General Information and Advising
The Texas Tech University School of Art awards graduate degrees in Art Education, Studio Art, and the multidisciplinary doctoral program in Fine Arts. The School promotes many activities and events that link our graduate students to our community here in Lubbock, the rest of Texas, the nation, and the world.
The MAE program offers a satellite summer program in Junction, TX, our version of Black Mountain College. Students enroll for summer studio art/visual studies credits at the Junction campus and complete online coursework in fall/spring semesters. Recent student papers and projects attest to the program’s social justice framework: “Buses as Art: Two Month Ethnographic Study in Panama” (2006), Misogyny Re-examined: Painting Exhibition as Autobiography and Gender Complexity” (2006), “Queer Kids in Schools” (Thesis, 2005).
The six studio areas comprising the MFA program> (sculpture, printmaking, photography, painting, ceramics, and jewelry design & metalsmithing) each offer unique opportunities for our students. The sculpture area has been instrumental in the revitalization of the Texas Sculpture Symposium and has hosted the 7th and 9th symposia in the fall semesters 2004 and 2006 on the TTU campus in Junction, Texas. Printmaking faculty recently organized and hosted Beyond Printmaking, an exciting national show of innovative hybrid prints juried by printmaker Anita Jung. Photography students are contributing to the superlative Millennial Collection of photographs documenting the Llano Estacado region during this period of rapid transition and are participating in a collaborative project with the Mechanical Engineering program to build a large-scale camera obscura. One of our painting MFA students recently organized and secured funds for an exchange show with Ohio State University MFA students, which included sending a group of painting faculty and students to visit the Ohio State campus and faculty studios. Ceramics students and faculty raise funds every year to attend the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference and in summer 2007, one of our current MFA students and two alumni will participate in an eight-week residency at “The Pottery Workshop and Experimental Sculpture Factory,” located in Jingdezhen, China. Students in jewelry design and metalsmithing regularly attend and show portfolios at the Society of North American Goldsmiths conference, and the Jewelry Metals Club has sponsored on-campus visits by numerous internationally and nationally known jewelers and metalsmiths.
MAE Advisor :: Future Akins-Tillett
MFA Advisor :: Andrew Martin
Ph.D. Advisor :: Carolyn Tate, Ph.D.