April & May 2019 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 1 Shawn Camp Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible 15x19 2 Jef Davis redesigned the brand identity for the George & Barbara Bush Foundation 3 Jessica Mallios’ solo exhibition entitled Te Shard at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio 2 | April & May | College News ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Shawn Camp will show several paintings in the ICOSA group exhibition: Cardinal Kindreds at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. [1] Courtney Cone was awarded a Right of Return Fellowship for a project based on her on-going, video- performance series, Ain’t no Orange in Texas , working with criminal justice reform organizations/campaigns in Texas It includes a $20,000 grant and a trip to NY in May for a retreat with the other fellows and Right of Return co-chairs. Jef Davis was commissioned earlier this year to create the new brand identity for the George & Barbara Bush Foundation (G&BBF). He recently completed the redesign of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library ofcial seal to help attract a younger audience and will also be designing and facilitating the “Bold Horizons” capital campaign to help raise funds for the expansion of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library later this year. [ 2] Teri Evans-Palmer will be serving as juror for the State Visual Arts Scholastic Event all day on Friday, April 26th. Brittany Ham will be featured in a group show at Fl!ght Gallery in San Antonio in July. Te show is being curated by Audrey Le Galley, and will feature women artists who make work about girlhood and the feminine experience. Brian Johnson will be included in the the Boston Printmakers 2019 North American Print Biennial . One of Brian’s prints was selected by juror Shelley R. Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and President of the Print Council of America. Te Boston Printmakers received 1,701 entries from which 111 works were accepted for the exhibition. Te Biennial will open this September at Wellesley College. Brian was invited to participate in a curated exhibition Worlds Apart: Comix & Fantasy Infuence in Prints , to be held at Constellation Studios gallery in Lincoln, NE from April to May. Brian will show 4 to 6 prints and drawings in this small group exhibit. Te show seeks to present the link between graphic cartooning, tattoo and fantasy drawing styles that are sources for expression and distillation by contemporary printmakers today. Jules Jones’ solo show, Future Fossils , opened at the Art Museum of South East Texas in Beaumont on March 16, with a reception and artist talk on March 22. Tis show will run from March 16-June 2, 2019. MiHyun Kim will be presenting her project, Reimagine Forgotten Stories: Participatory Interactive Storytelling event at the Motion Design Educator’s Summit (MODE) in May at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. MiHyun’s mobile app project, Placed: Historical Networking Digital Platform to Collectively Archive Our History with Augmented Reality (AR) has been nominated as a fnalist at 2019 ED (European Design) Awards. Te award ceremony takes place in Warsaw, Poland during the European Design festival. MiHyun will be presenting two papers: Placed: Historical Networking Digital Platform to Collectively Archive Our History with Augmented Reality (AR) and Te Future of Design Education at the Cumulus 2019 in May at University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. MiHyun won the best of Mobile app design category from the 2019 International Horizon Interactive Awards with her mobile app project, Placed: Historical Networking Digital Platform to Collectively Archive Our History with Augmented Reality (AR). Alice J Lee , with collaborator, Ladan Bahmani, installed and opened To Decode , an exhibit of multiple interactive puzzles that play with the English, Korean, and Persian alphabets, at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Fall, South Dakota, on view in the Contemporary Gallery until July 28, 2019. Alice will be presenting her paper titled, “Translate through Interaction and Motion,” at the Motion Design Educator’s Summit (MODE) in May at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Jefrey Lieber presented his paper “Te Great Age of World Architecture” at the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference in Providence, RI, on Friday, April 26, on a panel entitled Remembering Vincent Scully. Jefrey was invited to contribute an essay about “Te Bauhaus in Cambridge and Chicago” for a book entitled Modernity and Chicago’s South Side: Architecture, Urbanism, and IIT , being edited by Michelangelo Sabatino, Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Jessica Mallios participated in a solo exhibition entitled Te Shard at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio. She gave a gallery walkthrough/ artist talk on April 4. [ 3] Kathleen McShane will participate in the group exhibition Limbic Songs with Alex Ross, Tamara Zahaykevich, Elliott Green, Julie Torres, curated by Cotter Luppi at Reales Gallery in Adams, MA from May 4th to 26th. Mark Menjivar and Jason Reed’s project Blackwell opened in Marfa, TX. Te project activates the image and oral history archives of the Blackwell School across 13 locations in Marfa. Mural size images are accompanied by audio excerpts accessible via mobile devices. A 20-page newspaper about the school is being distributed at cultural and arts institutions in the region. Te project will be installed for one year and serves as an invitation for visitors to engage with Marfa’s history and for community members to add to the existing archive housed at the historical Blackwell School site. Mark has work included in the exhibition Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfy which opened at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, KS. Soomin Remmler was invited to create a commission piece for the city of San Antonio, and the completed work went into the permanent collection of the city. Tere will be a group exhibition including this work called City of Service . Te show runs from May 23rd to September 13th, and the opening reception is at 6-9pm on the 23rd of May at Culture Commons Gallery in San Antonio. Molly Sherman was awarded a residency at Texas Woman’s University as part of the university’s Interdisciplinary Collaboration Initiative. Tis residency culminated in the launch of Learning the Land, a socially-engaged project and publication made in collaboration with students and faculty from the School of the Arts, the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Multicultural Women’s and