September 2017 College News

Jeffrey Dell Captive Universe , 2017, 34x23” Screenprint Jonathan Faber Everything Beautiful is Far Away, 2016 66” x 57”, oil and acrylic on canvas Pedro Moreno, Christina Rodriguez and Randy Gaytan, 2017 Adobe Design Achievement Awards ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Jeffrey Dell’s solo exhibition, Future Castles , opens September 15th at Art Palace Gallery in Houston. [ 1 ] Jeffrey’s four-person exhibition, Under Pressure , opens September 1st at Rochester Contemporary in Rochester NY. Jeffrey has been featured in the new book, Silk Screen Masters , curated and written by Vetro Editions Berlin, and published by Pyramyd Publishers France. Silk Screen Masters will be published in early 2018. Jonathan Faber will be included in the forthcoming New American Paintings , No. 132, West Issue. The issue will be in newsstands October/November 2017. [ 2 ] Laritza Garcia’s work has been selected to show at Joya Barcelona Art Jewelry Fair, the main jewelry event in Spain. Laritza was recently selected for Art Jewelry Forum’s Ambassadors program, representing the southern region of the United States. Art Jewelry Forum is a publication that advocates for the international field of contemporary art jewelry. MiHyun Kim was a part of Poster Session: User- Centered Design: Design Thinking by Developing Understanding and Empathy at AIGA Design Educator Conference Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship from June 1 to June 3 at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Also, the abstract was published at the conference website. MiHyun hosted a Coding Across the Disciplines workshop that provides instruction on computer programming languages and mobile app development for high school and middle school teachers at Texas State University. Mark Menjivar had a solo exhibition at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin in August. As part of the exhibition Mark Menjivar and Molly Sherman led a family archives workshop in the gallery space. Kathryn Moore will be featured on October 11th for the college’s Dean’s Seminar. Her presentation is entitled “Italian Renaissance Arabesques and the European concept of ‘Islamic Art.’” Elvia Perrin is a featured artist and four of her prints are for purchase with Pottery Barn Retailer, USA. Caprice Pierucci completed a large commission for Pacific Cities, a residential complex in Huntington Beach, California. She has three pieces that will be installed in the lobby of the Hotel Statler in Dallas. Her work was included in the Texas Sculpture group exhibition Profusion in the Void at Art Space Gallery in Fort Worth. Caprice’s work was also shown in The Davis Gallery summer exhibition, Radiant in Austin. Diehl Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming, also included three works in their summer exhibition, The Fete . Caprice has worked on several residential commissions going to Austin, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Santa Barbara, California, Houston, and New York. In the 2017 Presidential Awards for Excellence, three Art and Design professors recieved College Achievement Awards. Gina Tarver and Sterling Allen were recognized in the Scholarly/Creative category and Claudia Roeschmann for Service. STUDENT ACCOLADES Pedro Moreno , Christina Rodriguez and Randy Gaytan are official semifinalists in the 2017 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. [ 3] They are part of 1,725 semifinalists chosen this year out of over 6,600 entrants. Winners will be announced soon. The School of Art and Design is very pleased that Communication Design Student, Jeromy Lund , was selected as the 2017 Maura Rose Kampa Scholarship Award Winner. He will be awarded a monetary gift toward tuition or other college expenses and will also receive a one-year mentorship with the talented and award-winning McGarrah-Jessee Creative Director, David Kampa. The two semifinalists were ComDes students Pedro Moreno and Angela Rhys . 2 | September | College News AUGUST 28 – NOVEMBER 10 THE LAST SUPPER: 700 PLATES ILLUSTRATING F INAL MEALS OF U.S. DEATH ROW INMATES Julie Green’s The Last Supper is an overwhelming installation in the JCM Galleries of roughly 700 kiln-fired ceramic plates on which the artist has painted the final meals of death row inmates. The individual meal requests humanize the men and women on death row, reflecting their regions, races, and economic backgrounds. Employees at the Indiana Department of Corrections once recalled a person’s request: “He told us he never had a birthday cake so we ordered a birthday cake for him.” In states with meal options, selections are modest— limited to what is already available in the prison kitchen. None of the states allow alcohol. Cigarettes, though technically banned, are sometimes granted. The Last Supper has particular meaning for Texas, which carries out the largest number of executions in the United States. It is the only death penalty state that does not allow a meal selection, serving only the standard prison meal of the day. College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 1 2 3 THE LAST SUPPER