Art21 Telethon

An 8-Hour Performance & Fundraising Event
Sunday, May 6, 2012, 3-11 p.m.

ON-SITE: Algus Greenspon Gallery, 71 Morton Street, NYC
ONLINE: art21.org/telethon

Art21 Telethon is an artist-initiated eight-hour performance event and fundraiser, featuring interviews, musical acts, animal talents, comedy, audience participation, and much more.

Hosted by artist Ronnie Bass, who developed the event with Art21 featured artist Tommy Hartung and independent curator Miriam Katz, the Art21 Telethon is both a durational performance modeled after marathon television broadcasts, as well as an actual fundraiser where attendees and online viewers can both phone in or contribute online to support Art21.

Bass receicved his BFA from the University of North Texas in 2003 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2006.  He ives in Brooklyn and has exhibited his artwork internationally. 

Art history alumna Kaili Hutcherson ('11) has just accepted an internship in the registrar's office at the Conservation Center in Chicago. Hutcherson will work with registrar Ariel VandeVoorde to inventory, track, catalog, and organize objects in the center's care. Hutcherson previously interned at the Dallas Contemporary. For more information on the Conservation Center, visit http://www.theconservationcenter.com/.

Nick Cave, UNT's 2012 Artist in Residence for the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, was featured on the Public Brodcasting System Newshour on Tuesday, April 24.  You can hear the broadcast and see the video on the PBS Newshour website.

UNT's art and design, music, and dance students are featured and mentioned in the broadcast.

Student artist immerses herself in Mexican culture

Alison Matlock / Staff Writer

She grabs a greasy black pencil and draws a woman from a Mexican folk song on a block of limestone before rolling ink over the limestone rock, completing her latest work.

Second-year graduate student Linda Santana, 26, who has practiced printmaking for eight years, leaves for Mexico today for the second time this semester. She will spend three weeks doing cultural research and printmaking.

Santana, who said she’s the only UNT student to study in Mexico this year, wants to bring attention to forgotten folk songs through her artwork and inspire more people to study in Mexico.

Photo by Chelsea Stratso / Visuals Assigning Editor - Art master's student Linda Lucia Santana draws an image onto limestone in her studio in Hickory Hall on Monday afternoon. The image used for the piece is from Santana's trip to Toluca, Mexico, from Feb. 3 to March 12.

“Everyone seemed really excited to get this exchange started, so I went down there to really promote exchange,” Santana said.

While in Mexico, Santana works with professors at UNT’s sister school UAEM, the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. They primarily research stones: their chemical makeup and how they can be used for lithography, a type of planographic – printing from a flat surface – printmaking process that Santana focuses on, she said.

“I actually did lithography on Mexican marble while I was there, and that was a big deal for me because it’s not something you can do up here in the United States,” Santana said. “It’s something very unique to Mexico.”

Santana benefits from seeing what role prints have played in Mexican history, said art history professor Kelly Donahue-Wallace, coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Art and Design Studies Program.

“The opportunity to work in Mexico has been invaluable for Linda. Her work engages themes drawn from Mexican culture,” Donahue-Wallace said. “So this time in Toluca, Mexico City and the Yucatan will enrich her understanding of this culture and will provide her with new questions to address.”

Santana’s 2011 collaborative work for the La Calaca Press International Exchange was published last February in Grafilia, a magazine from Guadalajara, Mexico.

“It’s time consuming, but I kind of find it therapeutic,” Santana said. “It’s hard to have time for other things.”

Santana has spent most of her life with the Mexican folk songs that inspire her printmaking, she said. While growing up in California, her family would dance to these traditional songs.

Cat Snapp, a third-year MFA candidate in printmaking, said Santana was interested in more than what these historical folk singers have become a symbol of.

“She is interested in restoring a portrait of someone whose story is lost or altered over the passage of time,” Snapp said. “I love that it is important to her to excavate and reassemble someone’s identity through her research of Mexican folk songs.”

Santana has taught a couple of semesters of drawing and in May will teach relief printmaking at UNT.

“She is passionate about drawing and printmaking, which is evident when she talks about her work and art in general,” Snapp said. “It is easy to see that she not only cares greatly about art but also about sharing her love for it with others.”

She would like to continue teaching after graduate school, Santana said. She eventually wants to own her own press.

“If I can make a living off my artwork, that would be ideal,” Santana said. “I’ll aim for that, and I’d like to travel some more.”

Snapp has enjoyed seeing Santana’s work develop during her time in Mexico.

“I’ve already seen the influence the first part of her trip has had on her work, and I can’t wait to see what will emerge once she’s able to reflect on her trip,” Snapp said. “I already see a whole new dimension of her work developing.”

In order to accommodate CVAD students’ needs for more hours to work on projects the Art buildings (Art, Curry, Oak Street, Hickory and Scoular) will be open until Midnight from Monday, April 23 until Sunday, May 6.
 
This will include weekends!

The UNT Metals Club will be having a jewelry sale in the Art Building Lightwell Foyer from Tuesday-Thursday April 24th-26th, 10 am- 4 pm.

Handmade and unique pieces made by students in the club. Earrings, ear cuffs, necklaces, rings, and brooches are some of the different kinds of pieces to view and purchase.

P.R.I.N.T Press is located at 1120 W. Oak Street (Oak Street Hall Annex), Denton, Texas 76201.  Contact us for more information (http://art.unt.edu/print/contact.html) or check out our blog (http://bit.ly/INCYV2).

Dornith Doherty, professor of photography in the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation — making her one of 181 scholars, artists and scientists to receive a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in the 88th annual competition.
The fellows — representing the United States and Canada — were chosen from a field of about 3,000 applicants. Doherty plans to use the fellowship to complete her Archiving Eden project — in which she uses X-ray machines at international seed banks to photograph seeds and cloned plants. She then incorporates the X-ray images into digital collages.
“I am absolutely thrilled to have received the fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,” she said. “To be counted among the fellows of this institution is a profound honor.”
Doherty began Archiving Eden in 2008, inspired by the construction of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — dubbed the “doomsday vault” — to secure the world’s seed collections from natural disaster or catastrophe. She visited the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, Colo., and the Millennium Seed Bank in Sussex, England, where she used the on-site X-ray machines to photograph seeds and plants. In 2010, she was one of only a few people allowed to visit the remote Svalbard vault, where she took documentary-style photographs. With the Guggenheim Fellowship, she plans to expand her project by photographing important national seed banks in Australia, Brazil and Russia.
“The dual nature of Archiving Eden, which includes view camera and X-ray photographs made concurrently, serves to illuminate the complexity of the issues surrounding the role of science, technology and human agency in relation to gene banking,” Doherty said.
“In this era of climate change and declining biodiversity, seed banks play a vital role in ensuring the survival of genetic diversity in wild and agricultural species,” she said. “Archiving Eden is dedicated to bringing attention to this important and timely issue.”
Doherty, who joined the UNT faculty in 1996, was named one of the first faculty fellows of UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2009-2010 academic year.
“It is such a pleasure to have Professor Doherty on the faculty,” said Dr. Robert Milnes, dean of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. “We are all very proud of her and her work. She is a constant innovator and dedicated member of the faculty and university community.”
 
About Dornith Doherty
Doherty’s work is shown in exhibitions internationally, including Earth Now, American Photographers and the Environment, New Mexico Museum of Art; Confined, Captive and Keeper in Contemporary Life, the Bluecoat, Liverpool, England; Indiana State Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Atlánticas Colectivas, Tenerife, Spain; the Festival de la Luz Photography Biennial in Buenos Aires, Argentina; FotoFest, Houston; Flora and Fauna, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; and the Tucson Museum of Art, among others.
Her work is in numerous permanent collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Milwaukee, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Yale University Library, the Museet Fotokunst in Odense, Denmark, Goldman-Sachs in New York, Harrah's Casino in New Orleans, Sprint Corporation in Kansas City, Federal Reserve Bank in Houston and the Centro de Fotografía, Isla de Tenerife in Spain.
She has received 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. She was named one of the first faculty fellows of UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts. Doherty received a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish and French language and literature at Rice University and a master of fine arts degree in photography from Yale University. Her work is represented by McMurtrey Gallery in Houston and Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas.

Andrew DeCaen:  Meal Time
April 28-May 19.
Reception:  Saturday, April 28, 6-8pm

Norwood Flynn Gallery
3318 Shorecrest Dr.
Dallas, TX 75235

CVADalum John Adelaman's most recent exhibition, "Elixir," is currently on display through May 5 at the Darke Gallery in Houston.  The exhibition was reviewed in the Houston Press Blog by Meredith Deliso.

Hearty congratulations go out to Lisa Owen! Her book, Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora, is now in print!  Drawing on art historical, epigraphical, and textual evidence, this book is the first full-scale reconstruction of medieval Jain artistic and devotional practices at the rock-cut site of Ellora in Maharashtra, India.  Created during the ninth and tenth centuries, Ellora's Jain caves are among the best-preserved examples of medieval Jain art in India.  While this book briefly addresses traditional art historical issues of date and iconography, it primarily considers the articulation of sacred space within the caves and the role of imagery in shaping devotional practices.  Building upon scholarship that examines Jainism within its larger South Asian context, this book also explores connections between the Jain monuments and their Hindu and Buddhist counterparts to reveal a lived religious world at Ellora.

And, more importantly, you can now buy your own copy at:  http://www.brill.nl/carving-devotion-jain-caves-ellora

Congratulations on this fantastic accomplishment!

The University of North Texas  North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium began in 2005. It is an annual two-day event comprised of a professional Keynote Address followed by a day-long presentation of medieval graduate student research papers. These papers are professionally reviewed and are chosen on the merit of the originality of their thesis, validity of their argument, and relevancy to the year's theme. This year we welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Jean Givens, University of Connecticut.

The primary directive of the Medieval Symposium is to bring together medieval graduate students from the various disciplines under the umbrella of Medieval Studies - art history, literature, history, music, and philosophy-- for collegial exchange within a professional-style venue. The community surrounding the University of North Texas, including the greater Dallas Metroplex, is invited. Community members are also encouraged to meet the student speakers and their professors during the mid-day break over a light lunch.  Our hope is to expand the scope of the Symposium even further. This year the Symposium is supported by CAMCSI, the Dallas Area Medieval Association, SMU Medieval Studies, as well as CVAD's Gallery, Visiting Artist and Scholar Grant.

While there is a plethora of museum facilities in the Dallas-Fort-Worth Metroplex, featuring an abundance of modern art, there have been very few opportunities for the public to be exposed to the culture of the Middle Ages. The North Texas Medieval graduate Student Symposium seeks to engage the public in the more historical aspects of the arts. The event is free and open to the general public.
 

Check out the links below from the Dallas Observer blog about talented MFA student Blayre Stiller's MFA show review and press releases!

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/04/instant_inamorata_blayer_still.php

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/04/toast_of_the_town_blayer_still.php

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/04/saturday_nights_dragon_street.php

Just a reminder to everyone of the upcoming CAMCSI and LTC symposium, Kashmir: A Way Forward. The symposium includes a documentary film screening Apour Ta Yapour (April 5th 5-7:30) and a one-day symposium (April 6th 9-5). Attached is the flyer for the event in JPEG and PDF forms. Please spread the word to help make this event a success!

Dear colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating Art History MA student Bita Zamorano. She has just been accepted, as part of a nationally-competitive process, with funding, to participate in the NEH Summer Institute: The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscan and Early Roman City. For three weeks in June Bita will travel to Italy to do site work. The program explains that: “At the heart of the Institute will be an examination of the ways that art, architecture, and material culture are used to illuminate the social and cultural landscapes of ancient Italy. Through the study of groups of objects and archaeological sites, we will address specific issues of cultural identity, status, gender, belief system, spatial hierarchy, and political and economic dominance and decline. Central to our approach will be a critical examination of current research trends.” This will be a wonderful opportunity for Bita and promises to shape her future practice as an art historian.
All best wishes,
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
 
Follow the Department of Art Education and Art History at http://www.facebook.com/untaeah.
 

Paul Niell is the recipient of a UNT Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship to allow him to continue work on his project "Icon, Space, and Ideology at the Church of Santa Maria del Rosario near Havana, Cuba." This funding supports work in addition to that funded by the Research Initiation Grant this year as well.

See the March 29th 12:30 pm performance of Nick Cave:Heard on KERA's Art'N Seek.  The performanc ewill take place one more time on Sunday, April 1 at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas at 1:30 pm.  

Congratulations to the art and design students, dancers, musicians community members and faculty and staff involved in making this great event happen!!!

See the UNT events and coverage for it and the Nasher performance at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/nick-cave-turns-students-into-animals_n_1391449.html#s827556

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2012/03/30/things-to-do-in-dallas-this-weekend-mar-30-apr-1/
 
http://www.apimages.com/Search.aspx?st=det&sort=date&ids=Exhibit%20Nick%20Cave&showact=events&prds=10092&intv=3d&sh=10&kwstyle=or&adte=1333058171&pagez=60&cfasstyle=AND&

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/03/-httpthescoopblogdallasnewscom.html

http://www.dallasnews.com/photos/20120329-unt-soundsuits.ece?ssimg=517287#ssTop517288

Be sure to click on both the video and the radio story – which is below the video -- to see/hear both versions. http://artandseek.net/2012/03/30/at-unt-a-performance-months-in-the-making/
http://www.dentonrc.com/incoming/20120329-horse-play.ece

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20120329-horse-sensory.ece?ssimg=517542#ssStory517463

http://paper.li/ArtNewsDFW/1312654910

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/27/3839225/best-bets-for-thursday-march-29.html#tvg

http://designyoutrust.com/2012/03/30/horses-on-campus-at-the-university-of-north-texas/

 

 

Dr. Robert Sabol, Professor of Visual and Performing Arts and Chair of the Division of Art and Design at Purdue University and President of the National Art Education Association, will be the D Jack Davis Lecturer in Art Education this year. His lecture will be on Tuesday, April 3rd at 5 p.m. in ART 223 and is titled, "Art Education: Where are we now? What lies ahead?" A small reception preceding the lecture will be held in the foyer of the main gallery in the ART building.

Congratulations to Art Education Ph.D. candidate Cindy Hasio. Through a competitive process she was selected by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to attend, at no expense to herself, their Power of Art Day, to be hend at the Lab School of Washington, DC. See http://www.labschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=136085 for more information about the school and http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/ for more information about the Rauschenberg Foundation.

Congratulations to Susan Whiteland on the publication of her article, "Making Friends and Making Art: An Intergenerational Learning Experience" that has been published in Journal of Art for Life 3, no. 1 (2012). Susan completed her Ph.D. this semester, is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, and has just accepted a tenure-track position at Arkansas State University.

REVIVAL! Uncharted Paths Give New Perspectives

"Voices Against Violence" Guidelines and Deadlines

Contest Options:

1. Art Submission

2. Film Submission

Art Submissions-

A first, second, and third place winner will be selected in this category by judges wth expert knowledge in this field.

First place winner will receive $100, second will receive $75, and third will receive $50.

Submissions will be judges on the following:

1. How closely the work reflects the month and/or contest theme: "ending the Silence," "Voices Against Violence"

2. Message Clarity

3. Color and Design

4. Technique

5. Originality

6. Overall Appearance

Art submissions will become the property of The Turning Point and will be displayed in Collin County hospitals, schools and businesses to promote"Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention" on an ongoing basis.

Guidelines for submissions:

1. Submissions must be no larger than 4 ft. by 4 ft.

2. Submissions may include the following mediums: painting, sketches, sculptures, and photography.

3. An individual may submit more than one peice.

4. Any pieces promoting any form of violence or hostility towards others, or that conflict with the Mission of the Turning Point will be disqualified.

5. all art must be appropriate for public display to all ages.

Time line for submissions:

Participants must register through Samantha Wyman no later than March 30th at 5:00 p.m. To register, email Samantha at swyman@theturningpoint.org. Give your name, your phone number, the number of piece, the medium you will use.

Art/Photo Submissions must be completed and turned into The Turning Point by April 6th at 5:00p.m. Samantha Wyman will provide you with location information after you have registered.

Film Submissions-

These Short films or public service announcements will be used for educational purposes as Public Service Annoucements, by The Turning Point, in numerous Social Media Venues.

A first, second, and Third place winner will be selected in this category by judges with expert knowedge in this field.

First place winner will receive $100, second will receive $75, and third will receive $50.

Submissions will be judged on the following:

1. How closely the work reflects the month and/or contest theme: "Ending the Silence," "Voices Against Violence"

2. Overall Impact of Film.

3. Originality

Guidelines for Submissions:

1. Films must be on longer than 2 minutes in length.

2. Any films promoting any form of violence or hostility towards others, or that conflict with the Mission of The Turning Point will be disqualified.

3. Participants may submitt more than one film.

Participants must register through Samantha Wyman no later than March 30th at 5:00p.m. To register, email Samantha at swyman@theturningpoint.org. Give your name your phone number, the number of peices, the medium you will use.

Facts and information regarding sexual violence give further ideas and inspiration will be provided upon registration

Art/Photo Submissions must be completed and turned into The Turning Point by April 13th at 5:00 p.m. Samantha Wyman will proovide you with location information after you have registered.

***Winners for both the art and film submissions will be announced at the "Voices Against Violence" poetry open mic. night that will take place in the Atrium of the Spring Creek Campus of Collin College on April 20th at 6:30p.m.

Please feel free to contact Samantha Wyman at swyan@theturningpoint.org or 972-985-0951 if you have any questions.

REVIVAL! Uncharted Paths Give New Perspectives (http://vimeo.com/38485036) screened at the 2012 Southern Graphics Council International conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Summary:
How can run-down letterpresses be restored and updated to work with new technologies?

This video serves as a navigational guide for those who wish to renovate their equipment while incorporating new approaches to printmaking. Four students and their professor describe how they successfully brought several letterpresses back to working condition. They also show how to make a matrix on a computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) router, highlighting design features that allow printing without a chase, backer, or quoins.

REVIVAL! shows how charting familiar waters of traditional printmaking can yield fresh perspectives, cross currents of discovery, and ripples of excitement.

Presenters:
Laura Drapac (http://www.laurahdrapac.com/)
Lari Gibbons (http://www.lrgibbons.net/)
Linda Santana (http://lindalucia.tumblr.com/)
Cat Snapp (http://CATSNAPP.COM/home.html)
Christopher Wallace (http://southpawprintmaking.blogspot.com/)

"Nick Cave: Heard" is coming to UNT March 29 with performances at 12:30 and 5:30 pm on the lawn in front of the Art Building. The activity will then move to Dallas for   a new performance at the Nasher Sculpture Center on Sunday, April 1 at 1:30 pm. Read about Nick Cave and the performance in the Style and Design section of Time Magazine  and see the "Nick Cave: Heard" video!

Twenty-five new works by CVAD Drawing and Painting faculty member Robert Jessup are being featured in an exhibition March 21, 2012 - April 21, 2012 at the Besharat Gallery in Atlanta, GA. This will be Jessup's fourteenth solo exhibition in Atlanta, and works will range in scale and medium including "A Day in the Country" oil on canvas, 80" x 50" (oil on canvas, 2012)

 The "Nick Cave: Heard"  performance at UNT has been rescheduled to March 29, with two performances that day, one at 12:30 and one at 5:30.  This will create great resonance as Nick Cave and UNT are "Heard" with the following performance at the Nasher on April 1. 

The new schedule also gives us room for completing the dancer's costumes. If you have been thinking of helping but worried time was up, you can help for the next three weeks!  The help so far has been outstanding!  We have had school children, teachers, retired individuals, not to mention a host of UNT staff, students and faculty helping.

To date we have 14 pants completed, 38 to go. All but nine of the pants have been started and some are nearing completion.  About 15-20 people have them at home where they are working on them! You can do that, too! 

To keep our momentum going, we need your help to assist in the final push for completion.  We are running "raffia wrangling" sessions each day from 1-5 pm  in ART 231 and on the weekends from 12-5. We need people to help participate in and help supervise those sessions.  Can you help us and help find workers and supervisors?  Please contact Tracee Robertson or Elyce Franks.  Last Saturday we had over 20 people working  with Tracee and another crew on Sunday with Martha Falsetta.  I will be back tp help next Sunday as well.   We have room for novice and experienced raffia wranglers!

Special thanks:   Some of our champion raffia wranglers include Mary Jo Rawlins, who has completed two pair and is on to a third; CVAD Budget officer Mary Miller who is on her second pair; Martha Falsetta, spouse of CVAD faculty member Vincent Falsetta who is also on to her third pair, the Denton Handweavers Guild who have ten or more pair out, and the Material Girls of Robson Ranch, who have five pair they are working on.

See the Star-Telegram story about Nick Cave: Heard

A meeting for the Interior Design pre-majors will be held on Monday, March 12, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Art Building, room 223. The Entry Review Process will be discussed and forms for pre-enrollment in fall 2012 classes will be provided. This will be the only scheduled meeting to discuss the review and fall pre-enrollment procedures. Please make every effort to attend.

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  

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Jill Downen:  
Dust & Distance
 
Organized by Tracee Robertson
UNT Art Gallery Director
February 23 - March 24, 2012

Opening Reception
Thursday 2/23, 5 - 7 pm,  
With a talk by the artist at 6pm  

Jill Downen was a special guest on KERA's "Art and Seek"  on February 24 which featured the CBS11 story about Dust and Distance in its Friday Morning Roundup.

Downen's site-responsive sculpture installations consider the interdependent, metaphoric and physical relationships between human bodies and the spaces they build, inhabit and repair. Through the phenomena of temporality and perception, Downen sees in built spaces a prolongation of self--of human energy, forms and decay. Her recent project, Counterparts, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, is described as a site of wonder. Downen's art interprets a particular space by exploring its identity. Her investigation of the UNT Art Gallery, Dust and Distance, reveals a room that "breathes between the expanse of the reflective floor and the gridded weight of the concrete ceiling." This results in a place of retreat, where body, mind and architecture intersect.   

For more information please visit our website.   

 

Jill Downen
Artist Lecture
 
Eagle Student Services Center, 225  
Wednesday February 22, 2pm
 
Jill Downen's art focuses on the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture, expressed in temporal installations, drawings and models, where the forces and tensions of construction, deterioration, and restoration emerge as thematic possibilities. Downen was named a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow. Awards include a 2009 MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship with additional support from Leon Levy Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and a Cité International des Arts Residency in Paris where she first exhibited Hybrida, an ongoing series of works on paper.  
Downen was selected for the 2004 Great Rivers Biennial, a grant and exhibition sponsored by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation. The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis has invited her participation in symposiums on modern and contemporary art. Downen maintains a studio in St. Louis, and is represented by the Bruno David Gallery.

For more information please visit our website.    


 
In Partnership with The Dallas Museum of Art:

Urban Armor:
Body Building with Jill Downen
Family Workshop
 
Center for Creative Connections Tech Lab
Dallas Museum of Art
Saturday, February 25, 1pm - 4pm
 
$35 per family, $25 for members
 
Experience new awareness of the body's relationship to architecture and space in this Urban Armor workshop for families with tweens and teens. Join sculptor Jill Downen (represented by The Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis) to learn about her art, and then join her for an urban walk exploring sensory contact with the built environment followed by a sculpture project using plaster. Class size is limited and registration is required. To register, call 214-922-1818 or visit the DMA website.
 
   
Body Building, by Dickson Beall
 
Film Screening
 
 
 
Center for Creative Connections Theater
Dallas Museum of Art
Friday, February 17, 8:30pm
 
Body Building is a documentary film highlighting the work of artist and 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Jill Downen. Filmmaker Dickson Beall focuses on Downen's artistic processes and captures Downen's focused investigation of the relationship between the human body and architecture as expressed through installations, drawings, and models. Revealed in the film is the emphasis Downen has placed on the sense of touch. Body Building mirrors the intent of the artist by inviting examination of what it is that centers each of us in our work and daily lives.

For more information please visit the DMA website.
      
 
 
Image credit, Jill Downen, Dust and Distance test piece, detail. Gypsum, plumb line; dimensions vary. Courtesy of the artist and Bruno David Gallery. Photo by Charles Schwall. 

Dr. Nada Shabout, Associate Professor of Art History and Salam Atta Sabri, Director of the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, were interviewed on WFAA last Friday, March 2nd. If you missed it: http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tracking-stolen-Iraqi-art-141247233.html

CVAD Art Educators and Art Historians were spotlighted at national conferences during the past week

In case the 2nd floor of the art building seemed quieter than usual in the past week or two, its because the CVAD art historians and art educators have been presenting their research on both coasts!
 
The College Art Association’s centennial conference was held in Los Angeles from 22-25 February and AEAH faculty were actively involved:
·         Kelly Donahue-Wallace presented in the session organized by the Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy as well as chairing and presenting a paper in the session “‘Useful to the Public and Agreeable to the King’: Academies and their Products in Spain and New Spain,” organized by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies.
·         Nada Shabout participated in a round table discussion on Artists in Times of War and Revolution, organized by the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey.
·         Paul Niell made it to CAA after presenting a public lecture for the UNT Honors College in order to participate in the board meeting of the Association of Latin American Art.
·         Nadine Kalin presented a paper titled “‘Who Are You and How Do You Learn?’: An Emergent Ethics of Pedagogy within Graduate Art Education” as part of a special session organized by the CAA Education Committee before heading off the following week to NAEA.
 
The National Art Education Association’s annual convention was held in New York, and concluded just yesterday. Faculty, students, and alumni from the art education program were prominently involved:
·         All current art education faculty members – Joni Acuff, Terry Barrett, Laura Evans, and Nadine Kalin – were in attendance at the convention, presenting, chairing, and participating in the art museum education pre conference activities.
·         Nancy Walkup began assuming her duties as NAEA Elementary Division Director elect.
·         In fact, this was Emeritus Art Education Professor D. Jack Davis’s 50th consecutive annual NAEA convention!
Current graduate students presenting included:
·         Ph.D. candidate Joana Hyatt
·         Ph.D. candidate Dawn Stienecker who co-presented with alumna Lori Satnos, who is Assistant Professor of Art Education at Utah Valley University
·         Ph.D. student Cala Coats
·         Ph.D. student Adriana Martinez
·         Art History MA alumna and current Ph.D. student Kristina Hilliard, Director of Interpretation and Community Engagement at the Crow Collection
·         Ph.D. students Cindy Hasio, Jennifer Hartman, and Liz Langdon
·         Ph.D. students Liz Langdon and Fahad Jebreen along with MA student Debbie Yatko
·         Ph.D. candidate Laura Lee McCartney
Art Education Ph.D. students Cala Coats and Liz Langdon were coming directly from presenting at a competitive graduate research  pre-conference, Where Rubber Meets Road, at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Alumni presenting included:
·         Susan Whiteland, who completed her Ph.D. this semester and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Florida
·         Matthew Sutherlin, Art Education Ph.D. 2010, Assistant Professor of Art Education at the Maryland Institute College of Art
·         Amanda Blake, Art History MA and Manager of Family Experiences and Access Programs at the Dallas Museum of Art
·         Lauren LaRocca, Art History MA and Assistant Arts Director, AP Arts
·         Maria Leake, Art Education Ph.D. 2010, who also had her article “Art as Social Practice: Exploring the CONTEMPORARY” was published in the most recent issue of Art Education. 

We found that Susan Whiteland has accepted a tenure-track position at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro beginning in the fall of 2012 and Matthew Sutherlin has recently been named Co-Director of Graduate Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art!  Congratulations to them both on their new appointments!!!

Additional CVAD art education alumni who presented at the NAEA conference included :  Rebecca Arkenberg, Adjunct Faculty at Hunter College, Contractual Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, & Contributing Editor for Davis Publications; Stephanie Busbea, Coordinator of Art Education at Mississippi College;  and Pamela Geiger Stephens, Associate Professor of Art Education at Northern Arizona University.
 

Master Printer Erika Adams and papermaking artist Michelle Samour are collaborating for five days at P.R.I.N.T. Press to create a limited edition of hand-pulled prints. Michelle will give a public lecture describing her creative work and use of materials (such as abaca fiber) and installation process. Erika Adams will will discuss her work as an artist, collaborator and master printer. There will also be a public viewing of her book, Wrestle, which is housed the collection of UNT's Rare Book Room. At the end of the week, the artists will show their work in progress at an Open House.

Michelle Samour's lecture
When: Monday 27 February 2012, 2:00 p.m.–2:50 p.m.
Where: ESSC 255, UNT
Co-sponsored by Core Drawing, GVASC, Printmaking, and P.R.I.N.T Press.

Erika Adams' lecture and book viewing
When: Tuesday 28 February 2012, 2 – 2:50 p.m.
Where: Willis Forum, Willis Library, UNT
Co-sponsored by Art Education / Art History, GVASC, Printmaking, and P.R.I.N.T Press.

Open House / Meet the artists
When: Friday March 2, 2012, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Where: P.R.I.N.T Press (Oak Street Annex), UNT

What: Second Edition — A reception for the artists is taking place at the Clampitt Paper Creative Center this Thursday, February 23 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The exhibition includes fine arts prints by University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design students Cat Snapp, Laura Drapac, Linda Santana and Christopher Wallace and curated by faculty member Lari Gibbons. The prints were created on four letterpresses that Gibbons and the students restored.

For more information about the letterpress restoration project, visit http://inhouse.unt.edu/start-press.

Most of the works also were on display this summer at the Museum of Printing History in Houston.

Reception: 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. February 23 (Thursday).
When: The show will be available for viewing through March 15 (Thursday).
Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

Where: Clampitt Paper Creative Center, 9207 Ambassador Row, Dallas

Cost: Free

Contact: Lari Gibbons at UNT, 940.369.8354, or gibbons@unt.edu, http://untprintpress.blogspot.com/ or
Marge Askren at the Clampitt Creative Center, 214.424.0186, margea@clampitt.com, http://www.clampitt.com/default.asp?NodeId=6

Thank you to P.R.I.N.T Press artist-in-residence Leslie Mutchler (http://www.lesliemutchler.com/) who presented her artwork in a Core Talk lecture and printed components of a multi-participatory piece at P.R.I.N.T Press. Leslie also hung several pieces for an Open House event which featured live printing of her hand-cut woodblocks. Click here (http://tinyurl.com/7unzpto) for more photos of Leslie's project.

Leslie Mutchler's visit to UNT was co-sponsored by Core Design and P.R.I.N.T Press. A special thank you to CVAD's Core Programs for their ongoing support of educational projects in the college.

Thank you to visiting artist Jason Urban (http://www.jasonurban.com/) who presented his artwork, described his curatorial projects, and discussed Printeresting (http://www.printeresting.org/) in a dynamic, well-attended lecture. Jason gave individual critiques to Printmaking students and showed his work in an Open House event at P.R.I.N.T Press.

Jason Urban's visit to UNT was co-sponsored by Core Drawing and Printmaking. A special thank you to CVAD's Core Programs for their important support of educational projects in the college.

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/

Dr. Terry Barrett's latest publication, "Making Spaces for Personal Meanings about Works of Art," in From Transmission to Interaction: Museum Education Spaces, will be published by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The article is about the proceedings (in Chinese and English) of the 6^th International Symposium on Art Museum Education.

Sasha Duerr, a sustainable textile specialist and founder of the Permacouture Institute will be giving a lecture on Thursday the 16th at 4pm in Scoular Hall room 129. Her work and research will appeal to a broad audience through her roots in sustainability and the links she has formed to the slow food movement and environmentally conscious design.

Jason Urban is an artist, curator and co-founder of Printeresting.org, "the thinking person's favorite online resource for interesting printmaking miscellany." Printeresting is a 2011 recipient of the Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Jason's lecture will focus on Printeresting and his ongoing projects in art criticism and printmaking.

Lecture
Wednesday 15 February 2012, 9:30 a.m.–10:50 a.m., Hickory 160
Sponsored by Core Drawing and Printmaking. Free

Dr. Paul Niell, Assistant Professor of Art History and the Art History Program Coordinator will be the guest speaker at Honors Hall on Wednesday, February 22nd at 5 p.m. He will speak about "History and Visual Culture in Latin American and Caribbean Carnial Traditions." Come learn about Carnival/Mardi Gras as it is celebrated throughout Latin American and enjoy delicious Caribben food in the Honors Hall Commons Room. This event will include faculty guest speakers as well as a catered Cuban dinner and desserts. All are welcome! 

Congratulations to CVAD Fashion Design senior Gordon Steinecke who won the Judge's prize for First Place in the Annual "Go Red" style show in Denton on Friday, February 10. Congratulations also to Fashion Design Junior Kaitlin Scott who won the Preople's Choice Award for second place in the show.  UNT students exhibited nineteen pieces in the show.  Their dresses are shown here, with Gordon Steinecke's dress on the right and Kaitlin Scott's shown on the left.

CVAD IT Staff members Michael Baggett, Craig Berry, and Kacey Close were honored this week at the UNT President's Sack Lunch.  The CVAD IT Department won the Outstanding Department award.  Baggett, Berry and Close were nominated by the chairs of the three CVAD academic departments for their outstanding work supporting students and faculty.  Congratulations Michel, Craig, and Kacey!

CVAD MFA student Irby Pace's controversial art project, which lifts pictures customers take of themselves on electronic devices in Apple stores, was featured in a February 1 post from Wired Magazine.  Pace's exhibition of the photos, titled "Unintended Consequences"  is on view in CVAD's Cora Stafford Gallery located at 1120 W. Oak St, Denton, TX 76201. The reception is on Thursday, February 9th, between 5-7 pm.

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.

SPRING 2012

P.R.I.N.T Press is pleased to announce its spring 2012 schedule of events:
 
Mokuhanga Workshop with Kazuko Goto
Saturday, March 31 and Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Learn a traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique that uses water-based inks and does not require a press or toxic chemicals.
More information.
Sign Up.

Open House with Leslie Mutchler
Friday, February 17th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Meet artist-in-residence Leslie Mutchler, who is printing components of a community-driven, multi-participatory installation piece.
More information.

Open House with Erika Adams and Michelle Samour
Friday, March 2nd from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
See new work and visit with Master Printer Erika Adams and papermaking artist Michelle Samour, who are collaborating for five days at P.R.I.N.T Press to create a limited edition of hand-pulled prints.
More information.

Open House with Jon Lee and Albert Paley
Friday, April 20th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
See new work and visit with Master Printer Jon Lee and renowned sculptor Albert Paley, who are collaborating for five days at P.R.I.N.T Press to create a series of hand-pulled monotypes.
More information.
 
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Painting show at UTA

http://www.uta.edu/gallery/exhibitions/medium-is-the-message.php

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

Acclaimed artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits to be seen in UNT exhibition, new performance piece

Nick Cave: Soundsuits

• Soundsuits from internationally renowned visual and performing artist Nick Cave, artist-in-residence for the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, will be on display. This event support by the UNT Fine Arts Series.
• Feb. 24 (Friday) - March 24 (Saturday) Hours: 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. Opening reception: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Feb 24 (Friday)
• UNT on the square, 109 N. Elm St. in historic downtown Denton
• Admission is free
• For more information. visit www.untonthesquare.unt.edu or call 940-369-8257

Nick Cave: Herd

•  A new performance piece called Herd, featuring 30 newly created horse-like Soundsuits, will be unveiled in two public performances on the UNT campus and one performance in Dallas. Cave collaborated with UNT art, dance, music and theatre students; UNT faculty members; and community members in the creation of the suits, choreography, musical score and other aspects of the performance. Herd was commissioned by the UNT Art Galleries and the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts and organized by Tracee Robertson, director of the UNT Art Gallery.
• Denton: 5:30 p.m. March 12 (Monday) and 12:30 p.m. March 13 (Tuesday) on the Library Mall outside UNT's Willis Library, one block east of Highland Street and Avenue C on the UNT campus. Reception in the University Union will follow the March 12 performance. Admission is free.
• Dallas: 1:30 p.m. April 1 (Sunday) in the Nasher Sculpture Center in association with UNT. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $5 for students. Admission is free for Nasher Sculpture Center members.
• For information, visit www.gallery.unt.edu.

DENTON (UNT), Visual and performance artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits have drawn acclaim from around the world and have been called "Must Be Seen to Be Believed" by The New York Times.

This semester, The renowned artist is capping his appointment as 2011-12 artist-in-residence of the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts with a free exhibition of his Soundsuits and a highly collaborative performance piece featuring 30 newly created horse-like Soundsuits - made and performed with the help of UNT students. Cave's Soundsuits - wearable lauded internationally in performances and exhibitions

"By working with an artist of Nick Cave's caliber on this project, UNT students have learned the importance of being disciplined in their field and how to focus their time and energy to complete a project successfully in the competitive world of art," said Amie Adelman, coordinator of the fibers program at the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. "They've had firsthand experience learning about the benefits and complexities of working on an interdisciplinary project that involves music, dance, theater and art. With this experience, our students will be even better prepared when they launch their professional careers."

Selected Soundsuits from Cave will be on display Feb. 24 (Friday) through March 24 (Saturday) at UNT on the Square, a downtown Denton art space. Exhibition 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. For information, visit www.untonthesquare.unt.edu or call 940-369-8257.

Herd, the new performance piece from Cave, will be performed at 5:30 p.m. March 12 (Monday) and 12:30 p.m. March 13 (Tuesday) on the lawn between Willis Library and the Hurley Administration Building on the UNT campus. Commissioned by the UNT Art Galleries and the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, Herd will feature UNT student dancers in 30 horse-like Soundsuits being corralled by UNT percussionists and then breaking apart into 60 hybrid beings that move in increased improvisation. Admission to the UNT events is free.

 Herd also will be performed at 1:30 p.m. April 1 (Sunday) at the Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St. in downtown Dallas. Admission to the Dallas event is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $5 for students. Admission is free for Nasher Sculpture Center members.

About Nick Cave

 Cave has had numerous one-person exhibitions, including a large traveling exhibition, Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, organized by the Yerba Buena Center or the Arts in San Francisco in 2009 and featured at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Fowler Museum, University of California Los Angeles, Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Fla., and at the Seattle Art Museum. Cave received the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2008, the Artadia Award, the United States Artist Award and the Joyce Foundation Joyce Award in 2006, Creative Capital Grants in 2004 and 2002, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2001. His work is in many public art collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Portland Art Museumin Oregon, and theStudio Museum in Harlem, N.Y.,among others. Cave is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

Cave earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1981 and a master of fine arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Mich., in 1988 after beginning graduate studies in 1984 at UNT, where he worked with professors Vincent Falsetta in painting and Shigeko Spear in fibers. Cave also was trained as a dancer by the renowned Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.

About the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts

Launched in October 2009, the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts (IAA) aims to showcase, support and advance excellence in the visual, performing and creative literary arts at UNT, among its faculty members and in conjunction with their renowned colleagues and collaborators.

The three central components of the Institute are UNT on the Square, the IAA Faculty Fellows program and the IAA Artist-in-Residence program. Previous artists-in-residence are filmmaker Guillermo Arriaga (2009-2010) and composer Jake Heggie (2010-2011)

The IAA is an initiative of the offices of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. Participating colleges include the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Visual Arts and Design, and College of Music.

 For information about the institute and related activities, contact Herbert Holl, director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, at 940-369-8257 or herbert.holl@unt.edu.

About the UNT Art Galleries

Part of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, the UNT Art Galleries support the educational mission of the university, enrich the aesthetic environment of the community and serve as a cultural resource for the public at large. Through their focus on curatorial projects involving vanguard contemporary art, the galleries challenge and promote the current discourse surrounding living artists and their works.

For information about involving classrooms or community groups in the residencies and performance, please contact TRasee Robertson, director of the UNT Art Galleries, at 940-369-8914 or tracee.robertson@unt.edu.

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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

Corrected Version as of January 13, 2012 - ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS SHOULD BE DISREGARDED

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

UNT Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship

In cooperation with the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research and Economic Development is now accepting applications for the Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship for 2012 awards.

The UNT Junior  Faculty Summer Research Fellowship is intended to stimulate and aid the initiation of research programs. Untenured, tenure-track assistant professors in their first three years at UNT are eligible to apply. In order to recieve the funds, recipients must certify that in the academic year following funding, they will continue to a tenure-track position at the University of North Texas.

This competition is for fellowships during the summer of 2012.

Visit our website at http://research.unt.edu/faculty-research/intramural-funding/junior-faculty-summer-research-fellowship for further information and application materials.

 The 2012 Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship proposals are due to the Office of Vice President for Research and Economic Development by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, February 29, 2012. You are asked to submit the full application electronically (as a single PDF file with signature page) to Rick.Knight@unt.edu, or via hand delivered hard copy to the Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development, Hurley Administration Building, Room 175.

Please check with your Chairperson and Dean's office for earlier deadlines in order to obtain the required signatures prior to final submission.

Please address any Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship application questions to Rick.Knight@unt.edu, or contact via phone at (940) 565-3975.

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.

Appalachian Center for Crafts

Tennessee Tech University College of Education

1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville, TN 37166

National Parks Project

Vessels & Haiku

by Harlan W. Butt

January 6 - February 17, 2012

Presentation by the artist followed by a reception

Monday, January 30 at 4:30

Appalachian Center for Crafts

tntech.edu/craftcenter

931-372-3051

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 

Buster Graybill has a solo exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art with 28 new sculptures, photographs, and video, November 20, 2011–February 19, 2012.
http://www.amoa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ex_future
http://bustergraybill.com

Jasmyne Graybill has a solo exhibition at Women and Their Work in Austin with 20 new works, November 19 - January 5, 2012.
http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/upcoming_exhibitions.html?itemid=727
http://jasmynegraybill.com

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.
 
One spot left! Sign up here.
 
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
 
Find us on Google maps
UNT campus & parking (pdf download)
 
 
 

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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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
 
 
Follow Us  
 
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
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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