Conference Booklet

AR + C MMUN T Y

A SHARED DIALOG OF GREEN ART, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, COLLABORATION AND COMMUNITY ART.

2012 TASA ANNUAL

CONFERENCE

APRIL 8 –10 AUSTIN, TX

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TABLE OF CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Welcome to Austin and the TASA Conference at St. Edward’s 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 downright fun with fellow artists and friends.

CATHIE TYLER TASA President

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Welcome

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Schedule

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Biographies

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Session Overview

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Session One

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Session Two

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Session Three

20

Session Four

24

Student Spotlight

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One Cube Foot Exhibition

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Board of Directors

30

Sponsors, Donors, Volunteers

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Vendors, Charm Bracelet for Texas

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Austin Map

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Notes

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http://tasart.org http://tasa2012.wordpress.com

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TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF ART 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.

HOLLIS HAMMONDS ANGELA RODGERS Conference Chairs

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Welcome

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SCHEDULE THURSDAY APRIL 8TH, 2011 hyatt hotel 3:00 - 5:00p check-in and registration 5:00p leaves for the Austin Museum of Art austin museum of art 5:00 - 7:00p kick-off reception at the AMOA 7:00p bus leaves for Hyatt dinner on your own (see page 33 for suggestions)

SATURDAY APRIL 10TH, 2011 breakfast on your own (see page 33 for suggestions)

hyatt hotel 8:00a bus leaves for St. Edward’s University arts building 8:15-9:30a registration in Art Building 8:30 - 9:30a One Cube Foot Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery (pastries and coffee provided)

9:30 - 10:45a panel and workshop SESSION 3 (see pages 20-23)

FRIDAY APRIL 9 , 2011 TH

breakfast on your own (see page 33 for suggestions)

hyatt hotel 8:00a bus leaves for St. Edward’s University ragsdale 8:15 - 12:00p registration in Mabee Ballroom B drop off artwork for One Cube Foot and TASA Student Juried Exhibitions

8:15 - 2:00p vendors and student poster sessions in Mabee Ballroom B 9:00a - 12:30p featured speakers in Mabee Ballroom B Ken Dawson, Paul Hanna Lecture Catherine Caesar, Art History Presentation Stacy Schultz, Art History Presentation Robert Hite, St. Edward’s Sponsored Speaker

12:30p lunch provided in Mabee Ballroom C 1:30p campus tour and Robert Hite exhibit

9:30 - 10:45a panel and workshop SESSION 4 (see pages 24-27) main building 12:30 - 2:30p lunch provided in Maloney room (annual business meeting)

arts building 2:30 - 3:30p Interconnected TASA Student Juried Exhibition 3:30p bus leaves for Flatbed Press flatbed press 4:00 - 4:30p tour of Flatbed Press 4:30p bus leaves for Hyatt hyatt hotel 6:00p bus leaves for Mexican American Cultural Center macc 6:30p dinner banquet at the MACC 7:30p keynote address by Mel Chin

fleck hall 2:00 - 3:15p panel and workshop SESSION 1 (see pages 14-16) 3:30 - 4:45p panel and workshop SESSION 2 (see pages 17-19) 2:00p set up for Iron Pour 3:30p Iron Pour

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

5:00p bus leaves for Hyatt

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Schedule

dinner on your own (see page 33 for suggestions)

8:30p presentation of awards 9:00p bus leaves for Hyatt members should pick up their work from arts 140 between 2:30-3:30p (unless you’ve made arrangements to have the work shipped) students should pick up their work from the Fine Arts Gallery at 3:30p bus use is reserved for those staying at the conference hotel

Welcome

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BIOGRAPHIES MEL CHIN

KEN DAWSON LITTLE

Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951, he graduated from

Ken Little was born in Canyon,Texas in 1947. He received a bfa

Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1975, and later moved

from Texas Tech in 1970, and an mfa from the University of Utah in

to New York City in 1983. Chin is highly motivated by social, political

1972. He has worked in various media including: bronze, ceramics,

and cultural realities, and his work reflects his concern for the

neon, performance, wood, steel, cast iron, $1 bills, shoes, and other

environment and social consciousness. His work is often exhibited

found objects. His work has been featured in over 35 one person

or installed in public spaces beyond the traditional confines of the

exhibitions, 200 group exhibitions, numerous national publications,

gallery or museum. A conceptual artist, Chin’s body of work ranges

and catalogs. Since 1988 he has been a Professor of Art (Sculpture)

from earthworks to animated films. For Chin, art has the power

in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at

to provoke greater social awareness and a sense of responsibility

San Antonio. Since 1993, he has maintained a studio and alternative

in the viewer. Through his community actions, he has engaged

exhibition space, “Rose Amarillo” in downtown San Antonio. His

innercity neighborhoods and helped to rejuvenate local economies.

work is included in many public and private collections around

His interest in science, ecology and the environment can be seen in

the country. Collections include The Contemporary Art Museum,

some of his most famous works including Revival Field, s.p.a.w.n.

Honolulu Hawaii, The City of Seattle, The Nelson Gallery of the

and know mad were featured in the first season of the pbs series

University of California at Davis, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle and

art21 (Art in the Twenty First Century).

many others. A sixty four page retrospective catalog titled, Ken

Paul Hanna Lecture

Keynote Speaker

Little: Little Changes with essays by Kay Whitney and Dave Hickey His most recent project, the Fundred Dollar Bill Project, is an

is available. His artist’s web site is found at www.kenlittle.com. Ken

innovative artwork made of millions of drawings. This creative

Little’s talk will cover his multi faceted career, his artwork and its

collective action is intended to support Operation Paydirt, an

development over his lifetime.

extraordinary art/science project uniting three million children with educators, scientists, health care professionals, designers, urban planners, engineers and 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 2010, 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.

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Biographies

Biographies

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BIOGRAPHIES

CATHERINE CAESAR Art History Presentation

ROBERT HITE

St. Edward’s Sponsored Speaker

Catherine Caesar’s current research interests include feminist art,

Born in 1956 in rural Virginia, Robert Hite attended Virginia

conceptual practice, and reading rooms/libraries in contemporary

Commonwealth University in Richmond and the Corcoran School of

art. Earning her doctorate at Emory University in 2005, she

Art in Washington, D.C. After studying traditional ink brush painting

produced a dissertation titled “Personae: The Feminist Conceptual

in Malaysia, he worked as a studio assistant with Washington Color

Work of Eleanor Antin and Martha Rosler, 1968-1977.” She is

School painter Leon Berkowitz. Informed both by a rich southern

an Assistant Professor of art at the University of Dallas. Caesar’s

narrative tradition and a closeness to natural environments, Hite’s

paper will investigate Robert Smithson’s notion of “aerial art,”

imagery often draws upon his memories of youthful wanderings in

investigating its relationship to the Texas landscape and its impact

the Virginia tide waters. He has sought out and photographed rural

on the conception of sculpture and the formation of a modern,

dwellings not only in the southern United States and the Caribbean,

itinerant identity in a transglobal community.

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

STACY 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, CSU San Bernardino, and San Diego State University) ranging from women’s studies to nineteenth century art. Professor Schultz’s 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:

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 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. Edward’s University, and will give a lecture presentation of his work at the 2010 TASA conference. An exhibition of his photographs will be on display in the Scarborough Phillips Library at St. Edward’s University. While a visiting artist, Hite will install a new sculpture specifically designed for the St. Edward’s 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.

“Performing the Black Nude: The Artist’s 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 2010 TASA conference.

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Biographies

Biographies

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SESSION OVERVIEW FRIDAY, APRIL 9th

2:00P fleck 106

9:30A Panel: Collaborative/Community Multiplicity in Collaboration and Community Borderland Youth: A Social Geography Revealed through Participatory Art Practice Eastland Outdoor Art Museum

fleck 108

fleck 109

SATURDAY, APRIL 10th

arts 110

Weathergrams: A Spring Peace Project

arts 113

Panel: Collaborative Projects Imagillaboration – A National Sculpture Collaboration Project, the logistical

Panel: Green Art/Environmental

challenges and rewards of working, exchanging and exhibiting these 3-D

We’re green, participatory and public!

compositions on a national scale

Curly, Shaggy, Gleaming, Streaming, The Art of Hair: An Intimate Recycling Program

A Cast Iron Chain for America

Red Listed

Taking Iron to the Arctic

Panel: Art & Community Appreciating Life Through the Art

UTSA Collaborative Editions

arts 116

The Struggle for Meaning Between the Artist and the Audience, a Balance Between Artist and Community

fleck 111

Workshop: Green Art/Environmental

Workshop: Art & Community – Part 1

Workshop: Innovations in Foundations Colored Slips and the Clay Surface

arts 121

Workshop: Technology Computer Instruction for Dummies

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

11:00A

3:20P fleck

Iron Pour

arts 113

Panel: Art & Activism Human Rights Art & Community Education “ C ash Paid for Rags” - A “sketchbook” performance Deportes Para Compartir and the Albergues Escolares Indigenas

3:30P fleck 106

fleck 108

(Sports For Sharing and the Indigenous Shelter Schools of Mexico)

Panel: Masters Showcase

Art, Aesthetics, Education and Activism dealing with the Border Wall C an border wall artwork change minds, influence policy and alter popular culture?

A Growing University – The Graduate Art Programs at UT Arlington

The Border Wall and Community Based Art Education

Lecture: Art & Community Panel: Collaboration The Arts Triangle Arts Walk Project

fleck 109

Panel: Collaboration

Dallas

The Returning Vet and FILM NOIR: The Problematic

fleck 109

arts 114

V irtual Humans and Living Worlds – Graduate Programs in Arts and Technology at UT

What Role Can Art Play? – Border Wall

arts 120

Panel Art & Community Fundred: Engaging in a 300 Million Dollar Difference

arts 121

Workshop: Technology

Collaborative Projects

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

Low-Rider Bikes in Higher Education: A Project by Throw Away Youth

Blog, Design, Technology

Workshop: Art & Community - Part 2 Moving Beyond Image and into Community with Relational Aesthetics: Part 2

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Session Overview

Session Overview

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SESSION ONE PANEL: COLLABORATIVE/COMMUNITY

PANEL: GREEN ART/ENVIRONMENTAL

Multiplicity in Collaboration and Community

We’re green, participatory and public!

FLECK 106 2:30

Sang-Mi Yoo assistant professor 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 perception of a world derived from personal experience.

FLECK 108 2:30

Randy Jewart

director of austin green art www.austingreenart.org

In her work, the fictive nature of a space that is both idealized and

uniquely qualified to merge environmental, social and economic

embracing both personal and collaborative presentations, her work

considerations into collaborative projects that raise social network

explores the possibilities of an idealized environment.

assistant professor of photography Texas State University

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

building participatory programs that give people a real feeling of

of creative citizens. A Green Artist is an agent for change,

stereotypes and the real, and collective and personal memories. By

Guided by a conceptual framework of reciprocity, Borderland

by visually representing it, inspiring people to engage it, and

artists who serve their communities and to inspire a new generation

she obscures the distinction between the past and the present,

Jason Reed

understand the revolutionary calling that defines “sustainability”

its transformative power. We aspire to train a new generation of

conditioned by our society reflects skepticism and multiplicity as

Borderland Youth: A Social Geography Revealed through Participatory Art Practice

The mission of Austin Green Art is to help the community to fully

capital and community standards of sustainability.

Curly, Shaggy, Gleaming, Streaming, The Art of Hair: An Intimate Recycling Program

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas

existent within this significant social geography. By utilizing participatory art practices we are able to create a public body

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 Victoria’s reign in the mid nineteenth century. The

artist & educator

presentation examines the multiple ways human hair is used by

El Centro College

contemporary artists. Artists “go green” by recycling a personal part of the human body - hair. Cultural perceptions and myths about

of work that functions as a tangible mechanism to activate social

hair will be discussed in an art historical context.

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.

Eastland Outdoor Art Museum

Cathi Ball

assistant professor 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 3 years with 144 local volunteers and students. The project allows the students of Eastland access to world famous art while advertising the artists’ work. This community wide project has truly

Red Listed

Catherine Prose assistant professor & gallery director

Midwestern State University

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.

“painted the town.”

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Session One

Session One

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PANEL: ART & COMMUNITY FLECK 109 2:30

Appreciating Life Through Art

Terry Barrett

professor of art education and 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

SESSION TWO PANEL: MASTERS SHOWCASE FLECK 106 3:30

women, and students of all ages, pre-K through Ph.D., in the USA

Virtual Humans and Living Worlds — Graduate Programs in Arts and Technology at UT Dallas

and in Holland (visiting artist position). He is concerned with people

The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) offers a unique masters

building meaningful connections between contemporary art and

and mfa in Arts and Technology (atec). The atec program is one of the

their personal and communal lives.

fastest growing degree plans at UT Dallas. A Ph.D. program is also

homes, cancer patients, autistic teen-agers, business men and

in the final phases of development. Students study the application of technology in art to produce interactive exhibits, computer games,

The Struggle For Meaning Between The Artist And The Audience, A Balance between Artist and Community

Joe Kagle

professor of art Lone Star College

other technology-based 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

creator that he becomes: the Complete Artist Communicator. To

and technology.

accomplish this, the 21st century artist uses all his/her talents and abilities to serve human beings through a team effort that make 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

WORKSHOP: ART & COMMUNITY, PART 1 FLECK 111 2:30

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,

Leighton McWilliams

and Intermedia. Their large department enrolls more than 800

associate professor,

undergraduate majors and boasts extensive facilities. Arlington is

assistant chair of art &

situated directly between Dallas and Fort Worth and is convenient to

art history

an extensive cultural experience, many world-class museums, and a

University of Texas at Arlington

growing economy.

Preparing Students for Effective Practice and Leadership in Art Education

art museum educators, and community art programmers. The aim of

Christopher Adejumo

This workshop has a structure that deals with the individual person

the program is to cultivate top-rated scholarship through institutional

associate professor of

as the artist and the teacher. When catastrophic things occur within

and community partnerships and research-based development of art

visual art studies/art education

communities it affects everyone. When hurricanes IKE and Katrina

education theory and practice. The art education faculty members are

University of Texas at Austin

devastated the shores and lives of thousands, it was impossible

committed to helping students make connections between knowledge

The mission of the art education program at the University of Texas

Moving Beyond Image and into Community with Relational Aesthetics:

Georganna Tapley artist & teacher at

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assistant professor University of Texas at Dallas

training and simulations, web programs, animation, 3-d modeling and

To understand the artist, we start with what makes an artist the

up for deficiencies in a single individual. Building this “creative-

Part 1

Marjorie A. Zielke, Ph.D.

at Austin is to provide excellence in the preparation of art teachers,

art alliance center

for me to go into the classroom with the attitude of lessons as

acquired in the classroom, student teaching in the public schools,

Brazosport College

normal. The relational and artist parts of me collaborate with the

and experiential learning in alternative settings in the community.

Lee College

participants to respond to the events in the world around us. I use

The introduction of the program at the 2010 TASA conference will

these events to teach how artists with conscience might respond.

entail a detailed description of the degree options in the graduate art

The Art becomes the result and or response to these events

education program, which are school focus, art museum education, and community-based art education.

Session One

Session Two

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Low-Rider Bikes in Higher Education: A Project by Throw Away Youth

LECTURE: ART & COMMUNITY FLECK 108 3:30

Inspired by Chicano youth culture that involves “low-rider” bikes

The Returning Vet and FILM NOIR: The Problematic

an art opportunity for low-income youth in Lubbock, Texas. Fourteen

and hoping to motivate junior high students to consider art as a stepping stone towards attending college, Future Atkins co-created

Dr. John A. Calabrese

and fifteen year-olds enrolled in an art class where they created low-

suspense films, murder mysteries. Beneath many plots are issues

professor of visual arts

created “dream bikes” using metals and fabrication work. Both sets

dealing with the returning vet to a society that is less than eager to

Texas Woman’s University

of resulting bikes were displayed along with true low-rider bikes

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/

Future Akins assistant professor of art

education & visual studies Texas Tech University

rider bikes with discarded parts and throw-away materials, while Texas Tech University art studio majors in a kinetic sculpture course

have him, a world in which he does not fit. He is oftentimes forced

from the local community in a sidewalk parade. This presentation

to assume the position of a criminal who has to vindicate himself by

will dissect and discuss both student populations, experiences and

overcoming various insurmountable obstacles. Each film presents

performances, community and academic reactions/feedback, fund-

variations on this theme.

raising efforts and obstacles, cultural considerations and reactions based on social class, race and ethnicity.

PANEL: COLLABORATION

WORKSHOP: ART & COMMUNITY, PART 2

FLECK 109 3:30 The Arts Triangle Arts Walk 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.

FLECK 111 3:30

Gary Washmon interim chair of visual arts Texas Woman’s University

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

uniting them in a common theme of research. They will actively

Georganna Tapley

participate in all stages of a creation to be completed during the

artist & teacher at

conference. Although this is the second part of a two-part workshop,

art alliance center

if you missed part one, you can still participate in part two.

Brazosport College

This workshop deals with the person as the artist and the teacher.

The Relational Aesthetics workshop will be offered to individuals

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

Lee College

various arts in non-traditional settings; in and around the buildings on the map, where virtually anything could happen.

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 2007-2008, and one in Denton with electroacoustic composer Greg

Colby Parsons associate professor of art Texas Woman’s University

IRON POUR BACK OF FLECK 3:20 Meet the transport van in the back of Fleck. Watch students and

St. Edward’s University

Dixon from 2008 up to now. These collaborations have incorporated

faculty pour their molds for the Charm Bracelet of Texas and

a broad range of media including clay, glass, video, wood,

other projects.

cardboard, found objects, and light; and each one has taken its own

Butch Jack Lamar University

Amy Gerhauser Donnie Keen Keen Foundry

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 viewer’s participation in the work.

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Session Two

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SESSION THREE WORKSHOP: GREEN ART/ENVIRONMENTAL LIMIT FIRST 15 PARTICIPANTS ARTS 110 9:30A

A Cast Iron Chain for America

Meredith “Butch” Jack

artist & educator

2008 and the in-state extension of the “Chain” that is the “Charm Bracelet for Texas” to be cast during the 2010 TASA conference. The academic iron casting community begun by Julius Schmidt in the 1950’s, has grown and prospered. There are university iron foundry programs in most states and many independent artists have set up

of simple printed collages with found images, text, and expressive

their own facilities. The “Cast Iron Chain” is an effort to bring all

monoprints. Printed on recycled paper sacks, the Weathergrams

these disparate individuals into communication for the exchange of

are records of contemplation, shared observations of the natural

ideas, techniques, and aesthetic deliberations.

world, and messages of hope. The Weathergrams will be installed weather.

Taking Iron to the Arctic

Donnie Keen

director of keen foundry

PANEL: COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

extension of his involvement with the “Iron Trail to the Arctic” in

Lamar University

Judy will present a hands-on workshop focusing on the creation

on campus for the Spring season and will recycle with the season’s

chain with a link cast in all 50 states of the union. This project is an

professor of art

Weathergrams: A Spring Peace Project

Judy StoneNunneley

Meredith Jack will present his on-going project to cast a cast iron

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”

ARTS 113 9:30A

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

Imagillaboration – A National Sculpture Collaboration Project, the logistical challenges and rewards of working, exchanging and exhibiting these 3-D compositions on a national scale

Jack Gron

director/professor of fine art

Texas A&M at Corpus Christi

US’s northern-most state. He will present the planning, logistics, and implementation of this ambitious endeavor and the five year reunion pour set for June 2013.

From 2007-2009, 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” element, the beginning segment of a sculpture,

UTSA Collaborative Editions

Kent Rush professor of art

which was then passed onto other group members who each added

University of Texas at

their own artistic element to every piece. Once the cycle of exchange

San Antonio

was complete, each artist will have contributed to every sculpture, and there is one finished sculpture for each person participating.

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. 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.

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Session Three

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WORKSHOP: INNOVATIONS IN FOUNDATIONS LIMIT FIRST 20 PARTICIPANTS ARTS 116 9:30A

From 2D to Cross-Disciplinary Space — Revising Beginning Design

Eric Zimmerman

How might two-dimensional design courses better respond

assistant professor of art

restructuring of its two-dimensional design course with this

St. Edward’s University

question in mind. Emphasizing design process, conceptualization,

professor of art St. Edward’s University

Connie McCreary artist & educator St. Edward’s University

thinking, in a laboratory type studio environment, this restructuring

There is a long history of potters using colored slips and engobes

embeds learning hand skills and design principals with reading

to decorate the clay surface. Due to their opacity, sensuous texture,

and discussion. The goal is to provide students with the tools to

potential for color, and possibilities for application at various stages

be both articulate and technically accomplished within a world that

of drying, these types of liquid clays offer artists and potters

is increasingly cross-disciplinary. By providing them with technical

many decorative options. seu art faculty, Stan Irvin and Connie

skills and theoretical frameworks students are better prepared to

McCreary, will demonstrate various surface decoration and forming

engage and make in a variety of fields.

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.

PANEL: INNOVATIONS IN FOUNDATIONS

Drawing Structure: Beginning Drawing and a DIY Textbook

Hollis Hammonds

area head of 2d foundations University of Texas at Austin

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

professor of art

almost impossible. As faculty we find ourselves piecing together

St. Edward’s University

resources for our students, trying to balance technique with concept, and often failing at finding source material that is truly appropriate for a specific course. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands, and if you can’t find the right book‚

Innovations in Foundation Curriculum assistant professor of art

Drawing is possibly the most important foundational skill for the

area coordinator & assistant

ARTS 120 9:30A

Leslie Mutchler

St. Edwards University Art department recently undertook a

and the relationship between two, three, and four-dimensional

Colored Slips And The Clay Surface

Stan Irvin

to contemporary cross-disciplinary space and student needs?

Mutchler’s 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.

just make one.

WORKSHOP: TECHNOLOGY LIMIT FIRST 20 PARTICIPANTS ARTS 121 9:30A Computer Instruction for Dummies

“I thrive on working with young, fresh talented students that remain

Peter Tucker

open and observant, malleable and motivated,” says Mutchler. “I

assistant professor

hope to heighten the status of Foundations within the academic

of media arts

world, to bring about the new Bauhaus.”

Suny Fredonia & St. Edward’s University

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.

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SESSION FOUR an annual human rights art exhibition in conjunctions with the Human Trafficking Conference sponsored by the Women’s

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

Jenny Bryson Clark

Studies Committee. Jennifer Clark from the STC Political Science

political science faculty

Department and Women’s Studies President would present an

South Texas College

overview of the Sex Trafficking Conference and how they collaborate

Richard Lubben

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

United Nations and Deportes Para Compartir, we are developing heritage of indigenous children that are educated and cared for in

ARTS 113 11:00A

We are entering our 5th year at South Texas College hosting

Working in Collaboration with the Mexican Association of the a documentary project that will raise awareness about the cultural

PANEL: ART & ACTIVISM

Human Rights Art & Community Education

Deportes Para Compartir and the Albergues Escolares Indigenas (Sports For Sharing and the Indigenous Shelter Schools of Mexico)

visual arts faculty South Texas College

previous shows and discuss how artists have used their art to

Roger Colombik colombik studios Wimberly, Texas

Jerolyn Bahm Colombik

as a fine general education. Deportes Para Compartir uses group

colombik studios

sport activities to promote the United Nations millennial goals that

Wimberly, Texas

include issues of gender equality and child health.

PANEL: COLLABORATION ARTS 114 11:00A

communicate a personal experience, open a dialogue or encourage

Art, Aesthetics, Education and Activism dealing with the Border Wall

self-reflection about the issue.

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

“Cash Paid for Rags” — a “sketchbook” performance This “sketchbook performance” is inspired by the nineteenthcentury practice of recycling rags for paper. Many early American broadsides, children’s books, almanacs, and newspapers printed the phrase “Cash Paid for Rags” to solicit old cloth for use in papermaking. My project revisits the rag trade by taking discarded or

David Freeman visual arts faculty South Texas College

fence and all the challenges it produces. The border fence strikes

Carol Flueckiger

at the very essence of our culture and democracy. I ask my class

associate professor of art

concept, and the cognitive process. In this political climate how

Texas Tech University

do we produce a didactic principle and call authority into question

how we can investigate the relationships of image, community,

and do it via digital photography.

second-hand shirts and blueprinting them with phrases and images from nineteenth-century material culture, creating wearable hybrids of the early American women’s 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 Women’s Studies Program.

Can border wall artwork change minds, influence policy and alter popular culture?

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

Tom Matthews assistant chair & visual arts faculty South Texas College

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.”

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The Border Wall and Community Based Art Education

community by developing an exhibition using the border wall as a

Bret Lefler, Ph.D.

theme. It also includes specific research and curriculum to heighten

assistant professor, art ed.

awareness for the need of community based art and arts education

adviser, art coordinator

within secondary and upper division students.

University of Texas at

This presentation focuses on how art education majors at the University of Texas at Brownsville have addressed the needs of the

Brownsville & Texas Southmost College

WORKSHOP: TECHNOLOGY LIMIT FIRST 20 PARTICIPANTS ARTS 121 11:00A 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.

What Role Can Art Play? — Border Wall The art of the modern and postmodern eras sought to establish its autonomy, “art for art’s 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

Scott Nicol visual arts faculty South Texas College

Design students in particular, as learners and future practitioners of visual communication, must be able to function in both virtual and

Jana C. Perez assistant professor of graphic design Texas Woman’s University

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

art, relegating it to the rarified world of galleries and museums, as

projects incorporated into graphic design coursework that utilize

distinct from daily life and the “real world.” This poses a dilemma

both personal relationships and technology to create and contribute

for artists who seek to engage social or political issues, such as the

to the idea of community in and outside of the classroom.

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

Blog, Design, Technology

role can art play?

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. We’ll 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.

PANEL: ART & COMMUNITY

Daniel Lievens graphic designer & faculty member St. Edward’s University

ARTS 120 11:00A 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

Mel Chin artist & keynote speaker

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

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Poster Presentations On Friday, April 9th, students from various schools in Texas will present their research in a poster session. The session will be held in the Ragsdale Center’s Mabee Ballroom B from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Chris Adams

Scotty Hensler

Shannon Ramos

Bruce Alves

Sarah Jamison

Emily Speck

Jared Applegate

Benjamin Lamb

Kelly Waguespack

Rebecca Beals

Kris Leinen

Chris Walnoha

Shelly Forbis

Aidan Liller

Texas Tech University Texas Tech University Texas Tech University Texas Tech University Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University Texas Tech University Texas State University Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University St. Edward’s University St. Edward’s University Texas Tech University

St. Edward’s University

One Cube Foot Exhibition Every year at the tasa Annual Conference, conference attendees are invited to participate in the tasa One Cube Foot Exhibition. As tasa’s One Square Cube Exhibition’s 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 10th, in the St. Edward’s 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 arts 140 between 2:30 – 3:30p. (Unless you’ve made arrangements to have the work shipped)

Interconnected: TASA Juried Student Exhibition Fifty-four students from schools all over Texas applied for this juried exhibition. The exhibition reception will be Saturday, April 10, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., in the Fine Arts Gallery at St. Edward’s University. Judge, Eric Zimmerman, artist & writer. www.ezimmerman.org

Samantha Alexeichik

Aidan Liller

Bri Anna Satterfield

Erica Bogdan

Albert Longoria

Michael Scot

Meagan Carney

Krystal N. Maestas

Callie Simpson

Alexandra Coody

Rebecca Marino

Emily Speck

Eliana Fanous

Eric Mathis

Tyler Tailiaferro

Kenneth Fontenot

Caitlin McCollom

Khristine Tugangui

Shannon Gowen

Miguel Ortiz

Ashley Watson

Jaclyn Hudak

Kevin Dean Ramler

Simon Welch

Hardin-Simmons University St. Edward’s University St. Edward’s University St. Edward’s University Midwestern State University Mcmurry University Texas State University Texas State University Texas State University

Benjamin Lamb

Texas State University

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Student Spotlight

Texas State University Hardin-Simmons University St. Edward’s University Texas State University Texas State University Sul Ross State University Sul Ross State University

Cari Ritchie

Midwestern State University St.Edward’s University St. Edward’s University St. Edward’s University Midwestern State University St. Edward’s University St. Edward’s University Midwestern State University

Solar Powered Paper Doll

Carol Flueckiger

Hardin-Simmons University One Cube Foot Exhibition

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TASA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Cathie Tyler

president paris junior college 2008–2010

Susan Witta-Kemph

board member/recorder san antonio college 2007–2010

Bill Simpson

board member trinity valley community college 2008–2012

Liz Yarosz-Ash

board member, treasurer, annual exhibitions coordinator, gallery network midwestern state university 2008–2012

Sandra Baker board member brazosport college 2009–2012

Omar Hernandez

board member, membership el centro college - dcccd 2008–2012

Victoria Taylor-Gore staff member, webmaster amarillo college

Angela Rodgers

conference chair st. edward’s university 2012

Conference Sponsors & Donors School of Humanities

Ampersand

Guero’s restaurant on SoCo

president-elect texas a&m university-corpus christi 2009–2010

The Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance

Jack Richeson & Company

Austin Chronicle

Greg Elliott

Art Lies

Prismacolor

The Still Water Foundation

Greg Reuter

board member/academic affairs, professional standards university of texas at san antonio 2007–2010

Brian Row

board member, database texas state university 2008–2012

Gary Frields

board member, academic affairs, photography survey stephen f. austin university 2007–2010

Kurt Dyrhaug

board member, newsletter lamar university 2007–2010

Linda Fawcett

staff member, executive assistant hardin-simmons university

Hollis Hammonds conference chair st. edward’s university 2012

St. Edward’s University

St. Edward’s University

ampersandart.com richesonart.com artlies.org

guerostacobar.com

austinchronicle.com prismacolor.com

thestillwaterfoundation.org Austin Museum of Art

amoa.org

Liquitex

Blick Art Materials

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Smooth-On

Red River Paper

redriverpaper.com

wildflower.org

Golden Artist Colors

Mexic-Arte Museum

goldenpaints.com

mexic-artemuseum.org

Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff

Blanton Museum of Art

liquitex.com

dickblick.com

smooth-on.com Olmsted-Kirk Paper Company

okpaper.com Lucky13

cheapjoes.com

blantonmuseum.org

lucky13mixology.com

Conference Volunteers Pilar Arrieta

Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales

Nicole Ryder

Erica Bogdan

Stan Irvin

Jennah Slinran

Emily Borneman

Miriam Jurgensen

Emily Speck

Mary Brantl

Daniel Lievens

Art Thompson

Jessica Buie

Justin Martin

Brenda Torres

Walle Conoly

Michael Massey

Vicki Totten

Barbra Curtin

Connie McCreary

Khristine Tugangui

Caroline Eck

Rebecca Marino

Kelly Waguespack

Chrissy Flanigan

Jorge Muñoz

Lindsey Webb

Amy Gerhauser

Tuan Phan

Maline Werness

Hollis Hammonds

Kaletia Roberts

Colleen White

Kelly Hanus

Angela Rodgers

Monica Wright

Donal Haughey

Kate Rosati

Eric Zimmerman

We would like to extend our thanks to all volunteers, especially those whose names didn’t make it into the printed program.

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TASA Board of Directors

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Austin Food & Points of Interests

Conference Vendors On Friday, April 9th 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

Art Lies

www.artlies.org

Shelley Minus

Prismacolor Representative

university of texas

Peter Andrew

Liquitex Representative

bigmedium.org

town l a

8 a.m. and will be available until

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but Texas was previously a nation unto itself and it deserves a comparable project. Since TASA is the statewide organization of those programs, it seems logical that it should be the venue for the project.

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enough loose sand to use as a mother mold. The pattern can be any image, shape, or form, but should not require more than 50 pounds to fill (including plumbing and pouring cup.) Each pattern should have a “ring” incorporated to one side (corner, whatever) so that the collection can be attached to a common steel chain with another steel ring, in the manner of a standard charm bracelet. It is envisioned that the completed “bracelet” will travel between the participating institutions, so the image should take the travails ofshipping into account in the design.

The pattern should be capable of multiple molds, just in case we have trouble casting at the conference.

Finish chasing the castings is the responsibility of the institution it represents and the final assembly will be accomplished in Houston at Keen Foundry/Meredith Jack’s studio.

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casting programs in art departments in Texas universities and each can cast a link for the national chain;

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the production of this “linked”, but separate endeavor. We would like to invite every school in Texas,

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Flatbed Press

Guero’s Taco Bar

2830 East MLK

1412 S. Congress

Home Slice Pizza

Austin Museum of Art

1415 S. Congress

823 Congress

Mexican American Cultural Center 600 River

Hyatt Regency Austin Hotel 208 Barton Springs

Zax Pints and Plates 312 Barton Springs

Threadgills Restaurant 308 W. Riverside

Uchi Restaurant 801 S. Lamar

The Highball 141 S. Lamar

Jo’s Hot Coffee Good Food 1300 S. Congress

South Congress Cafe 1600 S. Congress

Vespaio 1610 S. Congress

Woodland 1716 S. Congress

Magnolia Cafe South 1920 S. Congress

La Mexicana Bakery 1924 S. 1st

Garden District Coffee House 2810 S. Congress

Ruta Maya Importing Co 3601 S. Congress Austin Map

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