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Students -- get your applications for the Voertman competition in before the deadline!

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DEADLINE: CVAD students - get your entries in by December 7th, 5pm.

The annual Voertman Competition at CVAD is a time-honored celebration of artistic achievemen...t and promise. A juried exhibition, it is open to all currently enrolled CVAD students. Started in 1960 by Mr. Paul Voertman, family founder of Voertman’s store, the exhibition is juried each year by an accomplished arts professional and provides students with real-world experience. Since 1960, thousands of artists have exhibited their works and hundreds have received cash prizes sponsored by Voertman’s store.

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One of the students in Professor Eggert's Art in Public course did a temporary public intervention on Denton's confederate monument last night. Read about it in this article published by the Denton Record Chronicle.

Emily O’Connor said she didn’t think the monument, or what it stood for, reflected the values of the majority of Denton residents.

“I wanted it to be the opinion of a group of people that live here,” she said.

dentonrc.com
Performance art reaped the desired outcome of public dialogue when an artist projected criticisms across a monument to Confederate troops.
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Levitating sculpture by undergraduate student Jacob Dominguez for Advanced Sculpture Studio, Fall 2015.
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Our Sculpture Tech Jeff McClung and Shop TA Loren are excited to kick off the semester. We are looking forward to a new semester in our new building!
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"Stare Down" - a collaborative project for the #mappathon by New Media and Sculpture faculty Martin Back, Alicia Eggert and Liss LaFleur.
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