Archive for June, 2009
Scott Dadich, BFA, Communications Design,1999, is Creative Director of Wired Magazine. He credits SMAP (Saturday Morning Art Program), bagels, and a lack of enthusiasm for Mechanical Engineering at UT for bringing him to TTU’s SoA and helping to propel his career. Dadich’s truly meteoric assent into the publishing world is full of recognition and dazzling [ 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 ]
We started our trek from Lubbock to Junction, Texas, Jon Harp, Assistant to the Director for Branding and Marketing Communications (also our main photographer), and I to join the artists and alumni at Alumni Weekend at Junction last weekend. About five hours later, we arrived. Future Akins-Tillett, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Coordinator of the [ READ MORE ]
Scott Thurman 2007 BFA Photography-digital option will have his documentary film titled “Smokey”screened during the Los Angeles Film Festival June 18-28. It is one of seven short films selected by the Houston Film Commission as part of the Texas Filmmakers’ Showcase at the LA Film Festival. In addition, the Houston Film Commission is flying Thurman [ READ MORE ]
Frances Colpitt , TCU Art History Professor, reviewing the Austin Texas Biennial Multiple Venues in the publication Art in America describes Canning’s work as follows. ”To provide more in depth exposure, one artist was chosen to have a solo exhibition, each at a different venue. The most engaging for this viewer was William Cannings at Okay Mountain. He [ READ MORE ]
The School of Art appreciates donations — whether it is recycled silver, a kiln, assorted art materials, and/or money! Today we thank the General Manager of Barnes and Noble College Booksellers John Creed for his generous gift of art materials which we will provide to some of our needy students this summer and in the fall semester[ READ MORE ]
Alumni weekend at Junction is next weekend, June 12-14. To start the weekend off, there will be a gathering of artists and art educators for a “Conversation in Leadership” (Saturday, June 12th from 1-5 PM). The participants of this conversation currently include: Rebecca Riley, TTU SOA alumna and currently Vice President for Student Services at [ READ MORE ]
Not only will Iylana Putnam’s, (senior in Communication Design) art be on display all over Texas, but she wins a scholarship, too! Putnam recently won a poster contest concerning an alcohol awareness campaign sponsored by the Texas Hospitality Association. The poster was selected by the offices of the 150 members of the Texas House of Representatives as the 2009 [ READ MORE ]