January February 2018 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 awards to Houston artists, curators, and collaboratives foundries for 15 years in Texas and New Mexico, as to create new work that exemplifes unconventional, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices. Te book, Entangled – Papers! – Notes , by contemporary French poet and critic Claude Mouchard, and designed by Alessandro Segalini , was released in the Poetries and Politics interdisciplinary event at Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences. [ 2 ] STUDENT ACCOLADES Communication Design senior Christina Rodriguez was named one of the 50 Most Promising Multicultural Students for 2018. Eight advertising industry professionals gathered at the American Advertising Federation (AAF) headquarters in Washington, DC to select the 2018 class of Most Promising Multicultural Students on October 24. Te Most Promising program is part of the AAF’s Mosaic Center initiative to promote diversity and inclusion within the industry and provides a talent pipeline for organizations committed to creating change in the advertising, media and communications industries. Students from AAF’s college chapter network were selected through a rigorous application process that included essays, letters of recommendation, a resumé/ portfolio submission and academic requirements. Christina’s project, Te Dive was selected as a Regional Winner in the 2017 Print Regional Design Annual. ALUMNI ACCOLADES Clover Cochran, an alumnus of Fall 1996 from the School of Art and Design, has worked in bronze art a welder and metal chaser. [ 3] He has a studio in downtown Caldwell, Texas where he is currently working on a monument project to honor the county and county seat namesakes, Edward Burleson and Mathew Caldwell. SCHOOL ACCOLADES From November 2017 through July 2018, the School of Art and Design’s Texas State Galleries is participating in Pledges of Allegiance , a nationwide public art project by Creative Time. Te project is a serialized commission of sixteen fags, each created by acclaimed contemporary artists: Tania Bruguera, Alex Da Corte, Jeremy Deller, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ann Hamilton, Robert Longo, Josephine Meckseper, Marilyn Minter, Vik Muniz, Jayson Musson, Ahmet Ögüt, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Pedro Reyes, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Nari Ward. Each fag embodies art’s ability to channel political passion, providing a unifying symbol around which to unite, as well as a call-to-action for institutions nationwide to raise upcoming Pledges of Allegiance fags in solidarity with Creative Time. Pledges of Allegianc e aims to inspire a sense of community among cultural institutions, beginning with an urgent articulation of the political demands of the moment. Each fag points to an issue the artist is passionate about or a cause they believe is worth fghting for, and speaks to how we might move forward collectively as a country. Te installation of Pledges of Allegiance at Texas State Galleries is generously supported by contributions from the Center for Diversity and Gender Studies at Texas State University. To share this project on social media, please use #PledgesofAllegiance. LAST SUPPER Julie Green’s exhibition at the Texas State Galleries titled Last Supper , was featured on ABC KSTAT 12. Julie Green is a professor of art at Oregon State University. She paints, on ceramic plates, portraits of death-row inmates’ last meal requests. In the past decade, she’s done more than 500 plates.