saturday tasa booklet

7/28/2019 Saturday TASA booklet

1/12

saturday

sessions III & IV

saturday

sessions III & IV


2/12

session IIIarts121Workshop:Technology

Blog, Design, Technology

Daniel Lievensgraphic designer & faculty member

st. edwards university

This presentation will discuss the use of blogs to archive work,present new work, and give students a venue for receiving and givingfeedback outside of the traditional critique. Well look at the use ofblogs from the student/user perspective as well as setting up andstructuring of the blogs from the faculty perspective.


3/12

arts121Workshop:Technology

Reality Community: Involvement in the Class

Beyond Jana C. Perez, assistant prof of graphic designtexas womans universitylimit first 20 participants

Many students today believe that they possess a sense of communitythrough social and screen media such as Twitter, Facebook, blogsand texting often engaging in several of these simultaneously.Design students in particular, as learners and future practitioners ofvisual communication, must be able to function in both virtual andreal communities. Are students really interacting in a communal wayvia technology or simply settling for a less active, internal dialogue?This presentation will outline the results of key objectives andprojects incorporated into graphic design coursework that utilize bothpersonal relationships and technology to create and contribute to theidea of community in and outside of the classroom.

arts110W

orkshop:GreenArt/Environm

ental

Weathergrams

A Spring Peace ProjectJudy Stone-Nunneley, artist & educator

limit first 15 participantsJudy will present a hands-on workshop focusing on the creationof simple printed collages with found images, text, and expressivemonoprints. Printed on recycled paper sacks, the Weathergramsare records of contemplation, shared observations of the naturalworld, and messages of hope. The Weathergrams will be installedon campus for the Spring season and will recycle with the seasonsweather.


4/12

arts113Panel:CollaborativeProjects

Imagillaboration

A National Sculpture Collaboration Project,the logistical challenges and rewards of working, exchanging

and exhibiting these 3-D compositions on a national scaleJack Gron, director/professor of fine art

texas a&m, corpus christi

Jack Gron, director/professor of fine art, texas a&m, corpus christiFrom 20072009, 106 sculptors representing twenty-six states acrossthe country have joined together to undertake a collaborative artproject of unprecedented proportions. Working in regional groupsof five to nine people, the artists have created an immense bodyof collaborative three-dimensional artwork. Each participant was tocreate a seed element, the beginning segment of a sculpture,which was then passed onto other group members who each addedtheir own artistic element to every piece. Once the cycle of exchangewas complete, each artist will have contributed to every sculpture,

and there is one finished sculpture for each person participating.

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nel:Art&Community

Fundred

Engaging in a 300 Million Dollar DifferenceMel Chin

artist & keynote speaker

This workshop will engage Texas artists and educators in a fun andsimple art project with a powerful solution based mission. You willleave prepared to mobilize your community! The Fundred Dollar BillProject reaches out to students of all ages to create Fundred DollarBills in hopes of gathering 300 million creative voices from acrossthe country in the form of drawings. The original artworks will bedelivered to congress with a request that they are exchanged for theirequivalent in goods and service to transform the lead contaminatedsoils in New Orleans and ultimately every lead affected city.


5/12

arts114Panel:Collaboration

What Role Can Art Play?

Scott Nicolvisual arts faculty

south texas college

The art of the modern and postmodern eras sought to establish itsautonomy, art for arts sake, leaving behind the societal functions ofthe past. In our time, art is not supposed to do something, it is merelysupposed to be. This has led to the segregation of fine art, relegatingit to the rarified world of galleries and museums, as distinct from dailylife and the real world. This poses a dilemma for artists who seekto engage social or political issues, such as the walls that are beingerected along the U.S. Mexico border. More than 600 miles ofborder wall have been built, tearing through cities, farms, and wildliferefuges. In the face of something that inflicts itself so powerfully anddestructively upon the real world, what role can art play?


A Cast Iron Chain for America

Meredith Butch Jackprofessor of art at lamar university

Meredith Jack will present his on-going project to cast a cast ironchain with a link cast in all 50 states of the union. This project is anextension of his involvement with the Iron Trail to the Arctic in2008 and the in-state extension of the Chain that is the CharmBracelet for Texas, to be cast during the 2012 TASA conference.The academic iron casting community begun by Julius Schmidt in the1950s, has grown and prospered. There are university iron foundryprograms in most states and many independent artists have set uptheir own facilities. The Cast Iron Chain is an effort to bring allthese disparate individuals into communication for the exchange ofideas, techniques, and aesthetic deliberations.


6/12


Taking Iron to the Arctic

Donnie Keendirector of keen foundry in houston, tx

In 2008 Donnie Keen of Keen Foundry in Houston led a groupof artists and artisans north of the Arctic Circle to the Village ofWiseman, permanent population 13, to cast a cast iron publicsculpture. Wiseman is known outside of the arctic primarily fromthe PBS documentary Gateway to the Arctic: the Brooks Range,which featured the village and its inhabitants. Collaborating withthe Alaskan sculptor Patrick Garley, Keen has been instrumentalin establishing a thriving artist/iron casting community in the USsnorthern-most state. He will present the planning, logistics, andimplementation of this ambitious endeavor and the five year reunionpour set for June 2012..


Border Wall & Community Based Art Edu

Bret Lefler, Ph.D.assistant professor/art ed. adviser+ coordinator

university of texas at brownsville & texas southmost college

This presentation focuses on how art education majors at theUniversity of Texas at Brownsville have addressed the needs of thecommunity by developing an exhibition using the border wall as atheme. It also includes specific research and curriculum to heightenawareness for the need of community based art and arts educationwithin secondary and upper division students.


7/12


The Influence of Border Wall Art Work

Tom Matthewsassistant chair & visual arts faculty

south texas college

The border wall controversy affects every citizen of the United Statesand Mexico in one way or another whether directly or indirectly.Teaching eight miles from the border in McAllen, Texas hasheightened Matthews awareness of the effects the wall is having onour two countries and how these changes will impact our lives foryears to come. He uses the classroom as an incubator to discuss thepros and cons of the wall and what artists can do to bring awarenessto the situation. Can border wall artwork change minds, influencepolicy and alter popular culture? asks Matthews. Yes, I believeit can.


UTSA Collaborative Editions

Kent Rush, professor of artthe university of texas at san antonio

Since 1983 the University of Texas at San Antonio has informally runutsa Collaborative Editions (utsace). Professors Dennis Olsen andKent Rush who head the printmaking program at utsa have workedwith the semester long visiting artist/faculty and faculty membersto produce a substantial portfolio of wonderful prints primarily inlithography, intaglio and relief. Recently Kent Rush, in an effort toreach out to the community, offered the press to Dr. Ricardo Romoas a format for printing editions for local and regional Chicano/a andMexican American artists. The two Master Printers are former mfagraduated printmakers, Neal Cox (two years now teaching at sfau)and currently, Steven Carter. Since 2004 over 20 prints in editions of30 have been printed and we are working with more artists with ananticipated total of 32 editions.


8/12

arts116Wo

rkshop:InnovationsinFoundations

Colored Slips And The Clay Surface

Stan Irvin, professor of art at st. edwards universityConnie McCreary, artist & educator at st. edwards university

*limit first 20 participants*

There is a long history of potters using colored slips and engobesto decorate the clay surface. Due to their opacity, sensuous texture,potential for color, and possibilities for application at various stagesof drying, these types of liquid clays offer artists and potters manydecorative options. seu art faculty, Stan Irvin and Connie McCreary,will demonstrate various surface decoration and forming techniquesusing primarily colored clays and slips. They will present optionsfor both low and high-fire. Workshop attendees are invited toparticipate in a hands on experience with slip decoration that can beemployed by beginning students and offer some interesting optionsfor more advanced exploration.


Dealing with the Border Wall

Art, Aesthetics, Education and ActivismDavid Freeman, visual arts faculty

south texas college

Photography has been a tool for social and political change formany years and it can exude tremendous educational authority.What better time than now for artists to utilize art as a tool ofenlightenment and education on the specific issue of the borderfence and all the challenges it produces. The border fence strikes atthe very essence of our culture and democracy. I ask my class how wecan investigate the relationships of image, community, concept, andthe cognitive process. In this political climate how do we produce adidactic principle and call authority into question and do it via digitalphotography.


9/12

arts113Pan

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Sports 4 Sharing+Shelter Schools of Mexico

Deportes Para Compartir & the Albergues Escolares IndigenasRoger Colombik and Jerolyn Bahm Colombik

colombik studios in wimberly texas

Working in Collaboration with the Mexican Association of theUnited Nations and Deportes Para Compartir, we are developinga documentary project that will raise awareness about the culturalheritage of indigenous children that are educated and cared for inshelter schools. The shelters are located throughout the countryand often provide the only means of insuring that children living invery remote communities can receive three meals a day as well as afine general education. Deportes Para Compartir uses group sportactivities to promote the United Nations millennial goals that includeissues of gender equality and child health.

arts120Panel:InnovationsinFoundations

Innovations in Foundation Curriculum

Leslie Mutchlerassistant professor of art, area head of 2d foundations

university of texas at austin

Mutchlers interests in Foundations derive from the BauhausPreliminary Course- and consequently bringing relevance tothese ideals. Foundations should be comprised of three equallyemphasized 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 yearsmany art departments have overlooked the critical potential ofFoundations. I thrive on working with young, fresh talented studentsthat remain open and observant, malleable and motivated saysMutchler. I hope to heighten the status of Foundations within theacademic world, to bring about the new Bauhaus.


10/12


From 2D to Cross-Disciplinary Space

Revising Beginning DesignEric Zimmerman, assistant professor of art


How might two-dimensional design courses better respond tocontemporary cross-disciplinary space and student needs? St.Edwards University Art department recently undertook a restructuringof its two-dimensional design course with this question in mind.Emphasizing design process, conceptualization, and the relationshipbetween two, three, and four-dimensional thinking, in a laboratorytype studio environment, this restructuring embeds learning handskills and design principals with reading and discussion. The goal is toprovide students with the tools to be both articulate and technicallyaccomplished within a world that is increasingly cross-disciplinary.By providing them with technical skills and theoretical frameworksstudents are better prepared to engage and make in a variety offields..

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Cash Paid for Rags

A sketchbook performanceCarol Flueckiger, associate professor of art

texas tech university

This sketchbook performance is inspired by the nineteenth-centurypractice of recycling rags for paper. Many early American broadsides,childrens books, almanacs, and newspapers printed the phrase CashPaid for Rags to solicit old cloth for use in paper-making. My projectrevisits the rag trade by taking discarded or second-hand shirts andblueprinting them with phrases and images from nineteenth-centurymaterial culture, creating wearable hybrids of the early Americanwomens movement and contemporary artifacts from my localthrift store. Research and ideas for this project were gathered atthe American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA, and the TTUWomens Studies Program.


11/12

arts113Pan

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Human Rights Art & Community Education

Jenny Bryson Clark: political scienceProfessor Richard Lubben: visual arts

south texas college faculty

We are entering our 5th year at South Texas College hostingan annual human rights art exhibition in conjunctions with theHuman Trafficking Conference sponsored by the Womens StudiesCommittee. Jennifer Clark from the STC Political Science Departmentand Womens Studies President would present an overview of theSex Trafficking Conference and how they collaborate with artiststo educate the community and bring awareness of this global andregional problem. Richard Lubben from the STC Art Department andExhibit Curator will show selected images from previous shows anddiscuss how artists have used their art to communicate a personalexperience, open a dialogue or encourage self-reflection about theissue.


Drawing Structure

Beginning Drawing and a DIY TextbookHollis Hammonds, area coordinator & assistant professor of art


Drawing is possibly the most important foundational skill for thebeginning artist. It is also one of the most popular subjects in art, withmore drawing books on the market today than most other disciplines.Finding the right textbook for your course however is almostimpossible. As faculty we find ourselves piecing together resourcesfor our students, trying to balance technique with concept, and oftenfailing at finding source material that is truly appropriate for a specificcourse. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands,and if you cant find the right book just make one.


12/12

arts121Wo

rkshop:Technology

Teaching Software on the Fly

Peter Tucker, assistant professor of media artssuny fredonia & st. edwards university

limit first 20 participants

Teaching Software on the Fly or Resources for Teaching Technologyor How to teach computer stuff you dont know or ComputerInstruction for DummiesThis workshop will provide participants with the tools and resourcesneeded to introduce technology into studio classes. It is designedfor the educator that does not use technology in his or her ownwork, and may not be comfortable with technology, but would liketo incorporate digital tools in their classroom. I will discuss whattechnology is important, what is absolutely necessary, and whatyou can teach with no budget. The heart of the workshop exploresteaching resources, tutorials and on-line opportunities for bothteacher and student to learn and explore digital technologies.Workshop attendees will be given access to a website createdspecifically for the workshop that has links to resources, ideas forassignments, and on-line tutorials.

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