CVAD Professor of Photography Dornith Doherty will participate in a panel discussion with moderator Jeffrey Grove and fellow panelists Kael Alford, Deborah Bell and Wendy Watriss at Booker T. Washington High School. 6:30 Reception | 7:00 Discussion. $5 | students free with UNT I.D. RSVP holly@hollyjohnsongallery.com. Organized by Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas (CADD).

Genghis Grill in Denton is hosting a fundraiser for the UNT Galleries! When you dine in or take out on Wednesday, May 1, from 11 am to 10 pm mention UNT Galleries, and a portion of your check will be donated to support our exhibition programs. Genghis Grill is located at 2416 Lillian Miller Pkwy, across I-35E from the mall.

2013 Voertman Competition, installatin view, UNT Art Gallery

Join us for the announcement of cash prizes for the 53rd Annual Voertman Student Art Competition, as part of CVAD's annual Scholarship Ceremony in the Lightwell Gallery, starting at 11 am. A pizza reception for Voertman Exhibition participants will follow.

Join us in the UNT Art Gallery for the 53rd annual Voertman Competition, a tradition synonymous with excellence in the College of Visual Arts and Design. Juried by independent curator, Lisa Hatchadoorian, this year's exhibition features 60 artworks in all media by undergraduate and graduate students. Cash prizes will be announced Tuesday, April 16, starting at 11 am, followed by a pizza reception in the Lightwell Gallery.

Maia Toteva will be speaking on " The Role of Soviet Cybernetics in the Creation of the Russian Nonconformist Art Movement" in ART 223 on March 21st at 5 p.m.

What is Public Art at UNT?

2013 Art in Public Places Lecture Series

As the UNT Percent for Art Program is underway with projects completed at the Kristen Farmer Autism Center, in progress at Sage Hall and Willis Library, and upcoming at Bruce Hall Cafeteria, Discovery Park, and the Student Union, the UNT Art in Public Places Program presents artists, curators and experts in the field discussing the impact and potential of artworks in public spaces.

Tuesday, March 5
Mary Beebe
Director, Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego
2:15 pm
Sage Hall Room 116

Mary Beebe has served as Director of the Stuart Collection since the collection's inception in 1981. The Stuart Collection is an ongoing program commissioning outdoor sculpture for the 1200-acre campus at the University of California in San Diego. This program has received national and international recognition and includes major artworks by Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Jeny Holzer, Robert Irwin, Barbara Kruger, Nam June Paik, and Kiki Smith, among others. Prior to joining UCSD, Beebe was Director for nine years of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts in Oregon, with previous positions at the Portland Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Beebe graduated from Bryn Mawr College and attended the Sorbonne University in Paris. She serves on numerous boards and committees and has lectured widely, including serving on panels for the National Endowment of the Arts and as juror and advisor for public art projects nationwide and in Europe.

Upcoming presentations include Mary Zlot, Curatorial and Collection Management Consultant for Cowboys Stadium, and an Artist Panel. Please check back for information about upcoming programs.

 D I M E N S I O N S   V A R I A B L E
 Vincent Falsetta | Orna Feinstein | George Grochocki
Dmitri Koustov | Steve Murphy | Charlotte Smith

Reception for the Artists: February 22, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
 
On view: February 22 - March 16, 2013
 
Anya Tish Gallery is pleased to announce Dimensions Variable, a group exhibition asking the age-old question, "Does size matter?" Artists, Vincent Falsetta, Orna Feinstein, George Grochocki, Dmitri Koustov, Steve Murphy and Charlotte Smith, will each present multiple works in their established style but in a range of sizes, from small, intimate, tabletop pieces to large, wall filling works. As artists change their scale, will the work's content, context and/or meaning also change? Gallery visitors will be able to see and decide for themselves.
 
Vincent Falsetta has been successfully exhibiting work since 1972. A professor of painting at North Texas University, Falsetta is an abstract artist who focuses on a deliberate process of continuous linear flow of color. His painting process explores the physical qualities of the paint that convey an electric flow in every direction, all at once.  
 
Orna Feinstein has dedicated her artistic pursuits to the study of geometry found in nature through the traditional practice of monoprinting using non-traditional materials like Plexiglas, panels and fabric. No longer limited to a two-dimensional realm, Feinstein creates kinetic sculptures, site -specific installations and interactive works that move and vibrate into the space of the viewer.  
 
Working between the cities of Warsaw, Poland and Houston, Texas,
George Grochocki has constructed a body of work in the tradition of "one-image" systemic paintings. Grochocki purposefully limits himself to the colors white, black, silver and gold. For the artist, these colors are symbols that represent the notions of tranquility, confinement, separation and tension. Grochocki's work has a profound simplicity and elegance built upon his unique synthesis of color and form that forge a bridge between a scientific and an artistic understanding of the world.
 
Russian-born Dmitri Koustov is an intuitive artist of abstract oil paintings who now lives and works in College Station, TX. Through various processes and techniques, Koustov creates a composition riddled with movement and texture.
 
Geometric shapes have intrigued sculptor, Steve Murphy, since 1979. The contrast of industrial materials welded into sleekly curving sculptures allows his work to not only be strong but graceful. The constant exploration of scale in Murphy's work only enhances the maturity of his concepts.
 
The native Texan artist, Charlotte Smith, has generated a strong following for surface-centered paintings. With a fresh take on repetition, Smith takes painting from two dimensions to three through carefully layered blobs of paint that project from the surface while still revealing the colors that came before.
 
 
Regular Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday, 10:30 - 6:00 pm
Saturday, 10:30 - 5:00 pm
Or by Appointment 

Trey Egan, Born Electric, We are the Lucky Ones, 2012, oil on canvas, 52 x 70 inches

Artist Talks at 1415 Slocum 
with Cris Worley Fine Arts & Alan Simmons Art+Design

 Saturday February 9th
3:00pm - 5:00pm

1415 Slocum Street, Suite 104 & 105
Champagne and sweets will be served
 

Artist Laura Beard Recursions Exhibition at Hunt Gallery
Opening Reception Friday, Jan.25, 2013
 
 
The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery at Webster University will present work by former St. Louis artist and educator Laura Beard, featuring a public opening reception on Friday, Jan. 25 from 6-8 PM at 8342 Big Bend Blvd.
 
Beard's work has been described by art critic Jeff Daniel as "having an ability to move forward while keeping a firm grip on art history's recent past." In a recent essay on Beard's current work, Robert Jessup writes:
"Composition in a picture comes down to the balance between the forces of expansion and the forces of contraction. Expansion taken to its extreme results in the all-over, homogeneous field. Contraction taken to its extreme results in a dot of infinite compression. These competing forces are ever at play in Beard's fields of marks. But so, too, is the play of time. In Beard's paintings, the viewer is always being tugged, pulled, pushed, started and stopped, and dragged along again. It also must be understood that the overall composition of the painting almost never aligns itself with the passive neutrality of the rectangle's horizontal and vertical aspects. There is always another force at play in Beard's paintings: the force of gravity acting on the painter/viewer herself. That is why there seems to always be a diagonal warping of the weavings of paint. Ultimately, in her paintings, the space begins and ends with the painter's (and the viewer's) physical being."
 
 

 
 
Prior to going to the University of North Texas in 2009, where Beard is an assistant professor of painting and drawing, she taught in the art departments of Webster University (1998-2009) and Washington University (2004-2009). Beard completed her BFA in painting and printmaking at Colorado State University in 1988, and earned the MFA in painting at University of Washington, Seattle (1990). Furthermore, she has a prolific and impressive exhibition portfolio - visit http://www.laurabeard.com for a complete list of her work.
 
Beard will discuss her work during an artist lecture, open to the public, on Friday, Jan. 25, Noon - 1pm in Sverdrup, room 101.
 
The exhibition will remain on view through February 23, 2013
 
Recursions is made possible in part through the generosity of Susan S. Block, and support from the Missouri Art Council, the Regional Arts Commission, the Santo Foundation and the Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts.
 
The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, 8342 Big Bend Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63119
Hours: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Tuesday - Saturday
For more info:  http://websterart.wordpress.com/hunt-gallery/  314-246-7171 or 314-246-7159
 
The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery is an integral part of the educational mission of the Webster University Art Department as well as an important and visible aspect of its community outreach. The Hunt Gallery is a non-commercial, alternative venue for providing high-quality, professionally curated exhibitions of contemporary art for the academic community, and the broader St. Louis area public. Hunt Gallery presents exhibitions of individual artists and/or groups of artists of regional, national and international renown whose works demonstrate significant aesthetic achievement or historic importance.
 
CECILLE R. HUNT GALLERY
Webster University - Visual Arts Studio
8342 Big Bend Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri, 63119
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm or by appointment

The Joy Losee Collection: Art and Dress Along the Silk Road, the 6th exhibition in the CVAD Collections, Cultures and Collaborations Series, opens in the UNT Art Gallery with a reception from 5-7 pm, featuring a gallery talk by Joy Losee at 6 pm as well as belly-dancing and a student fashion show celebrating cultural diversity with contemporary designs inspired by the exhibition.

Please join the Texas Fashion Collection for the opening reception of  The Joy Losee Collection: Art and Dress Along the Silk Road,
part of the Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations series now showing at the   UNT Art Gallery, located at 1201 W Mulberry Street in Denton, TX 76201.

The Joy Losee Collection

Art and Dress Along the Silk Road  
Opening reception  

January 17 from 5 to 7 pm    

Exhibition is open  

January 15 to February 9, 2013  
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Exhibition features multicultural garments   selected from a generous donation to the Texas Fashion Collection by Joy Losee. 

In the Year 2000
January 22 - March 8, 2013
Reception Friday, January 25, 5 - 7 pm

Moudy Gallery presents "In the Year 2000," a new-media and contemporary printmaking exhibition with work by Annie Bissett, Andrew DeCaen, Joshua Penrose, Austin Stewart, S.W.A.M.P., and Sang Mi-Yoo. These artists incorporate progressive technologies in their practice (including but not limited to: 3D printing, custom software development, interactive video projects, explosives, microprinted documents, wearable electronics, and robotics), or they utilize long-held traditional techniques at the service of contemporary social and political artistic speech. The themes expressed in the exhibition are partly lent by new-media's suitable application to a political viewpoint, but they also speak widely about to our collective memory of expectations of the future and what it might look like. Often, that vision of the future (or recent past) is one of environmental degradation, food shortages and limited global resources, sprawl, economic inequality, and war.

Annie Bissett (Massachusetts) employs traditional Japanese woodblock printing (moku hanga or ukiyo-e) to create imagery that conflates the flourished designs of paper money with language exposing the distance between the American Dream and the reality of the 99%.

Andrew DeCaen (Texas) creates prints and three-dimensional constructions with imagery that layers the social aspects of eating and sharing meals, an intimate and vital daily activity, with the ephemera and by-products of a global industry of food production.

Joshua Penrose (Ohio), trained in music composition and new media art, develops bridges between procedural sound art and interactive video installation.  His work may take the form of anything from fermenting mead (honey-wine) in a gallery to guerilla-installed audio devices at crosswalks in major cities.

Austin Stewart (Colorado) is currently portraying a fabricated character he calls "The Militant Gardener," wherein his work explores the way that modern devices of destruction or warfare can be hacked or controlled for more "green" purposes.  The scope of this work ranges from shotgun shells filled with wildflower seeds to robotic drones that survey a barren land looking for prime planting locations.

Sang-Mi Yoo (Texas) develops patterns in lasercut wool felt and screenprints based on her memory of the repetitive architectural forms of standardized residential neighborhoods as they first appeared in her birthplace of South Korea in the 1970s. Her project explores "how politics in education and urban planning have influenced our way of thinking and visual perceptions."

S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production; Michigan & New Zealand) is a collaborative entity focused on critical themes addressing the effects of global corporate operations, mass media and communication, military-industrial complexes, and general meditations on the liminal area between life and artificial life. SWAMP has been making work in this vein since 1999 using a wide range of media, including custom software, electronics, mechanical devices, and often times working with living organisms.

Join us for an opening reception celebrating the CVAD Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition in the UNT Art Gallery from 5-7 pm.

2011 Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition, installation view 

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. Reflecting the CVAD mission, the spirit of the region, and the dynamic growth of UNT and CVAD, this exhibition's ever-expanding inclusiveness affords continuing opportunities for students and others to see and learn from all that CVAD offers.

Student Activities and Alpha Chi Honor Society are hosting UNT’s inaugural NAQT Quiz Bowl tournament on November 16 and 17, and we would appreciate your assistance in getting the word out to students. For those of you who are not familiar, this is a national program that we have adopted this year. Teams of four students compete in a question and answer game of general knowledge and quick recall. Game questions cover a range of topics from history and science to sports and popular culture. There are prizes for the top two teams. The deadline to register is 5pm on Friday, November 9, or until 7 more teams sign up (whichever comes first). Students may sign up in teams or as individuals, to be placed on a team. More information and registration forms can be found at http://studentactivities.unt.edu/programs.

 

In order for this event to be successful, we need UNT Faculty and Staff members to volunteer at the event in a variety of roles, from moderating (reading the questions/running the game) to scorekeeping. There will be a mandatory volunteer training session on Monday, November 12, at 3pm (done by 4:30pm; location TBD) to help familiarize volunteers with the tournament set up. We will attempt to provide a backup training for those who cannot make it on November 12. Faculty and staff interested in volunteering at any point during the tournament can sign up at http://studentactivities.unt.edu/programs.

Calling all CVAD ceramics alumni and fans!  Please join Elmer Taylor for a reception and bash celebrating his Regents Professor exhibition in the UNT Art Gallery, Saturday 10/13 from 5-9 pm.

Join us in the UNT Art Gallery for the opening reception of the Regents Professor exhibition, Elmer Taylor: A Retrospective, "Welcome to My World, 1972-2012", from 5-7 pm. 

In his 38th year at the University of North Texas, Regents Professor of Art Elmer Taylor shares in this exhibition four decades of pottery and other elements that tell the story of form. The show concentrates on selected ceramic pieces from 2010-2012 that meet Taylor's exacting standards in melding the inherent qualities of clay and glaze with the craftsman's skill. Historical pieces chronicle influences on and references from Taylor's decades-long practice, including collected pottery, 1940s era handmade Japanese furniture, photographs, and memorabilia. For Taylor, from the neon in his hometown city of Los Angeles, to his experience pheasant hunting in Nebraska and his love of writing with a fountain pen, his pots need to reflect who he is and what he has experienced. Early, during his apprenticeship in England with Master Potter Michael Leach, Taylor learned to set a standard to meet each day in the studio -- a practice he has imparted to thousands of students at UNT and continues to demonstrate today.

Lidded Jar, 2012, wood fired ceramic with salt glaze. 

Internship at P.R.I.N.T Press

Students assisting Master Printer Erika Adams

500X Annual Members' show
Sept 8- Sept 30 2012
Opening Sept 8, 7-10PM
 
500X is...
 
Christine Bisetto
Bernardo Cantu
Colette Copeland
Laura Doughtie
Diane Durant
Michael Francis
Nate Glaspie
Tim Harding
Clayton Hurt
Joel Kiser
Shelby Meier
Bruce Monroe
Irby Pace
Chancellor Paige
Elaine Pawlowicz
Jonathan Snow  
John Alexander Taylor
 
WE ARE
The Most Enduring Art Gallery Collective in  the State of Texas if not  
THE WORLD   
 
 
FALL 2012 Season-
 
Sept 8- Sept 30 Annual Members' Show
 
Oct 6- Oct 21  500X College Expo
 
Nov 3-25   Bruce Monroe and John Taylor Alexander in the Main Gallery, Michael Francis and Bernardo Cantu in the Upstairs Gallery
                 Laura Doughtie and Shelby Meier in the Project Rooms
 
Dec 1-Jan 6   Elaine Pawolwicz and Irby Pace in the Main Gallery, Benjamin Terry in the Upstairs Gallery  
                  Johnathan Snow and Clayton Hurt in the Project Rooms   
500X Gallery
500 Expositon Ave.
Dallas, Texas 75226
214.828.1111 | 500x.org
HOURS: Saturday & Sunday Noon-5pm, and Weekdays by appointment

Join us for the opening reception of Contemplating Limits in the UNT Art Gallery on from 5-7 pm. Participating artists Austin Ballard and Gary Passanise will give an informal gallery talk, starting at 6 pm.

Austin Ballard, Scaffolding (Character Study), 2011, mirrored glass and sewn plastic pennants, 6 x 3 x 11 inches. 

Contemplating Limits is a group exhibition featuring sculptures by Austin Ballard (North Carolina), photographs by Robin Dru Germany (Texas), and paintings by Kirsten Macy (Texas and California) and Gary Passanise (Missouri). The works in this exhibition convey ideas about structure, where structure may be thought of as the cultural, physical, and political elements of human life that manifest as expectations, perceptions, and histories. The artists' viewpoints evoke questions about the truth of these elements and invite us to consider how we relate to the moody and otherworldly images before us. Through varied processes, each artist engages with ideas of structure as ethereal propositions, revealing inherent limitations in the ways we shape and frame human experience.

Join us for the final iteration of "Unplanned Growth" in the North Gallery in a closing reception from 5-7 pm. Watch the changing installation progress at gallery.unt.edu.

Join us for a reception to celebrate completion of two murals in the CVAD Lightwell Gallery. The murals have been designed and painted by students in the 2012 summer course, Topics in Studio: Mural Painting, proposed, designed and taught by Blayre Stiller and Giovanni Valderas. Check the CVAD home page and the UNT Art Gallery website for updates on the mural's progress.

Lightwell Gallery, Thursday 7/5, 5-7 PM 

The Visual Arts Society of Texas opens its annual membership exhibition with a reception in the CVAD Cora Stafford Gallery from 6:30-8:30 pm.  Cora Stafford Gallery is located in Oak St. Hall.  This show is on view through July 20.  Exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Exhibition hours are Wednesdays through Sundays 1pm - 5pm.

This new painting course will begin with a series of lectures, visiting speakers, readings and field trips to introduce art students to the current practice of collaboratice public art. Following the classroom work, students will move to the studio where groups will develop design proposals for a site specific mural in the Lightwell Gallery. The completed designs will be shown at the end of the semester in an exhibition open to the public.

Download the CVAD Summer Promotional Flyer

May 7 - Aug 4
Annual Communication Design Show

The Lightwell Gallery

May 22 - Aug 4

From Here to There:Practice, Form & Meaning

2012 CVAD MFA Showcase

UNT Art Gallery

May 22 - Aug 4

Unplanned Growth

Organized by Michael Little, Gallery Manager of Programming

North Gallery

June 18 - Aug 4

Topics in Studio: Mural Painting

Organized and taught by Blayre Stiller and Giovanni Valderas

The Lightwell Gallery

July 5 - July 20

Annual Membership Exhibition

Organized by the Visual Arts Society of Texas

Juried by Elaine Taylor

The Cora Stafford Gallery

Summer exhibitions are supported by the College of Visual Arts and Design, and the UNT Art Galleries. Special thanks to CVAD graduate student artists and the Visual Arts Society of Texas and its members, all of whom have given of their time and talent. The UNT Art Galleries programs are further sponsored, in part, by the Texas Commission on the Arts, Karen SG Milnes Design, and Goodmor Construction, LLC

A Summer tradition at the UNT Art Galleries, 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 CVAD MFA showcase presents and open environment in which to consider works by emerging artists of our time.

Unplanned Growth is a site-specific and ongoing installation by CVAD students. Utilizing the North-facing windows of the gallery, the installation seeks to engage passersby on Mulberry Street. Weekly, participating artists evolve their sculptural collaboration, in response to major construction taking place on Fry Street near the UNT Art Building, providing a continous interaction between the artwork and the community. Watch the progression at www.gallery.unt.edu.

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

The North Gallery in the Art Building

The 2012 Communication Design Show displays a selection of outstanding student graphic design and art direction work. Projects from eight sophomore and six junior top portfolios are featured along with a collection of honorable mention projects. Portfolio books from graduating seniors are also on display to be viewed and handled. The collection, which includes many local, regional, and national award-winning pieces, shocases the continued excellence of the University of North Texas Communication Design program.

Graduating seniors and juniors from the Fashion program present their designs during this Fashion Show.
UNT's University Union Silver Eagle Suite at 6:00pm (Time is subject to change)

A solo installation by Kenneth John Verdugo (assistant professor Dance & Theater) with a live performance by collaborator Jeffrey Gascon Bello and Kenneth Verdugo.
UNT on the Square at 109 N. Elm St, Denton, TX

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Visiting Scholar, Jenny Sorkin will give a public lecture.
UNT Art building, room 223 at 5:00p

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.

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Irby created this body of work as a response between his father's artwork and his own.
UNT Union Art Gallery- Gallery is open from 8:00am-10:00pm Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on Tuesday, May 1 from 7:00p-9:00p

Sean's current body of work is an exploration of digital media and its contrast with the subconscious processes of creating work in traditional methods.
UNT Union Art Gallery- Outside Wall - Gallery is open from 8:00a-10:00p Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on Tuesday, April 24 from 7:00p-9:00p

Wednesday 4/18, 4 PM

One of the most prominent metal sculptors in the world, Albert Paley's work can be found in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.  He is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects, the AIA's highest award to a non-architect.  Commissioned by both public institutions and private corporations, Paley has completed more than 50 site-specific works around the world.

Organized by James Thurman and Lari Gibbons and made possible by the CVAD Visiting Artist and Scholar Series and the CVAD Core Design Program. For more information contact Lari Gibbons, lari.gibbons@unt.edu, or James Thurman, james.thurman@unt.edu.

One of the most prominent metal sculptors in the world, Albert Paley's work can be found in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.  He is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects. Talk is free and open to the public.  No tickets or reservations are needed.
UNT Eagle Student Services Center, Room 255 at 4:00p

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

MFA Printmaking candidates Cat Snapp and Laura H. Drapac show their printmaking work.
Mountain Valley College Gallery at 4849 W. Illinois, Dallas, 75211 - Reception on Saturday, April 21 from 6:00p-9:00p

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Thursday 4/12, 4 pm

Dr. Jean Givens, Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut, will give the keynote address, titled "Medieval Art and the Wonders of Nature: the Strange Case of the King's Elephant," sponsored by CVAD for the 2012 North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium. 4 pm, free and open to the public.

The North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium is an annual competitive event for national and international graduate students of any discipline of Medieval Studies to present research under the guidance and mentorship of UNT’s resident Medievalists and invited Medievalists from the greater DFW Metroplex.  The 2012 theme is Nature and the the Natural in the Middle Ages. This year's event will be co-hosted by the Dallas Area Medieval Association (DAMA) and SMU’s Medieval Studies Program, with support of the keynote address by UNT’s College of Visual Arts and Design.

Jean Givens is Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut. Her research centers on medieval England and France, the history of visual and verbal literacy, and design initiatives in twentieth-century Denmark and Sweden. She has published two books, Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art (Cambridge, 2005), awarded the 2009 John Nicholas Brown prize by the Medieval Academy of America, and Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1220-1550 (Ashgate U.K., 2006), co-edited with historians of science Karen M. Reeds and Alain Touwaide. A third project—Reading beyond the Text: Image, Word, and the Illustrated Tractatus de Herbis—is nearing completion. Professor Givens’ research has received the generous support of fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the University of Connecticut. Her current project, Marketing Modernism: Sweden, Denmark, and the Good Life, addresses a formative alliance between design theoreticians and Nordic policy makers between 1920 and 1960.  Professor Givens attended the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Lund, Sweden. Her degrees include a B.A. in Graphic Design as well as the Ph.D. in History of Art. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Fiji Islands for three years before joining the UCONN faculty in 1987.

Organized by Mickey Abel and made possible by the CVAD Visiting Artist and Scholar Series. The North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium is further supported by the UNT/CVAD Art History Program, UNT Medieval Programs, DAMA (Dallas Area medieval Association), SMU Medieval Studies Program, SMU Art History Program.

The keynote speaker is Professor Jean Givens from the University of Connecticut.  The title for the keynote address is "Medieval Art and the Wonders of Nature:  The Strange Case of the King's Elephant." Jean Givens is Professor of Art History. Her research centers on medieval England and France, the history of visual and verbal literacy, and design initiatives in twentieth-century Denmark and Sweden. She has published two books. Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art(Cambridge, 2005) was awarded the 2009 John Nicholas Brown prize by the Medieval Academy of America.Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1220-1550 (co-edited with historians of science, Karen M. Reeds and Alain Touwaide) was published by Ashgate U.K. in 2006. A third project–Reading beyond the Text: Image, Word, and the Illustrated Tractatus de Herbis—is nearing completion.
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, 5900 Bishop, Dallas, at 4:00p

Talk is free and open to the public.  No tickets or reservations are needed.
Eagle Student Service Center at UNT in room 255 at 2:00p

51st Annual Voertman Competion, Installation view, 2011

Join us as we celebrate businesses' and individuals' support of art and design students at UNT. The 52nd Annual Voertman Student Art Competition, supported by Voertman's store, "a North Texas tradition since 1925," is synonymous with excellence and features a juried selection of must-see new works in all media by undergraduate and graduate students in Design and Studio Arts. Generous scholarships and awards are provided by many dedicated supporters of the educational experience that UNT and CVAD provide to art and design students. 

Since 1990, Clint Wilhour has curated over 400 exhibitions at the Galveston Art Center. He serves as a juror and selection panelist throughout the U.S. including at the Louisana, Texas, and San Antonio Commissions on the Arts. His active participation in Houston includes the Museum of Fine Arts, Center for Contemproary Craft, Center for Photography, Holocaust Museum, and Fotofest. He was given the 2001 Arts Professional Legend Award by the Dallas Contemporrary Art Center and was named TExas ARt Patron of the Year 2007 by Art League Houston.

Annual CVAD Scholarship and Award Ceremony and Opening Reception for the Voertman Juried Exhibition. 11 am - 1 pm. 

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Join us as we celebrate businesses' and individuals' support of art and design students at UNT.  The Voertman competition features a juried selection of must-see new works in all media by undergraduate and graduate students of CVAD.  This year's juror is Clint Wilhour.
UNT Art Gallery in the Art Building

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Ceramic show featuring works of graduate students and faculty of CVAD.
UNT on the Square at 109 N. Elm St, Denton, TX

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

UNT Union Art Gallery- Gallery is open from 8:00a-10:00p Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on Monday, April 2 from 3:00p-5:00p

The D. Jack Davis Lecture Series featuring speaker Robert Sabol.
Room 223 in the Art Building at 5:00pm

A new performance piece called Heard, 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.  Cave collaborated with UNT at, dance, music and theatre students for this performance.
Nasher Sculpture Center at 2001 Flora St, Downtown Dallas at 1:30P

Mokuhanga is a traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique also known as ukiyo-e, or picture of the floating world. This workshop will introduce students to the basic mokuhanga technique and enable them to produce multiple color woodblock prints using the kento registration system. Participants will carve blocks, prepare paper, and print a small edition. Because mokuhanga does not require a printing press or toxic chemicals, those who have taken the workshop can print safely at home afterwards. Maximum Enrollment: 10
Oak Street Hall Annex (P.R.I.N.T. Press) from 9:30a-5:30p

Monday 3/29, 12:30 and 5:30 PM, Free.

On the lawn between the Art Building and Curry Hall. 

A reception on the lawn and in the Art Building follows the 5:30 performance. 

Parking: $2 p/hour or $10 p/day.

Union Circle Garage (Welch @ Union Circle), near the University Union

Highland Street Garage (Ave A @ Highland St), near the new Business Leadership Building

The UNT Art Galleries and the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts have partnered to host visual artist Nick Cave as the 2011-2012 Artist in Residence, commissioning Cave to create a new work of public art at UNT. Internationally recognized for his Soundsuits and for working with communities to choreograph public performances, Cave is creatiing a new performance piece to take place on campus in March. The piece, titled Heard, involves 30 horses running through the grounds, being corralled by 50-100 percussionists, and breaking apart into 60 hybrid beings that move in increased improvisation. The creation of the horse suits, choreography, musical score and performance are the result of Nick Cave's collaboration with UNT students and faculty in visual art, dance, theater, and music, as well as the surrounding community. 

Nick Cave works between sculpture, installation, performance, video, designed object, and fashion.  He is professor and chairman of Fashion Design a the School of the Arts Institute Chicago. 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. Awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Artadia Award, United States Artist Award, Joyce Foundatin Joyce Award, and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Cave's works are in many art collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. Cave is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

Nick Cave; Photo by James Prinz, Chicago; Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. 

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Sam Rayburn House Museum
Texas Historical Commission
Summer Internship 2012
 
Issue Date: March 16, 2012
Closing Date: May 18, 2012
Start Date: June 4, 2012 (negotiable)
 
POSITION TITLE:  Intern (1 opening)  
 
LOCATION: Sam Rayburn House Museum, 890 W. State Hwy 56, Bonham, Texas.
 
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: Interns may work on one or more of the following projects: packing and storing artifacts; cataloging and researching the museum collection; taking digital photographs of artifacts; re-housing and cleaning artifacts; data entry of collections records; developing  events and programming at the site as well as developing themed guided tours and presentations; and organizing site resources.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:  Interest in museums, history, and/or education.  Strong writing, research and communications skills.  Strong organizational, multitasking and people skills.  Knowledge of American and Texas history.  Knowledge of standard office computer skills, including database software and word processing.  Ability to work independently and on detailed tasks.  Degree or expected degree in history, education, museum studies, humanities or a related field.  Demonstrated interest in museum programs, education and/or history.  

WORK SCHEDULE: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.—4:30 p.m. (negotiable)  
 
PROJECT SUPERVISOR: Anne Ruppert, Curator, Sam Rayburn House Museum
 
TERM OF POSITION: Preferably June –August 2012 (negotiable)
 
WHO MAY APPLY: Applications will be accepted from currently enrolled college students who are in their second, third or fourth year of coursework as well as graduate students and recent Bachelor’s and Master’s degree graduates.
 
COMPENSATION: $1,250.
 
HOW TO APPLY:  Submit a cover letter and current resume including the names/contact information of three references by mail, email, or FAX to:
Sam Rayburn House Museum
Attn: Anne Ruppert
P.O. Box 308
Bonham, TX 75418
FAX: 903.640.0800
Email: Anne Ruppert, anne.ruppert@thc.state.tx.us
 
To learn more about previous SRHM interns, visit: http://www.visitsamrayburnhouse.com/index.aspx?page=848

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Clyde believes when he paints stands for what he is and what he is makes paintings.  He is Japanese living in the United States and believes the different cultures of the US and Japan have caused him to question his identity.
UNT Union Art Gallery- Gallery is open from 8:00a-10:00p Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on Tuesday, March 13 from 7:00p-9:00p

Cora Stafford Gallery at Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Join master printer Erika Adams and papermaking artist Michelle Samour for an open house at P.R.I.N.T. Press studio, to mark the end of their week-long collaboration. 4-6 pm. For more information call 940-369-7575 or email print@unt.edu.

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Join master printer Erika Adams and papermaking artist Michelle Samour for an open house at P.R.I.N.T. Press studio to mark the end of their week-long collaboration.
Oak Street Hall Annex (P.R.I.N.T. Press) from 4:00p-6:00p

Live Musical performances
UNT on the Square at 109 N. Elm St, Denton, TX

MFA Graduate Cecelia Feld's exhibit celebrates the opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava, with a special five-day exhibition of photographs by Cecelia Feld. Also included are photographs by David Clanton, Michael Lyon, Bob Johnson, and Alan Robertson.
Haley-Henman Gallery at 2335 Hardwick St, Dallas - Reception on Thursday, March 1 from 6:30p-7:30p

In conjunction with her collaboration with papermaking artist Michelle Samour, Erika Adams will describe how working as a master printer and a collaborative, multimedia artist sustain her studio practice; 2 pm, free and open to the public. For more information contact 940-369-7575 or print@unt.edu.

In conjunction with her collaboration with papermaking artist Michelle Samour, Erika Adams will describe how working as a master printer and collaborative multimedia artist sustain her studio practice.
UNT The Forum at Willis Library, 1st floor - starts at 2:00p and is free and open to the public

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Master Printer Erika Adams and papermaking artist Michelle Samour will collaborate for five days at P.R.I.N.T. Press to create a limited edition of hand-pulled prints. In associated public lectures, Michelle Samour will discuss her creative work and explain her use of materials (such as abaca fiber) and installation process. Erika Adams will describe how her experiences as a master printer and collaborative, multi-media artist sustain her professional studio practice.

Wrestle, 2007; artist's book; design, presswork an dimages by Erika Adams of Eating Dog Press; poems by Nick Norwood.

Erika Adams is a multi-media artist who explores the relationship between individuals and the larger systems in which they exist, through photographs, video, sculpture and print. She received a BA in both art and anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an MFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and master printer certification from Tamarind Institute. Adams has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, Vermont) and Frans Masereel Center (Belgium); she has upcoming residencies at Penland School of Crafts (Penland, North Carolina) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Woodside, California). In 2007, she published Wrestle, a collaborative project with poet Nick Norwood, and in 2009, a collection of stories and pictures called Draft. Adams recently served as editor for Graphic Impressions, the newsletter of the Southern Graphics Council International. After having taught for several years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Massachusetts, she recently accepted a position at Concordia University in Montreal,Canada.

Michelle Samour, Wired Eyes: New Work, installation view, 2010; McIninch Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University; pigmented abaca, gouache,. Photo by Robert Schoen.

Michelle Samour explores ideas about the natural world through a variety of media, including handmade paper and installation. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Decordova Museum in Lincoln, MA; the Museum of Modern Art in Strasbourg, France; and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Society of Arts and Crafts New England Artist Award in order to study historic papermaking in France and Japan. Her work has been featured in Fiber Arts and Hand Papermaking magazines and is included in public and private collections such as the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; International Paper Company; and the Meditech Corporation. She received a diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1981) and a BFA from Tufts (1975). She is a faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and director of the Visual Art Department at Creative Arts at Park (Brookline, MA).

This program is organized by Lari Gibbons, Andy DeCaen, and Rachel Biggerstaff and made possible by the CVAD Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, P.R.I.N.T. Press, and the CVAD Printmaking Program, Core Drawing Program and Department of Art Education and Art History.

In conjunction with her residency at P.R.I.N.T. Press and collaboration with master printer Erika Adams, papermaking artist Michelle Samour will discuss her creative work, use of materials such as abaca fiber, and installation process. Starts at 2 pm, free and open to the public. For more information, contact 940-369-7575 or print@unt.edu.

In conjunction with her residency at P.R.I.N.T. Press and collaboration with master printer Erika Adams, papermaking artist Michelle Samour will discuss her creative work, use of materials such as abaca fiber and installation process.
Eagle Student Service Center at UNT in room 255 at 2:00p

The residency at P.R.I.N.T. Press and collaboration with master printer Erika Adams, papermaking artist Michelle Samour will discuss her creative work, use of materials such as abaca fiber and installation process.
Oak Street Hall Annex (P.R.I.N.T. Press)

Hanna's work investigates the interaction between shape, line, form and color to make discoveries about movement while exploring the beauty of abstraction.  Justin's work has emerged from an expanding interest in how memory works.
UNT Union Art Gallery- Gallery is open from 8:00a-10:00p Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on Tuesday, February 28 from 7:00p 9:00p

Soundsuits from internationally renowned visual and performing artist Nick Cave, artist-in-residence for UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, will be on display.  Event is free and open to the public.
UNT on the Square at 109 N. Elm St, Denton, TX - Opening Reception on Friday, February 24 from 5:00p-7:00p

Jill 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.

Opening Reception to celebrate Dust and Distance, a new site-responsive installation by sculptor Jill Downen. 5-7 pm, free.

Join artist Jill Downen to explore the body's relationship to architecture and how we encounter space.  Experience new awareness of this relationship through a presentation of Downen's art, an urban walk, sensory contact with the built environment, and a sculpture project with plaster.
UNT Art Gallery in the Art Building - Opening Reception on Thursday, February 23 from 5:00p-7:00p

Jill Downen in her St. Louis studio

Jill Downen's art is a focused investigation of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture expressed in temporal installations, drawings, and models.  Her art envisions a place of interdependent relation between the human body and architecture, where the exchanging forces and tensions of construction, deterioration, and restoration emerge as thematic possibilities. In 2010, Downen was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow. Significant 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. In 2007, she was awarded a Cité International des Arts Residency, Paris, France 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.  Downen has been invited to lecture about her work extensively, including at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and the 2007 Luce Irigaray Circle Conference on philosophy in New York.  In addition, 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, MO, and is represented by the Bruno David Gallery.  She holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA as a Danforth Scholar from Washington University.

 Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Tanaka's childhood memories are the inspiration for his paintings.  To be precise:  the children's books he read, the toys he played with and so on are his inspirations.
UNT Union Art Gallery, Outside Wall - Gallery is open from 8:00a-10:00p Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on Tuesday, February 21 from 7:00p-9:00p

Jason Urban is an artist, curator and one of the co-founders of Printeresting.org.  Printeresting is a 2011 Grant Cycle 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 production.
Oak Street Hall Annex (P.R.I.N.T. Press) from 4:00p-6:00p

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Jason Urban is an artist, curator and one of the co-founders of Printeresting.org.  Printeresting is a 2011 Grant Cycle 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 production.
Hickory Hall at UNT room 160 from 9:30a -10:50a

Core Talk lecture series with visiting speaker Leslie Mutchler.  A 50-minute presentation about her recent installation work. Leslie Mutchler’s multi-disciplinary installations are experiments in faux-functionality and imperfect design. Utilizing the material language of our everyday, Mutchler engages with issues of hand(craft), labor, sustainability, and commodity. Mutchler earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching and restructuring 2D Foundations. Recent solo shows include Geometry of Labor, Poliglota Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011), (F)utility Kitchen, Snowflake, St. Louis, MO (2011), and SOS, TAG, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL (2010). Talk is free and open to the public.  No tickets or reservations are needed.
Eagle Student Service Center at UNT in room 255 at 4:00p

The North Gallery in the Art Building

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building

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

Adjunct faculty member Murielle White will exhibit her solo show.  She epitomizes the 'Now' with her references to her Transnational story represented in her abstract paintings. She is a Transnational person because of the countries of her parents and the places she has been and lived. Somehow, she pulls these influences from all over the world into each individual painting.
Brookhaven College's The Forum Gallery in room F101 at 3939 Valley View Lane in Farmers Branch.  Gallery is open Monday -Friday from 9:00a-5:00p with the artist reception on Friday, February 10 from 6:00p-8:00p

Cora Stafford Gallery in Oak Street Hall

The North Gallery in the Art Building

As artists their group has many diverse approaches to work, but they all have a central appreciation for fibers materials.
UNT Union Art Gallery - Gallery is open from 8:00am-10:00pm Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on Tuesday, February 7 from 7:00p-9:00p

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

New collaborative project between UNT CVAD Adjunct Faculty Photography professor Kathy Lovas and Susan spinster.  They are creating an installation in which their individual pieces bring about a conversation with one another around the ideas of idexicality and naming in the creation of self.
The Croft Art Gallery at 912 Austin Ave, Waco with the Opening Reception on Friday, February 3 from 6:00p-9:00p during the Waco Gallery Walk.

Cecila Shikle: Where She Sleeps is a collection of New Photographs from 2009-2011 for MFA candidate Cecila Shikle.23 women of all ages are photographed alone in their bedrooms, a place that they feel most at rest and in control, to discuss issues of domesticity, feminine space, and disintegrating relationships.  Cecila was born on June 15th, 1985 in Ahoskie, North Carolina and was raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. At the age of 12 her family moved to the rural area of Krum, Texas, this is where her passion for photograph soon became apparent.  
Mokah Art Gallery, 2803 Taylor St., Dallas.  Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday from 10:00am-4:00p with the Artist Reception on Saturday, February 4 from 6:00p-9:00p

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

MFA Graduate Students Benjamin Terry and Giovanni Valderas present "Fragment"  a collection of new art installations.  Both artists are interested in loss and erasure and explore the ideas through their art.
Richland College's Lago Vista Gallery at 12800 Abrams Rd, Dallas.  Gallery is open Monday-Thursday from 9:00a-9:00p, Friday from 9:00a-4:00p and Saturday noon-4:00pm with the Artist Reception on Thursday, February 9 from 4:00p-7:00p

Cora Stafford Gallery at Oak Street Hall

Lightwell Gallery at 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

New works from a large group of artists including UNT faculty members Matthew Bourbon, Vincent Falsetta and Sarah Williams.
Southwestern College Gallery at 900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, CA 91910

Cristen's paintings originated from an exploration of pattern and ornamentation and matured to revel themselves as iconic symbolism stemming from personal experiences and memoirs.  Chelsea's artwork has always been a reflection of herself.  Her work is a abstracted representation of herself and who she is and has transformed as an artist.
UNT Union Art Gallery Outside Wall - Gallery is open from 8:00a-10:00p Monday - Sunday.  Opening Reception is on January 31 from 7:00p-9:00p

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.

 Receptions are for the student exhibitions in the Cora Stafford Gallery, the Lightwell Gallery, and the North Gallery.

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.

Jan 17 - 20: All Level Watercolor

Jan 24 - 27: CORE - Drawing

Jan 31 - Feb 3: Photo III

Feb 7 - 10: Watercolor Studio - Miniature Hyper-realism

Feb 14 - 17: Painting & Drawing Association Spring Show

Feb 21 - 24: CORE - Design I + II

Feb 28 - Mar 2: Hybrid Forms

Mar 6 - 9: Drawing & Painting Graduate Students

Mar 13 - 16: Drawing & Painting Seniors

Mar 19 - 23: SPRING BREAK

Mar 27 - 30: New Media Seniors

April 10 - 13: Scholarship Winner's Exhibition

April 17 - 20: Fibers Seniors

April 24 - 27: Sculpture Seniors

May 1 - 4: Interior Design

May 8 - 11: Communication Design Seniors 

Jan 17 - 20: Adela Andea, MFA New Media

Jan 24 - 27: Drawing & Painting

Jan 31 - Feb 3: Teresa Munisteri, MFA Photo

Feb 6 - 10: Irby Pace, MFA Photo

Feb 14 - 17: Jason Hyde, MFA Ceramics

Feb 21 - 24: Weasun Song, MFA Ceramics

Feb 28 - Mar 2: Aileen Boulton, BFA Watercolor

Mar 6 - 9: Closed for the week

Mar 13 - 16: Rick McCoy, BFA Sculpture

Mar 20 - 23: SPRING BREAK

Mar 27 - 30: Printmaking Seniors

April 3 - 6: Valerie Banes, MFA Ceramics

April 10 - 13: Naomi S. Adams, MFA Fibers

April 17 - 20: Professional Practices

April 24 - 27: Watercolor Studio 4417

May 1 - 4: Photography Seniors

May 8 - 11: Drawing & Painting Seniors 

Jan 17 - 20: Watercolor All Level

Jan 24 - 27: P.A.N.T.S. Print Exhibition

Jan 31 - Feb 3: Watercolor, A Select Few

Feb 6 - 10: Lauren Kuterbach / Shannon O'dea, BFA Ceramics

Feb 14 - 17: Printmaking Portfolio Exchange

Feb 21 - 24: Design Adjuncts Student Exhibition - Design I 

Feb 28 - Mar 2: Joyce Hong, BFA Watercolor

Mar 6 - 9: P.A.N.T.S. Print Show, All Level

Mar 13 - 16: Melissa Grady, BFA Metals

Mar 20 - 23: SPRING BREAK

Mar 27 - 30: YUMA Symposium Exhibition, Metals

April 3 - 6: GALLERY USE - VOERTMANS

April 17 - 20: Professional Practices

April 24 -27: TBD

May 1 - 4: Interior Design Seniors

May 7 - 11: Interior Design Seniors 

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

 The 5th 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.
 UNT Art Gallery in the Art Building

Two UNT Graduates,  Melba Northum (1994 MFA) and Susan Sitzes (1998 MFA), will have their work in this group exhibition.  The show is to feature mixed media, two dimensional works and sculptural pieces that reveal all three artists' alignment with a Japanese worldview called "wabi-sabi."
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary Gallery (MAC) at 3120 McKinney Ave in Dallas - 11a-9p Wednesday-Saturday

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.
Marty Walker Gallery, 2135 Farrington St., Dallas-Open Saturdays from noon-5p
 

CVAD Regent's Professor Harlan Butt exhibition is inspired by the earth, its plants and animals. The making of art, for him, is more than a record of these things, it is part of the activity of discovering connections. The patterns in his cloisonné represent nature’s repetition in structure and surface. Words are the human marks we make to signify meaning. Since 2003 he has specifically chosen the National Parks as a source of inspiration, visiting a select number of them, spending time there and creating artworks that reflect his experiences.
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech University, 1 William L. Jones Dr., Cookeville, TN 38505

Ana Lopez (Assistant Professor at CVAD) and Ned Albright, Jr. exhibit their works.
Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts at 121 Main St., Rock Hill, SC 29732-Opening Reception on Thursday, February 9 at 6:00p

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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!
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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