Archive for the ‘ Arrivals/Departures ’ Category
Regis Shephard died Tuesday afternoon, July 27th, of a heart related event while at work at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, where he taught and served as Chair of the Fine Arts Department. Regis was a 1994 alumnus of Texas Tech who received his BFA in painting. While at Texas Tech he studied with [ READ MORE ]
Dr. Bill Lockhart, founding Chair of the Texas Tech Art Department in 1967, died on August 8, 2009 at the age of 83. Lockhart celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the School of Art in 2007 as the special guest of honor at the celebration where he was recognized for his singular legacy to the School [ 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 ]
Ryan Burkhart (MFA in Printmaking, 2000) has been named the new Arts Editor for the Southern Review, which is published at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress, with emphasis on contemporary literature in the United States and abroad, and with special interest [ READ MORE ]
A third floor, four room walk-up in a 13th century building with no elevator or air conditioning on a record-breaking, sweltering hot day was Gilbert Jones’s, art history major, introduction to Florence, Italy, and Richmond American International University in London – the Florence program. Jones chose to stay with a family. His hostess was an [ READ MORE ]
Rolando Shaw, MFA 2008, a Rockwall, Texas, native, recently joined the SoA staff after his spring graduation. He accepted the Woodshop Supervisor position, which opened after longtime staff member, Bob Herman, retired. Shaw worked as a graduate student assisting several summers learning from Herman, so Shaw knows his way around the shop. The many facets [ READ MORE ]