2022 College Report

- ” - ” 38 39 ART AND DESIGN Recent Accolades 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 • #11 in Value College’s BEST VALUE BACHELOR’S • Student designs featured in CMYK , Print , Education, and Art History, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Communication Design. Art and Design students in Graphic Design programs (2019) Communication Arts , Graphis , Graphic Design USA , come primarily from Texas, but their achievements spread well beyond the state. Housed in the Joann Cole Mitte and HOW magazines. and Sabinal buildings, our students invest holistically in their own education, providing a model for other regional • # 13 UNDERGRADUATE ART AND DESIGN and national art programs. Supporting this endeavor are the more than 80 diverse faculty members dedicated to • Photography undergraduates have exhibited PROGRAM ( BestArtColleges.com 2015) fostering conceptual and technical abilities necessary for artistic expression. books and works at Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, Sculpture Center, Houston Center for Photography, • Undergraduates have entered graduate programs Humble Arts Foundation, Art Museum of South at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, School for Texas, and The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cranbrook, Ithaca RECENT ALUMNI: RECENT GUEST ARTISTS: • Selected by Graphic Design USA magazine as one of University, the San Francisco Art Institute, University (See also Distinguished Alumni) the TOP GRAPHIC DESIGN SCHOOLS of Colorado, University of Southern California, University of Texas, and Louisiana State University Christopher Blay (News Editor, • Kristen DeWulf , UX Design Lead, • In the last five years, NEARLY 100 DESIGN FIRMS Glasstire Magazine), Ronald Rael Amazon, Seattle have hired Texas State graduates • In 2022, students win a NATION-BEST 170 AWARDS (Architect, California and Colorado), at the Graphis New Talent Annual • Sarah Dodds , Two-time Grammy winning Will Wilson (Photographer, Santa • Recent faculty exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges CHRISTOPHER Fe), Cyrus Highsmith (Designer, Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Designer • Faculty have earned a National Science Foundation BLAY Arts Houston, the Massachusetts Museum of Occupant Fonts), MGMT. design grant, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Contemporary Art, Tufts University Art Galleries, the • Abe Garcia , Chief Creative Officer, Dieste (Graphic Designers, New York), and a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol News Editor Suncheon Culture and Arts Center, the Plains Art Foundation grant, and the State of Texas 3D Visual Thick Press (Publisher, Los Angeles Glasstire Museum, and the Ent Center for the Arts • Susie Gonzalez , Painter, Featured in Artist of the Year and Washington D.C.). Magazine “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 of Matthew Marks Gallery in NYC • Jacqueline McGilvray , Exhibitions/ Program Coordinator, Blue Star Contemporary • Michael Menchaca , Mellon Foundation “15 most compelling Latinx artists working today • Spencer Millsap , Photojournalist and Filmmaker, White House Photo Office and National Geographic • Amanda Thomas , Graphic Designer, The Menil Collection