CVAD faculty, students, and alumni in Fashion and Fibers represented the University of North Texas at the 2013 International Surface Design Conference that was held in in San Antonio, TX by receiving numerous awards and participating in conference exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. Congratulations to the following members of our community:
Fashion Show:
Second Place ($400): Anny Chang, Assistant Professor
Third Place ($300): Janie Stidham, Associate Professor
SDA Award of Excellence: Leisa Rich, MFA 2007
Members Show:
Beyond the Boundaries Award: Naomi Adams, MFA 2012
Student Show:
First Place ($700): Julie Shipman, BFA 2013
Student Presentations:
Chesley Williams’s (MFA 2013) proposal for a Student Presentation was accepted. Chesley gave a 15 minute talk about her body of artwork titled Recycling: Up-Cycling.
Student Facilitator
Delaney Smith (MFA 2013) was the facilitator for the SDA student meeting.
Workshop Coordinator
Amie Adelman (Associate Professor) coordinated five pre-conference workshops and three post-conference workshops.
Workshop Coordinator Assistant
Casey Galloway (BFA 2009) was the Workshop Coordinator’s Assistant for the pre and post conference workshops.
Workshop Leader
Naomi Adams (MFA 2012) taught a three-day workshop titled Textile Bookmaking at the University of the Incarnate Word.
Workshop Assistants
Marla Ross, Fibers, BFA Candidate
Caridad Cardentey, Fibers, BFA Candidate
Becky Howdeshell, MFA 2008
Brittany Harris, BFA Candidate
Karen Arzamendi, MFA 2011
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Join us for Guest Speaker Louis Cameron - June 6, 1pm, ART 226
New York artist, Louis Cameron, will be speaking to our Mural Painting class on Thursday June 6th at 1pm in ART 226. Please join us for his lecture!
www.louiscameron.com
Thursday, May 23, 2013
TEXAS BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES ARTISTS FOR 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Lauren Gehrig (512) 765-5892 press@texasbiennial.org
TEXAS BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES ARTISTS FOR 2013
Austin, Texas – May 22, 2013 The Texas Biennial is pleased to announce the artists selected for the 2013 Texas Biennial. They are:
UNT alumni and faculty are highlighted in green
Selections were made by a distinguished group of curators (see below), working independently to review works for inclusion in the group survey exhibition that will take September 5 - November 9 at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio.
About the Texas Biennial
The Texas Biennial is an independent survey of contemporary art in Texas, founded to create an exhibition opportunity for all artists living and working in the state. In the fall of 2013, the Biennial celebrates its 5th anniversary with a range of exhibitions and other programming at venues in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Marfa and San Antonio.
For 2013, the curators of the open call group survey exhibition that is the central feature of the Biennial are Bill Arning, René Paul Barilleaux, Christian Gerstheimer, K8 Hardy, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Annette Lawrence, David Pagel, Bárbara Perea, Christina Rees, Dario Robleto, Noah Simblist, Jeremy Strick, and Clint Willour, working with Curator-at-Large Virginia Rutledge.
The TX★13 group survey exhibition will be presented at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, with selected performances during the run of the exhibition at CentralTrak–The Artist Residency of the University of Texas at Dallas. A commissioned artist project will be presented by Ballroom Marfa. Special anniversary exhibitions of current work by selected past Biennial artists will be hosted at Lawndale Art Center in Houston and Big Medium in Austin.
Curator bios, programming dates and other details are available at www.texasbiennial.org. Follow the Biennial on Facebook and Twitter.
The Texas Biennial is a program of Big Medium, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary art throughout Texas, funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division. The Biennial is also supported by the Texas Commission on the Arts and generous contributions from Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth and other private donors, as well as grants from the Susan Vaughan Foundation and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
About Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum is the first and longest-running venue for contemporary art in San Antonio. Now in its twenty-seventh year, Blue Star enables over 300,000 visitors each year to experience contemporary art through exhibitions, the MOSAIC after-school education program, and community events.
www.bluestarart.org
Media Contact: Lauren Gehrig (512) 765-5892 press@texasbiennial.org
TEXAS BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES ARTISTS FOR 2013
Austin, Texas – May 22, 2013 The Texas Biennial is pleased to announce the artists selected for the 2013 Texas Biennial. They are:
UNT alumni and faculty are highlighted in green
- Adela Andea (Conroe)
- Skye Ashbrook (Austin)
- David Aylsworth (Houston)
- Debra Barrera (Houston)
- Michael Bise (Houston)
- Michael Blair (Denton)
- Matthew Bourbon (Denton)
- Margarita Cabrera (El Paso)
- Bernardo Cantu (Denton)
- Rebecca Carter (Dallas)
- Teresa Cervantes (Austin)
- Kristen Cochran (Dallas)
- Joseph Cohen (Houston)
- Shannon Crider (San Antonio)
- Rachel Crist and Daedalus Hoffman (Austin)
- Matthew Cusick (Dallas)
- Gabriel Dawe (Dallas)
- Claudio Dicochea (San Antonio)
- Kent Dorn (Houston)
- Trey Egan (Lewisville)
- Cassandra Emswiler (McKinney)
- Miriam Ellen Ewers (Denton)
- Vincent Falsetta (Denton)
- Danielle Georgiou (Dallas)
- Jeff Gibbons (Arlington)
- Sally Glass (Dallas)
- Will Henry (Houston)
- Hillerbrand + Magsamen (Houston)
- Geoff Hippenstiel (Houston)
- HOMECOMING! Committee (Fort Worth)
- Letitia Huckaby (Fort Worth)
- Tatiana Istomina (Houston)
- Hiroko Kubo (Fort Worth)
- Ann Johnson (Houston)
- Angela Kallus (Fort Worth)
- Lakes Were Rivers (Austin)
- Julia Barbosa Landois (San Antonio)
- Dion Laurent (Houston)
- Jonathan Leach (Houston)
- Natali Leduc (Houston)
- Ysabel LeMay (Austin)
- Daniel McFarlane (Spring)
- Marcelyn McNeil (Houston)
- Robert Melton and Robert Boland (Austin)
- Abinadi Meza (Austin)
- Madsen Minax (Houston)
- Rahul Mitra (Pearland)
- Seth Mittag (Houston)
- Michael Morris (Irving)
- Nancy Newberry (Dallas)
- Kelly O'Connor (San Antonio)
- Arthur Peña (Dallas)
- Katie Rose Pipkin (Austin)
- Jessica Pizaña-Roberts (El Paso)
- Mark Ponder (Houston)
- Anne Regan (Houston)
- Liz Rodda (Austin)
- Gregory Ruppe (Fort Worth)
- Chris Sauter (San Antonio)
- Carrie Schneider (Houston)
- Kasey Short (Austin)
- Gary Sweeney (San Antonio)
- The Bridge Club Collaborative (Huntsville)
- Prince Thomas (Houston)
- Kevin Todora (Richardson)
- Melissa Tran (Houston)
- Brad Tucker (Austin)
- Giovanni Valderas (Dallas)
- Sara Vanderbeek (Austin)
Selections were made by a distinguished group of curators (see below), working independently to review works for inclusion in the group survey exhibition that will take September 5 - November 9 at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio.
About the Texas Biennial
The Texas Biennial is an independent survey of contemporary art in Texas, founded to create an exhibition opportunity for all artists living and working in the state. In the fall of 2013, the Biennial celebrates its 5th anniversary with a range of exhibitions and other programming at venues in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Marfa and San Antonio.
For 2013, the curators of the open call group survey exhibition that is the central feature of the Biennial are Bill Arning, René Paul Barilleaux, Christian Gerstheimer, K8 Hardy, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Annette Lawrence, David Pagel, Bárbara Perea, Christina Rees, Dario Robleto, Noah Simblist, Jeremy Strick, and Clint Willour, working with Curator-at-Large Virginia Rutledge.
The TX★13 group survey exhibition will be presented at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, with selected performances during the run of the exhibition at CentralTrak–The Artist Residency of the University of Texas at Dallas. A commissioned artist project will be presented by Ballroom Marfa. Special anniversary exhibitions of current work by selected past Biennial artists will be hosted at Lawndale Art Center in Houston and Big Medium in Austin.
Curator bios, programming dates and other details are available at www.texasbiennial.org. Follow the Biennial on Facebook and Twitter.
The Texas Biennial is a program of Big Medium, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary art throughout Texas, funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division. The Biennial is also supported by the Texas Commission on the Arts and generous contributions from Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth and other private donors, as well as grants from the Susan Vaughan Foundation and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
About Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum is the first and longest-running venue for contemporary art in San Antonio. Now in its twenty-seventh year, Blue Star enables over 300,000 visitors each year to experience contemporary art through exhibitions, the MOSAIC after-school education program, and community events.
www.bluestarart.org
Friday, May 17, 2013
Professor Dornith Doherty's TED Talk has posted!
If you will remember, we announced in early April that photography professor Dornith Doherty was invited to do a TED Talk at the 2013 TEDx Monterey.
Here is the link to her talk! ENJOY!
Here is the link to her talk! ENJOY!
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Faculty awarded Research Enabling Grant
Please join us in congratulating Laura Beard, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, on her Research Enabling Grant (REG) for Fall 2014! Beard received one of the ten highly competitive REG's given out this term.
Grant period: September 01, 2013-August 31, 2014
Grant period: September 01, 2013-August 31, 2014
Laura Beard, Art Studio - Painting and Drawing / College of Visual Arts and Design,
Artist in Residence at My Art Loft, Vienna, Austria and Solo Exhibition at the Manfred Flener Gallery in Vienna, Austria
Friday, May 10, 2013
Hey hey! Comencement is Underway!
Studio Art had a pretty big graduate group walk the stage and get hooded this afternoon! Congratulations to our newest alumni and may you find the greatest of success in your future endeavors!
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Solo show exhibition: Chesley Williams
About the Show:
Conscientious Couture is a collection of prominent, sculptural head-wear that incorporates the social movement known as “do-it-yourself” (D.I.Y.) which advocates creative activities that push beyond traditional design boundaries with both materials and techniques. This collection of fifteen unique hats and video installation, offers solutions on how consumer consumption can become a part of the continuous trend cycle through creative re-use.
Dates:
May 13th - 31st
Opening Reception:
May 18th 6-8 p.m. at Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
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Chesley A. Williams
www.cantoinettestudios.com
Conscientious Couture is a collection of prominent, sculptural head-wear that incorporates the social movement known as “do-it-yourself” (D.I.Y.) which advocates creative activities that push beyond traditional design boundaries with both materials and techniques. This collection of fifteen unique hats and video installation, offers solutions on how consumer consumption can become a part of the continuous trend cycle through creative re-use.
Dates:
May 13th - 31st
Opening Reception:
May 18th 6-8 p.m. at Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
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Chesley A. Williams
www.cantoinettestudios.com