Archive for the ‘ School of Art Faculty ’ Category
David Dubose (1986 BFA Printmaking and Drawing, MFA from Louisiana State University) is a favorite printmaker in the Taking Home With You exhibition at the Belfast Print Workshop Gallery through mid-February. In this exhibition, Dubose is joined by School of Art faculty Sang-Mi Yoo, associate professor in Foundations, and Stacy Elko, associate professor in printmaking, [ READ MORE ]
Shannon Cannings, adjunct instructor at School of Art and one of only two Texas artists west of I-35 to be curated into the 2011 Texas Biennial, will be in a two- person show, with Ann Wood, at the Anya Tish Gallery in Houston. Cannings has the following to say about her recent work: As an [ READ MORE ]
Steve Reynolds (1940-2007) served on the Texas Tech School of Art faculty from 1971 – 1976 before moving over to the art faculty of the University of Texas as San Antonio where he served until 2005. A retrospective exhibition of his sculpture titled, STEVE REYNOLDS: Serial Investigations in Sculpture, has been curated by Catherine Lee [ READ MORE ]
Associate Professor Carla Tedeschi (Communication Design and Program Coordinator) and Professor Terry Morrow (Painting and Drawing) each recently received Outstanding Faculty Recognition Awards given by the Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa honors organizations. They were honored at a reception in Merket Alumni Center for their exemplary classroom instruction, style, and accessibility to students with this [ READ MORE ]
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 ]
Carol Flueckiger, Associate Professor in Art, was awarded a Creative Artist Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, a research library in Worcester, Massachusetts, which houses collections from colonial times through the civil war and reconstruction. Her task was to gather imagery with the intent to blueprint vintage graphics and historic handwriting into paintings. Flueckiger focused on [ READ MORE ]
Former School of Art Director, Professor Todd DeVriese, has left TTU’S SoA to become Dean of the Department of Art at St. Cloud University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. As we began the search for a new director, CVPA Dean Carol Edwards announced last week that Professor Tina Fuentes, (BFA and MFA, North Texas State University) the Associate Director and a [ READ MORE ]
Frances Colpitt , TCU Art History Professor, reviewing the Austin Texas Biennial Multiple Venues in the publication Art in America describes Canning’s work as follows. ”To provide more in depth exposure, one artist was chosen to have a solo exhibition, each at a different venue. The most engaging for this viewer was William Cannings at Okay Mountain. He [ READ MORE ]
Alumni weekend at Junction is next weekend, June 12-14. To start the weekend off, there will be a gathering of artists and art educators for a “Conversation in Leadership” (Saturday, June 12th from 1-5 PM). The participants of this conversation currently include: Rebecca Riley, TTU SOA alumna and currently Vice President for Student Services at [ READ MORE ]
Adjunct Instructor Jeff Wheeler MFA has been on the road hanging shows in three Texas towns. He invites “y’all come” if you are there or traveling there! One is in Lubbock at The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts His exhibit FRANKLIN ACKERLEY: NEW WORK AND SELECTIONS FROM HIS COLLECTION,will hang from May 8th-June [ READ MORE ]