Call for Entries:

Metabolic Science in Art
A Juried Student Exhibition at the Intersection of Metabolic Science and Art


Exhibition at UNT on the Square: Nov 8-23, 2013

Application Deadline: October 15, 2013
Prospectus, CLICK HERE

Description:
Artists create new ways of understanding by responding to difficult information in our world. New scientific research in metabolic science is presenting information with life changing consequences for people with metabolic health disorders such as diabetes. We invite students at the University of North Texas to make new artworks that respond to information and imagery surrounding metabolic science.

Scholarship Awards:
More than $3000 will be awarded to a selection of students in the exhibition. Collaborations between Science & Art student pairs may be favored.

Jurors:
Andrew DeCaen, Associate Professor, Studio Arts Department Dr. Guido Verbeck, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department

Information Sessions:
Tuesday, September 3 at 5:15pm, Hickory Hall room 160A Wednesday, September 4 at 5:15pm, Hickory Hall room 160A Join us for an information session introducing the premise of this exhibition. Dr Verbeck will present fundamentals of the metabolic diseases and his lab’s recent research in this area. Professor DeCaen will present examples of artists using scientific ideas and lexicons in their work and on his work’s intersection with nutritional science. Come to meet up with students interested in collaboration.

For prospectus and to Apply Online.

This project is funded and sponsored by generous support from:
Office of the Vice President for Research, the Institute for Advancement of the Arts, the College of Visual Arts and Design, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Chemistry.

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.

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

P.R.I.N.T Press Collaboration with Scott Ingram & Ryan Burkhart

P.R.I.N.T Press is pleased to welcome Scott Ingram and Burkhart, who will be collaborating at the press from Monday 1 to Friday 5 April, 2013. Click here for more information.

Artist Talk: A Dialogue on Collaborative Printmaking
Tuesday April 2, 12:30 to 1:50 p.m., Art 219

Open House
Friday, April 5 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., P.R.I.N.T Press (Oak Street Annex), 1120 West Oak Street, Denton, Texas 76201 (Google map)

Check out our events page for details about all events. Here's our address, a map, UNT parking information, and UNT campus maps.

This collaboration was organized and sponsored by Art Education / Art History, Printmaking, and P.R.I.N.T Press. It is made possible in part by the Gallery Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee (GVASC). We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Kong Screenprinting in Austin, Texas. Events are free and open to the public.

Yuma Symposium 2013

Yuma Art Symposium is referred to as “comfort food for hungry artist,” a back yard BBQ that got out of hand.

Taken from the web site:

The Yuma Symposium is a series of demonstrations, lectures and slide presentations given by both internationally recognized and emerging artists who have demonstrated unusual talent.

Activities include an exhibit of work by presenters and a student show, the National Saw, File, & Solder Sprints, Show Your Stuff night, the annual pin auction, shopping and eating in Algodones, Mexico, and a fiesta and dance on Saturday night. 

This year was the 34th Yuma Symposium. In attendance representing UNT CVAD:

CVAD Faculty: James Thurman and Harlan Butt

Graduate Students in Studio Art: Hetty Estes, Tamar Navama, Joy Ude, Chesley Williams, William Bridges, Fari Rahimi, and Liana Tomchesson

Undergraduate in Studio Art: Dani Manning

In this year’s National Saw, File and Solder Sprints the UNT team (Hetty Estes, Tamar Navama, and Liana Tomchesson) won the “Style Award” trophies.

Extending an invitation to all of CVAD, we will be hosting “Spirit of Yuma,” an event on April 25 to promote next year’s symposium.

UNT Grads Take Top Honors at EXPO 2013

Cassie Phan, graduate student in Drawing & Painting, was awarded first place and Preston Bradley, graduate student in Printmaking, was awarded second place by juror Iris Bechtol. EXPO 2013 runs through March 3rd at 500x Gallery in Dallas.

Professor Lari Gibbons Artist-In-Residence @ Penland

Associate Professor and P.R.I.N.T Press Director Lari Gibbons was an artist-in-residence at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina in January 2013. She completed a letterpress project with Lead Printer Rory Sparks of Em Space (Portland, Oregon). See images from her residency here.

PRINT Press 2013 Season begins

P.R.I.N.T Press is pleased to announce its spring 2013 season, including two exhibitions and a collaboration. Events are listed on our blog and our website.

Professor Andrew DeCaen Featured in New Exhibition

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.

2013 Texas Biennial Announces 5th Roundup of Texas Artists: Submit Now!

The organizers of the 2013 Texas Biennial invite all artists living and working in Texas to submit their stuff from now until February 28 for possible inclusion in the latest edition of the sprawling, multi-city showcase. The Texas Biennial will take place September 5 – November 9, with exhibitions in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Marfa. The central open-call survey show will be presented at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, with selected performances during the run of the exhibition at CentralTrak in Dallas.

Additionally, a specially commissioned Biennial artist project will be presented by Ballroom Marfa, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, and Big Medium in Austin will also host exhibitions of current work by selected past Biennial artists from August 23 – September 28.

DMA Offers New Art Ball Prize For Grad Students

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the inaugural DMA Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Dallas Art Fair. Maxwell L. Anderson (Director, DMA), Frances Colpitt (Chair of Art History, TCU), Annette Lawrence (Professor, UNT), Gabriel Ritter (Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA), and Jeremy Strick (Director, Nasher Sculpture Center) will select from five to seven grad students from visual arts programs in Texas for cash awards of $1,500. Prize-winning works will be on view at the Art Ball Patron Preview Party, April 3, 2013, and at the opening night of the Dallas Art Fair, April 11, 2013.

The deadline for applications is January 7. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 18, 2013 Details below, entry form here.

1. Artists must be graduate students (MA, MFA, PhD) of any age enrolled in visual arts programs throughout the state of Texas.
2. Artists must not be formally represented by a commercial gallery or dealer.
3. Eligible mediums include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photo-based media.
4. Immediate family members of DMA staff or trustees are not eligible to apply.

Application for the DMA Graduate Student Art Ball Prize
Applicants meeting the residency and representation specifications for the prize should submit the following (do NOT staple materials or insert them in binders):

1. Complete application form and image list (use attached form) 
2. Submit in CD format no more than six (6) examples of recent work in the form of digital images (in JPEG format, each JPEG not to exceed 2MB). Of these images, note which piece will be donated to the Art Ball auction if you are selected as a prize recipient. 
3. Works submitted for display must not exceed the following dimensions or weight:
   a. Weight limit: 300 lbs.
   b. Dimensions: no larger than 5 x 5 x 5 ft. 
4. An up-to-date curriculum vitae 
5. Proof of current enrollment in graduate-level (MA, MFA, PhD) visual arts program in the state of Texas. (Copy of valid student ID or other proof of enrollment required.) 
6. All materials must be postmarked by January 7, 2013. 
7. Provide self-addressed envelope with adequate postage if you would like your materials returned. 
8. The DMA will make delivery arrangements for art that is selected outside of the North Texas region. 

Award and Recognition 

1. Five to seven artists will be selected. 
2. Prize recipients will receive a cash award of $1,500. 
3. Prize recipients will donate the artwork selected from their submission to the Art Ball 2013 silent auction. 
4. Prior to Art Ball, these works will also be on view at the Art Ball Patron Preview Party and the opening night of the Dallas Art Fair. 

Timeline for the DMA Graduate Student Art Ball Prize 

1. Application deadline: postmarked by January 7, 2013 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 18, 2013
2. Prize recipients selected: January 2013 
3. Prize recipients notified: late January 2013 
4. Selected art on view at Art Ball Patron Preview Party: April 3, 2013 
5. Selected art on view at Dallas Art Fair: April 11, 2013 
6. Selected art auctioned at DMA Art Ball: April 13, 2013 
7. Cash award distributed: April 15, 2013

"Storage" Group Exhibition

The Unnamed Collective is pleased to present STORAGE, a group exhibition of work installed at The Budget Self-Storage, an alternative gallery space in Denton,TX. Please join us on Saturday, October 20th, from 3:00-7:00 p.m., for the exhibition opening and to meet the artists.

Studio MFA students and alumni Bill Bridges (Ceramics), Colby Currie (Drawing & Painting), Chance Dunlap (Sculpture), Matt Golden (Photography), Fari Rahimi (Sculpture), Derek Rankins (Photography), Geryn Roche (Ceramics), Adam Rowlett (Printmaking), Shelley Scott (Sculpture) and Delaney Smith (Fibers) will be exhibiting their work throughout individual storage units. The exhibition is diverse and includes painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics, installation and performance.

We welcome you to join us at The Budget Self-Storage: 2820 Virginia Circle, Denton, TX 76209


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Preparing for an Academic Job Interview in the Arts, Design and the Humanities

Subtitle: How NOT to Blow Your Art, Design, or Humanities Academic Job Interview

Friday, October 19
3:00 pm–4:15 pm
Curry Hall, room 315

This free lecture by UNT CVAD Department of Design Professor Michael Gibson has been designed to help recent, soon-to-be recent, and eventual recipients of MFAs and PhDs in the following disciplines effectively prepare to do well during the academic job interview process.

Studio Arts
Design
Art Education
Art History
Literature
English
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
Merchandising & Hospitality Management
History
Performing Arts
Communication Studies
Political Science
Cultural Studies

Printmaking Workshop Oct 12-13 at the Latino Cultural Center

UNT MFA student Linda Santana and an another MFA student from the University of Dallas are teaching a relief printmaking workshop from Oct. 12-13 at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. The two-day workshop is free and all materials are included. Upper high school and college aged students are encouraged to register for this opportunity. The registration form can be found online at: http://goodimpressions.eventbrite.com/.

Hey, hey, It is Faculty Appreciation Week!

Solo Exhibition by Printmaker Linda Santana

MFA student Linda Santana is having a solo exhibition of the drawings and prints she made during the Spring 2012 semester while studying abroad in Mexico. The show will be up all week at the North Gallery and the reception will be from 5-7pm on Thursday, Sept. 20th, with snacks inspired by her travels.

Prancer's Print Parade - Sale

Purchase hand-printed holiday cards and ornaments while enjoying drinks and holiday treats.

All proceeds benefit students attending the 2012 Southern Graphics Council International conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

When: Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Where: P.R.I.N.T Press, 1120 W. Oak Street (in Oak Street Hall Annex on UNT's campus), Denton, Texas 76201
Google Maps: click here
(Oak Street Annex is directly east of Oak Street Hall, at the intersection of Oak and Ponder Streets.)

Sponsored by PANTS, P.R.I.N.T Press and UNT Printmaking.

For more information, see http://untprintpress.blogspot.com/ .

Congratulations to UNT Printmaking grads

Congratulations to UNT Printmaking graduate students Cat Snapp and Linda Lucia Santana, whose article "Revival and Renewal" appears on page nineteen of Southern Graphic Council International's Graphic Impressions.

Download the latest issue here.

UNT Printmaking Faculty at Kansas State

Assistant Professor Andrew DeCaen was a Visiting Artist November 3rd and 4th at Kansas State University. Professor Jason Schula of the Kansas State University Printmaking program invited Andrew to make a lecture about his work for the Department of Art and make studio visits with K-State graduate students onThursday. On Friday DeCaen presented demonstrations in the print studios, grained a limestone, drew an image, and printed a small edition of stone lithographs. The small limited edition of prints were gifted to the Pussycat Press the K-State student printmaking club for a fundraiser auction.

Andrew DeCaen rolls up a stone as part of his demonstration at the Kansas State University Printmaking Studios.





Andrew DeCaen and Professor Jason Schula... and the lithograph "Manhattan Napkin" Printed at Kansas State University.




Links:
andrewdecaen.com
jasonscuilla.com/
art.ksu.edu/undergrad/areas/printmaking
art.ksu.edu/grad/areas/printmaking

Small Works Exhibition Features Works by CVAD Faculty

Small Works
Norwood Flynn Gallery
Nov 12 - Dec 30, 2011
Reception November 12, 6-8pm

Featuring works by NFG Gallery artists.
Norwood Flynn Gallery represents several College of Visual Arts and Design faculty including: Pam Burnley-Schol, Adam Palmer, Elizabeth Holden, and Andrew DeCaen.

www.norwoodflynngallery.com
Norwood Flynn Gallery
3318 Shorecrest Drive
Dallas TX 75235
214. 351.3318