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2 | January & February | College News College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 Tammie Rubin was featured in the winter edition of Austin Home . The article i s "Space as Muse." [4] Tammie Rubin’s ceramic piece Always & Forever (forever, ever) No.17 is a recent acquisition by the RISD Museum. Elizabeth A. Williams, Ph.D., the David and Peggy Rocke- feller Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, is the curator who put up the work for acquisition. Tammie Rubin is in a group show at The Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas. Blackland Prairies is co-curated by Assistant Curator Melissa Fandos and 2024–25 Curatorial Fellow Maysa Martins. The show will run from Jan 24 to March 8th. Soomin Jung-Remmler's drawing "what dreams may become" is a part of a group exhibition Greater than 40 and on the view at the space 136 gallery at the Blue Star Art Complex in San Antonio. The show ran from January 2nd through the 16th. [5] Soomin Remmler is part of a year-long group exhibition, Confluence of Cultures , focused on San Antonio’s 10th anniversary as a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, a UNESCO City of Gastronomy and the culinary history, hosted by the San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture in collaboration with the city’s World Heritage Office (WHO). A series of 16 drawings will be on view from February 13th, 2025 through January 16th, 2026 at the City of San Antonio’s Culture Commons Gallery (115 Plaza de Armas).The 16 drawings are done in colored pen- cil, gouache, fluorescent gouache and water color, and they all respond to black lights! Nishra Ranpura’s exploration "Touch-Me-Or-Not" is a part of a collective electronic textile (eTextile) swatch library for the group exhibition Radiant Fibers at the Clive Davis Gallery, NYU in Brooklyn, New York, from January 23rd to March 14th. "Touch-Me-Or-Not" is an interactive expression of intimacy and tactile memory whose materiality is a dialogue on transparency—or lack thereof—in today’s increasingly black-boxed applications of emerging technologies. [6] ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Joshua Duttweiler's solo exhibition, Utopia Sounds Like a Good Idea , opened at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi on January 17 and ran through February 28, 2025. The work in the exhibition focuses on ecological and social justice concerns facing the region. The artist talk and exhibition recep- tion was February 6 and 7th. [1] Joshua Duttweiler is exhibiting a new piece, "Monuments" as part of Radius Collective's exhibition, - graphies at the Universi- ty of Massachusetts, Lowell which will run January 21 through March 8, 2025. Joshua is a co-organizer for Radius Collective, an international body of artists, designers, and educators, creating work that engages in critical discourse around identity, place, and connection. [2] Jonathan Faber joined the University of Houston School of Art as a visiting artist on February 6th. During his visit, he de- livered a public lecture on his artistic practice and engaged with both graduate and undergraduate studio art students. Randall Reid held his Retrospective Exhibition at the William Campbell Gallery in Ft. Worth. This is a comprehensive ex- hibition of approximately 75 works spanning over 50 years of his artistic career. The opening reception and artist talk was on February 8, 2025. [3] Gina McDaniel Tarver has been awarded the title of Honorary Professor for the Center for International Studies at Texas State University in recognition of the international aspects of her work. Gina McDaniel Tarver co-chaired the Association of Latin American Art Open Session for Emerging Scholars at the Col- lege Art Association’s annual conference in New York. Tarver and her co-chair selected four proposals, out of 42, for the session and mentored the authors, who are advanced graduate students, in preparation for their presentations. As co-chairs, they also introduced the presentations and acted as respondents at the conference, on February 13. 1 2 3 Joshua Duttweiler’s solo exhibition Utopia Sounds Like a Good Idea opens at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi Joshua Duttweiler is exhibiting a new piece, " Monuments" as part of Radius Collective's exhibitation, -graphies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell Randall Reid held his Retrospective Exhibition at the William Campbell Gallery in Ft.Worth 5 Tammie Rubin was featured in the winter edition of Austin Home Magazine Soomin Remmler's drawing "what dreams may become" is part of a group exhibition Greater than 40 at Blue Star Complex Nishra Ranpura's exploration "Touch-Me-Or-Not" is a part of a collective eTexile in NYU from January 23rd to March 14th 4 6