texas association of schools of art

cathie tyler

from the president

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
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, influences, 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 Houstonborn artist Mel Chin, we hope this will be an exciting fun-filled conference.

hollis hammonds & angela dartt

table of contents

quick info
social media board of directors student spotlight numbers itinerary

1-7
1 2 3 4-5 6-7

speakers
mel chin ken dawson little catherine caesar stacy schultz robert hite

10 -13
10 11 12 12 13

navigation
st. edwards austin

15 -17
15 16-17

sessions
overview session one session two session three session four

20 - 42
20-21 23-26 27-31 33-37 38-42

thank yous
sponsors & donors vendors & volunteers

44 - 45
44 45

notes

46- 47

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board of directors

cathie tyler
president 20082012
paris junior college

sandra baker

board member 20092012

brazosport college

poster presentations
On Friday, April 13th, 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.

student spotlight

greg reuter

president elect 20092010

texas a&m university-corpus christi

board member/newsletter 20072012

lamar university

kurt dyrhaug

susan witta-kemph
board member/recorder 20072012
san antonio college

board member/membership 20082012

el centro collegedcccd

omar hernandez linda fawcett

hardin-simmons university

Chris Adams/texas tech university Bruce Alves/texas tech university Jared Applegate/ttexas 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

greg elliott

board member/academic affairs, professional standards 20072012

university of texas at san antonio

staff member/executive assistant

interconnected: TASA juried student exhibition 2012

Fifty-four students from schools all over Texas applied for this juried exhibition. The exhibition reception will be Saturday, April 14, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., in the Fine Arts Gallery at St. Edwards University.

bill simpson
trinity valley community college

board member 20082012

victoria taylor-gore
staff member/webmaster
amarillo college

juror:

Eric Zimmerman, artist & writer

ezimmerman.org

liz yarosz-ash
midwestern state university

board member/treasurer 20082012/annual exhibitions coordinator, gallery network

hollis hammonds
st. edwards university

conference chair 2012

gary frields
stephen f. austin university

board member/academic affairs, photography survey 20072012

angela dartt
st. edwards university

conference chair 2012

brian row

Samantha Alexeichik/hardin-simmons university Erica Bogdan/st. edwards university Meagan Carney/st. edwards university Alexandra Coody/midwestern state university Eliana Fanous/mcmurry university Kenneth Fontenot/texas state university Shannon Gowen/texas state university Jaclyn Hudak/texas state university Benjamin Lamb/texas state university Aidan Liller/st. edwards university Albert Longoria/texas state university Krystal N. Maestas/hardin-simmons university Rebecca Marino/st. edwards university

Eric Mathis/texas state university Caitlin McCollom/texas state university Miguel Ortiz/sul ross state university Kevin Dean Ramler/sul ross state university Cari Ritchie/hardin-simmons university Bri Anna Satterfield/midwestern state university Michael Scot/st.edwards university Callie Simpson/st. edwards university Emily Speck/st. edwards university Tyler Tailiaferro/midwestern state university Khristine Tugangui/st. edwards university Ashley Watson/st. edwards university Simon Welch/midwestern state university

board member/database 20082012

texas state university-san marcos

membership administrative
Members
201 (+48) 396 (+17) 2 (+2) 9

expense

revenue

profit/loss

Membership dues Student Group Reimbursements Chapter Development Supplies, Admin and Operations

$0 $1,900.00 $4,294.20 $4,806.57

$14,775.69 $0 $13.78 $883.82

$14,775.69 -$1,900.00 -$4,280.42 -$3,922.75

Students

62 (+9)

numbers

122 (-42)

events
Artist Ranch 2011 $56,430.77 $585.00 $2,804.17 $670.74 $0.00 $0.00 $329.02 $732.94 $302.56 $139.64 $4,324.64 $110.62 $630.91 $4,068.24 $96.69 $0 $0 $0 $0 $161.76 $3,573.66 $764.95 $62,809.28 $0 $1,771.91 $1,560.00 $0.00 $180.00 $458 $1,470.69 $1,131 $130 $5870 $601.75 $650 $4,790 $0 $99 $55 $80 $50 $45 $3,850 $0 $6,378.51 -$585.00 -$1,032.26 $889.26 $0.00 $180.00 $128.98 $737.75 $828.44 -$9.64 $1,545.36 $491.13 $19.09 $721.76 -$96.69 $99 $55 $80 $50 -$116.76 $276.34* -$764.95

Professors

march 7, 2012
379

2011 Annual Membership Party 2010 Annual Membership Party Artist Breakfast Series Creative Mass Art Speak Finding Grants Reel Artist Small Talks

Adjuncts
153 53

Artists
164

Making Faces screening Lounge Bowl Whats New With Easels Get on Press! Workshop The Mix Student Portfolio Review Preparing and Speaking About Your Portfolio Self Promotion in the Digital Age Resume Workshop Brand You Student Picnic Summer Shindig The Texas Show 2012

Corporate Groups

compared to last year

finance
2011-12 Beginning Balance: $34,382.91 2011-12 Ending Balance: $48,654.41** Expenses: $87,003.42 Revenue: $101,274.92 YTD Profit/Loss: +$14,271.50

total

$87,003.42

$101,274.92

$14,271.50

*$276.34 of the Summer Shindig Proceeds were donated to the American Red Cross. **This amount is based on the balance on 3/7/12 plus the current pending checks/deposits.

thursday, april 12
*hyatt 3:00 5:00p 5:00p *amoa 5:00 7:00p Kick-off reception at the Austin Museum of Art Bus leaves for Hyatt Check-in and registration Bus leaves for the Austin Museum of Art

fleck 2:00p 2:00 3:15p 3:30p 3:30 4:45p 5:00p Set up for Iron Pour Panel & Workshop/SESSION I
(see pgs 23-26)

*flatbed 4:00 4:30p 4:30p *hyatt 6:00p *macc 6:30p Dinner Banquet at the Mexican American Cultural Center Keynote Address by Mel Chin Presentations of Awards Bus leaves for Hyatt Bus leaves for Mexican American Cultural Center Tour of Flatbed Press Bus leaves for Hyatt

Iron Pour

(meet transport van in back of fleck at 3:20)

Panel & Workshop/SESSION II

(see pgs 27-31)

Bus leaves for Hyatt

Dinner on your own (See map on page 16 for suggestions)

itinerary

7:00p

Dinner on your own (See map on page 16 for suggestions)

saturday, april 14
Breakfast on your own (See map on page 16 for suggestions)

7:30p 8:30p 9:00p

april 12-14, 2012

friday, april 13
Breakfast on your own (See map on page 16 for suggestions)

*hyatt 8:00a arts 8:15 9:30a 8:30 9:30a Registration in Mabee Ballroom B Drop off of artwork for One Cube Foot & TASA Student Juried Exhibitions 8:15a 2:00p 9:00a 12:30p Vendors & Student Poster Sessions in Mabee Ballroom B Featured Speakers in Mabee Ballroom A: Ken Dawson/Paul Hanna Lecture Catherine Caesar/Art History Presentation Stacy Schultz/Art History Presentation Robert Hite/St. Edwards Sponsored Speaker Lunch provided in Mabee Ballroom C Campus tour & Robert Hite exhibit 9:30a 10:45a 11:00a 12:15p main 12:30 2:30p Lunch provided in Maloney room
(Annual Business Meeting)

*hyatt 8:00a ragsdale 8:15a 12:00p Bus leaves for St. Edwards University

Bus leaves for St. Edwards University

Registration in Art Building One-Cube Foot Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery

(pastries & coffee provided)

Off-campus venue Members should pick up their work from arts140 between 2:30 3:30p. (Unless youve made arrangements to have the work shipped). Students should pick up their work from the Fine Arts Gallery at 3:30p. Bus use reserved for those staying at the conference hotel.

Panel & Workshop/SESSION III

(see pgs 33-37)

Panel & Workshop/SESSION IV

(see pgs 38-42)

arts 2:30 3:30p 3:30p Interconnected TASA Student Juried Exhibition Bus leaves for Flatbed Press

12:30p 1:30p

speakers

mel chin ken dawson little catherine caesar stacy schultz robert hite

mel chin
keynote speaker
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 reflects his concern for the environment and social consciousness. His work is often exhibited or installed in public spaces beyond the traditional confines of the gallery or museum. A conceptual artist, Chins body of work ranges from earthworks to animated films. 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 first 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/science project uniting three million children with educators, scientists, health care professionals, designers, urban planners, engineers and 10 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 find a solution to this problem, Operation Paydirt was put into action. In 2012, 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

paul hanna lecture
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, Rrose 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. Ken Littles talk will cover his multi faceted career, his artwork and its development over his lifetime.

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catherine caesar
art history presentation
Catherine Caesars current research interests include feminist art, conceptual practice, and reading rooms/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. 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. Born in 1956 in rural Virginia, Robert Hite attended Virginia in Richmond and the

st. edwards sponsored speaker

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 nineteenthcentury 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 2012 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 specifically 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.

robert hite

Commonwealth University 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 refined technique and meticulous attention to detail produce illusions that are both confounding

stacey schultz
art history presentation
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, 12 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, film, 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 2012 TASA conference.

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sessions

one two three four

session one: friday, april 13, 2:00pm

fleck 106 Panel: Collaborative/Community
Multiplicity in Collaboration and Community Borderland Youth: A Social Geography Revealed through Participatory Art Practice Eastland Outdoor Art Museum

session three: saturday, april 14, 9:30am

arts 110 Workshop: Green Art/Environmental (limit first 15 participants)
Weathergrams: A Spring Peace Project

arts 113 Panel: Collaborative Projects

Imagillaboration A National Sculpture Collaboration Project, the logistical challenges and rewards of working, exchanging and exhibiting these 3-D compositions on a national scale A Cast Iron Chain for America Taking Iron to the Arctic UTSA Collaborative Editions

fleck 108 Panel: Green Art/Environmental

Were green, participatory and public! Curly, Shaggy, Gleaming, Streaming, The Art of Hair: An Intimate Recycling Program Red Listed

overview

fleck 109 Panel: Art & Community

Appreciating Life Through Art The Struggle For Meaning Between The Artist And The Audience, A Balance between Artist and Community Eastland Outdoor Art Museum

arts 120 Panel: Innovations in Foundations

Innovations in Foundation Curriculum From 2D to Cross-Disciplinary Space Revising Beginning Design Drawing Structure: Beginning Drawing and a DIY Textbook

fleck 111 Workshop: Art & Community Part 1

Moving Beyond Image and into Community with: Relational Aesthetics: Part 1

arts 121 Workshop: Green Art/Environmental (limit first 20 participants)

Teaching Software on the Fly, Resources for Teaching Technology, How to Teach A Computer Stuff You Dont Know, or Computer Instruction for Dummies

session two: friday, april 13, 3:30pm

fleck 106 Panel: Masters Showcase
Virtual Humans and Living Worlds Graduate Programs in Arts and Technology at UT Dallas A Growing University The Graduate Art Programs at UT Arlington Preparing Students for Effective Practice and Leadership in Art Education

session four: saturday, april 14, 11:00am

arts 113 Panel: Art & Activism
Human Rights Art & Community Education Cash Paid for Rags, a sketchbook performance Deportes Para Compartir and the Albergues Escolares Indigenas (Sports For Sharing and the Indigenous Shelter Schools of Mexico)

fleck 108 Lecture: Art & Community

The Returning Vet and FILM NOIR: The Problematic

arts 114 Panel: Collaboration

Art, Aesthetics, Education and Activism dealing with the Border Wall Can border wall artwork change minds, influence policy and alter popular culture? The Border Wall and Community Based Art Education

fleck 109 Panel: Collaboration

The Arts Triangle ArtsWalk Project Collaborative Projects Low-Rider Bikes in Higher Education: A Project by Throw Away Youth

arts 120 Panel: Art & Community

Fundred: Engaging in a 300 Million Dollar Difference

fleck 111 Workshop: Art & Community Part 2

Moving Beyond Image and into Community with: Relational Aesthetics: Part 2

arts 121 Workshop: Technology (limit first 20 participants)

Reality Community: Fostering a Sense of Involvement in the Classroom and Beyond Blog, Design, Technology

fleck
Iron Pour MEET TRANSPORT VAN IN BACK OF FLECK AT 3:20

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fleck 106 panel: collaborative/community

sang-mi yoo
assistant professor at texas tech university

session one

friday, april 13, 2:00pm

Multiplicity in Collaboration and Community 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 fictive nature of a space that is both idealized and conditioned by our society reflects 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.

friday
session one session two

jason reed
assistant professor of photography at texas state university-san marcos

Borderland Youth: A Social Geography Revealed through Participatory Art Practice Guided by a conceptual framework of reciprocity, Borderland Youth at Texas State University is working collaboratively with various communities of youth living in the US/ Mexico border region to creatively reflect upon the cross-cultural, human experiences existent within this significant social geography. By utilizing participatory art practices we are able to create a public body of work that functions as a tangible mechanism to activate social awareness and provide access to a more realistic, complex, and complete story of the US/Mexico border and its residents. The resulting work is exhibited, published, and ultimately archived at Texas State University.

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cathi ball
assistant professor at howard payne university

catherine prose
assistant professor of art & gallery director at midwestern state university

Eastland Outdoor Art Museum Cathi Ball has completed work on the Eastland Outdoor Art Museum, a project conceived in her sketchbooks. This unique Museum is an attempt to make art history accessible to all the children of Eastland, Texas. The museum includes 42 works at 40 locations completed over 3 years with 144 local volunteers and students. The project allows the students of Eastland access to world famous art while advertising the artist work. This community wide project has truly painted the town.

Red Listed 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 reflect 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.

fleck 108 panel: green art/environmental

fleck 109 panel: art & community

randy jewart
director of austin green art www.austingreenart.org

terry barrett
professor of art education & art history at the university of north texas

Were green, participatory and public! The mission of Austin Green Art is to help the community to fully understand the revolutionary calling that defines sustainability by visually representing it, inspiring people to engage it, and building participatory programs that give people a real feeling of its transformative power. We aspire to train a new generation of artists who serve their communities and to inspire a new generation of creative citizens. A Green Artist is an agent for change, uniquely qualified to merge environmental, social and economic considerations into collaborative projects that raise social network capital and community standards of sustainability.

Appreciating Life Through Art This presentation will look at a diverse group of people responding directly to contemporary works of art and how these works affect their lives. Barrett has been working with elderly in assisted-living homes, cancer patients, autistic teen-agers, business men and women, and students of all ages, pre-K through Ph.D., in the USA and in Holland (visiting artist position). He is concerned with people building meaningful connections between contemporary art and their personal and communal lives.

rosemary meza-desplas
artist & educator at el centro college

joe kagle
professor of art at lone star college-kingwood

Curly, Shaggy, Gleaming, Streaming, The Art of Hair: An Intimate Recycling Program 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. 24
session one

The Struggle For Meaning Between The Artist And The Audience, A Balance between Artist and Community 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 deficiencies in a single individual. Building this creative-effort-team, 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.
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fleck 111 workshop: art & community part 1

fleck 106 panel: masters showcase

georganna tapley
artist & teacher at art alliance center, brazosport college, lee college

marjorie A. zielke, ph.d.

assistant professor at the university of texas at dallas

session two

friday, april 13, 3:30pm

Moving Beyond Image and into Community with: Relational Aesthetics: Part 1 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 IKE 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.

Virtual Humans and Living Worlds Graduate Programs in Arts and Technology at UT Dallas 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 final phases of development. Students study the application of technology in art to produce interactive exhibits, computer games, training and simulations, web programs, animation, 3-d modeling and other technologybased 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.

leighton mcwilliams
associate professor and assistant chair of art & art history at the university of texas, arlington

A Growing University The Graduate Art Programs at UT Arlington UT Arlington is a growing University with enrollment approaching 30,000. UT Arlington has a mfa program that offers study in one of four media areas- Visual Communications, Film/ Video, Glass, and Intermedia. Their large department enrolls more than 800 undergraduate majors and boasts extensive facilities. Arlington is situated directly between Dallas and Fort Worth and is convenient to an extensive cultural experience, many world-class museums, and a growing economy.

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christopher adejumo
associate professor of visual art studies/art education at the university of texas at austin

Preparing Students for Effective Practice and Leadership in Art Education 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 toprated 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 2012 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.

fleck 109 panel: collaboration

gary washmon

interim chair of visual arts at texas womans universiy

The Arts Triangle ArtsWalk Project A committee of faculty members was formed from the various departments in the School of the Arts (soa); Dance, Music, Drama and the Visual Arts to create an identity for this new school and to create an event that would encompass all of the arts in the soa. The concept of the Art Triangle came about through looking at a map of campus and noting that a line drawn around all of the buildings in the soa created a triangular shape. Following this theme the concept of a connective experience tying these sites together began to emerge as an interactive tour or artswalk, featuring the various arts in non-traditional settings; in and around the buildings on the map, where virtually anything could happen.

fleck 108 lecture: art & community

colby parsons
associate professor of art at texas womans university

dr. john a. calabrese

professor of visual arts at texas womans university

Collaborative Projects 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.

The Returning Vet and FILM NOIR: The Problematic Dr. Calabrese will present film noir clips and discourse related to the problematic. This means that the films attempt to deal with a problem without overtly stating it. Ostensibly these are thriller/suspense films, murder mysteries. Beneath many plots are issues dealing with the returning vet to a society that is less than eager to have him, a world in which he does not fit. He is oftentimes forced to assume the position of a criminal who has to vindicate himself by overcoming various insurmountable obstacles. Each film presents variations on this theme.

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future akins
assistant professor of art education & visual studies at texas tech university

Low-Rider Bikes in Higher Education: A Project by Throw Away Youth Inspired by Chicano youth culture that involves low-rider bikes and hoping to motivate junior high students to consider art as a stepping stone towards attending college, Future Atkins co-created an art opportunity for low-income youth in Lubbock, Texas. Fourteen and fifteen year-olds enrolled in an art class where they created low-rider bikes with discarded parts and throw-away materials, while Texas Tech University art studio majors in a kinetic sculpture course created dream bikes using metals and fabrication work. Both sets of resulting bikes were displayed along with true low-rider bikes from the local community in a sidewalk parade. This presentation will dissect and discuss both student populations experiences and performances, community and academic reactions/feedback, fund-raising efforts and obstacles, cultural considerations and reactions based on social class, race and ethnicity

fleck: iron pour tour

MEET TRANSPORT VAN IN BACK OF FLECK AT 3:20 PM Butch Jack/lamar university Amy Gerhauser/st. edwards university Donnie Keen/keen foundry Watch students & faculty pour their molds for the Charm Breacelet of Texas and other projects.

fleck 111 workshop: art & community part 2

georganna tapley
artist & teacher at art alliance center, brazosport college, lee college

Moving Beyond Image and into Community with: Relational Aesthetics: Part 2 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.

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judy stone-nunneley
artist & educator

Weathergrams: A Spring Peace Project 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

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arts 113 panel: collaborative projects

jack gron
director/professor of fine art at texas a&m, corpus christi

Imagillaboration A National Sculpture Collaboration Project, the logistical challenges and rewards of working, exchanging and exhibiting these 3-D compositions on a national scale 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 five to nine people, the artists have created an immense body of collaborative three-dimensional artwork. Each participant was to create a seed

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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.

meredith butch jack

professor of art at lamar university

A Cast Iron Chain for America 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 116 workshop: innovations in foundations (limit first 20 participants)

stan irvin

professor of art at st. edwards university

connie mccreary
artist & educator at st. edwards university

donnie keen
Taking Iron to the Arctic

Colored Slips And The Clay Surface 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-fire. 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.

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 five year reunion pour set for June 2012.

professor of art at the university of texas at san antonio

kent rush

UTSA Collaborative Editions 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. 34
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specific course. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands, and if you cant find the right book just make one.

leslie mutchler

arts 121 workshop: technology (limit first 20 participants)

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

Innovations in Foundation Curriculum 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 proficiency), 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.

peter tucker
assistant professor of media arts at suny fredonia & st. edwards university

Teaching Software on the Fly, Resources for Teaching Technology, How to Teach a 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 specifically for the workshop that has links to resources, ideas for assignments, and on-line tutorials.

eric zimmerman

assistant professor of art at st. edwards university

From 2D to Cross-Disciplinary Space Revising Beginning Design 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 fields.

hollis hammonds

area coordinator & assistant professor of art at st. edwards university

Drawing Structure: Beginning Drawing and a DIY Textbook 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 find ourselves piecing together resources for our students, trying to balance technique with concept, and often failing at finding source material that is truly appropriate for a 36
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arts 113 panel: art & activism

roger colombik & jerolyn bahm colombik

colombik studios in wimberly texas

Deportes Para Compartir and the Albergues Escolares Indigenas (Sports For Sharing and the Indigenous Shelter Schools of Mexico) Working in Collaboration with the Mexican Association of the United Nations and Deportes Para Compartir, we are

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jenny bryson clark

south texas college political science faculty

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 fine 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.

professor richard lubben

south texas college visual arts faculty

saturday, april 14, 11:00am

Human Rights Art & Community Education We are entering our 5th year at South Texas College hosting an annual human rights art exhibition in conjunctions with the Human Trafficking 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 Trafficking 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-reflection about the issue.

arts 114 panel: collaboration

david freeman
visual arts faculty at south texas college

Art, Aesthetics, Education and Activism dealing with the Border Wall 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 specific 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, influence policy and alter popular culture? asks Matthews. Yes, I believe it can.

carol fluekiger
associate professor of art at texas tech university

Cash Paid for Rags, a sketchbook performance 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 secondhand 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.

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bret lefler, ph.d.

assistant professor/art ed. adviser/art coordinator at the university of texas at brownsville & texas southmost college

their equivalent in goods and service to transform the lead contaminated soils in New Orleans and ultimately every lead affected city.

The Border Wall and Community Based Art Education 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 specific research and curriculum to heighten awareness for the need of community based art and arts education within secondary and upper division students.

arts 121 workshop: technology (limit first 20 participants)

scott nicol
visual arts faculty at south texas college

What Role Can Art Play? Border Wall 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 fine art, relegating it to the rarified 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 inflicts itself so powerfully and destructively upon the real world, what role can art play?

jana c. perez
assistant professor of graphic design at texas womans university

Reality Community: Fostering a Sense of Involvement in the Classroom and Beyond 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.

arts 120 panel: art & community

daniel lievens
graphic designer & faculty member at st. edwards university

Blog, Design, Technology

mel chin
artist & keynote speaker

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.

Fundred: Engaging in a 300 Million Dollar Difference 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 40

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one cube foot exhibition 2012

Every year at the tasa Annual Conference, conference attendees are invited to participate in the tasa One Cube Foot Exhibition. As tasas One Square Cube Exhibitions title indicates, submissions for this show must be limited to one square foot, and submissions can be 2-d or 3-d. This year Robert Hite will judge the exhibition. There will be an opening reception for the exhibit on Saturday, April 14th, in the St. Edwards University Fine Arts Gallery from 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m., and will include an awards presentation.

Note: work from the One Cube Foot Exhibit should be picked up from arts140 between 2:30 3:30p. (Unless youve made arrangements to have the work shipped)

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sponsors & donors

St. Edwards University

On Friday, April 13th 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.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

wildflower.org

Olmsted-Kirk Paper Company

okpaper.com

Gueros restaurant on SoCo

guerostacobar.com

Prismacolor
Representative: Shelly Minus

Liquitex
Representative: Peter Andrew

Jack Richeson & Company

richesonart.com

Big Medium
bigmedium.org

Art Lies
www.artlies.org

vendors & volunteers

The Still Water Foundation St. Edwards University

School of Humanities

We would like to extend our thanks to all volunteers, especially those whose names didnt make it into the printed program.

Blanton Museum of Art

blantonmuseum.org

Austin Museum of Art

amoa.org

Pilar Arrieta Erica Bogdan Emily Borneman Mary Brantl Jessica Buie Walle Conoly Barbra Curtin Angela Dartt Caroline Eck Chrissy Flanigan Amy Gerhauser Hollis Hammonds Kelly Hanus Donal Haughey Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales Stan Irvin Miriam Jurgensen Daniel Lievens Justin Martin Michael Massey

Connie McCreary Rebecca Marino Jorge Muoz Tuan Phan Kaletia Roberts 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

Cheap Joes Art Stuff

cheapjoes.com

Mexic-Arte Museum
mexic-artemuseum.org

Golden Artist Colors

goldenpaints.com

Blick Art Materials

dickblick.com

Austin Chronicle
austinchronicle.com

Red River Paper

redriverpaper.com

Prismacolor
prismacolor.com

Ampersand
ampersandart.com

Smooth-On
smooth-on.com

Lucky13
lucky13mixology.com

Liquitex
liquitex.com

Art Lies
artlies.org

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