News
November 16, 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor Ya'Ke Smith has Films on TV
Ya'Ke Smith's short film "The Second Coming" will be aired on HBO and MAX, as follows:
Additionally, Ya'Ke's short "Change" will also be aired after Thanksgiving. For more information, Ya'Ke's website may be viewed at http://www.exodusfilmworks.com/
November 5, 2009
Iris Bechtol exhibits in Block Gallery Novi Beograd
Iris Bechtol's artwork was a part of SOUND MIGRATIONZ, which is (translated to English) the quest for the origin of the sound and its visual manifestations. This exhibition opens a series of questions: Is it possible to manifest a way of life through sound migration from place to place? Does the artist's identity reflect sound space? How can the sound be visualized?
Janet Morrow represents UTA in the 2009 Graduate Student Lecturship Program at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Janet Morrow represented UTA in the program this year. She prepared and presented two lectures:
“Standing at the Corner of Art and Science: Nancy Graves, Jess, and Agnes Martin”
“Phenomenal Light: Mark Rothko, Dan Flavin and Larry Bell.” The lectures are concluded for the semester.
The Graduate Student Lectureship Program provides local art and art history graduate students the opportunity to research and present public lectures on works on view at the Modern. These focused gallery talks discuss artworks within a thematic framework designed to provide new insights on familiar pieces. After close observation, rigorous research, and original analysis, students design an interactive tour that fosters discussion with visitors in the galleries.
October 29, 2009
Distinguished Art Historian from Cambridge to Speak at UTA
Art Historian Dr. Paul Joannides will be speaking in room 148 of the Fine Arts building at UTA on Thursday Nov. 5th at 12:30pm. His lecture is titled "Portraiture in the High Renaissance: Raphael and Titian."
October 26, 2009
Student Filmmakers Awarded Scholarships from Women In Film.Dallas
Two student filmmakers were honored October 8th at the 8th Annual Chick Flicks Film Festival held by the non-profit organization Women In Film.Dallas.
Each year the festival features short films created and produced by women across the state of Texas, celebrating the work of women in the film industry while raising funds for female students studying film, television, or video production in the North Texas region.
The 2009 winners are Elizabeth Johnston of Southern Methodist University and Rachel Gibson Shepherd of the University of Texas at Arlington, for her film "Gloria."
Ms. Johnston was awarded a $2500 tuition scholarship and Ms. Shepherd was selected to receive the college student project grant of $5,000 in completion funds from both WIF.D and Sync Point Post, a Dallas-based post- production house.
"The quality of applicants made the selection process extremely difficult. The WIF.D Education Committee was greatly impressed with the level of professionalism they exhibited which bodes well for the industry as a whole,” said Lynne Reynolds, co-chair of the WIF.D Education Committee. “We sincerely hope they have found our organization to be a useful resource during their education and beyond. Women in Film Dallas will continue to proudly support the endeavors of these young women as they advance into their chosen careers.”
To learn how you can apply for the scholarships to be awarded in 2010 or are looking for an internship in the industry, please contact education@wifdallas.org or visit www.wifdallas.org for more information.
October 23, 2009
Professor Kenda North selected as the Honored Educator for the South Central Region Society for Photographic Education conference
Professor Kenda North was selected as the Honored Educator for the South Central Region Society for Photographic Education conference, hosted by Nicholls State University. Ms. North presented a keynote lecture on Friday, October 16th, addressing current issues facing higher education in the liberal arts and the fine arts. The lecture addressed topics of interest to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing university positions, as well as junior level faculty. She also presented a visual chronology of her photographic work over the past thirty years.
The regional conference, “Crosswinds”, brought together photography teachers and students from a seven state area. Kenda North has been a board member for SPE at the national level as well as the western and south central region.
"The Society for Photographic Education is a non-profit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography-related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. Through its interdisciplinary programs, services and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.” (from the SPE website, www.spenational.org)
For more information on the south central region, go to
http://www.spesouthcentral.org
October 22, 2009
UTA Students hold exhibition in moving van
11 students from "Research in Intermedia" class showcased their collective efforts in "Ciricurcari", a mobile exhibition installed in a 26 foot moving van and parked on Dragon street during their October opening receptions.
October 20, 2009
UTA Alumni Corey Frey worked on Emmy winning Production
Corey Frey worked as Producer/Editor/Photographer on "Gameday Rivals" which features college football previews, player/coach interviews, and stories on school traditions and major memories. One of the biggest part of the show is a contest for college football tailgaters sponsored by Bud Light. Congratulations to Corey Frey and everyone else who worked on the Emmy wining production.
September 28, 2009
Janet Morrow to Present First of Four Lectures at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Janet Morrow will be presenting her first of four lectures at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Morrow's lecture is titled "Standing at the Corner of Art and Science: Nancy Graves, Jess and Agnes Martin," is part of the Modern's Graduate student Lectureship Program. The program awards local art and art history graduate students the opportunity to research works on view at the Modern, providing new insights on familiar pieces.
Morrow's lecture will take place on the 29th of September, 2009, at 6:15 pm. Lectures are free with gallery admission.
September 24, 2009
Photo Opportunity: Glass artist visits UT Arlington
Rob Stern will be a visiting glass artist at The University of Texas at Arlington Sept. 28 through Oct. 2. Stern studied at the famed Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle and earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Miami. He has worked with famed glass artist Petr Novtny at the Ajeto Glass Factory in the Czech Republic and exhibited internationally.
Stern will be working with students in the Studio Arts Center, 810 S. Davis Drive, and will do demonstrations. His work can be seen by clicking here.
September 23, 2009
Faculty member Nancy Palmeri to Talk at Kimbell Art Museum
Arlington artist Nancy Palmeri will present a gallery talk in the Kimbell Art Museum’s Artist’s Eye series on Saturday, October 10, at 11 a.m. The Kimbell’s curator of European art/head of academic services, Nancy E. Edwards, will moderate this free program.
Palmeri, who has lectured extensively on printmaking techniques, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, two of which enabled her to study and work in Kesterlee, Belgium, and Genoa, Italy.
Palmeri has been associate professor of art at the University of Texas at Arlington since 1996. Her prints have been included in numerous exhibitions and can be found in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium, and the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan, among others.
“The Artist’s Eye” is an ongoing program moderated by Kimbell staff. It brings Texas artists to the Museum to discuss works in the permanent collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own.
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September 22, 2009
Faculty member Stephen Lapthisophon gave lecture at Ft. Worth Modern Art Museum
Stephen Lapthisophon gave a lecture on his recent work as a part of the Tuesday Evening Lecture Series at the Ft. Worth Modern Art Museum. This event took place on Sept. 15th, 2009, at 7pm. The Tuesday Evenings series brings artists, scholars, and critics to discuss their work each week at the Modern.
Faculty member Andrew Ortiz recieves Best of Show award
Andrew Ortiz was awarded Best of Show for his artwork titled "Cloud", which is from Ortiz's continuing series "Blackbird Speaking." The image is an allegorical portrait of a crow, representing Andrew Ortiz, covered in a rag representing a cloud or cover. This artwork was a part of the 27th Annual Art in the Metroplex Exhibition which took place at the Texas Christian University, and runs from September 1st to October 1st, 2009.
September 15, 2009
“Made in Italy” exhibition at the Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
The Arlington Museum of Art will feature an exhibit of photography by students and faculty from UT Arlington who studied in Florence, Italy this June. The exhibit will open Saturday, September 19th with an opening reception on Friday, September 25th from 6 to 9 pm.
The photographs represent personal responses to living in Florence for a month, as well as trips to Venice, Lucca, Rome and Cinque Terre. These are images which challenge typical travel photography, both in concept and in presentation.
Participating artists are Ashley E. Allen, Jesse Barnett, Kimberly Bell, Justin Bolle, Annie Donovan, Casey Kopecky, Erica Martinez, Katie Nixon, Amber Lea Taylor, Jenny Todd, Daniel Guiterrez, Laurie L. Ward and Kenda North (faculty).
Exhibition sponsors include the Arlington Camera, Imaging Spectrum, Kar Lynn Arts, Red River Paper and the Department of Art and Art History at UT Arlington.
This is the fifth exhibit of student/faculty work studying in Florence at the Santa Reparata International School of Art at the AMA. The exhibit closes October 18, 2009.
The Arlington Museum of Art is located at 201 West Main Street. The Museum is open Wednesday through Friday from 1:00 to 5:00, Saturday from 10 to 5 and Sunday from noon to 5.
For more information, contact the Arlington Museum of Art at 817-275-4600 or Kenda North at kenda@uta.edu.
August 27, 2009
Beth Wright speaks at International Symposium in London
Beth Wright was an invited speaker at an international symposium at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in June 2009. The symposium (“1789, 1989, 2009: Changing Perspectives on Post-Revolutionary Art”), organized by graduate students at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University College – London, and the University of Michigan brought together speakers from France, Great Britain, America, Germany, and India to consider how new methodologies (especially those privileging subjectivity) shed light on art in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France.
Dr. Wright’s presentation was entitled “Moving Pictures: Scott’s Novels Represented by Delacroix, Roqueplan, Boulanger and the Devéria Brothers in Gaugain’s Lithographic Suite of 1829-1830.” The event took place on June 12 - 13.
June 29, 2009
Nicholas Wood will have work featured in Germany.
Galerie Palais Walderdorff, of Trier, Germany, will feature works from Nicholas Wood, in the "Skulpturen & Zeichnung" (or Sculpture & Drawings) exhibition.
June 23, 2009
UTA MFA student Janet Morrow will have work featured in the Craighead-Green New Texas Talent show.
The Craighead-Green Gallery in Dallas, TX will feature works from MFA student Janet Morrow, in the "New Texas Talent 2009" exhibition. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 25 from 5-8 p.m.
UTA undergraduate student David Ricks will have work featured at the HCG Gallery.
The HCG Gallery in Dallas, TX will feature works from undergraduate sculpture student David Ricks, in the Texas Sculpture Association's 2009 State-wide Juried Art Exhibition. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 25 from 6 - 9 p.m.
June 19, 2009
UTA Alumni Chaitra Linehan will have work featured in the MFA Gallery.
An exhibition featuring Chaitra Linehan and Jen Rose will open on August 1 in the Mighty Fine Arts Gallery. The reception will be held on August 1 from 6 - 9 pm.
Gallery hours are 12 noon to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday.
Exhibition dates are August 1 - September 13.
Gallery Director Benito Huerta will be featured in two exhibitions in San Antonio.
Benito Huerta will have works featured in the "Texas Drawing 1 / Group Exhibition" which will take place at the Southwest School of Art and Craft from July 2 - September 6. The reception will be held on July 2, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
Benito will also have works featured in "Shock & Awe", a solo exhibition, which will take place at the main campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Art and Art History, from July 9 - August 14. The reception will be held on July 9, from 6 - 8 pm.
June 6, 2009
MFA Summer Exhibition begins in The Gallery at UTA
The 2nd annual MFA Summer Exhibition begins, showcasing 15 graduate students working in a variety of media including intermedia, glass, film/video and visual communication.
Gallery hours are 12 noon to 5 pm on each of the following Saturdays:
June 6, 13, 20, 27
July 11, 18, 25
August 1, 8, 15, 22
Additionally, there will be film screenings held in room 2105 of the Fine Arts Building from 12 noon to 5 pm on each of the following days:
June 6, 27
July 11, 25
August 22
May 8, 2009
Students, Faculty and Staff receive awards at BFA Exhibition Opening Reception
Congratulations to this semester's Outstanding Senior Award winners! The students were recognized at the BFA Exhibition Opening Reception on May 8, 2009.
In addition, winners of the spring semester's Ideas In Art Awards, Arlington Arts League Awards, Graduate Student of Excellence Awards, and a number of faculty and staff awards were also announced.
Faculty & Staff Awards
Andy Anderson - Teaching
Michelle Murillo, Mary Vaccaro - Research
Nancy Palmeri - Service
Breanna Beacham, Jessica Rose, Soyla Santos - Staff
Janet Chaffee, Mark Clive, Pauline Hudel-Smith - Adjunct
Outstanding Senior Awards
Art Certification - Erica Criswell
Art History - Leah McCurdy
Clay - Amanda Eubanks
Drawing - Michael Tracy
Film, Video, Screenwriting - David McGinnis, Jerod Costa
Glass - Michael Tracy
Metals - James Ryan
Painting - Lee Peterson, Jon Ramon
Photography - Calen Barnum, Erica Martinez
Printmaking - Sara Shinn
Visual Communication - Alex Pierce, Kimberly Engel, Olumide Eseyin
Graduate Student Excellence Awards
Janet Morrow
Jesse Barnett
Ideas In Art Awards (Graduate)
Janet Morrow - Winner
Rachel Gibson-Shepherd - Winner
Matthew Patterson - Finalist
Iris Bechtol - Finalist
Ideas In Art Awards (Undergraduate)
Francisco Moreno - Winner
Nathan James - Winner
Paul Windle - Finalist
Debbie Bryan - Finalist
Ideas In Art Awards (High School)
William Sarradet
Parker Ott
Laura Riley
Arlington Arts League Awards
David Ricks - 1st Place (tie)
Hon Mok - 1st Place (tie)
Kristi Kennington - 3rd Place
May 4, 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition begins in The Gallery at UTA
The BFA Exhibition begins, showcasing 74 graduating BFA students working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, glass, metals, printmaking, film/video and visual communication.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 am - 5 pm and Saturdays, 12 noon to 5 pm.
Exhibition dates are May 4 - 16.
April 17, 2009
UTA Photography Majors get accepted into MFA programs
Three UTA photo majors have been accepted into MFA programs! Graduating seniors Ross Faircloth and Ashley Whitt chose the program at Texas Woman’s University for fall 2009. Matt Bean was accepted to a number of programs but chose to accept the offer from Notre Dame University for admission in fall 2010. The program at Notre Dame offers full tuition and a stipend.
UTA Photography major wins top prize at annual PIEA Competition
Jennifer Haywood won First Prize College/University - Digitally Constructed Single Image for the annual PIEA Competition this spring. Her work, Death of Imagination, was exhibited at the PMA Imaging 2009 Convention in Las Vegas, NV USA March, 2009. Two 2009 PIEA International Traveling Photo Exhibitions will tour major conventions, schools, colleges and museums for three years in the USA, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada. Ms. Haywood won a cash award and a package of great products!
UTA Photography majors participate in several Contests and Exhibitions
UTA Photo Students had work juried into the “Seen/Unseen” exhibition at the 14th Street Gallery in Plano. The exhibit was sponsored by the Obscura Photo Club at Collin County and juried by Dallas based photographer Hal Samples. Students who had work accepted were Justin Bolle, Katie Nixon, Charity Moelling and UTA/MFA student Thomas Lumpkin!
UTA was also well represented in the annual “Rising Eyes of Texas”, a juried exhibit at the Rockport Art Center, March 4 – 28, 2009. The juried exhibition included work from undergrad students Debbie Bryan, Armando Garcia, Katie Nixon and MFA student Iris Bechtol. Our alum, Betsy Williamson (now in the grad program at UNT) was also exhibited!
Several UTA photo students are finalists in the 29th Annual College Photography Contest sponsored by Nikon. These students will have their work published in the Best of College Photography 2009. Finalists from UTA are Sean Brecht, Shawondra Hardy, Christine Davis, and Tristan Evans. These students were chosen as finalists from 4,000 participants.
Four UTA photo students are exhibiting in the ‘Visual Language of North Texas’ exhibition, sponsored by the Greater Denton Arts Council. Michael Hoefle, Armando Garcia, Jeanne Lopez, and Katie Nixon will be represented in the exhibition which opens May 8, 2009 at the Gough Gallery at the Center for the Visual Arts in Denton. The juror was Marty Walker, owner of Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas.
April 10, 2009
UTA Film Student wins Best Student Film award at regional film festival
Film student David McGinnis won Best Student Film at the Fearless Film Festival 3 in Fort Worth, Pegasusnews.com reported. He won for “Gillface,” an unconventional love story. The film fest is from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18, and 1:15 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 19, at the Fort Worth Central Library, 500 W. Third St., Fort Worth.
April 8, 2009
UTA Printmaking Majors get accepted into MFA programs
Printmaking majors Sara Shinn and Crystal Chen have been accepted into MFA programs. Sara Shinn has been accepted into the MFA programs at Arizona State University and Bradley University. Crystal Chen has been accepted into the MFA program and S.U.N.Y. New Paltz.
Faculty member gets exhibition of photographs at the University Center Gallery
Alison Hahn, Photography Senior Lecturer, currently has an exhibition of photographs at the E. H. Hereford University Center Gallery from April 6 - May 2, 2009. The closing reception is Saturday, May 2 from 6-8 pm.
Hahn recently got one of her creative assignments using the flatbed scanner as a camera published in the Summer 2009 Volume of Communication: Journalism Education Today.
March 25, 2009
Art History major accepted to various prestigious graduate programs
Leah McCurdy, a major in art history at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been accepted to all the graduate programs to which she has applied: University of York, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and UT-Austin. She has decided to enroll in the program in the Archaeology of Buildings at the University of York, United Kingdom.
Although she entered college at UT-Arlington in order to obtain a degree in architectural design, Leah McCurdy became increasingly interested in architectural history and building technologies. As a result, she plans to pursue graduate study in architectural conservation and historic preservation, with a particular emphasis on the medieval period. We are very proud of her accomplishments to date and wish her continued success in her studies and career.
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March 13, 2009
MFA Student Iris Bechtol will have work featured in Rockport, Texas Exhibition
MFA candidate Iris Bechtol's video work, Atlas, is on exhibit in the Texas regional juried exhibition, Rising Eyes of Texas, at Rockport Center for the Arts in Rockport, Texas, on view March 4-30, 2009.
Iris was invited to teach Drawing from the Collection for Children at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth on May 3, 2009 as well as the Modern Art Camp in June, 2009. She was also selected as a UT Arlington University Scholar.
March 11, 2009
Associate Professor Nancy Palmeri will be featured in the Kimbell Art Museum Lecture Series
Nancy Palmeri, associate professor in Printmaking/Foundation, will be featured in the Kimbell Art Museum’s Artist Eye Lecture Series, 18 April 2009. Her work will also be featured in the exhibition, Monumental Idea in Miniature Book, which is scheduled to open as part of the Southern Graphics Council Conference, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, March 25-29.
This book arts exhibition is scheduled to travel to various venues nationally and internationally throughout the next several years. Palmeri has also recently been selected as a finalist for the Westside Water Treatment Plant Project in Fort Worth.
March 9, 2009
Alumni Kapil Dixit opens Studio and Gallery in Nepal, India
Kapil Dixit, Art + Art History alumni, recently opened Apartment 8 Art Studio and Gallery in his community of Nepal, India and has begun featuring work from local artists around the area.
Apartment 8 Gallery is the private studio of Kapil Mani Dixit, an art graduate from the University of Texas at Arlington. Revealing the secret behind its name Kapil said, “Since I love having something subjective in everything I possess, I’m naming this gallery after the apartment that I lived in when I was in the US, and which shared some of my most creative moments.”
March 2, 2009
From the UTA News Center: Gallery 76102 debuts at UT Arlington Fort Worth Center
January 28, 2009
The Gallery at UTA presents artists Vincent Valdez and Michelle Dizon in a new two-person exhibition
The Gallery at The University of Texas at Arlington is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring San Antonio/Los Angeles artist Vincent Valdez, and Los Angeles artist Michelle Dizon.
The two artists met in 2008 and discovered that, although focusing on different historical events and geographic subjects, each was dealing with issues of political resistance in their artwork.
Vincent was in the process of completing a painting, Nuthin' to See Here, Keep on Movin', that dealt with police brutality at the May 1, 2007 protest at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Michelle had just finished a video installation, Civil Society (I) that dealt with events of civil unrest in Paris in 2005 and Los Angeles in 1992. Their conversations raised the question of how people resist in the face of oppressive forces and how it is that they, as artists, bear witness to this struggle.
Michelle Dizon & Vincent Valdez
January 26 – March 7, 2009
Reception: Friday, January 30, 6 – 8:30 p.m. with brief gallery talks by the artists beginning at 6:30 p.m.
January 9, 2009
Film students’ work on KERA ‘Frame of Mind’
Bart Weiss, associate professor for film in Art + Art History, has produced two programs featuring work by UT Arlington film students for “Frame of Mind” on KERA-TV.
Film student Aaron Halloway directed “Schadenfreude,” which aired at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11. The film won first place in the college division of the Future Vision competition.
Student Daniel Laabs made “Deep Ellum in Passing,” a mood piece that aired 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11.
December 17, 2008
Assistant Professor Mel Northum will be featured in Exhibition at the University of Dallas
Mel Northum, Assistant Professor in Drawing/Foundation, will have her work featured in the University of Dallas Regional Ceramics Competition 2009, January 20 to March 6, 2009.
The exhibition will be held at the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, Irving, Texas. Juror for the exhibition is Dick Hay, Past-president of the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts and Professor Emeritus at Indiana State University. Mr. Hay received his MFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
December 8, 2008
Outstanding Seniors receive awards at BFA Exhibition Opening Reception
Congratulations to this semester's Outstanding Senior Award winners! The students were recognized at the BFA Exhibition Opening Reception on December 5, 2008.
In addition, the fall semester Wishful Wings Photography Awards were announced. The wishful wings awards are provided by the James Barnett Foundation.Outstanding Senior Awards
Art Certification - Haley Garcia
Art History - Elizabeth Hodges
Clay - Sarah Morgan
Drawing - Kate Stipp
Film, Video, Screenwriting - Noe Medrano Jr
Metals - Elizabeth Covert
Painting - Richard Skurla
Photography - Kathryn Mitchell, Reuben Gonzalez
Printmaking - Erin Chester
Visual Communication - Jonathan Graf, Seth Whitton
Wishful Wings Photography Awards
Calen Barnum
Christine Davis
Lyndee Davis
Cody Kindle
November 17, 2008
Assistant Professor Ingrid Furniss has book published
We are pleased to announce the recent book publication by art historian Ingrid Furniss: Music in Ancient China: An Archaelogical and Art Historical Study of Strings, Winds, and Drums during the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods (770 BCE-22 CE), published by Cambia Press.
Ingrid Furniss is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at University of Texas at Arlington. She holds a PhD and an MA in Chinese art and archaeology from Princeton University, as well as an MA in Asian studies from Washington University, a certificate in museum studies from University of Washington, and a BA with honors in Asian studies from University of Puget Sound.
In addition to numerous articles and presentations, Dr. Furniss’ experience includes curatorial work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has also served as a freelance researcher for Saskia Cultural Documentation, Ltd. in Maine, and as a "trench master" for an archaeological expedition in Polis, Cyprus for Princeton University.
November 10, 2008
Alumni Glen Holland will be featured in Exhibition in New York
Glen Holland, painting and drawing alumni, will have his work featured in Devotions, an exhibition taking place December 4, 2008 to December 20, 2008 at the Fischbach Gallery in New York City. Glen Holland received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from UTA in 1990 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University in 1992.
October 31, 2008
Assistant Professor Mel Northum will be featured in Exhibition in Pennsylvania
Mel Northum, assistant professor in Drawing/Foundation, will have his work featured in the Craft Forms 2008, 14th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Craft December 5, 2008 to January 22, 2009. The exhibition will be held at the Wayne Art Gallery in Wayne, Pennsylvania with Juror Michael W. Monroe, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Bellevue Arts Museum; former President of Peter Joseph Gallery, NY, NY; MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art.
October 24, 2008
Associate Professor Mary Vaccaro speaks at Symposium at Columbia University
Mary Vaccaro, associate professor in Art and Art History, spoke on “Imitatio: New Attributions for Copies after Correggio” at an Oct. 17 symposium at Columbia University in New York. She was one of eight former graduate students of Columbia Professor David Rosand, who was honored at the symposium upon his retirement and 70th birthday.
October 14, 2008
Installation and 3-D art focus of newest exhibit at The Gallery of UTA
Three-dimensional art is the focus of newest exhibit at The Gallery of UTA with works by Austin artist Steve Brudniak and Fort Worth sculptor Cameron Schoepp. The exhibit, starts Wednesday, Oct. 15, and runs through Saturday, Nov. 15, at The Gallery at UTA, room 169, in the Fine Arts Building, 700 Greek Row Drive. The two artists, both known for their sculptural pieces, showcase the versatility of three-dimensional artistic expression. This exhibition highlights how contemporary sculptors use objects and space to create thought-provoking and viscerally felt work, whether through Brudniak’s intriguing found-material assemblages that evoke memories of science fiction movies of the past or Schoepp’s graphically colored and texturally rich carpet/text installation. The artists will discuss their work in illustrated, hour-long lectures in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Brudniak will speak Thursday, Oct. 16, and Schoepp on Thursday, Nov. 6. Both lectures will begin at 12:30 p.m. An artists’ reception and talk is set for 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, in the gallery. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. The exhibit and lectures are free. Contact Patricia Healy at (817) 272-5658.
September 16, 2008
Chaitra Garrick recieves Betty Laird Purchase Award from the Frost Museum
Faculty member Chaitra Garrick has received the Betty Laird Purchase Award from the Frost Museum and is currently in the Faculty Exhibition at El Centro. She has an opening in the Project Room of MFA Gallery on September 20.
Professor Kenda North exhibiting work at UTSA Satellite Space in San Antonio
Professor Kenda North is currently exhibiting recent work at the UTSA Satellite Space in San Antonio. Her work will also be featured at the grand opening of the CADD Art Lab in Dallas on September 20th.
Associate Professor Leighton McWilliams art shows
Associate Professor Leighton McWilliams had work in a traveling group show in Puebla, Mexico at Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo y Diseno in May - June 29. He is currently showing Bellocq Gallery at Louisiana Tech where he will also be a visiting artist. He also has work in a group show, "wood/metal/glass" at the Rockport Center for the Arts in Rockport, TX. The show will run from October 22- November 22.
Associate Professor Andrew Ortiz chosen for juried competition at UTSA Gallery
Associate Professor Andrew Ortiz was chosen for a juried competition at the UTSA art gallery entitled ?New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2008 this past July. He also participated in a national juried exhibition, ?Anje III? at the 621 Gallery in Tallahassee Florida this summer. He is exhibiting a one person exhibition of new work at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas early next year.
Visiting Assistant Professor Alison Hahn presents work at Regional Conference
Visiting Assistant Professor Alison Hahn will present her work at the Regional Conference of the Society for Photographic Education at the Memphis College of Art the weekend of October 30th.
September 9, 2008
Dr. Mary Vaccaro concludes year-long Faculty Development Leave
Dr. Vaccaro recently concluded a year-long Faculty Development Leave during which time she also held the J. Clawson Mills Senior Research Fellowship in residence at the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. During her stint in New York, she had extraordinary access to original works of art and, on the basis on her expertise, was able to re-attribute several drawings in the Metropolitan Museum permanent collection. One of her discoveries was featured in a full-length article in the newsletter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art last fall. She is preparing a related scholarly article for publication.
Dr. Vaccaro?s article about the reattribution of another Italian drawing in the French regional museum in Rennes recently saw publication. It?s titled ?Un dessin r?attribu? ? Bernardino Gatti dans les collections du muse des Beaux-arts de Rennes,? published in the major French-language journal for French museums, La Revue du Louvre, La Revue des Mus?es de France (February 2008).
Two full-length articles in the Gazzetta di Parma, the newspaper of Parma, Italy (2 June and 23 June 2008), featured the recent discoveries by Dr Vaccaro, described therein as “una studiosa statiunitense amante della pittura parmigiana rinascimentale e autrice di un libro di successo sul Parmigianino” [“a US scholar in love with the painting of Renaissance Parma and author of a successful book on Parmigianino”] : specifically, her reattribution of a drawing in the Uffizi to an artist from the circle of Correggio (published in the Burlington Magazine, 2007) and her use of unpublished notices in the baptismal registers of Parma to reconstruct social networks among artists in 16th-century Parma (published in Renaissance Studies, 2007).
In June 2008, Dr Vaccaro was invited (sole guest) by the Director of the Civic Museums of Parma, Italy, to give, and gave, a lecture at the Pinacoteca Stuard in Parma, Italy. She spoke about drawings (some of which she has discovered) for the 16th-century decoration of the choir of Parma Cathedral. Her talk (which she gave in Italian) was titled: “Correggio e il suo tempo. Giorgio Gandini del Grano tra Allegri e Bedoli nel Duomo di Parma.”
September 8, 2008
Debbie DeWitte awarded the Platinum Best Practices Award
Debbie DeWitte was awarded the Platinum (highest level) Best Practices Award for Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) for her work on the online ART 1301 class.
August 1, 2008
Students prepare for the Art + Art History Departments New Student Welcome Event
On August 22nd at 3:00pm, the A+AH Dept. will be hosting a new student event where incoming freshman and transfer students
can come meet faculty, discuss classes and schedules, get informaiton on student organizations, and tour the art department. Students will be meeting in the lobby in front of the Gallery in the Fine Arts Building. Please contact our undergraduate advisor, Soyla Santos, with any questions.
Bart Weiss directs The Program Video Art Exhibition, July 26 - August 23
"The Program", a new video art event in Dallas, aims to become a part of the cultural landscape by screening video art by trying to convey a sense of where video artists are working today. With a extraordinary collection of artists that work in different genres and come from a varied aesthetic, the Program pushes to evolve the video festival platform. Bart Weiss, the President of the Video Association of Dallas, directed the event at various museums around the Dallas area.
July 8, 2008
A+AH and the Arlington Museum of Art:
David Keens and Masters of Fine Arts Exhibitions, July 12 - Sept. 14
David Keens, Texas Artiist of the Year, exhibits new work at the Arlington Museum of Art on July 12 through September 14. David will also be speaking at the AMA on July 19 as well as giving a tour of his studio at the University of Texas Arlington.
July 11, 6:00 pm: Opening Reception
July 17, 7:00 pm: Gallery Talk by David Keens
July 19, 3:00 pm: Museum Visit & UT Arlington Studio Tour conducted by David Keens
UT Arlington's Masters of Fine Arts:
The first year of the UT Arlington Art + Art History Department's Master of Fine Arts program has quickly passed. The initial six MFA candidates were joined by two additional candidates this past spring. This summer, the Arlington Museum of Art will be introducing UT Arlington's MFA program to the area as they host an exhibition of the MFA candidates' collective work. Three areas of study, Intermedia (expanded studio), Film/Video and Glass, will be represented in the Mezzanine Gallery space of the Arlington Museum of Art. The diversity of work by the eight MFA candidates will be an experience that should not be missed.
July 1, 2008
Professor Stephen Thomas Rascoe, 1924 - 2008
Stephen Thomas Rascoe, 84, an artist, retired fine art professor and gentleman, died Monday, June 16, 2008. Mr. Rascoe's wish was to participate in the Willed Body Program for medical research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Memorials: American Heart Association. Stephen Thomas Rascoe was born May 8, 1924, in Uvalde, son of the late William Marion Rascoe and Jane Grace Johnston Rascoe. He grew up in Corpus Christi. He was a student at the University of Texas at Austin before serving in the United States Army Air Force from 1942-1946. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in 1948 and his Masater of Arts degree in painting in 1951, both from the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon returning to Texas, Mr. Rascoe worked as a draftsman before accepting a position at the University of Texas at Arlington as a fine art professor in 1964 and continued in this role until his retirement in 1990. Through his work at UTA, Mr. Rascoe was able to inspire and encourage a whole new generation of Texas artists. During his distinguished career, Stephen Rascoe won many prestigious art awards.
His paintings are included in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Art, Art Museum of South Texas, Texas A&M University Museum, Arlington Museum of Art, University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Methodist University, Texas Fine Arts Association Laguna Gloria Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin and numerous private collections.
Stephen was most recently represented by Paula Kornye Tillman of Fort Worth.
Stephen Rascoe was predeceased by his father, mother and two brothers.
Survivors: Wife of 56 years, Barbara Rascoe; children, Paul Rascoe and Stephanie Rascoe Myers and her husband, Scott; grandchildren, Sarah, Max, Paul, Bill, Emily and Benny; cousin, Rosemary Fahey; sister-in-law, Anne and her husband, Bob Black; and brother-in-law, Byron Butler.
Alumni works to compile list of works missing from modern art museum in Baghdad
DENTON, Texas (AP) - Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Nada Shabout returned to the country where she grew up. As an art history professor, one of the first stops she wanted to make was the modern art museum. But Shabout, who was in Baghdad just months after the U.S.-led March 2003 invasion, soon found that
seeing the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art would be impossible. Not only had it been burned and looted, but the area was blocked off and dangerous. As she traveled around the city and spoke to art experts, she realized that thousands of works were looted from the museum, possibly gone forever. She made it her mission to document what had been there. Five years later, she's still working toward that goal. "I saw a great need of help," said Shabout, an associate professor of art history at the University of North Texas. "It was natural for me to do this."
On that fact-finding trip to Iraq with a group of fellow academics, gallery owners and artists told Shabout how pieces once displayed in the museum were now selling on the black market or in other galleries.
Of the 8,600 works in the museum before the invasion, only 1,420 remained after the looting and some of those were damaged, said Hassan Qussai, an official in Iraq's culture ministry
Qussai, who once headed public relations for the modern art museum and sits on an Iraqi committee in charge of retrieving stolen works, said that so far, 59 of the 7,180 missing pieces have been recovered and authorities in Iraq are working to document the rest.
Shabout, who specializes in Arab art, particularly Iraqi artists, plans to eventually publish a list of what was once in the museum. Such a publication could not only help law enforcement identify works floating through black markets, but also be a reference for museums to ensure they aren't buying stolen goods, she said. So far, she has authenticated _ with images and documentation _ about 500 works once in the museum.
Shabout has started working with a San Francisco-based nonprofit called The Alexandria Archive Institute to create a Web site depicting the authenticated works. Dia Azzawi, an Iraqi artist who moved to London in 1976, said about 16 of his works, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s were in the modern art museum. He said that some turned up on the market and were purchased by a Baghdad gallery owner. The gallery owner tried to return them to the museum, but was told to hold on to them because they were safer in the gallery. Azzawi said the museum had many important works by "pioneers" of the Iraqi modern art movement from the 1950s.
Since 2003, Shabout's painstaking research has taken her to Paris, Jordan, London and other locations to determine what was in the museum. Her resources include photographs of some of the works that hung in the museum, its catalogs and books published by the Ministry of Culture. People around the world have helped, including some who sent her catalogs purchased from the museum before the war. She also has to be mindful of the motives of some who provide information. For instance, art dealers have denied certain pieces she authenticated were ever in the museum, a clue that the dealer may have sold that piece.
«I did a lot of sort of detective work,» said Shabout, who will teach contemporary Arab art history at the University of Jordan in Amman as a Fulbright scholar this fall.
The Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, formerly known as the Saddam Center for the Arts, was inaugurated in the mid-1980s. After Baghdad fell, much of the attention was on the looting of the Iraqi National Museum _ home of ancient art and antiquities. As a result, Shabout said people seemed to forget that there was also a modern culture. Traveling to Iraq in June 2003 was a return home of sorts for Shabout. Born in Scotland to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother, she returned with her parents to Iraq when she was 6. After graduating from high school in Baghdad, she came to the United States. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington and then studied for her master's at the Architecture Association School of Art in London. Shabout said that a comprehensive history of modern art in Iraq hasn't yet been written and there are few comprehensive catalogs of the museum's works, making the loss of the art and documents a disaster. Azzawi predicts that much of the Iraq's modern art history will simply disappear into private collections.
"It's criminal. It's unbelievable," he said. Associated Press Writer Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad contributed to this report.
Article pulled from PR-Inside.com
June 2, 2008
Graduating Senior Awards
Art Education - Jodi Theodore
Art History - Sara Stewart Shinn
Clay - Charli Freda
Drawing - Terrance Sweatt
Painting - Megumi Rooze
Photography - Chance Morgan, Michelle Dulock
Visual Communication - Katie Standlee, Aaron Smith
Ideas in Art Photography Awards
Calen Barnum
Matt Bean
Rocio De la Torre
Amen Osezua
Arlington Arts League Winners
Katie Nixon
Matthew Patterson
Francisco Moreno
May 29, 2008
Alumni Casey Logan's Come Celebrate the Knowledge You Never Knew You Had
A+AH Alumni Casey Logan exhibits in his second solo show with the gallery entitled Come Celebrate The Knowledge You Never Knew You Had.
For each piece, along with a title, Logan has added elegant descriptions that expand the pieces and act as dynamic partners. An earth globe and a moon globe are both covered with porcupine quills. They hang apart from each other. Logan explains, “During the winter porcupines must huddle together for warmth. But the closer they get to each other the more their quills irritate one another.” So they pull away. This cycle continues. Then, Logan speaks of how Freud utilized this metaphor to explain the “attractive/repulsive qualities of love.” Finally, Logan weaves a tale about the incestuous relationship between the earth and the moon, with the sun acting as a vengeful parent. The parable’s dark ending explains how this doomed union would translate into total destruction, with gravitational theory delivering a final blow.
Casey Logan’s work is immediately stimulating. The simple structure of his sculpture pulls in the viewer coupled with identifiable materials and concepts. A globe, a crate and a box are ordinary. Each possessing intrinsic meaning, Logan propels them into philosophical, scientific and psychological pieces of art that speak volumes.
With his work Logan aims to unify art world elitists with the average person on the street. Logan does not want his work to elicit awkward feeling when one doesn’t ‘get it’. The descriptions, titles, and the pieces themselves do not limit one’s interpretation, but rather illuminate endless possibilities. Together, the pieces and the descriptions allow everyone to Come Celebrate The Knowledge You Never Knew You Had.
Casey Logan has shown extensively throughout the Bay Area and beyond, most recently at the TULCA Art Show of Galway in Ireland. This summer, Logan will be an artist in residence at San Francisco Recycling and Disposal. He has been featured in such publications as the SF Chronicle, the SF weekly and the SF Bay Guardian, among others. He resides in Oakland.