Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2012
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tasa president
Cathie_Tyler
Welcome to Austin and the TASA Conference at St. Edwards University. It promises to be an outstanding program of
speakers, events and forums around the topics of Community and Art. After 42 years, the members of the Texas Association of Schools of Art, though well versed in both topics, are in for a exceptional gathering of stimulating, informative and down-right fun with fellow artists and friends.
conference chairs
Hollis_Hammonds_&_Angela_Rodgers
We would like to welcome you and thank you for being a part of Art + Community, the 42nd Annual TASA conference, hosted by St. Edwards University. Weve had a lot of fun planning this years conference, and hope you enjoy whats in store. The 2012 conference theme , Art + Community: a shared dialog of
green art, social activism, collaboration and community art , explores the
open exchange of ideas, inuences, policies and actions that artists and communities engage in both at the local and global level. With over 40 speakers from all corners of Texas, and a keynote speech and workshop from Houston-born artist Mel Chin, we hope this will be an exciting fun-lled conference.
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THURSDAY4.8.2012
hyatt 3:005:00p 5:00p
bus leaves for the Austin Museum of Art check-in and registration
amoa 5:00-7:00p
kick-off reception at the Austin Museum of Art
7:00p
bus leaves for Hyatt
FRIDAY4.9.2012
hyatt 8:00a
bus leaves for St. Edwards University
fleck 2:00-3:15p
SESSION I eck 106 Panel: Collaborative/Community eck 108 Panel: Green Art/Environmental eck 109 Panel: Art & Community eck 1 1 1 Workshop: Art & Community Part 1
ragsdale 8:15a-12:00p
Registration in Mabee Ballroom B Drop off artwork for One Cube Foot Exhibition
8:15a-2:00p
Vendors & Student Poster Sessions in Mabee Ballroom B
3:30-4:45p
SESSION II eck 106 Panel: Masters Showcase eck 108 Lecture: Art & Community eck 109 Panel: Collaboration eck 1 1 1 Workshop: Art & Community Part 2 eck Iron Pour (meet transport van in back of eck at 3:20)
9:00a-12:30p
Featured Speakers in Mabee Ballroom A: Ken Dawson, Catherine Caesar, Stacy Schultz and Robert Hite
12:30p
Lunch provided in Mabee Ballroom C
1:30p
Campus Tour & Robert Hite exhibit
5:00p
bus leaves for Hyatt
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SATURDAY4.10.2012 hyatt
8:00a
bus leaves for St. Edwards University
arts 8:15-9:30a
Registration in Art Building
arts 2:30-3:30p
TASA Student Juried Exhibition
8:30 -9:30a
One-Cube Foot Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery (pastries & coffee provided)
3:30p
bus leaves for Flatbed Press
9:30a-10:45a
SESSION III arts 110 Workshop: Green Art/Environmental arts 113 Panel: Collaborative Projects arts 116 Workshop: Innovations in Foundations arts 120 Panel: Innovations in Foundations arts 121 Workshop: Technology
flatbed 4:00-4:30p
tour of Flatbed Press
4:30p
bus leaves for Hyatt
hyatt 6:00p
bus leaves for Mexican American Cultural Center
11:00a-12:15p
SESSION IV arts 113 Panel: Art & Activism arts 114 Panel: Collaboration arts 120 Panel: Art & Community arts 121 Workshop: Technology
macc 6:30p
Dinner Banquet at the MACC
7:30p
Keynote Address by Mel Chin
8:30p
Presentations of Awards
main 12:30-2:30p
Annual Business Meeting (lunch provided)
9:00p
bus leaves for Hyatt
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SESSION I
eck 106 Panel: Collaborative/ Community
FRIDAY@2:00p
MULTIPLICITY IN COLLABORATION AND COMMUNITY
Sang-Mi Yoo, assistant professor at texas tech university
Globalization has seemingly brought the world closer together and has resulted in a heightened sense of the familiar. This feeling of familiarity provides a bridge through which Yoo can access and magnify her perception of a world derived from personal experience. In her work, the ctive nature of a space that is both idealized and conditioned by our society reects skepticism and multiplicity as she obscures the distinction between the past and the present, stereotypes and the real, and collective and personal memories. By embracing both personal and collaborative presentations, her work explores the possibilities of an idealized environment.
CURLY, SHAGGY, GLEAMING, STREAMING, THE ART OF HAIR: AN INTIMATE RECYCLING PROGRAM
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, artist & educator at el centro college
This presentation examines the history of recycling human hair to create art. The utilization of human hair in art can be traced back to Queen Victorias reign in the mid nineteenth century. The presentation examines the multiple ways human hair is used by contemporary artists. Artists go green by recycling a personal part of the human body...hair. Cultural perceptions and myths about hair will be discussed in an art historical context.
RED LISTED
Catherine Prose, assistant professor of art & gallery director at midwestern state university
Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson is quoted as saying that destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. Art certainly does not have the ability to correct global climate change, but it can educate and inform in an evocative rather than didactic manner. There is an abundant history of using nature as a metaphor to reect and comment on morals, values and humankind. In the same respect, the use of nature as a metaphor emulates an attempt to place ourselves within nature. Today we face an unknown and unseen nature as it is being lost before we discover it and invented before we understand it.
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THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MEANING BETWEEN THE ARTIST AND THE AUDIENCE, A BALANCE BETWEEN ARTIST AND COMMUNITY
Joe Kagle, professor of art, lone star college-kingwood
To understand the artist, we start with what makes an artist the creator that he becomes: the Complete Artist Communicator. To accomplish this, the 21st century artist uses all his/her talents and abilities to serve human beings through a team effort that make up for deciencies in a single individual. Building this creative-effortteam, we must understand fundamental ingredients: 1) recruiting a team of dedicated individuals who use all their senses to communicate with each other; 2) mix in the dedication and passion of the focused creative effort; and 3) envision an ideate transcending the surface to universal humanity
MOVING BEYOND IMAGE AND INTO COMMUNITY: RELATIONAL AESTHETICS (PART ONE)
Georganna Tapley, artist & teacher at art alliance center,brazosport college, lee college
This workshop has a structure that deals with the individual person as the artist and the teacher. When catastrophic things occur within communities it affects everyone. When hurricanes Ikea and Katrina devastated the shores and lives of thousands, it was impossible for me to go into the classroom with the attitude of lessons as normal. The relational and artist parts of me collaborate with the participants to respond to the events in the world around us. I use these events to teach how artists with conscience might respond. The Art becomes the result and or response to these events.
SESSION II
eck 106 Panel: Masters Showcase
FRIDAY@3:30p
VIRTUAL HUMANS AND LIVING WORLDS: GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY AT UT DALLAS
Marjorie A. Zielke, Ph.D., assistant professor at the university of texas at dallas
web programs, animation, 3-d modeling and other technology-based art media. Students can also combine the study of atec with Emerging Media and Communications (emac) to study the evolution of text and narrative within the context of arts and technology.
The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) offers a unique masters and mfa in Arts and Technology (atec). The atec program is one of the fastest growing degree plans at UT Dallas. A Ph.D. program is also in the nal phases of development. Students study the application of technology in art to produce interactive exhibits, computer games, training and simulations,
PREPARING STUDENTS FOR EFFECTIVE PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN ART EDUCATION Christopher Adejumo, associate professor of visual art studies/art education at the university of texas at austin
The mission of the art education program at the University of Texas at Austin is to provide excellence in the preparation of art teachers, art museum educators, and community art programmers. The aim of the program is to cultivate top-rated scholarship through institutional and community partnerships and research based development of art education theory and practice. The art education faculty members are committed to helping students make connections between knowledge acquired in the classroom, student teaching in the public schools, and experiential learning in alternative settings in the community. The introduction of the program at the 2010 TASA conference will entail a detailed description of the degree options in the graduate art education program, which are school focus, art museum education, and community-based art education.
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COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Colby Parsons, associate professor of art at texas womans university
Colby Parsons is a sculptor who has been involved in several collaborative projects. One in Denmark with sculptor Brian Boldon in 2006, one in Dallas with the painter/sculptor Mark Collop from 20072008, and one in Denton with electroacoustic composer Greg Dixon from 2008 up to now. These collaborations have incorporated a broad range of media including clay, glass, video, wood, cardboard, found objects, and light; and each one has taken its own direction depending on the particular interests we share, and the chemistry of the collaborative relationship. Most of these have involved installation settings with some kind of interactive element inviting the viewers participation in the work.
MOVING BEYOND IMAGE AND INTO COMMUNITY: RELATIONAL AESTHETICS (PART TWO)
Georganna Tapley, artist & teacher at art alliance center, brazosport college, lee college
This workshop deals with the person as the artist and the teacher. The Relational Aesthetics workshop will be offered to individuals uniting them in a common theme of research. They will actively participate in all stages of a creation to be completed during the conference. Although this is the second part of a two-part workshop, if you missed part one, you can still participate in part two.
Iron Pour
Butch Jack, lamar university, Amy Gerhauser, st. edwards university & Donnie Keen, keen foundry
Watch students & faculty pour their molds for the Charm Bracelet of Texas, and other projects.
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SESSION III
arts 110 Workshop: Green/ Environmental Art limit rst 15 participants
SATURDAY@9:30a
WEATHERGRAMS: A SPRING PEACE PROJECT
Judy Stone-Nunneley, artist & educator
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.
IMAGILLABORATION: A NATIONAL SCULPTURE COLLABORATION PROJECT, THE LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES AND REWARDS OF WORKING, EXCHANGING AND EXHIBITING THESE 3D COMPOSITIONS ON A NATIONAL SCALE
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.
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SESSION IV
arts 113 Panel: Art & Activism
SATURDAY@11:00a
HUMAN RIGHTS ART & COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Jenny Bryson Clark, south texas college political science faculty Professor Richard Lubben, south texas college visual arts 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.
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ART, AESTHETICS, EDUCATION AND ACTIVISM: DEALING WITH THE BORDER WALL
David Freeman, visual arts faculty at 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.
CAN BORDER WALL ARTWORK CHANGE MINDS, INFLUENCE POLICY AND ALTER POPULAR CULTURE?
Tom Matthews, assistant chair & visual arts faculty at 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.
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SATURDAY@8:30a
Carol_Flueckiger
Note: work from the One Cube Foot Exhibit should be picked up from arts140 between 2:303:30p. (Unless youve made arrangements to have the work shipped)
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Keynote Speaker
Mel_Chin
Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951, he graduated from Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1975, and later moved to New York City in 1983. Chin is highly motivated by social, political and cultural realities, and his work reects his concern for the environment and social consciousness. His work is often exhibited or installed in public spaces beyond the traditional connes of the gallery or museum. A conceptual artist, Chins body of work ranges from earthworks to animated lms. For Chin, art has the power to provoke greater social awareness and a sense of responsibility in the viewer. Through his community actions, he has engaged innercity neighborhoods and helped to rejuvenate local economies. His interest in science, ecology and the environment can be seen in some of his most famous works including Revival Field, s.p.a.w.n. and knowmad were featured in the rst season of the PBS series art21 (Art in the Twenty First Century). His most recent project, the Fundred Dollar Bill Project, is an innovative artwork made of millions of drawings. This creative collective action is intended to support Operation Paydirt, an extraordinary art and science project uniting three million children with educators, scientists, health care professionals, designers, urban planners, engineers and artists. After Katrina had wiped out much of New Orleans, Chin was invited to the city to see how he could make a difference in the community. Working with scientists, Chin found that the lead contamination in the soil in New Orleans was at a hazardous level. To nd a solution to this problem, Operation Paydirt was put into action. In 2010, once Fundred reaches its goal of 3 million artworks, an armored truck, running on vegetable oil, will pick up the drawings and take them to Washington d.c., where we will request from Congress an even exchange of Fundred Dollars for 300 million dollars worth of aid for New Orleans.
Ken_Dawson_Little
Ken Little was born in Canyon, Texas in 1947. He received a bfa from Texas Tech in 1970, and an mfa from the University of Utah in 1972. He has worked in various media including: bronze, ceramics, neon, performance, wood, steel, cast iron, $1 bills, shoes, and other found objects. His work has been featured in over 35 one person exhibitions, 200 group exhibitions, numerous national publications, and catalogs. Since 1988 he has been a Professor of Art (Sculpture) in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Since 1993, he has maintained a studio and alternative exhibition space, Rose Amarillo, in downtown San Antonio. His work is included in many public and private collections around the country. Collections include The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu Hawaii, The City of Seattle, The Nelson Gallery of the University of California at Davis, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle and many others. A sixty four page retrospective catalog titled, Ken Little: Little Changes with essays by Kay Whitney and Dave Hickey is available. His artists web site is found at www.kenlittle.com.
Stacy_Schultz
Stacy Schultz received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University in 2004. Her previous teaching positions include two appointments as Visiting Assistant Professor at Kentucky Statement University (2004-2005) and The University of Texas at Arlington (2007-2008). She has also taught a variety of courses in the California State University system (CSU Northridge, CSU Fullerton, CSU San Bernardino, and San Diego State University) ranging from womens studies to nineteenthcentury art. Professor Schultzs research and teaching concentrate on the intersections of race and gender in contemporary performance art, photography, lm, and video. Her dissertation, The Female Body in Performance: Themes of Beauty, Body Image, Identity, and Violence, has evolved into the departure point for two lectures given at the College Art Association: Performing the Black Nude: The Artists Body as a Contested Site (2005) and Southern California Feminism and Body Image: A Performative Response (2007). She will present her paper, The Intersection of Social Activism and Community: Performing Civil Rights in Southern California, at the 2010 TASA conference.
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She is an Assistant Professor of art at the University of Dallas. Caesars paper will investigate Robert Smithsons notion of aerial art, investigating its relationship to the Texas landscape and its impact on the conception of sculpture and the formation of a modern, itinerant identity in a transglobal community.
Catherine_Caesar
Catherine Caesars current research interests include feminist art, conceptual practice, and reading rooms or libraries in contemporary art. Earning her doctorate at Emory University in 2005, she produced a dissertation titled Personae: The Feminist Conceptual Work of Eleanor Antin and Martha Rosler, 1968-1977.
Robert_Hite
Born in 1956 in rural Virginia, Robert Hite attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. After studying traditional ink brush painting in Malaysia, he worked as a studio assistant with Washington Color School painter Leon Berkowitz. Informed both by a rich southern narrative tradition and a closeness to natural environments, Hites imagery often draws upon his memories of youthful wanderings in the Virginia tide waters. He has sought out and photographed rural dwellings not only in the southern United States and the Caribbean, but also in Central and South America, as well as Europe and Asia. Working within and between painting, sculpture and photography, Hites highly rened technique and meticulous attention to detail produce illusions that are both confounding and transformative. In the photographic series Imagined Histories, Hite resituates his architectural sculptures in outdoor settings, magnifying the effects of dislocation and displacement that is central to all his imagery. In 1997, Hite and his family moved to a nineteenth century Methodist church and parsonage in the village of Esopus, New York. The artist is currently represented by Susan Eley Fine Arts in New York City, Cardwell Jimmerson Gallery in Los Angeles, Espacio En Blanco in Madrid, and Pearl Arts Gallery in Stone Ridge, New York. Hite will be a visiting artist at St. Edwards University, and will give a lecture presentation of his work at the 2010 TASA conference. An exhibition of his photographs will be on display in the Scarborough Phillips Library at St. Edwards University. While a visiting artist, Hite will install a new sculpture specically designed for the St. Edwards Campus. This new work, Crossing Safely, was inspired by a modest shack in Arrazola, Oaxaca, Mexico. This sculpture addresses issues of immigration and border crossing. You can see more of his work at www. roberthite.com.
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TASA Board of Directors
president 20082010 Cathie Tyler paris junior college president-elect 200910 Greg Reuter texas a&m university-corpus christi board member Susan Witta-Kemph san antonio college board member Greg Elliott university of texas at san antonio board member Bill Simpson trinity valley community college board member/treasurer 20082012 Liz Yarosz-Ash midwestern state university board member Gary Frields stephen f. austin university board member/database 20082012 Brian Row texas state university-san marcos board member 20092012
Conference Vendors
On Friday, April 9th in the Robert and Pearle Ragsdale Center, Mabee Ballroom B, several vendors will set up displays and materials to view or take. Vendors will set up around 8 a.m. and will be available until 2 p.m. Art Lies www.artlies.org Prismacolor Representative: Shelley Minus Liquitex Representative: Peter Andrew Big Medium bigmedium.org
Poster Presentations
On Friday, April 9th, students from various schools in Texas will present their research in a poster session. The session will be held in the Ragsdale Centers Mabee Ballroom B from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Chris Adams, texas tech university Bruce Alves, texas tech university Jared Applegate, texas tech university Rebecca Beals, texas tech university Shelly Forbis, texas tech university Scotty Hensler, texas tech university Sarah Jamison, texas tech university Benjamin Lamb, texas state university Kris Leinen, texas tech university Aidan Liller, st. edwards university Shannon Ramos, texas tech university Emily Speck, st. edwards university Kelly Waguespack, st. edwards university Chris Walnoha, texas tech university
Conference Volunteers
Pilar Arrieta Erica Bogdan Emily Borneman Mary Brantl Jessica Buie Walle Conoly Barbra Curtin Caroline Eck Chrissy Flanigan Amy Gerhauser Hollis Hammonds Kelly Hanus Donal Haughey Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales
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Sandra Baker brazosport college board member/newsletter 20072010 Kurt Dyrhaug lamar university board member/membership 20082012 Omar Hernandez el centro collegedcccd staff member/executive assistant Linda Fawcett hardin-simmons university staff member/webmaster Victoria Taylor-Gore amarillo college conference hair 2010 Hollis Hammonds st. edwards university conference chair 2010 Angela Rodgers st. edwards university
Stan Irvin Miriam Jurgensen Daniel Lievens Justin Martin Michael Massey Connie McCreary Rebecca Marino Jorge Muoz Tuan Phan Kaletia Roberts Angela Rodgers Kate Rosati Nicole Ryder Jennah Slinran Emily Speck Art Thompson Brenda Torres Vicki Totten Khristine Tugangui Kelly Waguespack Lindsey Webb Maline Werness Colleen White Monica Wright Eric Zimmerman We would like to extend our thanks to all volunteers, especially those whose names didnt make it into the printed program.