Through your response to this essay, UT Austin admissions officers seek to understand how your interaction with your preferred form of art has affected your way of thinking.

Personal interaction with objects, images and spaces can be so powerful as to change the way one thinks about particular issues or topics. For your intended area of study (architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual art studies/art education), describe an experience where instruction in that area or your personal interaction with an object, image or space effected this type of change in your thinking. What did you do to act upon your new thinking, and what have you done to prepare yourself for further study in this area?Your decision to pursue a degree within architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual art/studies, or art education cannot be solely substantiated by work you have done in the field in the past. Through your response to this essay, UT Austin admissions officers seek to understand how your interaction with your preferred form of art has affected your way of thinking.The admissions reader will want to see self-reflection regarding your work in your field. Mentioning a passion for the art form will not add as much value to your essay as explaining how you translated your passion into a thought process that has driven your subsequent creations. You should prove in this essay that you have already begun growing as an artist of sorts, and how you think your artistic ability could evolve should you be admitted into the program at UT Austin.