March 2023 College News

University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Juror Barry Carlsen selected Mr. Johnson's print ... invisible bonds ... from 482 submissions. Carlen is a printmaker and co-founder of Vox Populi Print Collective. Randall Reid participated in two exhibitions. The first is a curated group exhibition named Compendium Revealed at William Campbell Contemporary Gallery in Ft. Worth, from February 11 – March 11, 2023. The second is a solo exhibition opened February 24 – March 12, 2023, at Nuart Gallery in Santa Fe. Kathleen McShane and Liz Rodda are part of a two-person exhibition titled Awkward , at Art + Lit Lab in Madison, Wisconsin. The drawings, videos and sculptures will be on display from January through March. Kathleen McShane 's Daily New Anxiety Drawings are displayed at Basket Book and Art Gallery in Houston from December 2022 — April 2023. [2] Adetty Pérez de Miles and Andrew Ojede will represent Texas State University at The Texas Council of Faculty Senates (TCFS) in San Antonio. TCFS is a federation of faculty senates, councils, and assemblies at Texas public senior colleges and universities. TCFS meets to share faculty governance experiences and problems and to exchange ideas on higher education with members, agents of state government, and members and staff of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and others. Mark Menjivar 's solo exhibition, Currently , opened at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.  Mark Menjivar is the artist-in-residence in the Art and Social Practice MFA program at Sam Houston State University. Mark will work with students and community members on a large-scale project over the Hope Mora is a visual artist currently working with the unaccompanied migrant children population in West Texas. Her work is an ongoing exploration of how the dynamic between hard labor and resilience is sustained within communities, specifically in her hometown Pecos, Texas. Mora’s research looks into working life, regional culture, economy, and ideas of home. She documents how communities joyfully celebrate their lives through family, food, music, dance, and fashion using photography, video, sound, and text. Her work has been commissioned by The New Yorker and Vogue , and has shown work in selected gallery and public space exhibitions in Central Texas and Western New York such as Mexic-Arte Museum, Public Art San Antonio, Squeaky Wheel #SPOTLIGHT Film & Media Art Center, and The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA) among others. Hope Mora received her M.F.A. at The University at Buffalo, New York and B.F.A. from Texas State University in San Marcos. "In Hope Mora’s Pecos Eagles, we see the many layers of this small but complex geography, mostly through affirmative portraits of the people that live there and make up the community: a young girl dressed in an Elsa costume stands in the middle of a rodeo ring; two teens wearing Pecos Eagles t-shirts stand firms....Hope invites us to hold dialogue with a multiplicity of characters in the interludes of their daily lives. These pictures are not about struggle but about pride, joy, and celebration of family and community." - Jason Reed Professor of Photography at Texas State University spring semester. He gave an artist talk as part of the Conversation Series at Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA program. He was invited to speak in the advanced printmaking course at Cornell University about the role of publications in social practice.  Mark Menjivar and Jason Reed have work in the exhibition Art As Social Practice: Technologies for Change  that opened this month at the University of Texas Dallas SP/N Gallery.  ALUMNI ACCOLADES Hope Mora visited on February 23 for an exhibition and talk at the Center for Study of the Southwest in Brazos Hall. The exhibition, Pecos , will run through April 21.  [3] College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3