Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at Northstar Bank and First State Bank in Denton.  The Denton division of the American Heart Association will host the annual event.  The Go Red for Women show raises moneys for research and awareness about women and heart disease.  UNT and TWU fashion students' design will be on display.
UNT Gateway Center from 11:00a-1:00p

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

Cheryl Palyu, The Birth Project: Deconstructed 

This programming is a part of Collections, Cultures, Collaborations: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design.

Lunchtime Lecture:  Courtnee Kendrick speaking about Cindy Sherman:  Quirky or Just Plain Weird?
UNT Art Gallery Lobby in the Art Building at noon

Lunchtime Lecture:  Cheryl Palyu speaking about The Birth Project:  Deconstructed
UNT Art Gallery Lobby in the Art Building at noon

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Rachel Black (UNT CVAD Visiting Senior Lecturer) will be a guest instructor.  Join her for Drawing from the Collection.  Museum admission and the class, is free.  Become acquainted with the Modern's collection while developing drawing skills by looking and learning with local artists as they lead informal, basic drawing classes in galleries.  Open to adults at all skill levels.  Bring a sketchbook and pencils.  Registration is not required.
Fort Worth Modern Museum at 3200 Darnell St, Ft Worth, TX 76107 from 2:00p-3:00p

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Madeline Fitzgerald, Willem de Kooning: A Deviation from the Norm

Laura Lee Brott, F.U.N. with Display

This programming is a part of Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design

Artwork of past UNT faculty from 1890-1970 which includes painting,  sculpture, metalsmithing, photography, and more.
UNT on the Square at 109 N. Elm St, Denton, TX

UNT's Eagle Student Services Center room 255 - open to public and free!

Lunchtime Lecture with Madeline Fitzgerald speaking about Willem de Kooning: A Deviation from the Norm.
UNT Art Gallery Lobby in the Art Building at noon

Lunchtime Lecture:  Laura lee Brott speaking about F.U.N. with Display.
UNT Art Gallery Lobby in the Art Building

Shared Exhibition of work of UNT Faculty Dean Robert Milnes, Chair Jerry Austin and New Media Assistant Professor Jenny Vogel.  Milnes' cheeky, skillful sculptures will share the gallery with earthenware ceramic sculptures by artist Jerry Austin.
Brookhaven College's The Forum Gallery in room F101 at 3939 Valley View Lane in Farmers Branch.  Gallery is open Monday -Friday from

Artist Talk at noon featuring UNT CVAD's Matthew Bourbon and Vincent Falsetta.
Southwestern College Gallery at 900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, CA 91910 at noon

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 

This programming is a part of Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design

Opening Reception to celebrate Collections, Cultures and Collaborations: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the College of Visual Art and Design. 5-7 pm, free.

The 5^th annual Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations exhibition features highlights from the CVAD permanent collection, along with excerpts of related research papers by CVAD Art History graduate students under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Way.  The Collections research and exhibition series was created in 2007 by Dr. Way, Associate Professor of Art History, and Rina Kundu, then Lecturer in Art Education, in collaboration with the UNT Art Gallery.

The series has engaged with important Texas collections, including The Rachofsky Collection, the Flatbed Press Collection, and the Neiman Marcus Art collection, as well as our own. Artists in this exhibition are Vernon Fisher, Nic Nicosia, Willem de Kooning, Judy Chicago, Anri Sala, Patrick Caulfield, Robert Motherwell, Henri Chopin, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Cindy Sherman.

Joe French's work references the frailty of life, using the juxtaposition of water and fire.
UNT Union Art Gallery - Gallery is open from 8:00a-10:00p Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on January 24 from 7:00p-9:00p

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CAMCSI's Muslim Cultures Film Serives in Chilton Hall, room 111C at 5 p.m.

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

Color Monotype with Michelle Martin

November 5 and 6, 2011

Explore multi-color printing and ways to integrate mixed media, collage, drawing--even sewing!--with Michelle Martin, associate professor at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Special pricing for current students, UNT alumni/faculty and senior citizens.

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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   

CAMCSI's Muslim Cultures Film Serives in Chilton Hall, room 111C at 5 p.m.

CAMCSI's Muslim Cultures Film Serives in Chilton Hall, room 111C at 5 p.m.

Healing Sounds of Ancient Turkey: Turkish Sufi Music, Poetry, and Images with Latif Bolat

Date: Wednesday, October 5^th, 2011

Time: 6pm - 8:30 pm

Location: UNT Union, Lyceum 

Binding Books and Constructing Cases with Charles Beneke

October 1 and 2, 2011

Bind two sketchbooks and make slipcase and clamshell cases for each with Charles Beneke, associate professor of art at the University of Akron in Ohio.
Special pricing for current students, UNT alumni/faculty and senior citizens.

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Relief Printmaking with Tom Huck

September 24, 2011

Learn the techniques of Northern Renaissance masters such as Albrecht Dürer from contemporary woodcut artist Tom Huck. Group discounts and special pricing available for art educators, art students and early registration.

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A Photographic Book Publishing Primer for the 21st Century

Two-Day Workshop with Melanie McWhorter

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.

Open to UNT students, faculty, and staff; seating is limited.  Please email dornith.doherty@unt.edu to reserve a seat.

Organized by photography faculty Dornith Doherty and Paho Mann, and sponsored by the College of Visual Arts and Design, the CVAD Visiting Artist and Scholar Fund, and the UNT Libraries.

A Photographic Book Publishing Primer for the 21st Century

Lecture by Melanie McWhorter

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 influential writer, curator, consultant, Book Division Manager of Photo-Eye Company, and co-founder of Finite Foto online magazine, Melanie McWhorter. 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.

Organized by photography faculty Dornith Doherty and Paho Mann, and sponsored by the College of Visual Arts and Design, the CVAD Visiting Artist and Scholar Fund, and the UNT Libraries.

5-7 pm, with gallery talk at 5:30

This exhibition is made possible by the UNT Fine Arts Series and the College of Visual Arts and Design.

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

Curated by Tracee Robertson, Gallery Director

Beneath Cognition: Jennifer Levonian, Lee Renninger, Carey Roberson is inspired by the viewing experience of very different artworks by three American artists, whose approaches vary greatly but whose narratives and compositions convey a sense of knowing that lies just beneath the surface of thought, action, or emotion.

This exhibition is made possible by the UNT Fine Arts Series and the College of Visual Arts and Design.

Image: Jennifer Levonian, still from Buffalo Milk Yogurt, 2010. Music by Corey Fogel. Video, stop-motion animation using watercolor and collage, 07:18 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

A selection of lithographic prints by five students from the School of Arts at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM), created in various workshops, such as La La Ceiba workshop in Coatepec, Veracruz; the Formation and Graphic Production workshop in the Antiguo Colegio Jesuita de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, and the graphics workshop at the School of Arts. 

Since 2002, UNT and UAEM have worked collaboratively on the academic training of students from both institutions and in shared research projects.  Originally focused in the fields of materials science, environmental science, and physics, the partnership has grown to include the humanities.

In exchange, CVAD students will exhibit ceramic works at UAEM.

For complete exhibition information click here.

Public Art Commission Opportunities Nationwide (posted by Las Vegas Public Art Commission)

We have added 12 new art opportunities from across the country. Please check back regularly for more updates!
http://www.lvartscommission.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.

The CVAD MFA Exhibition opens with a reception in the UNT Art Gallery from 4:30-6:00 pm. A summer tradition in the UNT Art Gallery, this 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. Curated by gallery staff and focused on process, criticism, and ideology, the exhibition presents and open environment in which to consider works by emerging artists.

A Summer tradition at the UNT Art Gallery, this 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. Curated by gallery staff and focused on process, criticism, and ideology, the exhibition presents an open environment in which to consider works by emerging artists.

Lecture starts at 1:00 pm

Peter Doroshenko, Executive Director at the Dallas Contemporary and the 2011 juror of the 51st Annual Voertman Student Art Competition at the UNT Art Gallery, talks about today's emerging artists. Before his arrival in Dallas, Doroshenko served as President and Artistic Director of the Pinchuck ARt Centre, Kiev, Ukraine. He has held direcor and curator positiosn over the past fifteen years, including at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England; SMAK-Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; inova (Institute of Visual Arts), Milwaukee; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse.

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.

The 51st Annual Voertman Student Art Competition opens with a pizza party, following the Annual Scholarship Ceremony in the Lightwell Gallery. Ceremony begins at Noon, reception begins at 1:00 pm.

Juried by Peter Doroshenko, Executive Director, The Dallas Contemporary

Opening Reception and Award Ceremony, Tuesday 4/12 at Noon

Join us as we kick-off the next half century of Denton business support for the arts with the 51st Annual Voertman Student Art Competition, supported by Voertman's store, "a North Texas tradition since 1925," for 51 years. The Voertman Competition is synonymous with student excellence in the College of Visual Arts and Design, featuring a juried selection of must-see new works in all media by undergraduate and graduate students in Design and Studio Arts.

The Denton Storytelling Guild and Tejas Storytelling Association partner to present a Saturday Family Storytelling event at the UNT Art Gallery, inspired by the exhibition Material Evolution: Ugandan Bark Cloth. Following the stories, the CVAD Graduate Student Art Education Association and the UNT chapter of the National Art Education Association will present art activities for families with children, grades K-5.

The Storytellers

Ann Marie Newman, representing the North 40 Storytelling Guild of Plano, tells the tale "Anansi Tries to Steal all the Wisdom of the World," incorporating African masks.

Decee Cornish is an award-winning storyteller, recognized by the Griots of Johannesburg, South Africa, as an "Urban Griot," or oral historian, who holds a Coming Up Taller Award for work with at-risk kids, has seen five of seven continents, and has been telling stories for nearly a decade.

Toni Simmons is an author and international storyteller, whose children's book The Cheese Chase: Why Dogs Chase Cats is winner of the iParenting Media Award and who was designated by the National Endowment for the Arts and as American Masterpiece touring artist.

Ryan Attaway, a student teller in the 5th grade at WS Ryan Elementary in Denton and a member of Campfire Tellers since the 3rd grade, will tell a story that combines the well-known "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" by Verna Aardema, combined with a lesser known West African tale dealing with the topic of slavery.

To hear more stories and attend workshops on how to tell your own, you may visit the 26th Annual Texas Storytelling Festival March 10-13, 2011, at the Denton Civic Center.  For more information, www.tejasstorytelling.com.

The exhibition "Material Evolution: Ugandan Barkcloth," curated by faculty member Lesli Robertson in conjunction with her fellowship with the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts opens on Tuesday 3/1 with a reception in the UNT Art Gallery from 4:30 - 6:00 pm.

Curated by Lesli Robertson, Lecturer, Fibers

This exhibition presents the work of an international group of artists and designers, who engage with one material: bark cloth. Material Evolution highlights the centuries-old process of making cloth from the bark of mutuba trees in Uganda, Africa—a process that persists in the realm of the handmade and, in the last 20 years, has enjoyed a cultural and commercial resurgence in Uganda and abroad. Working through personal experience with bark cloth, the artists translate this material into a new form, helping to ensure its cultural survival and exploring understanding of what a material can signify.

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

On Monday, February 21 at 2:00 pm in the ESSC Lecture Hall visiting artist John Spriggins will be hosting a talk, sponsored by the Drawing II Core program.

Dancing with Wires

Feb. 3, Thurs. 8PM, College of Music Recital Hall

Norah Zuniga Shaw: Director for Dance & Technology at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at Ohio State University - Her recent projects include work with William Forsythe on his acclaimed Synchronous Objects. 

Now Showing:

Cosmic Suburbia

Paintings by Elaine Pawlowicz

UNT on the Square

Institute for Advancement of the Arts

109 Elm Street

Denton, Texas 76201

www.untonthesquare.unt.edu

940-369-8257

M-F 9-12, 1-5

Sat 11-3

Closed Sunday

Graduate art history student Tiffany Floyd will present from her paper "Ted Kincaid's Seascapes and the Postmodern Sublime" in conjunction with her research on the work of Ted Kincaid. Noon in the UNT Art Gallery.

iARTA Art-Tec Lecture Series: Work Presentations by the Artist

February 4, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Steve Dietz and Amanda McDonald Crowley will each give an addition one hour presentation on their individual work and the organizations they represent. these two back to back presentations will provide UNT students, faculty and the general public an opportunity to learn more about the ways emerging mediums and new aesthetic approaches are cultivated by curators and program directors.

Exhibitions and Evolbing Network

Feb. 3, Thurs. 8PM, College of Music Recital Hall

Steve Dietz: Leading new media curator, director of the biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge <http://01SJ.org/> and guest editor of Public Art Review <http://forecastpuclivart.org/par.php> on the topic of "Public Art 2.0 - Media, Technology and Community in the Interactive Citry."

Amanda McDonald Crownly: Exectutive Director of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City, a cultural worker, curator and facilitator who specializes in creating new media and contemporary art events.

EVENT CANCELED!!!

CVAD Dean Robert Milnes has had to cancel the UNT  and CVAD alumni happy hour at the Caliterra Bar and Grille at the Wyndham Hotel in Chicago scheduled from 6:00 pm– 7:30 pm on Thursday, February 3. The third largest storm in Chicago history has forced a change! If you were planning to attend the reception, write instead to Robert Milnes at milnes@unt.edu

Graduate art history student Kelly Bevin Butler will present from her paper "Minimalism vs. Essentialism in Contemporary Art: Red Oxide Circle by Otis Jones" in conjunction with her research on the work of Otis Jones.  Noon in the UNT Art Gallery.

Graduate art history student Adela Andea will present from her paper "Artistic influences from the retail consumer video display products" in conjunction with her research on the work of Frances Bagley.  Noon in the UNT Art Gallery.

The UNT Student Union is hosting a "Welcome Back Bash" for students this month.  Scheduled events (with prizes and giveaways) include:

 Jan 19 - UPC Casino Night

Jan 20 - Movie Series: The Social Network, Lyceum 7pm

Jan 21 - Movie Series (Matinee) The Social Network, Syndicate 3pm

Jan 25 - Dance Series: Line Dancing: Golden Eagle Suite 7pm

Jan 26 - Washdown Wednesday: "Hot Chocolate & Smores" 

"Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations: Inspirations from the Neiman Marcus Collection," the fourth exhibition in the CVAD Collections Series, opens with a reception on Tuesday 1/18 from 4:30-6:00 pm in the UNT Art Gallery.

The CVAD Collections Series engages with students enrolled in the graduate-level course "Methodologies of Art and Visual Culture," taught by Dr. Jennifer Way, associate professor of art history, in the study of artworks first-hand from a corporate, private or public collection, sharing excerpts from their research throughout the exhibition. The Neiman Marcus Collection holds some 2500 pieces comprised of art from various cultures, with a concentration on contemporary works by both established and emerging artists, displayed in Neiman Marcus department stores nationwide. Using the collection as a point of departure, this exhibition features recent works from the studios of Frances Bagley, Brad Ellis, Vincent Falsetta, Jane Helslander, Otis Jones, Ted Kincaid, Joe Mancuso, and Tom Orr.

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.

Faculty Recognized in the CURATE THIS! 2010 International Public Vote

he Design Research Innovation Lab at Victoria University of
Wellington's (NZ) School of Design is pleased to announce we are
currently accepting applications for students interested in pursuing a
PhD in Design. The application deadline is 1 March 2011.  See PhD information to apply.

Artist Irma Martinez Sizer will be discussing her work in the exhibition Recuerdos: Nostalgia on the Periphery, on view in the UNT Art Gallery through December 18, 2010. This event is free to the public and begins at 1:00 PM at the UNT Art Gallery.

Irma Martinez Sizer

Everyday Meatloaf, 2007

Mixed media, archival inkjet prints on arches paper

10 x 10 inches

Adriana Martinez will be giving a gallery talk on the exhibition Recuerdos: Nostalgia on the Periphery. This event is free to the public and begins at 12:30 PM at the UNT Art Gallery.

Catherine Wagner
Artist Lecture

6:30pm November 16, 2010 (Tuesday) 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).

 The term "recuerdo" can refer both to an experienced memory and to an object that conjures nostalgia in the personal and collective mind and that can be used to commemorate nationality and heritage. The artist's works attempt to capture a heritage on the periphery of everyday existence. This exhibition is made possible with grants from the UNT Fine Arts Series and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Please join us for the the opening of the exhibition of Recuerdos: Nostalgia on the Periphery on Tuesday November 9, 2010 at 4:30 PM at the UNT Art Gallery.

Artist Lupita Murillo Tinnen will be holding a gallery talk on Tuesday November 9 at 3:30 PM in Room 223. She has been invited by Dr. Denise Baxter to speak during her History of Photography class and has agreed to open the lecture to the public.

Lupita Murillo Tinnen

Alicia, 2001

Gelatin silver print

16 x 20 inches

The year 2010 has been filled with festivities in commemoration of the centennial of the Mexican revolution and the bicentennial of the Mexican independence movement against Spain. Commemoration of heritage and nation can also lead to an investigation into notions of remembrance and nostalgia.

The term "recuerdo" can refer to both experienced memory and an object that conjures remembrance in the personal and collective mind and that can be used to commemorate heritage and nationality. A "recuerdo" can be evoked by color, sight, smell, etc, and can stimulate nostalgia for a past time or a present, but fleeting moment. 

4:30 - 6:00 pm in the UNT Art Gallery

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. These artists impact communities around the world by guiding students to become smart, well-rounded professionals who positively impact the areas in which they live and work, including our own.  The arts thrive in North Texas, due in no small part to the talented CVAD faculty and staff.

 Symposium

Different Tempers: Jewelry & Blacksmithing; installation view, University of North Texas Art Gallery 

Tour the exhibition Different Tempers: Jewelry & Blacksmithing with curator Suzanne Ramljak.  Meet in the UNT Art Gallery at 1:00 pm.

Part II: Conversations About Craft

An open forum discussion about criticism and craft practice with Dr. Auther and Ms. Ramljak.  Book signing to follow.

Part I: Craft.Criticism.Dialogue

A roundtable event exploring questions about the methodologies and the state of craft criticsm with presenters Suzanne Ramljak, curator of the exhibition Different Tempers: Jewelry and Blacksmithing, currently on view in the UNT Art Gallery, and editor of Metalsmith magazine; Elissa Auther, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; and Glenn Adamson, Head of Graduate Studies, Victoria and Albert Museum.  Book signing to follow.

Auther is the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume The Countercultural Object: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).  In addition, she is the founder and co-director of the public program "Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.

Adamson si co-editor of the triannual Journal of Modern Craft and the author of Thinking Through Craft (Berg Publishers/V&A Publications) and a new anthology entitled The Craft Reader (Berg, 2010). His other publications include Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World (MIT Press), and Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker (Milwaukee Art Museum). Presently he is working on an exhibition about Postmodernism, to be held at the V&A in 2011.

Ramljak, a writer, art historian, and curator, is currently editor of Metalsmith magazine. She was formerly editor of Sculpture and Glass Quarterly, as well as associate editor of American Ceramics. Ramljak has contributed to several books and catalogues, and has lectured widely on contemporary craft.

Thursday and Friday 9a-7p, Saturday 9a-4p. At Oak Street Hall, 1120 W Oak St., Denton, TX, Room 107. Come out and get some handmade tableware by a local artist/student.

Artwokrs by CVAD MFA Drawing and Painting Alum Jessica McCamby (07) and Ceramics alum John Oliver Lewis (05) were featured in the recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego titled Here Not There: San Diego Art Now.  Their works were highlighted in the review in the LA Times Culture Monster blog by Leah Ollman.  See the review at:

http://www.facebook.com/l/5956f2i0L4SAasPYVfFMLmIMJ7g;latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/07/art-review-here-not-there-san-diego-art-now-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego-.html

4:30 - 6:00 pm in the UNT Art Gallery

Curated by Suzanne Ramljak and organized by the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, a regional center of the University of North Carolina, this traveling exhibition explores the distinctions and commonalities between jewelry and blacksmithing, two realms of metalsmithing that rarely interact despite their shared medium, including 40 objects by 14 national artists.  Together these objects reveal the engaging range of works arising from both the jeweler's bench and the blacksmith's forge, spanning wearable ornament to large-scale sculpture.

4:30 - 6:00 pm in the UNT Art Gallery

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.

CVAD Fashion Design Department and Fashion on Main present First Look, featuring Art Wear Award-Winning Designs and Senior Portfolios.  Universities Center Dallas, 1901 Main St. Thurs - Fri, 1-5 pm.

CVAD Fashion Design Department and Fashion on Main present First Look, featuring Art Wear Award-Winning Designs and Senior Portfolios.  Reception 6-8 pm.  Regular hours, Thurs-Fri, 1-5 pm.  Universities Center Dallas, 1901 Main St.

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 is curated every summer by UNT Art Gallery staff.

Exhibition, Film, Symposium
April 8th and 9th

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.

Project description:
The Open Shutter Iraq project includes an exhibition, film, panel discussion, and a one-day symposium.
A 102 minute feature documentary, OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ (directed by Maysoon Pachachi) will be screened on Thursday April 8th.
Directed by Eugenie Dolberg, the exhibition examines the human reality of war, behind the collective headlines, through the eyes of 9 women. The exhibition is mounted at the UNT on the Square Gallery, April 7-May 14. It consist of nine photographic essays and writing by women from all over Iraq, of different social and political backgrounds with no previous photographic experience, examining the lived experience of war and occupation and telling their story in their own voices--the human reality of war, behind the collective headlines.
On April 9th, a one-day seminar on Oral literature and ritual culture in Muslim Middle East and South Asia is planned, and followed by a discussion panel with the film director and project director.
The day will end with the exhibition opening reception at 5:30.
 
Film Synopsis
The film documents a remarkable photography project; a group of women, from five cities in Iraq, live and work together in a traditional courtyard house in the Old City of the Syrian capital, Damascus. There they learn to take photographs, and at the same time, present their ‘life maps’ to each other; large charts full of family photos, scrawled poetry and quotations, the names of emotions and crisscrossing green, red and black marker lines, detailing all the ups and downs, forwards and reverses of their lives. With grief, humor, defiance, the women are able to unearth memories and tell stories, which have remained buried for 30 years in the course of just trying to survive devastating years of war, dictatorship and sanctions. In the end, they have woven together the threads of their individual lives into a collective fabric.  And because this is a creative project, the experience is transformative; the act of remembering and listening is dynamic and productive.
 
As one woman says, ‘It is our feelings taking the pictures, not us’.

Schedule of Events:

April 8th
7:30-9:30                         Screening of Open Shutters Iraq / Location: RFTV Theater

April 9th
Symposium Oral literature and Ritual Culture in Muslim Middle East and South Asia,
10:00-4:30 at the UNT Gateway

10-10:30                        An Introduction by Dr. Nada Shabout (CVAD) and Dr. Sadaf Munshi (Dept. of
          Linguistics and Technical Communication)
10:30-11:30                   Syed Akbar Hyder, University of Texas at Austin
Transmission of Knowledge through Music: The Qawwali Repertoire in South Asia                                                  
& Beyond
11:30-12:30                   Shujaat Bukhari, Adbee Markaz Kamraz
                                        A Window into Kashmiri Muslim Folk Culture  
12:30-2:00                     Lunch
2:00-3:00                        Samer M. Ali, University of Texas at Austin
                                        Women’s Participation in the Islamic Middle Ages as ‘Public Sphere’: Shahrazad’s
                                        Daughters, Marjana’s Sisters in the Night
3:00-3:20                      Break
3:20-4:30                       Film panel discussion with directors
5:30-7:30                        Opening Reception of Exhibition, Open Shutters Iraq, at UNT on the Square
 
Contact: Dr. Nada Shabout (940) 565-4027, nada.shabout@unt.edu and Dr. Sadaf Munshi (940) 369-8944, sadafmunshi@unt.edu


The project is made possible in part by: The Department of Art History (CVAD), The Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication, Multicultural Center and Women’s Center, as well as with grants from Texas Humanities (the state affiliate of the National Endowment for Humanities) and Wells Fargo.

Teresita Fernandez.  
April 7, 6:00 pm, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.  Tickets available by calling 940 565 4001

April 8, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design ART Building Room 223 2:00 pm - 3:30

Art History Assistant Professor Paul O'Neill is the recent recipient of a $5,500 Charn Uswachoke grant in support of a symposium, outreach event, and book project  titled “The Politics of Taste in 18th- and 19th-Century Latin America.”

The UNT Art Gallery and the Studio Art Department in the College of Visual Arts and Design 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.

Following WaterWays Conference Programs on 3/3 and 3/4, the Fluid Frontier Symposium kicks off on Thursday March 4, at 7:00 pm, with a keynote lecture by nationally known Texas artist Dario Robleto.  The lecture is titled Some Longings Survive Death and will be held in Art Building Room 223. Friday's (3/5) presentations continue in the Art Building and explore environmental aesthetics, digital communication, and artists' projects with Emily Brady, John Frost, Mary Mattingly, and EcoArtTech. For more information about Fluid Frontier presenters, please see http://www.gallery.unt.edu/.

Fluid Frontier is supported by grants from Texas Commission on the Arts, UNT Fine Arts Series, CVAD Gallery & Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, and Wells Fargo.

The UNT Art Gallery and the Studio Art Department in the College of Visual Arts and Design 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.

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 student and faculty partners in studio art, philosophy, biology, and art education.  Exhibition Reception on Friday, March 5, 4:30-6:00 pm.  For more information, see www.gallery.unt.edu.

Ray Gough Lecture Series presents

Andrew Milligan, Programme Director Interior and Environmental Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

CVAD New Media Art faculty member Jenny Vogel's works will be shown in three venues in New York this spring: 

"Double-Bill" at Art in General
"Ecstatic" at St. Cecilia Parish in Brooklyn
SITE Fest at 3rd Ward

MODERN RUIN

On Thursday, September 25, 2008 the U.S. Government took over Washington Mutual, selling most of it to JPMorgan Chase.
 
Roughly a year earlier, at the height of a frenzied economic bubble, Washington Mutual began building a new 1 million dollar branch at 5030 Greenville Avenue, just south of Lovers Lane. Just after its completion, the government seized WaMu, and JPMorgan Chase decided not to occupy the building.
 
The new building was never opened, never used, and has sat as an empty shell for more than a year.
 
On February 20, 2010, Modern Ruin-a two-day exhibition organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer-will open. The two-day exhibition will be the only use for the million-dollar building before the demolition process begins the following week. The bank building is a truly modern ruin - a building that never met its purpose, and only existed as potential activity, potential economy, and hoped-for growth.
 
Seeking to take advantage of the space-its social and cultural connotations, its materials, and its presence as direct and immediate evidence of the current economic condition-15 artists will create work inspired by and in dialogue with the building. Some artists will alter the building's materials and corporate interior, while others will stage actions and interventions within, and still others will use the background of the space as context for their work.
 
Artists in the exhibition :
 
Frances Bagley
Tim Best
Michael Corris
Thomas Feulmer
Annette Lawrence
M
Margaret Meehan
Tom Orr
Richard Patterson
Cam Schoepp
Noah Simblist
Christoph Trendel
Terri Thornton
Kevin Todora
Jeff Zilm
 
Please join us for the opening reception/intervention with the artists the night of Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, 8-11pm. The exhibition will be open to the public on February 20th and 21st, 12-5pm, though in the case of some artists the work left behind will be documentation of the actions that took place the night before.

eception 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.

During the fall semester, graduate students in "Museum Education" and "Methodologies of Art History and Visual Culture," studied the artworks included in On the Body from many different perspectives. Their research will be featured in the exhibition's interpretative materials and public programs.

This exhibition continues the "Collections, Cultures and Collaborations" series at the College of Visual Arts and Design, a project in which graduate art education and art history students create original scholarship on works in a private, public or corporate collection. This is the first collaborative exhibition between The Rachofsky House and a local university.

For more information please visit: gallery.unt.edu

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.

Artist Talk with Lia Cook, 7:00 PM

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 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.  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"

Lesli Robertson's Alternative Processes course (ASTU 3135) will have their Material Environment sculptures installed in the EESAT (Environmental Sciences) building until December 9th. The installations are throughout the entire building, so make sure to walk around and see what you come across.

Myra Walker, director of the Texas Fashion Collection, was recently interviewed by CVAD alum Anne Lawrence about the latest exhibition at Fashion on Main by Art This Week, a video podcast promoting the visual arts. The interview is available now at http://artthisweek.com.
 

Eclipse, 2008, Online Application 

Reception, 6:30 pm / Lecture, 7:00 pm

EcoArtTech was founded by Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir in2005 as a collaborative platform for art-making that merges environmental concerns with digital technologies. EcoArtTech is a 2009 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Their most recent works include Untitled Landscape #5, a digital environmental piece commissioned by the Whitney Museum of Art for its website, and Eclipse, an internet-based work commissioned by Turbulence of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.

By examining how digital technologies can make ecological problems more salient, by reusing or recycling obsolete technologies for new uses, and by exploring how digital spaces and the public domain may require environmental protection, much like nature, EcoArtTech engages in re-imagining the relationship between nature and technology.

About Fluid Frontier

EcoArtTech will be in residence at the College of Visual Arts and Design at UNT as part of a year-long exploration of the environment as an ongoing personal, geographical and cultural experience.  This exploration is titled Fluid Frontier, a residency, exhibition and symposium program organized by CVAD in conjunction with the 3^rd biennial water conference at UNT, WaterWays 2010 organized by the Philosophy of Water Project.  Look for more Fluid Frontier programming March 3 - 5, 2010.  Fluid Frontier is supported in part by grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts, UNT Fine Arts Series, CVAD Gallery and Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, and Wells Fargo.

EESAT is located at 1704 West Mulberry St. in Denton. Parking is available in Lot 11, accessible from West Hickory and Mulberry Streets.

For more information, visit http://www.ecoarttech.net/, http://www.gallery.unt.edu/, and http://www.water.unt.edu/

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.

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

Visiting Artists Joseph Velasquez and Ryan O'Malley in Hickory Hall 160 from Nov 2-6, 2009, lecturing and collaborating with faculty and students. See the Announcement for more information.

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

Public lecture
5-6pm : ART Building rm 223

Visiting scholar Dr. Elizabeth Mansfield

From Plato to Plastic Surgery: Artists and Ideal Beauty

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.

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.

Workshop with Dr. Elizabeth Mansfield

Wednesday October 21
3-5pm : ART Building room 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. Visiting scholar Dr. Elizabeth Mansfield will comment on her recent work as co-author on the 6th edition of H. H. Jansen’s History of Modern Art published by Pearson Higher Education Publishing. Discussion will include such topics 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.

Thursday October 8th at 5pm in ART 219
Christina Miller, 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.

UNT Office of Research hosts a dinner and workshop for new faculty from across campus.  The dinner will be held in the Lightwell Gallery and the UNT Art Gallery foyer from 5 - 9 pm.

The iARTA LEAP Symposium.  August 27-28th. Gateway Center, UNT.  General Session, 3:45 pm - 6 pm,  Thursday, Sept. 27.  Gateway Center Ballroom. Sessions Friday in Gateway rooms 42, 43, 47, 48, the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, and Gateway Ballroom, starting at 9:30 am.  See the iARTA website and CVAD Announcements for details.

CVAD Assistant Professor Andy Decaen, Printmaking Exhibition. UNT Union Gallery. Aug. 24 (Monday) to Sept. 10 (Thursday)
Reception: 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 31 (Monday)

Join CVAD Visiting Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock--Monday June 29 at 8:30 am in ART room 226

 Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, OK. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative. Each new work by Hancock is a contribution to the saga of the Mounds, portraying the birth, life, death, afterlife, and even dream states of these half-animal, half-plant creatures. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern—into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning. James Cohan Gallery     PBS Art 21st Century  

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

The Hock Shop Collection: Reflections from the Heart and Soul

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

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

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

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

$22.00 per person for all alumni and guests.

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 6- Sept 18 - unscheduled

Sept 22 – 25 – “Simon and Garfunkel” – printmaking student group show

Sept 27 - Oct 10  unscheduled
Oct 13 – 16 “PANTS Open” – P.A.N.T.S. – printmaking student organization open exhibition
Oct 20 – 23 “ParaPants” – Collaborative student exhibition b/w Parallax (photography organization) and PANTS (printmaking 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

Sept 6 - Oct  -unscheduled

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

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

Lecture: Archaeology and Empire: Buddhist Monuments in Monsoon Asia

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

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

 Full sized announcement available as a downloadable PDF.

The University of North Texas Art Gallery and the Crow Collection of Asian Art continue their partnership with Wenda Gu, internationally acclaimed sculptor and installation artist, bringing him to North Texas to work with College of Visual Arts and Design students and talk about his recent projects.  Wenda Gu first visited UNT in 2003 when he created an original installation at CVAD titled “From Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium” and participated in a symposium titled “Transnation: Contemporary Art and China,” moderated by art historian Dr. Jennifer Way.  Inspired by funders for the original project who called for the creation of an ongoing relationship with an artist, the UNT Art Gallery and the CVAD proudly join again with the Crow Collection of Asian Art to engage with Wenda Gu and share his extraordinary vision with students and the public.

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

The Printmaking Association will be selling buttons and prints in the University Union Courtyard (UU 1st Floor) on March 26, 2009 from 10a-2p.

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

The Printmaking Association is being given a docent-led tour of the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art on Sunday, March 1st, at noon.  THis tour includes the permanent collection and special exhibition and will last approximately 2 hours.  PANTS will be meeting in the foyer at 11:45am.  Everyone is welcome to join in the fun and admission is free!

P.R.I.N.T. hosts Reduction Monotype Workshop Feb. 28-March 1 presented by Professor Emeritus Barbara Elam.

For more information, please click here.

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

The Printmaking Association of North Texas Students will be holding their reception for "P.A.N.T.S. Open" on Feb. 25, 2009, in the North Gallery in the Art Building.

Join Art History graduate students every Tuesday during the On the Body: Selected Works from The Rachofsky Collection, exhibition for conversations about contemporary art.
No prior knowledge needed, simply bring a sack lunch and an open mind for casual discussions about famous artists from this nationally recognized Dallas collection.

Tuesday, February 17 - noon
Julie Barnofski - MA Art History
Giuseppe Penone, Svolgere la Propria Pelle (or Unroll Your Skin)

Participants should begin gathering in the foyer of the UNT Art Gallery at noon, located on the first floor of the art building. Conversations in the gallery will begin at 12:15pm. Talks will last 30 to 45 minutes. Lunch will be held in the foyer (please bring your own lunch) for further discussion between participants and graduate students. Either free hot chocolate or ice tea will be provided each week.

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

Join Art History graduate students every Tuesday during the On the Body: Selected Works from The Rachofsky Collection, exhibition for conversations about contemporary art.
No prior knowledge needed, simply bring a sack lunch and an open mind for casual discussions about famous artists from this nationally recognized Dallas collection.

Feb. 10 - noon
Betsy Williamson
MFA Photo, MA Art History
Sally Mann, Gorjus

Participants should begin gathering in the foyer of the UNT Art Gallery at noon, located on the first floor of the art building. Conversations in the gallery will begin at 12:15pm. Talks will last 30 to 45 minutes. Lunch will be held in the foyer (please bring your own lunch) for further discussion between participants and graduate students. Either free hot chocolate or ice tea will be provided each week.

Attendees include: Franks, Elyce; Cox, Gayle; Braden, Mary; O'Rourke-Kaplan, Marian; Nacke, Bruce; Aul, Jerry and Dean Milnes

The UNT Metals club will be raising funds for visiting artists through their annual Valentines Day Jewelry Sale. Items are available for all price ranges. Buy something for your sweetie or just something shiny for yourself! For your shopping convenience, the sale will be located in the Art Building Lightwell from 9 am to 5 pm, from Monday the 9th through Thursday the 12th.

Works by CVAD faculty member Vincent Falsetta will be featured in a two person exhibition at the Fort Worth Central Library, February 7 – April 11, 2009. Artists’ discussion at 2:00 pm, Sunday February 15, followed by a reception.

Please click here to view the full sized image.

Open to the Public.

Reserve free tickets &/or bus by calling Elyce at x4003.

Nasher Sculpture Center Auditorium  in Dallas - Eric Cloepfil lecturer 

Feb. 3 - noon
Krissi Oden
MA Art History with Museum Certification
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #302

Participants should begin gathering in the foyer of the UNT Art Gallery at noon, located on the first floor of the art building. Conversations in the gallery will begin at 12:15pm. Talks will last 30 to 45 minutes. Lunch will be held in the foyer (please bring your own lunch) for further discussion between participants and graduate students. Either free hot chocolate or ice tea will be provided each week.

Attendees include: Cox, Gayle; Franks, Elyce; O'Rourke-Kaplan, Marian; Nacke, Bruce; Braden, Mary; Aul, Jerry; Clifton, Chris; Burch, Betty; Vanecek, Angela; DeCuir, Victoria; Robertson, Tracee; Gee, Lana

CVAD Executive Committee Meeting from 1-3pm, Attendees include:  Dean Milnes, Jerry Austin, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Bruce Nacke, Marian O'rourke-Kaplan, Keith Owens, Lisa Owen, Susan Cheal, Cindy Morh

Attendees include: Franks, Elyce; Cox, Gayle; Braden, Mary; O'Rourke-Kaplan, Marian; Nacke, Bruce; Aul, Jerry and Dean Milnes

November 24, 2008 from 9-11AM and 1-5PM, location TBD. 

MA students in art history will present their proposed research projects during a formal colloquium before faculty, students, and guests. Students interested in participating in the colloquium must work closely with their major professors and committee members to prepare.

Guests are welcome! For more information, contact the Department of Art Education and Art History at (940) 565-4777 or aeah@unt.edu.

UNT Clay Guild Ceramics Sale!

At the UNT University Union One O'Clock Lounge

Original ceramic works for sale by students in the College of Visual Arts and Design.

You are cordially invited to the MA Art History Colloquium, a formal presentation of research projects to be completed by MA students next semester.

Location: Union Building Room 411 Time: 10AM-12PM and 1PM-4PM

10-10:30 Sarah Feit: "Questioning Reception: Rosemary Laing's groundspeed within a Transnational Landscape"

10:30-11 Charles Kanu: "Examine relevance that a body of critical writing has for the art of Donald O. Odita."

11-11:30 Bethany Stout: "Transculturalism in Contemporary Art: Phil Collins The World Won't Listen"

11:30-12 Brandi Noah

Lunch--A buffet lunch will be provided for colloquium speakers, attendees, and faculty in room 251.

1-1:30 Betsy Thomas

1:30-2 Jenny Shaffer: "A taste for "protuberances": The pad and the fashionable performance of maternity in 1793 London"

2-2:30 Kim McCarty: "Water in Medieval Iberia: the Sacred and the Social after Reconquest"

2:30-3 Lauren LaRocca: "'Nouveau Frisco': The Counterculture Significance of Art Nouveau features in Rock Concert Posters of the late 1960s"

3-3:30 Liz Ansell: "Bringing the Outside In: The Commodification and Privatization of Banksy's Street Art"

Watercolor students will exhibit work as part of the Denton Art Walk.  Work will be featured in studios in the Art Biluding (room 321), Oak Street Hall, Hickory Hall, the Union Gallery, the Cora Stafford Gallery, and Jupiter House on the square.

Starts 6:00p-8:30p on Nov 20th.

The Denton ArtWalk 2008

Thursday, November 20, 2008

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Join many of our alumni and current students on the Denton ArtWalk.  Three hours, ten galleries, dozens of original works of art.

University Union One O'Clock Lounge

Monday - Wednesday 9a-5p

Handmade jewlery created by students in the College of Visual Arts and Design.

Andy DeCaen has a solo exhibition at Cedar Valley College Gallery.  The exhibition is a new body of work showing some 40 drawings and prints created in the last couple years.

Premature Guessing
new works on paper
Andrew DeCaen

Cedar Valley College Educational Art Gallery Nov 7-December 8, 2008

Artist's Lecture: Thursday November 13, 11am, Printmaking Studio
Reception: Thursday November 13, 12 - 2pm

Directions:
Take I-3E South through Dallas.
Merge onto I-20E via exit 428B.
Take Exit 470 and turn Right onto S Lancaster Rd.
The entrance to the college is on the Left.
The CVC Art Gallery is located in the E -Building

Cedar Valley College, 3030 North Dallas Avenue, Lancaster, TX 75134
Hours Monday - Friday 8am - 9pm, Saturday 10am-5pm

Lawrence will give an artist talk on November 8 at 2:00 p.m. Event will take place at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, 5020 Tracy Street, Dallas, Texas, 75205. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and by appointment. For additional information or to request images contact www.annettelawrence.net or www.dunnandbrown.com.

A reception for the artist will be held on October 24 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Event will take place at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, 5020 Tracy Street, Dallas, Texas, 75205. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and by appointment. For additional information or to request images contact www.annettelawrence.net or www.dunnandbrown.com.

Public Lecture on Spanish Medieval Art

Art historian Jose Luis Senra will deliver a public lecture on Spanish art on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 4:30PM in Art Building Room 223 (1201 W. Mulberry Street). This lecture is free and open to the public. Parking for the public is available in the Welch Street parking structure. For more information, contact Dr. Mickey Abel at (940) 369-7204 or Mickey.Abel@unt.edu. 

Professors Lari Gibbons and Andrew DeCaen are bringing visiting artist Phyllis McGibbon, Professor of Studio Art (Printmaking/Drawing) and Co-director of Architecture Program at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusettes. Her lecture is in ART 223, 5:00-6:30pm.

The UNT Art Gallery invites you to attend an artist talk with Brian Fridge, Jin-Ya Huang and Derrick Saunders, followed by career Q&A in which exemplary DFW area professional artists will discuss their work, studio and professional experiences. The event will take place in the Gallery foyer and is in conjunction with the exhibition, A Place in the Painting Continuum, on view in the UNT Art Gallery from 8/25 - 9/27.

For more information, please visit gallery.unt.edu or call 940-565-4005.

The Second Priddy Symposium in Advanced Arts Leadership will address Political Action in the Arts. Speakers are Richard J. "Dick" Deasy, Director of the Arts Education Partnership; attorney Allen Craig; lobbyist Snapper Carr; and Arkansas State Senator Gilbert Baker; Laurie Schell, Executive Directr of the California Alliance for the Arts; and art educator Sam Hope.

Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites, Denton, Texas. Call 565-3954 for more information.

Artspace 111 Exhibition News: Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Ed Blackburn opens September 6, 2008

The Artspace 111 Gallery, 111 Hampton St, Fort Worth, TX 76102, will be hosting the newest solo exhibition of Ed Blackburn, a long-time drawing and painting adjunct for the Studio Dept, from Spet 4-27, 2008.

The Fall Gallery Night for Artspace 111 is Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, from 2:00-9:00pm. They are also exhibiting works by Matt Clark, Core Design lecturer. For more information, please call 817-692-3228 or on the web www.artspace111.com.

Join printmaking professor Andrew DeCaen at the reception for his solo exhibition Boxed Nature: Works On and Of Paper at the Brookhaven College Studio Gallery, 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, Texas.  Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, 6:00-8:00pm