Core Drawing
Mission
The Core Program in the College of Visual Arts and Design provides the broad foundation to develop the practical skills and conceptual methodologies necessary to enter any of the Visual Arts majors within the College. The program promotes the understanding of historic and contemporary currents and their relationships.
The Core Program achieves the following outcomes:
- Materials and techniques;
- Visual aesthetics and organization;
- Creative processes;
- Visual literacy (development of vocabulary, critical analysis, articulation of process and product; content and context);
- Historic and contemporary visual cultures;
- Professional pathways.
Work completed by Core Drawing students demonstrates the rigorous critical inquiry, practical skill-building and visual exploration that are hallmarks of this well-established program.
Faculty, Students and Alumni
Faculty who teach in the Core Drawing Program are accomplished artists in their respective fields. They maintain active studio practices and exhibit their work nationally and internationally. Their efforts are supported by visiting artists, including the following:
Enrique Chagoya (Berkeley, California)
Tracy Hicks, 2009 (Dallas, TX)
Karen Kunc (Lincoln, Nebraska)
Phyllis McGibbon (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
Nancy Palmeri (Arlington, Texas)
Pam Nelson (Texas)
Chuck Bennett (Architect)
Rebecca Carter
Graduate students who assist these faculty are appointed through a selection process which includes an intensive seminar, innovative mentor program and ongoing performance reviews. Accomplishments of graduate students affiliated with the program include competitive grants from the Dallas Museum of Art, residencies at the University of Texas at Dallas Southside on Lamar, and Travel Grants from the Toulouse Graduate School (UNT). Alumni teach at College of the Redwoods (Eureka, CA), Crafton Hills College (Yucaipa, CA), Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI), Lonestar College (Houston, TX) and Mountainview College (Dallas, TX).
Undergraduate students in the Core Program have impressive accomplishments, including acceptance into the Annual Voertman Competition (UNT); and receipt of several awards such as the Hispanic and Global Studies Initiatives Fund Tuition Scholarship (UNT), Multicultural and Scholastic Award (UNT), International Education Scholarship (UNT) and Study Abroad Scholarship (Lorenzo de' Medici Art Institute of Florence).
Facilities
The Core Program occupies classroom spaces in three separate buildings. A centralized lecture hall provides space for presentations, while a shared light well provides open space for critiques and informal discussion.
Faculty & Staff
Elaine Pawlowicz | Assistant Professor and Drawing II Coordinator
Phone: 940-369-8912 | Email: pawlowicz@unt.edu
Elaine Pawlowicz received her BFA from Southern Methodist University and moved to Chicago to receive her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She continued to live and work as an artist in Chicago for the following 15 years until moving back to Dallas with her husband and two small children ages two and four. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and her paintings were published in recent editions of New American Paintings for the West and Midwest. In 2005 she completed an installation of 12 large scale paintings commissioned by the city of Chicago for Oriole Park Public Library. She has been awarded several artist residences by the Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, Montana Artist's Refuge, and Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland. Elaine has taught college level art for over a decade in Chicago including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Dayton. Her paintings are speckled with tiny characters that are swallowed up by neon color fields. The style is a type of magical realism. The space is flat with an idiosyncratic perspective. These highly personalized narratives are slightly ambiguous and peculiarly lighthearted.
Rachel Black | Senior Lecturer and Drawing I Coordinator
Jenny Jones | Core Drawing Administrative Assistant
Angela Vanecek | Administrative Coordinator I
