April & May 2020 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 2 Shawn Camp Te Notorious Engine Acrylic On Yupo 1 Elvia Perrin's print Ripple Efect that is featured in HBO's series Insecure 3 Claudia Roeschmann (top left) participating in the frst Virtual Entrepreneur Boot Camp (EBC) 2 | April & May | College News ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Shawn Camp will be included in Town and Country: 2020 Texas Painting Symposium Juried Exhibition at Te Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock which runs from April 2 - May 30. [ 1 ] On March 6th, Estéban Hinojosa led 43 Introduction to Fine Arts students on a feld trip to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss Medieval and Renaissance art and culture. Bethany Johnson's work is included in the group exhibition Path of Entry at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama. Bethany's work is also included in the forthcoming volume 10 of Revue Profane , an arts publication out of Paris, France. MiHyun Kim’s digital humanity project, Placed (title tentative) has been commissioned by Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts at Texas State University. Te project is to be developed as a part of the three-year theme, “Te Spacial Imagination” and focuses on the interrelations among, space, place, mapping, stories and the humanities. Mark Menjivar received a $5,000 project grant from the Judith Filler Foundation in support of his continued work with Texas communities. Elvia Perrin’s print Ripple Efect was featured in HBO’s series Insecure . [ 2 ] Randall Reid had a solo exhibition Times Forgotten at Nuart Gallery in Santa Fe, NM from April 10 to May 3. Soomin Remmler took part in a group online exhibition curated by Paula Owen, a chair of Southwest School of Art, at Studio Comfort Texas in Comfort, TX in April. Genaro Solis Rivero was recognized with a Gold and a Silver Addy for his agency’s self-promotional piece Drinks on US and the Classical Music Institute pro-bono website. Omari Souza was accepted to the Arts in Society Conference. Te conference will take place at the University of Western Australia on June 16-18, 2021. Gina McDaniel Tarver published ‘Te Vision to Demand Tat Which Is Good’: Alicia Barney, María Evelia Marmolejo, and the Origins of Colombian Eco-Art” in Archives of Women Artists, Research, & Exhibitions online magazine, on April 15. STUDENT ACCOLADES Art History major Alexander Flowers has been accepted to the Master’s Program in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Texas State students did it again at the San Antonio Addy Awards. Tey took home the Student Best of Show Award ( Nathaniel Loden ), one Special Judges Award ( Daniel Piedra ), 3 Golds ( Nathaniel Loden , Daniel Piedra , Jennifer Garza ), 4 Silvers ( Gabriel Salas , Haley Peters , Gretchen Lemmond , Leslie Rubio ), and 3 Bronze ( Jennifer Garza , Dana Salinas de la Garza ) Addys for their Communication Design projects. Additionally, to the 12 Addys, one student received a $1,000 Scholarship ( Chantal Lesley ). SCHOOL ACCOLADES Claudia Roeschmann ran the frst Virtual Entrepreneur Boot Camp (EBC) debuted the last weekend in April, 2020. [ 3] Te Boot Camp ofered an introduction to startup basics and entrepreneurial thinking over the course of 3 intensive days. A collaboration between the McCoy College of Business and the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the EBC provided students the opportunity to learn by doing, guided by mentors who included faculty and professional entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial workshops have been ofered on campus many times before, but the current circumstances required a creative twist. Knowing there was a great deal of interest in entrepreneurship across campus, the faculty organizing committee, made up of Claudia Roeschmann , David Cameron, and Daniel Roy, decided to take the EBC online. Te EBC started of with presentations by mentors about what an entrepreneurial mindset is and examples of the Bobcat Canvas. Created by the mentor team, the Bobcat Canvas is a streamlined version of common business development canvases. Grouped into 5 teams, the students worked together to propose potential new ventures by the end of the frst day. On the second day, armed with their team and their business idea, students were ready to begin creating their Bobcat Canvas. Mentors gave presentations about the diferent modules on the canvas and how the modules can be used to help assess the viability of a new business and its market opportunity. In between presentations, the students were given time to work with their team to craft the modules for their proposed business. Each student team prepared a 60 second video pitch describing their proposed business on the fnal day. Esteemed guest panelists, Alvaro Soto and Hank Stringer, provided valuable feedback and ofered suggestions of how each could be developed further. Even in the online environment, a great spirit of camaraderie emerged from the outset. Unexpected pop-up activities and prizes helped add an additional level of interaction and fun. Students remained interested and engaged; mentors felt that the virtual environment was very conducive to efective and efcient interchange. DOCUMERICA Margo Handwerker published “Documerica,” in Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Efects , ed. Sylvia Lavin. Montreal: CCA and Spector Books, 2020. As part of the M12 collective, Margo Handwerker received a $25,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support M12's Landlines initiative, already funded by a $20,000 Arts in Society award from the RedLine Contemporary Art Center and a $60,000 grant from the Warhol Foundation.