Archive for August, 2009

Carol Flueckiger Travels to Worcester, MA
(First in a series on summer faculty research)

Carol Flueckiger, Associate Professor in Art, was awarded a Creative Artist Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, a research library in Worcester, Massachusetts,  which houses collections from colonial times through the civil war and reconstruction. Her task was to gather imagery with the intent to blueprint vintage graphics and historic handwriting into paintings. Flueckiger focused on [ READ MORE ]

New Kilns Are A Welcome Sight for Ceramic Students and Faculty

New Gel kilns have been installed on the kiln yard-without mishap, too! Ceramics Associate Professors Juan Granados was relieved the walls were still standing. Associate Professor Von Venhuizen  and  he will start the year off with new equipment and a new facility since the move into the 3D Art Annex.  Granados and Venhuizen offer thanks [ READ MORE ]

Remembering a Mentor by Alan Colvin

Alan Colvin on Frank Cheatham a speech read at the Dallas Society of Visual Communications honoring Cheatham The first time I saw Frank, he was introducing his mentor and friend, Louis Danziger, to a group of students in a lecture room at Texas Tech University. Frank was gracious and softspoken in his introduction, and clearly [ READ MORE ]

Alan Colvin, Partner in Cue, Brand Design Company (4th in Series on Communication Design Alumni)

“He made design a profession and a creative pursuit,” explains Alan Colvin, BFA in Design Communication 1982, while discussing his most influential professor and mentor, Frank Cheatham (SoA Professor of Art, Emeritus, 1973-1998 – now deceased). Colvin is a partner in the prestigious Cue, a Brand Design Company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Reminiscing about his days [ READ MORE ]

Founding Chair of Art Department Dies

Dr. Bill Lockhart, founding Chair of the Texas Tech Art Department in 1967, died on August 8, 2009 at the age of 83. Lockhart celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the School of Art in 2007 as the special guest of honor at the celebration where he was recognized for his singular legacy to the School [ READ MORE ]