Archive for the ‘ School of Art Faculty ’ Category
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 ]
Dirk Fowler, Professor of Communication Design, will be the featured artist at the Lubbock Arts Festival this weekend, May 1-3 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Fowler creates his incredible artwork by hand using a printing press he bought on E-bay and is featured among 100 other artists who will also be at the festival. According to [ READ MORE ]
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 ]
Dirk Fowler, SoA Associate Professor of Communication Design, has been chosen for his outstanding teaching by current inductees of Phi Beta Kappa. On Friday, April 17, at 4 pm in the Lanier Center of the Law School, 87 students will be inducted into lifetime membership in Phi Beta Kappa and 21 outstanding faculty will be [ READ MORE ]