April & May 2022 College News

Abe Garcia (Communication Design ’96) was recently named the new Chief Creative Officer at Dieste LA / Dallas / NY. The company is owned by Journalism and Mass Communication Distinguished Alum Tony Dieste . #ALUMNISPOTLIGHT College of Fine Arts and Communication | 5 4 | April & May | College News Mark recently gave a talk at Baylor University as part of their Visiting Artist Lecture Series. His commissioned project "DLP: Mirror" opens on May 5th at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. The multi-channel audio installation and architectural invention is situated on Cellblock 15, the former death row of the state of Pennsylvania. The installation is open until late 2023. Mark Menjivar and Jason Reed traveled to the Washington State History Museum for a gallery talk. Their exhibition All The Sacrifices You’ve Made/Todos Los Sacrificios Que Has Hecho: A project by Borderland Collective is open until October 2022. They will also be speaking at Colgate University in upstate New York. Konnect News interviewed Soomin Remmler about her work and the solo exhibition currently showing at grayDUCK gallery in Austin. [4] Sightlines magazine featured Soomin Remmler’s solo exhibition on the line up: 11 Austin exhibitions to look at in March. Soomin has hosted a drawing material workshop provided by Strathmore for her current and former Drawing I students. The workshop was held over Zoom and led by an artist Jamee Linton. Her current solo exhibition at GrayDUCK gallery, When You Call My Name Quietly , March 26th - May 1st, was a part of FUSE Festival. Omari Souza has been invited to co-host this season of "The Design of Business | The Business of Design." The Design of Business | The Business of Design is a series from Design Observer that explores the intersections of design, business, and cultures, and how those collaborations influence society, make us who we are, and inform our decisions for a better future. Co-hosts include Dana Arnett, Kevin Bethune, and Kaleena Sales. Gina McDaniel Tarver contributed the essay “We Must Fight: Feliza Bursztyn and Colombian Women in the Arts” to Feliza Bursztyn: Welding Madness, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at the Muzeum Susch (Susch, Switzerland) from December 18, 2021, to June 26, 2022. On April 9, she was part of an online symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, with a pre-recorded lecture (also titled “We Must Fight”) and participation in a roundtable discussion. STUDENT ACCOLADES The coveted Best of Show award at the San Antonio Soomin Remmler with her work featured in Konnect News Bill Meek's Poster 4 Tomorrow workshop Jeffrey Dell (Right) at the State Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE) 4 5 6 Addys was adjudicated to Mallory Blackwell (Communication Design). This is the 4th consecutive year Texas State University gets the Best in Show award. The Graphis adjudications were recently announced, and an element from an ad created by Hope Vandiver (Communication Design) in Art Direction 1 is featured in the journal cover. SCHOOL ACCOLADES The Art of Bill Hutson at Texas State Galleries (still on view from September 14, 2021–May 17, 2022) has been featured in Lauren Moya Ford, "In San Marcos, A Homecoming for Bill Hutson," Hyperallergic (March 17, 2022). The results for the Graphis New Talent 2022 —an international design competition — are as follow: • 12 Gold awards • 42 Silver awards • 116 Honorable Mentions For 170 awards, Texas State University was the institution with the most student adjudications in Graphis New Talent this year. Texas State Galleries was awarded student service fee one-time funding requests for FY'23: one to support an exhibition of art by Con Safo group member Deacon Roberto Ríos (spring 2023), and another to support a two-year project by artist Lauren Kelley (2022–2024). In collaboration with Design for American + Unilever this summer, the State of Black Design will be partnering with Unilever around MELE Skincare, an award-winning brand developed by people of color for people of color, for a summer design program. Design for America is a social impact design organization based in Chicago and a proud supporter of SOBD. The DFA experience brings multi-disciplinary students together partnering to solve problems with the community and national partners using empathy-based human-centered design. Our next designer initiative aims to make design thinking and the industry more accessible, available, and reflective of HBCUs. The School of Art and Design’s Communication Design AIGA Chapter held a Poster 4 Tomorrow workshop called Concept is King on Friday, April 29th. The faculty that helped to facilitate the workshop were: Bill Meek , Carolyn Kilday , Jeffrey G. Davis , Grayson Lawrence , and Genaro Solis Rivero . This workshop was open to all Communication Design majors in the upper-level courses (3000–4000) and M.F.A. graduate students. Posters 4 Tomorrow is a non-profit organization with a mission to encourage people, both inside and outside of the design community, to make posters to stimulate debate on issues that affect all of us. Based in Paris, France, the organization has received 40,000 posters from more than 150 countries and hosted more than 1,000 exhibitions in five continents. The workshop mission is to research, ideate conceptual non-verbal solutions utilizing proven conceptual strategies, create designs that support the concept and produce multiple posters for global social justice topics in a 12-hour period. [5] On Friday, April 29th, the School of Art and Design invited high school students who were attending the State Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE) on Saturday, April 30th, to come and tour our school. Over eight high schools from all over Texas came to tour the J.C. Mitte Building and Sabinal Building. The visiting students were able to ask faculty and students about the different areas and projects they were working on. [6]