May Tveit, Visiting Artist

May Tveit, Visiting Artist 

Lectures
May Tveit will present her work
Wednesday, October 30th 

• 9 – 9:50 am, Lyceum (Design I)

• 10 – 10:50 am, Sage 116 (Design II)

Open Portfolio
May Tveit will show original prints
Wednesday, October 30, 1 – 1:50 pm, ART 275

Demo: Monoprint and CNC Intaglio
May Tveit will show her working process
Wednesday, October 30, 2 – 4:50 pm (come and go), ART 275

Ongoing Printing
May Tveit will work in the studio; please drop in! 
Friday, November 1, 10 am – 4 pm (come and go), ART 275

May Tveit is an artist whose work has received national critical reviews in Art in America, Art Papers, National Public Radio, The Kansas City Star, and Review Magazine. She has received numerous honors and awards including an Andy Warhol Foundation Rocket Grant, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, American Institute of Architects Allied Arts & Craftsmanship Award, two ArtsKC Inspiration Grants, University of Kansas Research Awards, Hall Center for the Humanities Creative Work Fellowship, Center for East Asian Studies Travel Fellowship to Mongolia and was selected to participate in the Studios Inc. and Art OMI International Artist Residency. Her work is represented in the corporate collections of Hallmark International, Fishnet Security, National Center for Drug Free Sport, Andrews McMeel Publishing and numerous private collections. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, studied in Rome with the RISD European Honors Program, and received her Masters Degree from the Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Kansas City Art Institute and currently teaches at the University of Kansas. Her studio is located in Kansas City, Missouri.

See http://www.maytveit.com/

May Tveit's visit is made possible by CVAD Foundations and the Department of Studio.

PANTS HALLOWE'EN SALE!

Printmaking Association of North Texas Students (PANTS) is having a HALLOWE'EN SALE!
October 28 – 31 (Monday – Thursday), noon – 5 pm
CVAD Courtyard, 1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201

Check out PANTS' Insta for more details!

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS MFA (Printmaking) at UNT

Prints by Aunna Escobedo and Aaron Pozos

The MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking at the University of North Texas is accepting applications to begin course work in Fall 2020.

**Deadline for priority consideration is February 1, 2020 (for enrolling in Fall 2020)** 

Late applications may be reviewed for acceptance until March, but with fewer opportunities for Scholarships and Graduate Assistantships. Please contact the Printmaking Area Coordinator, Andrew DeCaen (andrew.decaen[at]unt.edu), for more details about the Printmaking program or to set up a tour of the printmaking studios.

About the Printmaking Program
Graduate Study in Printmaking at the University of North Texas is a broad and intensive experience for serious artists engaging in traditional and experimental printmaking processes as a primary form of expression interconnected to all studio disciplines. The printmaking area is a vibrant community of individuals from a variety of artistic and geographic backgrounds.Art faculty mentor graduate studentsindeveloping conceptual, formal and technical proficiency through studio practice, critical dialog, and professional development. Candidates build experience by participating in exhibitions, portfolio exchanges, collaborations with visiting artists, printmaking conferences, workshops, and other professional activities.

Printmaking Faculty and Staff: 
Andrew DeCaen, Associate Professor of Art & Printmaking Area Coordinator
www.andrewdecaen.com
Lari Gibbons, Professor of Art & Director of P.R.I.N.T Press
www.lrgibbons.com
Thomas Menikos, Printmaking Technician
www.menikos.com
Sydney Webb, Adjunct Instructor
www.sydwebbstudios.com
Kazuko Goto, Adjunct Instructor


Recent MFA Alumni:
Luke Ball
http://lukeballart.com
Jessie Barnes
http://jessiebarnesart.com
Laura Drapac
http://laurahdrapac.com
Sarah Ellis
http://www.sarahellisart.com/
Logan Hill
http://loganpatrickhill.com
Adam Palmer
http://adampalmerart.com
Zackary Petot
http://www.zackpetot.com/
Linda Santana
http://lindaluciasantana.com
Kayla Seedig
http://kaylaseedig.com
Cat Snapp
http://catsnapp.com
David Villegas
http://cedarsarthouse.com/resident-artists/
Jon Vogt
http://jonvogt.com
Chris Wallace
http://southpawprintmaking.blogspot.com

Printmaking Studios and Equipment
Our new beautifully-lit studios are carefully managed and maintained by our Printmaking Technician. The printmaking studios occupy 5700 square feet divided into a large space for relief, intaglio, monotype, and lithography processes, a space for screen print and artist’s books, a space for letterpress, and ancillary spaces including a darkroom, acid room, screen washout room, spray booth room, and critique spaces. In addition to these community spaces, we have a separate 700 square foot space for graduate student printing and individual private studio spaces clustered to foster interdisciplinary dialog, networking, and collaboration. Students also utilize CVAD’s digital printing facilities, Digital Fabrication Lab, and 4th Floor Art Shop. The printmaking studio include:

• 18" x 36" Takach etching press 
• 36" x 60" Charles Brand etching press 
• 30" x 50" Charles Brand etching press 
• Two 26" x 50" Charles Brand etching press 
• 16" x 30" Charles Brand etching press 
• Whelan P100 XPress Pro etching press 
• 8" x 10" Gordon letterpress 
• SP-15 Vandercook letterpress 
• 30" x 50" Charles Brand lithography press 
• 32" x 56" Takach lithography press 
• 30" x 44" Graphic lithography press 
• SG-4464MSeri-glide screen printing Press (44” x 64”) 
• WSL A2 photopolymer platemaker 
• NuArc Trilite Tri-Light 42x60 exposure unit 
• NuArc MSP 3140 exposure unit 
• NuArc 40-1KS exposure unit 
• A large selection of lithography stones (up to 30" x 24" in size) 
• Hydraulic lift capable of lifting 1000kg 
• A substantial collection of recently resurfaced professional rollers and brayers 
• 30" x 48" light table 
• 36" Prexto plate shear 
• 22" x 32" hotplate 

Visiting Artists 
Visiting artists, scholars, and critics are an integral part of our program’s pedagogy. Students gain direct exposure to national and internationally known artists and scholar through lectures, private studio visits, critiques, seminars, demonstrations, and collaborative projects. Recent CVAD visiting artists include: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Erika Adams, Dauvit Alexander, Tsuyoshi Anzai, Be Another Lab, Marion Belanger, Katie Bell, Charles Beneke, Alexandra Birchler, Erika Blumenfeld, Clarissa Bonet, Louis Cameron, Annette Carlozzi, Valerie Cassel, Nick Cave , Chika, Lia Cook, Kyle deCamp, Jeff DellDan Dicaprio, Mark Dion, Jill Downen, Natasha Egan, James Ehlers, Catherine Ellis, Jeff Elrod, Asya Geisberg, Dorothy Gill-Barnes, Susan Goethel-Campbell, Leamon Greene, Gary Griffin, Ann Hamilton, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Nicole Hand, Edgar Heap-of-Birds, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Anna Hepler, Dave Hickey, Pat Hickman, Teresa Hubbard, Nicole Hand, Benito Huerta, Sophie Khan, Mark Klett, Andrew Kubeck, Lady Tech Guild, Derek Larson, Tim Lazure, Beili Liu, Sharon Louden, Whitfield Lovell, Beauvais Lyons, Mary Ellen Mark, David McGee, Phillis Mc Gibbon, Frances Adair McKenzie, Lloyd Menard, Ashley Nason, Dennis Olsen, Robyn O’Neil, Richard Patterson, Sondra Perry, John Pomara, Chris Ramsay, Alan Reid, Lee Renninger, Minna Resnick, Matthew Ritchie, Dario Robleto, Lauren Ross, Alison Saar, Humberto Saenz, Brandon Sanderson, H Schnenck, Jean Shin, Kiki Smith, Matthew Sontheimer, Laura Splan, Sarah Sze, Demitra Thomloudis, Jennifer Townsend, Penelope Juergen Strunck, Umbrico, Fred Wilson, Martha Wilson, Sang-Mi Yoo, and Bhakti Ziek. 

Studio Art Research Resources
The UNT campus offers exceptional professional research resources including exceptional studios and equipment, professional galleries, student galleries, a digital fabrication lab, the UNT Rare Book Collection, and UNT Elm Fork Natural Heritage Collection. The surrounding Dallas and Fort Worth areas offer world-class art museums including the Dallas Museum of Art, the Trammel Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art among many others. The region is a vibrant contemporary art gallery scene and many other cultural activities.

Academic Structure
Our graduate students work with faculty mentors to plan a program of study to meet individual research interests and professional goals. A series of annual MFA Reviews creates a forum for dialog for creative and professional progress.  Graduate students in the MFA program complete minimum of 60 hours including a series of Studio Praxis Courses in Printmaking, Studio Art Electives, Art History, Professional Practices, and culminating with Creative Project in Lieu of Thesis and MFA Exhibition.

MFA in Studio Art procedures manual (download a pdf copy here) and the UNT Graduate catalog (http://catalog.unt.edu/index.php) will provide the structure to meet all of the requirements of the MFA Degree from the College of Visual Arts and Design and of the Toulouse Graduate School.

Teaching Opportunities for Graduate Students
Our Graduate students have opportunities to gain experience in their field while earning a stipend to fund their education. The Graduate Teaching Assistantships are available in the Art Foundations Program. Graduate Teaching Assistants lead hands-on studio sessions for a section in Drawing I, Drawing II, Design I, and Design II under the direction of a Lead Faculty Member. Non-teaching Assistantships may also be available on a limited basis. Graduate students in their final year have often been able to teach as a Teaching Fellow in the printmaking area.

Application Procedures
The process of applying to the MFA program at the College of Visual Arts and Design has three steps:

STEP 1: 

Apply online at tsgs.unt.edu. The Toulouse Graduate School of the University of North Texas evaluates the applicant to verify that minimum standards required for all graduate students at UNT are met. Graduate Admissions generally takes 2 to 4 weeks to process application materials including transcripts from all coursework applied to your undergraduate degree. The GRE test is no longer required for the MFA application. The application is then sent to the Studio Department Office for review by printmaking area faculty.

STEP 2: 

Apply online at unt.slideroom.com. The applicant is evaluated by the Printmaking Area Faculty. Applicants are evaluated by a series of required application materials including:
Portfolio of Artworks: 15 to 20 high quality images of artworks including at least 10 prints.
Letter of Intent: (PDF) A brief statement describing your educational and professional background, your motivations for attending graduate school, and your professional aspirations during and after graduate school.
Artist Statement: Describe the primary focus/foci of your recent work. This statement should illuminate the primary interest in concept, context, form, and/or media/process.
Artist Resume: (PDF) A professional resume showing all educational and professional experience including a complete exhibition record and contact information.
Two Letters of Recommendation: Letters of recommendation from professionals who know your experience and aspirations well.

STEP 3: 

Apply for Assistantships and Scholarships. See https://art.unt.edu/fellowships-assistantships
Graduate Assistantship Application: Apply for Assistantships when you apply to the MFA program. The TA application is online at https://forms.art.unt.edu/fellowship-app. New graduate students are encouraged to apply for a 1/2 time appointment (two positions) as a Graduate Area Assistant and/or Graduate Teaching Assistant to gain experience in their field while earning a stipend to fund their education. The Graduate Area Assistantships are typically available from among the following: Drawing I, Drawing II, Design I, and Design II. During the first semester, new graduate students will take a Seminar in University Teaching in Art course (ART 5700) to support and get training for teaching. Please contact the Printmaking Area Coordinator for advising on which positions to apply.

Academic Achievement Scholarship (AAS):http://tsgs.unt.edu/future-students/funding-your-graduate-education/awards/academic-achievement-scholarship

Tuition Benefits Program (TBP):https://tsgs.unt.edu/new-current-students/tbp-eligibility-criteria-and-requirements


Links 
Printmaking Blog(Current Printmaking activities)
College of Visual Arts and Design(CVAD)
MFA Manual
Toulouse Graduate School
Graduate Studies Application Procedures
Graduate Assistantship Application
Current Graduate Tuition and Fees

Please contact the Printmaking Area Coordinator, Andrew DeCaen for more details about the Printmaking program or to set up a tour of the printmaking studios.

Visiting Artist: May Tveit

May Tveit Installation shot at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Visiting Artist May Tveit 

Lectures
Wednesday, October 30th 

Lyceum from 9 – 9:50 am (Design I)

Sage 116 from 10 – 10:50 am (Design II)

Open Portfolio
Come see original prints
Wednesday, October 30, 1 – 1:50 pm
ART 275

Demo: Monoprint and CNC Intaglio
Wednesday, October 30, 2 – 4:50 pm (come and go)
ART 275

Ongoing Printing
Friday, November 1, 10 am – 4 pm (come and go)
ART 275

http://www.maytveit.com/

Made possible by CVAD Foundations and the Department of Studio.

Mokuhanga Workshop with Kazuko Goto

Mokuhanga Workshop

led by Kazuko Goto (UNT Instructor) 

Paper Arts 118 N Peak St, Dallas, Texas 75226
Every Wednesday, Oct 30 - Nov 20

Frogman's Workshop Presentation

Join us for a presentation about the Frogman's Printmaking Workshops.
Hugo Juarez (BFA 2020) will present about his summer 2019 experience as a participant of the workshops when he participated in Ryan O'Malley's Reductive Relief and Collaborative Mural class. He will demonstrate reductive relief printmaking and present about the workshop experience.

Frogman's Printmaking Workshop Presentations by Hugo Juarez
Monday October 21 from 5-6pm
at the Intaglio/Relief/Monotype Studios, Art 275

Call for SGCI Student Fellowship Awards

Each year, SGC International awards two student fellowships: one undergraduate ($500) and one graduate ($1000). Each institution may nominate 1 undergraduate and 1 graduate student. Students may self-nominate, but must have a faculty sponsor who will submit a letter of support (nomination), and must be enrolled at the time of application. Applicants and the faculty sponsor must be SGCI members in good standing.

Recipients will be awarded their fellowship during the SGCI Awards Ceremony. Award recipients will be afforded all possible opportunities to be listed in conference/council publications and on the website. At the conclusion of the fellowship year, recipients will need to provide the SGCI Archives with digital documentation of the work produced under the auspices of this fellowship. SGC International will also make every effort to present fellowship recipients' work at the following year's conference, however this may not always be possible and will depend upon the resources available to the conference planners in any particular year.

The deadline for submission of nominees is December 15 of the year immediately preceding the conference for which the individual is nominated to receive the award (i.e. December 15, 2019 for fellowships to be awarded at the 2020 conference).

Deadline December 15. For more information, click here.

Applications accepted online here!

Best of luck!
The SGC International Awards Committee

Fold Festival 3 Denton

FOLD FESTIVAL: Pint, Zine and Makers Fair

Sunday, October 20th
From 1 - 6PM Join us at
Armadillo Ale Works Brewery
[221 S. Bell Ave, Denton TX 76201]

FREE Admission & All Ages!

Denton’s First Invitational / Lightly curated makers fair is back! If you know the drill, be excited! If you don’t, Welcome!! At some point every year we take over the Armadillo Aleworks/ Cryptozoology taprooms and cobble it into one massive Art market / pop – up”

Studio Art in Florence Information meetings

Come learn about our Studio Art Study Abroad opportunity in Florence, Italy next summer!
We will give information  about course credit, costs, funding, due dates, logistics, etc.

Join us for one of three Information Meetings:
Meeting 1: Wednesday 10/16 at 5-6pm at Room 223.
Meeting 2: Thursday 10/17 at 5-6pm at Room 219.
Meeting 3: Friday 10/18 at 5-6pm at room 219

If you want to get a head start, check out the Studio Art in Florence program here: https://mystudyabroad.unt.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=11587. You canˀ actually start your application now by clicking the gray “apply” button at the center below the green “UNT Faculty Led: Studio Art in Florence, Italy (ART)” banner. We can only take 18 students and the class usually fills before December, so don’t delay.

UNT has a $1500 UNT International Education Scholarship at https://international.unt.edu/content/international-education-scholarship . This is a first come first serve scholarship with a very simple application process. Apply as soon as you can to be eligible!

Here’s some basic info on the program:
One Month in Florence, Italy: May 20-June 20, 2020. Students will take two classes for a total of 6 credit hours of upper level credit:
Impressions in the City (Monotype printmaking and drawing on location in the city) 

Instructor: Andrew DeCaen.
Figure Drawing in Florence (Multi-level Figure Drawing and drawing on location in the city.)

Instructor: Christian Fagerlund.

Students live in apartments in the heart of the old city center. We spend mornings drawing in museums and on location at various sites in Florence. We spend evenings drawing from the model and making monotypes in studios at Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA). We take one day trip to Siena. Many students take the weekends to travel in independent groups or go on some of the SRISA-led optional weekend trips to other Italian Cities for additional costs.

It is an amazing experience! We hope you will join us.

Andy DeCaen and Christian Fagerlund

Big Ink Steamroller in Arlington

Big Ink Steamroller

Saturday, October 12

10:00am – 6:00pm

204 S. East St., Arlington, TX 76010

Please join Studio 204, Inkylips Press and 4 Acre Press for the Big Ink Steamroller Print Event. Watch the spectacle as artists get their over-sized linoleum carvings printed under the drum of a 2-ton steamroller.  UNT students who are participating include: Aracely Mendoza, Dalia Guerrera & Riley Dunn. This event is free and open to the public. It is being held in conjunction with the South Street Art Festival in Downtown Arlington and sponsored by Clampitt Paper, Downtown Arlington and Frost Bank.

CVAD Grand Opening: Saturday, October 12

CVAD Grand Opening

Saturday, October 12, 2019.  1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
1201 W. Mulberry St., Denton, TX 76201

Join us for the Grand Opening Celebration of the College of Visual Arts and Design’s new state-of-the-art facilities. We look forward to showing you around the facilities, and reacquainting you with our programs and students.  There will be activities, demonstrations, lectures, live t-shirt printing, and more. 

PANTS Full Circle/Preview Day SALE:

PANTS will be in the art building Saturday selling prints, OCT 12th from 1-4 PM.

Relief workshop at Amon Carter

Skip the pumpkin and carve your own linoleum prints at the next Adult Workshop on 10/10. Get your ticket today: http://bit.ly/CarterAW1

In connection with "Set in Motion: Camille Utterback and Art That Moves," this printmaking workshop will give you the chance to make your own linoleum prints. 

Join us for a tour with curator Kristen Gaylord to learn about the printmaking processes represented in the show and their historical significance to modern art. Then, Lari Gibbons, professor of printmaking at the University of North Texas, will teach you printmaking techniques as you design, carve, and then print your abstract creation.

Questions? Email or call 817.989.5013.

Press Operator job at Bell’Invito

A Press Operator position is open at Bell'Invito in Dallas. For details, click Read More:

Visiting Artist: Le’Andra LeSeur

This Thursday October 10th from 11:30 – 1:00 p.m., Le’Andra LeSeur will be visiting CVAD as part of New Media/ the Electronic Media and Performance Art class. She will be giving an artist talk at 11:30, followed by an open Q + A, in the CAVE (ART 356) - and all students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend.

Vernon Fischer Exhibition at CVAD Gallery

Words and Pictures: Vernon Fisher, Professor Emeritus
October 8, 2019 to December 7, 2019
CVAD Art Gallery
College of Visual Arts and Design
1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201

Opening Reception: Friday, October 11, 1:00 - 3:00pm
Exhibition Tour with curator Tracee Robertson: Saturday, October 12, 2:00pm :

Words and Pictures by UNT Regents Professor of Art Emeritus  Vernon Fischer is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures from 1980 to the present and celebrates the grand opening of the expanded and integrated College of Visual Arts and Design building at the University of North Texas.

Born in 1943 in Fort Worth, Vernon Fisher is one of Texas's most internationally recognized artists. He has lived and worked in Fort Worth since 1977. Fisher received a BA in English literature from Hardin-Simmons University in 1967 and an MFA from the University of Illinois in 1969. He was Associate Professor of Art at Austin College in Sherman, Texas from 1969 to 1978 and Regents Professor of Art Emeritus at the University of North Texas in Denton from 1978 to 2006. Influenced by artists such as Edward Ruscha and John Baldessari, Fisher constructs visual narratives, combining images and language in a wide range of media. His work has been featured in two Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial exhibitions and in over 80 solo exhibitions worldwide. His works are in the collections of more than 40 museums. Vernon Fisher has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1995), the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award (1992), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1984), and the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship (1974, 1980, 1981).

Call for EntriesDía de los Muertos Altares Exhibit

2019 Día de los Muertos Altares Exhibit
October 25 – November 3, 2019

Deadline: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 @8:00pm

The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is now accepting submissions for the 2019 Dia de los Muertos Altares exhibit. Creative individuals, artists, non-profit organization and schools are invited to participate by creating their unique interpretation of a Dia de los Muertos Altar. Altars can consist of both traditional and non-traditional mediums, but must contain elements directly related to cultural tradition. The Dia de los Muertos Altres exhibit will be on display from October 25 – November 3, 2019.

All-Hour Access Clearance Now Available for the CVAD Building

All-Hour Access Clearance Now Available for the CVAD Building

Students may apply for ID card swipe access by coming to the Deans’ suite during regular business hours, provide name, eight-digit ID number, issue number and sign an after-hours agreement.
Beginning with the evening of October 1st, the College of Visual Arts and Design will also have Public Safety Officers in the building after normal business hours.