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Art JOURNEYS UT ARLINGTON ART + ART HISTORY FALL 2014
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4 Department Chair’s Letter
5 Events and Achievements
18 NASAD Accreditation Gallery
20 Undergraduate Awards
23 Tentative Spring 2015 Schedule
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Dear UTA Community and Supporters,
I am pleased to announce a highly successful
result from our recent NASAD (National Association
of Schools of Art and Design) re-accreditation
submission. The three year process supported
by the faculty, students and staff of the
Department of Art and Art History was very successful.
Support from Dean Beth Wright, Provost Ron
Elsenbaumer and President Vistasp Karbhari was
essential. The Department of Art and At History wishes
to thank all who contributed to this accomplishment.
Dean Wright stated, “Congratulations on this
magnificent acknowledgement of the excellence
of the Department of Art & Art History’s programs.
I am very pleased that NASAD has commended
your department and the University of Texas at
Arlington as well as granted full accreditation
for the MFA and re-accreditation for the BA
and BFA programs for the ten-year cycle.
This achievement is due to the efforts of many
dedicated professionals, as well as the support
of the president, provost, and dean. My warm
congratulations to you and to everyone who has
worked to achieve this wonderful result”.
With a distinguished faculty of approximately 60
artists, designers and historians and a diverse
body of over 650 undergraduate and graduate
students, we continue to educate a new generation
of artists, designers, historians and educators.
Our professionally active faculty continue to win
awards and receive high praise and recognition for
their research. In the studio and classroom the faculty
provide personal mentoring to our students. Our
faculty and students were recognized with numerous
awards, exhibitions, presentations, published articles
and creative projects on the national The National
Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD)
accredits our department, comprised of outstanding
students, faculty and staff. In addition we belong to
the New Media Consortium, College Art Association,
FATE, TASA, and various state art organizations.
Initiatives in 2013-14 included the establishment of
the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation
relationship, expanded internships, the further
enhancement of our gaming courses (see our
summer high school SEED project), and the MFA
student Summer Travel Research program. As
chair of the Department of Art and Art History, it is
very exciting to watch the growth of our programs
that have an impact on the international level.
This year’s news about our students, alums, faculty
and programs provides a glimpse into our dynamic
university! In addition, please review our website,
www.uta.edu/art, to investigate our activities and
achievements throughout the 2014-15 academic year.
Robert Hower
Art and Art History
THE Innovation Destination
won ICPF’s International Best of the Best Student
Design Presentation Competition during ICPF’s
15th annual, live interactive, Careers in Corrugated
Packaging & Display Teleconference earlier this year.
The UTA student design team qualified for the ICPF Run-
Off competition by competing against dozens of teams
from universities from across the nation last year in the
AICC student design competition. AICC-The Independent
Packaging Association and the Fibre Box Association
are co-sponsors and long-time supporters of ICPF.
Assistant Professor Ben Dolezal said the students’
work was enabled by the new design lab. “The
lab provides students with the structural design
software, materials and a computer-aided
design table to produce significant packaging
solutions for use in the marketplace,” he said.
CPF has established similar packaging design programs
within graphic design schools at top academic
institutions throughout North America. UT Arlington’s
lab, CorrPro Design + UTA, is the first institute of higher
education in Texas to offer corrugated packaging and
displays curriculum and structural design instruction.
ICPF is an independent, non-profit educational
foundation, whose mission is “to generate a stream
of increasingly qualified students to enter the
corrugated packaging and display industry, now and
into the future,” according to the group’s website.
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Members of the International Corrugated Packaging
Foundation (ICPF), The University of Texas at
Arlington, the Department of Art and Art History,
corporate partners and guests will be on-hand
Tuesday, Oct. 28, to dedicate the new Corrugated
Prototype Design and CAD Production Lab.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony, slated for 11 a.m.,
will be in the Fine Arts Building, Room 155.
The new workspace was made possible through
a major, in-kind gift of state-of-the art production
equipment and structural design software
acquired and provided through ICPF.
The packaging and design lab will integrate
corrugated and structural curriculum into the Visual
Communication program in the Department of Art and
Art History. The lab includes ICPF’s online corrugated
curricula, a Data Tech computer-aided design table
donated by ICPF corporate partner Vanguard
Packaging, and Esko-donated design software.
Robert Hower, professor and chair of the
Department of Art and Art History, said the
new partnership aligns closely with the
Department’s growth and focus on design.
“The materials and digital technology will immediately
provide significant packaging experiences and design
problem-solving opportunities for real world design
and production,” Hower said. “It is a great example
of education and industry teaming up to improve
employment opportunities for our students.”
The lab has been in use for a few semesters and has
already yielded impressive results: a team of students
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Soon after Stephen Lapthisophon moved from Chicago
to Dallas in 2007, he noticed two things. First, there
was a society photographer at a museum event.
“I thought, ‘This would never happen in Chicago,’ ”
Lapthisophon says. Then he went to an artist lecture
on a Wednesday night, and it was packed. “And I
thought, ‘This would also never happen in Chicago.’ ”
Lapthisophon saw that divide in the city as well. On
the one hand, there was the multimillion-dollar Arts
District, but just a few miles away, there were vacant
lots and odd warehouses. “Dallas has this weird
landscape,” he says. “It has this image of all of the
flash and glitter, and that is definitely there. But there
is also an odd mystery to it. I liked the opportunity that
some of those spaces offered. It is good for artists.”
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“Artist Stephen Lapthisophon has made his mark
on Dallas in more ways than one. Born in Houston,
he attended undergraduate at UT Austin and went
on to get his MFA in Chicago, where he also studied
comparative literature at Northwestern. In the early
2000s, he was looking for new opportunities to show
work and ended up in Dallas, as an artist in residence
at UTD. In 2007, having developed a close working
relationship with Nancy Whitenack at Conduit Gallery,
he made the decision to move here permanently.
In the seven years since then, he has been a
dynamic contributor to the Dallas art world. He
regularly shows at Conduit in the Design District
and helps to bring up the next generation of
artists at UT Arlington, where he teaches.
The full article can be found on the
Dallas Observer website
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Come December, everybody starts talking awards.
This past week, I couldn’t wait to hear the Golden
Globe nominations. Sure enough, Texan Richard
Linklater steered his terrific movie Boyhood to
multiple nominations, including best picture.
Last Sunday, here at the newspaper, we picked
our nominees for Texan of the Year in the arts
category. It was my pleasure to submit two favorites:
actress Margo Martindale and Rick Lowe, artist-
in-residence at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Lowe brought attention to Vickery Meadow, a Dallas
neighborhood where more than 20 languages
are spoken daily, long before the Ebola crisis
cast an international spotlight on its diversity.
In keeping with the spirit, the Meadows Museum at
Southern Methodist University last week announced
the winner of its Moss/Chumley Artist Award.
Meadows officials say the award is “given
annually to an outstanding North Texas artist
who has exhibited professionally for at least
10 years and has a proven track record as a
community advocate for the visual arts.”
This year’s winner is Darryl Lauster, an associate
professor of sculpture at the University of Texas
at Arlington and an artist who uses digital media,
printmaking, sculpture and installation.
As for Lauster’s community contributions, well,
they’re too numerous to mention in their entirety.
The highlights: He served on the city of Arlington
Sculpture Trail Committee and as a juror for the
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Article by The Dallas Morning News
Henderson Art Project. He donated his art to the MTV
Re:Define benefit for AIDS awareness at the Goss-
Michael Foundation. I like this one: He’s founder of
the Samuel Gray Society, an institute dedicated
to 18th-century American Revolution research.
The Moss/Chumley Artist Award
carries a cash prize of $2,500.
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Article by The Black Voice
“ I’d like to introduce you to the artist who has been
commissioned to design and install the Stop Six
Public Art project. That meeting is scheduled for
November 15, 2014 at 10 a.m. in the chapel of the
Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church. Sedrick
Huckaby has great presence in the Art community and
has a number of prestigious awards for his work. I
am excited about his sharing his concept with us.
When I took office in July 2013, I saw public art going
up in several districts throughout the City and always
wondered, when would we see public art in Stop Six.
We are one step closer to making that happen and
with Sedrick’s experience, the Stop Six Public Art
project is going to be eye-catching and fabulous.
Huckaby is perhaps best known for two bodies of work.
He creates “quilt paintings” as a way to celebrate
both his grandmother’s craft as well as the artistic
legacy of the African American quilting tradition. His
other works are portraits of family and friends on
a monumental scale, painted in the tradition of the
European old-masters in oil on canvas from a live sitter.
The Stop Six project will cost more than
$100,000 and Huckaby wants to share his
concept with the people of Stop Six and others
who attend the November 15h meeting.
I was excited about Huckaby being selected and I
was thrilled after learning he is a Fort Worth based
artist who graduated from O.D. Wyatt High School.
Huckaby is an Assistant Professor of Art at UT Arlington.
He was born in Fort Worth, and is inspired by his family,
his faith, and his African-American heritage. He earned
his BFA from Boston University and his MFA from Yale
University in New Haven, CT. He has received a number
of prestigious awards for his painting, including the
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Award, the Anne Giles Kimbrough Grant from the
Dallas Museum of Art, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Huckaby’s work is included in the permanent collections
of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York;
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Nasher Museum of
Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; and
the African American Museum in Dallas, among others.
Please mark your calendars now and plan to join
Huckaby, Fort Worth Public Art leaders and myself on
Saturday, November 15 at 10 a.m. in the Chapel of the
Sweet Home Baptist Church, 5225 Ramey Street, for an
informal presentation and conversation with the artist.”
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The Art + Art History Department hosted an
event on Saturday November 8th 2014, for
community college students from the Tarrant,
Dallas and Collin Counties for a range of hands-
on workshops throughout the department.
Workshops were offered in the areas of Glass, Film/
Video, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Foundry,
Gaming and Visual Communication. Taught by UTA
faculty and graduate students, these workshops were
designed to provide new experiences in art making
while showcasing the expansive facilities at UTA.
The Find Your Space event featured some
workshops from faculty and graduate students
such as (but not limited to): Letterpress, Bronze
Pouring, Game Development, Studio Lighting/
Portraiture, Glassblowing, Branding and Direction.
The event was a success, the department hosted over
100 visitors to our campus; the day of workshops was
free and also included a free lunch for participants.
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BAC K TO BAS I C S“During the summer, local high school students
came to UTA for a two-week workshop called SEED9,
where the students collaborated with faculty and
college students to bring a mobile video game to
life. They called the end product Lazers In Space, a
space shooter inspired and designed as an homage
of the arcade video game Space Invaders.
“In the workshop, we make concept art, and they
actually model out the characters,” said Joshua Wilson,
art graduate teaching assistant. “They got to choose
how it actually worked. They dictated what each little
enemy would do.” Wilson, who was the assistant on
the SEED project in previous summers, was the head
instructor and director of this summer’s workshop.
Wilson said he specifically chose Lazers In Space
as the summer project because of its simplicity.”
Article by UTA Shorthorn
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Photography and Printmaking alumna Lindsey Brown is the creator
and editor of Dinnertime Magazine, scheduled for release in
December.
Dinnertime is an art publication that brings artist together by
featuring content that creates
conversations, highlights process, and provides both a resource and an
outlet for creative professionals and artists alike.
For more information about the magazine, please visit
dinnertimemag.com
In November, the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA) awarded
Dr. Alexander with their Outstanding Art Educator Higher Education
award. The award is given in recognition for providing quality art
education, advocating for the arts, and providing evidence of ongoing
achievements in art programs throughout Texas. The award was
given to Dr. Alexander during the TAEA conference in San Antonio, on
November 7, 2014.
TAEA’s mission is to promote visual arts education as an integral part
of the curriculum through professional development of knowledge
and skills, representation of the art educators of Texas, service and
leadership opportunities, and research and development of policies
and decisions relative to practices and directions in visual arts
education in Texas.
Pictured with Dr. Alexander are Tim Lowke, President of TAEA and
Sara Chapman, Executive Director and the National Art Education
Association Liaison.
http://www.taea.org/TAEA/default.asp
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come to UTA when she visits the Menil Museum in
Houston, for her solo exhibition coming up in 2017.
My residency was an incredible opportunity to work
with several international artists, and concluded with
a solo exhibition, titled Décadence. It was very well
received, and developed more opportunities for me. The
Museum Kunstpalast, in Dusseldorf, Germany acquired
one of my artworks for their permanent collection.
It has one of Europe’s largest glass collections. I had
a very long conversation with the curator who also
gave me a private tour of the museum while it was
closed, and I was able to spend some significant
time with some of the hidden Joseph Beuys works.
He taught just down the street at the art academy.
During my exhibition I also met several directors
of the Bild-Werk glass studio located in Frauenau,
Germany who requested I submit a proposal to
teach a one month class in the summer of 2015.
My residency ended with a trip to Hamburg,
Germany where I was invited as a speaker to
present my artwork, research, and methodology
at the EHSM annual conference, which was held
at DESY, the 2nd largest particle accelerator in
Europe. My presentation was intermixed with
science innovations, and DIY developments, and
have already been offered an opportunity to return
next year to share my latest developments.
Other key notes of time there, include connecting
with the Chair of the art department from ANU
(the Australian National university) and the head of
the glass/ 3d areas from ANU about an exchange
program between the two institutions, which we
are still discussing and drafting potentials.
I also have begun to develop a type of residency/
internship through Berlin Glas e.V. for UTA glass students
to get professional and International Experience.”
Justin Ginsberg, visiting assistant professor and
glass area coordinator shares his experiences in
Germany during recent exhibitions and a residency.
“This really started with a scholarship I received to
attend the Pilchuck Glass school in the summer of
2013. During my time there I was able to connect with
Nadania Idriss, founder and director of Berlin Glas e.V.,
a new non-profit glass studio in Berlin, Germany. After
discussing my curatorial experience, she invited me to
curate an exhibition, which would be held in December
of 2013. Many of the artists had an affiliation with UTA.
I received support from the university to travel to
Berlin, to install the exhibition, and be present during
the opening, which included a performance from a
Belgium artist, Philipp Weber. During my time there I
made a strong connection with this artist. During the
opening, I also made a connection with Sébastien
Bourdeauducq, a Scientist, and founder of EHSM
(Experimental Hardware Software Meeting), a group
dedicated to development in science, and DIY processes.
These connections created many opportunities for
me in Berlin. With further support from the University
(Through the McDowell Center grant, and further
support from the Art + Art History Dept.) I was accepted
to conduct a 5 week residency with a solo exhibition.
During my first week of my residency, I supported
Philipp Weber and his performance titled Estrange
symphony for the DMY International Design Fair. I also
participated in collaborative demonstrations for the
attendees of the conference with Irish artist Jesse
Günther. It was a wonderful opportunity for exposure.
During that week I also had the pleasure of helping
create works for Mona Hatoum, an incredibly well
known and influential artist who is represented at the
Tate Modern in London, as well as several biennale,
including the Venice biennale. It was a wonderful
opportunity and I am in discussions with her to
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E XC E L L E N C E Professor Nancy Palmeri was elected as the MidAmerican Print
Council Chairperson for a two-year term. The Mid America
Print Council is a national organization whose goal it is to
promote awareness and appreciation of the art of making
original prints, books, hand-made paper, and drawings.
The MAPC is a resource to educational and non-
profit organizations, universities, and the public at
large, providing for the exchange of technical and
critical information on the art of printmaking.
These goals are furthered through conferences and
workshops; through the organization, display, and circulation
of exhibitions of original prints, books, hand-made paper,
and drawings; through newsletters, and journal articles;
through awards given to those deserving special recognition
for lifetime contribution to printmaking; and through
research, study, and general enjoyment of the arts.
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E XC E L L E N C E“What if an artist got to choose the works hung on the walls in
museums? At the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort
Worth, assistant curator Maggie Adler teamed up with artist
Benito Huerta for an unusual exhibition. Huerta sifted through
the Amon Carter’s collection to choose pieces that spoke to him.
Meantime Adler visited Huerta in his studio and home to select
works from throughout his career. Their picks make up the show,
called Fresh Perspectives: Benito Huerta and the Collection.
Getting a living artist’s take on the Amon Carter’s historic
paintings gives those works a new twist, says Adler.
And showing Huerta’s contemporary political work near
pieces like a watercolor landscape from the 1800s makes
viewers think more deeply about Huerta’s technique.”
Article by Art and Seek
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N A S A D A C C R E D I T A T I O NG A L L E R Y
From the Department Chair: “I am pleased to announce a highly
successful result from our recent NASAD (National Association of
Schools of Art and Design) re-accreditation submission. The three
year process supported by the faculty, students and staff of the
Department of Art and Art History was very successful.
Support from Dean Beth Wright, Provost Ron Elsenbaumer
and President Vistasp Karbhari was essential. The
Department of Art and At History wishes to thank
all who contributed to this accomplishment.”
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M FA M A K I N G WAV E SMorgan Chivers has been interviewed and published in Peripheral
ARTeries, the link to the digital publication can be found at
http://issuu.com/artpress/docs/peripheral_
arteries_art_review_-_se.
An excerpt about Morgan from the interview:
“Morgan Chivers graduated from San Jose State
University (2011) after spending a full decade earning
four simultaneously conferred degrees and five minors:
BA History, BA Global Studies, BFA photography and BFA
Spatial Arts, with minors in Anthropology, Music, Religious
Studies, German and Environmental Studies. He is a
current graduate student at the University of Texas at
Arlington, pursuing an MFA in Glass & Intermedia.
Morgan has rapidly built an extensive exhibition record, with
shows throughout the United States and internationally. His work
has been selected for 32 juried exhibitions in the last 18 months,
receiving 1st place honors from the Carnegie Arts Center’s
“Imagining the Real” exhibition, the ArtBUZZ publication, and the
Glass Arts Society’s International Student Exhibition Catalogue.”
Article Excerpt by Perihperal Arteries
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The James S. Barnett, Jr. Foundation was established in
1998 by Kyong Ju, Jesse and Mia Barnett as a memorial
to their late husband and father, James S. Barnett, Jr.
Barnett was a helicopter ambulance pilot who lost his
life trying to save the victim of a car accident in 1993.
The foundation is a non-profit charitable organization
dedicated to enhancing the lives of people through
religion, arts, education, science, and collaborative
community projects.
Each semester the senior photo faculty recognizes a
continuing photography major who shows the most
promise or who has realized a significant body of
work. The scholarship is meant to help further their
development as an artist and as a photographer.
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The Department of Art and Art History is proud to
announce the Outstanding Senior Award winners for our
Fall 2014 graduating classes. Each semester the faculty
has an opportunity to nominate a graduating senior for
the Outstanding Senior Award in each of the areas of
concentration.
Art Education: Rachel Herod
Art History: Haylie Ballentine
Drawing: Kevin Bradford
Film/Video: Malina R. Miller
Photography: Holly Martinez
Painting: Jessica Michael
Printmaking: Eugene Sarmiento
Visual Communication: Karolina Bebak &
Alexander Reyher
Sculpture: Hector Ramirez
Photography: John Crouch, Westley Harwart & Ivan Lopez
Lindsay Barker
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S C H E D U L E F O RS P R I N G 2 0 1 5This fall saw many great events happening in our department such
as the Find Your Space Community College event, many great
visiting artists and lecturers, and the BFA and BA senior exhibitions.
The department is working tirelessly to make Spring 2015 a great
semester; the annual Glass Sale, High School-Find Your Space Classes,
and Visiting Artist Janin Antoni.
These are just a few, more are listed below:
Artist Talk Gyorgy Beck & Sylvia Plachy
Thursday, January 29
12:30pm - 1:30pm
FA 148
Gallery Reception Gyorgy Beck & Sylvia Plachy
Friday, January 30
5:30pm - 8pm
FA 148
Artist Talk Vincent Ramos
Installation
Exhibition Schedule for Conduit
Gallery
Lecture Vincent Ramos
Thursday, February 19
Artist Talk Megan Gould
Monday, March 16
FA 148
MFA Open Studio Event
Wednesday, March 18
2pm - 5pm
MFA Thesis Exhibtion
Monday, April 13 - 16
Reception MFA Thesis Expo
5pm - 7pm
Janine Antoni
Monday, April 27
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