College of Fine Arts and Communication 2023 Report

EXTERNAL Recogni t ion The faculty in the college are nationally recognized as being among the very best in their field. Here is a sampling of their external recognition as teachers, scholars, artists, and leaders. T EACH I NG Kaysie Seitz Brown received the 2023 Honor Award from Texas Association of Health, Physical Recreation, and Dance. Yesenia Garcia Herrington won the 2022 KCACTF Uta Hagen Award. (PICTURED) Tammy Fife , in 2022, was inducted into the Texas Dance Educators Hall of Fame. Jason Kwak was a 2021 inductee into the Steinway and Sons Teacher Hall of Fame. Laurie Fluke r won the 2021 Erma Johnson Hadley Faculty of the Year from the Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education. Cindy Royal won the 2021 Gene Barnwell Waugh Mentor Award. Laurie Fluker was named a 2020 Sun Belt Faculty of the Year recipient. Christa Oliver won the 2020 Liberate Artists Forward Movement Educator Award; she is also a 2021 and 2022 Mellon Fellow in School of Theatre and Performance at Harvard. Amber Hinsley won the 2020 Grand Prize Award in the Great Ideas for Teaching Competition. Kym Fox won the Society of Professional Journalists President’s Award in 2020. Gene Brenek was named the 2020 Austin Advertising Federation’s Educator of the Year. Jenny Buschhorn was named the 2019 Austin Advertising Federation’s Educator of the Year. Clay Craig was named the 2018 Austin Advertising Federation’s Educator of the Year. Jeremy Hutchins received the 2018 Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association's Educator of the Year Award. Michael Devlin was the recipient of the 2018 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award from the Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Sean Justice received the 2017 Higher Education Educator of the Year Award from the Texas Art Education Association. Lynn Ledbetter received the 2016 Phyllis Young Outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year Award from the Texas Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Ann Burnette received the 2016 John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award from the Southern States Communication Association. Marian L. Houser received the 2015 National Communication Association Teachers on Teaching Award. Kaysie Seitz Brown received the 2015 Texas Association of Health, Physical Recreation, and Dance Educator of the Year Award. David Nolan received the 2015 National Press Photographers Association’s Robin F. Garland Educator Award. Roseann Mandziuk received the 2014 Michael M. Osborn Teacher Scholar Award from the Southern States Communication Association. Wayne Kraemer received the 2014 Texas Speech Communication Association Educator of the Year Award; he also received the 2013 E. R. Nichols Award, a national forensics teaching award. YESENIA GARCIA HERRINGTON Theatre and Dance BETHANY JOHNSON Art and Design 20 College Report 2023