and architect Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who preserved thousands of artworks by Jewish children during the Holocaust before she died at Auschwitz in 1944. 

Read the full article from Sightlines Magazine.

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