A college student wears a traditional graduation gown and a maroon sash as she smiles for a portrait.

Bailey Zettler has been dancing since she was 3. In middle school, she choreographed her own dance routines. And she hasn’t looked back since.

Eight college dance students pose for a photo, each wearing a gray shirt and dark pants, and each with a thin black tape strip down their right arm.

Dance students and faculty are heading to Washington, D.C., to present work at the ACDA National College Dance Festival, which begins Friday at Georgetown University and George Washington University.

Award statues painted in gold feature a figure with a computer screen for a head, also wearing sunglasses.

Paintings, animated shorts, game design and research by Visualization students will be among the artistic works featured in the 32nd annual Viz-a-GoGo, starting Wednesday and continuing through Friday at the Rudder Theatre Complex.

Three college dance students wearing black perform in a black box theater, in front of a yellow background.

Dance Science students will present 14 new choreographic works during the sold-out Student Choreography Showcase on Friday and Saturday. Sixty students will perform at the Black Box Theater in the Physical Education Activity Program Building, presenting modern, contemporary, jazz, musical theatre, ballet and tap dances.

Three wearing robes perform with shakuhachi bamboo instruments on a stage.

The 2025 World Shakuhachi Festival was a success. For four days in April, hundreds of shakuhachi artists and aficionados traveled from around the world to Aggieland to celebrate the shakuhachi — a traditional end-blown bamboo flute — and its hundreds of years of impact on music and culture in Japan and beyond.

Two music professors facing each other perform marimba music.

Note: Because of rain on April 24, this event has been postponed to May 6 at 8:30 p.m. An evening of music and visuals influenced by the impact of natural disasters will be performed by faculty in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Liberal Arts and Arts and Humanities Building.

A music professor plays a shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute.

Dr. Martin Regan has felt a deep connection to Japanese culture since he was a young adult. His introduction came as a budding musician during his college years, leading to a lifelong pursuit of knowledge and experience. He lived in Japan for seven years and became an expert on Japanese instruments including the shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute which was imported from China to Japan in the eighth century.

A percussion performer sits on a couch with marimba mallets at his side.

Austin-based percussionist Ivan Trevino will join students and faculty members in the Music Performance program in a Percussion Ensemble Concert on April 14 at 7 p.m. The free concert in the Black Box Theater in the Liberal Arts and Arts and Humanities Building will feature a selection of works composed by Trevino, who is a professor of practice in percussion at the University of Texas at Austin.

An artwork collage, including a painting of a woman in cowboy attire, and a silhouette of a deer.

Faculty members in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts will showcase their creative works in a new exhibition. The Faculty Biennial opens Thursday and continues through May 18 at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries in the Memorial Student Center. A reception will be held Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m., where faculty members will be on hand and refreshments will be served. To register, visit the RSVP link.

A man stands by a podium, giving an presentation to a group of university faculty members.

Faculty in the Texas A&M College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts showcased a wide variety of research during the 2025 Research and Creative Works Day. The third-annual spring symposium was held Feb. 3 at the Stella Hotel in Bryan, and included three keynote speakers and several performances by faculty members.