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"

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.

See the CVAD Newsletters & Blog pages for up-to-date activities sponsored by CVAD faculty, departments, institutes, galleries, alumni, and student groups.

Join friends form CVAD at the UNT-Army Football Game, Fouts Field November 21, from 12-3 pm.  Prizes, beverages, food, and art sales! 

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/

UNT Ceramics Guild Holiday Pottery Sale November 4th, 5th and 6th.  9am - 5pm

UNT Student Union, Ground floor lobby.

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

PRINTMAKING COLLABORATION

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

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

The UNT Metals Club will be having their fall sale in the Art Building Lightwell. Its never too early to think about Christmas shopping and presents for yourself are always in season! Priced to fit all budgets, come take a break and check out the bling. They will be in front of the Art Gallery, Monday through Thursday from 9am to 5pm.

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.

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.

Orlan, Mouth of Europa and the Figure of Venus: "a little while longer and

you will see me no more..." 1992, video projection

Visiting Scholar Elizabeth Mansfield

Workshop

Wednesday October 21

3-5pm ART 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. Mansfield will comment on her recent work as co-author on the 6^th edition of H. H. Jansen's History of Modern Art published by Pearson Higher Education Publishing. Discussion will include topics such 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.

Public Lecture - From Plato to Plastic Surgery: Artists and Ideal Beauty

Thursday October 22

5-6pm ART 223           

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

Elizabeth Mansfield is Associate Professor of art history at New York University. She is the author of Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, which received the 2008 Charles Rufus Morey Book award from the College Art Association; editor of Making Art History: A Changing Discipline and Its Institutions, Routledge, 2007; and editor and contributor for Art History and Its Institutions, Routledge, 2002. In addition, she was co-author revising the forthcoming edition of H.H. Arnason's History of Modern Art.

Dr. Mansfield's visit to UNT is supported by the CVAD Gallery, Visiting Artist and Scholar Fund and Department of Art Education and Art history.

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.

Work in the exhibition ranges from a photographic typology of Junk Drawers, the ubiquitous kitchen catch-all drawer, to a recently completed Public Art Program for City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture's Public Art Program. In this project Mann photographed nearly 6000 recyclables in a recycling transfer station to create composite images where the objects have been sorted by material, color, and use.

DATES: October 5-30, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: Monday, October 5, 6-8pm

LOCATION:

Collins Art Gallery
Grand Rapids Community College
4th Floor, Main Building
143 Bostwick Avenue,
NE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503

GALLERY HOURS:
Monday - Thursday, 10am-2pm, 4-8pm
Friday 12-3pm

Monday, October 12:  The Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia presents NoiseFold by Davis Stout and Cory Metcalf.  8:00 pm in the UNT Music Building Room 1001

To download the PDF version, please click here.

Christina Milller, 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.

Texas Monthly recognized CVAD student Megan Adams for her one-of-a-kind prints. You can view the blog here. 

This year's theme is Language and Communication in the Middle Ages. While we will entertain papers from any discipline of Medieval Studies and on any topic, we particularly welcome those that engage the multiple languages and forms of communication in the Middle Ages to include the visual, the lyrical, the liturgical, the legal, the dramatic, the kinetic, the spatial, as well issues of translation, lingua Franca, and literacy. Details at http://www.art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium.

We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere. The deadline for submission is November 1st, 2009. Additional information may be downloaded and distributed with our Call For Papers announcement poster.

Our Keynote speaker will be Dr. Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana, who will speak on "Presenting the Past: Visual Translation in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century France."

Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted by November 1, 2009 to:

• abel@unt.edu
  or
• Dr. Mickey Abel
  Assistant Professor, Art History
  University of North Texas
  1155 Union Station #305100
  Denton, TX 76203-5017

Virginia Green, a 2006 graduate of the CVAD MFA program in Communication Design, had her design of the CVAD "Graduate Studies in Art Education" brochure selected for inclusion in the 2009 Graphic Design USA competition.  The piece will be included in the December issue of GDUSA.  Ms Green is the principal and creative director for VGreen Design, a freelance design and art studio. She serves as acting education chair on the board of the Dallas chapter of the AIGA|the professional association of design. Virginia Green is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Baylor University.

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 3, 6-9pm (also open First Friday, Sep. 4, 6-9pm)

LOCATION: UTSA Satellite Space, 115 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
78204; 210.212.7146

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.

Hear CVAD Associate Professor Matthew Bourbon discuss South African artist William Kentridge on KERA's Art and Seek at Kentridge

The CVAD Studio Art Department Fall 2008 Newsletter, designed and assembled by Angela Vanecek and printed by UNT Printing Services, has been awarded the 2009 IPMA (In-Plant Print and Mail Association) Gold medal for digitally designed newsletters.  The newsletter was selected in this category among entries from over 22,000 member organizations including corporate and financial institutions, K-12 schools, universities, federal state, and local goverment agencies 

Past winners have been  Conoco/Philips, Exxon/Mobil, Wal-Mart, World Bank, Allstate Insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Federal Reserve Bank, Boy Scouts of America, Hershey’s, Briggs & Stratton,  BYU, Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Oklahoma, University of Missouri, LSU, University of Delaware, Texas Tech, USC, Washington State University, U-Texas, University of Houston, University of Virginia, Purdue, University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, University of Mississippi, Auburn, and Florida State University.  The In-Print contest is a yearly event and is solely for the members of IPMA. 

See the award winning newsletter on the CVAD Newsletter and Blog page or visit the IPMA award site at IPMA

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)

The curatorial focus of the 2009 College of Visual Arts and Design graduate student exhibition follows the title, Recovery and Reinvention.

This annual 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. The exhibition is curated by UNT Art Gallery staff.
For additional information please visit: gallery.unt.edu
Gallery Summer hours are: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 5 pm.

CVAD Professor of Painting and Drawing Annette Lawrence and alum Brian Fridge will be featured this evening at an ART SOCIAL featuring artists from the current show, ARCHITECHTONICS, at the Art Social at the CADD Art Lab 1608-C Main Street, Dallas, TX 75201, 7 PM.
The CADD Art Lab is located between Neiman Marcus and the Joule Hotel in Downtown Dallas.  tel: 214.741.1075
hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays
.
Validated parking is available at Dal-Park Garage, 1512 Commerce St., before Ervay St. the add Art Lab 

CVAD MFA printmaking student Megan McCarty Adams has started a business producing one of a kind fabrics inspired by nature.  Her work was recently featured on 33tv.com and can be seen on display in a storefront window at the Universities Center of Dallas at 1901 Main Street.  

See http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-meganadamsdesigns-story,0,3757650.story

Join CVAD visiting Artist Robyn O'Neil--Thursday June 25 at 10:30 am in ART room 223 

From a recent interview:
I first saw Darger's work in a small catalogue when I was in undergraduate school. I was about twenty years old. My professor handed it to me and I was quieted. I [felt] I had just discovered work that stood apart from anything I had previously seen, and that included a great deal of 'outsider' work. I found Darger to be more individualistic and more genuine. Also more beautiful. I know people can question and question that word 'genuine,' but I think at heart, we all know what it means. And most of us know it when we see it.  Arts Journal article   Robyn O'Neil homepage
 

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  

Work produced by Drawing 1 student Stephanie Eckert was featured on the cover of 'FATE in Review'. 

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

Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art Education and Art History, has received a grant from Spain's Program for Cultural Cooperation. The funds will support Dr. Donahue-Wallace's research in Spain on the career of Jeronimo Antonio Gil, founder of Mexico's Royal Academy of San Carlos. This project is also supported by UNT's Research and Creative Endeavours grant and funding from the Hispanic and Global Studies Initiative Fund.

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 Art Education faculty member Christina Bain received a $5000 grant from the National Art Education Foundation this summer .  Her project, titled "Examining the Preparation and Practice of University Art Education Student Teacher Supervisors Across Texas" will fill an existing void in art education literature by creating a snapshot of the current training and practices of university art education student teacher supervisors from across the state of Texas.  What are the qualifications of these supervisors and how have they been trained for this job?  Comparing current supervision practices will help shed light on ways to improve university prepared art educators.
 

Students from the Department of Art Education and Art History will complete internships at a number of important museums and arts organizations this summer. Dr. Rina Kundu works closely with the students during these experiences, which are part of the Art Museum Education and Arts Leadership graduate academic certificates.

AEAH students will intern this summer at the following locations:

Registrar department at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Education Department at the Dallas Museum of Art
Education Department at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
Fine Arts Director's office in Keller ISD
Visual Arts Director's office in Arlington ISD
Debbie Allen Dance Institute at Imagination Celebration
Intergenerational learning program at Providence Mount St. Vincent, Seattle, Washington
Advanced Placement Strategies at the O'Donnell Foundation
Education Department at the Sid Richardson Museum
Education Department at the Meadows Museum, SMU
Education Department at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

First year MFA Ceramics graduate student, Chris Melia, of Corpus Christi, TX won a $1200 scholarship award at this year's Texas Arts and Crafts Fair in Kerrville, TX. Chris won the award for Best in Ceramics. This year's fair was held May 23-25 in Kerrville, TX. The Texas Arts and Crafts Educational Foundation sponsors the fair which is underwritten by the James Avery Craftsman company. CVAD's Studio Art Department has sponsored a booth at the Fair for our art students and we have won something every year. Chris is from Corpus Christi and has completed his first year in the graduate Clay program here.

Heather White, MA Art Education and MA Art History student, received a scholarship from the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA). The funds will support her research on the Early Texas Art collection belonging to A.C. Cook. Ms. White also received the Best Student Paper Prize for her paper "Mothers in Mirrors: Identifying the Maternal Self in Self-Portraiture and Self-Documentation," delivered at the The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VI Conference in Idaho this spring semester.

Chris Melia, MFA Ceramics, won a $1200 scholarship at the Texas Arts and Crafts Fair, for best in Ceramics category.  The fair is sponsored by the Texas Arts and Crafts Educational Foundation and is underwritten by the James Avery Craftsmen company.  The event was held May 23-25 this year in Kerrville, TX.

CVAD Art History faculty member Dr. Denise Baxter has received a UNT research-enabling grant to study fashionable feminine garments of the Directory/Consulate/Empire period in France – 1792-1814 – in terms of the extent to which contemporary French audiences perceived of the fashionable female body as maternal. The grant will fund research this summer in Paris, studying garments first hand, both the relatively scarce period maternity ensemble and the fashionable Empire gown, and investigating how this style was received by its contemporary public through a review of journals of the time.  A consideration of the fashion for maternity in France in this period allows for the possibility to rethink contemporary and historical views of the relationship between childbearing and the public sphere, in its many manifestations.

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 Art History faculty members Mickey Abel and Jennifer Way have published a guest-edited issue of Peregrinations, the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage. The issue also includes an article Mickey co-authored with students Kim McCarty and Brittany Gregory.  For more information, visit the Peregrinations website.

 Sense Publishers just released CVAD Assistant Professor of Art Education Dr. Nadine Kalin's new book,  DRAWN TOWARD TRANSFORMATION: Conversations on Teaching and Learning Drawing.  The book shares the perspectives of educators as they investigate the teaching and learning of drawing within their own elementary classrooms and within  the context of an action research group.

Kurth Bousman, CVAD painting and drawing alum who has been living and working in Mexico for 25 years will have his first show in Dallas the HCG Gallery opening May 30.

www.kurthbousman.com
www.hcggallery.com

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.

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.

Exhibition Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 5 p.m.  For more information please call 940-565-4005 or visit the gallery website at www.gallery.unt.edu.

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.

Vincent Falsetta: # 194.  2009 Oil on board 5.5" x 7" Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England

CVAD Professor of painting and drawing Vincent Falsetta has recents works included in an exhibition entitled "Slow Magic" at the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool, England, this summer.  The show, which runs July 31 - September 13, features six artists from the Mexico, Germany, Poland, the UK, and the US. Falsetta will  show new paintings and the note cards which document the process of the paintings' conceptual and physical development. Falsetta will speak at the gallery Saturday, August 1. See Slow Magic for details.

Please join us as we celebrate Jack Sprague’s career and contributions at UNT, reflect upon the past, present and future of the Communication Design Program, the accomplishments of our alumni, the commencement of our recent grads, and the promise of our current students.

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.

Hot and cold hors d’oeuvres with a cash bar.

Participate in the silent auction of Jack Sprague’s photography and artwork to raise funds for the Jack Sprague Scholarship Fund (go to www.thesmartcentersantafe.com to view the photographs available for auction).

Or see a page of his photographs in the CVAD Image Anthology

View the 2009 Senior Class Portfolios.
Bring a sample of your own design work to exhibit.

R.S.V.P. at comdes@unt.edu; pay at the door.

To honor his long history of dedication to his students’ success, CVAD Professor of Communication Design Jack, his colleagues, students, alumni, and friends are embarking on a fundraising campaign to create the Jack Sprague Scholarship in Communication Design.  The drive kicked off May 16 with a successful silent auction of donated photographs by Professor Sprague.  To find out how to contribute, visit Support CVAD, or the Smart Center Santa Fe, or see  Photography by Communication Design Professor Jack Sprague

iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts, will open the 2010 academic year on August 27 and 28th with the iARTA LEAP symposium.  Bringing togther a stellar group of international experts, iARTA LEAP (Leadership Perspectives on Technology and Art Research) will host two days of discussions, work and break out sessions, at the Gateway Center at UNT.  The event is coordinated by iARTA faculty members David Bithell of the College of Music and Jennifer Way of the College of Visual Arts and Design, and made possible by funding provided by the UNT Hispanic and Global Initiatives Fund and the College of Visual Arts and Design.  The events are open to the public. Admission is free.  See the iARTA website for details. 

CVAD 2008 Fashion Design BFA graduate Shirin Askari is appearing this fall as a contestant on Project Runway on Lifetime TV.  The series premiers August 20.  Read an interview with  Shirin about her life, her experiences in the BFA program, and the upcoming season on the UNT Website .

 CVAD Professor Annette Lawrence recently completed a commission titled Coin Toss for the new new Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium.

The installation is located in the South East VIP Lobby, which is approached through glass doors. The space is 45 feet wide, 15 feet deep, and 33 feet tall. The shape of Coin Toss alludes to the promising moment at the start of a game. It references a circle flipping in space across the room. Coin Toss will be overhead starting at 12 feet from the floor. The work is a circle with a diameter of 14 feet centered on the 15-foot wall. Half of the circle will be on the left and the other half will be on the right. The steel cablewire will cross from the top of one side to the bottom of the other creating a convex shape on one side and a concave shape on the other. There are forty-one points on each wall.
As visitors pass beneath Coin Toss the work transforms itself from an interior to an exterior transparent conical form. One side completes the other.

Professor Annette Lawrence will be on leave from CVAD in Fall 2009 Annette Lawrence will be  an Artist in Residence at a an Artiist in Residence at Monash University in Australia,  August – October 2009.

The Monash Faculty of Art & Design's Visiting Artists & Designers Program is a dynamic residency prospect unique within Australia. It represents a significant professional development opportunity for an artist selected to participate in the program and for the staff and students of the Faculty of Art & Design.

 

The Museum's annual awards were established in 1980. The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund is awarded to artists between 15 and 25 years of age who reside in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona or Colorado. Two CVAD students have received awards from the 2009 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund:

• Yuki Ogura, who is currently working toward a B.F. A. in Sculpture at the University of North Texas; and
• Vanessa Tomczak, who is is pursuing a degree in Fiber Arts at the University of North Texas.

In 1990, The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant was created to honor the memory of Dallas artists Otis and Velma Dozier, who strongly believed in the enriching influence of travel on an artist's work. The grant seeks to recognize exceptional talent in professional artists who wish to expand their artistic horizons through domestic or foreign travel and is awarded to professional artists at least 30 years of age who reside in Texas. A CVAD faculty member and a CVAD alum are 2009 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant recipients:

• Denton-based artist and CVAD painting and drawing faculy member Annette Lawrence will travel to Melbourne, Australia, to participate in a residency at Monash University for her project "Yesterday, Tomorrow." å Lawrence is represented by Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas.
• Elliott Johnson, who earned his B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas, will use his award to visit more than a dozen Baroque and Rococo churches in southern Germany. Johnson is represented by Road Agent Gallery, Dallas.

See http://dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/Press_Room/ID_289713?s for more details!

Please join us as we celebrate Jack Sprague’s career and contributions at UNT, reflect upon the past, present and future of the Communication Design Program, the accomplishments of our alumni, the commencement of our recent grads, and the promise of our current students.

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.

Hot and cold hors d'oeuvres with a cash bar.

Participate in the silent auction of Jack Sprague's photography and artwork to raise funds for the Jack Sprague Scholarship Fund (go to www.thesmartcentersantafe.com to view the photographs available for auction).

View the 2009 Senior Class Portfolios.
Bring a sample of your own design work to exhibit.

R.S.V.P. at comdes@unt.edu; pay at the door.

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

Art This Week-May 7, 2009-Ep. 1 from Richard Serrano on Vimeo.

Art-Stream at UNT-Oak Street Hall

MAY 12th 2009
12-5pm

The Art-Stream is a nomadic gallery built inside a thirty foot 1967 Airstream Sovereign Land Yacht. It was remodeled and transformed into an exhibitions space in 2001 in an effort to help illuminate contemporary ceramics. Eight years later it has traveled from L.A. to New York and back gaining a cult following amongst potters and ceramic enthusiasts alike.
This month the Art-Stream will be leading the Art of the Pot Texas Tour and will be making a one day stop at the University of North Texas on May 12 at Oak Street Hall. As many as nineteen current potters will be featured in the Art-Stream and will have work available for purchase. In conjunction with the visit, three of the artists will be giving a free lecture that same day (Lectures: 4pm, Ceramics Lab-Oak Street Hall, Room 136).
Come out and explore contemporary ceramics and the nomadic Art-Stream Gallery with us.

Amanda Batson, past president of CVAD's award-winning National Art Education Association (NAEA) Student Chapter, will become the new NAEA Student Outreach Coordinator for the Western Region. As an Outreach Coordinator she will assist in keeping communication with student chapters and faculty at such institutions as The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois, Indiana University, and University of Minnesota. She will be advocating for art education throughout the region in her attempt to establish new student chapters while providing support, enthusiasm, and creative fundraising ideas.

Kristina Hilliard and Kate Wurtzel's article Power and Gender in Ancient Egypt: The Case of Hatshepsut was just published as an Instructional Resource in the May issue of Art Education, a journal of the National Art Education Association. Both used their research from their Master's theses to write the article. Kristina Hilliard received her M.A. in art history at UNT and is currently a Ph.D. student in art education, as well as a McDermott Intern at the Dallas Museum of Art. Kate Wurtzel received her M.A. in art education at UNT and is currently the Director of Education at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas. Previously, she was the Director of Education at the Crow Collection of Asian Art and headed family programs at the Kimbell Art Museum. While in the art education program, Kristina was a Priddy Fellow and Kate was a Marcus Fellow.

CVAD Assistant Professor of Metalsmithing and Jewelry Ana M. Lopez just published Metalworking through History: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press).  As part of the “Handicrafts through World History” series, it allows the reader to view the different societies and periods that produced work in this medium as part of a global, interrelated practice. Comprised of sixty entries on relevant time periods, cultures, makers and processes, the book is a much-needed general reference text and an excellent first resource for understanding the concepts and terminology of the ancient and pervasive craft of metalworking.

The Institute of International Visual Arts has granted a residency in London to Jennifer Way, associate professor in the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. In May, she will study the instruction of contemporary art history. The institute is designed to bring the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible audience.  Way has also been awarded a research support grant by the Scottish Society for Art History. After she finishes her residency, Way will use the grant to study select sculptures by artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in the National Galleries of Scotland.

For the full story, see http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/entertainment/stories/DRC_Art_briefs_0426.111d8e24e.html

New fashion designs premiere on UNT runway

What: ArtWear 2009 — A fashion show of original designs by University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design students.
 
When: 8 p.m. May 9 (Saturday)
 
Where: Silver Eagle Suite, University Union, one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets
 
Cost: $25 general admission; $10 with UNT student ID
 
Contact: For ticket info, call 940-565-3805. For other questions, e-mail Janie Stidham, coordinator of the fashion design program, at stidham@unt.edu.

DENTON (UNT), Texas ≤ From a vividly colored cocktail dress influenced by the paintings of Frida Kahlo to a fashion collection inspired by insects, the annual ArtWear runway show at the University of North Texas features the imaginative creations of budding fashion designers.

The event at 8 p.m. May 9 (Saturday) in the Silver Eagle Suite of the University Union will highlight the best garments from about 30 seniors in the fashion design program in the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. The University Union is one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets. Admission is $25 or $10 with a UNT student ID.

This year’s ArtWear judges are: Gretchen Bell of Dolly Python; Jenny Bingham of Gerber Technology; Liz Enoch of JCPenney; Justin Ghirardi of Carolina Herrara; Donna Sapp of the Art Institute; and Judy Zunke-Redding, a designer.

ArtWear, which has been held for more than 30 years, has debuted the work of successful designers who have gone on to work for companies such as Calvin Klein, Liz Claiborne, Fossil, Theory, Nicole Miller, Betsey Johnson, Kellwood, Dillard’s, Haggar, JCPenney and Russell-Newman.  Recognized alumni of the UNT fashion design program include designers Michael Faircloth, Finley Moll and Nicolas Villalba.

(credit: Denton Record Chronicle)

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.

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

Archaeology and Empire: Buddhist Monuments in Monsoon Asia
In this presentation, largely based on archaeological data, Dr. Ray argues that colonial intervention in 19th - 20th century South and Southeast Asia, a region that the French scholar Paul Mus termed Monsoon Asia, not only altered our understanding of monuments, essentially religious structures, from being abodes of god to objects of artistic and aesthetic appreciation, but it also redefined the nature of Indic religions and here she focuses on Buddhism. Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893), the first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India brought Buddhism to the forefront and established its study as a legitimate branch in the second quarter of the 19th century. It is significant that many of Cunningham's formulations, such as his identification of places associated with the life of the Buddha, description of Buddha as a social reformer, the prominent role of the Mauryan ruler Asoka in spreading the faith and the degenerate nature of Buddhism after 7th century AD continue to be repeated in secondary writings. In the second part of the presentation, Dr. Ray highlights the archaeology of specific monastic complexes, to stress the multi-layered narratives of religious architecture and the extent to which these were implicated in the politics of the colonial period.

On Friday, April 17th the Fashion Design students at UNT participated in the 41st annual Fashion Group International's Career Day at the World Trade Center in Dallas, Texas.
This event is a one-day educational symposium created to mentor and develop tomorrow's leaders and entrepreneurs in the fashion industry.  It is the largest event of its kind in the U.S.  It has over 1,200 participants from 42 schools in 10 states.  The finale of the event is a juried fashion design competition presented in a runway show exhibiting hundreds of students' designs from schools nationwide. At the end of the show students are presented with awards for excellence in design.
The University of North Texas excelled once again this year receiving the following awards which totaled over $10,000!
The faculty in the Fashion Design department congratulates the following students:

•    Top Achievement Award, 1-month,all expense paid scholarship Paris American Academy - Stephanie Montes
•    Lectra Award for Most Creative - Emily MacKinnon
•    1st Place in Casual Design- Kourtney Williams
•    2nd Place in Casual Design - Kristi Schkade
•    1st Place in Cotton - Emily MacKinnon
•    2nd Place in Cotton - Stephanie Montes
•    3rd Place in Cotton - Missy Bergemann
•    1st Place in Wool - Sara Hoffman
•    2nd Place in Wool - Stephanie Montes

UNT Communication Design was rewarded very well last night at the 5th Annual National Student Show sponsored by the DSVC for its fine student work. Here is a list of award winners:

Best in Category Awards $150 each
Packaging: Patrick Snodgrass
Annual Report: Barrett Fry
Advertising Campaign: Sean Leonard
Advertising Public Service Campaign: Jason Perez
Illustration: Zach Hale
Total Campaign: Sean Leonard (art director) and Dave Cox (copy writer from Journalism)

Judges Choice awards: (I think these are $250 awards but I am not positive.)
Judge Rex Peteet to Sharon Lee for her International Paper Annual Report

“Best Use Of” Awards
Best Use of Type: Sharon Lee ($1,500)
Best Use of Imagery: Sean Leonard ($1,000)
Best Use of Packaging: Patrick Snodgrass ($1,000)

Portfolio Awards:
JumpStart Portfolio: Ashaun Epps ($2,000)
Dick Sloan Portfolio Award: Stu Taylor ($3,000)
Padgett Portfolio Award: Sean Leonard (all expense paid trip to the How International Design Conference)

Best School:
University of North Texas ($1,000)—second year in a row! Third time in five years!

That comes to about $11,000 in awards and scholarships. So how ‘bout that!

But Wait, There's More!
Mary Chapman and Mark Travis nailed the "Name That Typeface" competition and won 5 House Industries typefaces.

Ricky Yamashita took the "Name That Logo" competition (for a second year in a row!) and won a 1G Hot Pink iPod Shuffle for his efforts.

CVAD faculty member Nadine Kalin, Assistant Professor of Art Education, is one of ten faculty members selected to participate in UNT's Transformative Instruction Initiative (TII) this summer, a program which provides summer support for faculty to enrich their courses through innovative instructional design incorporating issues of internationalization, multiculturalism, and/or diversity. As a Faculty Fellow of the TII, Nadine will attend workshops related to course enhancement, while forming a "Community of Practice" where individual fellows develop their own work through active exchange with other members of the cohort. In particular she plans to infuse her instruction with Problem-Based Learning modules in order to address how undergraduate students might think both more critically and practically about teaching diverse and multicultural populations.

CVAD Assistant Professor Mickey Abel of the Department of Art Education and Art History received a UNT Faculty Research Grant to support her work next year. The grant will be used to compile a set of 18th and 19th C. cadaster maps of the area around Maillezais Abbey in Western France. These maps, which are located in the municipal archives, will be used in preparation for a larger interdisciplinary project with the Geography and Archaeology departments to chart the 12th century canals around the abbey. This mapping project will allow us to analyze the economic and political effect the canal system had on the architectural building program at the abbey.

Dr. Denise Baxter, Assistant Professor of Art History, also received a $7,500 grant to support her research on art history pedagogy. Dr. Baxter's project examines the efficacy of blended course formats in an art history survey course. This ground-breaking research follows on Dr. Baxter's previous QEP grants for the redesign of Art History Survey II. Her results to date have been presented at conferences throughout the US, most recently at the annual meeting of the College Art Association.

Presentation by Tracy Hicks
Date: Monday 13th April 2009 from 1 - 1:50 pm
Location: ESSC 255
Sponsored by: Department of Studio and Core Drawing 1

Join mixed-media installation artist Tracy Hicks as he discusses recent projects focusing on the environment, including "Trouble in Paradise" (Tucson Museum of Art), "Global Warning" (The McKinney Avenue Contemporary) and "Still/LIFE" (Grinnell College). His presentation/discussion will take place in conjunction with the Drawing 1 Elm Fork Natural Heritage and "Observation/Insight" project.




Photo credit: Jim Heemstra for "Creature Comforts," The Grinnell Magazine (Winter 2008): 10-11

"Observation/Insight: Drawing from the Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum" and "Selections from 'Pinned: Work by Sarah Williams"

eARTh day: a celebration of environmental music, writing, art and film
Tuesday 21 April 2009
EESAT Building
5:30–6 PM: Reception with local foods in lobby
6–8 PM: Concurrent events in rooms 110, 125, 130 and the Planetarium 

Participants from the College of Visual Arts and Design include students from Drawing, Drawing & Painting, Fibers and Metalsmithing & Jewelry. CVAD faculty coordinators include Lari Gibbons, Ana Lopez and Lesli Robertson.

Sponsors:
CAS
 Department of Biological Sciences
 Department of English
 Department of Geography
 Department of Radio, Television & Film
 Elm Fork Education Center
 Institute of Applied Sciences
College of Music
 Center for Experimental Music & Intermedia
CVAD
UNT

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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 first of three PRINT Workshops this spring took place February 28- March 1 with Professor Emeritus Barbara Elam conducting a workshop on multi-plate monotypes. The owner/director of the 416 West Gallery in Denison, TX, Professor Elam
‘s work has been seen in over 250 national shows as well as internationally.

The next workshop will be April 4-5 with TCU Professor of Art David Conn, who will conduct a workshop on Relief Printing. PRINT is located at on the UNT campus in the Oak Street Annex, a facility fully dedicated quality print production and education l For registration and workshop information, call PRINT Director David Blow or PRINT Assistant Rachel Biggerstaff at 940 369 7575, or email them at Print@unt.edu.

This year's Dallas Pottery Invitational at the Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas
at South Side on Lamar is shaping up to be a fabulous show.  We hope you will make plans to attend!

To read about each individual artist or for more information, go to www.dallaspotteryinvitational.com <http://www.dallaspotteryinvitational.com/> .
 
We are looking forward to seeing you there! 

 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.

The Printmaking Association of North Texas Students will be selling buttons and prints in the University Union Courtyard (UU 1st Floor) on March 26 from 10:00am to 2:00pm.  Please join us in supporting our student organizations and check out the sale.

Works by CVAD alum Brenda Lichman will be featured in the Second Annual Dallas Pottery Invitational at the Janette Kennedy Gallery, 1409 Lamar Street, Dallas, April 3-5, 2009. Brenda Lichman is a studio potter whose studio is located in Denton.  She  received her MFA in Ceramics in December of 2002 and is currently the Ceramics Studio Technician for CVAD and an adjunct faculty member teaching ceramics and kiln construction.

CVAD Alumni Group on LinkedIn

Please join the CVAD Alumni Group on LinkedIn: 
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1847880

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 2009 speaker in the Ray Gough Lecture Series will be Dr. David Wang from Washington State University. Dr. Wang is the Coordinator for the WSU Interdisciplinary Design Institute Spokane with programs in architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. In addition to directing the graduate program, he has co-authored Architectural Research Methods, the definitive text for architectural research, and he routinely takes groups of students to China for relief work.

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PRINT Workshops with Master Printers

Please click here to view the full PDF of the PRINT Workshop brochure.

Relief Printing Linocut: April 4, 5

David Conn will teach a Relief Printing Workshop focusing on printing images using linocut and traditional woodcut techniques. He has received many awards and accommodations for his art, including an Individual Fellowship for Printmaking from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ford Fellowship, and first place in an International Art Competition in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics. His work is part of numerous permanent collections across the world including the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas, the Museum of Modern Art in Campinas, Sau Paulo, Brazil and the Bureau of Art Exhibitions in Lodz, Poland. He currently works as a professor of art at Texas Christian University.

Print Lithography: May  2, 3

By Professor John Hancock 
This workshop will make a simple black and white lithograph using stone lithography. He will be demonstrating stone preparation, various drawing and transfer methods, stone etching, paper preparation, registration and printing. John is currently a professor of art at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton, TX.  He has shown in New York, Chicago, Boston and even Waxahachie,TX, to mention a few highlights.  He has presented workshops at Frogman’ Printworkshop in South Dakota,  University of Wisconsin,and Tyler Junior College. His work is in collections in Texas Tech Museum Print Collection, Newark Public Library, Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, and the Frans 
Masareel Centrum, Katerlee, Belgium.

UNT Painting and Drawing faculty member Susan Cheal's painting "Stance" will be included in the Texas Biennial this year. Cheal, along with UNT Painting and Drawing Alumnae Beau Comeaux, Will Rosshirt, Anila Agha, and Caroline Zacharias McAdams are among the sixty artists selected for the exhibition from over 1000 applicants by juror Michael Duncan, independent curator and editor for Art in America.

The Biennial is a weekend long event. The group exhibition will open Friday, March 6, 2009, at Women & their Work and at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Outdoor installations and solo shows are scheduled to open from 7-10PM at Austin Parkland on Saturday, March 7, with closing party for all at Okay Mountain. Juror Michael Duncan will speak at 2PM , at the MACC on Sunday, March 8, 2009. In addition to Mr. Duncan's talk, there will be a tribute to Kelly Fearing.

Sponsored by the Studio Division and Printmaking Area

Lloyd Menard is a Professor Emeritus of the University of South Dakota and founder of Frogman's Press and Frogman's Printmaking Workshops.

www.frogmans.net

Event Schedule:
March 2-4, 9-11am & 1-5pm:  Lloyd will direct 7 advanced print students in collaboratively printing a 4-color intaglio print including mezzotint and aquatint.
March 4 at 4pm:  Artist's Lecture and presentation on Frogman's Press at the Printmaking Studios Critique Room.

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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

When: February 26 at 5:30pm
Where: CHEM 109 (Please note the room change from CHEM 106 to 109).

Brian Ulrich's photographs are sophisticated both in content and use of aesthetics. Ulrich's project, Copia, is a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live. Through large scale photographs taken within big-box retail stores and the thrift shops, Copia explores not only the everyday activities of shopping, but the economic, cultural, social, and political implications of commercialism and the roles we play in over-consumption, and as targets of marketing and advertising.

Brian Ulrich was born 1971 in Northport, NY. His photographs reside in major museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Ulrich earned his MFA in photography at Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in photography at the University of Akron. Since finishing his graduate studies in 2004, Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery; and the Robert Koch Gallery. His work has also been included in many group exhibitions at venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Krannert Art Museum; the Contemporary American Photography Festival in Mannheim, Germany; the Walker Art Center; and the Carnegie Museum; among others. His first monograph, Copia was published in 2006 by Aperture as part of the MP3: Midwest Photographers Project.
 
Ulrich lives and works in Chicago and in addition to teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College, he curates exhibitions, and is an active member of a community of young photographers and artists both locally and globally through his website and blog.

http://www.notifbutwhen.com/

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Visiting Artist Joseph Velasquez of Drive-By-Press
Sponsored by the Printmaking Association of North Texas Students

www.drivebypress.org
Drive-By Press is a completely mobile printmaking studio built to promote the growth and democratization of art through printmaking.

Event Schedule for Wednesday, February 25th.
11am presentation by Joseph Velasquez on Drive-By-Press
1-5pm Demonstration and Print Sale on the lawn in front of the UNT Union.
6-8pm Printmaking Association of North Texas Students Open Media Student Exhibition and Reception at the CVAD North Gallery, Best of Show awards juried by Joseph Velasquez.

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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.

Recent woodblock prints by CVAD Professor Don Schol will be featured in an exhibition entitled "Vietnam Remembrances" at the Lakeview Gallery of Tarrant County College Northwest, 4801 Marine Creek Parkway,  in Fort Worth on February 23 - March 28, 2009.  An artist's reception and gallery talk are scheduled for Saturday, March 28 from 11:00-1:00.  For information call 817 515-7596. Schol's print, featured on the show announcement, has been selected as the cover illustration for a new book coming out this spring from Cornell University Press:  War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam, by Mai Lan Gustafsson.

Works By CVAD Professor Robert Jessup are featured in a solo show at Conduit Gallery, 1626 C Hi Line Dr., Dallas, TX 75207 (tel 214.939.0064 hours: Tue-Sat 10-5, http://www.conduitgallery.com) February 21- March 21, 2009. An artist's talk with Robert Jessup will be featured at the gallery on Saturday, February 28, at 2:30 pm.

Robert Jessup's newest body of work hones his unique style of fictional realism. A thin application of paint to canvas conveys a more detailed and anatomically exact rendering thus fine-tuning Jessup's ability to describe a different kind of creature. These imagined creatures were inspired in whole by a recent sabbatical to Europe where he was most drawn to the boundless collection of European painting at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, specifically the paintings of Bosch, Goya and Velasquez.

CVAD Emeritus Professor Claudia Webb Betti Benson passed away Saturday, February 14, 2009, at her residence in Denton surrounded by family and friends. Professor Benson, a highly popular member of the Art Department and School of Visual Arts faculty had been an influential instructor who published a nationally recognized drawing text, of Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. For many years, she taught the seminar in teaching for graduate student . Inviting the students to her home for meals and discussions, she was seen as a well-liked and effective mentor. Professor Betti Benson was born November 2, 1924 in Dallas. She received her graduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The memorial service will be 1 p.m., Saturday, February 21, 2009, at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 1200 N. Elm St. in Denton, Texas.

The National Education Association Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to Nadine Kalin, assistant professor for the University of North Texas' College of Visual Arts and Design. The grant will allow Kalin and art education doctoral student Laura Lee McCartney to develop a trial class to better prepare UNT doctoral students to transition to careers at higher education facilities throughout the nation. The pilot course will begin during the fall 2009 semester.

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.

Jeff Elrod is an artist currently living and working in Marfa, Texas where he creates work described by Eleanor Heartney for Art in America as paintings that look back at the beginning of the last century while incorporating motifs which could only belong to the beginning of this one. These large, hybrid paintings of shallow spaces, hard-edged shapes, and fields of color that reference twentieth-century abstraction are coupled with computer-generated meandering lines that evoke graffiti or illegible handwriting. They are also the subject of the Modern's second FOCUS exhibition of the 2008-09 season. This Tuesday Evenings presentation (February 17) is a valuable and unique opportunity to hear about the work from the artist himself, shortly after the exhibition opens.  This exhibition will mark the artist's first solo exhibition in an American museum.

FOCUS: Jeff Elrod, curated by Andrea Karnes, opens to the public on February 15 and runs through March 29.

Jeff Elrod is a graduate of the MFA program in Drawing and Painting at UNT. 

Twenty-seven Junior and two Senior Fashion Design majors from CVAD participated in the annual "Go Red for Women luncheon and style show at the UNT Gateway Ballroom on Friday,  February 13, which featured works from student designers at UNT and Texas Woman's University.  Proceeds benefited the American Heart Association. UNT alumna Debbie Denmon of WFAA-TV (Channel 8) served as emcee for the event, which promotes awareness of women's battles with heart disease and stroke.

Photo credit:  Denton Record Chronicle

For more information see The Denton Chronicle and The North Texas Daily

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

Each semester the UNT NAEA Student Chapter hosts an Art Panel Discussion in which a group of diverse educators provides insights into their profession and participates in a question and answer session with UNT students. This semester our speakers include an Elementary teacher, High School Teacher, UNT Graduate Student, and an Art Coordinator to offer a broad scope of the possibilities that a career in Art Education can provide. This discussion is open to all UNT students and faculty. It will be held on Friday, February 13th in room 223 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be provided.

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.

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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.

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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

Medieval Graduate Student Symposium
January 30th and 31st, 2009

We are happy to announce that the College of Visual Arts and Design of the University of North Texas will be sponsoring our 4th Annual Medieval Graduate Student Symposium. In honor of UNT's two new Graduate Student Scholarships for the study of Islamic or Middle Eastern Art History, the topic for this year's Symposium will be "East Meets West in the Middle Ages," and will feature a keynote address by Dr. D. Fairchild Ruggles from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Her lecture is to be titled "The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: the Construction and Afterlife of the Mosque/Cathedral of Cordoba" and will be delivered at 5:00 P.M. on Friday, January 30th. The Graduate Student Symposium will take place on Saturday, January 31st from 10 AM until 4PM, at which time Dr. Ruggles will conclude the symposium with discussant remarks for our student presenters. We hope that you will put both the Symposium and Dr. Ruggles's keynote address on your calendar.

Call for Papers
While we will entertain papers from any discipline of Medieval Studies and on any topic, we particularly welcome those that engage the intersections of the East and the West. We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere. The deadline for submission is November 1st, 2008. A reminder notice and second call for papers will come out in September. Feel free to download the poster that can be printed and distributed.

The College of Visual Arts and Design will again be providing lunch for the break in our symposium day. With the success of last year's symposium they are looking forward to another day of interesting conversation and graduate student interaction. We hope that you can join us.

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

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