Archive for the ‘ Reminiscences ’ Category

The Gift of Time

Old trooper, I see your child’s red crayon pass, bleeding deletions on the galleys you hold under your throbbing magnifying glass, that worn arena, where the whirling sand and broken-hearted lions lick your hand refined by bile as yellow as a lump of gold.                       [ READ MORE ]

Nancy Naumann Memorial Art Scholarship Endowment Announced

On February 15th, during this year’s Betty Clawson Wright Performance hosted by Ms. Karen Savage and the School of Music, The Ohio State University concert pianist, Steven Glaser announced that he was creating a scholarship endowment in Art in memory of Nancy Naumann (1951-2002), who was his partner late in her life.  Since then family [ READ MORE ]

Sonia Avila Leads Southwest Airlines Design Team
(5th in a series on Communication Design Alumni)

“I’ll never forget how I got into design, “explains Southwest Airlines Graphic Design Team Manager Sonia Avilla (2003 BFA Communication Design) Southwest Airlines Graphic Design team manager. I read an article about design and came to talk to Carla Tedeschi in her then “cave “ office wedged in between restrooms in the architecture building. That [ READ MORE ]

Professor Terry Morrow Begins His 41st Year

Professor Terry Morrow begins his 41st year this semester as art professor at Texas Tech. It is a momentous time and an accomplishment that current students, faculty, and alumni applaud. He spent eight of those years additionally as Assistant Art Department Chairman, Art Department Chairman or Director when the school was called the  Art Department, and [ READ MORE ]

Remembering a Mentor by Alan Colvin

Alan Colvin on Frank Cheatham a speech read at the Dallas Society of Visual Communications honoring Cheatham The first time I saw Frank, he was introducing his mentor and friend, Louis Danziger, to a group of students in a lecture room at Texas Tech University. Frank was gracious and softspoken in his introduction, and clearly [ READ MORE ]

Alan Colvin, Partner in Cue, Brand Design Company (4th in Series on Communication Design Alumni)

“He made design a profession and a creative pursuit,” explains Alan Colvin, BFA in Design Communication 1982, while discussing his most influential professor and mentor, Frank Cheatham (SoA Professor of Art, Emeritus, 1973-1998 – now deceased). Colvin is a partner in the prestigious Cue, a Brand Design Company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Reminiscing about his days [ READ MORE ]

DJ Stout, Partner in International Design Firm, Pentagram (3rd in a series on Communication Design Alumni)

The pitch is hurled, as the batter draws his bat back, ready to send the ball into the stands. The crowd roars-a big crowd of true baseball fans. This Alpine, Texas, scene could be taking place today at the Kokernot Baseball field (named for famed owner of the 06 Ranch, Herbert Kokernot who built it [ READ MORE ]

Scott Dadich, Creative Director of Wired Magazine (Communication Design Alumni Series)

Scott Dadich, BFA, Communications Design,1999,  is Creative Director of Wired Magazine. He credits SMAP (Saturday Morning Art Program), bagels, and a lack of enthusiasm for Mechanical Engineering at UT for bringing him to TTU’s SoA and helping to propel his career. Dadich’s truly meteoric assent into the publishing world is full of recognition and dazzling [ READ MORE ]

Texas Monthly's Art Editor, T.J. Tucker (First in a Series on Communication Design Alumni)

“I have great memories of Tech and Lubbock,” says T. J. Tucker, BFA, 2001, Austin, Texas. The Art Director for Texas Monthly, a legendary Texas magazine publication, explained to me that he had grown up in West Texas, attending Tech football games, and had always looked forward to coming to Tech-it was a shining beacon [ READ MORE ]

Texas Biennial 2009 Opens; School of Art Well Represented

Opening Weekend of the Texas Biennial 2009 is March 6th – 8th at multiple venues in Austin, Texas. TTU School of Art will be well represented with both Faculty and Alumin have done well getting selected into the various exhibitions. After receiving a studio visit last fall, William Cannings, associate professor of sculpture, received notice [ READ MORE ]