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Welcome Messages We would like to welcome you and thank you for being a part of Art + Community, the 42nd Annual TASA conference, hosted by St. Edward’s University. We’ve had a lot of fun planning this year’s conference, and hope you enjoy what’s 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 Houston-born artist Mel Chin, we hope this will be an exciting fun-filled conference.
conference chairs
Hollis Hammonds & Angela Rodgers
Table of Contents Contact Information 2 Welcome Messages 4 Table of Contents 5 Keynote Speaker: Mel Chin
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Presentors: Catherine Caesar & Stacy Schultz
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Speaker: Robert Hite 10 Lecturer: Ken Dawson Little
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Board of Directors 14 Conference Vendors and Volunteers
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Conference Sponsors & Donors
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Quick Session Reference: Thursday & Friday
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Detailed Friday Schedule: Sessions I & II
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Quick Session Reference: Saturday
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Detailed Saturday Schedule: Sessions III & IV
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Poster Presentation 47 Membership Statistics 48 Juried Student Exhibition 2012
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One Cube Foot Exhibition
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Food and Key Points List
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St. Edward’s University Map
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Abvreviated Schedule 56
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Keynote Speaker
Mel Chin
Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951, he graduated from
After Katrina had wiped out much of New Orleans, Chin was invited
Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1975, and later moved to
to the city to see how he could make a difference in the community.
New York City in 1983. Chin is highly motivated by social, political and
Working with scientists, Chin found that the lead contamination in the
cultural realities, and his work reflects his concern for the environment
soil in New Orleans was at a hazardous level. To find a solution to this
and social consciousness. His work is often exhibited or installed in
problem, Operation Paydirt was put into action. In 2012, once Fundred
public spaces beyond the traditional confines of the gallery or museum.
reaches its goal of 3 million artworks, an armored truck, running on
A conceptual artist, Chin’s body of work ranges from earthworks to
vegetable oil, will pick up the drawings and take them to Washington
animated films. For Chin, art has the power to provoke greater social
DC, where we will request from Congress an even exchange of Funded
awareness and a sense of responsibility in the viewer. Through his
Dollars for 300 million dollars worth of aid for New Orleans.
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 artists.
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Art History Presentors Catherine Caesar
Stacy Schultz
Catherine Caesar’s current research interests include feminist art,
Stacy Schultz received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University
conceptual practice, and reading rooms/libraries in contemporary art.
in 2004. Her previous teaching positions include two appointments as
Earning her doctorate at Emory University in 2005, she produced a
Visiting Assistant Professor at Kentucky Statement University (2004-
dissertation titled “Personae: The Feminist Conceptual Work of Eleanor
2005) and The University of Texas at Arlington (2007-2008). She has
Antin and Martha Rosler, 1968-1977.” She is an Assistant Professor of
also taught a variety of courses in the California State University system
art at the University of Dallas. Caesar’s paper will investigate Robert
ranging from women’s studies to nineteenth century art.
Smithson’s notion of “aerial art”, investigating its relationship to the
Professor Schultz’s research and teaching concentrate on the
Texas landscape and its impact on the conception of sculpture and the
intersections of race and gender in contemporary performance art,
formation of a modern, itinerant identity in a trans global community.
photography, film, and video.
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Sponsored Speaker
Robert Hite
Born in 1956 in rural Virginia, Robert Hite attended Virginia
be a visiting artist at St. Edward’s University, and will give a lecture
Commonwealth University in Richmond and the Corcoran School of
presentation of his work at the 2012 TASA conference. An exhibition
Art in Washington, D.C. After studying traditional ink brush painting in
of his photographs will be on display in the Scarborough Phillips Library
Malaysia, he worked as a studio assistant with Washington Color School
at St. Edward’s University. While a visiting artist, Hite will install a new
painter Leon Berkowitz. Informed both by a rich southern narrative
sculpture specifically designed for the St. Edward’s Campus. This new
tradition and closeness to natural environments, Hite’s imagery often
work, “Crossing Safely”, was inspired by a modest shack in Arrazola,
draws upon his memories of youthful wanderings in the Virginia tide
Oaxaca, Mexico. This sculpture addresses issues of immigration and
waters. He has sought out and photographed rural dwellings not only in
border crossing.You can see more of his work at www.roberthite.com.
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, Hite’s highly refined technique and meticulous attention to detail produce illusions that are both confounding and transformative. In the photographic series Imagined Histories, Hite resituates his architectural sculptures in outdoor settings, magnifying the effects of dislocation and displacement that is central to all his imagery. In 1997, Hite and his family moved to a nineteenth century Methodist church and parsonage in the village of Esopus, New York. The artist is currently represented by Susan Eley Fine Arts in New York City, Cardwell Jimmerson Gallery in Los Angeles, Espacio En Blanco in Madrid, and Pearl Arts Gallery in Stone Ridge, New York. Hite will
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Lecturer Ken Dawson Little Ken Little was born in Canyon,Texas in 1947. He received a bfa from Texas Tech in 1970, and an mfa from the University of Utah in 1972. He has worked in various media including: bronze, ceramics, neon, performance, wood, steel, cast iron, $1 bills, shoes, and other found objects. His work has been featured in over 35 one-person exhibitions, 200 group exhibitions, numerous national publications, and catalogs. Since 1988 he has been a Professor of Art (Sculpture) in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Since 1993, he has maintained a studio and alternative exhibition space, “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 artist’s web site is found at www.kenlittle.com. Ken Little’s talk will cover his multi faceted career, his artwork and its development over his lifetime.
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TASA Board of Directors president 2008–2012
board member/database 2008–2012
paris junior college
texas state university-san marcos
president-elect 2009–10
board member 2009–2012
texas a&m university-corpus christi
brazosport college
board member/recorder 2007–2012
board member/newsletter 2007–2012
san antonio college
lamar university
board member/academic affairs, professional standards 2007–2012
board member/membership 2008–2012
Cathie Tyler
Brian Row
Greg Reuter
Sandra Baker
Susan Witta-Kemph
Greg Elliott
Kurt Dyrhaug
Omar Hernandez
el centro college–dcccd
university of texas at san antonio
staff member/executive assistant
board member 2008–2012
Linda Fawcett
Bill Simpson
hardin-simmons university
trinity valley community college
board member/treasurer 2008–2012/annual exhibitions coordinator, gallery network Liz Yarosz-Ash
staff member/webmaster Victoria Taylor-Gore amarillo college
conference chair 2012
midwestern state university
board member/academic affairs, photography survey 2007–2012 Gary Frields
Hollis Hammonds
st. edward’s university
conference chair 2012 Angela Rodgers
stephen f. austin university
st. edward’s university
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Conference Vendors 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.
Conference Volunteers We would like to extend our thanks to all volunteers, especially those whose names didn’t make it into the printed program. Pilar Arrieta
Art Lies
Rebecca Marino
Erica Bogdan
Jorge MuĂąoz
www.artlies.org
Emily Borneman
Tuan Phan
Mary Brantl
Kaletia Roberts
Jessica Buie
Angela Rodgers
Walle Conoly
Kate Rosati
Barbra Curtin
Nicole Ryder
Caroline Eck
Jennah Slinran
Chrissy Flanigan
Emily Speck
Amy Gerhauser
Art Thompson
Hollis Hammonds
Brenda Torres
Kelly Hanus
Vicki Totten
Donal Haughey
Khristine Tugangui
Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales
Kelly Waguespack
Stan Irvin
Lindsey Webb
Miriam Jurgensen
Big Medium
Maline Werness
Daniel Lievens
Colleen White
bigmedium.org
Justin Martin
Monica Wright
Michael Massey
Eric Zimmerman
Prismacolor Representative Shelley Minus
Liquitex Representative Peter Andrew
Connie McCreary
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Conference Sponsors & Donors St. Edward’s University, School of Humanities The Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance The Still Water Foundation Blick Art Materials Red River Paper Golden Artist Colors Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff Ampersand Jack Richeson & Company Art Lies Austin Museum of Art Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Mexic-Arte Museum Blanton Museum of Art Guero’s restaurant on SoCo Austin Chronicle Prismacolor Liquitex Smooth-On Olmsted-Kirk Paper Company Lucky13
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Quick Schedule
Thursday & Friday
THURSDAY
Ragsdale 8:15a – 2:00p Vendors & Student Poster Sessions in Mabee
APRIL 12th, 2012 *Hyatt
3:00 – 5:00p check-in and registration 5:00p bus leaves for the Austin Museum of Art
*AMOA 5:00 – 7:00p Kick-off reception at the Austin Museum of Art 7:00p bus leaves for Hyatt Dinner on your own (See map on page 28 for suggestions)
FRIDAY APRIL 13th, 2012 Breakfast on your own *Hyatt 8:00a bus leaves for St. Edward’s University Ragsdale 8:15a – 12:00p Registration in Mabee Ballroom B Drop off of artwork for One Cube Foot & TASA Student Juried Exhibitions
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Ballroom B
Ragsdale 9:00a – 12:30p Featured Speakers in Mabee Ballroom A Ken Dawson, Paul Hana Lecture Catherine Caesar, Art History Presentation Stacy Schultz, Art History Presentation Robert Hite, St. Edward’s Sponsored Speaker Ragsdale 12:30p Lunch provided in Mabee Ballroom C 1:30p Campus Tour & Robert Hite exhibit Fleck
2:00 – 3:15p Panel & Workshop SESSION I (see pgs 10-12) 3:30 – 4:45p Panel & Workshop SESSION II (see pgs 13-15)
Fleck
2:00p Set up for Iron Pour 3:30p Iron Pour (meet transport van in back of fleck at 3:20) 5:00p bus leaves for Hyatt Dinner on your own
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Off-campus venue
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Session I: Friday fleck 106 Panel: Collaborative/Community
Multiplicity in Collaboration and Community
practices we are able to create a public body of work that functions as
Sang-Mi Yoo
a tangible mechanism to activate social awareness and provide access
assistant professor at texas tech university Globalization has seemingly brought the world closer together and has resulted in a heightened sense of the familiar. This feeling of familiarity provides a bridge through which Yoo can access and magnify her
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.
perception of a world derived from personal experience. In her work,
Eastland Outdoor Art Museum
the fictive nature of a space that is both idealized and conditioned by
Cathi Ball
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
assistant professor at howard payne university 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 3½ years
idealized environment.
with 144 local volunteers and students. The project allows the students
Borderland Youth
of Eastland access to world famous art while advertising the artist ‘work.
Jason Reed assistant professor of photography at texas state university-san marcos
This community wide project has truly “painted the town”.
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
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fleck 108 Panel: Green Art/Environmental
We’re green, participatory and public!
Artists ‘go green’ by recycling a personal part of the human body - hair.
Randy Jewart
Cultural perceptions and myths about hair will be discussed in an art
director of austin green art, www.austingreenart.org
historical context.
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
Red Listed Catherine Prose
building participatory programs that give people a real feeling of its
assistant professor of art & gallery director at midwestern state university
transformative power. We aspire to train a new generation of artists
Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson is quoted as saying that
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.
“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
Curly, Shaggy, Gleaming, Streaming, The Art of Hair
and humankind. In the same respect, the use of nature as a metaphor
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
emulates an attempt to place ourselves within nature. Today we face an
artist & educator at el centro college
unknown and unseen nature as it is being lost before we discover it and
This presentation examines the history of recycling human hair to
invented before we understand it.
create art. The utilization of human hair in art can be traced back to Queen Victoria’s reign in the mid nineteenth century. The presentation examines the multiple ways human hair is used by contemporary artists.
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fleck 109 Panel: Art & Community
Appreciating Life Through Art Terry Barrett professor of art education & art history, university of north texas 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
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
fleck 111 Workshop: Art & Community – Part 1
(visiting artist position). He is concerned with people building meaningful
Moving Beyond Image and into Community with: Relational Aesthetics: Part 1
connections between contemporary art and their personal and
Georganna Tapley
communal lives.
artist & teacher at art alliance center, brazosport college, lee college
The Struggle For Meaning Between The Artist And The Audience, A Balance between Artist and Community Joe Kagle
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
professor of art, lone star college-kingwood
devastated the shores and lives of thousands, it was impossible for me
To understand the artist, we start with what makes an artist the creator
to go into the classroom with the attitude of lessons as normal. The
that he becomes: the Complete Artist Communicator. To accomplish
relational and artist parts of me collaborate with the participants to
this, the 21st century artist uses all his/her talents and abilities to serve
respond to the events in the world around us. I use these events to
human beings through a team effort that make up for deficiencies in a
teach how artists with conscience might respond. The Art becomes the
single individual. Building this ‘creative-effort-team’, we must understand
result and or response to these events.
fundamental ingredients:
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Session II: Friday fleck 106 Panel: Masters Showcase
Virtual Humans and Living Worlds – Graduate Programs in Arts and Technology at UT Dallas
Their large department enrolls more than 800 undergraduate majors and boasts extensive facilities. Arlington is situated directly between
Marjorie A. Zielke
Dallas and Fort Worth and is convenient to an extensive cultural
Ph.D., assistant professor at the university of texas at dallas
experience, many world-class museums, and a growing economy.
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
Preparing Students for Effective Practice and Leadership in Art Education Christopher Adejumo
technology in art to produce interactive exhibits, computer games,
associate professor of visual art studies/art education at the university of texas at austin
training and simulations, web programs, animation, 3-d modeling and
The mission of the art education program at the University of Texas
other technology-based art media. Students can also combine the
at Austin is to provide excellence in the preparation of art teachers,
study of atec with Emerging Media and Communications (emac) to
art museum educators, and community art programmers. The aim of
study the evolution of text and narrative within the context of arts and
the program is to cultivate top-rated scholarship through institutional
technology.
and community partnerships and research-based development of art
A Growing University – The Graduate Art Programs at UT Arlington
education theory and practice. The art education faculty members are committed to helping students make connections between knowledge
Leighton McWilliams
acquired in the classroom, student teaching in the public schools,
associate professor and assistant chair of art & art history at the university of texas, arlington
and experiential learning in alternative settings in the community.
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.
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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.
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Session Two : Friday
fleck 108 Lecture: Art & Community
Collaborative Projects Colby Parsons associate professor of art at texas woman’s university
The Returning Vet and FILM NOIR: The Problematic
Colby Parsons is a sculptor who has been involved in several
Dr. John A. Calabrese
collaborative projects. One in Denmark with sculptor Brian Boldon
professor of visual arts at texas woman’s university 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.
fleck 109 Panel: Collaboration
in 2006, one in Dallas with the painter/sculptor Mark Collop from 2007–2008, 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.
Low-Rider Bikes in Higher Education: A Project by Throw Away Youth Future Akins
The Arts Triangle ArtsWalk Project
assistant professor of art education & visual studies, texas tech university
Gary Washmon
Inspired by Chicano youth culture that involves “low-rider” bikes and
interim chair of visual arts, texas woman’s university
hoping to motivate junior high students to consider art as a stepping
A committee of faculty members was formed from the various
stone towards attending college, Future Atkins co-created an art
departments in the School of the Arts (soa); Dance, Music, Drama and
opportunity for low-income youth in Lubbock, Texas. Fourteen and
the Visual Arts to create an identity for this new school and to create
fifteen year-olds enrolled in an art class where they created low-rider
an event that would encompass all of the arts in the soa. The concept
bikes with discarded parts and throw-away materials, while Texas Tech
of the Art Triangle came about through looking at a map of campus and
University art studio majors in a kinetic sculpture course created
noting that a line drawn around all of the buildings in the soa created a
“dream bikes” using metals and fabrication work.
triangular shape.
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fleck 111 Workshop: Art & Community – Part 2 Moving Beyond Image and into Community with: Relational Aesthetics: Part 2 Georganna Tapley, artist & teacher at art alliance center, brazosport college, lee college This workshop deals with the person as the artist and the teacher... The Relational Aesthetics workshop will be offered to individuals uniting them in a common theme of research. They will actively participate in all stages of a creation to be completed during the conference. Although this is the second part of a two-part workshop, if you missed part one, you can still participate in part two.
fleck Iron Pour MEET TRANSPORT VAN IN BACK OF FLECK AT 3:20 Butch Jack, lamar university Amy Gerhauser, st. edward’s university Donnie Keen, keen foundry Watch students & faculty pour their molds for the Charm Breacelet of Texas, and other projects.
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