News & Events
Texas State Ceramics Students Honored
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May 2009 BFA graduate Sarah Huddleston has had work accepted for the national juried exhibition, "From The Ground Up XXIV," held at the Las Cruces Museum of Art in Las Cruces, New Mexico. |
Elena Velasco, BFA graduate in ceramics, was accepted for graduate study at San Diego State University, to begin this fall. In addition to her selection for the program, Elena was also awarded a graduate assistantship. |
Study Abroad in Florence!
Next Meeting: November 12th @ 5pm in room JCM 2121
General Objectives:
To introduce students and professionals to Florence and its rich culture and artistic heritage. To provide opportunities for students to express their impressions through studio and field excercises.
Four Week Program Description:
Students will have the opporutnity to work and make art "on location" within a wide range of environments, such as the historic city center, famous parks and gardens, museums, and in the Tuscan Hills and hill towns surrounding Florence.
The Program will have daily field trips to churches and museums within Florence as well as excursions to other Italian cities, including Pisa, Siena, San Gimiganono, Rome and (Optional) Venice.
The advantages of educational study in Florence are:
- The impact of the art and environment of Italy on a student's educational development
- Important exposure to major cultural cities of Western civilization
- Provides an opportunity to develop intellectual curiosity, formulate goals, use initiaive, reasoning, and analytical skills before the actual sites of historical importance.
Students will receive individual instruction and guidance from a photography instructor, drawing instructor, and an authority on Italian art history. These professionals will help to develop students' artistic skills in an environment that has stimulated artists for centuries, as well as established confidence in their abilities to study and research in a foreign country.
For More information or to sign up:
Contact Alan Pizer, Jeff Dell or Eric Weller
AIGA Flux '09 Accepts 33 Communcation Design Graduate and Undergraduate Pieces
Grauate Learner Keo Pierron receives Honerable Mention for Ponzo Sushi House Logo
Texas State Communication Design students featured in almost 20% of the total chosen entries for AIGA Flux '09.
Congratulations to all Texas State Flux '09 acceptees:
Jeremy Honea
Stephen Hurley
Sameera Kapila
Grayson Lawrence
Haley McMichael
Shawn Meek
Michele Oros
Keo Pierron
Welcome new tenure-track faculty member
Gina McDaniel, Assistant Professor, Art History
MFA Communication Design Germany Trip 2009
In May 2009 the MFA program took a group of 6 students on their first field trip to Germany. The group visited the Bauhaus in its 90th birthday year (Berlin, Weimar, and Dessau); the largest international type conference called TypoBerlin, as well as Linotype in Bad Homburg, and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen in Heidelberg. Studio tours and museum visits were part of the 12-day excursion as well; based on the success of the trip, it is likely to become an annual Mini-May semester option.
Communication Design Summer Achievements
Jennifer James completed an internship at Hatch Show Print over the Summer
Hilary Combs won "Best of Interactive" at the 5th Annual DSVC National Student Show.
CMYK magazine features Texas State Students for their Outward Bound Mixed Media Campaign:
Ethan Nguyen
Chandra Ekland
Shiloh Bailey
Jennifer James won teh 502 Alumni Group's "Best Portfolio" award
Texas State Alumna, Gretchen Bettes Exhibits at State Capital
 | Gretchen has recently been accepted in two jurried shows. The first is the Texas Museum of Fiber Arts Annual Exhibition, Big as Texas, held in the State Capitol. Gretchen had the pleasure of having two pieces chosen to be in this exhibition and one of those works won First Prize in the show. "Hand to Mouth" won first prize and "Rachel" was also in the exhibition, jurried by Dr. Mary Ruth Smith, artist and Professor of Art at Baylor University.
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Texas State Alumnus Awarded Fabrica Scholarship
Brian Row, Texas State University-San Marcos alumnus, was awarded a one-year scholarship with Fabrica. Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, is a talent incubator in which young creatives come from all over the world to develop innovative projects and explore new directions in myriad avenues of communication, from design, music and film to photography, publishing and the Internet. These artist-experimenters are accompanied along their research path by leading figures in art and communication.
Brian will start his scholarship on September 1st, 2009. Fabrica is based in Treviso, Italy.
Art & Design’s Beverly Penn presents Presidential Seminar
Originally Posted by Jayme Blaschke (edited)
University News Service
March 30, 2009
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Beverly Penn |
Beverly Penn, a professor in the Department of Art and Design at Texas State University-San Marcos, was honored by university President Denise M. Trauth at the 40th Presidential Seminar Wednesday, April 8.
Penn discussed “Second Nature: Art as Primary Experience,” during the seminar.
The Presidential Seminar represents the highest honor the university bestows upon faculty for scholarly and creative activity.
“Certainly, it is high recognition of the individual selected,” said Bill Covington. associate vice president for research and chair of the Presidential Excellence Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities Committee. “It is prestigious and applauds the accomplishments and efforts of people who are selected.”
The recent work of Penn, who specializes in metal sculpture, explores the sacrifices that accompany the advances of industrial and post-industrial times. Issues her sculptures address include escalating emissions, deforestation, compromised personal privacy and loss of identity. Employing man-made materials in ways that make them appear organic in her art, Penn explores the dichotomy between artificially constructed spaces and those that are natural.
“My work poses elements from landscape against human constructions as a means of articulating both the tragic and humorous complexities of contemporary culture,” Penn said.
Alumnus Enters Into Licensing Arrangement with Artists to Watch
Texas State Art BFA alumnus Stephanie Nance has entered into a licensing arrangement with Artists to Watch, which is publishing her Holiday 2009 greeting card. For more information on Stephanie's artwork and activities, visit her website: http://stephanienancestudio.com.
Faculty Shows and Accomplishements:
Roxana Tuff has been accepted into the 43rd Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show
Work by Randall Reid currently on exhibit at the NüArt Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Work by Jason Reed has been included in the Humble Arts Group Show #30
Brian Row has been included in Studio Visit Magazine, Volume Six
"Wilt" by Peter Arcidiacono shown at San Jacinto College South campus
Work by Brian Row, Eric Weller and Neal Wilson showing at te Simon Michael Art Gallery at Coastal Bend College
Student Foundation recognized Teri Evans-Palmer through "Foundations of Excellence"
Randall Reid and Michelle Hays publish Recontextualized: Ordered Layers