Lectures and Gallery Talk by Natasha Egan

Thinking About Contemporary Photography 
Lecture: September 22, in Curry Hall 204, at 3:00 PM
Gallery Talk: September 23 at the UNT Art Gallery, at 12:30 PM

Natasha Egan is the Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at the Columbia College Chicago. This lecture is part of the exhibition Discoveries of the FotoFest Houston Meeting Place, which features photographs by emerging artists from around the world, who have participated in the Meeting Place” Portfolio Review of the acclaimed Houston FotoFest Biennial. The exhibition dates are September 11, 2014 through October 18, 2014.

UNT Visiting Artist Shira Richter featured at DMA

Shira Richter will be a visiting artist at UNT October 6-8, 2014. She will be presenting to the Fibers and Core Design classes in addition to her presentation to the Jewish Studies Department.

Hot Potato Called Mother

In connection with the installation The Mother Load, the DMA welcomes Israeli artist Shira Richter. Using such issues as feminism, politics, anthropology, and popular culture, Richter's work addresses the fundamental roles that motherhood and art play in our lives. The Mother Load is an international collaborative project on view in the Center for Creative Connections that engages with women who lead the creative life of an artist while being a mother.

For more information and to get $5 tickets, please go to the DMA website.

Faculty and alumni featured by the DMA in October 2014

Senior Lecturer Lesli Robertson and alumna Natalie Macellaio (MFA) will be giving a gallery talk at the Dallas Museum of Art Center for Creative Connections on October 29, 2014. For more information about the DMA Gallery Talk series, please see the DMA website.

David Collins at the PAA Gallery

Meet and hear from amazing contemporary artists David Collins.

PAA Members Meeting (free to members $15 non members).

PAA Gallery
1013 15th Place Suite 105
Eastside Village
Plano TX 75074 @ 7:00pm

Performing Embodiment by Paula Gaetano Adi

Meaningful Gamification, Nov 21 @ 5:30p

November 21, 2013 | Discovery Park B155 | Reception 5:30 | Lecture 6:00

Dr. Scott Nicholson

Meaningful Gamification:

Motivating Through Play

Instead of Manipulating Through Rewards

Please join Dr. Scott Nicholson as he explains the use of game design concepts to create a layer on a real world setting. Typically, gamification focuses on the use of rewards like points and badges to change the behavior of users. Rewards can cause long-term damage to intrinsic motivation, however, so Dr. Nicholson has focused on developing the concept of meaningful gamification as a way to build intrinsic motivation.

Dr. Nicholson is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and Director of the Because Play Matters game lab and the Game Designers' Guild of Syracuse. He is an alumnus of the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Information Science at UNT. During 2011-2012, he was a visiting professor at MIT in Comparative Media Studies and the GAMBIT game lab. Dr. Nicholson is a published board game designer, wrote the book Everyone Plays at the Library, and was an academic reference librarian at Texas Christian University. He hosts a research blog at http://becauseplaymatters.com.

The College of Information sponsors a Colloquium Series at which renowned researchers and professionals address topics of interest to students and faculty. The goal of the series is to nurture the community of scholars and provide opportunities for faculty and students to engage in the scholarly and research life of the College and the University.

Saturdays in the UNT Galleries

Please join us this Saturday for family events in the UNT Art Gallery, led by CVAD's NAEA undergraduate art educators and featuring yoga stretches with Lisa Furrh and poetry reading by Lynn Lewis as well as a scavenger hunt and sculpture-making activity – all inspired by our current exhibition. Tell your friends!

Saturdays in the UNT Galleries
Art Room 100
Saturday, October 5, 1-3 pm
Free

Professor Dornith Doherty's TED Talk has posted!

If you will remember, we announced in early April that photography professor Dornith Doherty was invited to do a TED Talk at the 2013 TEDx Monterey.

Here is the link to her talk! ENJOY!

Voertman Competition Juror Lisa Hatchadoorian Talk TODAY at 4pm.

Please join us for a visit with Voertman Competition Juror Lisa Hatchadoorian

Today, 4 PM, ART 223

THE BEST // Meet the Artists, RECEPTION APR 6, 6-9PM

Derek Rankins, MFA candidate at UNT featured in Red Arrow Contemporary.

A BAG OF PEANUTS is the elevation of something simple into something complex. By photographing the peanut and then re-presenting it as an image, I am creating a conversation between the individual peanut, multiple peanuts, and the entire bag. The intent is to create value where there may appear to be none. By piecing the bag of peanuts apart and then piecing it back together as images on a sterile white background, I am presenting a contemplative experience between the images of the peanuts and the viewer. The root of the work lies in the Part and Whole approach to my subjects. With a bag of peanuts there exists a part and a whole contained within one individual package. This allows for similarity and difference to exist simultaneously. So many times photography has allowed for a vast landscape to be reduced into a small photograph. Similar but in reverse, I am attempting to take something common and present it as profound.

Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico TODAY

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our pleasure to invite you and your students to join us for an Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico on Monday, March 25 at 3pm at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design.

Penelope Umbrico

University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts and Design
March 25, at 3pm
Art Building Room 223, (on the corner of Mulberry and Welch Streets in Denton, TX)

Penelope Umbrico attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto Canada, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among many others.

Her work is in permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tampa Museum of Art, FL.; International Center of Photography NY.

Umbrico is the recipient of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship; a John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, a Deutsche Bank Fellow - New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, a Peter S Reed Grant; an Anonymous Was A Woman Award; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship.

Her first monograph, “Penelope Umbrico (photographs)”, was published by Aperture in the spring of 2011.

Dornith Doherty speaking at the Amon Carter TONIGHT!

Professor Dornith Doherty will be giving a gallery talk at the Amon Carter tonight, March 21, 2013, about a photograph the museum acquired for their permanent collection. The talk is in conjunction with a talk by former adjunct professor Misty Keasler, and although it is free, attendees have to make a reservation with the Amon Carter. The event is full at this point, but if someone really wants to come, they could e-mail the Amon Carter and they might be able to find a spot for them.

MFA Andrew Blanton lecturing at Goss-Michael Foundation TONIGHT

The Dallas Observer has published an interview with MFA student Andrew Blanton. Blanton is giving a workshop 7 to 8:30 tonight at the Goss-Michael Foundation, 1405 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Dallas, TX.

From the article:

The Goss-Michael Foundation wants you to bring your laptop and cell phone and set up shop at their gallery tonight. And while you're at it, use both to create some art. 

Read more at the Dallas Observer.

Artist Talk with Robert Jessup

Core Drawing Artwork Pick-up Times

Core Drawing Pick-up Times

(Drawing I & II)

Even if your work was not in the show we will have it stored for you to pick-up in Hickory Hall Room 120. Be sure to come during these times. If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail jenny.jones@unt.edu.

Friday 8am Lightwell (you are welcome to come pick up your work that was in the show as we are taking down the show)

Monday 11-2 Jan 28 – Hickory Hall Room 120

Wed 11-4 Jan 30 – Hickory Hall Room 120

Socially Engaged Practice in Art and Curating

The New Media Art Program presents

Visiting Curator
Leah Abir

will speak about:
Socially Engaged Practice in Art and Curating

Thursday Nov. 3rd, 2011 @ 5:30 pm

Leah Abir is the inaugural Artis Curatorial Fellow at Creative Time, working in the Programming Department on the exhibition LivingAs Form (September 24 to October 16, 2011). A curator and writer in the field of contemporary art, she completed her B.A. in Art History and postgraduate studies in Museology at Tel Aviv University and is currently writing her M.A. thesis in the Modern Art department at Haifa University. Over the past 3 years, Abir worked as the Associate Curator and Director of Programming for MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, and has independently curated exhibitions at various galleries and museums throughout Israel. She has written extensively on contemporary art for various international publications and exhibition catalogs, and has taught courses on the history of curating and modern and contemporary art in academic and private institutions.

Faculty and Alumni featured in Gallery Talk at the African American Museum in Dallas

Artists participating include Annette Lawrence, Vicki Meek, Anita Knox, Valerie Bennett-Gillespie, Marilu Flores Gruben and Letitia Huckaby.

Ft Worth Modern Art Museum: Modern Graduate Series 2011–2012

Jenny Vogel speaks at the Modern on Wednesday, September 28, at 5 pm.

Jenny Vogel is a new media artist, working in photography, video, and performance art. Her work explores the world as viewed through the lenses of contemporary communication technology, the media, and historical preconceptions. She received her MFA from Hunter College, New York City (2003), and is currently an assistant professor of New Media Art in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas. For Modern Graduate Series, Vogel discusses her influences and the underlying themes of her studio practice, such as self-induced voyeurism and the curious history of webcams, the dark beauty of a mediated planet, the failure of capturing the experience of history, and humanity in a prefabricated world.

Attendees receive complimentary admission to the Modern the afternoon of each lecture. Light bites and a cash bar are featured for an hour-long reception immediately following each lecture.

"Edge of Life" at UNT

Edge of Life

Please join us for Edge of Life, a traveling exhibit originating at Stephen F. Austin State University and now showing at UNT's Eagle Exhibit Hall in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology (EESAT) building. The Edge of Life collaboration brings together the fields of forest pathology and art, exploring the place they meet. The exhibition features sixteen artists from Stephen F. Austin State University’s School of Art and fifteen ecological artists from across the nation. The goals are to share science’s ability to inspire culture through art, to present a wide range of innovative approaches to making art, and to educate about the field of forest pathology.

Curators' Presentation:
Wednesday, April 20th from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. in EESAT 110 followed by gallery talk in Eagle Exhibit Hall
Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, SFASU
Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, SFASU

Exhibiting Artists:
Peter Andrew, Marsha Blount, Elaine Bradford, Amy Chan, Neal Cox, Chad Curtis, Dornith Doherty, Chad Erpelding, Piero Fenci, Lari Gibbons, Maki Hajikano, Charles Jones, Corinne Jones, Kira Kalondy, Robert Kinsell, Aloma Marquis, Lauren McAdams, Gary Parker, Marguerite Perret, Joseph Philips, Amy Ross, Michelle Rozic, Scott Runnels, Jeff Schumki, Joshua Smith, Jim Snyder, Matthew Sutherlin, Christopher Talbot, Jennifer Trask, Joni Youkins-Herzog, and Keith Yurdana.

Organizers:
Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, SFASU
Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, SFASU
Brian Wheeler, assistant director, Elm Fork Education Center and Natural Heritage Museum, SFASU
Lari R. Gibbons, associate professor, College of Visual Arts and Design, UNT
Dr. James H. Kennedy, director, Elm Fork Education Center and Natural Heritage Museum and professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, UNT

Sponsors:
College of Fine Arts, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, and Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Stephen F. Austin State University. This exhibition and related events also sponsored by University of North Texas' Elm Fork Education Center and the Natural Heritage Museum, the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Studio in the College of Visual Arts and Design. Additional support is provided by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

UNT on the Square hosts Gallery Talk and Reception for Cosmic Suburbia Date: Monday March 7, 4-6pm

Elaine Pawlowicz, UNT Assistant Professor of Drawing & Painting, will give a gallery talk followed by a closing reception here at UNT on the Square. Event is free and open to the public. Please come join us!

All Students, Faculty, and Staff Invited

Map and Directions
UNT on the Square and the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts are located at 109 North Elm, on the west side of the Denton Courthouse Square in downtown Denton, Texas.


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Business Hours
Exhibition continues through-March 21, 2011

Business hours
Monday through Friday, 8 am - Noon and 1 - 5 pm
Gallery Hours:
Monday through Friday, 9 am - Noon and 1 -5 pm, with extended hours until 8 pm on Thursday
Saturday 11am – 3 pm
Sunday CLOSED