Digital Fabrication Lab News

Digital Fabrication Lab News

Professor Annette Lawrence at GDAC

detail of work by Annette Lawrence

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Annette Lawrence
Gough Gallery, Greater Denton Arts Council
October 4 - December 15, 2019
Opening reception: October 4, 7 - 9 PM

Annette Lawrence’s studio practice is characterized by transforming raw data into drawings, objects, and installations. The data accounts for and measures everyday life. Her subjects of inquiry range from body cycles, to ancestor portraits, music lessons, unsolicited mail, and journal keeping. She addresses questions of text as image, and the relationship between text and code. Her work is grounded in examining what counts, how it is counted, and who is counting. Her process is one of making and unmaking, looking, waiting, recognizing things that go unannounced and remain steady, continuous, and unremarkable on the surface, but hold magic over time.

Visiting Artist: Richard Heipp

Visiting Artist:  Richard Heipp
Artist's Lecture: Oct. 2, 7pm at ART 223
UNT College of Visual Arts and Design
Department of Studio Art
Free and open to the public
https://www.richardheipp.net/

Visiting Artist Lecture: HOC E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS

Dead Indian Stories, monoprints

HOC E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS

Visiting Artist Lecture: 5:30pm September 30, 2019 followed by a reception

Greater Denton Arts Council 
400 E Hickory St, Denton, TX 76201
Free and open to the public

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds is an artist and an advocate for indigenous communities worldwide. His text-based work includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large-scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. His most recent works address injustices and current views of Native American people, illuminating the struggles within the lives of Native Americans, as well as acknowledging Native Americans’ cultural differences through coupling positive and negatives, the past and the present though language.

Thank you, Minna Resnick!

Minna Resnick (center) with graduate student printing assistants(clockwise from top left) Aunna Escobedo, Cynthia Giron, Melissa Gamez-Herrera, Mariana Seaton, Aaron Pozos, Stephanie Gerhart, Kelsey Shurbet, and professor Andrew DeCaen.

Thank you, Minna Resnick!
Minna Resnick was a Visiting Artist September 16-20, 2019.  She presented an artist's lecture to the College of Visual Arts and Design, created a new limited edition 3-color lithograph with graduate students assisting, demonstrated photocopy-lithography, and made studio visits with ten graduate students.  Thank you so much for your generosity and perspective, Minna!  The Print is beautiful! We loved having you out!

Minna inspecting the first color proofed with Mariana, Cynthia and Aaron

Minna pulling a print

Minna rolling out the second color

Minna inspecting a second color proof with Mariana

Minna placing a print with Aunna and Mariana assisting

Minna explaining the process to the Relief class

Minna explaining the process to the Bookbinding class

Minna handing off a print 

Minna inspecting the final plate with Aaron

Minna with Cynthia and Aunna

Minna doing a photocopy roll-up demonstration

CVAD Exhibition: HOC E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS: SPEAK INDIAN

Edgar Heap of Birds with mono print installation titled " Standing Rock Awakens the World", 2019  |  Photo credit: Ted West

HOC E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS: SPEAK INDIAN
September 25- October 5
College of Visual Arts and Design
Cora Stafford Gallery

Reception, September 30, 1-2pm
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm / Saturday, 1pm-5pm
1201 W. Mulberry St., Room 100
Denton, TX 76201
Map & Directions

Free and open to the public

CVAD Exhibition: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith created at P.R.I.N.T Press

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Prints from the CVAD Permanent Collection created at P.R.I.N.T Press
Sept. 25 - Oct. 5, 2019 

Paul Voertman Gallery

Art Building, University of North Texas

For more information: https://news.cvad.unt.edu/jaune-quick-see-smith-exhibition

MFA Open Studios Oct 24, 5-7pm

MFA Open Studios
Oct 24, 5-7pm
Welch Street Studios and Oak Street Studios

The Department of Studio Art at UNT invites you to our annual Open Studios event. Over 40 UNT graduate students across disciplines will open their studio doors to the public, engaging the wider DFW community in their creative practice + research.

The MFA program at UNT frames the individual needs of each student through the development of conceptual, aesthetic, and technical skills along with a strong community of active students who are leading purposeful investigations in order to discover, create or learn something new with, through or about the arts. While in the College of Visual Arts and Design, graduate students participate in arts research across disciplines. Housed in a world-class Tier 1 research institute, CVAD is next door to the rich cultural and arts capitals of Dallas and Fort Worth.

The deadline to apply for the MFA in Studio Art is February 1 / https://art.unt.edu/studio-art/graduate-studies

For more information: Gustavo.Plascencia@unt.edu

Visiting Artist: Michael Velliquette

Foundations Visiting Artist Lecture: Michael Velliquette
Monday, September 23rd , 2019

at the Lyceum from 9am-9: 50 am (Drawing I)
at Sage 116 from 10am-10:50am (Drawing II )

https://www.velliquette.com/

Visiting Artist Minna Resinick

Visiting Artist Minna Resinick: September 16-20, 2019
Artist’s Lecture: Wednesday, September 18 in Art 223 from 2-3pm

Minna Resnick will be working on a new print in our printmaking studios September 15-20 with the MFA Print Praxis class assisting.

Minna Resnick has lived in Ithaca, New York, since 1987, where she also maintains her studio. She has shown both nationally and internationally and has work in over 50 public and private collections. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Denver Art Museum, Colorado; the New York Public Library; the Newark Museum, New Jersey; the United States Information Agency; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; and Kunsthaus Grenchen, Switzerland.

Her work is represented in over 25 university and municipal collections. Resnick was the recipient of the prestigious American National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1980 as well as a dozen other funded grants, including New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in 1991 and 1995, and a Constance Saltonstall Artist Fellowship in 1999. In 2007 and 2009, she organized an international printmaking exhibition and related symposium in China. Resnick continually gives lectures and workshops around the US, and teaches part-time.

Studio Art in Florence Summer 2020 Monotype and Figure Drawing

Study Abroad in Florence, Italy in Summer 2020
Explore the heart of the Italian Renaissance. Sketch on location in Florence's numerous world class museums, elegant palaces, peaceful churches, vibrant piazzas, vast gardens, bustling markets, and engaging exhibitions of contemporary art. Draw from the model and make monotype prints in the studios at the Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA). The Santa Reparata International School of Art will also organize optional weekend trips to various Italian cities.

Impressions in the City: Florence (Instructor: Andrew DeCaen)
This course will focus Monotype printmaking at the SRISA printmaking studios and creative research in the city of Florence. Students will explore various monotype printmaking techniques including additive, subtractive, ghost, trace, and stencil methods with multiple-color printing. Students will also gain a personal perspective of life in Florence while sketching and collecting inspirations in public spaces such as museums, historical sites, piazzas, markets, and train stations.

Figure Drawing in Florence (Instructor: Christian Fagerlund)
This course will focus on drawing the human figure. Special emphasis will be placed on drawing from observation with accuracy and sensitivity to anatomical understanding. Students will draw from nude male and female human models at the SRISA studios. Students will also spend mornings sketching at Florentine museums and piazzas from many of the world's greatest treasures in figurative drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Program Dates: May 20-June 20, 2019

Don't wait to apply for the program: https://studyabroad.unt.edu/FL we can only take 18 students.
Don't wait to apply for the FAFSA and the International Education Fee Scholarship (IEFS)

Interested?
Please contact one of the instructors and attend one of the Information Meetings in October...

PRESSED (P.A.N.T.S) @ UNT Union Art Gallery

PRESSED (P.A.N.T.S)
UNT Union Art Gallery
September 16-26, 2019

Reception Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Raluca Iancu's animated prints at 153b

Child's Play
(Animated Prints of Raluca Iancu)
153b 
September 16-20, 7pm-9pm
View from UNT Grad Studio courtyard at Welch Street Complex 1

Morgan Conservatory: CALL FOR ZINES:

Image: Cheyenne Holcomb, Artist Books, Summer 2019

Morgan Conservatory: CALL FOR ZINES:

Now - October 11

https://www.morganconservatory.org/call-for-zines

UNT Special Collection’s 11th Biennial Artists’ Book Competition: Miniature Books

Image: Loren Jones, Artist Books, Summer 2019

UNT Special Collection’s 11th Biennial Artists’ Book Competition
Apply Now Thru 12/13/19 4:00pm
Willis Library,Sarah T. Hughes Reading Room (Room: 437)

UNT Graduate students in Pernicious Blue

Pernicious Blue 
Sept 9 - October 31, 2019Lillian Bradshaw Gallery
4th Floor of the Dallas Public Library
1515 Young St, Dallas TX, 75201 
Reception: October 26, 2019, 3:00-5:00 pm

Artists: Matthew Ryan Johnson, Stephanie Gerhart, Chris Wright Evans, Lorraine Ning, Traci O’Dwyer, Aunna Escobedo, Tina Marks, Shellye Tow, Melissa Gamez-Herrera, Megan DeSoto, and Juan Barroso 

 “Pernicious – having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way”

Pernicious Blue is an exhibition that brings together a diverse group of artists working in a variety of mediums whose work unveils the detrimental effects of our own existential and social decay.  This influence is reflected in the environmental, societal, and psychological marks that are left on the landscape and human psyche.  The subtly dangerous ways in which our society interacts with each other and nature are varied and extensive.  Coupled with the color blue, which evokes emotions of melancholy or sadness, the work in this exhibition explores a wide range of subjects which display evidence of falling victim to pernicious influence, examining our treatment of immigrants and women, our effect on the landscape around us, and how our cultural expectations and the media impact mental health.

PRINTMAKING BFA ENTRY REVIEWS

PRINTMAKING BFA ENTRY REVIEWS
art.unt.edu/studio-art-concentration-entry-review

Make an appointment with the Printmaking Area Coordinator for consultations.

Due October 15
Submit all contents through unt.slideroom.com

PORTFOLIO CONTENT REQUIREMENTS

1. 12 to18 Images of Artworks:
Demonstrate proficiency with at least two printmaking processes in creating strong visual matrixes, printing matrixes with fidelity, and curating prints. Image 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 will consist of three limited editions of three consistent prints each. Additional images may be prints or other related media. Artworks should be photographed or scanned showing the whole print including the deckle, torn, or cut edge of the paper.

Get a reservation now if you want the CVAD photo documentation to photograph your work: https://art.unt.edu/about-cvad/photo-documentation-room
OR photograph/scan the work yourself using camera, lights, and tripod checked out from the 3rd floor CVAD computer lab. Here are general tips for photographing artwork: https://dgillart.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/photographing-artwork/
All images should be color corrected and white balanced as appropriate to professional quality.

2. Transcripts
Upload your transcripts to Slideroom. UNT students must include an unofficial copy of your transcripts, which may be downloaded from my.unt.edu. For transfer students, you must include unofficial transcripts from all previous institutions attended. Acceptance to the program is contingent on 2.75 and in good academic standing. Save as pdf using the following file convention Last_first_transcripts (ex: Smith_Jennifer_transcirpts)

3. Statement
Write a statement (up to 2000 characters) responding to one or more of the following prompts:
· Describe your artwork’s strengths, weaknesses, and your plans for further development.
· Give examples of one historical and one contemporary practice/artist/method that relates to your artwork.
· Describe the relationship between form and content in one of the artworks in your portfolio.
What resonates with you about the concentration to which you are applying?