CVAD's press restoration project is currently featured on Printeresting.org, a respected blog on contemporary printmaking. See  http://www.printeresting.org/  for the article  CVAD Associate Professor of Printmaking and Director of PRINT Lari Gibbons is cited for the work she and her students did in restoring and creating new artworks on the retired press.  Professor Gibbons sends a big thank you to the graduate students who were the driving force behind the restoration project: Laura Drapac, Linda Lucia Santana, Cat Snapp and Christopher Wallace.  For more information
On the printmaking program see http://untprintmakingblog.blogspot.com/ and for more informaiton on PRINT see http://untprintpress.blogspot.com/   or  http://www.art.unt.edu/print/

UNT Printmaker Christopher Wallace Wins Scholarship

Congratulations to UNT Printmaking MFA candidate Christopher Wallace, who won this year's Frogman's Graduate Student Scholarship. This highly competitive award is open to any Master of Fine Arts candidate studying printmaking at an American University. As the winner, Chris will have a solo show at the University of South Dakota's Gallery 110 and have his fees waived for one workshop.


Click here for a complete list of summer exhibitions, including Chris' Graduate Student Scholarship show; and here for more information about Frogman's Print & Paper workshop series. 

CVAD and Honors College undergraduate art history major Briana Camp was selected to receive one of UNT's inaugural Undergraduate Research Fellowships for the spring 2012 semester. As a Research Fellow, she will receive a stipend of $2,500 from the UNT Office of Research and Economic Development and work collaboratively with her art history faculty mentor, Jennifer Way. Their project, "Methodological horizons of emotional geography: the case for art history," examines contributions that emotional geography makes to art history's methodological turn.

The last of the Lunchtime Lectures for the Collections, Cultures, Collaborations exhibition begin at noon on February 8th in the gallery and will be:

Courtnee Kendrick: Cindy Sherman: Quirky or Just Plain Weird?

Cheryl Palyu: The Birth Project: Deconstructed

The next lectures for the Lunchtime Lectures for the Collections, Cultures, Collaborations exhibition begin at noon on February 1st in the gallery and will be:

Madeleine Fitzgerald: Willem de kooning: A Deviation from the Norm

Laura Lee Brott: F.U.N. with Display

Thursday, April 12th --Keynote Address, Meadows Museum, 4:00 (Reception to follow)

                Professor Jean Givens, University of Connecticut

                "Medieval Art and the Wonders of Nature: The Strange Case of the King's Elephant"

Friday, April 13th--Full day of Student presentations, 9AM until 4PM (meet and greet lunch)

                UNT campus, Art Building 223  

This week's Lunchtime Lectures for the Collections, Cultures, Collaborations exhibition begin at noon in the gallery and will be:

Paige Prater: On Comics & Copying: How Fritzi Ritz and Vernon Fisher Confront Art and Meaning

Ann Howington: Filling in the Blanks with Post-Communist Art

Art History Alumnus David Thomas ('10) has received the prestigious Museum Studies Fellowship from the University of Arizona. The fellowship is awarded to the strongest new graduate student in UA's art history master's degree program. The funding includes a tuition grant and stipend.

Dr. Paul Niell, Assistant Professor of Art History will be on the program at DMA on Firday, January 20th in conjunction with the celebration of Jean Paul Gaultier as part of the Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art program. He will be guiding people through the Spanish Colonial collection for a look at the Madonnas.

 CVAD Drawing and Painting alumus and adjunct faculty member Sarah Williams is featured in a solo exhibition at the Marty Walker Gallery, 2135 Farrington St. in Dallas through February 11, which represents her work.  Williams' exhibition "Nightfall" is rated "Go See It" by Ben Lima for Front Row, the D Magazine online review of the arts. 

CVAD Professor Vincent Falsettas' paintings were  featured in December in two simultaneous shows at Conduit Gallery and 500X in Dallas.  At the same time, the meticulous notes that Falsetta uses in constructing his works were shown at The Reading Room in Dallas.  The show is reviewed online by Glasstire and Frontrow.

Doctoral candidate Laura Lee McCartney's research brief and accompanying images outlining her dissertation research was 1 of 8 chosen to illustrate chapters within the new book, Arts-Based Research Primer, authored by James Haywood Rolling, to be published by Peter Lang. This new introductory research text on arts-based research will be detailing dissertations and other graduate level research either successfully proposed, in progress, or recently defended. Her brief will be highlighted within a chapter of the textbook as an exemplar of arts-based research methodology.

Jeremy Lupe had his paper accepted for "Art and Struggle," a graduate symposium presented by the MA Program in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. This year's symposium explores how the term "struggle" contains both liberating and oppressive connotations. The resulting tension has long been considered an inherent aspect of art production. Struggle manifests in various forms, whether political, cultural, economic, or personal. While the "struggling artist" has been a problematic art historical trope, the symposium seeks to revisit the issue of struggle in an unromanticized, contemporary vein within the visual arts.

Cheryl Palyu had her paper accepted for "Art and Struggle," a graduate symposium presented by the MA Program in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. This year's symposium explores how the term "struggle" contains both liberating and oppressive connotations. The resulting tension has long been considered an inherent aspect of art production. Struggle manifests in various forms, whether political, cultural, economic, or personal. While the "struggling artist" has been a problematic art historical trope, the symposium seeks to revisit the issue of struggle in an unromanticized, contemporary vein within the visual arts.

Congratulations go out to Art Education MA student Jessica Nelson. She has just accepted a position at the Dallas Museum of Art as the Center for Creative Connections Gallery Coordinator. In the position she will support and promote exhibition-related projects and programs in the C3 gallery and works with museum visitors of all ages. Programs in C3 focus on the C3 core values of innovation, experimentation, creativity, collaboration and visitor focus. The center bridges our everyday experiences of looking with the transformational experiences of seeing, creating, and connecting deeply with works of art.

 Brookhaven College  School of the Arts      Art Department      

Forum Gallery Robert Milnes + Jerry Austin     

Studio Gallery Jenny Vogel    

Exhibition:    January 10, 2012 - February 3, 2012                 
Reception:    Friday, January 27     6 - 8 pm   
          

The exhibitions are free and open to the public. Brookhaven College is located at 3939 Valley View Lane, between Midway Road and Marsh Lane in Farmers Branch. The Forum Gallery is located in Building F, Room F101, and the Studio Gallery is located in Building D, Room D127. Both galleries are open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about the exhibitions, contact David Newman, gallery director, at 972-860-4101 or at dNewman@dcccd.edu.

You are invited to the Nick Cave Saturday Work Day.

Saturday, January 14 at 10:00am

Location:  UNT Art Building, Room 231

Click here for the Facebook invitation.

Free and open to the public.

Please join us for a public reception honoring the lenders and artists who helped make possible Laying the Foundation:  Unt Art Faculty 1890-1970.  This exhibition is sponsored by UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, the College of Visual Arts And Design, And the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

Click here for the review Betsy Lewis wrote for Glasstire “The Index Cards: Vincent Falsetta at the Reading Room”.

The Cris Worley Dallas Exhibition includes current MFA student Trey Egan and graduates Howard Sherman and Paul Booker.

DALLAS EXHIBITION

Cris Worley Fine Arts presents STUDIO VISIT 1-1. Show opens Saturday,
January 7, 2012 and ends January 11th.

Press release: Click Here

Cris Worley Website: Click Here

 Congratulations go out to Art Education Ph.D. candidate Cindy Hasio. Her article, "Influencing the Mass: Critiquing Advertisements in the College Curriculum" has just been published by The International Journal of Arts Education in a special issue investigating digital and internet-based media and arts education. See The International Journal of Arts Education 9, no. 2 (December 2011).

Click here to read Betsy Lewis' review of Vincent Falsetta's "The Index Cards".

MA art history graduate student Jeremy Lupe's paper, "Chagoya in Loveland: Art, Outrage, and the Struggle over American Identity," has been accepted for presentation in the American Studies area of the 33rd annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jeremy's paper studies the destruction of  Enrique Chagoya's print, The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals (2003), at the Loveland Museum/Gallery in Loveland, Colorado in regard to antagonisms between art, civic identity and religion.

Congratulations go out to Art History MA student Bita Zamorano. Her paper, The "Execution of Reform: Imprinting Propriety in the Colonial Subject's Mind" has been accepted by the Student Conference on Latin America, organized by the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association (ILASSA) at The University of Texas at Austin, an interdisciplinary forum for students involved in Latin American research topics. The conference provides students with the opportunity to present research activities, develop presentational skills, exchange ideas and information, and meet other scholars from around the world. The conference, now in its thirty-second year, is the oldest and largest student conference in the field of Latin American Studies. Bita will be presenting in the first week of February. Nicely done!

"When a ‘feminist' artist is not a feminist: challenging Cindy Sherman's constructed position in discourse," Courtnee Sower's paper for the graduate art history methods seminar, was accepted for the 16th annual New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference in Toronto at York University, Canada's third-largest university and its leading interdisciplinary research and teaching institution. Courtnee developed her research on Cindy Sherman's photograph, Untitled, 1982, as part of the seminar's partnership with the UNT Art Galleries in Collections, Cultures and Collaborations, an exhibition series that fosters student research to advance art history knowledge about university and regional collections.

Morehshin Allahyari's Your Night/My Day Project, as proposed for an assignment in the graduate art history art and technology since 1900 seminar, was accepted for a scholarly presentation in Come Together: Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond at Queen's University, Ontario. The conference seeks to explore the relationship between digital technology and academic, activist and artistic collaborations. Your Night/My Day, which began in the fall of 2010, is a collaborative project curated by Morehshin and Eden Ünlüata to excavate the process of cultural exchange- or lack thereof - between Iran and the United States. The project employs digital media to create an intercultural dialogue and exhibition. Works it generates highlight the dysfunctional nature of cultural exchange between the two cultures. In addition, Morehshin's panel, "Self-Exile, Self-Censorship" was accepted for a scholarly presentation in Drawing the Line(s): Censorship & Cultural Practices, the 47th Annual Comparative Literature Conference at California State University Long Beach. This interdisciplinary gathering of scholars, artists, and practitioners from all walks of the arts and the academy, aims to consider censorship in a broad scale across time periods, disciplines and languages.

"The Adaptation of Myths with the Changing Times," Sandra Hernandez's proposed paper from the graduate art history art and technology since 1900 seminar, was accepted for presentation by the annual national conference of the 2012 Popular Cultural Association and American Culture Association in Boston.

"The Semiotics of a Smile: Signs of Failure Along Dallas Hike & Bike Trails," Jeff Joiner's proposal for a paper from an assignment in the graduate art history art and technology since 1900 seminar, was accepted for publication as a chapter in the forthcoming book, Signs and Symbols in Workplace and Public, Annie W.Y. Ng and Alan H.S. Chan, Eds (Nova Science Publishers in 2013). Jeff's research originated and developed under the guidance of Michael Gibson in the Design Research Methods course that is part of CVAD's Design: Innovation Studies MFA program. 

Dear colleagues,
I'm so proud to be able to let you know about some of the recent
international and national professional successes facilitated through
CVAD's Art History classrooms. While this is in no way an exhaustive
list, I wanted to forward along these wonderful instances of good news:

From an international "competition [that] was especially fierce this
year," CVAD and Honors College undergraduate art history major Briana
Camp's paper, "Expressively Mapping the Molly: Emotional Geography and
Visual Representation in the Print Culture of Eighteenth-Century London,"
was selected for presentation at the Social History Society's Annual
Conference 2012, to be held at the University of Brighton, UK. The Social
History Society was founded in 1976 to encourage the study of the history
of society and cultures by teaching, research, publication and other
appropriate means. Since then it has organised a conference annually and
acted to represent the interests of social and cultural history and of
social and cultural historians both within higher education and in the
wider community. The society is based in the UK but is concerned with
social history internationally and it all its broadest forms. During
spring 2011 Briana developed her research in Denise Baxter's Senior Art
History Seminar . This academic year she is advancing her research as an
Honors College Undergraduate Thesis guided by Dr Baxter and Jennifer Way.
Briana was awarded funds from the UNT Student Government Association's
B. Craig Raupe Travel Grants to partially offset travel costs associated
with attending the conference.

"When a 'feminist' artist is not a feminist: challenging Cindy Sherman's
constructed position in discourse," Courtnee Sower's paper for the
graduate art history methods seminar, was accepted for the 16th annual
New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference in Toronto at York
University, Canada's third-largest university and its leading
interdisciplinary research and teaching institution. Courtnee developed
her research on Cindy Sherman's photograph, Untitled, 1982, as part of
the seminar's partnership with the UNT Art Galleries in Collections,
Cultures and Collaborations, an exhibition series that fosters student
research to advance art history knowledge about university and regional
collections.

Morehshin Allahyari's Your Night/My Day Project, as proposed for an
assignment in the graduate art history art and technology since 1900
seminar, was accepted for a scholarly presentation in Come Together:
Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond at Queen's University,
Ontario. The conference seeks to explore the relationship between digital
technology and academic, activist and artistic collaborations. Your
Night/My Day, which began in the fall of 2010, is a collaborative project
curated by Morehshin and Eden Ünlüata to excavate the process of cultural
exchange- or lack thereof - between Iran and the United States. The
project employs digital media to create an intercultural dialogue and
exhibition. Works it generates highlight the dysfunctional nature of
cultural exchange between the two cultures. In addition, Morehshin's
panel, "Self-Exile, Self-Censorship" was accepted for a scholarly
presentation in Drawing the Line(s): Censorship & Cultural Practices, the
47th Annual Comparative Literature Conference at California State
University Long Beach. This interdisciplinary gathering of scholars,
artists, and practitioners from all walks of the arts and the academy,
aims to consider censorship in a broad scale across time periods,
disciplines and languages.

"The Adaptation of Myths with the Changing Times," Sandra Hernandez's
proposed paper from the graduate art history art and technology since
1900 seminar, was accepted for presentation by the annual national
conference of the 2012 Popular Cultural Association and American Culture
Association in Boston.

"The Semiotics of a Smile: Signs of Failure Along Dallas Hike & Bike
Trails," Jeff Joiner's proposal for a paper from an assignment in the
graduate art history art and technology since 1900 seminar, was accepted
for publication as a chapter in the forthcoming book, Signs and Symbols
in Workplace and Public, Annie W.Y. Ng and Alan H.S. Chan, Eds (Nova
Science Publishers in 2013). Jeff's research originated and developed
under the guidance of Michael Gibson in the Design Research Methods
course that is part of CVAD's Design: Innovation Studies MFA program.

All my best wishes,
Denise

Denise Amy Baxter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art History and Interim Chair
Department of Art Education and Art History
College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas

Purchase hand-printed holiday cards and ornaments while enjoying drinks and holiday treats.

All proceeds benefit students attending the 2012 Southern Graphics Council International conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

When: Thursday 8 December 2011 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Where: P.R.I.N.T Press, 1120 W. Oak Street (in Oak Street Hall Annex on UNT's campus), Denton, Texas 76201
Google Maps: http://g.co/maps/9b4cf
(Oak Street Annex is directly east of Oak Street Hall, at the intersection of Oak and Ponder Streets.)

Sponsored by PANTS, P.R.I.N.T Press and UNT Printmaking.

For more information, see http://untprintpress.blogspot.com/ 

Byron Carlson, owner of the Dahl House, Clifton, TX, will hold an opening in honor of 10 permanently-installed watercolors painted by Millie Giles, UNT's Watercolor Coordinator.

Documenting the Dahl House features renderings of the house built in 1893 by Carlson’s Norwegian ancestors, as well as surrounding landscape views. The historically registered Dahl House, 2457 CR 4240, Clifton, TX, will be open from 9:00a – 5:00p on December 3, 2011.
 
http://untstudioart.blogspot.com/2011/11/permanent-watercolor-installation-at.html
 

Sculpture graduate student Chance Dunlap featured in Fresh Faces exhibit at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, TX. There is a reception tomorrow, Saturday, December 3, 2011, from 7-9pm.
 
Fresh Faces 2x2 is about introducing emerging and unfamiliar artists to our cultural community. You are invited to enjoy a wonderful variety of paintings, sculpture, photography, assemblage, and encaustic art.
 

Congratulations to Lisa Owen who has received recognition as an affiliate faculty member elected for a 5 year term by the faculty advisory committee of the South Asia Institute (SAI) at the University of Texas at Austin. This is a new status created to recognize South Asia faculty of exceptional quality outside of UT, their inter-related research projects and interests and as a sign of institutional cooperation.

"Laying the Foundation: UNT Art Faculty 1890-1970"
curated by Dr. D. Jack Davis

UNT on the Square  Dec. 2, 2011- Feb. 11, 2012.
Reception Friday, Dec. 2  5-8 pm

You are invited to attend the reception this Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 at Fashion on Main located at 1901 Main Street, Dallas, TX 75201.

On Saturday, December 3,  CVAD Professor Vincent Falsetta will be involved in two simultaneous receptions in Dallas. One is a solo show of his  index cards at the Reading Room (see below) and the other is part of a three-person show featuring Falsetta and two CVAD alumni.  “Recurrence Relation: Three Generations of 500X”-  will feature the works of Vincent Falsetta, Paul Booker and Brian Spolans curated by Leslie Murrell  for the 500X Gallery. This show will include Falsetta's  color studies and two paintings from the 1970s when he was an early  member of 500X.  CVAD faculty member Elaine Pawlowicz will also have a solo show at the 500X gallery opening that evening.

 
The Index Cards: Vincent Falsetta will open at The Reading Room on Saturday, December 3 from 7 to 9 pm and continue through December 31. There will be an artist talk on Saturday, December 10 at 4 pm.
 
"Process as content is for me a form of indexing the moment",  Falsetta says about his practice. The index cards date back to the 1980's. There is a format that he follows. First the work is described in detail: dimensions, materials, when the canvas was stretched, then title and any dedication. There is usually but not always a thumbnail of the work, sometimes a diagram or chart, and questions that he poses to the work and to himself.  He writes, deliberately, with a crow quill pen and ink, thus slowing the process down and making it more than just documentation or a journal entry. There are over 600
mixed- media cards.
 
Falsetta is Professor of Painting/Drawing at the College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas. His work is represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas and has been shown at the Museum of Southeast Texas, Nancy Margolis Gallery (New York), Anya Tish Gallery (Houston), the Bluecoat (Liverpool, UK), Galveston Art Center, El Paso Museum of Art and OK Harris Gallery (New York).  Falsetta was a finalist for the 2007 Hunting Art Prize. This December his work can be seen at two other venues: 500X Gallery and Conduit.
 
The Reading Room is a project space dedicated to the intersection of the visual and literary arts and is located at 3715 Parry Avenue. It is open by appointment: Karen Weiner at 214-952-4109.
www.thereadingroom-dallas.blogspot.com
 

Two CVAD printmaking graduate students publish in Graphic Impressions

An article written by UNT Printmaking graduate students Cat Snapp and Linda Lucia Santana appears on page nineteen of Southern Graphic Council International's Graphic Impressions. Entitled "Revival and Renewal," it describes CVAD's PRINT Institute letterpress restoration project and features two photographs by UNT's photographer Jonathan Reynolds.

Download the latest issue here: http://sgcinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SGCI-Fall-2011-Newsletter.pdf.

The College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX is pleased to announce openings for the following faculty positions for Fall 2012:

Tenure-Track and Lecturer Positions Available Fall 2012:

Art Education and Art History Department

Assistant Professor:  Historian of Design

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor: Art Education

Assistant Professor:  Historian of Art, Architecture, and/or Material Culture of the Ancient Mediterranean

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor: Art Education, Art Teacher Education

Design Department

Assistant Professor:  Communication Design

Studio Art Department

Senior Lecturer (multiple-year):  Core Drawing I

Senior Lecturer (multiple-year):  Fiber Arts/Weaving

Senior Lecturer (multiple year):  Figure Drawing

Senior Lecturer (multiple year):  Computers in Art

Assistant Professor: Photography

Assistant Professor: New Media Art

Assistant Professor: Sculpture

FOR POSITION DESCRIPTIONS, REQUIREMENTS, DEADLINES, AND APPLICATION PROCEDURES: 

Please visit:

https://facultyjobs.unt.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp

UNT is an AA/ADA/EOE 

Congratulations to UNT Printmaking graduate students Cat Snapp and Linda Lucia Santana, whose article "Revival and Renewal" appears on page nineteen of Southern Graphic Council International's Graphic Impressions.

Download the latest issue here: http://sgcinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SGCI-Fall-2011-Newsletter.pdf.

Congratulations go out to Laura Evans on the publication of her essay, "Little Red Riding Hood Bites Back: A Feminist Reinterpretation," in the latest issue of the journalVisual Arts Research. Nicely done!

ASTU 3165 Metals: Technology

Kinetic Metal Toy Parade

Hallway & Lightwell

Tuesday, November 22

9am PROMPT

Come one, come all!

Art education students enrolled in AEAH 4780 Visual Arts Studies: Reflective Visual Arts Practices engaged in a multicultural artmaking assignment titled The Memory Project. The Memory Project is a unique initiative in which art and art education students create portraits (drawings, paintings, digital art, etc) of children and teens from around the world. These children and teens, often from third world countries, have been orphaned, neglected, or disadvantaged. This semester, our art education students received photos of kids from Ecuador and they worked from these photos to create portraits. The portraits will be delivered to the Ecuadorian children and teens on February 1^st. The goal of the project is to inspire caring, global friendship, and a positive sense of self. The portraits will be on exhibition for three weeks, November 15- December 6, 2011. http://www.memoryproject.org/

CVADStudio Arts faculty member Pamela Burnley-Schol will have her artwork "Transfiguraiton:  Cabbage and Steel" (2010) included in the exhibition "Gold" at the Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum in Vienna, Austria during Spring 2012.  140 contemporary artists have been selected for the exhibition by guest curator Thomas Zaunschrim. The show, which focuses on the use and concept of gold in art history, will feature works primarily from the 20th ad 21st century.  It will include works borrowed from museums and artists internationally and featured the world famous painting, "Der Kuss" by Gustaf Klimt.

"Gold" Exhibition PDF

Entries are now being accepted for the Artists’ Books Competition
of Friends of the UNT Libraries  
 
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Denton County residents and University of North Texas faculty, staff and students may enter their best works of art that are in the form of books to the fourth Artists’ Books Competition and Exhibition sponsored by the Friends of the UNT Libraries. The competition deadline is Nov. 30 (Wednesday).
Artists’ books date to the early medieval period and may be created with handwritten texts that are merged with illustrations, fabric covers, scrolls, fold-out content or loose items contained in a box. These books may or may not have content that can be read, and may be produced as one-of-a-kind objects.
The Friends of the UNT Libraries last sponsored an Artists’ Books Competition and Exhibition in 2005. All entries to this year’s competition must have been created within the last two years, and all forms of media are welcome, although the books may not exceed 6 feet in any direction. Individuals may enter up to three books, and no jury fees will be charged.
All entries from UNT students will be eligible for a $400 purchase award, which will be granted at the discretion of the competition’s jurors. The winning artists’ book will become a permanent addition to the UNT Libraries’ Rare Book and Texana Collections, and will be displayed in the Rare Book Room on the fourth floor of UNT’s Willis Library.
Winning entries submitted by Denton County residents and UNT faculty and staff members will be displayed in the Rare Book Room from January through June 2012.
For complete entry details, go to http://www.library.unt.edu/external-relations/news/artists-books and download an entry form. For more information, contact Kristin Boyett, special events coordinator for the UNT Libraries, 940-565-2486 or Kristin.Boyett@unt.edu.
Note to editors: Images of winning books from the 2005 competition are at http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/rare-books-exhibits/abpast/artistsbooks2006.

Art Rover, initiated by CVAD Studio Art graduate students, will luanch the first of an ongoing series of mobile exhibitions on Saturday, November 19th on Dragon Street in Dallas.  Follow Art Rover on Facebook! 

CAMCSI's Muslim Cultures Film Series presents...
The Clay Bird, with an introduction by Dr. Neilesh Bose
Date / Time: November 16th @ 5pm
Location: Chilton Hall, Media Library room 111c

Please spread the word to your classes and colleagues

CAMCSI (The Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute) announces its Spring Semester Film Series:

February 15th: Shirin -- http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b3867107~S12
"Ostensibly an adaptation of a 12th century Persian poem about a young princess courted by two men, a nobleman and an artist, Kiarostami never shows us the film in question. Instead, we are invited to reconstruct the narrative from dialogue and sound, as well as the emotions that flash across the faces of a rapt, mostly female audience."--Container.
 
March 14th: Edge of Heaven -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880502/
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
 
April 11th: The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294806/
Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations. The film takes us from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam, Hassan Sabbah (the original creator of the sect of Assassins) and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from their eternal bond of friendship. Filmed almost entirely on location in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan

All presentations will be in Chilton Hall 111c, the Media Library

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Today is the last day of the Annual Clay Guild Holiday Sale!
 
Come support the Clay Guild and buy handmade pottery and ceramic art for your holiday purchases (don't forget to treat yourself too!)
 
Tuesday Nov. 1 - Thursday Nov. 3
8 am - 5 pm
University Union Courtyard

We would like to congratulate Kelly Donahue-Wallace for being on of three finalist for the University of North Texas Scholar Award. She was recognized at yesterday afternoon's Research Reception.

We would also like to congratulate Mickey Abel for receiving the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)/Samuel H. Kress Research Grant for a book publication, Open Access: Contectualizing the Archivolted Portals of Northern Spain and Western France within the Theology and Politics of Entry. Her book is being published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 Congratulations to both of you on your outstanding acheivements. 

You are invited.

Opening Reception: The Memory Project Exhibition

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

5-8pm

Multicultural Center, 2^nd floor of the UNT Student Union, next door to Avesta

There will be a reception (with refreshments) celebrating the work of the art education students enrolled in 4780 Visual Arts Studies: Reflective Visual Arts Practices. The students in this course engaged in a multicultural artmaking assignment titled The Memory Project. The Memory Project is a unique initiative in which art and art education students create portraits (drawings, paintings, digital art, etc) of children and teens from around the world. These children and teens, often from third world countries, have been orphaned, neglected, or disadvantaged. This semester, our art education students received photos of kids from Ecuador and they worked from these photos to create portraits. The portraits will be delivered to the Ecuadorian children and teens on February 1^st. The goal of the project is to inspire caring, global friendship, and a positive sense of self. The portraits will be on exhibition for three weeks, November 15- December 6, 2011. http://www.memoryproject.org/

*Title: Royal Symbols: Crowns, Scepters, and Thrones (an Art History lecture by Dr. Michael Berry, Princeton University)
Date / Time: Wednesday, November 2nd @ 2:00pm
Location: Business Leadership Building 055
Website: http://cams.unt.edu/news_events.html
 
*Title: South Asian Peace Conference (organized by Qaisar Abbas)
Date / Time: Saturday and Sunday, November 5th & 6th -- events happening all day
Location: various rooms in the Business Leadership Building
Website: http://international.unt.edu/south-asia-peace-conference

Peace Conference Info

Peace Conference Schedule

Peace Conference News

Royal Symbols

CAMCSI will be hosting an art history lecture entitled Royal Symbols: Crowns, Scepters, and Thrones by Dr. Michael Berry on November 2nd at 2:00pm in the Business Leadership Building BLB 055. 

There's one spot left in our upcoming workshop. Sign up here.
 
Second Edition, an exhibit of work made on UNT's newly-restored letterpresses, is just back from the Museum of Printing History and on display at P.R.I.N.T Press. Check it out!
 
We had a great response to our recent poll, and there's still time to give us input on workshops and programs for spring 2012. Click here to take our poll.
 
Color Monotype Workshop
November 5 - 6, 2011, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., P.R.I.N.T Press
The flexibility and simplicity of the monotype process lends itself to a wide range of applications, including mixed media uses, collage, drawing and painting. This two-day workshop will introduce students to the monotype technique as a means of making a finished, multiple-color print. Techniques in additive and subtractive monotype printing, multiple color runs (including paper registration and stenciling), ink modification and sewing on prints will all be covered. Students are encouraged to bring a drawing and other source materials.
 
Michelle Martin is an associate professor at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where she teaches printmaking. She received a BFA from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and earned an MFA in Printmaking at Ohio State University in 1996. Her work has been shown in New Zealand, Venezuela, Iceland, Italy, Turkey and England, among other international venues. She has won numerous awards, including an Oklahoma Artist of Excellence Award (2003), the Print Prize in the Bradley Print and Drawing exhibition (2007), and an Oklahoma Visual Arts Fellowship (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, 2008). Her work is in  private, public and university collections, such as the Kohler Library (Madison, Wisconsin), Muscarelle Museum of Art (College of William and Mary) and Rutgers Center for the Innovative Paper.
 
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P.R.I.N.T.'s website: http://www.art.unt.edu/print 
Blog: http://untprintpress.blogspot.com
eMail updates: http://www.art.unt.edu/print/connect.html
Contact: print@unt.edu or (940) 369-7575
 
Location: 1120 W. Oak Street
(Oak Street Hall Annex)
Denton, Texas 76201
 
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UNT Printmaking faculty member and PRINT Press director Lari Gibbons won an honorable mention in the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Her award is in the Innovation in Traditional Media in Education category, which recognizes faculty "who have created a design with the purpose of teaching or illustrating creative possibilities . . . and engage in a compelling, complementary personal or professional practice." The awards were announced in Taipei, Taiwan on 23 October 2011. For more information, see http://www.adobeawards.com/us/ .

WHAT: College of Information Colloquium Series Presents Michael Nelson, October 24, 2011 at 6:pm in DP 185.

TITLE: Memento: Time Travel for the Web

DESCRIPTION: Despite being the primary medium for our cultural and scientific record, the Web remains surprisingly ephemeral.  Many pages change over time, and most of those changes are often lost forever. A lucky few manage to are retrained for posterity, perhaps in wiki "history" lists or web archives like the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. In both cases, the prior versions have URIs that are protocol-wise disconnected from the URI of the current resource.  Indeed, the lack of temporal capabilities in HTTP prevents getting to an archived resource on the basis of the URI of its original. This turns accessing archived resources into a significant discovery challenge for both human and software agents, navigating a series of site-specific, ad-hoc solutions.  The Memento solution adds a temporal dimension to HTTP capabilities applied in a novel way to add the temporal dimension. The result is an inter-archive framework in which archived resources can seamlessly be reached via their original URI: protocol-based time travel for the Web.

BIO SKETCH: Michael L. Nelson is an associate professor of computer science at Old Dominion University.  Prior to joining ODU, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center from 1991-2002.  He also spent the 2000-2001 academic year as a post-doc at SILS, UNC at Chapel Hill.  He is a co-editor of the OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE specifications and is a 2007 recipient of an NSF CAREER award. He has developed many digital libraries, including the NASA Technical Report Server.  His research interests include repository-object interaction and alternative approaches to digitalpreservation.  More information about Dr. Nelson can be found at: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/

Hi All,

Please accept the Interior Design Program's invitation to attend this years Ray Gough Lecture




Our Speaker is Cathy Whitlock an Interior Designer and the Author of Designs on Film.

The lecture will be on Wednesday, October 26 at 6:30 PM in Art 223

The attached flyer has more information and can be printed to share with students and other interested parties.

I hope I'll see many of you and your students at this free lecture!

Bruce Nacke

UNT senior named finalist in international Adobe competition

DENTON (UNT), Texas - University of North Texas senior Brady Jackson has been named a finalist in the mobile design category in the international Adobe Design Achievement Awards, which had more than 4,600 submissions and is billed as “the world's premier design, film, and interactive media competition for higher education students and faculty.”
Jackson’s project is one of three entries chosen as finalists in the mobile design category. As a finalist, Jackson has earned a free trip to the awards ceremony at the 2011 International Design Alliance Congress Oct. 24 – 26 in Taipei to find out if he’s a winner.
Jackson designed a concept for an iPad app that would allow people to donate sugar-free confectionery to diabetic camps for kids. The project was inspired by his communication design classes with Karen Dorff and Michele Wong Kung Fong at UNT.  The app is not functional – at least not yet – but Jackson created a video that shows how the app would work.
“You go on there and you can make your own profile. You select however much you want to donate, and once you have donated a certain amount, the company will send you however much you qualify for back, so you get a little bit of reward,” he said.
Earning a coveted spot as a competition finalist “validates that I’m doing what I should be doing,” Jackson said.
Jackson worked as an intern designing T-shirts this summer at Nautica in New York, where he designed shirts for New York and Malibu triathlons.
Jackson came from Amarillo to UNT in his freshman year to pursue a degree in communication design from the College of Visual Arts and Design.
“I learned a good work ethic -- just being very efficient and getting things done quickly and being able to communicate and elaborate on whatever ideas I have,” he said.
Visit www.bradyjackson.adaagallery.com/ to view Jackson’s project and add comments to Jackson’s profile.

CAMCSI will be screening My Name is Khan in conjunction with our Muslim Cultures Film Series on Wednesday October 19th in Chilton Hall, Media Library Room 111c.
 
We would be very appreciative of any form of advertising that you could provide to help make this event successful and get as much student and community participation as possible!
 
For further reference, click on the link below.
 
http://www.library.unt.edu/media/news-events/muslimcultures

Congratulations to the following MA students in the Department of Art Education and Art History for obtaining funding from the Toulouse Graduate School to support them in their presentation of their research:

·         Tiffany Floyd received support for her presentation, just about two weeks ago, at the 40th meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies.

·         Jessica Nelson will receive funding for her work at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Texas Art Education Association conference, which will  take place in early November.

·         Valorie Fair will be supported for her presentation at the Southern Studies: Auburn Montgomery Liberal Arts Conference, which will take place in February.

The Toulouse Graduate School funding only approximately 40% of applicants, making this not only a financial help to these deserving students, but quite a prestigious award as well.
Congratulations!

CAMCSI will co-sponsor a two-day South Asian Peace Conference on November 5th and 6th in the Business Leadership Building. Website for the event: www.international.unt.edu/south-asia-peace-conference

Title: Arab Uprisings: Causes and Prospects (with a Film Screening Gaza Shield by Tania Khalaf)
Date: Wednesday, October 26th
Time: 2:30-4:30
Location: New business building, BLB 073

Kelly Donahue-Wallace's essay "Spinning the King," has been accepted for publication in Print Quarterly, the leading journal for print historians. The article examines the 1796 engraving of Mexico City's main square and its newly installed equestrian portrait of Charles IV for its role in the viceroy's exploitation of print culture for personal and political ends.

The second edition of Terry Barrett's Why is that Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art has just been published by Oxford University Press.

What workshops and programs do you want in spring 2012? Let us know by taking our poll.
 
Thank you in advance for your input!
  
 
 
Website: http://www.art.unt.edu/print  
Blog: http://untprintpress.blogspot.com
Contact: print@unt.edu or (940) 369-7575

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Parking
Hourly fee parking is available in the UNT Parking Garage, accessible from Union Circle, and in the metered lot behind the art building at the corner of Welch and Mulberry. For more parking information, please see the UNT website.

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Upcoming
UNTold+new
A retrospective of award-winning design, organized by CVAD Communication Design Faculty
 
Nov 15 - Dec 17, 2011
   
Opening Reception
Thursday, 11/17
5:00-7:00 pm
UNT Art Gallery
 
 
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Gallery Hours
 
Tues, 12 - 5 pm
Wed & Thurs,  
9:30 am - 8 pm
Fri & Sat, 12 - 5 pm
 
www.gallery.unt.edu
gallery@unt.edu
940-565-4316

Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition
October 11 - 29, 2011

Opening Reception
Thursday 10/13, 5 - 7 pm
 
The Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition showcases artworks in all media by the accomplished artists working in the College of Visual Arts and Design, one of the most comprehensive university art programs in the nation.  The show reflects the CVAD mission and at the same time is a manifestation of the spirit of the region and the dynamic growth of UNT and CVAD.
 
CVAD seeks to engage its diverse student population with issues of artistic heritage, stimulate their imagination and involvement with the world, foster their critical and analytical thinking, and inspire their creativity through educational opportunities in art education, art history, design and studio arts, all supported by a vital program of creative research.
 
Each year, students express their pleasure in seeing the full breadth of media, processes, and ideas in practice at CVAD and exhibited together. This exhibition is open to all CVAD full-time and adjunct faculty and staff. It's ever-expanding inclusiveness affords continuing opportunities for students to see and learn from all that CVAD offers.
 
For more information please visit our website.

Image credits, clockwise: Jennifer Jones, Untitled, 2011, Mixed media on panel, 30" x 24" x 2"; courtesy of the artist. James Thurman, Tectonic Pebble Necklace, 2011, Thurmanite from recycled atlas, sterling silver, 15" x 11" x 1"; courtesy of the artist. Janie Stidham, A New Life, 2011, Felted cashmere, silk, glass beads, metal findings, Womenswear small; courtesy of the artist. Ed Blackburn, Time, 2010, Archival digital print, Edition of 3, 17" x 22"; courtesy of the artist.  
 
 
 
Exhibition Sponsors
The Annual Faculty & Staff Exhibition is made possible by Goodmor Construction, LLC; Karen SG Milnes Design; and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Visiting artist Charles Beneke (http://www.charlesbeneke.com/) gave a two-day workshop on book arts at P.R.I.N.T Press in early October. He also led several events in UNT Printmaking, including a lecture, open portfolio, and critiques.

The events were made possible in part by P.R.I.N.T Press and UNT Printmaking.

For more information: http://untprintpress.blogspot.com/, http://untprintmakingblog.blogspot.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/PrintPress

Visiting artist Charles Beneke (http://www.charlesbeneke.com/) gave a two-day workshop on book arts at P.R.I.N.T Press in early October. He also led several events in UNT Printmaking, including a lecture, open portfolio, and critiques.

The events were made possible in part by P.R.I.N.T Press and UNT Printmaking.
For more information: http://untprintpress.blogspot.com/, http://untprintmakingblog.blogspot.com/
and https://www.facebook.com/PrintPress

Visiting Artist Tom Huck (http://www.evilprints.com/gallery.html) gave a workshop on relief printmaking at P.R.I.N.T Press on 24 September. He spent an additional day at P.R.I.N.T working in the studio, showing his prints, and welcoming visitors to the facility.

Tom Huck's visit to UNT was made possible by Laura Beard of Design Core, Printmaking and P.R.I.N.T Press.
For more information: http://untprintpress.blogspot.com/
and https://www.facebook.com/PrintPress

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Hosts

Graduate Student Lectureship Program

September 27-October 15, 2011

The Graduate Student Lectureship Program provides local art and art history graduate students the opportunity to research and present public lectures on works on view at the Modern. These focused gallery talks discuss artworks within a thematic framework designed to provide new insights on familiar pieces. After close observation, rigorous research, and original analysis, students design an interactive tour that fosters discussion with visitors in the galleries. Each thirty-minute talk is presented twice over the course of the semester, allowing Museum visitors multiple opportunities to attend. Scheduled to take place this fall prior to certain Tuesday Evening lectures and on select Saturdays, these discussions are free to the public with the price of admission to the galleries and begin in the Museum lobby. The first round of topics will be presented on the following dates and times: 

Tuesday, September 27, 6:15 pm  Travis Veselka: "Growing Pains: Cultural and Personal Issues in the Art of Anselm Kiefer and Robert Rauschenberg"
 
Tuesday, October 4, 6:15 pm  Jessica Ingle: "Stagnant Motion: Overcoming Contradictions with Photography"
                                                                                                                  
Saturday, October 8, 11 am  Jessica Ingle: "Stagnant Motion: Overcoming Contradictions with Photography"
 
Saturday, October 8, 1 pm  Travis Veselka: "Growing Pains: Cultural and Personal Issues in the Art of Anselm Kiefer and Robert Rauschenberg" 

 

Blind Spots:  Feminism, Nationalism, and Revolution in the Arab World, will be given by Dr. Rima Abunasser on October 6th at 7pm in Terrill Hall room 121.

For complete information, click here.

http://www.adcyoungguns.org/winners9/?id=170

Dana Tanamachi (BFA in Communication Design, 2007) was selected as one of the New York Art Director's Clubs "Young Guns." ADC Young Guns is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today's vanguard of young creative professionals age 30 or younger. Judged on a body of both professional and personal work by a jury of past YG winners, this year's class represents 14 countries, an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, illustration, advertising and art direction, photography, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, sound design, product design and typography.

This is a tremendous achievement and honor for Dana. Please join me in extending our most heart-felt congratulations.
 
 

As part of the 24th Annual Dallas Video Fest, MFA New Media graduate student Morehshin Allahyar is presenting her animation, Over There is Over Here, as part of the Experimental Shorts category of work, 12 noon Sunday September 25 at the Angelika Theater.

Back to the Future:  Women Art Technology

by Dr. Jennifer Way of the University of North Texas

6-7PM

FREE and open to the public

Call 214-953-1212 for information or visit www.the-mac.org.

The MAC is open Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.

"The MAC's Scholar Lecture Series" targets audiences who are interested
in contemporary art history, criticism, theory and practice. These
thoughtful explorations of the contemporary art world will provide
audiences with a better understanding of visual art dialogues of today.
As part of The MAC's educational outreach initiative "The MAC's Scholar
Lecture Series" is free and open to the public.
 

Click here for the full October schedule.

Dr. Mickey Abel has been awarded a Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant to support archival research at the Newberry Library in Chicago for her Maillezais Monastic Hydraulics Project.

•·            Allison Davidson is Archeology Collections and Library and Archives Intern at The Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai'i

•·            Lacey Griffith is Education Intern at The Trammell Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas

•·            Christy Barlow is the Education Intern at the Kimbell Museum of Art in Ft. Worth

And two of our graduate students have been awarded the highly competitive and prestigious McDermott Fellow Internships at the Dallas Museum of Art:

          Lexie Ettinger is the McDermott Fellow for Adult Programming

•·               Mary Jordan is the McDermott Fellow for Family Experiences

Dr. Lisa Owen's article "Kings or Ascetics? Evidence of Patronage in Ellora's Jain Caves" has just appeared in Artibus Asiae.

UNT art history students Jason Delezen, Tiffany Floyd, and Travis Veselka will be presenting at the 40th Southwest Regional Conference for Asian Studies to be held at Trinity University in San Antonio in October. The panel, organized by Assistant Professor of Art History, Dr. Lisa Owen, is titled "Viewing, Constructing, and Interpreting: New Perspectives on Mughal Art under Shah Jahan."

Inspired by the work of three contemporary American artists, Beneath  Cognition combines artworks in varied media that convey, from unique viewpoints, a sense of knowing that lies just beneath the surface of thought, action, or emotion. With these works, the artists provide moments or glimpses of understanding that temporarily take us away from our own lives, only to deposit us back with heightened awareness of self and circumstance.   

For complete exhibition information, click here.  Scroll down to the bottom half of the page.

Image: Lee Renninger, Relinquish (detail), 2011. Porcelain, cotton netting, fiberglass, thread;
90 x 90 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

UNT presents art exhibitions, events in Fall 2011
 
DENTON (UNT), Texas¾ The following events presented by the University of North Texas are free. Please include this information about the university’s art exhibitions and other visual arts-related events in briefs and calendars.
 
UNT Art Gallery
 
The UNT Art Gallery, part of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, will present the following events. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and noon to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information, visit www.gallery.unt.edu or call 940-565-4316.
 
Beneath Cognition
Aug. 30 – Oct. 1
UNT Art Gallery in UNT Art Building, one block west of Mulberry and Welch streets
Curated by Tracee Robertson, Gallery Director
Opening Reception: 5 – 7 p.m. Sept. 1 (Thursday)
 
Inspired by the work of three contemporary American artists, Beneath Cognition combines artworks in varied media that convey, from unique viewpoints, a sense of knowing that lurks just beneath the surface of thought, action, or emotion. With these works, the artists provide moments or glimpses of understanding that temporarily take us away from our own lives, only to deposit us back with heightened awareness of self and circumstance.
 
2011 Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition
Oct. 11 – Oct. 29
Opening Reception: 5 – 7 p.m. Oct. 13 (Thursday)
 
The Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition showcases artworks in all media by the accomplished artists working in the College of Visual Arts and Design, one of the most comprehensive university art programs in the nation.  The show reflects the CVAD mission and at the same time is a manifestation of the spirit of the region and the dynamic growth of UNT and CVAD.
 
CVAD seeks to engage its diverse student population with issues of artistic heritage, stimulate their imagination and involvement with the world, foster their critical and analytical thinking, and inspire their creativity through educational opportunities in art education, art history, design and studio arts, all supported by a vital program of creative research.
 
UNTold:new
Nov.15 – Dec. 17
Juried by Patrick Coyne, Editor and Designer of Communication Arts
Opening Reception: 5 – 7 p.m. Nov. 17 (Thursday)

Organized by CVAD Communication Design faculty, this juried retrospective exhibition features award-winning two- and three-dimensional design by generations of CVAD alumni, providing an overview of approaches, accomplishments and changes in visual communication  over the last several decades.
 
Fashion on Main
 
The following exhibition will be at UNT's Fashion on Main, 1901 Main St. at the Universities Center at Dallas. Fashion on Main is open from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays and noon to 8 p.m. Fridays. For information, call 940-565-2732 or 214-752-8151.
 
Adrian: Glamour in the Age of Austerity
Sept.15 – Nov.11
Opening Reception: Noon – 5 p.m. Sept. 15 (Thursday)
 
This exhibition marks the turning point in the mid to late 1940s when World War II was ending and constraints on fabric and supplies were lifted, allowing fashion designers to move away from simplistic, military-inspired designs toward increasingly glamorous, feminine forms and styles. Gilbert Adrian led the way in this movement as an American designer. Several of his pieces will be showcased alongside pieces by various other designers, revealing the strength of his influence.
 
 
Union Gallery
 
The following exhibitions will be in the Union Gallery, located on Level 3 of the University Union, one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets. Hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 940-565-3829.
 
Joy Ude and Delaney Smith
Aug. 22 – Sept. 8
Reception: 7 – 9 p.m.  Aug. 23 (Tuesday)
Fibers
 
Lindsey Ann Wakefield and Jenny Stauss
Sept. 12 – 29
Reception: 7 – 9 p.m. Sept.13 (Tuesday)
Drawing and Painting
 
K.T. Shiue
Oct. 3 – 21
Reception: 7 – 9 p.m. Oct. 4 (Tuesday)
Photography
 
Trey Egan and Shayne Murphy
Oct. 31 – Nov. 17
Reception:  7 – 9 p.m. Nov. 1 (Tuesday)
Drawing and Painting
 
Matthew Golden
Nov. 21 – Dec. 15
Reception: 7 – 9 p.m. Nov. 22 (Tuesday)
Photography
 
The following exhibitions will be displayed on the outside wall of the Union Gallery.
 
Diedrick Brackens
Sept. 19 – Oct. 7
Reception: 7 – 9 p.m. Sept. 20 (Tuesday)
Fibers
 
Jimmey Elizabeth Kimmey
Oct. 17 – Nov. 4
Reception: 6 – 8 p.m. Oct. 18 (Tuesday)
Photography
 
Hetty Estes
Nov. 14 – Dec.  9
Reception: 7 – 9 p.m. Nov. 15 (Tuesday)
Metals and Jewelry
 
UNT on the Square
 
The following exhibitions will be at UNT on the Square located on 109 N. Elm St. in downtown Denton. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended hours until 8 p.m. Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
 
Frank Reaugh – Master of Pastels and the Plains of Texas
Ongoing through Oct. 1
Painting
 
UNT Old-New: Design Alumni Exhibition
Oct. 7 – Oct. 25Juried exhibition
 
National Parks Project
Nov. 1 – Nov. 23
Harlan Butt, metalsmith
Reception: Nov. 4 (Friday)
 
Laying the Foundation: UNT Art Faculty, 1890 - 1970
Dec. 2 – Feb. 8
 
 
Other Galleries
Three additional galleries – the Cora Stafford Gallery, Lightwell Gallery and North Gallery – show student work on a rotating basis. For more information about these galleries, visit http://gallery.unt.edu/exhibitions.
 
Lectures
 
Nick Cave
Artist-in-residence 2011–12
7 p.m. Oct. 11 (Tuesday) Nasher Sculpture Center located on 2001 Flora St. in Dallas
 
Chicago artist Nick Cave works with sculpture, design and performance. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions, notably a traveling exhibition, Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, organized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2009, opening at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va. in September. Venues include the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles; and the Seattle Art Museum. Awards include the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2008), the Artadia Award, the United States Artist Award and the Joyce Foundation Joyce Award (2006), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2001), among others. Cave’s works are in many public art collections in the U.S., including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Cave is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and will have his third solo exhibition there in September. Nick Cave’s lecture is sponsored by the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Lecture Series in Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism, endowed at UNT in honor of the Nashers, by their daughter Nancy Nasher, son-in-law David Haemisegger, and grandchildren. The series presents outstanding artists, sculptors and critics to students and faculty in the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design as well as a wider public audience. The series includes lectures, short courses and seminars.
 
Organized by the College of Visual Arts and Design and the UNT Art Galleries
 
CVAD VISITING ARTIST AND SCHOLAR SERIES
 
Photographic Book Publishing Primer for the 21st Century:
6 p.m. Sept.14 (Wednesday)
Art Building Room 313
Lecture
 
9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sept. 15 – 16
The Forum, Willis Library Room 140
Workshop
 
A Photographic Book Publishing Primer for the 21st Century features a public lecture, graduate studio visits, and a two-day workshop at UNT’s Willis Library by Melanie McWhorter, influential writer, curator, consultant, book division manager of Photo-eye Company, and co-founder of Finite Foto online magazine. Books have longstanding and acknowledged importance in the visual arts, extending the reach of artistic practice both geographically and temporally by presenting bodies of artwork independently of specific exhibitions. The inclusion of visual material with accompanying texts creates a multi-layered experience in viewing artworks. Photographic books exert widespread influence on the discussion surrounding historic and contemporary trends. Books such as Robert Frank’s The Americans (1955), Ed Ruscha’s Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations (1963), Bill Jenkins’ New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (1975), and Paul Graham’s 12-volume Shimmer of Possibility (2007), all represent profound focal points for key moments in photographic history. Now, the book publishing industry is responding to tremendous technological change that includes self-published books on demand, electronic books, and the Internet. McWhorter’s lecture will have a special focus on photography book publishing.
 
Organized by Photography professors: Dornith Doherty and Paho Mann, and sponsored by the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, the Photography Program, and the UNT Libraries.
 
 
Annual Ray Gough Lecture:
Cathy Whitlock
Time TBA Oct. 26 (Wednesday)
Art Building Room 223 located one block west of Mulberry and Welch streets
Lecture
 
Cathy Whitlock has had a diverse career as an author, writer, design marketer, lecturer and interior designer. A graduate of Parsons School of Design and a member of the American Society of Interior Designers, she has more than 24 years in the interior design industry in New York, Chicago, Memphis and Nashville. As a frequent on-air personality on HGTV‘s top-rated Decorating With Style, she served as a spokesperson for Thomasville Furniture, Jackson and Perkins Roses, Wilsonart, Panache Catalogue and Pierre Deux fabrics. She has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and the Fine Living Channel. Her book, Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction (Harper Collins, 2010), represents her two passions – design and the cinema. Ms. Whitlock also wrote re-de-sign (Fairchild Books, 2009), was a contributing writer for Traditional Home and The Huffington Post, and was a features editor for Array Magazine. Her work appears in Veranda, Architectural Digest, Capitol File, American Airlines Celebrated Living, The Hollywood Reporter, Glamour UK and Four Seasons Hotel magazines focusing on celebrity profiles, design, film and lifestyle articles. Her blog, Cinema Style, chronicling trends and inspiration on film, was named by Fox News one of the Top Ten Best Design Blogs of 2010. Formerly with Universal Pictures and ITC Entertainment, Whitlock worked on the marketing campaigns of Coal Miner’s Daughter, Animal House, Jaws, and the Academy Award winning film, The Deerhunter.
 
Attached image for UNTold:New exhibition:
Kyle Poff, BFA Communication Design (2003), “Building a Green Economy,” Cover design for New York Times Sunday Magazine, 4/25/2010
Additional photos available on request.
 
 

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CVAD Assistant Professor of art history, Dr. Paul Niell, has published two articles in journals of Latin American research:
“Classical Architecture and the Cultural Politics of Cemetery Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba,”  in The Latin Americanist, Vol. 55, Issue 2, June 2011, pp. 57-90; and “El Templete and Cuban Neoclassicism: A Multivalent Signifier as Site of Memory,” in the Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 344-365, 2011.

I will be hosting visiting artist Alan Reid on Thursday the 30th.  He will be giving a lecture in Room 219 at 11:00 am.
 
Alan is a UNT alumni who is currently working and living in New York.  He shows with Lisa Cooley Gallery and has
had much success since his time at UNT.  His first solo show was reviewed in the New Yorker and several works from his second solo show found their way into Italian Vogue.  He is gaining a loyal following of collectors including Madonna--yep--that Madonna.
 
Upcoming shows include:
 
Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (group)  and
Jacky Strenz Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany (group)
 
For more info please refer to his gallery:
 
http://www.lisa-cooley.com/artists/view/alan-reid

Five UNT Fashion Design students were selected to showcase their collections inspired by Scion Driving Fashion (www.sciondrivingfashion.com). The selected UNT students were Cesar Arzola, Neil Merek, Robbie Richard, Emmanuel Tobias, and Bao Tran. Congratulations to all of them!!
 
The rnway show took place June 22 at Toyota of Lewisville, where the main showroom was made into a fashion hall for the competition. It featured 10 designers; 5 from UNT, 3 from El Centro, 1 from Art Institute, and 1 from TWU. Scholarship awards were presented to Neil, Emmanuel, and Robbie; they took home all prizes with total of $10,000. Neil received 3rd Place with $2,000 scholarship, Emmanuel received 2nd Place with $3,000 scholarship, and Robbie received 1st Place with $5,000 scholarship. See the CVAD Fashion Design Blog for photographs.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Effective fall term 2012, in addition to the university admission requirements, students wishing to major in any program in the College of Visual Arts and Design must meet minimum academic requirements to be classified as a pre-major. Admission to the college through this process does not guarantee acceptance into your chosen major as several programs have entry reviews and all have midpoint reviews that must be passed in order to complete the program. For entry review details click here. For details on program reviews please go to the program page and review the curriculum sheet provided there.

University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design graduate student Naomi S. Adams earned an award for Most Innovative Use of the Medium at the Quilt National 2011, a biennial exhibition of art quilts from artists in 22 states in the U.S. and 13 countries. Her quilt was one of 85 juried into the exhibition out of more than 1000 entries.
 
Her award-winning quilt, Greek, was created from multiple quilts with shades of green dyed batting in the interior, she said. She cut the quilts into pieces, bent and folded the pieces to make letter shapes, and used adhesive to attach them to the backing quilt.
 
“Greek speaks to my fascination with communication struggles in relationships,” she wrote in her artist’s statement. “Our individual and shared experiences and influences affect how we understand and convey meaning. I am interested in exploring how constant change in our lives influences how we emotionally process emphasis, content, and context. I am intrigued with the process of creating, deconstructing, and then redefining a new composition from the parts of the whole to communicate the depth of our complex and evolving relationships.”
 
She earned an $850 prize sponsored by Friends of Fiberart International. Her quilt will be on view through Sept. 5 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio.  Adams is seeking a master of fine arts degree from UNT. Learn more about her work at http://killerbeedesigns.com

This summer, students from the Department of Art Education and Art History secured internships at: the Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Rachofsky House, the Meadows Museum, the Shango Gallery, the Dallas Contemporary, and the Nasher Sculpture Center locally, as well as the 2nd annual Santa Fe international New Media Festival, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Art Education MA student Jessica Nelson and Ph.D. student Mary Nangah will be working as interns at the Rachofsky House in Dallas this summer.

Terry Barrett's book Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now on its fifth edition. His article, "Experiencing Art with the Ill, the Elderly, and their Caregivers" has also just been published in Teaching Artist Journal 9, no. 2 (2011): 90-100.

This Program for IAA Fellow David Bethell will be held next Monday here at UNT on the Square.

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CVAD senior Art education major Katie Rifkin from Plano, TX was named Student Outreach Coordinator for the National Art Education Association.  She learned of the position opening at the 2011 NAEA convention which she attended in Seattle this spring and applied with
a recommendation from Professor Chris Bain. As a Student Outreach Coordinator, she will identify universities with art education programs that do not have student chapters, and established chapters that are not registered with national chapter.  Her job will be to obtain contact information from faculty and collegiate members from schools in this region and pass it along to the Presidential team. She will be able to help other universities around the countries develop strong NAEA student chapters, she states, "...so other art education students would have the same opportunities I've been given here at UNT with my chapter."  Katie Rifkin has had similar leadership positions through the Delta Gamma sorority that require constant communication with regional and national consultants.

The 2011 Texas Biennial survey of contemporary art opened Austin in April. CVAD Department of Studio Arts, Drawing and Painting faculty, and graduates are well represented in the exhibitions. Of the 48 artists included and five special invitations, Associate Professor Matthew Bourbon, Bernardo Cantu MFA 2010, Lori Giesler MFA 2010, and Brad Tucker BFA 1991, were juried into the show by curator Virginia Rutledge, while Professor Annette Lawrence was one of five artists invited to the "distributed exhibition" which focused on permanent installations.

Lawrence's work, "Coin Toss" at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium was featured.  For more information, see the press release.

Edge of Life

Please join us for Edge of Life, a traveling exhibit originating at Stephen F. Austin State University and now showing at UNT's Eagle Exhibit Hall in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology (EESAT) building. The Edge of Life collaboration brings together the fields of forest pathology and art, exploring the place they meet. The exhibition features sixteen artists from Stephen F. Austin State University’s School of Art and fifteen ecological artists from across the nation. The goals are to share science’s ability to inspire culture through art, to present a wide range of innovative approaches to making art, and to educate about the field of forest pathology.

Curators' Presentation: Wednesday, April 20th from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. in EESAT 110 followed by gallery talk in Eagle Exhibit Hall Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, SFASU Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, SFASU

Exhibiting Artists: Peter Andrew, Marsha Blount, Elaine Bradford, Amy Chan, Neal Cox, Chad Curtis, Dornith Doherty, Chad Erpelding, Piero Fenci, Lari Gibbons, Maki Hajikano, Charles Jones, Corinne Jones, Kira Kalondy, Robert Kinsell, Aloma Marquis, Lauren McAdams, Gary Parker, Marguerite Perret, Joseph Philips, Amy Ross, Michelle Rozic, Scott Runnels, Jeff Schumki, Joshua Smith, Jim Snyder, Matthew Sutherlin, Christopher Talbot, Jennifer Trask, Joni Youkins-Herzog, and Keith Yurdana.

Organizers: Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, SFASU Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, SFASU Brian Wheeler, assistant director, Elm Fork Education Center and Natural Heritage Museum, SFASU Lari R. Gibbons, associate professor, College of Visual Arts and Design, UNT Dr. James H. Kennedy, director, Elm Fork Education Center and Natural Heritage Museum and professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, UNT

Sponsors: College of Fine Arts, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, and Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Stephen F. Austin State University. This exhibition and related events also sponsored by University of North Texas' Elm Fork Education Center and the Natural Heritage Museum, the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Studio in the College of Visual Arts and Design. Additional support is provided by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

CVAD students in Professor James Thurman's introductory three-dimensional design class have partnered with students in the second grade at Hodge Elementary School in Denton to tame monsters.  The CVAD students made plush toys based on the second graders' drawings.  For the complete story, see Monsters Under the Bed

Communication Design faculty Keith Owens was recently interviewed by Altitude Media about the Design Research Center in Dallas. You can download the interview here: OwensInterview.mp3

Photo: eARTh day 2009 by Emily Penn

eARTh day

On Wednesday, April 20th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Environmental Education Science and Technology (EESAT) building at UNT, we will celebrate the third annual eARTh day: a celebration of environmental music, writing, art and film.

Visual Arts Fibers Artists: Material Environment: Contemporary Consumption, featuring installation works from CVAD students in professor Lesli Robertson's Alternative Processes Fibers course.

Edge of Life Curators' Presentation: Wednesday, April 20th from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. in EESAT 130 followed by gallery talk in Eagle Exhibit Hall Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University

Edge of Life Artists: Edge of Life artists include Peter Andrew, Marsha Blount, Elaine Bradford, Amy Chan, Neal Cox, Chad Curtis, Dornith Doherty, Chad Erpelding, Piero Fenci, Lari Gibbons, Maki Hajikano, Charles Jones, Corinne Jones, Kira Kalondy, Robert Kinsell, Aloma Marquis, Lauren McAdams, Gary Parker, Marguerite Perret, Joseph Philips, Amy Ross, Michelle Rozic, Scott Runnels, Jeff Schumki, Joshua Smith, Jim Snyder, Matthew Sutherlin, Christopher Talbot, Jennifer Trask, Joni Youkins-Herzog, and Keith Yurdana.

Music:

Katrina Elsnick
Natalie Lorch
Rachel Yoder
Jorge Crus
Angela Winter
Sarah Page Summar
Michael Morgan

Creative Writing:

Nate Logan
Nicole Miears
Mary Bush
Kellie Smith
Carlos Fiol

Sponsors:

Elm Fork Education Center College of Arts & Sciences College of Music College of Visual Arts Institute of Applied Sciences Department of Biology Department of English Creative Writing Department of Radio, Television, and Film Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity

Dr. D. Jack Davis was honored last week by the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA). At their annual symposium, he received their Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the field.

In order to better accommodate CVAD Students, CVAD buildings (Art, Oak Street, Hickory and Scoular) will be open for extended hours starting next Monday, April 25.  We hope this helps enable you to finish your projects and have time in the labs that you need. 

Monday, April 25 – Friday, May 29

CVAD buildings (Art, Hickory, Scoular, Oak Street) will be open from 7:30am until midnight with building monitors from 5:00pm-midnight in all buildings.

Saturday, April 30 – Sunday, May 1

CVAD buildings (Art, Hickory, Scoular, Oak Street) will be open and monitored from 8:00 am until midnight

Monday, May 2 – Friday, May 6

CVAD buildings (Art, Hickory, Scoular, Oak Street) will be open from 7:30am until midnight with building monitors from 5:00pm-midnight in all buildings.

Saturday, May 7- Sunday, May 8

CVAD buildings (Art, Hickory, Scoular, Oak Street) will be open and monitored from 8:00 am until midnight

Monday, May 9 – Friday, May 13 

Regular hours resume.  The Art Building will be monitored from 5p-11:30 pm and Scoular, Oak Street & Hickory will be monitored from 7p-11:30pm

Saturday, May 14 & Sunday, May 15 – No hours – All CVAD buildings will be closed

CVAD held its 51st annual Scholarship and Voertman Show Award Ceremony on Tuesday, April 12, in the Lightwell Gallery of the Art Building. CVAD Dean Robert Milnes presented the scholarships to the recipients and Gallery Director Tracee Robertson presented the awards form the Voertman Show. The ceremony was followed by a luncheon in the Silver Eagle Suite of the Eagle Student Center. This year, over $50,000 in scholarships were awarded and prizes of over $5000 were presented in the Voertman Show. At the luncheon, scholarship recipients were able to meet the donors while the Chairs of the three CVAD Departments made presentations about the activities of the faculty and students this year. 

CVAD Communication Design faculty members Alex Egner has been selected as a winner in the international  Brand New Awards competition, hosted by Under Consideration.  Egner's entry, a logo design for the Denton Domino Hall, will be published in a printed book and iPad publication. He was notified of his acceptance on April 13, 2011.  Join us in congratulating Alex Egner on this accomplishment!

Under Consideration's website may be found here.

Art 1440 Design 1 has Peter Doroshenko coming to give a lecture to the Design 1 students on Wednesday April 20th 1pm ESSC 255. Everyone is invite to come.

Interdisciplinary Art and Design Studies majors have secured internships with local and national arts organizations this year. Kathryn Hemmerick is completing an internship at the Kimbell Art Museum; she will begin a paid position at the Dallas Contemporary upon graduating this spring. Amy Bragg will complete an internship in the education department of the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington this summer. Carolann Bonner is finishing an internship with UNT's International Programs office this semester. Allison Buchanan interned with UNT's Theater and Dance Department making stage sets last semester and continues in a paid position there this semester. IADS major Rachel Albright is finishing a research project in intermedia with UNT professor Dr. Susan Squires.

The first North Texas Art History Society Symposium will take place on Saturday, 16 April from 9am-5pm in ART 223. This day-long forum will promote research in art history and related fields, featuring graduate student presenters from across the North Texas region. Keynote speaker, Dr. Amy Buono, Assistant Professor of Art History at SMU will present her paper "Brazil, Mexico, Milan: From Bird to Book and Back Again" at 4pm.

Nada Shabout presented a keynote address at the International Conference, Presenting "Islamic" Art in Contemporary Context at the Aula of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

I have the great pleasure to let you know about more good news from the art history program:

Nada Shabout has just returned from presenting a keynote address at the International Conference, Presenting “Islamic” Art in Contemporary Context at the Aula of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Undergraduate art history majors Julie Thompson and Cheryl Palyu have been selected to participate in the UT Arlington undergraduate art history symposium, to be held later this month.

The first North Texas Art History Society Symposium will take place on Saturday, 16 April from 9am-5pm in ART 223. This day-long forum will promote research in art history and related fields, featuring graduate student presenters from across the North Texas region. Keynote speaker, Dr. Amy Buono, Assistant Professor of Art History at SMU will present her paper “Brazil, Mexico, Milan: From Bird to Book and Back Again” at 4pm.

Mickey Abel's essay "Intellectual Projection, Liminal Penetration: Programmed Entry and the Tympanum-less Portals of Western France" has just appeared in Push Me, Pull You: Imaginative and Emotional Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Congratulations!

Kelly Donahue-Wallace's article, "Prints and the Circulation of Colonial Images," has just been published in the Oxford Bibliographies Online, a peer-reviewed reference resource published by Oxford University Press. The annotated bibliographies in this series are designed to help researchers identify the essential literature in a given field of inquiry. "Prints and the Circulation of Colonial Images" presents the history and theory of printmaking in colonial Latin America as well as European images picturing the Americas between 1500 and 1800.

Here are the awards that were presented last night.

Best of Category Awards
Best of Logos: Anna Neiss ($125)
Best of Letterhead Package: Brendon Avalos ($125)
Best of Posters: Seungkyung Na ($125)
Best Magazine Covers/Spreads: Natalia Zinser ($125)
Best of Brochures & Catalogs: Jayme Davis ($125)
Best of Annual Reports: Josh Kitchens ($125)
Best Pro Bono Advertising: David Heflin ($125)
Best Interactive Design: Jennifer Jennings ($125)
Best of Illustration: Natalia Padillia ($125)

Judges Choice Awards
Yvette Wheeler of RBMM: Seungkyung Na for "Paper Back Writer" ($250)

Sponsored Awards
1400 Words Scholarship, Best Use of Copy: Emily Schwarting ($500)
Clampitt Paper Scholarship, Best Use of Paper: Paul Samples for "Herman Miller AR" ($1,000)

Scholarhips/Portfolio Awards
DSVC Jump-Start Scholarship: Anna Neiss ($2,000)
Dick Sloane Portfolio Prize: Ashley Ayer ($3,000)

Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching (nominated by students)
Eric Ligon

Of the 31 awards given last night, UNT won 15 of them and a total prize of $7,875 in awards and scholarships. You all should be as incredibly proud of yourselves and your program as we, the faculty, are proud of you.

Best School went to the Miami Ad School, by the way. (This award is not made based on the number of submissions or awards, but on the overall quality of all the work submitted by any given school.)

You are a great group of students and we feel luck to be teaching you.

Congrats again
Eric, Michael, Keith, Karen, Michele, Alex, Jacob and Bill

Cathy Lebowitz is an artist, writer, and editor at Art in America. Her
current work looks at the relationship between art practice and growing
food.
 

Make Art Grow Food: a Presentation
Thursday April 7, 2011 at 7 PM
Environmental Science Building, Room ENV 125

University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts and Design
Drawing and Painting

For more information email professor Annette Lawrence.

CVAD Assistant Professor of Communication Design Michele Wong Fung Kong's article "Audience/Online Information Interactions: New Research in Learning Preferences" has been published in Visible Language Volume 44.3, produced by the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 

Congratulations! Art History MA student Casey Wilson has just been awarded a summer internship in the School Programs division of the Education department at the Guggenheim.

DENTON (UNT), Texas ¾  Hundreds of lost works of art from the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad are documented in a new database that became publicly accessible this month, thanks to seven years of research led by Dr. Nada Shabout, a University of North Texas associate professor of art history and a leading expert on modern Iraqi art.

Called the Modern Art Iraq Archive, the database at http://artiraq.org/maia has become one of the most comprehensive collections of information about the artworks, many of which disappeared from the museum after lootings and fires following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

“This database is only the beginning, as we hope that others will contribute more information that will continue to shed light on modern Iraqi culture,” Shabout said. “Few of the lost works of art have been recovered, but having information about them in this database is the next best thing. Otherwise, it’s as if they never existed — and a large part of modern Iraqi culture would be lost.”

The Modern Art Iraq Archive contains about 700 items, including about 460 artworks and about 230 documents related to the art, including exhibition catalogs; newspaper, magazine and journal articles; personal letters; and sketches.

Shabout plans to expand the database to include even more modern Iraqi artworks from the late 19^th century to the 1990s — not just those from the museum. The open-access database is designed so that members of the general public can contribute images and information. She is still seeking information about many of the works, including their whereabouts and original location in the museum.

Shabout, a former Iraqi resident, began her quest for information about the artworks during a visit to Iraq in 2003. Since then, she has interviewed artists, museum personnel and art gallery owners in her continuing search for information. Shabout received two fellowships from the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq in 2006 and 2007 to conduct the first phase of data collection. In 2009, she received a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Service to create the database, which is a joint effort of UNT, the Alexandria Archive Institute and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.

She is co-editor of the book “New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21^st Century” and the author of “Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics.” She earned a Senior Fulbright Scholar grant to teach a course in contemporary Arab art history at the University of Jordan in Amman from September 2008 to February 2009. She is a long-term advisor to Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, and was a guest curator for two of the museum’s inaugural exhibitions in December. Shabout also serves as director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Studies Institute at UNT.

PDF Version Here

CVAD Dean Robert Milnes won an Honorable Mention award for his sculpture "Searching" in the 2011 Best of Texas Clay exhibition.  The exhibition runs this month at the Fort Worth Community Art Center.  The reception will be held from 5-9 and award ceremony will be from 7-8 pm on Saturday, March 26

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Find Your Artistic Spark at ARTsPARK! March 26, 12 – 6PM, NorthPark Center.  The 2nd annual, free, one-day event features arts and cultural organizations throughout North Texas with live performances and demos. There will be opportunities to learn a new creative skill, hone a talent, join a like-minded group, volunteer for a favorite organization and explore what makes North Texas a great place to live.   
Link: www.northparkcenter.com

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Join us for ARTsPARK at NorthPark, Sat. 3/26, 12-6pm.  Learn a new skill, join a group, volunteer, watch live performances, demos & more!


Ticket Giveaways on WRR Classical 101.1
In addition to getting the word out about the event to your patrons, I also wanted to let you know about our wonderful media partner WRR Classical 101.1.  They will be broadcasting live from ARTsPARK on March 26 in the afternoon, and we want to help promote your organization!  They will be doing a combination of interviews with participating organizations, as well as on-air ticket giveaways.  If you are interested in donating performance tickets or a membership to your organization please let me know as soon as possible so we can finalize our list of giveaways for that day.  They will also be promoting these giveaways on their facebook page and twitter feed.  This is a GREAT OPPORTUNITY to promote your organization.  I hope everyone can take advantage of it.
 
You’ll be getting a few more emails over the next 3 weeks with lots of helpful information about the event and things you’ll need to pass along to your volunteers.  Here’s what to expect:
 
Next Monday (3/14) – You will receive an email from Rachel Friedlander, our Events Manager, with your booth number/location, a performance schedule for the day, a layout of the event map and some other good info.
Monday (3/21) – You will receive another email from Rachel with a reminder of your booth number/location, a reminder of the event procedures and any schedule updates we may have at that time.
 
If at any point you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact any of the team members working on this year’s ARTsPARK event (they are copied on this email):
 
Rachel Friedlander – NorthPark Events Manager, rfriedlander@northparkcntr.com
Lona Crabb – NorthPark Special Events/Operations Manager, lcrabb@northparkcntr.com
Vail Tolbert – NorthPark PR Manager, vtolbert@northparkcntr.com
Katherine Wagner – Business Council for the Arts CEO, katherine.wagner@ntbca.org
Cidnee Patrick – Business Council for the Arts Director of Programs, Cidnee.patrick@ntbca.org
*Chris Winter is out on vacation until Tuesday, March 15.  So if you have tried to reach her, please direct your questions to any of us listed above.

Dr. David Darts, Assistant Professor at NYU and Associate Director NYU Studio Art Program in Venice will be presenting a lecture titled "The Makers of Things: Art Education and Freedom in the Age of Digital DIY" on Wednesday, 9 March at UNT on the Square. UNT on the Square is located at 109 N. Elm Street. The lecture will begin at 6pm and will be preceded by a reception at 5:30.

Southwestern College Art Gallery presents:

Welcome to Anywhere: Southern California Abstraction

Featuring:
Margaret Griffith
Heather Gwen Martin
Jessica McCambly
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz

Curated by John Oliver Lewis

Exhibition Dates: 3.3.11- 3.30.11

Opening Receptions & Events 3.3.11
11-12 PM Gallery Reception
12-1 PM Panel Discussion featuring artists Jessica McCambly & Mariángeles Soto-Díaz
6-8 PM Evening Gallery Reception
 

The events are free to the public. There will be free parking in Lot J on the day of the opening.
 

Exhibition Statement:

Exploring the language of abstraction through formal elements and concerns, these four Southern California artists employ this vocabulary individually as a vehicle to organize, investigate and process themes of observation and experience.

In a region with a rich artistic history of abstraction, this exhibition aims to provide a glimpse of four diverse approaches to abstraction in Southern California.

About the Artists
Margaret Griffith earned a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art Sculpture
and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art Painting. Griffith lives
and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Heather Gwen Martin earned a BA with honors from the University of California, San Diego and engaged in post-baccalaureate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Martin lives and works in San Diego, CA.

Jessica McCambly earned a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design. McCambly lives and works in San Diego, CA.

Mariángeles Soto-Díaz earned a MA, from The School of Critical Studies, CalArts, a MFA, from Claremont Graduate University, a BA from Hampshire College and studied at the Instituto de Arte Federico Brandt and the Instituto de Diseño de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela. Soto-Díaz lives and works in Irvine, CA.

The Southwestern College Art Gallery is located in Rm 710B
900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, CA 91910.
Gallery Hours are Monday through Thursday 10:30am-2:00pm,
Wednesday & Thursday 5:30pm-8:30pm.
Tel. 619-421-6700 x 5568
Fax 619-421-6700 fax 5368
pvasquez@swccd.edu
jlewis@swccd.edu

Margins and Centers in South Asian Islam: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Featuring Two Talks by Dr. Barbara Metcalf -- March 10th -- 12:30pm, Lunchtime Lecture, Department of History Library, Wooten Hall, The Most Dangerous Place in the World? Historical Reflections on the Islamic Republic of Pakistan & 5pm, Public Lecture, UNT Silver Eagle Suite A, Student Union, Islam, Islamists, and Democracy. March 11th -- 9am-5pm -- A one-day workshop of South Asian Islam.

DENTON (UNT), Texas ¾ A new exhibition at the University of North Texas features international artists and designers who create artistic works and everyday functional items from bark cloth, focusing on creating sustainable and environmentally friendly design solutions from a centuries-old process.

The exhibition — titled Material Evolution: Ugandan Bark Cloth — shows how bark cloth made from the Ugandan mutuba trees can be used to create commonplace items such as men’s shoes, a jacket and a bark cloth-wrapped steering wheel. Other featured items include artistic works such as wall coverings made of bark cloth and a bark-cloth dress used in contemporary Ugandan wedding ceremonies.

The items will be on display March 1 (Tuesday) through March 26 (Saturday) at the UNT Art Gallery in the UNT Art Building, one block west of Mulberry and Welch streets. An opening reception will be held 4:30 to 6 p.m. March 1 (Tuesday).

“For hundreds of years, bark cloth has been a part of the Buganda Kingdom of Uganda, and now this unique material is finding a place in contemporary art and design, both in Uganda and abroad,” said Lesli Robertson, curator of the exhibition and a lecturer in the fibers program at the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design.

Robertson, who is a faculty fellow in UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, has traveled to Uganda several times in the last few years to study the process of making bark cloth. Also in the last few years, Robertson has organized various community projects to engage schoolchildren in Uganda and the United States in an exchange of artistic ideas. A mural created by those schoolchildren will be on display in the March exhibition.

Other related events are:

·        Open Studio at UNT on the Square

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 26 (Saturday)

109 N. Elm St. in Denton

The Masters and Doctoral Commencement Ceremony will be held Friday, May 13 at 3:00 pm in the UNT Coliseum for all of UNT.
 
The Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony will be held Saturday, May 14 at 5:00 pm in the UNT Coliseum.  This semester CVAD will be teaming up with the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management and the College of Music.
 
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Elyce Franks at x4003 in the dean’s office.

Paul Niell's book manuscript, Buen Gusto and Classicism in Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Latin America, which he co-edited with Stacie G. Widdifield of University of Arizona, has been accepted for publication by the University of New Mexico Press. This presents the culmination of a project that progressed from a session at College Art Association, to the Politics of Taste symposium that Paul Niell and Kelly Donahue-Wallace co-organized, to this book contract. He has also just been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Latin American Art.

The Fashion Design Entry Portfolio Review 2011 session begins today, Feburary 18th and will run through Febrary 25th. For more information, please visit http://art.unt.edu/fashion-design.html or http://art.unt.edu/forms/fashiondesign-entryportfolioreview

Dr. Nadine Kalin, Art Education Assistant Professor, and Art Education Ph.D. student Brent Hirak presented at the 2011 International Conference on Narrative, Arts-based and Post Approaches to Social Research held at Arizona State University.

Nina Boothe, Art Education Student Teacher Supervisor, has been named the NAEA Texas Art Educator of the Year.

Dr. Terry Barrett's new 3rd edition of Criticizing Art has been published and includes the writings of several UNT students and alumnae.

Dr. Paul Niell, Art History Assistant Professor, has received a Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship that will allow him to complete his article, "Rhetorics of Identity in Havana's Early 19th Century Fountain Sculpture."

CVAD SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED FORM FEBRUARY 4 TO A NEW DATE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, DUE TO THE CAMPUS CLOSURE FEBRUARY 2-4.

EVENT CANCELLED!!!   CVAD Dean Robert Milnes has had to cancel the UNT (and especially CVAD) alumni  happy hour at the Caliterra Bar and Grille at the Wyndham Hotel in Chicago from 6:00 pm– 7:30 pm on Thursday,  February 3.  The third largest storm inChicago history has forced a change.

Wyndham Hotel
Caliterra Bar and Grille
633 North St. Clair  
Chicago, Illinois 60611
312-573-0300

If you were planning to attend the reception, please get in touch with us anyway! To cancel and contact us, please see the UNT alumni Event Brite page: The page has an RSVP feature on it, or contact Robert Milnes at milnes@unt.edu

 CVAD's Shane Mechlenburger Featured in InHouse

http://inhouse.unt.edu/diamond-forever

Reasearch Cluster Project Amongst the Top 10 International Winners

An interactive sound and cinema work earned an honorable mention for David Stout, professor of music, and research Associate Cory Metcalf in the VIDA 13.0 International Art and Artificial Life Competition.

Story Here

You are invited you to attend the upcoming ART-TEC lecture series sponsored by the interdisciplinary art and technology cluster, iARTA. Featuring leading national and international figures exploring new and emergent practices across the arts, the ART-TEC series introduces the UNT community to the recently formed (iARTA) Advisory Board. Our first guests, curator, Steve Dietz and Eyebeam Director, Amanda McDonald Crowley will join new media artist Shane Mecklenberger for a conversation in Recital Hall at College of Music on the UNT campus on Thursday, Feb. 3rd at 8:00PM.

iARTA Invitation e-card

This is an Interview with Christopher King, who graduated from our program two years ago. He gives UNT and the program a nice plug as well.

Great work to look at too.

http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2011/01/getting-paid-to-draw-dinosaurs.html

UNT's Research magazine features a major article on CVAD's  Fashion Design program and the Texas Fashion Collection

Nancy Margolis Gallery: Abstraction

Feb 3 - March 12

Vincent Falsetta, Untitled CV 10-1, 2010, oil on canvas, 60"x60"

The exhibition will show the work of eight painters who are a mix of generations, and visions, from different parts of the US whose practice based on abstration is keyed to gorgeous color, voluptuous organic shapes and linear reductive forms. The Exhibition is to open February 3 and continue through March 12, 2011.

Exhibiting Artists: Sheldon Berlyn, Vinvent Falcetta, Jackie Meier, Garry Mitchell, Jacob Ouillette, Fran Shalom, Julian Stanczak, and Henry Wolyniec.

Nancy Margolis Gallery

523 West 25th St

New York, NY 10001

Works from P.R.I.N.T. currently on exhibit at University of Texas at Arlington

http:www.uta.edu/gallery/exhibitions/epicenter-impressions.php

John Hitchcock: Epicenter and Impressions: Prints Made in Texas

Januart 18 - February 12, 2011

Reception: Friday, January 28, 6 - 8:30 PM with brief talk by John Hitchcock beginning at 6:30 PM

Impressions: Print Made in Texas features 57 works produced by established Texas printmaking studios in collaborations with well-known and emerging artists. Coronado Studio, founded in 1991 by Same Coronado in Austin, is the home of The Seri...e Project whose mission is to provide underrepresented artist with serigraph printmaking services through their artist-in-residence program. Flatbed Press, also located in Austin, was founded in 1989 by Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith and is a publishing workshop that produces limited editions of origional etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and monoprints. Hare and Hound Press of San Antonio was founded by Janet Flohr and Gary Nichols in 1993 and is dedicated to the production of high quality print editions and works on paper. P.R.I.N.T is a fine art press affiliated with the University of North Texas that was founded in 1993 with a donation from Mike and Jo Hart of Peregrine Press, Dallas.

Spring Printmaking Collaboration with UNT Alum Jeff Elrod and guest Master Printer David Jones from Anchor Graphics Feb. 28 - March 4

Lectures:

Jeff Elrod - 2/28 at 1 PM

David Jones from Anchor Graphics - 3/2 at 10:30 AM.

Additional details/images can be seen below in our blogspot.

www.untprintpress.blogspot.com

Register now for Upcoming sprint workshops:

Feb. 12-13 - Non-Toxic Etching with Carter Scaggs

April 16 - Photopolymer Plates with Lari Gibbons

May 21-22 - Woodcut with Nancy Palmeri

Workshop descriptions and online registration can be found on our webside.

http://www.art.unt.edu/print/workshops.html

Those interested in being notified about upcoming workshop and other printmaking lectures and opportunities are invited to sign up at the bottom of our website for our e-newsletter. You may also join our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/PrintPress

Congratulations to Dr. Mickey Abel. Her article, "To Sea and be Seen: Reconstructing the Strategic Building Program at Maillezais Abbey," is now out in the Avista Forum Journal. Way to go!

Congratulations to Dr. Owen. Her book, Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora,has been accepted for publication by Brill Publishers and will be included in their Indological Library series. Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora is the first full-scale reconstruction of Jain devotional practice at the site as analyzed through art historical, textual and epigraphical evidence and it will fit well into this series which highlights the study of Indian art, culture,languages and religion.

The latest issues of The Mid America Print Council Journal is posted online. Entitled "Milestones," it includes articles by Cynthia Barber and Jack Lemon; Kristina Eldrenkamp; Kerry A. Morgan; Sean P. Morrisey; Nancy Palmeri; Nick Satinover; and Jenny Schmid, Robyn Carley and Kate Shannon.

The MAPC Journal is edited by Lari Gibbons (associate professor of art) and is made possible by members of an Advisory Committee and a team of designers, among other contributors. For more information, click here.

PLEASE NOTE:

CVAD meetings and other events scheduled Monday morning, January 10,  for faculty and staff will be delayed one hour due to the predicitons of freezing rain later tonight.

Breakfast in theLightwell will now be scheduled for 9:15 am

The General meeting for faculty and staff will begin at 10:00 am

The department meetings will start at 11:30

Meeting for full time faculty will start at 3:00

Up to ten Priddy Scholarships, worth up to $10,000 each, are available for graduate students enrolling in the Arts Leadership Certificate Program at the University of North Texas.  For more information visit the NTIEVA website.

"Coin Toss" installation at Dallas Cowboys Stadium by Annette Lawrence

CVAD Professor of Studio Art  and Big New Field artist and Community Partner Annette Lawrence teamed up with the Dallas Museum of Art’s Center for Creative Connections this month to start the longest paper line possible.  You can see complete information on this exciting project at Starting Line

Dr. Paul Niell has received a RIG to support his project "El Tepmlete and the Ceiba Tree: Classical Art and Cuban Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba." This funding will support Dr. Niell's research at the Cuban National Archive and the José Martí National Library in Havana this summer.

Congratulations to Katy Stewart. She's an undergraduate art history major and has just landed an internship in Public Programs at the Crow Collection of Asian Art.  This is a great opportunity for us and the Crow has been a great place for our department's students and graduates.

Congratulations are in order for Paul Niell. His article, "Classical Architecture and the Cultural Politics of Cemetery Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba" has just been accepted for publication in The Latin Americanist, the important and the oldest continuously published journal of Latin American Studies. Great work, Paul!

Tracee Robertson,  Director of the UNTArtGalleries, has received a $8500 grant from the Texas Commssioin on the Arts to support the UNTArtGalleries 2010-2011 season.  The grant will provide enhanced publications, exhibition arrangements, and artist participation during the gallery season.

Art History senior, Stephanie Santayana, has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.  This prestigious and competitive award of $5,000 will fund Stephanie's intensive language training at Peking University during the Spring semester.  Funds will also support independent research at the medieval Buddhist site of Dunhuang and Magao.
Congratulations to Stephanie! And, many thanks to her faculty mentors, particularly Lisa Owen!

UNT students cutting-edge design wins at quilt show


Naomi S. Adams is used to being one of the youngest people at quilting shows.
But at age 34, this graduate student in the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design is helping to shape the future of quilting as she earns worldwide recognition for her unusual designs.

This November, Adams won the Future of Quilting Award at the 2010 International Quilt Festival in Houston. 12/2/10 -- (View the orginal Star Community Newspapers article)

Dr. Mickey Abel, Associate Professor of Art History has just published her essay "Three Dimensional Voice: The Overlooked Language of the Archivolted Portals of Western France and Northern Spain" in Claudia Rückert and Jochen Staebel, eds.,  Mittelalterliche Bauskulptur in Frankreich und Spanien: Im Spannungsfeld des Chartreser Königsportals und des Pórtico de la Gloria in Santiago de Compostela /La escultura medieval en Francia y España: la confluencia entre el Pórtico Real deChartres y el Pórtico de la Gloria en Santiago de Compostela (Ars Iberica et Americana, 13). The Ars Iberica et Americana series is published in association with the Carl Justi Association for the Promotion of Art Historical Cooperation with Spain, Portugal and Latin America and, as this volume attests, brings together a truly international group of scholars.

Dr. Terry Barrett's  latest essay, "Art Interpretation as a Clinical Intervention Toward Healing," that he co-authored with Patrice Rancour, appears in the Journal of Holistic Nursing (http://jhn.sagepub.com/content/early/recent) with the print version forthcoming in 2011. If, in all of this end of semester/holiday season you get a moment to look at it,  it is fascinating.  

CVAD Assistant Professor Elaine Pawlowicz and her students in core Drawing II worked this fall with CVAD Board member Ignaz Gorischek (VP for Creative Development at Neiman Marcus) and UNT Capital Campaign co-chair Janet Bracken to help create images and objects for the Neiman Marcus Holiday Display.  The display was unveiled Saturday, Nov. 20 at the NM flagship store in Dallas.  The display, which benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters, is a space age, socially conscious marvel. The two trees shown on the first floor were built by the Neiman Marcus display staff from drawings done by CVAD students.  The trees were auctioned and helped raise $4000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
The two student trees designed by CVAD Drawing 2 students are displayed in the middle of the store on the first floor.  Also, on the 6th floor of Neiman's, there is a gallery of the top submissions from the  Drawing 2 class( about 30 drawings) for the tree designs.  Images by CVAD students in Professor Pawlowicz's Poetics of Space class received awards from Janet Bracken  of Big Brothers, Big Sisters.  The  images were made into notecards for Big Brothers Big Sisters.

tree made from drawing by Monica Martinez installed at Neiman Marcus, Dallas

tree made from drawing by Kira Sandoval installed at Neiman Marcus, Dallas

The UNT Art Gallery will be closed Thursday November 25, Friday November 26, Saturday November 27 and Sunday November 28^th. The North Gallery and Cora Stafford will also be closed those date.

Please join us for an Artist Lecture by Catherine Wagner on Tuesday, November 16 at 6:30pm Art Building Room 223, (on the corner of Mulberry and Welch Streets in Denton, TX)

Catherine Wagner is an artist who photographs archetypes of contemporary society and transforms them into conceptual images investigating the construction of culture. Most recently, Ms. Wagner has concentrated her work on ideas relating to the intersection of Art and Science. She has received many major awards, including the inaugural Visual Arts Fellowship from the San Jose Museum of Art, a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowships, and the Ferguson Award.

Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Folkswang, Essen, Germany, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her monographs include Art and Science: Investigating Matter (Washington University, 1996), Home and Other Stories (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993), and American Classroom (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1988).

CVAD announces the release of "Stories from the Avant-Garde"  a monthly e-newsletter about and for friends of the College of Visual Arts and Design.  To subscribe, go to: Subscribe to "Stories from the Avant-Garde"

Kelly Donahue-Wallace has published her article, "Not Just Indecent but Positively Obscene: Lascivious Pictures and the Inquisition in New Spain, 1691-1821," in the Colonial Latin American Historical Review. The article, co-authored with SMU graduate student Betony Latham, examines 41 cases of indecent images brought before the Mexican Inquisition. The lascivious imagery investigated by the Inquisition included snuff boxes, watch fobs and copies of Giulio Romano's prints known as Il modi. Dr. Donahue-Wallace and Ms. Latham completed the research for the article at the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico City while conducting research for her book manuscript, Jeronimo Antonio Gil Before San Carlos. The research trip was supported by funds from a Research and Creativity Enhancement grant from the University of North Texas.

Conversations about shared memories of life in Mexico City — and the objects, colors and smells that can inspire those memories — became the inspiration for Recuerdos: Nostalgia on the Periphery, a mixed media art exhibition at the University of North Texas exploring contemporary Mexican art.
The exhibition of video art, photography, sculptural work and paintings by emerging and established artists will be on display Nov. 9 (Tuesday) through Dec. 18 (Saturday) at the UNT Art Gallery in the UNT Art Building, one block west of Mulberry and Welch streets.
“The genesis of this exhibition was the conversations between Adriana Martinez and me as we talked about our shared memories of life in Mexico City,” said Victoria Estrada Berg DeCuir, assistant director of the UNT Art Gallery and a co-curator with Martinez, a doctoral student in the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. Both were born in Mexico and spent their formative years there.
“When Adriana and I began to look at contemporary art work from Mexico, we saw a lot of textural objects and non-traditional materials,” DeCuir said. “The materials and images in this exhibition reference aspects of Mexican life and culture. For example, we have works using cast resin made to resemble volcanic rock — which is very specific to the geography of Mexico and Mexico City.”
Another artist stacked a hundred copies of a map of Mexico and carved each one concentrically to create what looks like an epicenter — as if an earthquake centers on Mexico City.
“The works in this exhibition also communicate abstractly about life as a Mexican citizen living in a sprawling urban environment surrounded by millions of people whose lives constantly intersect a culture that is simultaneously ancient and ultra-modern, and the life of Mexican immigrants distanced from their native culture,” DeCuir said. “The experiences of those who live in Mexico’s cities and the memories of those who live elsewhere are recorded and depicted through images and objects laden with cultural and traditional heritage and the nostalgia of captured experience.”
The exhibition has been organized as part of the yearlong commemoration of the bicentennial of Mexican Independence from Spain and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, marked by cultural institutions throughout Dallas/Fort Worth, and is funded by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the UNT Fine Arts Series.
Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. For more information, visit www.gallery.unt.edu or call 940-565-4316.
All of the following events are free.
•    3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Nov. 9 (Tuesday) — Artist Lupita Murillo Tinnen will speak about her work during a History of Photography class. Room 223 of the UNT Art Building.
•    4:30 – 6 p.m. Nov. 9 (Tuesday) — Opening reception. UNT Art Gallery.
•    12:30 p.m. Nov. 18 (Thursday) — Curator Adriana Martinez talks about visual culture and theory as a curatorial influence. UNT Art Gallery in the UNT Art Building.
•    1 p.m. Nov. 19 (Friday) – Artist Irma Martinez Sizer talks about her work. UNT Art Gallery in the UNT Art Building.

Art History Master's student, Joseph Hartman, just returned from Florida State University's 28th annual graduate student symposium where, with funding from the AEAH Department and a Graduate Student Travel Grant, he presented "The Ceiba Tree as a Multivocal Signifier: Afro-Cuban Symbolism and Political Performance in the Cuban Republic under the leadership of President Gerardo Machado." The paper will be published this July in Athanor, FSU's internationally-distributed publication.

Art Education Ph.D. student, Brent Hirak, will present his paper "Considering the role of social interaction and place in sustaining a virtual community of practice" at the 1st Global Conference: Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds to be held in Prague in March, 2011.

CVAD art history professor, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, recently wrote the book Album artistico de 1855 which has been accepted for publication by the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. The Instituto is the global leader in the study of Latin American colonial and modern art. The book introduces, transcribes and annotates the recently discovered album of Mexican 19th century artist, Bernardo Olivares Iriarte. This album is exceedingly rare as an example of Mexican art historiography, providing biographies of undocumented artists and first-hand accounts of artistic practice as Mexico emerged from Spanish rule. It is one of the very earliest histories of Mexican art, written just before the first Mexican art historian, Bernardo Couto, penned his text, Dialogo de la pintura.

CVAD proudly announces that Leslie Ligon of Denton, TX has won the 2010 People's Choice Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Smithsonian Institute for her braille alphabet bracelet. 

Leslie's husband, Eric Ligon, is the coordinator of the Communication Design program at UNT. Inspired by her own son's vision impairment, Leslie turned her idea of promoting Braille literacy into a reality by designing, producing and selling Braille jewelry. She hopes this will raise awareness and empower both the blind and sighted communities.

See her acceptance speech on You Tube, as she discusses her story, and thanks our College of Visual Arts and Design and her husband.

CVAD Art Education professor Terry Barrett has written the Preface to Yurik Karim-Massihi’s recently published Toward Photography: 39 Essays on 39 Photographs (Tehran, Iran: Bidgol Publishing, 2010). 
 

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
A Lecture by Bruce Linn
October 25 Monday Essc 255
2:00pm-2:50pm
 
Bruce Linn is an artist and curator. His lecture, “The Wealth of Nations,” is an entertaining, straightforward narrative. It goes into detail about his work as an artist and as an art curator, and how they inform each other.  His talk is presented as part of the CORE lecture series in Design Foundations.

CVAD Assistant Professor of Art History Lisa Owen has been awarded a senior fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). AIIS  is the premier institution for the study of South Asia and the senior fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards available for her research.  

The fellowship is to support Lisa’s project examining a group of medieval rock-cut monuments in south India as part of a larger study on cave architecture across the subcontinent.  In this project, she will examine how ritual space is established and defined through these images and their accompanying donative inscriptions. By integrating the evidence gleaned from both types of visual records, her project will contribute to a much needed reassessment of medieval patronage, history, and religious practice in south India. The fellowship will support 3 months of fieldwork in India this summer. Professor Owen is lecturing at the 39th annual international conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison  where she will be serving as a discussant on the panel “Architectural Negotiations: Monuments, Audience and Reception in Pre-Modern and Early Modern India.”

Students from the CVAD Metals program are being featured this month on the Art Jewelry Forum blog.  Works by graduate students Loring Taoka's Split brooches (pictured here) and many others are featured.  The AJF blog is edited by Damien Skinner. 

Richland College presents “Context,” a photography exhibition about the discrepancy between place and subject. The photographic works of Lupita Murillo Tinnen and Keith Wilson investigate Mexican/ American relationships from exterior aggrandizement to interior isolation.  The exhibition will take place October 21- November 5, 2010. Opening reception Thursday, Oct 28, from 12-1 PM in the Brazos Gallery. The Brazos Gallery, located in Crockett room 140 on the Richland College campus, is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

UNT MFA Photography alum Murillo Tinnen’s work considers the individual’s living quarters as intimate portraiture. The homes belong to undocumented peoples living in America. As a series they question the visibility and viability of these families. By removing the traditional subject we are left to ponder the stories of these people through a peak into their homes.

DOHA, QATAR.- Conceived as a gathering place where questions are asked, ideas are explored and creativity is fostered, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art will open to the public on December 30, 2010, in Doha, Qatar.
Mathaf (pronounced Mat-haff, which means “museum” in Arabic) will present exhibitions and programs that explore modern Arab art. Its collection of more than 6,000 works represents major trends and sites of production of modern Arab art, spanning the 1840s to the present. In addition to its collection and special exhibitions, Mathaf’s on-site and online programs will reinforce its role as a center for global dialogue, research and scholarship.....Mathaf is the outgrowth of more than two decades of activity by QMA’s Vice-Chairperson, His Excellency Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed bin Ali Al-Thani...Sheikh Hassan has encouraged creativity in Qatar and throughout the region with his longtime commitment to Arab artists...
Mathaf will open with Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art on view from December 30 2010: an inaugural exhibition of highlights from the collection, featuring works by more than 100 artists and representing pivotal experiments in aesthetics. Sajjil, an Arabic word meaning the act of recording, initiates a space in which various narratives can be articulated in an effort to allow Arab modern art its historical place within a wider tradition of art history.... (The exhibition) is organized and curated by Dr. Nada Shabout, guest curator and consultant, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute at the University of North Texas; Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Mathaf’s Chief Curator and Acting Director; and Deena Chalabi, Mathaf’s Head of Strategy.

from Artdaily.org

CVAD faculty members Laura Neaderhouser and Jennifer Jones will be exhibiting in Cedar Valley College's  Educational Art Gallery October 9- November 4. Cedar Valley College is located in Lancaster, TX.

Media performance artist and iARTA faculty member David Stout will premiere a new live cinema work,  Drill Wide Open at the Dallas Contemporary Thurs., Oct 7 at 7PM.  The work is part of the "New Sounds for a New Space" series addressing sound, space and place curated by Composer, Christina Rusnak.

Doors open at 6 p.m. FREE for members of any arts organizations in Dallas – non-members enter for $10.

Drill Wide Open is a performance merging 3D animation, electronic sound and visual abstraction into a distinctly musical expression of live cinema. Mining the approaches of early analog video art, glitch-noise practice and current data visualization techniques, the work is a meditation on the expansive vistas, elemental forces and manifest displacement and industrialization of the west. The piece, conceived as a reflective painterly evocation of time and place, has been specifically created for its premiere at the Dallas Contemporary.

www.noisefold.com
www.dallascontemporary.org

The CVAD Department of Art Education and Art History has been honored as Eagle Feather Department of the Year for 2010 by the UNT Honors College. Art History faculty member Dr. Jennifer Way was recognized as Eagle Feather Mentor of the Year as well. A reception honoring student authors and faculty mentors will be held on October 5 from 3:00 - 4:30 pm in the Golden Eagle Suite of the University Union.  Honorees that day include three CVAD student authors and their mentors, and two CVAD students, David Thomas and Charisse Weston, who have served as guest editors of the Eagle Feather publications.  

CVAD Assistant Professors Li-Fen Anny Chang and James Thurman are two among eighteen artists, designers, and architects who have been chosen as finalists for the upcoming publication release date of November 1, 2010 (along with the survey publication of the Top 15 vote receiving artists, architects + designers, 'CURATE THIS! 2010'). The publication/exhibition, sponsored bythe BECA (Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art) Foundation of New Orleans, is the reult of a national competition with humdreds of entries.  High quality, hi-res (300 dpi sized at approximately 8x7 inches) image/s of the work which has been selected by Helen Pheby are availablel at CURATE THIS! 2010

Dr. Jennifer Way, CVAD Associate Professor of Art History, received a 2010 Craft Research Fund - Project Grant in the amount of $7,000 in support of her research on the role of craft "in relation to the US State Department's handicraft production and export program in Southeast Asis 1955-1961."  The grant, from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design in Hendersonville, NC will support her research into the work of industrial designer Russell Wright.

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CVAD faculty members Jenny Vogel and Shane Mecklenburger will be featured in an exhibition at Texas Women's University this fall, September 21st to October 14th, 2010.  Artist Lecture: Tuesday, September 28th, 4:00-5:00pm Artist Reception: Tuesday, September 28th, 5:00 - 6:00pm
TWU Department of Visual Arts | East Gallery, Denton, Texas

Jenny Vogel: 'Like a Blind Man in a Dark Room 3' / xerox transfer and graphite

Shane Mecklenburger: 'Semi-Automatic' / Plastic and steel / 2009

Jenny Vogel (born in Germany) lives in New York and North Texas. She works in video, photography and computer arts. Vogel's art explores the world as viewed through new media technology using web-cameras, blogs and Google searches as source material. She received her MFA from Hunter College (NYC) in 2003. She is a NYFA fellow in Computer Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media Art at the University of North Texas. Her work has been screened and exhibited in group and solo- shows in numerous locations and galleries: Art in General, NYV; Dallas Museum of Art; San Francisco Camerawork; Arnolfini Museum, UK; The Siberia Biennial, Russia; The Swiss Institute, NYC; EFA Gallery, NYC; Kunstwerke, Berlin; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC.

Shane Mecklenburger's work explores cultural value and identity. Recent projects examine the way popular media conflates entertainment, war, the market and art to construct masculinity. He is Assistant Professor of New Media Art at the University of North Texas and received his MFA in Film, Video & New Media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally at The Ubersee-Museum, Bremen Germany; The Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles; The Los Angeles Municipal Gallery; California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Axiom Gallery, Cambridge; and The University of Virginia Fine Arts Library, and The Dallas Museum of Art.

This exhibition of Ms. Vogel & Mr. Mecklenburger's work is selected by Assistant Professor Tanya Synar, head of the Sculpture Program in the Department of Visual Arts at TWU. More information on the artists and their work can be found at:
Jenny Vogel - http://www.jennyvogel.net/bio.html# | Shane Mecklenburger - http://www.shmeck.com/

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 4 pm. The East l West Galleries are located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building, at the corner of Texas & Oakland streets, on the TWU campus in Denton, Texas, 76204.
For directions, please go to the TWU website: http://www.twu.edu/visual-arts/default.asp For information contact:  Vance Wingate at 940-898-2533 / 940-898-2530 or by email: vwingate@twu.edu.

CVAD Assistant Professor of Printmaking Andrew Decaen will have a solo show opening at the Juanita Harvey Art Gallery at Midwestern State University this Friday. The work is primarily the product of his four-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center this summer.
See the work at Andrew Decaen.com
(To see the work from the residency go to "Portfolio" >> "Boxed Nature" >>Portfolio I)

Andrew DeCaen: Metabolism
Friday, September 10- October 15, 2010
Reception:  September 10, 6-8pm
The Juanita Harvey Art Gallery 
Midwestern State University
3410 Taft Boulevard
Wichita Falls, TX 76308-2099
Gallery Hours Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Regents' Professor of Jewelry and Metalsmithing Harlan Butt has just returned from a ten day residency at an artists' cabin in the Denali National Park in Alaska.  Butt was accepted to the residency program sponsored by the National Park Service to continue his work on a series of pieces inspired by the nation's great wilderness preserves.

"Recent Works" by CVAD Professor of Drawing and Painting Vincent Falsetta and "This Spanish Ounce of Gold" by former CVAD Assistant Professor of Printmaking Justin Quinn will be featured in solo shows opening September 11 at Conduit Gallery in Dallas. Also featured will be works by Michelle Blade in the Project Room.  For more information see : Conduit exhibitions

Opening reception for the artists:  SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010  5:30 - 8:30 PM
The shows are up Sept 11 – Oct 9, 2010.
conduitgallery  1626 C Hi Line Dr. Dallas, TX 75207 214.939.0064  www.conduitgallery.com

CVAD Assistant Professor of Art History Lisa N. Owen’s article Demarcating Sacred Space: The Jina Images at Kalugumalai appears in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online) vol. 6. no. 4 (2010): 1-28.  This journal is published by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.  In August 2010, her article Beyond Ellora: The Jain Rock-Cut Caves at Ankai-Tankai is featured in the Jnana Pravaha Research Bulletin which is published out of Varanasi, India.

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UNT student named finalist in international design contest
 
DENTON (UNT), Texas ≤  University of North Texas senior Emily Schwarting has been named one of three finalists in the non-browser-based design category at the international Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2010. The competition is billed as “the world's premier design, film, and interactive media competition for higher education students.” As a finalist, Schwarting earned lodging and airfare to the awards competition in Los Angeles in October.

For an interactive design class at UNT, Schwarting used Adobe After Effects software to create the concept of an interface that helps people shop for food while looking for recipes to fit their groceries. Her inspiration came from her own troubles with leftover groceries. “I buy groceries and make one meal, but the rest of the food is waste,” said Schwarting.  “This video gives you suggestions of what else to create out of those ingredients. It’s a money saver and teaches people about cooking.”
The interface “allows users to browse recipes quickly while shopping, sync smartphone grocery lists, find the fastest route around the grocery store, discover additional meals based on their purchases and check out and pay for items with ease,” she states in her project video.

View her video project here

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Dr. Nada Shabout,  CVAD Associate Professor of Art History and Director of UNT's Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute recently published “The Arabic Connection in Articulating North African Modernity in Art,” in a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 109, no. 3 (Summer 2010: 329-343), on “African Modernism,” edited by Professor Salah Hassan and “Arab presence in Venice Biennale,” a review essay in the Arab Studies Journal Vol XVIII/No.1 (Spring 2010): 356-360.  Dr. Shabout was quoted extensively in recent New York Times articles about the lotting and current condition of the contemporary art museum in Baghdad.

CVAD Assistant Professor of Art History Paul Niell's  “El Templete and Cuban Neoclassicism: An Ambiguous Signifier as Site of Memory” has been accepted for publication by the Bulletin for Latin American Research. Niell will be featured in a symposium on The Politics of Taste in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Latin America.  The symposium will be held from 9am - 5pm on September 17, 2010 at the Bob Smith Auditorium at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX (See CVAD calendar)

CVAD Assistant Professor of Art HIstory Paul Niell has received a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture to support the publication of his book, The Politics of Taste, and a symposium on the topic The Politics of Taste in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Latin America.  The symposium will be held from 9am - 5pm on September 17, 2010 at the Bob Smith Auditorium at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX (See CVAD calendar)

"Passengers" Featuring Lari R. Gibbons

will be exhibited at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, TX. The Opening Reception is Thursday, Aug 5, 2010, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. The exhibition runs Aug 5, 2010 - Aug 29, 2010.

July 22-24, 2010. Thursday & Friday 9:00am-7:00pm. Saturday 9:00am-4:00pm. Oak Street Hall, 1120 W Oak St, Room 107, Denton, TX.

Come on out and get some handmade tableware by a local artist/student.

See you there!

CVAD Art Education faculty member Terry Barrett has recently concluded a two-year, part time artist-in-residence position at the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming (College of Art Education), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  The residency has culminated in a book he edited: Kunst Werk: Mensen Reageren op Hedendaagse Kunst (People Respond to Contemporary Art), published by Thieme Art, Amsterdam, 2010. The book consists of many interpretations from students, the public, and art critics, of three contemporary works of Dutch art, and essays on widening the scope of art education in the Netherlands.

Congratulations to CVAD fibers and textiles BFA alums Jason Romero and Kimberly Williams.  Jason Romero was admitted to the graduate program in Fibers at the Rhode Island School of Design while Kimberly Williams will be attending Philadelphia University's Textile Design program. 

CVAD MFA Alum Bill Worrell is featured in a solo show at the Frank Howell Gallery in Sante Fe NM this summer.

CVAD Art Education doctoral candidate Dawn Stienecker has been appointed Web Site Manager for the Caucus for Social Theory in Art Education web site for the National Art Education Association.

CVAD Drawing and Painting MFA alum Howard Sherman (06) is auctioning a painting with a portion of the proceeds going to the National Fish and WIldlife Foundation Guilf Response. See http://howardsherman.com/auction_oilspill.htm for details.

Artworks by CVAD MFA Drawing and Painting Alum Jessica McCamby (07) and Ceramics MFA Alum John Oliver Lewis (05) were highlighted in a review by Leah Olman for the LA  Times Arts blog, Culture Monster.  Their works were included in the exhibition Here Not There: San Diego Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego this summer.  Ollman sites their work among the birght spots opf the show. See the review at: 

 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/07/art-review-here-not-there-san-diego-art-now-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego-.html

CVAD MFA Drawing and Painting Alum Lori Giesler has recieved the top prize in the Visual Art Soceity of Texas (VAST) 125 Mile Exhibition this summer at the Visual Arts Center in Denton.  Giesler's award winning painting, IFTP-9, is  36" x 31.5,"  oil on canvas. She recieved the John Weinkein Memorial Award for her work, which captures the emotional impact of the recent economic crisis and its impact, particularly on women and children. 

 For the complete story, see the review by Lucinda Breeding in the Denton Record Chronicle

Work by Lari R. Gibbons is included in New Prints 2010/Summer: Heat! exhibition at the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), New York, New York. The print was made possible by a 2009-10 UNT Research and Creativity Enhancement Award and Development Leave.
 
Gibbons is one of fifty-two participants whose work was selected from nearly 1,000 submissions worldwide. Individual artists and fine art presses are represented in the exhibit, including renowned institutions such as Anchor Graphics (Chicago, IL), Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT) and Lower East Side Printshop (New York, NY). The selection committee included Carol Blake, Collector; John Caperton, Curator at The Print Center in Philadelphia; Kathy Caraccio, Master Printer; Deborah Chaney, Printmaker; Marc Lepson, Artist and Professor at SUNY Purchase; and Barry Winiker, Corporate Collector at Pfizer Inc.
 
New Prints 2010/Summer-Heat! is on view from 13 July to 13 August 2010.
 
International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. The New Prints Program is funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts-a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Copy of Press Release

Copy of Show Card

from the Artforum.com blog:

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces 18 New Fellows

06.10.10

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced the appointment of eighteen new fellows for the 2010–2011 academic year. The museum’s program grants awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior, predoctoral, and postdoctoral fellowships. Since 1970, the museum has hosted more than 360 fellows who now occupy positions in academic and cultural institutions across the United States.

Among the 2010–2011 museum fellows is CVAD Associate Professor of Art History Jennifer Way, the Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian, who will be researching the “Politics of the Handmade: the Significance of Southeast Asian Handicraft for America, circa 1955–61”

(from the press relases from the Dallas museum of Art)

The Dallas Museum of Art announced the winners of the 2010 Dallas Museum of Art DeGolyer and Kimbrough awards to fourteen individuals. Of the fourteen, seven were students or alumni of the College of Visual Arts and Design! 

Among the seven winners of the DeGolyer awards were three CVAD students:

•    Nicole Loehr draws on her undergraduate studies in Communications Design, Photography, and Psychology at the University of North Texas to create “exaggerated portraits” that illustrate various aspects of the human condition. She will continue a series of portraits she began in 2008 that explore the Bipolar I disorder and will begin a new series following the themes of the mythological character Icarus.
•    Chelsey Mulnix’s paintings extend beyond their surface. She incorporates fabric collage elements into her portraits, thus demanding that viewers reconsider the materiality and orientation of the works. She is currently completing a B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas.
•    Melisa Oporto uses photography to examine the role objects play in defining an individual’s perceived identity. She will graduate from the University of North Texas this spring and will use the award funds to further develop a longstanding series, La Familia Oporto, which investigates the social implications of her family’s personal possessions.

And among the seven winners of the Kimbrough award were four others: 

•    Rachel Cox uses photography to explore identity, place, and material culture. Over the past year, this interest has manifested itself in a series of photographs depicting densely packed domestic space that show her largely hidden beneath artifacts of past and present inhabitants.  She will use the Kimbrough Award to produce this series, Assimilation, at a previously unattainable scale. Cox graduated from the University of North Texas with a B.F.A in Photography in 2006 and has previously received the Museum’s Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Award.
•    Jasmyne Graybill creates site-specific installations and sculptures that explore the relationship between nature and domestic spaces. Inspired by familiar parasitic forms like fungus, lichen, mold, and barnacles, Graybill sculpts fictional organisms that infest and overtake domestic architectural spaces. This body of work is an interesting extension from her academic training in Painting and Drawing, for which she earned an M.F.A. from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008 and a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas.
•    Clayton Hurt earned his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2007 and a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas. While his post-graduate work dealt with animal forms and their relationships to the commercial food industry, Hurt intends to embark on a new project exploring the realms of interactive art. He plans to bring together a variety of games and physical environments to create a new kind of experience, one in which the viewer watches, waits, and engages with the physical objects.
•    Trey Wright combines and manipulates photographs to create artificial scenes of urban landscapes, alluding to humanity’s tendency to shape and exert influence over its surroundings. Wright will further develop his current body of work, Islands. He earned his B.F.A. in Photography from the University of North Texas in 2009 and is a past recipient of the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Award.

The Museum’s annual awards were established in 1980 by the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund to recognize exceptional talent and potential in young visual artists who show a commitment to continuing their artistic endeavors.  The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund is awarded to artists between 15 and 25 years of age who reside in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona or Colorado, while the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund is open to residents of Texas under the age of 30.  The two funds have awarded over $450,000 to artists since their founding.

Rudolph Blume Fine Art ArtScan Gallery is pleased to invite you to a show of paintings by Denton's Matthew Bourbon. In the fractured narrative world of his paintings, at first we see human beings existentially detached from one another. The figures that populate Bourbon's world are often defined by abstracted shapes and lines, creating individuals that are masked and trapped in the picture plane. The viewer then becomes aware of the bourgeois, domestic settings these figures inhabit. Relationships emerge and are defined less by emotional content than by expressionistic gestures like geometric abstraction, loose brushstrokes or blobs of color. Bourbon's paintings are marked by his gift for creating a world filled not just with characters that are existentially fraught, but also with the charged space between them.

The CVAD chapter of Kappa Pi, the honorary art society, was innaugurated this year under the leadership of President Justin Jones.  Chapter officers and members have conducted tours of the college with high school and middle school students and have collaborated on mural projects for the City of Denton. They are slated to be working with the Emerald Eagle scholars in CVAD in the fall.  Congratulations to Kappa Pi!

Taylor is a Regents Professor of Studio Arts at the University of North Texas in Denton. He and his wife, Diane Taylor, own Taylormade Pottery in Ketchum, Idaho.

Taylor will present a workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the gallery. Registration is $50.  For information, call 806-374-6568, or visit www.bluesagepotteryandartgallery.com.

original article by Amarillo.com Staff writer Brad Newman

The official Texas Arts and Crafts Fair was held in Kerrville over the Memorial Day weekend.The Educational Foundation awarded the following scholarships  ($1250-$5000) to UNT students competing this year:
 
MFA student HP Bloomer, ceramics, receive a scholarship award for "Best in Ceramics". Marty Kruk also a MFA student in ceramics, received the schlarhsip award for "Best in Sculpture". And former UNT undergraduate Jessica Battes, now a MFA student at UT San Antonio, received the 2010 "Emerging Artist" award.
 

CVAD Associate Professor of Art Education Chritina Bain recently published Pixels are Not Paint:  A Qualitative Study of the Effectiveness of the Digitalfolio as a Learning Strategy in a College Digital Art Classroom. This qualitative study examined how six students in a college introductory computer art class perceived the impact a digitalfolio had upon their learning and creative processes. A digitalfolio is similar to a traditional sketchbook in that it provides students with a place to practice techniques, experiment with ideas, and create visual images; however, a digitalfolio is kept entirely on the computer. Students perceived the digitalfolio to be an effective learning tool despite differences in gender, art training, learning and creative styles. Results indicated that the digitalfolio provided students with a place to expand technical skills, experiment without the risk of being graded, and synthesize classroom instruction. The digitalfolio also facilitated creative expression among students who had polar opposite approaches, those that enjoyed and valued experimentation versus those who preferred systematically creating finished pieces of art.
# ISBN-10: 363913284X
# ISBN-13: 978-3639132847
VDM Publisher.
 

CVAD Associate Professor of  Drawing and Painting Matthew Bourbon will be featured this summer in a one person exhibition at the Rudolph Blume Gallery in Houston. Information abot the show is posted on the gallery website. 

 "Drawing from the Ethereal" features recent works in various media by the artists enrolled in the graduate studio art and design programs at the College of Visual Arts and Design. The Annual CVAD MFA exhibition is curated every summer by UNT Art Gallery staff.

Image:
Adam Palmer, Cake Walk, 2010, Screen print on paper, 15 x 22 inches.
Pat Flynn, Corrugated Bracelet, 2009, Iron, 22k and 18k gold
1 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches.
Courtesy the artist and The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design. Photo by Hap Sakwa.

CVAD computer techinican Kacey Close is featured in the most recent UNT publication of InHouse, the faculty and staff newsletter.  Learn more about Kacey and his work and photography there! 

Erin Joyce, Spring 2010 BA Art History Graduate, has been accepted to the Masters program in Art HIstory at the University of Glasgow, offered through Christie's in London. Ms. Joyce will commence her Master’s degree studies in London in the fall of 2010 with a concentration in the Art of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with particular interest in the relationship between sixteenth century Italian art production and its relationship to sixteenth century Islamic art production.

CVAD Fibers and Weaving Lecturer and 2010 Institute for the Advancement of the Arts fellow Lesli Robertson has officially joined the Renewable Bioproducts Research Cluster at the University of North Texas.  The research cluster, one of seven clusters started at UNT last year, creates green solutions for the life cycle of consumer and industry products using plant, bacteria and other bio-agent materials. Robertson and her classes have been expoloring a variety of plant materials for the creation of materials and objects.  Her work using renewable materials with community members is highlighted this spring at the Dallas Museum of Art.

CVAD BFA photography student Herman Cardona has been awarded an internship at the First International PhotoFestival in Guatemala this summer. Cardona will assist with the production and installation of four exhibitions, workshops, websites, and other festival activities. 

Recent works by CVAD alum Cecelia Feld (MFA 1976) will be featured in a solo exhibition at Artspace 111 in Fort Worth this month.  A reception for the show is scheduled for Thursday, May 20, from 6-9 pm at the gallery,  111 Hamilton Steet, Forth Worth.

 Ms Feld's lives and works on her farm in Bells, TX.  Her work was featured in the recent issue of "Texoma Living"  and can be seen on her website and on the CVAD's "Featured Alumni" page. 

CVAD Art Education student Karen Colbert received the McDermott Internship at the Dallas Museum of Art for the coming year.  This is a highly competitive one-year internship program in which she will help plan and implement teaching programs and partnerships in the community, including docent training, teacher workshops, tours, and school outreach.

OPEN HOUSE

• HAL: Hybrid Arts Lab
• UNT Music College
• Room 347 / 3rd floor
• Friday, May 7th
• 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
• light refreshments

The iARTA cluster invites you to meet their first faculty research hire, David Stout, and attend the inaugural opening of HAL, the Hybrid Arts Lab. David is a visual and sonic artist, video director and performer using cross-media synthesis and interdisciplinary approaches to bridge the arts and sciences and create new genres. His current work explores the aesthetics of data visualization and complex simulation scenarios. Learn more about David’s work and view interactive, audio/visual installations in development. Meet Cory Metcalf, David’s artistic collaborator, co-founding member of NoiseFold, and visiting guest at UNT. Work of associated, graduate student researchers will be on view as well.

For more information, please view the official invitation (PDF).

Henry Lee Whiddon

Professor Emeritus Henry Lee Whiddon, 79, died peacefully Thursday, April 29th of natural causes.  He was born Oct. 21, 1930 in Little Rock, Ark., and grew up in Memphis, Tenn., and later Marietta, Ga., where he graduated from high school. His interest in the visual arts began early, taking Saturday morning children’s art classes at the High Museum in Atlanta. After high school, he earned an arts diploma from the High Museum School of Art and then served four years with the U.S. Navy stationed in Pensacola, Fla. In 1955 he studied at Mexico City College, Mexico, before earning his B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. While earning his M.F.A. from the University of Georgia, Henry worked as a senior set designer for the Atlanta Municipal Summer Theater. In 1960, he accepted a position as Chairman of the Art Department at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth and later joined North Texas State University 1964 where he taught for more than 30 years teaching primarily drawing and painting.

Henry was a life-long patron of the arts and committed educator and mentor to his many students. His professional career spanned more than four decades of teaching, exhibiting, lecturing and judging in the visual arts. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, both regionally and nationally, and his artwork is included in collections of the High Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; University of Oklahoma; Pensacola Art Museum; University of Georgia; California College of Arts and Crafts; Telfair Museum (Savannah, Ga.); the University of North Texas, as well as private collections nationwide. He had a passion for gourmet food, opera and classical music, was a master gardener, and an enthusiast of primitive and Native American art and culture. Above all else, Henry was a devoted husband and father, and loved spending time with his family and traveling.

Henry is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Sonya S. Whiddon, whom he met while in graduate school in Georgia; one son, Mark H. Whiddon of Gainesville, and his wife, Jayda, and their sons Koby, Konnor and Brad; one daughter, Shelley Whiddon-Bartek of McKinney, and her husband, David, and their son Zachary.

A visitation has been scheduled from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 15th at the Whiddon residence in Denton. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations be made to Henry’s favorite charity, the St. Bonaventure Indian Mission & School in New Mexico

(From Denton Record Chronicle)
 

CVAD students in James Thurman's Design II class exhibited their sculpture projects at UNT's Environmental Education, Science, and Technology Building on May 5 and at the same time contributed over 350 pounds of food to the Denton Community Food Center!  Also on view in the EESAT Building are works by CVAD students for the Earth Day celebration. 

CVAD Communication Design students swept the national competition in the Dallas Society of Visual Communicators 6th Annual National Student Show again this year.  Of  the 189 separate pieces and portfolios that were accepted for this year’s show, 98 are from the Communication Design program  at UNT!  Awards and scholarships from the show will be anounced in the next two weeks.  Information about the show is avaiable at: http://blog.nationalstudentshow.com/

Since 2006, students from University of North Texas (UNT) and various other Chilean and U.S. universities have been participating in the Tracing Darwin's Path field experience, held in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. This innovative, interdisciplinary study abroad program combines the arts, philosophy, and ecology to address real world conservation challenges. In addition, its international and inter-institutional character is re-enforced by being a collaboration between the Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance in association with UNT, the Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB). As such, the course provides undergraduate and graduate students with a hands-on interdisciplinary and international research, conservation and education experience at one of the most pristine wilderness areas remaining in the world. Broadly speaking, all TDP courses include aspects of i) watershed biodiversity and conservation, ii) invasive exotic species and iii) human perceptions and relationships with nature. These multiple approaches will permit students to link society and development with biodiversity and ecosystems. The class will spend time both in Punta Arenas, the regional capital, and Puerto Williams, the world's southernmost town and capital of the Chilean Antarctic Province. Previous versions of the course have focused on ethno-ecology, nature writing, art/science and watershed conservation (www.chile.unt.edu/projects/tdp/tdp-index.html)

This course will provide students with an introduction to sub-Antarctic ecosystems and cultures of southern South America (geography, climate, ethnography and ecology) and also expose them to both the practical and theoretical aspects of biocultural conservation, including its interdisciplinary character integrating the sciences and humanities. We all bring different skills and mindsets to this course and work as a group to broaden and integrate our approaches to biocultural conservation, focusing on the development and implementation of the Omora Park as a long-term ecological study site that serves to link society and development with biodiversity, history and ecosystems in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. This semester-long seminar course will be bilingual and include seminars and readings shared between various Chilean and US institutions of higher learning. It is part of a broader International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program that includes a field experience, financed by a National Science Foundation (NSF), and a study-abroad field course entitled Tracing Darwin's Path. Participation in the field components associated with the semester-long seminar course is not a requirement. We will use various interactive features during the course, including Blackboard, videoconferences and livestreaming (www.osara.org/darwin_2009/darwin_2009.htm)

Dr. Nada Shabout,  CVADAssociate Professor of Art History and Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute at UNT will be interviewed on  KERA's Think, Art and Seek, on Friday. May 7th. She will be discussing CAMCSI, the "Open Shutters Iraq" exhibition now on display at UNT on the Square,  and her research work in contemporary Arab art.

THINK airs Friday night at 7:30 p.m.  It also repeats, Sunday at 11:30 a.m., Monday at 10:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 1:30 a.m.

Watch for New Media Video Art on NTTV (Verizon 46, Charter 22) starting tonight at 9 pm through Wednesday, May 5. Parallel Visions: A selection of Video Art created by students in the New Media Art program curated by Jenny Vogel, Assistant Professor of New Media Art, College of Visual Arts and Design, UNT, examines alternative perceptions of time and space. Using innovative camera and editing techniques the artists challenge preconceived experiences while offering insights into a parallel world. Presentations include:
"Damn Everything but the Circus" by Peter Kusek 2:46 min
"Untitled" by David Armour 2:29 min
"Design by Film" by Jordan Kerzee 4:59 min
"Home Movies" by Jennifer Patterson 4:57 min
"Untitled" by Joe Holland 9:43 min
"Testimony" by Jung Eun Lee (Graduate Student) 6:50 min
"Untitled" by Lauren Beatty 2:53 min
"Long Road Home" by Letitia Huckaby (Graduate Student) 6:11 min
"Open Says Eye" by Michael Morgan 1:07 min
"Untitled" by Minjung Kim 6:53 min
"Chess" by Nicholas Forasiepi 1:28 min
"Heroes" by Shane Graham5:01 min
"18 Hours" by Travis Thompson 4:15 min

ArtWear is an annual juried exhibition of the graduating senior student work in the Fashion Design program at UNT.  Each year some 30-40 students compete to have their best creations come down the runway and make their debut into the fashion industry. ArtWear has been going on for over 30 years and has debuted many successful young designers who have gone on to work for companies such as Calvin Klein, Liz Claiborne, Fossil, Theory, Nicole Miller, Betsy Johnson, Kellwood, Neiman Marcus, Dillard's, Haggar, JCPenney, and Russell-Newman.  Recognized alumni of the program include Michael Faircloth, Nicolas Villalba, Finley Moll, and (most recently) Shirin Askari, who are all successful independent fashion designers located in the southwest.

Date/Time:
Saturday, May 8, 2010 @ 8:00pm

Place: 
Silver Eagle Suite
UNT Union

Tickets:
$25.00 general admission
$10.00 w/UNT student ID
Ticket are available for purchase at the UNT Union Information Booth
Sales will begin April 15th.
The event generally sells out early, but tickets will be sold at the door if any tickets are left at that point.

 

Students in CVAD Studio Art and Core classes collaborated with other departments on campus and Denton organizations to help celebrate Earth Day on Thursday, April 22.

photo by Rhonda Boaz

Students in  Susan Cheal's Hypermedia Class collaborated with colleagues in the Environmental Education, Science, and Technology Building to install sculptures and performance art works in celebration of Earth Day. A slide show and article about the events can be seen on the Dallas Observer website and at the Fort Worth Star- Telegram site . The works will be on display through May 8.

Students in Mary Becker's Design II (Three Dimensional Design)have worked with the Denton Master Gardeners and the City of Denton to put in two gardens and prepare a third bed at the Clear Creek Heritage Nature Park. Students created

, figuative sculptures made of twigs and reeds.  They were encouraged to scatter them about the prairie so as to encourage hunting them out.  Most of them are close to paths; however it is still a nice hike to locate all of them.  Each wears a yellow 100% cotton article decorated with lady bugs as a class signature.  

CVAD Senior Justin Jones won the UNT Outstanding President of the Year at the Student Activities Center awards banquet last night for being President of PANTS, the Printmaking Assocition of North Texs Students.  Jones won the award in competition with all student organiations including fraternties and sororities on campus.  Jones also initiated the CVADchampter of Kappa Pi this year, the student honor society for art. 

CVAD Professor of Art History Denise Baxter and co-editor Meredith Martin recently published "Architectural Space in 18th Cenutry Europe , Constructing Identities and Interiors" (Ashgate, 2010). The book will be available May 1. 

CVAD doctoral student Dawn Steinecker's article, "Art Cars:  Transformations of the Mundane" appears in the May issue of Art Education, the publication of the National Art Education Association. 

CVAD Art Eduction faculty and students played prominent roles at the annual NAEA Conference this year.  Former Dean and NTIEVA Director D. Jack Davis received the Distinguished Service Within the Profession Award and  Art Education student Amanda Batson was elected President of the National NAEA Student Chapter.

Sixteen (16) Conference Presentations were made by UNT folks:  Five faculty (Terry Barrett,  Jeffrey Broome, D. Jack Davis, Nadine Kalin, and Rina Kundu); 6 current graduate students ( Lauren Kolesar-Etinger, Laura Lee McCartney, Lori Santos,  Dawn Stienecker, Matthew Sutherlin, and Susan Whiteland; and 5 alumni  (Beverly Fletcher, Susan Gabbard, Pamela Stephens, Nancy Walkup, and Jeff Young)

In addition Andres Peralta along with Dawn Stienecker, presented at the Research Session for Graduate Students in Art Education under the auspices of the Seminar for Research in Art Education and represented UNT very well in relationship. Their dissertation research will be published in the Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working  Papers in Art Education.

UNT was also represented by two NAEA Distinguished Fellows - Terry Barrett and
D. Jack Davis, while other UNT folks attending the conference included all five of the
Priddy Fellows – Karen Colber, Megan Direnzo, Joana Hyatt, Marcia Keogh,  and Liz
Langdon; Onstead  Fellowship Scholar Jennifer Hartman; and former Priddy Fellow Mary Caldwell. 

Galveston Arts Center is pleased to present Letitia Huckaby: LA 19 (Daughters of God), featuring work which blends quilting and photography while paying homage to the family of this Fort Worth-based new media artist. The exhibition will open during the May 29th ArtWalk and remain on view through July 4, 2010. Curator Clint Willour will lead a gallery talk with the artist at 6:30 pm.

Huckaby will receive her MFA in Photography from the University of North Texas in Denton this May. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and BFA in Photography from the Art Institute of Boston.

Guidry News Service, 4/19/10

Printmaking @ SGC International Conference 2010

UNT's Printmaking Area was well-represented at the recent SGC International conference "Mark/Remarque" in Philadelphia, PA.

Andy DeCaen and Lari Gibbons co-authored a presentation called "Remarkable Transformations and Collaborations" for the panel "Making it Viral: Remarking on Infectious Pedagogical Practices". Undergraduate and graduate students from the UNT student organization P.A.N.T.S attended, including Laura Drapac, Justin Jones, Megan Lockhart, Kristine Joy Mallari and Cat Snapp. They made themselves available for questions and answers and distributed free customized t-shirts to attendees. They also showed a copy of their most recent 'zine.  For many of them, participation was made possible by SGA Raupe Travel Grant Awards.

Andy and Lari exhibited their work in two theme portfolios at the University of the Arts: "Transforming Technology" and "Dream-Day Drawing," respectively. Lari's work was also included in "Mezzotint: The Illuminated Mark" at Tyler School of Art. Graduate students Laura Drapac and Cat Snapp participated in "Patent Pending" at the Moore College of Art & Design.

SGC International is an educational non-profit organization committed to informing its membership about issues and processes concerning original prints, drawings, book arts, and hand-made paper. The 2010 conference coincides with Philagrafika 2010, an international festival of contemporary art focusing on artistic practices that engage the visual, intellectual, and creative frontiers in printmaking.

Art history professor Kelly Donahue-Wallace has won the Exemplary Online Course Award for her class, Art History Survey I Online. The award recognizes the pedagogy, organization, visual presentation, accessibility, and interactivity in the course's design. This is the second time Dr. Donahue-Wallace has won the award. She previously won in 2007 for her class Art Appreciation Online.

CVAD AEAH undergraduate art history student Jaclyn Millichamp won the Undergraduate Essay category for the 2010 UNT University Writing Award Competition. She researched and wrote her paper, "Gender and Technology in the Contraptions: Rube Goldberg's Inventions Series" in the art history program's senior seminar. The award is a certificate and $500. The award will be presented at the Honor's Day Awards Ceremony on April 9th, 2010 at 3:00 P.M. in the Murchison Performing Arts Building.

James Cohan Galleryis holding the third exhibition by CVAD alum Erick Swenson, opening April 1st and running through May 1st, 2010. The new sculpture, Ne Plus Ultra (2010), will be a major feature of the show along with a selection of other works dating from 2001 to the present.

Art History Professor Jennifer Way  has received a Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow award at the Smithsonian American Art Museum to support research for her book project, “Politics of the Handmade: The Significance of Southeast Asian Handicraft for America, ca 1955-1961.” She will take the fellowship in late spring and summer, 2011. The Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum seek to foster a cross-cultural dialogue about the history of art of the United States up to 1980. They support work by scholars from abroad who are researching American art or by U.S. scholars, especially those who are investigating international contexts for American art.
 
A portion of the research for summer 2010 has been funded by a Research Grant from the Design History Society, the leading organisation for design historians, curators and practitioners. Founded in 1977, the Design History Society works internationally to promote and support the study and understanding of design history.
 
Way's is the first-ever research project to inquire about the political and cultural significance of making, circulating, exhibiting, and consuming handicrafts as part of U.S-Vietnam relations during a period marked by an intensification in Cold War diplomacy, between the end of the first Indochina War, when the French departed Vietnam in 1954 and Vietnam divided at the 17th Parallel a year later, and the early 1960s, when the Vietnam War began.

CAMCSI presents
OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ
Exhibition - April 5 -  May 14 (UNT on the Square, Denton TX)

Films: April 8th (RTVF Building) and Symposium April 9th  (Gateway Center) -UNT

The Open Shutter Iraq project is part of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute’s commitment to support cultural activities and programs at UNT and the larger community of North Texas.

CVAD AEAH undergraduate student Bart Dluhy won the Undergraduate Poetry category of the 2010 UNT University Writing Contest with his poem,  What the Carpet Told Me." The award is a certificate and $500. The award will be presented at the Honor's Day Awards Ceremony on April 9th, 2010 at 3:00 P.M. in the Murchison Performing Arts Building.

 CVAD Art Education faculty member Jeffrey Broome's article, “Observations from a multiage art classroom,” was just published in Australian Art Education, 32(2), 86-104, and Terry Barrett's chapter, “Principles for Interpreting Photographs," was published in the new book, "The Weight of Photography: A Theoretical Basis for Photographic Humanity."  AEAH faculty have now published on 6 of the 7 continents in the last three years.

Chris Darway
Lecture: 2pm, ESSC 255
Wednesday, March 31

Chris Darway crafts meticulously engineered jewelry and constructions. The artist even designs some of his own tools. Growing up with the car culture of New Jersey in the 1950's and 1960's, he was always fascinated by the inner workings of machines. His father was a mechanical engineer and his grandfather, whose tools he still uses, was a machinist.  Chris has exhibited, lectured, and taught workshops nationally and internationally. See Chris Darway

 CVAD joins the art world in mourning the passing of Dr Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury on Thursday March 25.  A member of the CVAD Advisory Board since it's inception in 1992, Dr Pillsbury was an influential supporter of the art programs at UNT and throughout the North Texas region for many decades. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts by UNT President Al Hurley in 1995. In his nomination letter that year,  D. Jack Davis, Dean of the School of Art, noted: 

"Dr. Pillsbury has also been a long-time and consistent supporter of the arts at UNT.  Since arriving at the Kimbell, he has worked collaboratively with the visual arts programs at the University in many ways.  The museum and its library are always made readily available to faculty and students for study and research.  The museum has been a fully participating consortium member in the UNT-based North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, one of six research and development efforts supported by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, an operating unit of the J. Paul Getty Trust.  In 1991 the Kimbell mounted a major exhibit from the Texas Fashion Collection entitled the "The Art of Fashion: The Radical Sixties."  On a personal level, Dr. Pillsbury has served as member of the Advisory Board of the School of Visual Arts since its inception." 

The Dallas Morning News, reporting his death, included:

By SCOTT CANTRELL / The Dallas Morning News
Edmund “Ted” Pillsbury, for 18 years director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth  and a major figure on the American art museum scene, died Thursday. He was 66...

“Ted was one of the latter 20th Century’s most important museum directors,” said Richard Brettell, chairman of art and aesthetics at the University of Texas at Dallas  and former director of the Dallas Art Museum. “He was, in some ways, singlehandedly responsible for turning the Kimbell from an institution with a great building into one whose collection matched its architecture in quality.”

Eric Lee, the Kimbell,s current director, said: “Ted was part showman, part scholar. He had an unusual combination of qualities that made him just right for the Kimbell at that particular moment.”

In 1991, New York Times critic John Russell called Dr. Pillsbury “one of the most gifted men in the American museum profession.”

Dr. Pillsbury, who held a doctorate in Italian Renaissance art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, attracted international attention with acquisitions of important works by Caravaggio, de la Tour, Watteau, Manet, Monet, Matisse and other important artists. He was also responsible for mounting major exhibitions, publishing scholarly catalogues and creating innovative educational programs. He hired an outstanding curatorial staff, and made the Kimbell an important force in art conservation.

He helped negotiate the first international loan exhibition from the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia, which broke attendance records during its 1994 run at the Kimbell.

“Ted Pillsbury will forever be remembered by the Kimbell, and within the art world,” Lee said. “When I walk through the galleries every day, when I look at the acquisitions he made hanging on the walls, I have such appreciation for what Ted did here.

“And almost every day I talk about exhibitions that were hosted at the Kimbell during his tenure. These ranged from the Barnes Collection to more scholarly shows like the Poussin show in the 1980s. That was one of the most important exhibitions of the last half century.”

...After leaving the Kimbell in 1998, Dr. Pillsbury headed the Dallas branch of the Gerald Peters Gallery, which then became Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art. He then spent two years, from 2003 to 2005, as director of the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, helping the museum find its direction in a new home. He left to work for Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Dr. Pillsbury also served as “consultative director” of the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas.

A Minneapolis native, Dr. Pillsbury was a great-grandson of the founder of Pillsbury Milling Co., now a division of General Mills. He received at bachelor’s degree from Yale University before going on to graduate studies.

Before becoming the second director of the Kimbell, Dr. Pillsbury was director of the Yale Center for British Art. His first position was as a curator of European painting and sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery.

His survivors include his wife, Mireille; a son, Edmund P. Pillsbury III, a medical doctor in Dallas; and a daughter, Christine Pillsbury Raniolo, of Singapore.

CVAD undergraduate senior Art History major Erin Joyce has been invited to present her paper, Le Déjeuner en Fourrer: The Hybridity of Gender and Technology at the West of England & South Wales Women's History Network Annual Conference 2010 themed Women as Producers and Consumers in History. The   conference will be held at Sarum College in Salisbury, UK this summer. The paper was also selected for inclusion in the 2010 Virginia Humanities Conference and at the University of Akron Bi-Annual CROW Conference for which it is being considered for publication.

CVAD Art Education graduate student Lauren Kolesar-Eatinger has been accepted to attend the Power of Art supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation at the Lab School in Washington, DC., April 29- May 2, 2010.  This is a workshop that focuses on the topic of teaching the learning disabled. 32 art educators are selected to attend this workshop annually.

CVAD Profesor and UNT Institute for the Advancement the Arts Fellow Dornith Doherty is now working at the Svalbard Vault in Norway. The Svalbard Vault is a huge seed bank that contains a backup collection of seeds from literally every country in the world in one central and secure location. The vault’s purpose is to ensure fail-safe protection of the biological diversity of global agriculture and native species held in collections in traditional seed banks.

NTx35 Festival opens this week with Round Table discussion on the Arts in North Texas.  Featured speakers include Robert Milnes, Dean, CVAD

CVAD Graduate photography student Leticia Huckaby will be featured in an upcoming session on KERA's Art 'n Seek website and TV spots.  KERA will be will be previewing the work for her MFA exhibition which opens this Saturday from 5-7pm and adding the show to their calendar.

The exhibition will be held at the Arthello Beck Galllery at the South Dallas Cultural Center, Saturday, March 13 from 5-7 pm.

The 7th Annual Hecho en Dallas exhibition at the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas will include works by CVAD MFA alum Angeo Cabrales and MFA students Bernardo Cantu, Ingrid Scobie, and others.

Opening at 7 PM March 11, 2010.

Featuring artworks by Angel Cabrales, Bernardo Cantu, Jeanne Sturdervant, Oscar Duran, Chris Bingham, Keirston Jacobs, Jeff Parrott, James Michael Starr, Katherine Colin, Sharon Bernard, Kristine Byars, Rosalinda Trevino, Bob Dreier, Daniel Rivera, Roberto Mungia, Marta Azevedo, Michael Mahler, Joel Sampson, Julia McLain, Chris McHenry, Suzy Moritz, Cat Snapp, John David, Brandon Thibodeaux, Rita Barnard, Frank Lopez, Natalia Ferber, Francisco Moreno, Marilyn Jolly, Cactus Pudding, Guy Reynolds, Solange Mariel, Mariande Lefeld, Adriana Martinez Mendoza,Martin Campos, Ingrid Scoble, Jack Brockette, Humberto De Garrio , Kim Cadmus Owens and Michael Maurer.

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:00pm to
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 5:00pm

Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak St
Dallas, TX

CVAD faculty member Terry Barrett's  chapter, “Principles for Interpreting Photographs," has recently been published in the new book, The Weight of Photography: A Theoretical Basis for Photographic Humanity (Johan Swinnen and Luc Deneulin, editors).
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Andrew Milligan is the Programme Director for Interior and Environmental Design at the University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. He has worked for NRS Architects, Jenkins & Marr Architects, and held a commercial post with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of UK wide Interior Educators group, he has taught in design institutions in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and at Duncan of Jordanstone. He initiated the IFS Interiors Forum Scotland, and organised two international conferences: Thinking inside the Box(2007), and Interior Tools Interior Tactics(2008). He is co-editor of 'Thinking Inside the Box: An Interior Design Theory Reader' (2008), and has published journal papers with Co-Design, and IDEA  Interior Architecture Education Association.

He is currently producing a new IFS publication. He led interdisciplinary activities between 2004/08 in Dundee, and workshops between Architecture and Interiors since 2005. He contributed to the blended learning Pg Contemporary Contextual Practice. His research includes: Big Brother, Occupations, Brighton (2009); Drawing Sounds at the EPDE conference Barcelona (2008); Reasons for Being at IDEC (2008); CEBE Centre for Education in the Built Environment funded case study (2007); Spatial Narratives at the Narratives conference, Loughborough (2007); Drawing & Intermediality, Groningen (2008); DeCon ReCon, Educating Designers in a Global Context , Salzburg (2006), and is interested in the relationship between digital technologies, space and domesticity. He is external examiner at Liverpool John Moore’s, and has been an external at Domus Academy, Milan; University of Westminster; University of Lincoln 2005-09; Forth Valley College, 2005-09; and participated in the Interactive Design Institute 2008. Andy won an Innovative Teaching Award in 2009.

CVAD Professor of Photography Dornith Doherty, one of the first Fellows of UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, will be going the the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, only 800 miles from the North Pole, this March.   As part of her ongoing project Archiving Eden, she has been working in research labs at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Colorado, and at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in England.  As she works on site making digital x-ray images of seeds and tissue samples from the collections, she has also been pursuing a documentary project focusing on the spaces and technology of genebanking.

The project has come to the attention of Cary Fowler, Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which manages the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and he has invited her to photograph inside the vault during the three days they will be accessioning new seeds this March.  The Svalbard Vault is a huge seed bank that contains a backup collection of seeds from literally every country in the world in one central and secure location. The vault’s purpose is to ensure fail-safe protection of the biological diversity of global agriculture and native species held in collections in traditional seed banks. Unique varieties of seeds are often lost to civil strife or environmental catastrophes. The diversity of the seeds in the vault will be vital for adapting agriculture to temperature extremes and significantly drier growing conditions associated with climate change.

The vault is located on Svalbard, a group of very remote Norwegian islands about 800 miles south of the North Pole. (It takes two days to fly there from the U.S., and about seven hours to fly from Oslo.) The vault is built deep inside a mountain so that the seeds are protected by permafrost, which will keep the seeds cold and viable even if the electricity supply is interrupted.  There are only about 2,000 inhabitants in the main town (Longyearbyen), and people are warned to protect themselves from Polar bears when traveling outside inhabited areas.  

For additional information, see: New Yorker magazine article on the Global Seed Vault, the Crop Trust website, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations website.

Photo by Irene Klaver; Design by Nicole Hauch 

On March 3, 4, and 5, the UNT Art Gallery and the Studio Art Department at CVAD and the UNT Fine Art Series present Fluid Frontier, a symposium and exhibition in partnership with WaterWays 2010, the third biennial conference of the UNT Philosophy of Water Project (www.water.unt.edu).  Fluid Frontier will take place in the Art Building: Fluid Frontier Schedule.  Parking is available in the UNT Parking Garage on Union Circle, two blocks from the Art Building.

Fluid Frontier provides programs inspired by water and the environment as cultural, geographical, and personal experiences.  The exhibition features new and recent works by 2009 visiting artists EcoArtTech and their UNT partners.  EcoArtTech is a collaborative platform for digital environmental art, created in 2005 by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir.  During their residency, Dr. Irene Klaver, associate professor of philosophy and religion studies at UNT, introduced the artists to what she calls "Little Lake" at Denton's North Lakes Park, a place that captured the artist's imagination.  EcoArtTech's new project, The Center for the Wildness in the Everyday, focuses on the South lake and includes an interactive website and a family day.  The exhibition opens on Tuesday, March 2 and runs through Saturday, March 27.  A reception for the exhibition will be Friday, March 5, from 4:30-6:00. Additional details at www.gallery.unt.edu.

The Fluid Frontier Sympoisum kicks off on Thursday, March 4 at 7:00 pm with a keynote presentation titled, Some Longings Survive Death, by nationally known Texas artist Dario Robleto,   Friday's (3/5) presentations explore environmental aesthetics and artist's projects with Emily Brady, John Frost, Mary Mattingly, and EcoArtTech.  For information about Fluid Frontier presenters, see www.gallery.unt.edu.

Fluid Frontier is supported by grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts, UNT Fine Arts Series, CVAD Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, and Wells Fargo, and by the participation of UNT students and faculty in studio art, philosophy, biology, and art education.

The Muslim Cultures Film Series, a program of the UNT Contemporary Arab & Muslim Cultural Studies Institute, begins with a free screening of the award winning film Amreeka. The film will be introduced by Dr. Nancy Stockdale from the UNT Department of History.

 Media Library, Chilton Hall, Room 111C, Wednesday, February 17, 4:00pm.

For more details see: Amreeka screening

CAMCSI will be hosting monthly screenings (details will be available on the UNT Calendar soon). Please share with your students. Thanks.

 CVAD Assistant Professor of Interior Design Ron Reed's new textbook, Design + Color: Transforming Interior Space is now available from Fairchild Books, a Division of Conde Nast Publications

The UNT Student Chapter of the National Art Education Association is hosting "Express Yourself" a multimedia arts exhibition for the visual and performing arts to be held in the Silver Eagle Suite of the UNT Student Union, February 26, from 8:00 - 10:00 pm.

There are no entry fees and all art work is being accepted!
2 Entrees per person
Entrees due on the Feb. 20th at Midnight
Submissions should be emailed to: ExpressyourselfUNT@gmail.com
Please include name, number, and dimensions for piece. Videos should be included of performance works. The show will be in the Silver Eagle suit on the 3rd floor of the Union from 8pm-10pm, February 26

Child’s Play: A Children’s Fashion Story — An exhibition of children’s clothing from 1870 to 1950 presented by the Texas Fashion Collection, part of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design

Feb. 19 (Friday) to May 7 (Friday)
Exhibition hours are noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays.

Fashion on Main is located at at the Universities Center at Dallas, 1901 Main St. in downtown Dallas
Free
call 214-752-8151 for details

Jeffrey Broome. CVAD Art Education facuty member,  has been invited to serve as a junior member of the new Higher Education Research Steering Committee of the Higher Education Division of the National Art Education Association.  The group invited one emerging scholar/junior faculty member and one full professor/senior member to serve on the committee for each of seven different types of research methodologies identified by the committee chairs.

Monday, February 8, 2010Meme Gallery in Denton gives local artists a new stage

by Andy Odom of My Denton Music

It's not hard to find art in Denton. It’s on the walls of the coffee shops, in the new UNT gallery on the square, heck, even on random fences around town. However, Denton has few places dedicated solely to art. Enter Meme Gallery, which recently opened next to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio.

Meme Gallery is the brain child of UNT art students Michael Little and Nic Webber, known collectively as Pan-Ector Industries. The two screen-printers, along with Rubber Gloves employee and fellow art student James Shepherd, wanted to see a dedicated space for art return. They eyed the space for sometime, and when it became vacant late last year Shepherd alerted Pan-Ector and worked with RGRS to use the space as an art gallery.

“That’s been missing since Art Prostitute left town a couple of years ago,” said Little. And what makes this different from the other places around town to display their art? “This isn’t to make money, it’s just for the [art] community.”

Artist Letty Gomez, whose first solo show was the subject of the opening, also likes the concept of the new gallery. “It’s all non-profit. It’s open to all ideas, and they’re willing to re-paint or re-design the space if needed,” Gomez said. “It’s of the community, for the community.”

Denton’s music community has plenty of places for their showcases every night of the week; it’s time Denton’s art community had one as well.

Of course, the opening of an art gallery next to Rubber Gloves means music has to be involved somehow. Denton’s Babar and Final Club were booked to fill that role.

Babar provided a spirited set of “Math Rock.” They appeared very tight, but leaned toward the cerebral instead of the catchy. In fact, a lot of their material sounded like “Five Per Cent for Nothing” of off Yes’ Fragile.

Local phenom Final Club lived up to their hype. Playing only their third show ever, they’ve already been interviewed by the Dallas Observer and We Shot JR since their sold-out debut set at Dan’s Silver Leaf a few weeks ago. “We were so nervous at Dan’s,” guitarist Austin Swann told me, “but tonight’s going to sound great. It feels like home.” But is it strange to share a gig with the opening of an art gallery? “It’s awesome,” says Final Club vocalist Brendon Avalos. “Art and music just go together, right?”

CVAD Professor of Art Education Terry Barrett has just published a new textbook with McGraw-Hill: Making Art: Form and Meaning.  The book will be previewed at the College Art Association meeting this week in Chicago.  The text is designed for use in foundation courses in art and design. The new book joins three other internationally acclammed texts that he has written,  published by McGraw Hill including Interpreting Art, Criticizing Photographs, and Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary.

The University of Noth Texas has initiated a Percent for Art program.  All future new construction and renovation projects over $500,000 will have one percent of the state funding allocated to artworks for the building or the immediate environment.  The program will be administered through the Art in Public Places Committee, chaired by CVAD Dean Robert Milnes. 

Woven Records January 30–May 23, 2010
A Community Partner Response Exhibition
Please join us for the opening of the installation
Sunday, February 7, 2010
2:30–4:30 p.m.
The Dallas Museum of Art invites community partners to contribute to the Center for Creative Connections. Textile artist Lesli Robertson led a series of workshops with Museum visitors, volunteers, and individuals from community groups to create a collaborative work of art for this installation. Participants include ARC of Dallas; Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts; Go van Gogh® volunteers; Icehouse Cultural Center; Talented and Gifted Program at John F.Kennedy Learning Center; The Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe; Tulisoma Arts Festival
at the African American Museum; and Museum visitors, teen docents, teachers, staff, docents, and volunteers.
For more information, visit DallasMuseumofArt.org or call 214-922-1311.

CVAD alum and Nation Medal of the Arts recipient Jesus Moroles presents a multimedia lecture on the motivation of his work, and his design of public art pieces on Wednesday, February 3, at 6:30 pm at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. 

His exhibition, Creating a Sense of Place, is currently exhibiting at the LCC. Working exclusively with granite, a stone of great density, hardness and weight, Moroles combines cutting and polishing techniques with the natural presence of the stone to create works of universal stature.

More Info: Latino Cultural Center

2600 Live Oak St
Dallas TX 75204
Phone: 214.670.3320
Fax: 214.670.0633 

Reception Tonight, January 29, 6:30pm-8:30pm
"Printmakers - Professors and their Students"
Haggerty Art Gallery, University of Dallas
1845 E Northgate Dr. Irving TX 75062

The exhibition features the work of 10 Texas Printmakers:
Kate Borcherding, Andrew DeCaen, Tim High, Nancy Palmeri, Richard Ash III, Linda D. Guy, Berry Klingman, Charles D. Jones, Lary Scholder, and James R. Pace.
Two undergraduate students from each of these 10 represeted schools were also selected to be in the exhibition.
UNT Printmaking Seniors Taylor McClure and Hank St. John represent the undergraduate printmaking area at UNT.
The Exhibition runs until Feb 22, 2010.

Faculty members Andrew DeCaen and Lari Gibbons will exhibit their prints alongside those of their students at the Universitry of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas. Entitled "Printmakers and Prodigy," the show takes place at the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery and will also include works by several additional print educators and their students from around the nation.

UNT graduate students whose work is featured in the exhibit include Laura Drapac, Sarina Furhmann, Adam Palmer and Cat Snapp. Participating undergraduates include Drew Elam, Katie Hewlett, Lauren Hirsch, Kristine Joy Mallari, Taylor McLure and Hank St. John.

Dates: January 22 - February 21, 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, January 22, 2010, 7 - 9 pm

URL: http://cas.utpb.edu/nancy-fyfe-cardozier-gallery-1/exhibits/2010-exhibits/

P.R.I.N.T. announces upcoming printmaking workshops for the spring.
 
February 27-28:  Monotypes with Richard Ash
April 17-18:  Mezzotint with Lari Gibbons
May 1-2:  Woodcut with Nancy Palmeri
 
Click on PRINT below for more information and to register for workshops.  

CBS-11 featured an award-winning dress design by Li-Fen Anny Chang, assistant professor of fashion design, in its 6 a.m. newscast on Jan. 14. Chang's dress earned first place in the adult division in the Texas Make It with Wool competition and honorable mention at the national level. The item aired at 6:50:41 AM.

Please follow the link to the download site.

The University of Edinburgh has accepted CVAD undergraduate art history major and Honors College student Charisse Weston for its MSc programme  in Modern Art: History, Criticism, Curating, Introduction. The new Masters programme combines academic study of the History of Modern and Contemporary Art with more directly vocational elements, notably an internship possibility in a museum or gallery. It is aimed at British and international students, and is intended to prepare them for further research and a range of careers in the art world.
 
Following a nationwide search for a curatorial assistant trained in transnational approaches to contemporary art and museum studies, the University of Nebraska's Sheldon Museum of Art has hired CVAD graduate Sarah Feit. The Sheldon is planning a new museum building on the Lincoln campus and who during his first year in his new position has made a concerted  effort to shift the interpretive framework for museum programming towards trans national and trans cultural approaches.
 

The CVAD Communication Design blog just registered it's 100,000th hit on Thursday, January 14.  Be part of the network by visiting the blog site

Listen In Thursday January 7th
Jenny Vogel / Caroline Chen & Caroline Bergonzi
HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
New York City, NY

Harvestworks is pleased to present multi-media artists Jenny Vogel, Caroline Chen, and Caroline Bergonzi. Jenny Vogel will present The Cruelty of Pirates, a story of low-resolution encounters that offers an intimate reading of contemporary loneliness. Live-streaming video projections in the stutter-step language of web cams result in a display of light signals that suggest an unknown code, some unknown message. Caroline Chen and Caroline Bergonzi will present Star Dust; black-and-white paintings created by Caroline Bergonzi that are transformed into animated, 3-dimensional digital renderings. Caroline Chen created music according to her visual perception of these renderings.  Read more

Dr. D. Jack Davis, professor of art education and director of the North Texas Institute for Educators in the Visual Arts, has received the prestigious 2010 National Art Education Association award for Distinguished Service within the Profession. The award recognizes Davis' exemplary contributions to the field of visual arts education and his leadership, commitment, and service to the profession.

The Jody and Charles Onstead Master Fellows Fund supports selected MA art education students with full tuition (9 hours per semester) and fees, as well as other educational expenses for one year, with the possibility of re-application for a second year. The fellowship supports outstanding Master of Arts graduate students who intend to pursue careers in art education, with preference given to students intending to teach art in the elementary setting. For application information, see  see Art Education on the CVAD site.

Jesús Moroles: Creating a Sense of Place
Dec. 10, 2009 - Feb. 27, 2010

CVAD alum and National Medal of the Arts recipient Jesús Moroles is exhibing and lecturing this winter at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas.  Working exclusively with granite, a stone of great density, hardness and weight, Moroles combines cutting and polishing techniques with the natural presence of the stone to create works of universal stature. He will reinvent the gallery space at the Latino Cultural Center, and create a completely different environment directed by the granite sculptures installed in the space.
Opening Reception
Hosted by the Friends of the LCC
Dec. 10 at 6 p.m.

Special Lecture with Jesús Moroles
Dec. 11 at 6 p.m.


        

Building Books

Five CVAD graduate and undergraduate students created huge sculptures out of books for a speciia, holiday display at the Mercentile Center in Dallas.  Working with CVAD Board member Ignaz Gorechek, VP for Store Development for Neiman Marcus, five students, Jonathan Snow, Chris Engebretson, Sarh Black, Richard Benavidez, and Rhiannon Davis created sculptures from books.  Thebooks were donated by the Disney Corporaiton to First Book, a non-profit agency that provides books for K-12 students.  CVAD students used the books to create temporary, fanciful sculptures in conjunciton with displays created across the street at Neiman Marcus.

UNT art professor receives $50,000 grant
to document missing modern Iraqi art
 
Dr. Nada Shabout, Associate Professor of art history at the University of North Texas, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Service to create a publicly accessible archive of missing modern Iraqi art.
Shabout has been working since 2003 to gather images and other documentation of artwork missing and stolen from the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, which was damaged following the invasion that year. The grant for the Open Modern Art Collection of Iraq project will allow for the construction of a database archiving her research. Her project has grown now to a modern Iraqi art archive, digitizing primary sources in Arabic and English published from the 1940s through 1990s.
The database — a collaborative effort of UNT, the Alexandria Archive Institute and the School of Information at UC Berkeley — will be open for public input so others can add to the virtual art gallery. The images will be linked to publications, exhibition catalogs and personal documentation.
“Nothing like this exists,” Shabout said. “I have about 600 images, mostly of stolen artwork, that are ready to be loaded onto the database. But while I’ve been able to use these images for research, others have not had access to them. Now, other scholars will be able to access these documents for research and add their own information.”
Considered one of the world’s leading authorities on contemporary Iraqi art, Shabout is one of the editors of the recently released book “New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century” and is the author of “Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics.”
Shabout also earned a Senior Fulbright Scholar grant to teach a course in contemporary Arab art history at the University of Jordan in Amman from  September 2008 to February 2009.

Text by Ellen Rossetti, UNT University Relations and Communications Management 

CVAD Art Education faculty members Terry Barrett, Rina Kundu, and Nadine Kalin recently published articles in Mentoring Doctoral Research, a special issue of Visual Arts Research Journal, 35(2). Terry Barrett and Rina Kundu along with their co-authors published  “A conversation on mentoring." Nadine Kalin, with her two co-authors, published “Mentoring relations within a/r/tographic inquiry.”

Onstead Fellows Fund supports graduate art education students

Selected graduate art education students in the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design will be granted full tuition and fees, as well as other educational expenses, thanks to a donation of $200,000 to date from Dr. Charles Onstead to establish the Jody and Charles Onstead Master Fellows Fund.
“Through this fellowship, we are able to support excellent students who are planning to dedicate their careers to working with north Texas children as professional art educators,” said Kelly Donahue-Wallace, chair of the Division of Art Education and Art History in the College of Visual Arts and Design.
The first selected student, Dallas native Jennifer Hartman, taught middle school art for three years in the Plano Independent School District before coming to UNT for a master’s degree. She plans to earn a doctoral degree and return to teaching in the public schools.
“Receiving this fellowship is a great honor, and has helped me to pursue my own, personal academic objectives by removing the financial barriers to my education in becoming a more effective teacher, curriculum leader, and arts advocate,” Hartman said.
Previously, Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in the studio art program at the University of Colorado. While there, she volunteered in an elementary art classroom once a week.
“Jennifer Hartman exhibits an exceptional record of human service and general intent toward philanthropy with her participation in a mentor program for at-risk students and her volunteer work for Boulder Valley School District,” Donahue-Wallace said.
The fellowship provides a selected student with full-time tuition and fees and other costs associated with attending school — about $19,500 a year.
Charles and Jo Ann “Jody” Onstead met at UNT, where Jody earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. They married after Jody graduated. After serving in World War II, Charles Onstead returned to UNT to complete a bachelor’s degree in political science, while Jody taught elementary art in the Dallas public school system. Charles worked at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, serving as a radiologist for the military for nearly 20 years before opening a private practice. The couple was married for 57 years before Jody’s death in 2003.
The Onsteads have contributed more than half a million dollars to UNT, including a gift for the Onstead Plaza and Promenade in front of UNT’s Willis Library. Jody’s Fountain, named in honor of Jody Onstead, was restored for use as a working fountain in April 2005.

article by Ellen Rossetti, UNT URCM 

CVAD Art Educaiton faculty members Nadine Kalin and Rina Kundu have both been awarded UNT  Transformative Instruction Initiative Fellowships for the spring semester. As recipients of Transformative Instruction Initiative (TII) Fellowships each will receive $3000 to develop course redesigns focusing on diversity and sustainability in the spring of 2010.  The Transformative Instruction Initiative is a hands-on course redesign program that provides support for faculty to enrich their courses through innovative instructional design.

Photo credit:  Denton Record Chronicle

These students are getting wrapped up in their art. Literally.
About 130 students in an introductory 3D design course at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design will wrap their bodies — or a friend’s body — in tape for their final class project. When they cut off the tape, the resulting castings will be their body of art.
The students will display all 130 taped castings in a temporary installation before making stop-motion films of the taped figures.
This sticky undertaking will teach the students how to tackle a large-scale project using “a playful, contemporary material,” said James Thurman, the assistant professor of art overseeing the project.
“As long as humans have been making art, they have been dealing with the human as subject,” Thurman said. “With tape, the students can learn to form a body relatively easily, and it’s relatively affordable.”
 

See an army of 130 human-sized taped castings on display from 2 to 3 p.m. Nov. 25 (Wednesday) on Level 1 of the University Union, one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets. The general public is welcome.

A silent auction of art works benefiting the United Way. The project is a collaborative effort by the UNT Humanics students from the PACS(Public Affairs and Community Service) College and CVAD Drawing 2 students. The auction is this Sunday November 22 from 4-7pm in the Lightwell Gallery at CVAD. See announcements for details.

See the CVAD Newsletters & Blog pages for up-to-date activities sponsored by CVAD faculty, departments, institutes, galleries, alumni, and student groups.

CVAD Fashion Design Junior Neil Marek won the Design Your Future Contest in Orlando, Florida during the 23rd annual HACU conference. HACU, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, is decicated to the promotion of higher education amongst hispanic and diverse background students, and the purpose of the conference is to bring together students organizations from all over the country to create networking opportunities and general information sharing. The Design Your Future contest is presented by Gap Inc., LATINA Style magazine and the HACU and the objective was to design and construct an interview suit that the designers would be wearing. Five finalists were chosen from the  nation wide design search to attend the conference in Orlando where they showcased our designs for an audience of HACU conference attendees and three judges: Antoine Andrews,director of diversity and inclusion Gap Inc; Erin Herrera, senior recruiter Old Navy; and Melinda K. Adams, Ph.D. assistant professor fashion management. As winner of the competition Marek received a $5000 scholarship and will be featured in an article, along with the other contestants, in a major Hispanic publication.

Join friends form CVAD at the UNT-Army Football Game, Fouts Field November 21, from 12-3 pm.  Prizes, beverages, food, and art sales! 

Regents Professor of jewelry and metalsmithing Harlan Butt received the inaugual Creative Impact Award from the UNT Office of Research and Economic Development. The prize was created to honor a UNT faculty member in creative fields such as dance, music, theater, art, or design for the positive societal impact of their work.  Professor Butt is the president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. His work can be seen at:

 Mobilia Gallery    or on his website at HarlanButt.com

CVAD Professor of Photography Dornith Doherty was recently awarded an inaugural fellowship from the University of North Texas' INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS. The new Institute will provide recognition for artistic contributions by outstanding faculty members. The fellowship and grant will support Doherty's continued work on Archiving Eden and travels to Colorado and England during the 2010 spring semester.

 photograph and text courtesy Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX

 
In Archiving Eden, Dornith Doherty explores the role of seed banks and their preservation efforts in the face of climate change, the extinction of natural species and decreased agricultural diversity.  This work questions the complex philosophical, anthropological, and ecological issues surrounding the role of science, technology, and human agency in the context of seed banks.
 
Dornith Doherty is Professor of Photography at the University of North Texas and has been a faculty member since 1996. A recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the United States Department of the Interior, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Society for Contemporary Photography, Doherty received a B.A. cum laude in Spanish and French language and literature at Rice University, and a M.F.A. in photography from Yale University.

Dornith Doherty
 
Archiving Eden II
 
October 17 - November 14, 2009
 
Holly Johnson Gallery
1411 Dragon Street
Dallas Texas 75207
T 214 369 0169

UNT Ceramics Guild Holiday Pottery Sale November 4th, 5th and 6th.  9am - 5pm

UNT Student Union, Ground floor lobby.

PRINTMAKING COLLABORATION

Sponsored by the Printmaking Area and the Studio Art Department

Come by the Printmaking Studios in Hickory Hall to see it all happening...
These two dynamic artists will be working collaboratively on etching plates and printing them with the assistance of UNT printmaking students through out the week.

Joseph Velasquez
Artist's Lecture
Monday, November 2, 2009
5-6pm in ART 223

Ryan O'Malley
Artist's Lecture
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
5-6pm in ART 223

Burnley-Schol Studios Exhibit featuring the work of CVAD faculty members Don Schol and Pamela Burnley-Schol
Stephen F. Austin University
The Cole Art Center,  Reavley Gallery, 329 E. Main Street, Nacogdoches
Closing reception December 4. 6-8 pm

The UNT Metals Club will be having their fall sale in the Art Building Lightwell. Its never too early to think about Christmas shopping and presents for yourself are always in season! Priced to fit all budgets, come take a break and check out the bling. They will be in front of the Art Gallery, Monday through Thursday from 9am to 5pm.

CORA STAFFORD GALLERY - in Oak St. Hall, Corner of Oak and Ponder Sts
Sept1 – 4 – “Global Fusion & Frogman’s Invitational” 2009, curated by CVAD faculty, Andy Decaen and Lori Gibbons
Sept 22 – 25 – “Simon and Garfunkel” – printmaking student group show
Oct 13 – 16 “PANTS Open” – P.A.N.T.S. – printmaking student organization open exhibition
Oct 20 – 23 “Parallax” – (photography student organization)
Oct 27 – 30 Christopher Carver – MFA exhibition – sculpture, mixed media
Nov 3 – 6 Julie Barnofski – MFA exhibition, photography
Nov 17 – 20 Rene Muhl – MFA exhibition, sculpture, installation
Dec 1 – 4 Watercolor exhibition
Dec 8 – 11 Photography Seniors exhibition
Dec 15 – 18 Drawing and Painting Seniors exhibition

LIGHTWELL GALLERY – 1st floor Art building
Sept 1 – 4 – Watercolor exhibition – all level
Oct 6 – 9 – Drawing exhibition – curated by CVAD faculty, Vincent Falsetta
Oct 13 – 16 – Core Design I + II exhibition
Oct 20 – 23 – Drawing and Painting Graduate student exhibition
Oct 27 – 30 – Drawing and Painting Seniors student exhibition
Nov 3 – 6 – Fibers Seniors student exhibition
Nov 10 – 13 Ceramics Seniors student exhibition
Nov 17 – 20 Sculpture Seniors student exhibition
Nov 23 – 25 – Humanics/United Way auction and exhibition
Dec 1 – 4 – Printmaking Seniors student exhibition
Dec 8 – 11 – Sculpture Graduates student exhibition
Dec 15 – 18 – Communication Design Seniors student exhibition
 

NORTH GALLERY – 1st floor Art building
Sept 1 – 4 – Watercolor exhibition – all level

Oct 27 -  30 - Ashley Hurst - BFA Metalsmithing, exit exhibition

Nov 3 - 6 -"ParaPants" - Collaborative student exhibition b/w Parallax (photography organization) and PANTS (printmaking organization)

Nov 9 - 13 - "Where the Ocean Meets the Sky" - Marissa L. Harris - BFA Ceramics, exit exhibition

Nov 17 - 20 - Exhibition of redesigned sculptural chairs by CVAD sculpture students, curated by Don Schol, Professor of Art, Sculpture

Dec 1 – 4 – Design I exhibition, curated by CVAD Adjunct faculty, Mary Becker

Dec 7 - 11 - "Light as  Feather, Stiff as a Board" - Kelly Stiles - BFA Metalsmithing,  exit exhibition

Dec 14 - 18 - Advanced New Media Studio exhibition

November 10 - December 12, 2009

Opening Reception, Tuesday 11/10, 4:30-6:30

Artist Talk, Thursday 11/19, 7:00 PM, Eagle Student Services Center Room 225

The UNT Art Gallery hosts the traveling exhibition Faces and Mazes: Lia Cook, organized by the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska.  This exhibition features Lia Cook's most recent series of weavings, in which she uses an electronic Jacquard hand loom to weave faces that dissolve into continuously changing maze-like patterns.  Drawing on familiar and childhood sources, Cook uses a detail, often re-photographed, layered and re-woven in oversize scale, to intensify an emotional encounter.  The exhibition includes examples of earlier Jacquard weavings to provide context for the current work.  This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and contributions from the CVAD Studio Department and Fibers Program.

Image: A-Maze Doll, 2007, Woven cotton and rayon, 80" x 53"

CVAD painting and drawing faculty member Matthew Bourbon, Emeritus faculty member Vernon Fisher, and former BFA student Edward Setinaare featured in the exhibition "Death of a Propane Salesman: Anxiety and the Texas Artist" at FORT WORTH CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The Art Galleries at TCU
2900 W Berry St. Fort Worth, TX 76109

October 30, 2009 – December 13, 2009.
Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 6-9pm

Los Angeles painter Linda Day will be visiting the College of Visual Art & Design on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. In addition to leading critiques with graduate and advanced painting classes, she will be presenting a lecture on her work and the current Los Angeles art scene  at 2PM on that date in room 226 of the Art Building. It is free and open to the public.

Ms. Day is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a National Endowment Award in Painting, and residencies at such prestigious programs as Yaddo, MacDowell, Provincetown, and Skowhegan.

She has shown her luscious and colorful abstract paintings throughout the United States and is  currently represented by  Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles. In  addition to her work as a professional artist, she has curated many shows and is also an Associate Professor at California State University at Long Beach.

Orlan, Mouth of Europa and the Figure of Venus: "a little while longer and

you will see me no more..." 1992, video projection

Visiting Scholar Elizabeth Mansfield

Workshop

Wednesday October 21

3-5pm ART 223

This student-oriented workshop is an informal question and discussion session about surveys in art history with emphasis on the history of modern art. Mansfield will comment on her recent work as co-author on the 6^th edition of H. H. Jansen's History of Modern Art published by Pearson Higher Education Publishing. Discussion will include topics such as narrating an art history survey text in the wake of disciplinary critiques of surveys; questions of narrative scope, voice and theme; relationships of survey texts and pedagogy; and how the revised History of Modern Art models art history's interest in context along with its changing methodological landscape.

Public Lecture - From Plato to Plastic Surgery: Artists and Ideal Beauty

Thursday October 22

5-6pm ART 223           

Few tales of artistic triumph can rival the story of Zeuxis Selecting Models. Recorded in antiquity, the legend tells of the Greek painter Zeuxis and his attempt to paint an image of the famous beauty, Helen of Troy. When he realized that a single model could not match Helen's mythic perfection, he combined the best features of five different women to create an ideal image. Revived during the Renaissance, the story of Zeuxis Selecting Models dramatizes the West's preoccupation with idealization in art. In this lecture, Elizabeth Mansfield will present new interpretations of artworks by Angelica Kauffman, Pablo Picasso and Orlan to show that the Zeuxis legend can be understood not only as a theory of art making but as the record of a cultural primal scene, manifesting the West's long-standing ambivalence toward mimetic representation and the ideal

Elizabeth Mansfield is Associate Professor of art history at New York University. She is the author of Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, which received the 2008 Charles Rufus Morey Book award from the College Art Association; editor of Making Art History: A Changing Discipline and Its Institutions, Routledge, 2007; and editor and contributor for Art History and Its Institutions, Routledge, 2002. In addition, she was co-author revising the forthcoming edition of H.H. Arnason's History of Modern Art.

Dr. Mansfield's visit to UNT is supported by the CVAD Gallery, Visiting Artist and Scholar Fund and Department of Art Education and Art history.

Monday, October 12:  The Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia presents NoiseFold by Davis Stout and Cory Metcalf.  8:00 pm in the UNT Music Building Room 1001

To download the PDF version, please click here.

Christina Milller, Assistant Professor of Metalsmithing at
Millersville University, will be speaking about her work with Ethical
Metalsmiths; raising awareness of environmentally destructive metal
mining practices through activities that combine creativity with
activism. These have included several online exhibitions as well as
two enactments of The Radical Jewelry Makeover, which mines broken or
unwanted jewelry from the community and recycles it as a form of
fundraising.

Work in the exhibition ranges from a photographic typology of Junk Drawers, the ubiquitous kitchen catch-all drawer, to a recently completed Public Art Program for City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture's Public Art Program. In this project Mann photographed nearly 6000 recyclables in a recycling transfer station to create composite images where the objects have been sorted by material, color, and use.

DATES: October 5-30, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: Monday, October 5, 6-8pm

LOCATION:

Collins Art Gallery
Grand Rapids Community College
4th Floor, Main Building
143 Bostwick Avenue,
NE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503

GALLERY HOURS:
Monday - Thursday, 10am-2pm, 4-8pm
Friday 12-3pm

Texas Monthly recognized CVAD student Megan Adams for her one-of-a-kind prints. You can view the blog here. 

This year's theme is Language and Communication in the Middle Ages. While we will entertain papers from any discipline of Medieval Studies and on any topic, we particularly welcome those that engage the multiple languages and forms of communication in the Middle Ages to include the visual, the lyrical, the liturgical, the legal, the dramatic, the kinetic, the spatial, as well issues of translation, lingua Franca, and literacy. Details at http://www.art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium.

We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere. The deadline for submission is November 1st, 2009. Additional information may be downloaded and distributed with our Call For Papers announcement poster.

Our Keynote speaker will be Dr. Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana, who will speak on "Presenting the Past: Visual Translation in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century France."

Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted by November 1, 2009 to:

• abel@unt.edu
  or
• Dr. Mickey Abel
  Assistant Professor, Art History
  University of North Texas
  1155 Union Station #305100
  Denton, TX 76203-5017

Virginia Green, a 2006 graduate of the CVAD MFA program in Communication Design, had her design of the CVAD "Graduate Studies in Art Education" brochure selected for inclusion in the 2009 Graphic Design USA competition.  The piece will be included in the December issue of GDUSA.  Ms Green is the principal and creative director for VGreen Design, a freelance design and art studio. She serves as acting education chair on the board of the Dallas chapter of the AIGA|the professional association of design. Virginia Green is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Baylor University.

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 3, 6-9pm (also open First Friday, Sep. 4, 6-9pm)

LOCATION: UTSA Satellite Space, 115 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
78204; 210.212.7146

The CVAD Studio Art Department Fall 2008 Newsletter, designed and assembled by Angela Vanecek and printed by UNT Printing Services, has been awarded the 2009 IPMA (In-Plant Print and Mail Association) Gold medal for digitally designed newsletters.  The newsletter was selected in this category among entries from over 22,000 member organizations including corporate and financial institutions, K-12 schools, universities, federal state, and local goverment agencies 

Past winners have been  Conoco/Philips, Exxon/Mobil, Wal-Mart, World Bank, Allstate Insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Federal Reserve Bank, Boy Scouts of America, Hershey’s, Briggs & Stratton,  BYU, Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Oklahoma, University of Missouri, LSU, University of Delaware, Texas Tech, USC, Washington State University, U-Texas, University of Houston, University of Virginia, Purdue, University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, University of Mississippi, Auburn, and Florida State University.  The In-Print contest is a yearly event and is solely for the members of IPMA. 

See the award winning newsletter on the CVAD Newsletter and Blog page or visit the IPMA award site at IPMA

Hear CVAD Associate Professor Matthew Bourbon discuss South African artist William Kentridge on KERA's Art and Seek at Kentridge

 CVAD Professor Annette Lawrence recently completed a commission titled Coin Toss for the new new Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium.

The installation is located in the South East VIP Lobby, which is approached through glass doors. The space is 45 feet wide, 15 feet deep, and 33 feet tall. The shape of Coin Toss alludes to the promising moment at the start of a game. It references a circle flipping in space across the room. Coin Toss will be overhead starting at 12 feet from the floor. The work is a circle with a diameter of 14 feet centered on the 15-foot wall. Half of the circle will be on the left and the other half will be on the right. The steel cablewire will cross from the top of one side to the bottom of the other creating a convex shape on one side and a concave shape on the other. There are forty-one points on each wall.
As visitors pass beneath Coin Toss the work transforms itself from an interior to an exterior transparent conical form. One side completes the other.

Professor Annette Lawrence will be on leave from CVAD in Fall 2009 Annette Lawrence will be  an Artist in Residence at a an Artiist in Residence at Monash University in Australia,  August – October 2009.

The Monash Faculty of Art & Design's Visiting Artists & Designers Program is a dynamic residency prospect unique within Australia. It represents a significant professional development opportunity for an artist selected to participate in the program and for the staff and students of the Faculty of Art & Design.

 

CVAD Professor of Painting and Drawing Annette Lawrence and alum Brian Fridge will be featured this evening at an ART SOCIAL featuring artists from the current show, ARCHITECHTONICS, at the Art Social at the CADD Art Lab 1608-C Main Street, Dallas, TX 75201, 7 PM.
The CADD Art Lab is located between Neiman Marcus and the Joule Hotel in Downtown Dallas.  tel: 214.741.1075
hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays
.
Validated parking is available at Dal-Park Garage, 1512 Commerce St., before Ervay St. the add Art Lab 

CVAD MFA printmaking student Megan McCarty Adams has started a business producing one of a kind fabrics inspired by nature.  Her work was recently featured on 33tv.com and can be seen on display in a storefront window at the Universities Center of Dallas at 1901 Main Street.  

See http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-meganadamsdesigns-story,0,3757650.story

Join CVAD visiting Artist Robyn O'Neil--Thursday June 25 at 10:30 am in ART room 223 

From a recent interview:
I first saw Darger's work in a small catalogue when I was in undergraduate school. I was about twenty years old. My professor handed it to me and I was quieted. I [felt] I had just discovered work that stood apart from anything I had previously seen, and that included a great deal of 'outsider' work. I found Darger to be more individualistic and more genuine. Also more beautiful. I know people can question and question that word 'genuine,' but I think at heart, we all know what it means. And most of us know it when we see it.  Arts Journal article   Robyn O'Neil homepage
 

Work produced by Drawing 1 student Stephanie Eckert was featured on the cover of 'FATE in Review'. 

Kurth Bousman, CVAD painting and drawing alum who has been living and working in Mexico for 25 years will have his first show in Dallas the HCG Gallery opening May 30.

www.kurthbousman.com
www.hcggallery.com

Vincent Falsetta: # 194.  2009 Oil on board 5.5" x 7" Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England

CVAD Professor of painting and drawing Vincent Falsetta has recents works included in an exhibition entitled "Slow Magic" at the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool, England, this summer.  The show, which runs July 31 - September 13, features six artists from the Mexico, Germany, Poland, the UK, and the US. Falsetta will  show new paintings and the note cards which document the process of the paintings' conceptual and physical development. Falsetta will speak at the gallery Saturday, August 1. See Slow Magic for details.

To honor his long history of dedication to his students’ success, CVAD Professor of Communication Design Jack, his colleagues, students, alumni, and friends are embarking on a fundraising campaign to create the Jack Sprague Scholarship in Communication Design.  The drive kicked off May 16 with a successful silent auction of donated photographs by Professor Sprague.  To find out how to contribute, visit Support CVAD, or the Smart Center Santa Fe, or see  Photography by Communication Design Professor Jack Sprague

iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts, will open the 2010 academic year on August 27 and 28th with the iARTA LEAP symposium.  Bringing togther a stellar group of international experts, iARTA LEAP (Leadership Perspectives on Technology and Art Research) will host two days of discussions, work and break out sessions, at the Gateway Center at UNT.  The event is coordinated by iARTA faculty members David Bithell of the College of Music and Jennifer Way of the College of Visual Arts and Design, and made possible by funding provided by the UNT Hispanic and Global Initiatives Fund and the College of Visual Arts and Design.  The events are open to the public. Admission is free.  See the iARTA website for details. 

CVAD 2008 Fashion Design BFA graduate Shirin Askari is appearing this fall as a contestant on Project Runway on Lifetime TV.  The series premiers August 20.  Read an interview with  Shirin about her life, her experiences in the BFA program, and the upcoming season on the UNT Website .

On Friday, April 17th the Fashion Design students at UNT participated in the 41st annual Fashion Group International's Career Day at the World Trade Center in Dallas, Texas.
This event is a one-day educational symposium created to mentor and develop tomorrow's leaders and entrepreneurs in the fashion industry.  It is the largest event of its kind in the U.S.  It has over 1,200 participants from 42 schools in 10 states.  The finale of the event is a juried fashion design competition presented in a runway show exhibiting hundreds of students' designs from schools nationwide. At the end of the show students are presented with awards for excellence in design.
The University of North Texas excelled once again this year receiving the following awards which totaled over $10,000!
The faculty in the Fashion Design department congratulates the following students:

•    Top Achievement Award, 1-month,all expense paid scholarship Paris American Academy - Stephanie Montes
•    Lectra Award for Most Creative - Emily MacKinnon
•    1st Place in Casual Design- Kourtney Williams
•    2nd Place in Casual Design - Kristi Schkade
•    1st Place in Cotton - Emily MacKinnon
•    2nd Place in Cotton - Stephanie Montes
•    3rd Place in Cotton - Missy Bergemann
•    1st Place in Wool - Sara Hoffman
•    2nd Place in Wool - Stephanie Montes

The curatorial focus of the 2009 College of Visual Arts and Design graduate student exhibition follows the title, Recovery and Reinvention.

This annual exhibition features recent works in various media by artists enrolled in the graduate studio art and design programs at the College of Visual Arts and Design. The exhibition is curated by UNT Art Gallery staff.
For additional information please visit: gallery.unt.edu
Gallery Summer hours are: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 5 pm.

Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art Education and Art History, has received a grant from Spain's Program for Cultural Cooperation. The funds will support Dr. Donahue-Wallace's research in Spain on the career of Jeronimo Antonio Gil, founder of Mexico's Royal Academy of San Carlos. This project is also supported by UNT's Research and Creative Endeavours grant and funding from the Hispanic and Global Studies Initiative Fund.

Heather White, MA Art Education and MA Art History student, received a scholarship from the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA). The funds will support her research on the Early Texas Art collection belonging to A.C. Cook. Ms. White also received the Best Student Paper Prize for her paper "Mothers in Mirrors: Identifying the Maternal Self in Self-Portraiture and Self-Documentation," delivered at the The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VI Conference in Idaho this spring semester.

CVAD Art History faculty members Mickey Abel and Jennifer Way have published a guest-edited issue of Peregrinations, the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage. The issue also includes an article Mickey co-authored with students Kim McCarty and Brittany Gregory.  For more information, visit the Peregrinations website.

 Sense Publishers just released CVAD Assistant Professor of Art Education Dr. Nadine Kalin's new book,  DRAWN TOWARD TRANSFORMATION: Conversations on Teaching and Learning Drawing.  The book shares the perspectives of educators as they investigate the teaching and learning of drawing within their own elementary classrooms and within  the context of an action research group.

CVAD Assistant Professor Mickey Abel of the Department of Art Education and Art History received a UNT Faculty Research Grant to support her work next year. The grant will be used to compile a set of 18th and 19th C. cadaster maps of the area around Maillezais Abbey in Western France. These maps, which are located in the municipal archives, will be used in preparation for a larger interdisciplinary project with the Geography and Archaeology departments to chart the 12th century canals around the abbey. This mapping project will allow us to analyze the economic and political effect the canal system had on the architectural building program at the abbey.

Dr. Denise Baxter, Assistant Professor of Art History, also received a $7,500 grant to support her research on art history pedagogy. Dr. Baxter's project examines the efficacy of blended course formats in an art history survey course. This ground-breaking research follows on Dr. Baxter's previous QEP grants for the redesign of Art History Survey II. Her results to date have been presented at conferences throughout the US, most recently at the annual meeting of the College Art Association.

Students from the Department of Art Education and Art History will complete internships at a number of important museums and arts organizations this summer. Dr. Rina Kundu works closely with the students during these experiences, which are part of the Art Museum Education and Arts Leadership graduate academic certificates.

AEAH students will intern this summer at the following locations:

Registrar department at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Education Department at the Dallas Museum of Art
Education Department at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
Fine Arts Director's office in Keller ISD
Visual Arts Director's office in Arlington ISD
Debbie Allen Dance Institute at Imagination Celebration
Intergenerational learning program at Providence Mount St. Vincent, Seattle, Washington
Advanced Placement Strategies at the O'Donnell Foundation
Education Department at the Sid Richardson Museum
Education Department at the Meadows Museum, SMU
Education Department at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

CVAD Art Education faculty member Christina Bain received a $5000 grant from the National Art Education Foundation this summer .  Her project, titled "Examining the Preparation and Practice of University Art Education Student Teacher Supervisors Across Texas" will fill an existing void in art education literature by creating a snapshot of the current training and practices of university art education student teacher supervisors from across the state of Texas.  What are the qualifications of these supervisors and how have they been trained for this job?  Comparing current supervision practices will help shed light on ways to improve university prepared art educators.
 

First year MFA Ceramics graduate student, Chris Melia, of Corpus Christi, TX won a $1200 scholarship award at this year's Texas Arts and Crafts Fair in Kerrville, TX. Chris won the award for Best in Ceramics. This year's fair was held May 23-25 in Kerrville, TX. The Texas Arts and Crafts Educational Foundation sponsors the fair which is underwritten by the James Avery Craftsman company. CVAD's Studio Art Department has sponsored a booth at the Fair for our art students and we have won something every year. Chris is from Corpus Christi and has completed his first year in the graduate Clay program here.

Chris Melia, MFA Ceramics, won a $1200 scholarship at the Texas Arts and Crafts Fair, for best in Ceramics category.  The fair is sponsored by the Texas Arts and Crafts Educational Foundation and is underwritten by the James Avery Craftsmen company.  The event was held May 23-25 this year in Kerrville, TX.

CVAD Art History faculty member Dr. Denise Baxter has received a UNT research-enabling grant to study fashionable feminine garments of the Directory/Consulate/Empire period in France – 1792-1814 – in terms of the extent to which contemporary French audiences perceived of the fashionable female body as maternal. The grant will fund research this summer in Paris, studying garments first hand, both the relatively scarce period maternity ensemble and the fashionable Empire gown, and investigating how this style was received by its contemporary public through a review of journals of the time.  A consideration of the fashion for maternity in France in this period allows for the possibility to rethink contemporary and historical views of the relationship between childbearing and the public sphere, in its many manifestations.

CVAD faculty member Nadine Kalin, Assistant Professor of Art Education, is one of ten faculty members selected to participate in UNT's Transformative Instruction Initiative (TII) this summer, a program which provides summer support for faculty to enrich their courses through innovative instructional design incorporating issues of internationalization, multiculturalism, and/or diversity. As a Faculty Fellow of the TII, Nadine will attend workshops related to course enhancement, while forming a "Community of Practice" where individual fellows develop their own work through active exchange with other members of the cohort. In particular she plans to infuse her instruction with Problem-Based Learning modules in order to address how undergraduate students might think both more critically and practically about teaching diverse and multicultural populations.

Over the last 25 years, A.C. "Ace" Cook, a former airline pilot, pawn shop operator and true Texan, has developed a nationally renowned collection of early Texas art, which he displays on the walls of the Bull Ring, his ice cream and beer parlor in the Fort Worth Stockyards.

Paintings from the collection have been in major exhibitions, including: the Amon Carter Museum, the Los Angeles Autry National Center, the Panhandle-Plains Museum, the Denton Center for the Visual Arts, the Tyler Museum of Art and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts.

The exhibition at the UNT Art Gallery focuses on the narratives and stories that weave together the soul of Mr. Cook's legendary collection. He generously shared those stories with a graduate student in the College of Visual Arts and Design.

Exhibition Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 5 p.m.  For more information please call 940-565-4005 or visit the gallery website at www.gallery.unt.edu.

Please join us as we celebrate Jack Sprague’s career and contributions at UNT, reflect upon the past, present and future of the Communication Design Program, the accomplishments of our alumni, the commencement of our recent grads, and the promise of our current students.

Saturday, May 16, 2009
At the Lakewood Theater,
1825 Abrams Rd., Dallas, TX 75214
6:00–8:30 p.m.

$22.00 per person for all alumni and guests.

Hot and cold hors d’oeuvres with a cash bar.

Participate in the silent auction of Jack Sprague’s photography and artwork to raise funds for the Jack Sprague Scholarship Fund (go to www.thesmartcentersantafe.com to view the photographs available for auction).

Or see a page of his photographs in the CVAD Image Anthology

View the 2009 Senior Class Portfolios.
Bring a sample of your own design work to exhibit.

R.S.V.P. at comdes@unt.edu; pay at the door.

The Museum's annual awards were established in 1980. The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund is awarded to artists between 15 and 25 years of age who reside in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona or Colorado. Two CVAD students have received awards from the 2009 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund:

• Yuki Ogura, who is currently working toward a B.F. A. in Sculpture at the University of North Texas; and
• Vanessa Tomczak, who is is pursuing a degree in Fiber Arts at the University of North Texas.

In 1990, The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant was created to honor the memory of Dallas artists Otis and Velma Dozier, who strongly believed in the enriching influence of travel on an artist's work. The grant seeks to recognize exceptional talent in professional artists who wish to expand their artistic horizons through domestic or foreign travel and is awarded to professional artists at least 30 years of age who reside in Texas. A CVAD faculty member and a CVAD alum are 2009 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant recipients:

• Denton-based artist and CVAD painting and drawing faculy member Annette Lawrence will travel to Melbourne, Australia, to participate in a residency at Monash University for her project "Yesterday, Tomorrow." å Lawrence is represented by Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas.
• Elliott Johnson, who earned his B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas, will use his award to visit more than a dozen Baroque and Rococo churches in southern Germany. Johnson is represented by Road Agent Gallery, Dallas.

See http://dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/Press_Room/ID_289713?s for more details!

Please join us as we celebrate Jack Sprague’s career and contributions at UNT, reflect upon the past, present and future of the Communication Design Program, the accomplishments of our alumni, the commencement of our recent grads, and the promise of our current students.

Saturday, May 16, 2009
At the Lakewood Theater,
1825 Abrams Rd., Dallas, TX 75214
6:00-8:30 p.m.

$22.00 per person for all alumni and guests.

Hot and cold hors d'oeuvres with a cash bar.

Participate in the silent auction of Jack Sprague's photography and artwork to raise funds for the Jack Sprague Scholarship Fund (go to www.thesmartcentersantafe.com to view the photographs available for auction).

View the 2009 Senior Class Portfolios.
Bring a sample of your own design work to exhibit.

R.S.V.P. at comdes@unt.edu; pay at the door.

Art This Week-May 7, 2009-Ep. 1 from Richard Serrano on Vimeo.

Art-Stream at UNT-Oak Street Hall

MAY 12th 2009
12-5pm

The Art-Stream is a nomadic gallery built inside a thirty foot 1967 Airstream Sovereign Land Yacht. It was remodeled and transformed into an exhibitions space in 2001 in an effort to help illuminate contemporary ceramics. Eight years later it has traveled from L.A. to New York and back gaining a cult following amongst potters and ceramic enthusiasts alike.
This month the Art-Stream will be leading the Art of the Pot Texas Tour and will be making a one day stop at the University of North Texas on May 12 at Oak Street Hall. As many as nineteen current potters will be featured in the Art-Stream and will have work available for purchase. In conjunction with the visit, three of the artists will be giving a free lecture that same day (Lectures: 4pm, Ceramics Lab-Oak Street Hall, Room 136).
Come out and explore contemporary ceramics and the nomadic Art-Stream Gallery with us.

Amanda Batson, past president of CVAD's award-winning National Art Education Association (NAEA) Student Chapter, will become the new NAEA Student Outreach Coordinator for the Western Region. As an Outreach Coordinator she will assist in keeping communication with student chapters and faculty at such institutions as The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois, Indiana University, and University of Minnesota. She will be advocating for art education throughout the region in her attempt to establish new student chapters while providing support, enthusiasm, and creative fundraising ideas.

Kristina Hilliard and Kate Wurtzel's article Power and Gender in Ancient Egypt: The Case of Hatshepsut was just published as an Instructional Resource in the May issue of Art Education, a journal of the National Art Education Association. Both used their research from their Master's theses to write the article. Kristina Hilliard received her M.A. in art history at UNT and is currently a Ph.D. student in art education, as well as a McDermott Intern at the Dallas Museum of Art. Kate Wurtzel received her M.A. in art education at UNT and is currently the Director of Education at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas. Previously, she was the Director of Education at the Crow Collection of Asian Art and headed family programs at the Kimbell Art Museum. While in the art education program, Kristina was a Priddy Fellow and Kate was a Marcus Fellow.

CVAD Assistant Professor of Metalsmithing and Jewelry Ana M. Lopez just published Metalworking through History: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press).  As part of the “Handicrafts through World History” series, it allows the reader to view the different societies and periods that produced work in this medium as part of a global, interrelated practice. Comprised of sixty entries on relevant time periods, cultures, makers and processes, the book is a much-needed general reference text and an excellent first resource for understanding the concepts and terminology of the ancient and pervasive craft of metalworking.

The Institute of International Visual Arts has granted a residency in London to Jennifer Way, associate professor in the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. In May, she will study the instruction of contemporary art history. The institute is designed to bring the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible audience.  Way has also been awarded a research support grant by the Scottish Society for Art History. After she finishes her residency, Way will use the grant to study select sculptures by artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in the National Galleries of Scotland.

For the full story, see http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/entertainment/stories/DRC_Art_briefs_0426.111d8e24e.html

New fashion designs premiere on UNT runway

What: ArtWear 2009 — A fashion show of original designs by University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design students.
 
When: 8 p.m. May 9 (Saturday)
 
Where: Silver Eagle Suite, University Union, one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets
 
Cost: $25 general admission; $10 with UNT student ID
 
Contact: For ticket info, call 940-565-3805. For other questions, e-mail Janie Stidham, coordinator of the fashion design program, at stidham@unt.edu.

DENTON (UNT), Texas ≤ From a vividly colored cocktail dress influenced by the paintings of Frida Kahlo to a fashion collection inspired by insects, the annual ArtWear runway show at the University of North Texas features the imaginative creations of budding fashion designers.

The event at 8 p.m. May 9 (Saturday) in the Silver Eagle Suite of the University Union will highlight the best garments from about 30 seniors in the fashion design program in the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. The University Union is one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets. Admission is $25 or $10 with a UNT student ID.

This year’s ArtWear judges are: Gretchen Bell of Dolly Python; Jenny Bingham of Gerber Technology; Liz Enoch of JCPenney; Justin Ghirardi of Carolina Herrara; Donna Sapp of the Art Institute; and Judy Zunke-Redding, a designer.

ArtWear, which has been held for more than 30 years, has debuted the work of successful designers who have gone on to work for companies such as Calvin Klein, Liz Claiborne, Fossil, Theory, Nicole Miller, Betsey Johnson, Kellwood, Dillard’s, Haggar, JCPenney and Russell-Newman.  Recognized alumni of the UNT fashion design program include designers Michael Faircloth, Finley Moll and Nicolas Villalba.

(credit: Denton Record Chronicle)

UNT Communication Design was rewarded very well last night at the 5th Annual National Student Show sponsored by the DSVC for its fine student work. Here is a list of award winners:

Best in Category Awards $150 each
Packaging: Patrick Snodgrass
Annual Report: Barrett Fry
Advertising Campaign: Sean Leonard
Advertising Public Service Campaign: Jason Perez
Illustration: Zach Hale
Total Campaign: Sean Leonard (art director) and Dave Cox (copy writer from Journalism)

Judges Choice awards: (I think these are $250 awards but I am not positive.)
Judge Rex Peteet to Sharon Lee for her International Paper Annual Report

“Best Use Of” Awards
Best Use of Type: Sharon Lee ($1,500)
Best Use of Imagery: Sean Leonard ($1,000)
Best Use of Packaging: Patrick Snodgrass ($1,000)

Portfolio Awards:
JumpStart Portfolio: Ashaun Epps ($2,000)
Dick Sloan Portfolio Award: Stu Taylor ($3,000)
Padgett Portfolio Award: Sean Leonard (all expense paid trip to the How International Design Conference)

Best School:
University of North Texas ($1,000)—second year in a row! Third time in five years!

That comes to about $11,000 in awards and scholarships. So how ‘bout that!

But Wait, There's More!
Mary Chapman and Mark Travis nailed the "Name That Typeface" competition and won 5 House Industries typefaces.

Ricky Yamashita took the "Name That Logo" competition (for a second year in a row!) and won a 1G Hot Pink iPod Shuffle for his efforts.

Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray, of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday, April 21st, in Art 223 from 5-6pm

Archaeology and Empire: Buddhist Monuments in Monsoon Asia
In this presentation, largely based on archaeological data, Dr. Ray argues that colonial intervention in 19th - 20th century South and Southeast Asia, a region that the French scholar Paul Mus termed Monsoon Asia, not only altered our understanding of monuments, essentially religious structures, from being abodes of god to objects of artistic and aesthetic appreciation, but it also redefined the nature of Indic religions and here she focuses on Buddhism. Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893), the first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India brought Buddhism to the forefront and established its study as a legitimate branch in the second quarter of the 19th century. It is significant that many of Cunningham's formulations, such as his identification of places associated with the life of the Buddha, description of Buddha as a social reformer, the prominent role of the Mauryan ruler Asoka in spreading the faith and the degenerate nature of Buddhism after 7th century AD continue to be repeated in secondary writings. In the second part of the presentation, Dr. Ray highlights the archaeology of specific monastic complexes, to stress the multi-layered narratives of religious architecture and the extent to which these were implicated in the politics of the colonial period.

Presentation by Tracy Hicks
Date: Monday 13th April 2009 from 1 - 1:50 pm
Location: ESSC 255
Sponsored by: Department of Studio and Core Drawing 1

Join mixed-media installation artist Tracy Hicks as he discusses recent projects focusing on the environment, including "Trouble in Paradise" (Tucson Museum of Art), "Global Warning" (The McKinney Avenue Contemporary) and "Still/LIFE" (Grinnell College). His presentation/discussion will take place in conjunction with the Drawing 1 Elm Fork Natural Heritage and "Observation/Insight" project.




Photo credit: Jim Heemstra for "Creature Comforts," The Grinnell Magazine (Winter 2008): 10-11

"Observation/Insight: Drawing from the Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum" and "Selections from 'Pinned: Work by Sarah Williams"

eARTh day: a celebration of environmental music, writing, art and film
Tuesday 21 April 2009
EESAT Building
5:30–6 PM: Reception with local foods in lobby
6–8 PM: Concurrent events in rooms 110, 125, 130 and the Planetarium 

Participants from the College of Visual Arts and Design include students from Drawing, Drawing & Painting, Fibers and Metalsmithing & Jewelry. CVAD faculty coordinators include Lari Gibbons, Ana Lopez and Lesli Robertson.

Sponsors:
CAS
 Department of Biological Sciences
 Department of English
 Department of Geography
 Department of Radio, Television & Film
 Elm Fork Education Center
 Institute of Applied Sciences
College of Music
 Center for Experimental Music & Intermedia
CVAD
UNT

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The first of three PRINT Workshops this spring took place February 28- March 1 with Professor Emeritus Barbara Elam conducting a workshop on multi-plate monotypes. The owner/director of the 416 West Gallery in Denison, TX, Professor Elam
‘s work has been seen in over 250 national shows as well as internationally.

The next workshop will be April 4-5 with TCU Professor of Art David Conn, who will conduct a workshop on Relief Printing. PRINT is located at on the UNT campus in the Oak Street Annex, a facility fully dedicated quality print production and education l For registration and workshop information, call PRINT Director David Blow or PRINT Assistant Rachel Biggerstaff at 940 369 7575, or email them at Print@unt.edu.

This year's Dallas Pottery Invitational at the Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas
at South Side on Lamar is shaping up to be a fabulous show.  We hope you will make plans to attend!

To read about each individual artist or for more information, go to www.dallaspotteryinvitational.com <http://www.dallaspotteryinvitational.com/> .
 
We are looking forward to seeing you there! 

The Printmaking Association of North Texas Students will be selling buttons and prints in the University Union Courtyard (UU 1st Floor) on March 26 from 10:00am to 2:00pm.  Please join us in supporting our student organizations and check out the sale.

Works by CVAD alum Brenda Lichman will be featured in the Second Annual Dallas Pottery Invitational at the Janette Kennedy Gallery, 1409 Lamar Street, Dallas, April 3-5, 2009. Brenda Lichman is a studio potter whose studio is located in Denton.  She  received her MFA in Ceramics in December of 2002 and is currently the Ceramics Studio Technician for CVAD and an adjunct faculty member teaching ceramics and kiln construction.

CVAD Alumni Group on LinkedIn

Please join the CVAD Alumni Group on LinkedIn: 
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1847880

The 2009 speaker in the Ray Gough Lecture Series will be Dr. David Wang from Washington State University. Dr. Wang is the Coordinator for the WSU Interdisciplinary Design Institute Spokane with programs in architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. In addition to directing the graduate program, he has co-authored Architectural Research Methods, the definitive text for architectural research, and he routinely takes groups of students to China for relief work.

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PRINT Workshops with Master Printers

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Relief Printing Linocut: April 4, 5

David Conn will teach a Relief Printing Workshop focusing on printing images using linocut and traditional woodcut techniques. He has received many awards and accommodations for his art, including an Individual Fellowship for Printmaking from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ford Fellowship, and first place in an International Art Competition in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics. His work is part of numerous permanent collections across the world including the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas, the Museum of Modern Art in Campinas, Sau Paulo, Brazil and the Bureau of Art Exhibitions in Lodz, Poland. He currently works as a professor of art at Texas Christian University.

Print Lithography: May  2, 3

By Professor John Hancock 
This workshop will make a simple black and white lithograph using stone lithography. He will be demonstrating stone preparation, various drawing and transfer methods, stone etching, paper preparation, registration and printing. John is currently a professor of art at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton, TX.  He has shown in New York, Chicago, Boston and even Waxahachie,TX, to mention a few highlights.  He has presented workshops at Frogman’ Printworkshop in South Dakota,  University of Wisconsin,and Tyler Junior College. His work is in collections in Texas Tech Museum Print Collection, Newark Public Library, Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, and the Frans 
Masareel Centrum, Katerlee, Belgium.

Recent woodblock prints by CVAD Professor Don Schol will be featured in an exhibition entitled "Vietnam Remembrances" at the Lakeview Gallery of Tarrant County College Northwest, 4801 Marine Creek Parkway,  in Fort Worth on February 23 - March 28, 2009.  An artist's reception and gallery talk are scheduled for Saturday, March 28 from 11:00-1:00.  For information call 817 515-7596. Schol's print, featured on the show announcement, has been selected as the cover illustration for a new book coming out this spring from Cornell University Press:  War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam, by Mai Lan Gustafsson.

UNT Painting and Drawing faculty member Susan Cheal's painting "Stance" will be included in the Texas Biennial this year. Cheal, along with UNT Painting and Drawing Alumnae Beau Comeaux, Will Rosshirt, Anila Agha, and Caroline Zacharias McAdams are among the sixty artists selected for the exhibition from over 1000 applicants by juror Michael Duncan, independent curator and editor for Art in America.

The Biennial is a weekend long event. The group exhibition will open Friday, March 6, 2009, at Women & their Work and at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Outdoor installations and solo shows are scheduled to open from 7-10PM at Austin Parkland on Saturday, March 7, with closing party for all at Okay Mountain. Juror Michael Duncan will speak at 2PM , at the MACC on Sunday, March 8, 2009. In addition to Mr. Duncan's talk, there will be a tribute to Kelly Fearing.

Sponsored by the Studio Division and Printmaking Area

Lloyd Menard is a Professor Emeritus of the University of South Dakota and founder of Frogman's Press and Frogman's Printmaking Workshops.

www.frogmans.net

Event Schedule:
March 2-4, 9-11am & 1-5pm:  Lloyd will direct 7 advanced print students in collaboratively printing a 4-color intaglio print including mezzotint and aquatint.
March 4 at 4pm:  Artist's Lecture and presentation on Frogman's Press at the Printmaking Studios Critique Room.

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When: February 26 at 5:30pm
Where: CHEM 109 (Please note the room change from CHEM 106 to 109).

Brian Ulrich's photographs are sophisticated both in content and use of aesthetics. Ulrich's project, Copia, is a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live. Through large scale photographs taken within big-box retail stores and the thrift shops, Copia explores not only the everyday activities of shopping, but the economic, cultural, social, and political implications of commercialism and the roles we play in over-consumption, and as targets of marketing and advertising.

Brian Ulrich was born 1971 in Northport, NY. His photographs reside in major museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Ulrich earned his MFA in photography at Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in photography at the University of Akron. Since finishing his graduate studies in 2004, Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery; and the Robert Koch Gallery. His work has also been included in many group exhibitions at venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Krannert Art Museum; the Contemporary American Photography Festival in Mannheim, Germany; the Walker Art Center; and the Carnegie Museum; among others. His first monograph, Copia was published in 2006 by Aperture as part of the MP3: Midwest Photographers Project.
 
Ulrich lives and works in Chicago and in addition to teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College, he curates exhibitions, and is an active member of a community of young photographers and artists both locally and globally through his website and blog.

http://www.notifbutwhen.com/

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Visiting Artist Joseph Velasquez of Drive-By-Press
Sponsored by the Printmaking Association of North Texas Students

www.drivebypress.org
Drive-By Press is a completely mobile printmaking studio built to promote the growth and democratization of art through printmaking.

Event Schedule for Wednesday, February 25th.
11am presentation by Joseph Velasquez on Drive-By-Press
1-5pm Demonstration and Print Sale on the lawn in front of the UNT Union.
6-8pm Printmaking Association of North Texas Students Open Media Student Exhibition and Reception at the CVAD North Gallery, Best of Show awards juried by Joseph Velasquez.

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Works By CVAD Professor Robert Jessup are featured in a solo show at Conduit Gallery, 1626 C Hi Line Dr., Dallas, TX 75207 (tel 214.939.0064 hours: Tue-Sat 10-5, http://www.conduitgallery.com) February 21- March 21, 2009. An artist's talk with Robert Jessup will be featured at the gallery on Saturday, February 28, at 2:30 pm.

Robert Jessup's newest body of work hones his unique style of fictional realism. A thin application of paint to canvas conveys a more detailed and anatomically exact rendering thus fine-tuning Jessup's ability to describe a different kind of creature. These imagined creatures were inspired in whole by a recent sabbatical to Europe where he was most drawn to the boundless collection of European painting at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, specifically the paintings of Bosch, Goya and Velasquez.

CVAD Emeritus Professor Claudia Webb Betti Benson passed away Saturday, February 14, 2009, at her residence in Denton surrounded by family and friends. Professor Benson, a highly popular member of the Art Department and School of Visual Arts faculty had been an influential instructor who published a nationally recognized drawing text, of Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. For many years, she taught the seminar in teaching for graduate student . Inviting the students to her home for meals and discussions, she was seen as a well-liked and effective mentor. Professor Betti Benson was born November 2, 1924 in Dallas. She received her graduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The memorial service will be 1 p.m., Saturday, February 21, 2009, at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 1200 N. Elm St. in Denton, Texas.

The National Education Association Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to Nadine Kalin, assistant professor for the University of North Texas' College of Visual Arts and Design. The grant will allow Kalin and art education doctoral student Laura Lee McCartney to develop a trial class to better prepare UNT doctoral students to transition to careers at higher education facilities throughout the nation. The pilot course will begin during the fall 2009 semester.

Jeff Elrod is an artist currently living and working in Marfa, Texas where he creates work described by Eleanor Heartney for Art in America as paintings that look back at the beginning of the last century while incorporating motifs which could only belong to the beginning of this one. These large, hybrid paintings of shallow spaces, hard-edged shapes, and fields of color that reference twentieth-century abstraction are coupled with computer-generated meandering lines that evoke graffiti or illegible handwriting. They are also the subject of the Modern's second FOCUS exhibition of the 2008-09 season. This Tuesday Evenings presentation (February 17) is a valuable and unique opportunity to hear about the work from the artist himself, shortly after the exhibition opens.  This exhibition will mark the artist's first solo exhibition in an American museum.

FOCUS: Jeff Elrod, curated by Andrea Karnes, opens to the public on February 15 and runs through March 29.

Jeff Elrod is a graduate of the MFA program in Drawing and Painting at UNT. 

Twenty-seven Junior and two Senior Fashion Design majors from CVAD participated in the annual "Go Red for Women luncheon and style show at the UNT Gateway Ballroom on Friday,  February 13, which featured works from student designers at UNT and Texas Woman's University.  Proceeds benefited the American Heart Association. UNT alumna Debbie Denmon of WFAA-TV (Channel 8) served as emcee for the event, which promotes awareness of women's battles with heart disease and stroke.

Photo credit:  Denton Record Chronicle

For more information see The Denton Chronicle and The North Texas Daily

Each semester the UNT NAEA Student Chapter hosts an Art Panel Discussion in which a group of diverse educators provides insights into their profession and participates in a question and answer session with UNT students. This semester our speakers include an Elementary teacher, High School Teacher, UNT Graduate Student, and an Art Coordinator to offer a broad scope of the possibilities that a career in Art Education can provide. This discussion is open to all UNT students and faculty. It will be held on Friday, February 13th in room 223 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be provided.

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Medieval Graduate Student Symposium
January 30th and 31st, 2009

We are happy to announce that the College of Visual Arts and Design of the University of North Texas will be sponsoring our 4th Annual Medieval Graduate Student Symposium. In honor of UNT's two new Graduate Student Scholarships for the study of Islamic or Middle Eastern Art History, the topic for this year's Symposium will be "East Meets West in the Middle Ages," and will feature a keynote address by Dr. D. Fairchild Ruggles from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Her lecture is to be titled "The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: the Construction and Afterlife of the Mosque/Cathedral of Cordoba" and will be delivered at 5:00 P.M. on Friday, January 30th. The Graduate Student Symposium will take place on Saturday, January 31st from 10 AM until 4PM, at which time Dr. Ruggles will conclude the symposium with discussant remarks for our student presenters. We hope that you will put both the Symposium and Dr. Ruggles's keynote address on your calendar.

Call for Papers
While we will entertain papers from any discipline of Medieval Studies and on any topic, we particularly welcome those that engage the intersections of the East and the West. We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere. The deadline for submission is November 1st, 2008. A reminder notice and second call for papers will come out in September. Feel free to download the poster that can be printed and distributed.

The College of Visual Arts and Design will again be providing lunch for the break in our symposium day. With the success of last year's symposium they are looking forward to another day of interesting conversation and graduate student interaction. We hope that you can join us.