CVAD Student Information
CVAD Tours
CVAD offers year round student-led individual and group tours of the college. For more information, and to sign up for a tour, please visit our tours page at art.unt.edu/tours. Please click here to see our buildings and here for CVAD's Facebook page with information about current events.
Directions to CVAD and other useful guides are also available under CVAD Student Information. Or take the Virtual Tour and download the CVAD facilities and building directory (PDF) for information about each of the nine buildings housing CVAD programs and resources on campus. And while you are on campus, be sure to view the campus art collection by taking the Art Path.
Newsletters & Blogs
Letter from the Dean of CVAD
Thank your teacher HERE
Advanced Studio New Media in the Lightwell Gallery Fall 2012 classes are under way!
The new semester brought more students than ever to our freshman classes and sees more students well on the road to graduation. The 2012 year was our greatest year ever for BA and BFA graduates, and a banner year for our graduate programs. The CVAD faculty and staff are helping with improved services, enhanced tours and information for prospective students, and best of all, the high quality teaching and care for our students that has made the CVAD programs such magnets for talented undergraduate and graduated students. Watch our website and Facebook pages for announcements of new activities and subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Stories from the Avant-Garde to keep track of our activities and accomplishments.
Last spring, we were very excited to have collaborated with Nick Cave, artist and CVAD alum, who was last year's Artist-in-Residence for UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts. You can see the performances on KERA's Art n Seek and in our new documentary video by RTVF graduate student Sharie Vance.
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About CVAD
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.
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Featured Alumni
Coral Tiles
Coral Bourgeois (www.coralbourgeois.com), a 1976 graduate of the BFA program in Drawing and Painting from the Department of Art at North Texas State University (now CVAD at UNT) resides in Pawtucket RI, a historic district in Providence where she moved in 1992 with her family. Coral had lived for eighteen years in New York after graduating where she established a successful career as an artist.
At North Texas, she worked with Bob Wade, whom she credits with giving her the idea of moving to New York where she established a successful career making paper jewelry. She employed as many as fifteen people at this work at one point but she returned to her earlier passion and focus on painting, changing over to a more sculptural application, making tiles first on paper and then on wood for larger installations. Her recent work is installed in libraries, hospitals, schools, foundations, restaurants, and homes throughout the world and even at sea on Royal Caribbean ocean liners. Completing several large commissions each year, her gridded forms include hand drawn and found images, textures, and patterns. An article about Coral and her work appears in the January 12, 2012 edition of the online journal, The Genteel http://www.thegenteel.com/articles/design/coral-tiles and you can see Coral demonstrating and talking about her work on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/z3Ed88tPtT8.
CVAD Mission & Goals
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.
UNT Art in Public Places Program
UNT Art in Public Places Program
The University of North Texas inaugurated the UNT Art in Public Places Program in 2009. In 2010, a Percent for Art program was initiated at the university. The first artworks purchased under the APPP guidelines were paintings by CVAD graduates Mariko Frost and Sarah Williams which were installed in the General Academic Building in 2009. The first artwork commissioned was the UNT Multicultural Center Mural in Fall 2010. In Fall 2011, the commemorative sculpture "Spiriki"by artist Kent Ullberg was installed in the new Apogee Football Stadium. Currently, Percent for Art projects are being established for the Library and Discovery Park. The Art in Public Places Program was initiated by the University President's office and is administered by the Art in Public Places Committee. An inventory of art on campus was undertaken and the Art Path map created in 2010 to help people view the collection.
Current Projects:
Willis Library: $15,000 is available for purchase of artworks for the Willis Library. Artists will be selected from the Artist Registry during Summer 2012. Description of the project with specifics about location is available for download, here. This project is now closed for committee review.
Discovery Park: $23,000 is available for purchase of artworks for Discovery Park. Artists will be selected form the Artist Registry during Winter 2012. A project description will be posted here as soon as possible.
Sage Hall: $20,000 is available for the commissioning of artwork for Sage Hall. Artists will be selected form the Artist Registry during Summer 2012. Description of the project and commission with specifics about location and images is available for download, here. This project is now closed for committee review.
UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center: $15,000 is available for purchase of artworks for the new Autism Center at UNT. Artworks will be selected from the Artist Registry during July 2012. Description of the project with specifics about location is available for download, here. This project has been selected and artworks will be available for viewing during an Open House at the Autism Center on Saturday, November 3 from 9-11 am.
Artist Registry
The Art in Public Places Program established the UNT Artist Registry in October, 2011. This registry will be used by selection committees for upcoming projects. All artists are invited to submit their work, without charge, to the Artist Registry. The submission process also permits updating of entries, which we encourage the participants to do regularly. Registry procedures and more information about the registry can be found at art.unt.edu/forms/appp-registration.
Art in Public Places Blogsite
Public art projects at the University of North Texas will be posted on the UNT Art in Public Places blogsite. Please check regularly for new projects and deadlines. We anticipate several projects a year through the Percent for Art program.The blogsite can be found at untappc.blogspot.com.
UNT Art in Public Places mission and policies.
The Art in Public Places Program mission. UNT Art in Public Places policy, and the campus Percent for Art policy are available as pdf. Files:
Mission Art in Public Places Policy Percent for Art Policy
UNT Committee on Art in Public Places Fall 2012 membership: The Art in Public Places program includes representatives of each of the major divisions of the University:
- Robert Milnes, Dean, College of Visual Arts and Design (Chair)
- Teresa Robertson, UNTArtGalleries Director (Co-Chair)
- Victoria Decuir, Art in Public Places Registrar
- Susan Sanders - Office of Advancement
- Ana Lopez - CVAD Faculty (Studio Art)
- Bruce Nacke - CVAD Faculty (Design)
- Terry Barrett - CVAD Faculty (Art Education/Art HIstory)
- Claire Christy - Graduate Student Council
- Caitlin Little - SGA representative
- Sean Zeigler - URCM
- Uyen Tran, Director of Organizational Development, Institutional Equity and Diversity
- Keesha Trim, Risk Analyst, Office of Risk Management
- Helen Bailey -Office of Facilities
- Sharon Kirkpatrick, Facilites Maintenance
- Terri Pierce - Construction Manager, Facilities Planning
- Gerald Ringe, Staff Council
Support CVAD
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"
