2018 College Report

SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN ABOUT US With nearly 1000 majors, Texas State’s School of Art and Design is one of the largest schools for the visual arts in the country. Te School ofers undergraduate degrees in Communication Design, Studio Art, Photography, Art Education, and Art History, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Communication Design. Art and Design students come primarily from Texas, but their achievements spread well beyond the state. Housed in the Joann Cole Mitte and Sabinal buildings, our students invest holistically in their own education, providing a model for other regional and national art programs. Supporting this endeavor are the more than 80 diverse faculty members dedicated to fostering conceptual and technical abilities necessary for artistic expression. OPPORTUNITIES AND ACCOLADES  #13 UNDERGRADUATE ART AND DESIGN PROGRAM (BestArtColleges.com)  Selected by Graphic Design USA magazine as one of the 2018 Top Graphic Design Schools  NEARLY 100% PLACEMENT OF ART EDUCATION MAJORS  In the last fve years, over 75 diferent design frms have hired new Texas State graduates  Studio Art and Photography undergraduates have entered M.F.A. programs at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cranbrook, Columbia University, and the San Francisco Art Institute  M.F.A. in Communication Design one of eleven schools featured in Print magazine  Student designs featured in CMYK , Print , Communication Arts , Graphis , Graphic Design USA , and HOW magazines  119 NATIONAL 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  Recent Artist Residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Vermont Studio Center, the Meet Factory (Prague), and Seoul Art Space (Korea)  Alums work at art institutions such as the Detroit Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Artpace (San Antonio), and Pace Gallery in New York City ALUMNI (See also Distinguished Alumni) REBECCA ALVARADO Smithsonian Minority Award Internship SARAH DODDS Two-time Grammy-winning Designer REBEKA FRANK Metals Artist, Recent Exhibits in Amsterdam, Finland, and Montreal SUSIE GONZALEZ Painter, Featured in “13 Young Latina Artists Changing the Contemporary Art Landscape” GWEN HABERMAN Lead Designer & Brand Manager, Global Marketing, London CHRISTINA PATINO SUKHGIAN HOULE Painter, M.F.A. Columbia University, Rio Grande Valley Creative Placemaking Fellow STEVIE JOHNSTON Visual Designer for IBM SHELLY LAY Archivist, Calder Foundation MAX MARSHAL Associate Director, Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC JACQUELINE MCGILVRAY Exhibitions and Program Coordinator, Blue Star Contemporary SPENCER MILLSAP RECENT GUEST ARTISTS: Photojournalist and Filmmaker, White House Photo Ofce and National Geographic Robyn O’Neil (featured in Whitney Biennial ), David Bate MICHAEL VILLARREAL (London Photographer), Mario Ybarra Jr. (featured in Painter, Art Palace gallery, recently included in Whitney Biennial ), Maru Calva (graphic designer based in Whitney Biennial project at Occupy Museums Mexico City), Suzanne Opton (Guggenheim Fellowship) COLLEGE REPORT 2018 | 27