Archive for the ‘ Spotlight ’ Category
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 ]
On Saturday April 20th, Collin College Sculpture faculty and students successfully poured cast iron for the first time in the history of the Collin College Art Department under the direction of Sculpture Professor Luke Sides and Art Labs Coordinator Joel Kiser (2007 BFA in Sculpture from Texas Tech). This epic feat was made possible by a [ READ MORE ]
TJ Tucker is a Communication Design alumnus who has been Creative Director of Texas Monthly for a while now. He recently redesigned the entire look of the publication and was interviewed about it in a 2-part series of interviews with Neil Jamieson. Below find links to the two interviews. Tour of the Redesign, Part 1. [ READ MORE ]
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 ]
Donna Howell-Sickles was in Lubbock in late January for the opening of a retrospective exhibition of her paintings at the National Ranching Heritage Center. She graduated from Texas Tech’s School of Art in 1972. In the years following, when she had to negotiate being both an artist and a mother, she would regularly begin [ READ MORE ]
Plush mechanical toys, that find their way into the studio of Cathy McClure, are stripped of their fluffy faux pelts. Their exposed cheap plastic innards are disassembled and recreated in highly crafted metals such as silver, bronze aluminum. McClure transforms the mass-produced machine-made toy skeletons to newly handcrafted framework. The reincarnated toys often maintain their [ READ MORE ]
“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 ]