September 2019 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 Te show was curated by Audrey Legalley and featured work made by women about the feminine experience. Brittany also participated in a pop-up exhibition featuring the members of the Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery artist collective. Te exhibition took place at Te Brick at Bluestar in San Antonio. Margo Handwerker received a $60,000 grant from the Warhol Foundation as part of the M12 collective. Te group gave a lecture at Whitechapel Gallery, London (June 20–22) as part of Te Rural Assembly: Contemporary Art and Spaces of Connection . M12’s Last Chance Module Array was published on the cover of What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination by Josh Garrett- Davis (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019). Margo published "See What a Diference a Stay Makes: Hotel Transvaal and Kus & Sloop, Arts Hotels, and Social Entrepreneurship," in Social Practice Art in Turbulent Times: Te Revolution Will Be Live , eds. Eric J. Schruers and Kristina Olson (Routledge, 2019). David Hefner had a nine panel composition in Davis Gallery's Circadian Buzz . His painting "Memory Queue: For the feel of your laughter" will be in the Davis Gallery's Big Pink Blanket of Love , opening September 7. Hefner also has a painting in Women and Teir Work's Red Dot Show opening September 12. Te Davis Gallery and Women and their Work are both in Austin. Sean Justice and MiHyun Kim were invited to the Central Academy of Art and Design High School in Beijing, on July 10th for a panel discussion on Art and Design Education in the United States. Tey were invited by the principal, Zexu Wang, to share their expertise with the Art and Design teachers and students in the International Art Consortium. As part of the outreach event, fve Art and Design students from the 2019 Beijing Study Abroad program also presented their work and talked about their experiences as art and design majors. Carolyn Kilday was accepted and attended an artist’s residency, Airgentum, in Spain in which she conceptualized, designed and photographed two handmade artist’s books, which were included in an exhibition at the Little Gallery in Sevilla, Spain. MiHyun Kim was invited to present two papers, 1) Placed: Historical Networking Digital Platform to Collectively Archive Our History with Augmented Reality and 2) Te Future of Design Education: Computational Tinking vs Design Tinking at Cumulus 2019 (International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media) at University of Lapland, Finland. Both papers are published as academic papers and professional papers in the conference proceedings. MiHyun hosted Stories Become Data: Participatory Data Drawing Workshop- Event Hybrid at Beijing Language and Culture University on July 11. MiHyun was a fnalist at 2019 European Design Awards with the project, "Placed: Historical Networking Digital Platform to Collectively Archive Our History with AR." MiHyun was invited to the T3 International Art Center to be an international guest critic and advisor in Beijing on July 25th. She was invited by Co-facilitator of T3, Professor Wen Tao Lui, design faculty at the Central Academy of Fine Arts to work with graduate, undergraduate and high school students. Alice J. Lee will present a paper describing a series of recent interactive work titled, “Inclusivity through Translation,” at TypeCon next week in Minneapolis. Jefrey Lieber’s book Flintstone Modernism or the Crisis in Postwar American Culture was reviewed by Alice Friedman in the Journal of Design History and by Alexandrea Fraser in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art . Friedman says, "Lieber is among the very few critics who have ofered an explicitly queer reading of key postwar examples…Tis sort of emphatic rejection of the prejudices that often underscore canonical works is timely and surprisingly rare— and much needed.” Fraser concludes, "Lieber weaves revelatory new insights into well-known icons of American modernism.” [ 3] Mark Menjivar was named a 2019 Mid-America Arts Alliance Interchange Fellow. Tis program supports socially engaged artists making an impact in their communities. Mark was selected as a 2019 DoSeum Artist-in-Residence. Te residency allows artists to create participatory artworks for the 20,000+ monthly visitors.