Call for Applications: MFA in Studio Art with concentration in Printmaking at UNT

Prints by current MFA graduate students Jacob Taylor Gibson and Aaron Pozos

The Printmaking Program at the University of North Texas seeks applicants for the MFA in Studio Art with concentration in Printmaking.

MFA Application Priority Deadline: February 1, 2021 (for enrolling in Fall 2021).

Graduate Study in Printmaking at the University of North Texas is a broad and intensive experience for artists engaging in traditional and expanded printmaking processes interconnected with all studio disciplines. The printmaking area is a vibrant community of individuals from a variety of artistic and geographic backgrounds. Art faculty serve as mentors for graduate students in developing conceptual, formal, and technical excellence through studio practice, critical dialog, and professional development. Our students also take graduate courses in art history including one specifically oriented in the History of Printmaking taught by Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace. Our MFA candidates build experience by participating in exhibitions, portfolio exchanges, printmaking conferences, workshops, collaborations with visiting artists, and other professional activities.

UNT Printmaking Faculty and Staff include:
Andrew DeCaen, Associate Professor & Printmaking Program Coordinator. www.andrewdecaen.com

Lari Gibbons, Professor. www.larigibbons.com

Thomas Menikos, Printmaking Technician. www.menikos.com

Sydney Webb, Adjunct Instructor. www.sydwebbstudios.com

Kazuko Goto, Adjunct Instructor 

MFA Alumni Selections:
Luke Ball. http://lukeballart.com
Jessie Barnes. http://jessiebarnesart.com
Laura Drapac. http://laurahdrapac.com
Sarah Ellis. http://www.sarahellisart.com/
Aunna Escobedo https://www.aunnaescobedo.com/
Logan Hill. http://loganpatrickhill.com
Adam Palmer. https://www.ro2art.com/adam-palmer.html
Zackary Petot. http://www.zackpetot.com/
Linda Santana. http://lindaluciasantana.com
Kay Seedig. https://www.kaylaseedig.com/
Cat Snapp. http://catsnapp.com
Melody Vaughan https://www.melodyvaughanprintmaker.com/about
Jon Vogt. http://jonvogt.com
Chris Wallace. www.southpaw-press.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 MFAPrintmaking Space. Studio Art graduate students also have additional Private MFA Studio Spaces clustered to foster interdisciplinary dialog, networking, and collaboration. Students also utilize CVAD’s Digital Printing Lab, Digital Fabrication Lab, and 4th Floor Wood Shop. (click highlighted links above for photos or each of the printmaking studio spaces.)

UNT printmaking equipment includes:
18" x 36" Takach etching press 

36" x 60" Charles Brand etching press
30" x 50" Charles Brand etching press
26" x 50" Charles Brand etching press
16" x 30" Charles Brand etching press
Whelan P100 XPress Pro etching press
Gordon letterpress
SP-15 Vandercook letterpress
30" x 50" Charles Brand lithography press
32" x 56" Takach lithography press
Two 30" x 44" Printmaking Machine Company lithography presses
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 (1000kg max)
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 college’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. Some CVAD visiting artists include:

Magdalena Abakanowicz ● Tsuyoshi Anzai ● Be Another Lab ● Marion Belanger ● Katie Bell ● Charles Beneke ● Alexandre Birchler ● Erika Blumenfeld ● Clarissa Bonet ● Louis Cameron ● Annette Carlozzi ● Valerie Cassel ● Nick Cave ● Bethany Collins ● Lia Cook ● Kyle deCamp ● Dan Dicaprio ● Mark Dion ● Jill Downen ● Natasha Egan ● James Ehlers ● Jeff Elrod ● Asya Geisberg ● Dorothy Gill-Barnes ● Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds ● Susan Goethel-Campbell ● Gary Griffin ● Ann Hamilton ● Trenton Doyle Hancock ● Nicole Hand ● Ana Lisa Hedstrom ● Anna Hepler ● Dave Hickey ● Pat Hickman ● Teresa Hubbard ● Tom Huck ● Sophie Khan ● Mark Klett ● Andrew Kuebeck ● Lady Tech Guild ● Derek Larson ● Tim Lazure ● Beili Liu ● Sharon Louden ● Whitfield Lovell ● Roberto Lugo ● Beauvais Lyons ● Mary Ellen Mark ● David McGee ● Phyllis McGibbon ● Frances Adair McKenzie ● Jiha Moon ● Ashley Nason ● Robyn O’Neil ● Dennis Olsen ● Richard Patterson ● Sondra Perry ● Chris Ramsay ● Alan Reid ● Minna Resnick● Lee Renninger● Matthew Ritchie ● Dario Robleto ● Alison Saar ● Humberto Saenz ● Brandon Sanderson ● H Schnenck ● Jean Shin ● Kiki Smith ● Laura Splan ● Juergen Strunck ● Sarah Sze ● Demitra Thomloudis ● Penelope Umbrico ● Michael Velliquette ● Fred Wilson ● Martha Wilson ● Bhakti Ziek

Studio Art Research Resources:
The UNT campus offers professional research resources including exceptional studios and equipment, professional galleries, student galleries, a digital fabrication lab, a textiles digital fabrication lab, the UNT Rare Book Collection, and UNT Elm Fork Natural Heritage Collection of taxidermy specimens. 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 has a vibrant contemporary art gallery scene that you can begin exploring at Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas and here at Fort Worth art Dealers Association . There are many other cultural and aesthetic research resources in the area. If you let me know your interests, I can share more specific ideas too.

Teaching Opportunities for Graduate Students:
Our Graduate students have opportunities to gain professional experience while earning a stipend to support their education. The Graduate Teaching Assistantships are available in the CVAD Foundations Program. Graduate Teaching Assistants lead hands-on studio sessions for a section in four foundations Art and Design classes under the direction of a Lead Faculty Member. Non-teaching Assistantships may also be available on a limited basis. Graduate Teaching Fellowships in Printmaking have typically been available in the third year.

Links:
Studio Art Department https://cvad.unt.edu/studioart
College of Visual Art and Design https://cvad.unt.edu/
Toulouse Graduate School https://tgs.unt.edu/toulouse-graduate-school
UNT Printmaking Blog: http://untprintmakingblog.blogspot.com/

All prospective graduate students interested in our program are encouraged to contact Andrew DeCaen, the Printmaking Program Coordinator.  We are happy to set up Zoom or Facetime virtual tours of our studios. Please share this post with people you think may be interested in applying.

PLATFORM LECTURE /Christine Sun Kim

PLATFORM LECTURE /Christine Sun Kim

February 10, 2020 at 6:30pm
Greater Denton Arts Council, 400 E. Hickory Street, Denton Texas
Free & Open to the public

Christine Sun Kim uses the medium of sound in performance and drawing to investigate her relationship with spoken languages and her aural environment. Selected exhibitions and performances have been held at: Ghebaly, Los Angeles (solo); White Space, Beijing (solo); Carroll/Fletcher, London (solo); De Appel, Amsterdam (solo); Serralves Museum, Porto; Sound Live Tokyo; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Berlin and Shanghai Biennials; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, New York.

Sponsors:  

UNT Department of Studio Art
UNT Department of Art Education & Art History
UNT Division of Multicultural Affairs
UNT Department of Music- Compositional Studies
UNT Onstead Institute
TWU Department of Visual Arts
UNT Charn Uswachoke Award
Greater Denton Arts Council

Third Annual Photography Lecture: Keliy Anderson-Staley

Keliy Anderson-Staley, Shelter in Place, Shelburne Museum, VT, 2019

Third Annual Photography Lecture organized by the Photography Area and the UNT Digital Library

Keliy Anderson-Staley 

Eagle Student Services Center, Room 255

Thursday, January 30, at 4pm. 

Free and open to the public.

Keliy Anderson-Staley grew up in an off-grid log cabin in Maine. She received her MFA from Hunter College in NYC. Her work has been exhibited at the Akron Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Morris Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Shelburne Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida. Her work is in the collections of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, and the Portland Museum of Art (Maine).

Her projects have been funded by grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Houston Arts Alliance, the George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation and the Puffin Foundation. Work she produced during a residency at Light Work was published as an issue of Contact Sheet, and her book of tintype portraits, On a Wet Bough, is available from Waltz Books.

A public installation of her portraits is on view in the tunnel of the Cleveland, OH Rapid Transit Line and she recently completed a public commission for the United Airlines Terminal at IAH airport. Keliy Anderson-Staley is an Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media at the University of Houston.

This event is made possible by The Cathy Nelson Hartman Portal to Texas History Endowment. https://texashistory.unt.edu/about/endowment/
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Visiting Artist: Du Chau Lecture: Jan 29, 2020

Visiting Artist in Ceramics: Du Chau
Lecture: Jan 29, 2020 at 3:30 at the Ceramics Studio
136 Oak Street Hall, 1120 Oak Street Denton, TX 76201

Call for Applications: MFA UNT PRINTMAKING

Just Three weeks left to apply!

MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking at the University of North Texas

Applications Due February 1, 2020 (for enrolling in Fall 2020)

See our earlier Blog post for details on our MFA program: http://untprintmakingblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/call-for-applications-mfa-printmaking.html

Print by current graduate student Aaron Pozos 

Print by current graduate student Auna Escobedo

**Spring 2020 Opportunities Forecast**

Spring 2020 Opportunities Forecast:

CVAD CONTINUING STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP
Deadline January 31, 2020
https://art.unt.edu/continuing

60th ANNUAL VOERTMAN COMPETITION EXHIBITION
Juried by Andrea Karnes, Senior Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and UNT alumna.
Cora Stafford Gallery, College of Visual Arts, University of North Texas
Exhibition: Jan. 30–Feb. 15, 2020
Reception: Jan. 30, 5–7 p.m.

CADD FUND APPLICATIONS DUE FEBRUARY 1, 2020 at midnight.

CADD Fund Application

ARTIST'S LECTURE:Mark Dion
Feb. 8 at 1pm at the Amon Carter Museum

Tickets are available here: https://www.cartermuseum.org/DionTalk in conjunction with the exhibition

The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion at the Amon Carter Museum, February 8–May 17 https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/perilous-texas-adventures-mark-dion

PLATFORM LECTURE: Christine Sun Kim
February 10, 2020 at 6:30pm at Greater Denton Arts Council, 400 E. Hickory Street, Denton Texas
Free & Open to the public

MFA PROGRAM OPEN STUDIOS NIGHT
February 28
4pm Department of Studio Art at Welch Street Annex, 405 S Welch St, Denton, TX 76201
5pm Department of Studio Art at Oak Street Annex, 1120 W. Oak St., Denton, TX 76201

PLATFORM LECTURE: Joyce Scott
March 16, 2020 at 5:30pm at Greater Denton Arts Council, 400 E. Hickory Street
Free & Open to the public

ARTIST'S LECTURE: Yoonmi Nam
Monday April 13: 9:00AM-9:50AM at Art 223 (Open to CVAD Students)
Monday April 13: 10:00AM-10:50AM RTFP 110 (Open to CVAD Students)

PRINTMAKING BFA SENIOR EXHIBITION
Tuesday April 7 through Satuday April 11, 2020.
Paul Voertman Gallery
Reception: Thurs, April 9, from 5-7pm

INAUGURAL CVAD EXHIBITION-IN-MOTION
5-7PM Thursday April 23
Entry Deadline: Friday, April 10: https://art.unt.edu/eim

CVAD STUDIO ART FULL CIRCLE BFA SHOWCASE
April 23, 2020, 5-7pm

Visiting Speaker: Sara-Jayne Parsons

Foundations Visiting Speaker: Sara-Jayne Parsons

Monday, November 18th
at the Lyceum from 9am-9: 50 am (Drawing I)
at Sage 116 from 10am-10:50 am (Drawing II)
https://finearts.tcu.edu/faculty_staff/sara-jayne-parsons/

Visiting Artist: Derrick Buisch

Visiting Artist: Derrick Buisch
November 14
at 2pm, ART 223
http://202c.com/

Thank you May Tveit!

Thank you to May Tveit for serving as a Visiting Artist at UNT CVAD!

During her time at CVAD, May Tveit delivered two artist's lectures to the college, showed actual examples of her work in open portfolio sessions, demonstrated monoprint and intaglio techniques, and printed in the studio while interacting with students. During her printing time, she developed a series of monoprints and resolved an image carved with a a CNC router. She also completed studio visits with eight graduate students. Thank you for your generosity, May! 

May Tveit 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.

May Tveit's visit to UNT was made possible by Foundations, Printmaking, and the Department of Studio. 

Visiting Metalsmith: Ellen Durkan

Ellen Durkan Visiting Metalsmith
Lecture, Nov. 5
at 4pm, 464 Art Building

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.

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.

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).

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