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Archive of CVAD News, Events
Visiting Lecturer: TCU Art Galleries Director, Curator Sara-Jane Parsons
As the Director and Curator of the Art Galleries at TCU in Fort Worth, Sara-Jayne Parsons drives the international curatorial vision of Fort Worth Contemporary Arts and promotes professional development of students and local artists...
(ES)CULTURA: BFA Sculpture Show
Escultura; BFA Sculpture group show | Nov. 14 - 16, 2019 | Reception: Nov. 14, 5-7 p.m. | Paul Voertman Gallery, Art Building
F-1; Art Education Dissertation Exhibition
F-1; Art Education Dissertation Exhibition by Noura Shuqair | Nov. 7 - 9, 2019 | Reception: Nov. 7, 5-7 p.m.
Art Critic and Essayist Reviews Matthew Bourbon's Exhibition at the Kirk
The Dallas Morning News' John Zotos reviews Professor Matthew Bourbon's paintings that tap into the cerebral and the primal...
Art by Art Educators
Art by Art Educators; CVAD National Art Education Association group show | Nov. 7 - 9, 2019
Sculptures for a Cause
The Beginning Sculpture Traditional Methods course, sections 502 and 503, will be participating in UNT CVAD's MFA candidate Heather Hoskin’s Sculptures for a Cause project with the Linda McNatt Animal...
Houston Chronicle: CVAD Alumna Kolčavová in art review
"Velvet Generation,” one of three FotoFest shows up this fall at Silver Street Studios, takes its title from recent political history. Its four artists came of age after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, when decades of Communist rule ...
CVAD Fashion Design at the Don Giovanni Opera!
For a bold new look at the timeless legend of history's favorite Lothario wearing costumes designed and created by Fashion Design students from the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, be sure to get your tickets to Don Giovanni...
Liss LaFleur Exhibition at The MAC
A Conversation with Liss LaFleur, Curator of ‘Cosmic to Corporeal: Contemporary Queer Performance Practices’ Liss LaFleur, assistant professor of new media, has curated an exhibition that opens at the MAC in Dallas this Sept. 21, 2019...
Arrowmont poster includes Casillas ('18, MFA, Ceramics)
We caught a glimpse of one of our alumni on a poster in the office. Horacio Casillas ('18, MFA, Ceramics) took a class last summer at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and appears on the school's national ...
CVAD MFA Open Studios Event, Oct. 24
The UNT CVAD Department of Studio Art faculty, staff and students invite you to the annual Open Studios event. More than 40 UNT CVAD graduate students across disciplines will open their studio doors to...
Dallas Innovates: CVAD is "one of the best arts schools in the country"
Dallas Innovates is talking about the College of Visual Arts and Design! Known as a significant online source for what’s new, next, and reimagined in North Texas, Dallas Innovates shares the stories of creativity...
Graduate + Undergraduate Ceramics Showcase
Reception: Oct. 17, 5-7 p.m. Selected graduate and undergraduate pieces across a variety of production techniques. For more information, contact Eliza Au, Eliza.Au@unt.edu.
Career Center presents Justin Brands 2020 Internship Opportunities
Internship opportunities with Justin Brands© that will be available in 2020 are the topic of a Lunch and Learn session Oct. 24, 2019, noon–1:30 p.m., in the Art Building, Room 464. Opportunities to be explained will be in videography...
Texas Fashion Collection featured in Denton Record-Chronicle
Texas Fashion Collection Annette Becker, director, carefully curates the collection and aims to add garments that represent as many cultures and body types as possible. Annette Becker has a lot of willpower. As director...
Calderón's Latte of Love wins at the Artists Enclave
Congratulations to Martha Samaniego Calderón for Best of Show & Judge's Award for her "Latte of Love" at the Well Blended Juried Exhibition at UNT on the Square Oct. 6, 2019.
Alumnae receive Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants
Alumnae Anila Quayyum Agha, Indianapolis, Ind., ('04, M.F.A., Fibers), and Morehshin Allahyari, Brooklyn, N.Y., ('12, M.F.A., New Media, 2012) are 2019 recipients of the Joan Mitchell Foundation annual Painters and Sculptors Grants...
UNT CVAD wins IIDA Chapter Design Award
Houston—UNT College of Visual Arts and Design won the "Best in City Center, Dallas" Award at this year's IIDA Texas Oklahoma Chapter Design Excellence Awards at the Annual Awards Gala Sept. 21, 2019. The IIDA...
D. Jack Davis Endowed Lecture 2019
Marking the grand opening of the renovated and new addition to the Art Building, this year's D. Jack Davis lecturer is D. Jack Davis! Topic: “Looking Back / Looking Forward; Leaving Legacies / Building Legacies.”
New CVAD Faculty Exhibition 2019
Works by new CVAD faculty are on exhibition in the Cora Stafford Gallery with a closing reception scheduled on Oct. 24, 4-5 p.m.
Ana Lopez, Symposium Presenter
Ana Lopez, UNT CVAD associate professor of metalsmithing and jewelry, will present Oct. 12, 2019 at the Texas 2019 Metals Symposium at ...
BFA Exhibition: Full Circle 2019
Full Circle provides UNT senior BFA students from the Department of Studio Art the opportunity to reflect and present the culmination of their creative practice, research and innovation. The works in this group of exhibitions on view throughout...
CVAD Scholarships and Awards Ceremony, 2019
The annual College of Visual Arts and Awards Scholarships and Awards Ceremony on Oct. 10 will include remarks by Athena Buxton, the inaugural 2019 Onstead Institute, Amon Carter Museum Fellow in Museum Education...
The Politics of Vietnamese Craft by Jennifer Way
Jennifer Way's study The Politics of Vietnamese Craft uncovers a little-known chapter in the history of American cultural diplomacy, in which Vietnamese craft production was encouraged and shaped by the U.S. State...
Painter Richard Heipp Lecture
Richard Heipp explores the rich and evolving relationship between painting and photography. He is interested in perception, challenging the mechanisms of making paintings by hand, machine or the studied combination of both. His work also reflects...
Careers, Curating & Coffee
Explore career opportunities in museums, special collections, curatorship, and fashion history at the UNT Texas Fashion Collection. Annette Becker, TFC curator and director, will offer a behind-the-scenes look at a collection of nearly...
SPEAK INDIAN by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Join us for the Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds Exhibition SPEAK INDIAN. Opening Date: Sept. 25, 2019 Closing Date: Oct. 5, 2019
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Exhibition
Prints from the CVAD Permanent Collection will be on exhibition Sept. 25 through Oct. 5, 2019 in the Paul Voertman Gallery, Art Building...
Art History Grad Students visit the DMA
Graduate students in Paula Lupkin’s art history seminar in the history of design traveled to the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, on Sept. 20, 2019 to see the Dior and I exhibition. Students studied the installation and ...
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Minna Resnick, Visiting Artist
NOTE: Admission is open only to currently enrolled CVAD students. Minna Resinick will be working on a new print in our printmaking studios Sept. 15-20, assisted by the MFA Print Praxis class.
Alumnus Reviews Kjartansson Installation at the DMA
Former UNT Visiting Assistant Professor and CVAD alumnus Arthur Peña, painter, arts educator and writer, reviewed the critically acclaimed Ragnar Kjartansson installation at the Dallas Museum of Art in the Sept. 17, 2019 edition of the Dallas...