March 2021 College News

1 Joey Fauerso's solo show Inside the Spider's Body at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 2 Mark Menjivar's exhibition Under One Sky at the Doseum in San Antonio 3 Alumna, Emily Blair Berger (2020, Studio Art, Metals) 2 | March | College News ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Okay Mountain collective (including member and co-founder Sterling Allen ) has produced a series of collaborative drawings made during the pandemic. Te over 250 unique drawings will be for sale starting February 25 thru March 25 via Big Medium Artist Registry. Other participating artists and School of Art & Design faculty include Jonathan Faber , Liz Rodda , Kathleen McShane , Bethany Johnson , Jules Buck Jones and Annie B. Miller . All proceeds will go to charity with 10% to the Big Medium Artist Relief Fund and 90% to the ACLU. Sterling will also open a solo exhibition titled, No Visitors No Objects at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX from February 27 – May 22 (https://theojac.org) . Sterling and OJAC Director Patrick Kelly talked via Zoom on Tuesday March 23 as part of Texas Talks Art. Kathleen McShane-Bolton has work in the exhibition, Drawing Challenge , at Jason McCoy Gallery NY, NY. Jennifer Ling Datchuk will be presenting as part of a panel discussion "Strategies for Bridging Identity and Politics in Clay Communities" for NCECA's (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) conference. Joey Fauerso gave an artist talk over Zoom with curator Rachel Adams Miller in conjunction with her solo show at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Inside the Spider's Body . [ 1 ] Te show will be on view through the end of April. Joey’s work was included in Te Drawing Biennial at Western Exhibitions gallery in Chicago. Tommy Fitzpatrick is in a Group Show at Inman Gallery in Houston. Te Show is from February 13 – March 27. Mark Menjivar's exhibition Under One Sky opened at the Doseum in San Antonio and will be open until May 15th. [ 2 ] It is a project made in collaboration with over 500 students from the CAST School Network that serves as an invitation to transform our city in seen and unseen ways. Mark led a Migration Workshop for the Bloom Project, a program of Black Outside, that provides healing-centered outdoor experiences and culturally relevant environmental education for youth of incarcerated parents in San Antonio. He was the opening speaker for Te Collective, put on by SA2020. Te Collective was a daylong series of workshops, artist talks, and hands-on activities led by San Antonians— all designed to inspire community-driven action. He is also one of four artists taking part in Te Bartlett Project Residency, an ICOSA sponsored project curated by Leslie Moody Castro. Te collaborating artists are given freedom and license to activate an unused building in the historical downtown of Bartlett, Texas. Dr. Adetty Pérez de Miles , Associate Professor and Coordinator of Art Education, and Lecturer Dr. Kevin Jenkins serve as co-presidents of the National Art Education Association Women's Caucus and presented on March 4-7 at the virtual NAEA annual convention. Among their presentations were Diverse Voices in Feminisms and Feminist(s) Histories: Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight. Drs. Adetty Pérez de Miles, Kevin Jenkins, and Borim Song moderated the Women’s Caucus Artist Talk by Julie Usha Libersat at the National Art Education Convention on March 5. Libersat is an intermedia artist and Assistant Professor of Art, Design, and Technology at Texas Woman’s University. Her interactive video installations, digitally fabricated sculptures, public artworks, and net art explore the ways that technology mediates our experience navigating and inhabiting the built environment (julielibersat.com ). Te Black Design, Past, Present & Future conference, hosted by Omari Souza , has received sponsorships from both Civilla Detroit and IBM, with corporate interest expressed by Adobe and Amazon. He recently spoke on a panel regarding design practice for the Africa Design Day, hosted by the Kenyan chapter of the Pan African Design Institute. Omari was also invited to speak at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in April. STUDENT ACCOLADES Te Rockport Center for the Arts hosted its 14th Rising Eyes of Texas juried exhibition. Te exhibition highlights 34 artists from 15 universities across Texas. Six Texas State Art students were selected to participate in the event, more than any other university in the state. Congratulations to Emily Berger , Sydney Guzman , Chantal Lesley , Sid Nyman , Kristen Salai , and Rachel Tucker . ALUMNI ACCOLADES Emily Blair Berger (2020, Studio Art, Metals) [ 3] was awarded frst place at the Rockport Center for the Arts 2021 Rising Eyes of Texas exhibition for her copper vessel titled “Delphinium,” a work created for her B.F.A. Tesis Exhibition. In Emily's work, she explores nature's logic and mystery through the manipulation and repetition of copper botanical silhouettes, patterned into commemorative vessel forms and wearable art that honor both science and the history of art. Her goal is to freeze these qualities into a momentary snapshot that embraces the strength of her connection to nature and bringing it to everyday objects in the manner of William Morris and others in the Arts and Crafts movement. Emily’s metal forming processes parallel this cause-and-efect relationship: the copper moves with every strike she makes and allows her to connect with the natural world in a way going outside cannot. #TIMESPAST Times Past , an exhibition of new mixed media work by Professor of Studio Art, and Artist Randall Reid . Te exhibition was from March 19th - 28th at the Nuart Gallery in Santa Fe. College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3