Archive for the ‘ Prizes/Honors ’ Category

Great Times for Zach Nader

Zach Nader (2008 BFA from Baylor University and 2011 MFA from Texas Tech) “comb[s] the current torrent of images… in search of new possibilities of perception.” On Monday, January 28th Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York held the first solo-screening of his video works. Called great times are waiting, the videos, which were compiled over the last three [ READ MORE ]

PBS Presents Scott Thurman’s “The Revisionaries”

Scott Thurman (2007 BFA in Studio Art; MFA from University of North Texas) who currently resides in Austin,  was back in the media spotlight this week as PBS announced that they would be airing The Revisionaries this week, an independent film he directed.  In Lubbock the film aired on Monday evening, January 28th. If you [ READ MORE ]

Scott Thurman's Film "Smokey" Screens at Los Angeles Film Festival

Scott Thurman 2007 BFA Photography-digital option will have his documentary film titled “Smokey”screened during the Los Angeles Film Festival June 18-28. It is one of seven short films selected by the Houston Film Commission as part of the Texas Filmmakers’ Showcase at the LA Film Festival. In addition, the Houston Film Commission is flying Thurman [ READ MORE ]

SoA Students Honored by Rockport Center for Arts

Zach Nader, MFA candidate  in Photography; Emily Schuhmann, MFA candidate in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing; and Christopher Voss,  MFA candidate in Painting, have been chosen by the Rockport Center for Arts as emerging artists from Texas. During the National Youth Art Month of March, the Rising Eyes of Texas Collegiate Exhibition will honor 30 students from 14 [ READ MORE ]

Four TTU Artists selected by Mel Chin for 2009 Texas National Show

          Four artists from the School of Art have seven pieces of artwork in the 2009 Texas National Show Cole Art Center in the Old Opera House in Nacogdoches, Texas, from now until May 17. Christie Blizard, Assistant Professor in Art – Painting and Drawing, has two paintings selected: Piotr Chizinski, 2008 [ READ MORE ]

Four Students Are Selected for Arkansas Art Center's 36th annual Toys Designed by Artists show

  Jillian Cooper, Senior,BFA- Studio Art – Jewelry /Metalsmithing from Manchester, NM ; Ellen Wadsworth, Junior, BA – Art Undeclared from Irving, TX; Amy Cassidy, sophomore,BFA-Studio Art, from the Woodlands, TX; Carrie Skinner, Junior ,BA- Arts and Sciences Undeclared from Hobbs, NM, were accepted in the Arkansas Art Center’s 36th annual Toys Designed by Artists show. The juror was [ READ MORE ]

SoA Makes the 2008 President's Higher Ed Community Service Honor Roll Again!

Texas Tech University, and four key faculty in particular, were named to the 2008 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. This selection to the Honor Roll represents recognition “from the highest levels of the federal government for commitment to service and civic engagement on your campus [ READ MORE ]

Slaton Speaks Art

The town square in Slaton, Texas, frequently holds visual and performing arts delights. This square is becoming very well known! Several folks from the SoA have found Slaton a nice, little town in which to live—-a close commute to TTU, but Sara Waters, Professor in Art, has slowly but uniquely turned the square, with a [ READ MORE ]

Corey Escoto – Negotiating the Art World

Since receiving my MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2007), I was selected as one of three artists to take part in the Great Rivers Biennial at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and was a recipient of a Gateway Foundation Grant ($20,000). Having just had my graduate art show prior to that announcement, I [ READ MORE ]