April May 2023 College News

The show is titled Dwellings and is from April 15th - June 4th. Margo Handwerker is included in the M12 Studio exhibition Going With The Flow: Art, Actions, And Western Waters , curated by Brandee Caoba and Lucy R. Lippard, at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico (April 14–July 31, 2023). On April 15th, M12 Studio gave an artist talk as part of the opening weekend's events. Estéban Hinojosa led students from his Introduction to Fine Arts classes on a fieldtrip to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to discuss Renaissance and Early Modern, and Baroque Painting. [2] Estéban was recognized by the College Selection Committee for the Presidential Excellence Awards in Teaching with the Department Achievement Award. He led students from his Art History I class on a field trip to the Blanton Museum of Art to discuss ancient Greek ceramics and sculpture. Liz Rodda has a two-person show (with Steve Evans) at Jonathan Hopson Gallery in Houston. On view: Feb 26th – May 28th. Alice J. Lee was invited and served as a Visiting Artist at the University of Houston. Jeffrey Liber gave a public lecture at the Kunsthalle in Bielefeld, on April 22nd. The only museum building designed by Philip Johnson in Europe, it opened in 1968, and will soon undergo a renovation and expansion. As part of the process of investigating the museum’s history and status as a late modernist landmark, Director Christina Végh invited Lieber to speak about his work on Johnson and to bring "a new way of looking" to the discussion. The lecture surveyed Johnon’s architecture and writings of the 1950s and 1960s and considered the relationship of his politics to his often-controversial pronouncements about beauty and history. Mark Menjivar presented at Imagining Abolitionist Futures , a 2-day symposium at Haverford College. This symposium gathered scholars, artists, activists, and educators who share a common goal of ending the direct and indirect violence mass incarceration inflicts every day, especially on our most vulnerable communities. Mark Menjivar led a virtual workshop titled Activating Oral History for the Oral History Association. Since 1966, the Oral History Association has served as the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of oral history. He was on the panel Social Practice & Social Justice Arts in San Antonio at the 2023 National Art Education Association conference in San Antonio. He was also on the panel Radio Esperanza and the Power of Community Radio at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio. The talk was moderated by Maria Martín, founder of NPR’s Latino USA. He was part of the roundtable discussion Music in Prisons: The Pandemic and Beyond at the 2023 Pop Conference presented by The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Pop Conference is the premiere annual music writing and pop music studies conference featuring the world's leading scholars, journalists, writers, and musicians as they present papers, roundtables, discussions, and performances about popular music. Mark Menjivar has work in the exhibition Voices from Death Row at Lincoln College, Oxford. The exhibition features work from individuals currently on death row from across the world and was organized by The Death Penalty Project in partnership with The Death Penalty Research Unit at the University of Oxford. Claudia Roeschmann submitted and received a $10,000 grant from the YMCA of the USA to work on a Youth-Led Solutions: Climate Action project in support of the Hays County Food Bank San Marcos with a Texas State University Honors College student over the summer and fall 2023 semester. College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3