Archive for April, 2009

Dirk Fowler is Featured Artist at Lubbock Arts Festival 2009

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 ]

SoA Is Going "Green" With Donated Silver

Dr. Harold  and Mrs. Margaret Brannan of San Antonio, Texas, attended a Foundation Board Dinner this year held at the new 3D Art Annex where they met Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing Professor, Robly Glover. Many stunning student creations were on display. Dr. Brannan then asked if Glover could use some reclaimed silver in his classes [ READ MORE ]

Mark Nelson Stars in PBS's Beads, Baubles, and Jewels

Mark Nelson, MFA 1999, Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing, will star in a jewelry demonstration series coming soon to PBS. He has worked with Rio Grande for four years. (Rio Grande is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of jewelry making findings and tools in North America.) PBS and Rio Grande will offer 12 original episodes [ READ MORE ]

Piotr Chizinski's Success is International, too

   Piotr Chizinski, BFA Sculpture/Photography 2007 is rapidly becoming not just a national but an international figure with his photography on “social status.” He is a selected artist for the Guangzhou Biennial of Photography in China this May where he will exhibit and discuss his work. Still on the international scene, he will be traveling to [ READ MORE ]

SoA Students Honored by Rockport Center for Arts

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 TTU Artists selected by Mel Chin for 2009 Texas National Show

          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 ]

Castano and Chizinski Receive Kimbrough Fund Awards

  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 ]

SoA Seniors Teach High Schoolers How to Make Pinhole Cameras

Members of the SoA Photo Club hosted a two-day pinhole workshop for Frenship High School students. Thirteen students of the school’s Graphic Design teacher, Carey McNutt, 2001 BFA Design Communication, MAE, attended the workshop, which began at 9 A.M., ending at 3 P.M. on Friday, April 3, and resuming on Saturday, April 4, from 9 A.M. [ READ MORE ]

Dirk Fowler Recognized by Phi Beta Kappa as Outstanding Teacher

  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 ]

Four Students Are Selected for Arkansas Art Center's 36th annual Toys Designed by Artists show

  Jillian Cooper, Senior,BFA- Studio Art – Jewelry /Metalsmithing from Manchester, NM ; Ellen Wadsworth, Junior, BA – Art Undeclared from Irving, TX; Amy Cassidy, sophomore,BFA-Studio Art, from the Woodlands, TX; Carrie Skinner, Junior ,BA- Arts and Sciences Undeclared from Hobbs, NM, were accepted in the Arkansas Art Center’s 36th annual Toys Designed by Artists show. The juror was [ READ MORE ]