2021-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. The school offers 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. RECENT ACCOLADES • # 11 in Value College’s (2019) BEST VALUE BACHELOR’S IN GRAPHIC DESIGN programs • # 13 UNDERGRADUATE ART AND DESIGN PROGRAM ( BestArtColleges.com, 2015 ) • Selected by Graphic Design USA magazine as one of the TOP GRAPHIC DESIGN SCHOOLS • In the last five years, OVER 80 DESIGN FIRMS have hired new Texas State graduates • Studio Art and Photography undergraduates entered MFA programs at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, School for the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cranbrook, and the San Francisco Art Institute • Faculty earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and the State of Texas 3D Visual Artist of the Year • In 2020–21, STUDENTS WON OVER 430 NATIONAL AND REGIONAL AWARDS from AIGA Flux, American Advertising Federation San Antonio, Graphis New Talent Annual, LogoLounge and National Student Show and Conference • Students featured in CMYK , Print , Communication Arts , Graphis , Graphic Design USA , and HOW magazines • Photography undergraduates have exhibited books and photographic works at Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, Sculpture Center, Houston Center for Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, Art Museum of South Texas, and The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art • 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, the Suncheon Culture and Arts Center, the Plains Art Museum, and the Ent Center for the Arts RECENT GUEST ART I STS Christopher Blay (news editor, Glasstire Magazine), Ronald Rael (architect, California and Colorado), Will Wilson (photographer, Santa Fe), Cyrus Highsmith (designer, Occupant Fonts), MGMT. design (graphic designers, New York), Thick Press (publisher, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.) FOR MORE I NFO, V I S I T: finearts.txstate.edu/art 38 ■ C O L L E G E R E P O R T 2 0 2 1 ALUMN I *See also Distinguished Alumni • 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 • CHRISTINA HOULE Co-Founder and Co-Director, Las Imaginistas, Brownsville, TX • SHELLY LAY Archivist, Calder Foundation • JOHN LIVINGSTON 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 Office and National Geographic • AMANDA THOMAS Graphic Designer, The Menil Collection ■ 39