Dr. Nada Shabout has been selected, along with  Sarah Rogers and Anneka Lenssen, to  edit a new volume in the Museum of Modern Art's Primary Documents publication series. The Primary Documents series (see https://www.moma.org/learn/intnlprograms/research)
presents primary source materials related to artistic practice and art history across the globe that are otherwise unavailable, or difficult to find, in the English language. Each book is organized around a specific country, region, time period, or theme that relates to MoMA's collection, programs, and research interests. The volume that Dr. Shabout will co-edit is tentatively titled Arab Art in the Twentieth Century: Primary Documents. The volume   provides an essential anthology of the critical reflections about art, artistic purposes, and aesthetics, written by artists and critics of the modern Arab world. Conceived as a carefully selected collection of primary sources, the volume brings together crucial documents from the debates that surrounded the complex task of defining modern art, its formal languages, and theoretical aspirations. By bringing together and translating these documents for the first time, this anthology examines this complex terrain of modernism as it was practiced in the Arab world and articulated for a public stage that was increasingly understood as global. In order to provide readers with a historical overview of modern art and its development in the Arab world, the documents are organized chronologically into three major periods. Each period is designated by an overarching central issue of concern, followed by several subsections that tease out different positions and formulations concerning the modern and its
discontents. 

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Evans on the publication of her chapter, "Setting the Table: The
Role of University Art Museums in Creating Communities of Awareness Around Eating Disorders" in the forthcoming Handbook for Academic Museums: Exhibitions and Education (http://www.museumsetc.com/products/academic1), which is being published by Museums Etc. The editors, Stefanie S. Jandl and Mark S. Gold describe their goals as to bring together in one place as much good, current thinking as possible about the opportunities and issues unique to academic museums. Wide-ranging and committed, this is a collection of essays
written about, by, and for the community of academic museums. Above all, they are intended as a practical resource for that community. The authors were charged with sharing useful information: strategies, best practices, mistakes made, lessons learned, what worked, what didn't, and why. This book offers the combined wisdom of the profession for the benefit of its practitioners. Congratulations to Laura Evans for being a part of it!

Congratulations go out to Art Education Ph.D. student, and recent scholarship recipient, Forest Bell on the publication of his piece "Subcultural style: Steampunk's revision of Victorian sensibilities" in FSJ: Fashion Studies Journal 1, no. 1, (http://issuu.com/fashionstudiesjournal/docs/fashionstudiesjournal1/9) a new, interdisciplinary, online journal being published in conjunction with Parsons: The New School of Design. This is a fabulous new venue for fashion studies and it is an honor for Forest to be included in its introductory issue.

UNT Provost Warren Burggren annouced today that CVAD Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs Jean Miller has been named the interim Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School at UNT.  UNT has conducted a national search for a dean this year. Professor Miller will serve in an interim capacity until the new dean is in place.  She will continue her role as Associate Dean of CVAD, taking on the additional duties May 14. Congratulations to Jean!!!

Provost Warren Burggren has announced the creation of a new rank for faculty, the Distinguished University Teachig Professor.  Comparable to the University Regents' Professor rank, the University Distinguished Teaching Professor title recognizes a small, select group of UNT faculty whose teaching at all levels is clearly superior.  CVAD Professor Eric Ligon has been recognized in the first cohort of this new rank. Ligon has served on the faculty of CVAD for twenty years, teaching in and coordinating the Communication Design program, and now serves as Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs for CVAD. Congratulations to Professor Ligon!

Congratulations go out to Mickey Abel for her contribution to an important new edited volume, Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture,
Brill: Leiden, 2012.

These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today?s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions?-on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings?-where the most common verb is ?made? (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole.

Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, María
Elena Díez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan González, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker.

http://www.brill.nl/reassessing-roles-women-makers-medieval-art-and-architecture-2-vol-set 

NATURAL SELECTION: Drawings inspired by the specimen collection of the
Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum

Please join us for an exhibition of Core Drawing I student work at the
EESAT Building, Eagle Exhibit Hall, April 30 through May 28.  Opening
Reception is April 30 from 5 to 7 pm.

Each semester, Drawing I students examine, study and sketch a diverse
collection of skins, bones, preserved reptiles and insects at the Elm
Fork Natural Heritage Museum.  The work presented in this exhibition is a
product of that experience.

Thank you Dr. James Kennedy, Director and Brian Williams, Assistant
Director, for making this partnership possible for CVAD students.

Thank you to Kazuko Goto (http://on.fb.me/Hp3Exo), whose  mokuhanga workshop at P.R.I.N.T Press taught participants a traditional Japanese woodblock technique that does not require the use of a printing press. The sold-out event took place from March 31 through April 1, 2012 and was open to the university community and the public-at-large.

Sasha Duerr, a faculty member at the California College of the Arts is featured in an article in the New York Times Wednesday on natural dyes for fabrics.  Her recent workshop for the Fibers program at the University of North Texas is mentioned, with our students described as "the most enthusiastic!"

 Heres the link to the article.

On My Own Time

In honor and appreciation of the creative talents of our staff and faculty, the University of North Texas is participating this year in “On My Own Time” an annual, regional art competition featuring the artistic talents of people who work for companies, non-profit and governmental agencies throughout North Texas. This is an excellent opportunity to encourage and publicly recognize the creativity of our campus community!

The artworks will be exhibited at UNT on the Square in August. Winners in each of eleven categories such as painting, black and white photography and sculpture, are selected by regional arts experts who act as jurors. In addition, the jurors select a Best of Show winner. Employees are asked to vote for a “People’s Choice” awardee.   Works that have been awarded a First Prize and Best of Show in each category are selected to move on to the regional exhibit, where the best artworks from all of the companies involved are exhibited together at NorthPark Center during September 2012.

On My Own Time, now in its twentieth year, is a program of the Business Council for the Arts. Thanks to the support of Vice President for Administration and Finance Andrew Harris, UNT’s participation is being coordinated by a Steering Committee including Charles Andrews, Rachel Grimes, Dilana King, and Hillary Talatzko from the Staff Council, Meredith Buie and Herbert Holl at UNT on the Square, and Robert Milnes, of CVAD and chair of the UNT Art in Public Places Program. Eligibility information and timelines are included in the attached pdf.  For additional information, contact Meredith Buie at UNTSQ:  Meredith.Buie@unt.edu or 940 369 8257

 Please find the form here.