2016 College Report

Faculty Accolades Art and Design faculty have been recognized nationally and internationally for their creative work through commissions, grants, residencies, and exhibitions. Tey have earned accolades from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, CEC Artslink, Te Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Commission on the Arts, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (Portland), Artpace, Te Harry Ransom Center, Contemporary Austin and the American Advertising Federation. Teir scholarly work is consistently published in leading periodicals and journals. Faculty work has been published or has appeared in print in periodicals such as, Print , Communication Arts and Graphis magazines, as well as Artforum , Modern Painters , New American Paintings , and New City Art . Art Education faculty consistently hold leadership roles in the Texas Education Agency, Texas Art Education Association, and the State Board of Education. National Recognition Te MFA in Communication Design was featured in Print Magazine as one of the top 11 programs in the nation. Best Art Colleges.com has ranked Texas State University as #2 in the state, and #31 in the country (top 1.5% of over 2300 schools); the Bachelor’s degree at Texas State is #13 in the country. Student Accolades Communication Design students regularly win design awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, the American Advertising Federation’s ADDY awards, Te One Show, and the Brass Ring advertising awards. Teir designs are also consistently featured in national design publications such as CMYK , Print , Communication Design , Graphis and HOW magazines. Communication Design graduates consistently secure employment at top corporations and design frms across the region and the nation. In the last fve years, over 75 diferent design frms have hired new Texas State graduates. Students earning their BFA in Studio Art and Photography are consistently placed in MFA programs at the top graduate schools in the country, including Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Te School for the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cranbrook, Maryland Institute College of Art, Columbia University, School of Visual Arts in New York City, University of California at San Diego, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Studio Art and Art History students have been awarded top artist residencies at the widely acclaimed Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Te Vermont Studio Center, Te Meet Factory (Prague), and Seoul Artspace (Korea). Student achievements also include high-level job placement at art institutions such as Te Detroit Institute of Art, Te Art Institute of Chicago, Artpace (San Antonio), and galleries such as the internationally known Pace Gallery in New York City. Te vast majority of the school’s Art Education graduates are hired to teach in high schools and elementary schools across the state. Facilities and Exhibitions Facilities at the JC Mitte Art Building and Sabinal include state- of-the-art computer labs, sculpture, fbers, ceramics, photography, printmaking, painting, digital art, and metals facilities. Te School also houses a 3-D printer, laser cutter, and a CNC router lab. Te University Galleries provide over 5,000 square feet of exhibition space, sponsor a visiting Art & Design lecture series and present 16-20 temporary exhibitions each year that earn annual nominations from the Austin Critic’s Table Awards. Te spring 2016 exhibition Jade Walker: Four Cornered received the Austin Critic’s Table Award for best solo show. Recent exhibition artists: Jaye Rhee (NY & Seoul, Korea), Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi (Chicago), Jade Walker (Austin), Maximo Gonzalez (Mexico City), Ricardo Cuevas (Mexico City), and Katrina Moorhead (Houston). Recent visiting lecturers: Lane Reylea (critic, Chicago), Adriana Corral (artist, San Antonio), Marie Lorenz (artist, NY) Maru Calva (designer, Mexicio City), Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist (artists and activists, Philadelphia) and Peggy Awesh (flmmaker, NY). Successful Alumni Stev i e Johns ton | Visual Designer for IBM Gwen Habe rman | Lead Designer & Brand Manager, Global Marketing, London Mi chae l Menchaca | Printmaker, Instructor at Rhode Island School of Design Sus i e Gonza l ez | Painter, Featured in “13 Young Latina Artists Changing the Contemporary Art Landscape” Spence r Mi l l sap | Photojournalist and Filmmaker, White House Photo Office and National Geographic magazine Max Mar sha l l | Associate Director of Matthew Marks Gallery in NYC Nickolas Holden Students of FAC Spotlight Photography Student | Sophomore “I pretty much take my camera with me wherever I go. With photography, you never know what’s going to happen or how a picture is going to turn out, so you just have to be fexible and prepared for anything. I think photography is unique from any other form of art because you’re capturing a moment that gets frozen in time forever. Te emotions that you felt when taking a picture also get frozen in time forever, so you’ll always be able to re-experience those same feelings.” College Report 2016 | 21