College-News-September-2021

4 Liz Rodda is serving on a review panel for Blue Star Contemporary 5 Erina Duganne’s essay “Tere was no record of her smile: Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto” 6 Mark Menjivar has work installed in Bartlett, TX titled KBART 4 | September | College News Johnson Space Center. Jacobs Engineering is the prime subcontractor for the program and employed two undergraduate photography students selected to work in Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, or ARES. Te division combines scientifc and engineering expertise to advance human space exploration, integrate terrestrial and planetary research, and promote successful space missions by mitigating risk. Specifcally, the students worked with a digital platform to generate imagery for a virtual library exploring and researching NASA's space rock collections. Te archive the students are working on is here: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/astromaterials3d/. Mark Menjivar received a 2-year grant from the Area Foundation/Up Partnership/Blue Meridian in support of A Monument for the People, an on-going project working with young people in San Antonio to create new monuments for the community. Mark Menjivar [6] has work installed in Bartlett, TX as part of the Bartlett Project in partnership with ICOSA. His project, KBART , is a low-power radio station flled with voices from Bartlett, TX, ranging from age 9 to 92. Tese voices include: 8 oral history interviews done at the Will-O-Bell Nursing home; oral activations of 9 historical markers in town; 8 readings from the 100+ year local newspaper archive; 2 oral history interviews about the history of the newspaper; and a 4-minute audio piece made in collaboration with 20 students from the Bartlett School District. Luna, Co-founder and Exhibitions Curator of the Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, selected 48 artists from 208 that submitted work for the 2020 exhibition. Te complete list of accepted works along with a short video is available on the K Space Contemporary website. Maria Guzmán Capron's Olas Malcriadas THE TEXAS STATE STUDENT GALLERIES OLAS MALCRIADAS Maria Guzmán Capron's COYOTE BALLAD Carissa Samaniego's AUGUST 23 - NOVEMBER 12 In Olas Malcriadas (loosely translated as “naughty waves”) Guzmán Capron uses an unspoken material language to construct a collection of unique personas, each one an irreverent bearer of emotions. Te fgures are not illustrations, but rather constitutive bodies embedded with signifcance that, through their individual and collective assembly, speak of new and fuid identities. Coyote Ballad centers the experience of having a culturally, racially, and geographically mixed identity, rooted contextually in the United States. Artist Carissa Samaniego weaves an assemblage of found materials, personal items, and handmade objects. Together, the symbolism in these materials and forms create a non-linear, autobiographical narrative, one that provides a metaphor for the complexity of mixed identity and the power of navigating in between spaces. College of Fine Arts and Communication | 5