2020 College Report

school of art and des ign 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. 40 . COLLEGE REPORT 2020 F i r s t gen / N e x t gen . 41 937 - Majors - 341 - Minors - # 13 (BestArtColleges.com) UNDERGRADUATE Art and Design Programs RECENT ACCOLADES AND OPPORTUNITIES • #13 UNDERGRADUATE ART AND DESIGN PROGRAM (BestArtColleges.com) • In the last fve years, over 80 diferent design frms have hired new Texas State graduates • Studio Art and Photography undergraduates have entered MFA programs at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, School for the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cranbrook, Columbia University, and the San Francisco Art Institute • Selected by Graphic Design USA magazine as one of the TOP GRAPHIC DESIGN SCHOOLS • In 2020, over 190 National Awards from AIGA Flux, American Advertising Federation San Antonio and Graphis New Talent Annual • 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 • Recent faculty exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Tufts University Art Galleries, and the Suncheon Culture and Arts Center • #11 in Value College’s Top 25 BEST VALUE BACHELOR’S IN GRAPHIC DESIGN PROGRAMS FOR 2019 • National Science Foundation (NSF) grant jointly awarded to faculty in the School of Art and Design’s Art Education program and the College of Education RECENT GUEST ARTISTS : Natalie Bell (Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center), My Barbarian (artists, Los Angeles and New York), Wapke Feenstra (artist, the Netherlands), Jill O'Bryan (artist, New York and New Mexico), Denise Markonish (Senior Curator, MASSMoCA), Will Wilson (photographer, Santa Fe), Ed Schad (Curator, Los Angeles) ALUMNI (See also Distinguished Alumni) • REBECCA ALVARADO Smithsonian Minority Award Internship • KRISTEN DEWULF UX Design Lead, Amazon, Seattle • SARAH DODDS Two-time Grammy-winning Designer • SUSIE GONZALEZ Painter, Featured in “13 Young Latina Artists Changing the Contemporary Art Landscape” • GWEN HABERMAN Lead Designer & Brand Manager, Global Marketing, London • BRITTANY HAM Painter, featured in New American Painting • SHELLY LAY Archivist, Calder Foundation • JOHN LIV INGSTON Design Lead, IBM • MAX MARSHAL Associate Director, Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC • JACQUELINE MCGILVRAY Exhibitions/Program Coordinator, Blue Star Contemporary • MICHAEL MENCHACA Solo Exhibition, Mcnay Museum of Art San Antonio, TX • SPENCER MILLSAP Photojournalist and Filmmaker, White House Photo Ofce and National Geographic • MICHAEL VILLARREAL Painter, Art Palace gallery, recently included in Whitney Biennial project at Occupy Museums