saturday

saturday

sessions III & IV

sessions III & IV

session III

arts 121 Workshop: Technology

Blog, Design, Technology

Daniel Lievens graphic designer & faculty member st. edwards university

This presentation will discuss the use of blogs to archive work, present new work, and give students a venue for receiving and giving feedback outside of the traditional critique. Well look at the use of blogs from the student/user perspective as well as setting up and structuring of the blogs from the faculty perspective.

arts 121 Workshop: Technology

Reality Community: Involvement in the Class

Beyond Jana C. Perez, assistant prof of graphic design texas womans university limit rst 20 participants

Weathergrams
A Spring Peace Project Judy Stone-Nunneley, artist & educator limit rst 15 participants

arts 110 Workshop: Green Art/Environmental

Many students today believe that they possess a sense of community through social and screen media such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs and texting often engaging in several of these simultaneously. Design students in particular, as learners and future practitioners of visual communication, must be able to function in both virtual and real communities. Are students really interacting in a communal way via technology or simply settling for a less active, internal dialogue? This presentation will outline the results of key objectives and projects incorporated into graphic design coursework that utilize both personal relationships and technology to create and contribute to the idea of community in and outside of the classroom.

Judy will present a hands-on workshop focusing on the creation of simple printed collages with found images, text, and expressive monoprints. Printed on recycled paper sacks, the Weathergrams are records of contemplation, shared observations of the natural world, and messages of hope. The Weathergrams will be installed on campus for the Spring season and will recycle with the seasons weather.

arts 120 Panel: Art & Community

Imagillaboration
A National Sculpture Collaboration Project, the logistical challenges and rewards of working, exchanging and exhibiting these 3-D compositions on a national scale Jack Gron, director/professor of ne art texas a&m, corpus christi
Jack Gron, director/professor of ne art, texas a&m, corpus christi From 20072009, 106 sculptors representing twenty-six states across the country have joined together to undertake a collaborative art project of unprecedented proportions. Working in regional groups of ve to nine people, the artists have created an immense body of collaborative three-dimensional artwork. Each participant was to create a seed element, the beginning segment of a sculpture, which was then passed onto other group members who each added their own artistic element to every piece. Once the cycle of exchange was complete, each artist will have contributed to every sculpture, and there is one nished sculpture for each person participating.

Fundred
Engaging in a 300 Million Dollar Difference Mel Chin artist & keynote speaker
This workshop will engage Texas artists and educators in a fun and simple art project with a powerful solution based mission. You will leave prepared to mobilize your community! The Fundred Dollar Bill Project reaches out to students of all ages to create Fundred Dollar Bills in hopes of gathering 300 million creative voices from across the country in the form of drawings. The original artworks will be delivered to congress with a request that they are exchanged for their equivalent in goods and service to transform the lead contaminated soils in New Orleans and ultimately every lead affected city.

arts 113 Panel: Collaborative Projects

arts 114 Panel: Collaboration

What Role Can Art Play?

Scott Nicol visual arts faculty south texas college
The art of the modern and postmodern eras sought to establish its autonomy, art for arts sake, leaving behind the societal functions of the past. In our time, art is not supposed to do something, it is merely supposed to be. This has led to the segregation of ne art, relegating it to the raried world of galleries and museums, as distinct from daily life and the real world. This poses a dilemma for artists who seek to engage social or political issues, such as the walls that are being erected along the U.S. Mexico border. More than 600 miles of border wall have been built, tearing through cities, farms, and wildlife refuges. In the face of something that inicts itself so powerfully and destructively upon the real world, what role can art play?

A Cast Iron Chain for America

Meredith Butch Jack professor of art at lamar university
Meredith Jack will present his on-going project to cast a cast iron chain with a link cast in all 50 states of the union. This project is an extension of his involvement with the Iron Trail to the Arctic in 2008 and the in-state extension of the Chain that is the Charm Bracelet for Texas, to be cast during the 2012 TASA conference. The academic iron casting community begun by Julius Schmidt in the 1950s, has grown and prospered. There are university iron foundry programs in most states and many independent artists have set up their own facilities. The Cast Iron Chain is an effort to bring all these disparate individuals into communication for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and aesthetic deliberations.

arts 113 Panel: Collaborative Projects

arts 114 Panel: Collaboration

Taking Iron to the Arctic

Donnie Keen director of keen foundry in houston, tx
In 2008 Donnie Keen of Keen Foundry in Houston led a group of artists and artisans north of the Arctic Circle to the Village of Wiseman, permanent population 13, to cast a cast iron public sculpture. Wiseman is known outside of the arctic primarily from the PBS documentary Gateway to the Arctic: the Brooks Range, which featured the village and its inhabitants. Collaborating with the Alaskan sculptor Patrick Garley, Keen has been instrumental in establishing a thriving artist/iron casting community in the USs northern-most state. He will present the planning, logistics, and implementation of this ambitious endeavor and the ve year reunion pour set for June 2012.

Border Wall & Community Based Art Edu

Bret Leer, Ph.D. assistant professor/art ed. adviser+ coordinator university of texas at brownsville & texas southmost college
This presentation focuses on how art education majors at the University of Texas at Brownsville have addressed the needs of the community by developing an exhibition using the border wall as a theme. It also includes specic research and curriculum to heighten awareness for the need of community based art and arts education within secondary and upper division students.

arts 113 Panel: Collaborative Projects

arts 114 Panel: Collaboration

The Inuence of Border Wall Art Work

Tom Matthews assistant chair & visual arts faculty south texas college
The border wall controversy affects every citizen of the United States and Mexico in one way or another whether directly or indirectly. Teaching eight miles from the border in McAllen, Texas has heightened Matthews awareness of the effects the wall is having on our two countries and how these changes will impact our lives for years to come. He uses the classroom as an incubator to discuss the pros and cons of the wall and what artists can do to bring awareness to the situation. Can border wall artwork change minds, inuence policy and alter popular culture? asks Matthews. Yes, I believe it can.

UTSA Collaborative Editions

Kent Rush, professor of art the university of texas at san antonio
Since 1983 the University of Texas at San Antonio has informally run utsa Collaborative Editions (utsace). Professors Dennis Olsen and Kent Rush who head the printmaking program at utsa have worked with the semester long visiting artist/faculty and faculty members to produce a substantial portfolio of wonderful prints primarily in lithography, intaglio and relief. Recently Kent Rush, in an effort to reach out to the community, offered the press to Dr. Ricardo Romo as a format for printing editions for local and regional Chicano/a and Mexican American artists. The two Master Printers are former mfa graduated printmakers, Neal Cox (two years now teaching at sfau) and currently, Steven Carter. Since 2004 over 20 prints in editions of 30 have been printed and we are working with more artists with an anticipated total of 32 editions.

arts 113 Panel: Collaborative Projects

arts 116 Workshop: Innovations in Foundations

arts 114 Panel: Collaboration

Colored Slips And The Clay Surface

Stan Irvin, professor of art at st. edwards university Connie McCreary, artist & educator at st. edwards university *limit rst 20 participants*
There is a long history of potters using colored slips and engobes to decorate the clay surface. Due to their opacity, sensuous texture, potential for color, and possibilities for application at various stages of drying, these types of liquid clays offer artists and potters many decorative options. seu art faculty, Stan Irvin and Connie McCreary, will demonstrate various surface decoration and forming techniques using primarily colored clays and slips. They will present options for both low and high-re. Workshop attendees are invited to participate in a hands on experience with slip decoration that can be employed by beginning students and offer some interesting options for more advanced exploration.

Dealing with the Border Wall

Art, Aesthetics, Education and Activism David Freeman, visual arts faculty south texas college
Photography has been a tool for social and political change for many years and it can exude tremendous educational authority. What better time than now for artists to utilize art as a tool of enlightenment and education on the specic issue of the border fence and all the challenges it produces. The border fence strikes at the very essence of our culture and democracy. I ask my class how we can investigate the relationships of image, community, concept, and the cognitive process. In this political climate how do we produce a didactic principle and call authority into question and do it via digital photography.

arts 113 Panel: Art & Activism

arts 120 Panel: Innovations in Foundations

Sports 4 Sharing+Shelter Schools of Mexico

Deportes Para Compartir & the Albergues Escolares Indigenas Roger Colombik and Jerolyn Bahm Colombik colombik studios in wimberly texas
Working in Collaboration with the Mexican Association of the United Nations and Deportes Para Compartir, we are developing a documentary project that will raise awareness about the cultural heritage of indigenous children that are educated and cared for in shelter schools. The shelters are located throughout the country and often provide the only means of insuring that children living in very remote communities can receive three meals a day as well as a ne general education. Deportes Para Compartir uses group sport activities to promote the United Nations millennial goals that include issues of gender equality and child health.

Innovations in Foundation Curriculum

Leslie Mutchler assistant professor of art, area head of 2d foundations university of texas at austin

Mutchlers interests in Foundations derive from the Bauhaus Preliminary Course- and consequently bringing relevance to these ideals. Foundations should be comprised of three equally emphasized components: craft (the teaching of technical prociency), context (relevant vocabulary and history), and conceptual acuity (art and design as a pursuit of knowledge). For the last forty years many art departments have overlooked the critical potential of Foundations. I thrive on working with young, fresh talented students that remain open and observant, malleable and motivated says Mutchler. I hope to heighten the status of Foundations within the academic world, to bring about the new Bauhaus.

arts 120 Panel: Innovations in Foundations

arts 113 Panel: Art & Activism

From 2D to Cross-Disciplinary Space

Revising Beginning Design Eric Zimmerman, assistant professor of art st. edwards university

Cash Paid for Rags

A sketchbook performance Carol Flueckiger, associate professor of art texas tech university
This sketchbook performance is inspired by the nineteenth-century practice of recycling rags for paper. Many early American broadsides, childrens books, almanacs, and newspapers printed the phrase Cash Paid for Rags to solicit old cloth for use in paper-making. My project revisits the rag trade by taking discarded or second-hand shirts and blueprinting them with phrases and images from nineteenth-century material culture, creating wearable hybrids of the early American womens movement and contemporary artifacts from my local thrift store. Research and ideas for this project were gathered at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA, and the TTU Womens Studies Program.

How might two-dimensional design courses better respond to contemporary cross-disciplinary space and student needs? St. Edwards University Art department recently undertook a restructuring of its two-dimensional design course with this question in mind. Emphasizing design process, conceptualization, and the relationship between two, three, and four-dimensional thinking, in a laboratory type studio environment, this restructuring embeds learning hand skills and design principals with reading and discussion. The goal is to provide students with the tools to be both articulate and technically accomplished within a world that is increasingly cross-disciplinary. By providing them with technical skills and theoretical frameworks students are better prepared to engage and make in a variety of elds.

arts 113 Panel: Art & Activism

arts 120 Panel: Innovations in Foundations

Human Rights Art & Community Education

Jenny Bryson Clark: political science Professor Richard Lubben: visual arts south texas college faculty
We are entering our 5th year at South Texas College hosting an annual human rights art exhibition in conjunctions with the Human Trafcking Conference sponsored by the Womens Studies Committee. Jennifer Clark from the STC Political Science Department and Womens Studies President would present an overview of the Sex Trafcking Conference and how they collaborate with artists to educate the community and bring awareness of this global and regional problem. Richard Lubben from the STC Art Department and Exhibit Curator will show selected images from previous shows and discuss how artists have used their art to communicate a personal experience, open a dialogue or encourage self-reection about the issue.

Drawing Structure
Beginning Drawing and a DIY Textbook Hollis Hammonds, area coordinator & assistant professor of art st. edwards university

Drawing is possibly the most important foundational skill for the beginning artist. It is also one of the most popular subjects in art, with more drawing books on the market today than most other disciplines. Finding the right textbook for your course however is almost impossible. As faculty we nd ourselves piecing together resources for our students, trying to balance technique with concept, and often failing at nding source material that is truly appropriate for a specic course. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands, and if you cant nd the right book just make one.

Teaching Software on the Fly

Peter Tucker, assistant professor of media arts suny fredonia & st. edwards university limit rst 20 participants

session IV

arts 121 Workshop: Technology

Teaching Software on the Fly or Resources for Teaching Technology or How to teach computer stuff you dont know or Computer Instruction for Dummies This workshop will provide participants with the tools and resources needed to introduce technology into studio classes. It is designed for the educator that does not use technology in his or her own work, and may not be comfortable with technology, but would like to incorporate digital tools in their classroom. I will discuss what technology is important, what is absolutely necessary, and what you can teach with no budget. The heart of the workshop explores teaching resources, tutorials and on-line opportunities for both teacher and student to learn and explore digital technologies. Workshop attendees will be given access to a website created specically for the workshop that has links to resources, ideas for assignments, and on-line tutorials.