Blue House Too interested in showing work

Blue House Too Gallery, a new arts space in Allen, Texas is interested in showing work by CVAD students this summer, perhaps small group shows of advanced undergrads or grads. They are interested in all fine art media.

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GRADUATE OPEN STUDIO NIGHT

Graduate Open Studio Night at University of North Texas
Oak Street Hall, 1120 W Oak Street, Denton, TX
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015, 5pm – 8pm


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The graduate students at Oak Street Hall, 1120 West Oak Street, Denton, invite the community into their studio spaces. The event will be held from 5pm – 8pm. Graduate Students from the College of Visual Arts & Design will open their individual studio spaces for this one night. There will be artists working work on display for all to enjoy.

The event is free and open to the public.

The facility houses spaces for graduate students in the programs of Ceramics, Drawing & Painting, Photography and Printmaking. Students from programs such as Fibers, Metalsmithing & Jewelry, and Sculpture will also participate by showing work in spaces throughout the building. Some artists will have work for sale.

The event is accompanied by an exhibition reception from 5pm-7pm in the Cora Stafford Gallery, located within Oak Street Hall.

The Graduate Students at UNT are calling on their community to come out and see the fresh, contemporary artwork being made right here in the Denton Community.

2015 Summer Workshops with Professor James Thurman

Glass Blowing & Metalworking

May 26 – June 4, 2015
The Glass Furnace
Istanbul, Turkey
https://www.camocagi.org/en
No prior experience required!

Creative Connections

(jewelry-making)
August 2 – 14, 2015
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deer Isle, Maine
http://www.haystack-mtn.org

Scholarships and possible Special Problems credit available. Contact James Thurman as soon as possible to discuss the possibilities: James.Thurman@unt.edu

UNT Grad Students Finalists in "WINNER TAKES ALL"

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas

present

WINNER TAKES ALL!

Sunday, November 16 // 5:30 - 8:00 pm

SOUP.CREATIVITY.COMMUNITY.CASH

2014 CADD FUNd Finalists!

Tim Best - MFA, studio art, 2014, SMU
Lynne Bowman - 3rd year MFA, photography, UNT
Ellie Ivanova - MFA candidate, photography, UNT
Anansi Knowbody, MFA candidate, SMU
Julie Libersat - MFA candidate, new media, MA candidate, art education, UNT
Fari Rahimi - MFA, sculpture, 2013, UNT


Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas celebrate creativity and community with a Sunday Soup Supper on November 16th at 3015 at Trinity Groves. "CADD FUNd: Winner Takes All", will be a fun, fast-paced evening of sharing innovative ideas about potential artistic projects. The CADD FUNd will make possible a high-impact idea that needs the support of the Dallas-Fort Worth arts community.

The idea for "CADD FUNd: Winner Takes All" was inspired by similar events throughout the United States such as Feast in Brooklyn, Incubate in Chicago and Spread in Santa Fe. Over the past several years, numerous organizations have taken the basic premise of a Sunday soup dinner - collect creative proposals, invite the public to pay, eat, and listen, and then democratically vote for a winner - and adapted it to their own local purposes.

Our six finalists are from a pool of current or previous M.A. or M.F.A. candidate from an institution within 100 miles of Dallas. They were selected by three jurors including: Gabriel Ritter, the Nancy & Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at Dallas Museum of Art; Judy Deaton, Chief Curator at The Grace Museum; and William Rudolph, Ph.D., The Marie and Hugh Halff Curator of American Art and Mellon Chief Curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

During the event the finalists will each present short proposals for original and yet-to-be-realized new projects, audience members will ask questions and then vote for their favorite project. After a short recess to tally the votes, the Winner Takes All!

ALL funds raised by ticket sales will go to the winner!
Tickets are $40.00 per person
Tickets will not be available at the door

purchase TICKETS!

Need more information or have questions?
contact:

• holly @ hollyjohnsongallery . com
• cohn @ cohndrennancontemporary . com

Studio Alumni featured in Houstonia

"Sebastian Boncy describes himself as existing in a sort of cultural limbo: a Haitian in Texas, a Texan in the other 49 states..."

Meet Sebastien Boncy, Houston's Poet of Visual Blight 

Local photographer's mordant camera eye tells it like it is. 

Article by John Nova Lomax

TASA 2014 Conference "OFF CENTER"

The conference will take place Oct. 23-25 at the Omni Hotel in Dallas. (Click on the image of the flyer)

This year we are bringing in Diego Leclery and Pedro Velez, both Whitney Biennial 2014 artists, and Sabina Ott, Chicago artist and curator. Our keynote this year is Terry Allen and Trenton Doyle Hancock will be around Thursday night for a scholarship fundraiser. Also, our very own Margaret Meehan received the Paul Hanna Lecture award and will be discussing her recent work made at ArtPace.

We have lowered the student fee to $25 ($5 for TASA membership and $20 for the conference.) Students will be fed lunch on Friday and Saturday, see lectures and can attend workshops, as well as having the option to enter the one square foot student exhibition at El Centro College. They even get a t-shirt and swag bag.

See the exhibition entry form below for more information. For a full-size copy to use to apply, please email the Department of Studio Art at studio@unt.edu.

GET FUNDED! 2014 - 9/12/2014 @ 1:30pm

Bi-Annual Exhibition of Graduate Students enrolled in Professional Practices for Visual Artists

The University of North Texas is pleased to present the return of the bi-annual exhibition of graduate students enrolled in Professional Practices for Visual Artists.

This spring’s exhibition is titled Agent Form, a reference to the artists’ cooperation in bringing about the exhibition and agency as the living presence and response a work of art elicits. Expect to see a wide array of media and conceptual bases in this exciting exhibition of talent including painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and fiber arts. The visual artists, who call themselves The Brik Haus Collective are…

• Colby Currie 
• Rachel Fischer 
• Aaron Michael Flynn 
• Tara Horton 
• Bumin Kim 
• Kai Peter Martin 
• Adam Rowlett 
• Abby Sherrill 
• Jon Vogt 
• William Arthur Wright

Closing Reception Friday, April 18th, 7-10 p.m.

Reception will feature sound performances by…

Lily Taylor & Sean Miller, (Sean Miller is a New Media MFA Candidate at UNT)
Stephen Lucas, Music Composition (MFA UNT 2010)
Jon Vogt, Printmaking MFA Candidate at UNT

The Panhandle House Recording Studio Warehouse
313 N Locust St, Denton, TX 76201
Entrance in the alley between North Locust and North Elm Street

For more information please contact Miriam Ellen Ewers at 859.797.7694

Meaningful Gamification, Nov 21 @ 5:30p

November 21, 2013 | Discovery Park B155 | Reception 5:30 | Lecture 6:00

Dr. Scott Nicholson

Meaningful Gamification:

Motivating Through Play

Instead of Manipulating Through Rewards

Please join Dr. Scott Nicholson as he explains the use of game design concepts to create a layer on a real world setting. Typically, gamification focuses on the use of rewards like points and badges to change the behavior of users. Rewards can cause long-term damage to intrinsic motivation, however, so Dr. Nicholson has focused on developing the concept of meaningful gamification as a way to build intrinsic motivation.

Dr. Nicholson is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and Director of the Because Play Matters game lab and the Game Designers' Guild of Syracuse. He is an alumnus of the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Information Science at UNT. During 2011-2012, he was a visiting professor at MIT in Comparative Media Studies and the GAMBIT game lab. Dr. Nicholson is a published board game designer, wrote the book Everyone Plays at the Library, and was an academic reference librarian at Texas Christian University. He hosts a research blog at http://becauseplaymatters.com.

The College of Information sponsors a Colloquium Series at which renowned researchers and professionals address topics of interest to students and faculty. The goal of the series is to nurture the community of scholars and provide opportunities for faculty and students to engage in the scholarly and research life of the College and the University.

Digital Fabrication Exhibition 2013

Homescapes: an MFA Exhibition by Geryn Roche

Homescapes
The work of Geryn Roche
Cora Stafford Gallery
August 27th – 30th
Gallery hours: 10-2 pm daily
Closing reception:  Thursday, August 29th, 5-7 pm

Anthotypes at the Dallas Museum of Art

This Saturday, August 3rd from 2:30-4pm at the Dallas Museum of Art, Rachel Rushing will be providing a free demonstration of the Anthotype photographic printing process. Anthotypes utilize the photosynthetic pigments in plants as photographic emulsion to create images that can be either vibrant or delicate, yet always alluring. Rushing is a 3rd year MFA candidate at UNT and will be participating through Oil and Cotton: Creative Exchange in DallasSITES: Available Space which, according to the DMA website is "a companion space to the exhibition DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present, (and) the DMA’s first experimental project space located in the Museum’s iconic Barrel Vault and surrounding galleries. Available Space activates the galleries with interactive components and installations representative of the current North Texas art scene." For more information, visit DMA.org.

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!

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

ASTU 4000 / ASTU 5000: Online Digital Fabrication

ONLINE DIGITAL FABRICATION SUMMER COURSE with JAMES THURMAN

ONLINE SUMMER COURSE with JAMES THURMAN

ASTU 4000/5000: TOPICS IN STUDIO

ONLINE DIGITAL FABRICATION

Only prerequisite: CVAD Major

Although no prior experience with digital fabrication (laser cutting, 3d printing, etc.) is required, it is recommended that you are comfortable with vector drawing (Adobe Illustrator, etc.) and basic 3d modeling (SketchUp, etc.). Students will be responsible for individually determining what online tutorials they will need in order to complete their assignments.

Since this is a project-based studio course, there will be some expense for having service providers (Ponoko, etc.) produce certain pieces along with some basic hand tools. The cost is entirely dependent on your chosen size and materials.

The course will last the full 13 week summer session (Monday May 13 to Thursday, August 8, 2013), with most projects due by Sunday evenings.

Feel free to email Professor Thurman with any questions: james.thurman @ unt.edu
Or check out the Facebook Group.

REGISTER ONLINE at MY.UNT.EDU

MAXIMUM ENROLLMENT 40 PEOPLE

Guest Artist Gary Griffin, April 24-26

Gary Griffin will be on campus next week! He will be giving a one-hour lecture on his work on Wednesday April 24 at 1pm in Sage Hall 116 as part of the CORE lecture series. He will also be doing a workshop on Friday, April 26th from 10am to 2pm in ART 115 on "Sectioning" as a means of generating new forms and ideas. The lecture and workshop are free and open to students of all levels and disciplines.

Gary Gary Griffin has been a practicing metalsmith for over 30 years and recently moved to El Rito, NM, after spending 22 years as an artist in residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. He is the recipient of the Society of North American Goldsmith’s 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to the field. His work has been acquired by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Detroit Zoo, University of Detroit, and by numerous private collectors. Griffin has exhibited extensively in the United States, Mexico, South America, Japan and Europe. Additionally, Griffin authors catalog essays, critical reviews and articles. He has written for Metalsmith and American Craft magazines, as well as for numerous exhibition catalogs. He has also been a resident artist of the Kohler Co. Arts and Industry series, the subject of an Archives of American art oral history interview, and Master Metalsmith of the National Ornamental Metal Museum. Griffin has received numerous awards and fellowships including two National Endowment of Arts grants. In 2005, he was elected to the American Craft Council College of Fellows for his contributions and achievements in the field of Metalsmithing.

MFA Derek Rankins featured by "Art This Week"

Art This Week / Red Arrow Contemporary Collaboration - The Best

Art This Week is presenting a special series of seven interviews they did in a collaboration with Red Arrow Contemporary Gallery in Dallas. The Best opened on April 6, 2013, and consists of seven students each chosen from a different local University: University of North Texas in Denton, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Dallas in Irving, University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and Texas Woman’s University in Denton. Make sure to check out this special exhibition at Red Arrow Contemporary, it’s on view through May 11, 2013.

This is the interview with MFA student Derek Rankins.

Cora Stafford Gallery: FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
is proud to announce the group exhibition, FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

Exhibition Dates:
Tuesday, April 16th through Friday, April 19th

Closing Reception:
Thursday, April 18th from 5 p.m to 7p.m with refreshments provided

FREE ADMISSION

Location:
UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
1120 West Oak Street
Denton, TX 76201

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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10a.m. - 2p.m.

FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied) is a group show presenting the diverse work of MFA candidates in Studio Art at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. Free from imposed limitations on media, the exhibition features sculpture, installation, watercolor, photography, new media, ceramics, metals and jewelry, and printmaking. The exhibiting artists have honed their individual talents over the course of their graduate work and have come together under one woof for a limited time

Exhibiting Artists: Jessie Back, Martin Back, Zan Barnes, Bill Bridges, Chance Dunlap, Hetty Estes, Michael Furrh, David Lee, Marseille Moon, Adam Neese, Cassie Phan, Derek Rankins, Linda Santana, Liana Tomchesson, Christopher Wallace, and Caleb Zouhary

For More Info:
Please contact Cassie Phan by email at cassiephan21 @ gmail . com.

Thank you,

Adam Neese
Public Information Committee co-chair

MFA Exhibition: Present & Black: Caricature, Imagery, and Perception

Present & Black

April 9-12, 2013

Closing Reception: April 11, 2013, 6-8pm

Cora Stafford Gallery