Archive for October, 2008
Since its implementation in 2000 by Rick Dingus, professor of photography, the Millennial Collection has grown to include more than 1,500 works of photography, artist books and digital video documentaries, by TTU student artists as well as professional artists from around the Southwest. For an in-depth story about the Millennial Collection, click here. Next month, [ READ MORE ]
Why is it that I came down to Texas from Ohio and stayed, while most of my friends from TTU who were Texans left and went up North? I live in Staple, TX just outside of San Marcos with my wife Betsy (Bryant) Roof (BFA advertising 1973 TTU). We own the General Store Furniture Solutions in [ READ MORE ]
Since receiving my MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2007), I was selected as one of three artists to take part in the Great Rivers Biennial at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and was a recipient of a Gateway Foundation Grant ($20,000). Having just had my graduate art show prior to that announcement, I [ READ MORE ]
In January, my wife, Sarah (Schabacker) Burkhart (TTU Alumni 1997) and I decided it was time to take the next step in both of our careers and to seek out new opportunities. This past June, Sarah moved to Charlotte, NC ahead of me and joined Source Technologies, where she is the Director of Marketing. She [ READ MORE ]
Susan Budge (1982 BFA Ceramics) now an Associate Professor of Art and Head of Ceramics and Art Metals at San Antonio College, gives TTU a big THANK YOU! She explains, “I owe a great deal of the success of my career to the support, encouragement and education I received through the Art Department at Texas [ READ MORE ]
Gaines Clore Wynn, (BS, TTU; MFA, Arizona State) exclaims, “Thanks, this is a great idea!” talking about the School of Art’s Alum Blog. A 1968 graduate, she remembers fondly “my years at Texas Tech when I was an art major, but was also in WSO and Mortar Board.” (She was known then as Mary Ann [ READ MORE ]
Professor Rob Glover has completely moved the Jewelry Design & Metalsmithing program into the new 3-D Art Annex, a remodeled and transformed warehouse, on the north part of the TTU campus across from the Aquatic Center. ”Former students would really appreciate the layout, the great soldering area where 12 students can work safely and productively at once. [ READ MORE ]
That’s right – Marie Weichman left Texas this summer and moved to the Pacific Northwest for the second time in twenty years. Since graduating in 2000 (MFA Ceramics) I have spent the last eight years of living the gypsy life and teaching part-time time at various colleges and universities, (well, okay… there was a year of [ READ MORE ]
School of Art alumni Ryder Richards (2001 BFA Painting + Drawing), Jonathan Whitfill (2006 MFA Sculpture) and Piotr Chizinski (2006 BFA Sculpture), all currently living in Lubbock, have joined forces to mastermind a mobile art gallery known as the Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery which has appeared in Marfa, Houston, San Angelo, Wichita Falls, and [ READ MORE ]
Vermont is an amazing place to visit in the fall. It’s even cooler when you live here. If you’ve never experienced autumn in New England, just imagine God dumping Fruity Pebbles on New Mexico… and that’s about as close an approximation as I can give you. The landscape is Martian, and inhibits obsessive compulsive artist’s [ READ MORE ]