Archive for May, 2009

Mary Beth Koeth is Across the Pond at UK Hallmark

Mary Beth Koeth, BFA Communication Design 2005, has been with Hallmark since graduating from Tech.  ”It’s truly a dream place for creatives to work…so many creative resources available and so much talent under one roof!” Koeth explains. She spent two and a half years designing greeting cards at headquarters in Kansas City before making the [ READ MORE ]

SoA Alum-Where are they now? Featuring: Curtis and Cindy Ripley

Curtis Ripley, BFA 1971, (MFA University of Wisconsin) and his wife Cindy Turner Ripley, BA (MFA in painting at Virginia Commonwealth University)are both TTU grads now living in Los Angeles, California. Curtis lived in Lubbock as a boy, but hasn’t been back in a while. Curtis,a lecturer and professor for many years becoming tenured at Virginia Commonwealth [ READ MORE ]

Traveling in Texas? Jeff Wheeler Has Art for You in Lubbock, Dallas, and Houston!

  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 ]

Texas Monthly's Art Editor, T.J. Tucker (First in a Series on Communication Design Alumni)

“I have great memories of Tech and Lubbock,” says T. J. Tucker, BFA, 2001, Austin, Texas. The Art Director for Texas Monthly, a legendary Texas magazine publication, explained to me that he had grown up in West Texas, attending Tech football games, and had always looked forward to coming to Tech-it was a shining beacon [ READ MORE ]