UNT Visiting Artist Shira Richter featured at DMA

Shira Richter will be a visiting artist at UNT October 6-8, 2014. She will be presenting to the Fibers and Core Design classes in addition to her presentation to the Jewish Studies Department.

Hot Potato Called Mother

In connection with the installation The Mother Load, the DMA welcomes Israeli artist Shira Richter. Using such issues as feminism, politics, anthropology, and popular culture, Richter's work addresses the fundamental roles that motherhood and art play in our lives. The Mother Load is an international collaborative project on view in the Center for Creative Connections that engages with women who lead the creative life of an artist while being a mother.

For more information and to get $5 tickets, please go to the DMA website.

Visiting Artist: Lauren Ross, Oct 14 @ Noon

Voertman Competition Juror Lisa Hatchadoorian Talk TODAY at 4pm.

Please join us for a visit with Voertman Competition Juror Lisa Hatchadoorian

Today, 4 PM, ART 223

Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico TODAY

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our pleasure to invite you and your students to join us for an Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico on Monday, March 25 at 3pm at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design.

Penelope Umbrico

University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts and Design
March 25, at 3pm
Art Building Room 223, (on the corner of Mulberry and Welch Streets in Denton, TX)

Penelope Umbrico attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto Canada, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among many others.

Her work is in permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tampa Museum of Art, FL.; International Center of Photography NY.

Umbrico is the recipient of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship; a John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, a Deutsche Bank Fellow - New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, a Peter S Reed Grant; an Anonymous Was A Woman Award; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship.

Her first monograph, “Penelope Umbrico (photographs)”, was published by Aperture in the spring of 2011.

Open Forum with Artist Kiki Smith on Jan 28

Lecture with Janeil Engelstad

artist and founder of

Make Art With Purpose

October 31st, 12:00 in Scoular Hall, room 212

Collaboratively and independently, Janeil Engelstad has produced multiform projects, community events, public art and exhibitions throughout the world. Her creative practice and community advocacy work often dovetail into projects that address political, social, historical and environmental concerns. Her process for this work involves embedding herself in communities, extensive research, and building coalitions between community members, arts institutions, universities, government agencies, NGOs and others.

Engelstad’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured in media outlets, such as Art News, Metropolis, Flash Art, Time Out, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and NBC Nightly News. Recent projects and exhibitions include Y’UTOPIAS: An Almanac (of sorts) of Sustainable and Off- the-Grid Living in Texas at The Reading Room in Dallas, Terrain at Medicine Wheel in Boston and Voices From the Center at threewalls in Chicago. Through Voices From the Center, Engelstad’s interviews with Central Europeans about life during and after communism were documented in an award winning web-based project that also included exhibitions, panel discussions and lectures throughout Central Europe and the United States.

In 2010 she founded Make Art with Purpose (MAP), an organization and virtual resource center for creative projects that shape and transform the world in positive ways. MAP initiatives include an interactive, open source website, projects and exhibitions, and public programs that engage communities and promote social practice throughout the world. She has taught and lectured at universities throughout North America and Europe and in 2006 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. She has an MFA in Photography from a joint program between New York University and International Center of Photography and BAs in Political Science and English from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Fibers Guest Artist Pat Hickman Lectures Thursday!

Please join us as internationally known textile artist, Pat Hickman, lectures about her work and process this Thursday at 3pm at Scoular Hall in room 129.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry; a documentary screening

Global Connections Awareness Month Event:

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
a documentary screening

Ai Weiwei is China's most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media.

A new film by internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei, Never Sorry, will be shown at Texas Womans University Tuesday evening, October 9 at 6:00 p.m. in ASSC-259, co-sponsored by Visual Arts Department and Global Connections. Following the screening, a Skype interview will be held with Garth Clark, art critic and collector who has just finished a book about Ai Weiwei.

This event is free and open to the public; however, seating is limited.

Never Sorry Trailer on Vimeo.com

For more information, please contact Colby Parsons via email or at 940-898-2530.

NICK CAVE: HERD - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

***CALLING ALL STUDENTS AND VOLUNTEERS ***

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WORK ON COSTUMES FOR THE NICK CAVE EVENT HAPPENING ON CAMPUS ON MARCH 12 & 13. NO ARTISTIC TALENT IS NEEDED. BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND JUST HAVE SOME FUN! WE WILL PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION NEEDED FOR VOLUNTEER HOURS FOR CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS. FEEL FREE TO STOP BY ANY TIME DURING THE TIMES LISTED BELOW. YOU CAN STAY 30 MINUTES OR 5 HOURS.

IF YOU ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL ELYCE FRANKS – 940-565-4003. THANKS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU.


NICK CAVE: HERD
Studio Instruction Schedule
Art Room 231

Please come to a training session first for 15-20 minutes to learn what you will be doing and then feel free to come any time listed below to work.


Week of FEBRUARY 6 – Art building room 231

Training Sessions:
Tues 10:30a & 1:30p
Wed 12:15 or any time between 5p-8p
Thurs 1:30
Sat any time between 12-5
Sun any time between 12-5

Work Sessions:
Tuesday, February 7 from 2p-5p
Wednesday, February 8 from 10a-noon
Wednesday, February 8 from 5p-8p
Thursday, February 9 from 8a-11a
Thursday, February 9 from 2p-5p
Friday, February 10 from 10a-noon
Friday, February 10 from 1p-2p
Saturday, February 11 from noon-5pm
Sunday, February 12 from noon-5pm

Week of FEBRUARY 13– Art building room 231

Training Sessions:
Mon 12:15p
Tues 10:30a
Wed any time between 5p-8p
Sat any time between 12-5
Sun any time between 12-5

Work Sessions:
Tuesday, February 14 from 2p-5p
Wednesday, February 15 from 10a-noon
Wednesday, February 15 from 5p-8p
Thursday, February 16 from 8a-11a
Thursday, February 16 from 2p-5p
Friday, February 17 from 10a-noon
Friday, February 17 from 1p-2p
Saturday, February 11 from noon-5pm
Sunday, February 12 from noon-5pm

Week of FEBRUARY 20– Art building room 231

Training Sessions:
Wed any time between 5p-8p
Sat any time between 12-5
Sun any time between 12-5

Work Sessions:
Monday, February 20 from 11a-2p and 1p-5p
Tuesday, February 21 from 8a-11a
Wednesday, February 15 from 11a-2p and 5p-8p
Thursday, February 16 from 8a-11a
Saturday, February 11 from noon-5pm
Sunday, February 12 from noon-5pm


The Nick Cave Studio is open M-F 7:30 am – 11 pm, Sat/Sun noon – 10 pm.
Please attend one of the training sessions. Then, you can check in at the computer lab desk to volunteer at your convenience!
The studio will operate through March 4.


Elyce Franks
Assistant to the Dean
College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #305100
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-4003
940-565-4717 fax
Elyce.franks@unt.edu

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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

Weaving Faculty contributes to "Start"

The Start Journal of Arts and Culture has launched a new online publication that highlights the art and design of Uganda and UNT Lecturer Lesli Robertson is a contributor. This is a wonderful window into a culture's art practices.

The most recent issue contains former CVAD visiting artist Fred Mutebi as the featured artist. Lesli has also written a review of his recent exhibition in Kampala.

For more information on Lesli's Ugandan Bark Cloth Project, check out her blog.