October 2021 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 1 Jennifer Ling Datchuk's "American Flag"which is part of an exhibit at Redline Contemporary Art Center in Denver 2 Jonathan Faber’s exhibition Hydroponics at Real Tinsel in Milwaukee, WI 3 Exhibition by Alumnus Michael Menchaca, recently named one of the “15 most compelling Latinx artists working today” 2 | October | College News ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Jennifer Ling Datchuk's "American Flag" is part of an exhibit at Redline Contemporary Art Center in Denver. [1] Opened on September 10, the exhibition captures the struggles of Asian and Asian Americans to survive and thrive in the face of strong anti-Asian sentiment. Jennifer 's photographs are part of Women Creating Nouns, Not Adjectives: Votes for Women and will be on display at Photoville in Brooklyn Bridge Park and NYU Tisch School of Art galleries. Her solo exhibition Later, Longer, Fewer opens at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft on October 2. In Later, Longer, Fewer , Jennifer uses porcelain, hair, and refective surfaces to expose the prejudice that continues to stife women’s progress. She speaks about women’s oppression, particularly regarding women of color, from her own perspective as an Asian woman: “No matter how empowered, no matter what we have attempted to reclaim, women still fnd themselves moving back and forth among choices dictated by narratives they did not create.” Jonathan Faber ’s exhibition Hydroponics opened September 10th at Real Tinsel in Milwaukee, WI. [2] Tis three-person exhibition features new works by Nina Rizzo, Stephanie McMahon, and Jonathan Faber. Te artists gave a gallery talk on the 23rd of October. Margo Handwerker serves on the University Performing Arts Committee, a university-wide committee that brings 2–3 performing artists to campus every academic year. For a listing of previous guests, see the committee's annual reports using this link. For the 2022–23 academic year, contact Margo to discuss. Jules Buck Jones had a solo show Swallow the Fog at Artspace111 in Fort Worth, which opened on Sept 11. Jefrey Lieber presented a paper titled, Sibyl Moholy- Nagy: Between Memory and Polemic, at the 2021 Design History Society conference (September 2 - 4), on a panel called Transmodern Spaces, with other panelists from Japan, Romania, and India. Mark Menjivar has work in the group exhibition How To Read A Vessel which opened this month at the Art Gallery of Burlington in Ontario, Canada. Mark also has work in the group exhibition ReCollections which opened this month at the Union Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Genaro Solis Rivero has been invited to participate at the AIGA Unidos conference as speaker. AIGA Unidos is sponsored and organized by several local AIGA chapters from around the nation. Orlando, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Austin, and San Antonio to name a few. His presentation was broadcasted on September 23, 2021. Te event lasted fve weeks. Omari Souza ’s Design for Experience class taught over the summer, completed a rebrand and exhibit installation for the San Marcos Calaboose Museum. Te exhibit is still up if anyone would like to see it. Omari was interviewed in a spotlight interview by AIGA's Eye on Design. Te interview discussed virtual conferences and the State of Black Design. It is scheduled to be published by end of September. He gave a keynote presentation at the (August) Black Ignite design conference. Omari spoke as a moderator and panelist at the July Where are the Black Designers conference. He has been invited to speak at Atlanta's Design Week in October. He was also featured by the WIP podcast as well as IBM's "It’s About Time" podcast. Both discussions explored design as activism. Te manuscript for Omari’s frst book A Pot Not Yet Melted has been submitted to the publisher. Gina McDaniel Tarver has been named the new book reviews editor for Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture a quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. Te journal has been awarded the PROSE Award for Best New Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Association of American Publishers and Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. #ALUMNISPOTLIGHT Alumni Michael Menchaca (BFA Printmaking, 2011) was named one of the “15 most compelling Latinx artists working today” and received a $50,000 Latinx Artist Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, US Latinx Art Forum, and the Ford Foundation. [3] Tey also were a resident at Artpace, San Antonio this summer, with their 1863 Project (Extended Widescreen Edition) on view there from July 15–September 5. Other recent exhibitions include the national group shows ¡Printing the Revolution! Te Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. (November 20, 2020–August 8, 2021) and Estamos Bien: La Triennal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York (March 13–September 26, 2021).