Archive for the ‘ Exhibitions ’ Category
The Junction Summer Program is Texas Tech’s hidden gem which enables full-time professional arts educators to fulfill their dreams of getting Master of Art Education (MAE) degrees at their own pace. Directed by Future Akins-Tillett, Coordinator of the MAE program and associate professor in visual studies, the summer art community is focused on developing a [ READ MORE ]
Mercurial Imagination, featuring the work of Ryder Jon Piotrs collaborative members Piotr Chizinski (2007 BFA Sculpture), Ryder Richards (2001 BFA Painting), Sue Anne Rische (1994 BFA Jewelry Design & Metalsmithing) and Jonathan Whitfill (2006 MFA Sculpture) is on exhibit now at the Ira M. Taylor Memorial Gallery at Hardin Simmons University until November 13, 2009. The [ READ MORE ]
The artwork of Chris Voss (MFA candidate in painting) can be seen in an upcoming exhibition, Four Degrees of Abstraction, at the Agora Gallery, 530 W. 25th Chelsea, New York, NY 10001. 212-226-415, www.Art-Mine.com and www.Agora-Gallery.com. The reception will be at the gallery on October 8th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The show begins October 2nd and ends October [ READ MORE ]
Corey Escoto, BFA 2005 (MFA, University of Washington, St. Louis, MO), was recently featured on the Art:21 Blog . He lives and works in his studio in St. Louis, Missouri. Escoto feels his work is influenced by the city and his living-work space, located on the second floor of an old red brick building downtown-where he [ READ MORE ]
Jonathan Whitfill, MFA, invites you to LHUCA (Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts) here in Lubbock for the opening of his solo show, “Oh.” There will be an artist lecture before the opening around 5:00, Friday July 3rd. Also, Whitfill will be preforming a few pieces for the duration of the opening. The opening is from 6-9 [ 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 ]
Zach Nader, MFA candidate in Photography; Emily Schuhmann, MFA candidate in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing; and Christopher Voss, MFA candidate in Painting, have been chosen by the Rockport Center for Arts as emerging artists from Texas. During the National Youth Art Month of March, the Rising Eyes of Texas Collegiate Exhibition will honor 30 students from 14 [ 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 ]
One current student, Angelica Munoz Castano, MFA candidate in photography, and one recent alumnus, Piotr Chizinski, 2008 BFA Sculpture/Photography, have received prestigious Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Poet Housewife by Piotr Chizinski awards from the Dallas Museum of Art. The awards “recognize exceptional talent and potential in young artists.” The awards of $3,500 [ READ MORE ]