November & December 2019 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 1 Tommy Fitzpatrick's solo show of new paintings titled Superfux 2 Brittany Ham's solo exhibition titled Uncharitable Spaces for Uncharitable People 3 Estéban Hinojosa and students on one of the four feld trips he led this semester 2 | November & December | College News ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Jennifer Ling Datchuk presented "Object Story" at the American Craft Council conference "Present Tense" in Philadelphia October 9 - 12. Te conference explored, challenged, and celebrated craft’s impact in American life today. She served as one of the jurors for the ACC's Emerging Voices awards, a prize that recognizes and supports the next generation of makers and thinkers in the felds of contemporary craft, decorative arts, and design. To increase diversity and inclusion in the conference and recognize the pathway to practice and barriers to participation in professional development are exclusionary, she also served as a juror for the Equity Awards. Tese awards are both scholarship support and a supportive environment to expand our community and welcome new voices to the dialogues around the present and future of the craft feld. Jennifer’s exhibition Don't Worry Be Happy at Ruiz Healy Art in San Antonio and Don't Tell Me to Smile at Ruiz Healy Art in New York City are on view through January 11. Tommy Fitzpatrick has a solo show of new paintings opening at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas. Te title of the show is Superfux . [ 2 ] For this show, Fitzpatrick is using computer-aided design (CAD) programs as the blueprint for the painted imagery. Because of this digitally dominant process, he is now leaving more evidence of the hand, by adding texture, and thickness of paint on the surface in addition to his hard-edge techniques. By combining digital and analog processes, Fitzpatrick is creating work that instigates a conversation between what it is and how it is made. Brittany Ham had a solo exhibition at Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery in San Antonio in early October titled Uncharitable Spaces for Uncharitable People . [ 2 ] Brittany’s work will be published in Friend of the Artist: Volume 11 , an art publication showcasing the work of emerging and established artists from around the world. Brittany will have a two-person exhibition with NYC based painter Elise Tompson in January at Mantle Art Space in San Antonio. Te Davis Gallery, Austin, sold twenty-four woodcut and woodgrain prints of David Hefner to the non-proft Holdsworth Center opening in the fall of 2020 on the shores of Lake Austin. Tey chose a selection of Hefner’s hand-pulled prints dating from 1997 to 2013. Sean Justice and a team of SMCISD teachers, principals and administrators have been awarded a Computer Science K12 Pathways grant from the KLE Foundation and WeTeach_CS at the University of Texas, Austin. Te purpose of the project is to develop and then implement computer science courses that will bridge elementary and middle school CS learning. Dr. Justice’s role is to coordinate and deliver professional development workshops and other learning opportunities for the project leadership team, elementary and middle school principals, and the teachers who will implement the courses. Sean Justice , Teri Evans-Palmer and Jenny Evans presented sessions at the annual conference of the Texas Art Education Association Nov. 14-17 in Galveston. Presentations were: Sean Justice, "Arts Coordinators and Teacher Educators Talking," "Interface: Computational Art with Young People," and "Writing for TRENDS [Journal] 2020," Teri Evans-Palmer, "Art Teachers Laughter Hour (Where Wine-ing is A Catalyst for Change in the Art Classroom)" and "Te NTurn Program: A Second Set of Helping Hands," and Jenny Evans, "Facebook Groups: Silly and Social or Sharing is Caring," and "Introduction to InSEA." Sean Justice and MiHyun Kim were invited to speak at SWAS (Southwest Conference on Asian Studies) on October 19th about their outcomes from the Study Abroad program in Beijing, China. Paper title: Interdisciplinary Studies in China: Collaborative Study Abroad that Enriches Academic Immersion . MiHyun Kim was invited to give her lecture, Data Visualization as a Tool for Storytelling: "How to Create a Story Trough Interactivity," at the College of Design at University of Oregon on October 9. She also facilitated a Design Sprint workshop for her interdisciplinary project, the "Landscape for Humanity (L4H): Multifunctional Landscapes Co-Designed for Vulnerable Urban Populations" with the project team members, students and the community members on October 11. MiHyun was invited to host her "Stories Become Data: How Drawing and Storytelling can be used as Data" project during Austin Design week at the Capital Factory in Austin. MiHyun’s interdisciplinary project, "Placed: Historical Digital Platform to Collectively Archive Our History with Augmented Reality" is shortlisted for the 2020 Interaction Design Awards in the category of Connecting: Facilitating Communication between People and Communities. Awards will be given at the Interaction Design Week 2020 in Milan, Italy. Te same project is also shortlisted at the AIAP Women in Design Award organized by International Council of Design. Te project will be published in the volume dedicated to the fourth edition of AWDA Biennial International Award. #FIELDTRIPS Estéban Hinojosa led four feld trips this semester: 204 students from Introduction to Fine Arts visited the San Antonio Museum of Art (Ancient Sculpture and ceramics), the Blanton Museum of Art (Medieval and Renaissance painting) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Baroque, Rococo and 19th-century painting); 60 students from Art History I visited the Blanton Museum of Art (Ancient Greek ceramics and didactic casts). [ 3]