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ANNOUNCEMENT
Effective fall term 2012, in addition to the university admission requirements, students wishing to major in any program in the College of Visual Arts and Design must meet minimum academic requirements to be classified as a pre-major. Admission to the college through this process does not guarantee acceptance into your chosen major as several programs have entry reviews and all have midpoint reviews that must be passed in order to complete the program. For entry review details go to: http://www.art.unt.edu/admission-requirements.html for details on program reviews please go to the program page and review the curriculum sheet provided there.
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This summer in the Lightwell Gallery: Communication Design
Summer is a period of rejuvenation, orientation, and preparation in our college. Be sure to see the CVAD Facebook page to view up-to-date announcements and events. And watch the calendar and announcements on the right hand side of this page for other details. For in depth features on CVAD student, alumni, faculty and staff and their activities, subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter Stories from the Avant-Garde.
Art has been a vital part of UNT since it was first taught in 1894, just four years after the institution was founded. Dr. Cora Stafford, an imaginative leader who served on the faculty and as director for four decades before retiring in 1964, played a major role in guiding the art program to the reputation it maintains today. Determined to keep the program aligned with new ideas, she hired young innovators on the faculty. These included James Prestini and Gyorgy Kepes, two early proponents, in the United States, of the Bauhaus system which endeavored to relate a new design approach to the world of technology and craft. Also on the faculty were Carlos Merida, the internationally known Guatemalan painter and muralist, as well as Octavio Medellin, the celebrated Mexican sculptor and painter. Students included Ray Gough, who became a noted interior designer and UNT professor, and O'Neil Ford, who became one of Texas' most famous architects.
Masters degrees were initiated in the 1930s and the first MS degree in art was awarded in 1937 to Ms. Ann Bookman Williams, a long-time art teacher in the campus demonstration school. UNT's modern art program has been one of continual growth. After World War II, professional programs in advertising art, fashion design and interior design supplemented traditional studio and art education programs. Following an extensive study of the arts in Texas by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in the 1960s, North Texas was designated as a major visual arts program in the State and was approved to offer the BFA, MFA, and Ph.D. degrees beginning in 1971. With the Southwest's demographic population shift in the late 1970's and early 1980's, enrollment increased dramatically. At the same time, the department's comprehensive art programs were being recognized for their quality.
Designing for Facebook
Born in Ada, Okla., but raised in Texas near Austin, Ben Barry is now in Silicon Valley working as a designer for Facebook, where his focus is on developing Facebook's online presence, voice and brand. "It's an exciting opportunity to be able to focus on developing such a young brand that millions of people all over the world already interact with on a daily basis," says Barry. "I am immensely interested in the massive potential that we have to influence social change by encouraging an atmosphere of openness and sharing."
Examples of Barry's recent work for Facebook can be seen at f8 Conference (2010) and the Serendipity Vignette (2010)
Before taking on this challenge, Barry, a graduate of the University of North Texas, worked for the design firm and screen-printing shop The Decoder Ring in Austin. There he honed his skills with a range of clients, doing packaging, merchandising and a lot of screen-printed posters. He's also an alumni of John Bielenberg's experimental design education program, Project M, where he explored the role graphic designers can play in encouraging social change.
Barry's work often displays a pared-down sensibility. "Visually, more often than not, my work is graphically simple with a limited palette of bright colors," he says. "It seems to work for me with my limited drawing ability, and I really admire the economy of one and two-color design work." UnderConsideration's Armin Vit appreciates Barry's approach. "Everything is perfectly crafted," Vit says. "[Barry's design work] is varied, and it has a very engaging vibrancy that I would deem as decidedly American—something I mean as a compliment, and reflected in his great use of typography and imagery."
In addition to his work with Facebook, Barry notes, "I'm also focusing more on personal projects again, and developing a series of screen-printed posters designed by my friends and me. I'm still running an online design community called TheRoot42, and I want to focus on developing it even more over the next couple of years." Begun in 2001 by Barry and collaborator Ian Shannon, TheRoot42 was originally a public art and design forum. It is now a tight-knit private group—with members accepted by application—that serves the needs of a unique creative community of web and graphic designers, photographers, typographers, musicians, painters, animators, screen printers, bookbinders, illustrators, cartoonists and programmers.
As Vit notes, "Ben doesn't seem to sit back and wait for thingsto happen. He goes out and gets it. Whether starting TheRoot42, signing up for Project M or doing self-initiated posters, he has that design curiosity that makes for endless success."
"January/February 2009 STEP's Emerging Talents for 2009: Global, Authentic, Transformative" by Terry Lee Stone
See Ben Barry's work at: www.designforfun.com
Mission:
To engage our diverse student population with issues of artistic heritage, stimulate their imagination and involvement with the world, foster their critical and analytical thinking, and inspire their creativity through educational opportunities in art education, art history, design, and studio arts, all supported by a vital program of creative research.
Goals:
Access:
To provide undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom are first generation college students, access to outstanding programs;
Pursuit of Excellence:
To recruit and retain highly qualified students, to develop student potential, and to manage selective degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, providing a high quality environment that prepares students to become leading professionals in their fields;
Service to the Region and the World:
To provide programming and access to resources in collaboration with educational, governmental, and cultural agencies, reflecting our role as part of a multi-campus university system integrated into the Dallas/Ft. Worth/ Denton metropolitan area and networked world-wide; and
Prominence:
To ensure the prominence of our students, faculty, programs, and institutes regionally, nationally, and internationally and to continue our role as leaders in visual arts education.
Gifts to the College of Visual Arts and Design at UNT allow the College to pursue excellence. These gifts insure that CVAD can attract top graduate and undergraduate students through Scholarships. These gifts also make possible CVAD’s Visiting Artists/Scholar programs, Faculty Enrichment Opportunities, and support to each of the hallmark Institutes housed within the College of Visual Arts and Design. If you think your gifts aren't important, think again. Supporting CVAD through endowments or the Annual Fund helps secure the arts for future generations.
You can see our recent activities online or in the Avant-Garde. Better yet, get in-depth reports on the activities of our faculty, students, and alumni by subscribing to "Stories from the Avant-Garde," our monthly e-newsletter and hourly updates by visiting CVAD on Facebook. Please take a moment and join us in pursuing excellence. We value your gifts as they are an endorsement of the University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design. If you have any questions, or you would like more information on how you can be a partner, please contact Susan Sanders, CVAD Director of Development at (940 565 4026) or Robert Milnes, Dean of CVAD (940 565 2987) for information. You may contribute to CVAD (and the program of your choice) online at: Give to UNT, or you may print out the Donation Form, and mail in with your gift to:
Mailing Address:
CVAD ANNUAL FUND
1155 Union Circle #305100
Denton, Texas 76203.
Special Appeals:
Join the Dress Circle and support the Texas Fashion Collection, and Fashion on Main.
Two scholarships at CVAD specifically benefit from your support through purchases of artworks. For information on supporting the Jack Sprague Communication Design Scholarship, see "Photography by Communication Design Professor Jack Sprague" .
For information on supporting the Jean Andrews Scholarship, see Jean Andrews Pepper Painting on the CVAD website under "CVAD Images" and the "Image Anthology"
