Life and Death in the Northern Pass

With the right kin­dling, one idea can set the world on fire. This con­cept moti­vates phở­to­jour­nal­ist Dominic Bracco II. The for­mer Short­horn phở­tog­ra­pher has doc­u­mented the hor­rors of Mexico’s drug war through images of vio­lence and its after­math, as well as griev­ing fam­i­lies and ten­der scenes of day-to-day urban life. “I feel I have an oblig­a­tion to pro­duce work that will hope­fully edu­cate and evoke […]

African-American Quilting Traditions

The tapes­try of art is woven with his­tory, a fact that Sedrick Huck­aby cel­e­brates in his own art, which is inspired by his fam­ily, faith, and her­itage. Huckaby’s can­vases and works on paper depict­ing African-American quilt­ing tra­di­tions recently were part of a two-person show at The Gallery at UT Arling­ton. “Some­times I see the quilts as the African-American woman’s jazz—a cir­cle of women con­vers­ing, impro­vis­ing, […]

Blackbird Speaking

Inspi­ra­tion comes in many forms and from the unlike­li­est of places. For art Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Andrew Ortiz, the inspi­ra­tion for his recent Sem­ana de Cul­tura exhibit, Black­bird Speak­ing, sprang from a “con­ver­sa­tion” with a mur­der of crows perched on tele­phone wires. “They com­plained loudly at me, so I, being strongly influ­enced by mag­i­cal real­ism and the belief that they were speak­ing to me, answered back,” […]

Golf Course Art

Local golfers saw more than greens and fair­ways last sum­mer as Lake Arling­ton Golf Course dis­played 13 sculp­tures by UT Arling­ton stu­dents. Plane Air was the brain­child of sculp­ture Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Dar­ryl Lauster, who approached course offi­cials with the idea of putting an exhibit in an unex­pected place. The works were cre­ated by stu­dents in Lauster’s 3-D Forms and Inter­me­dia classes (inter­me­dia works use less […]