FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 26, 2003
The Museum of Texas Tech University is pleased to announce that printmaker and TTU professor Lynwood Kreneck will offer a presentation titled "Lynwood Kreneck: Influences on My Art" on Sunday, March 23, at 2 PM, in the Museum's Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium at Fourth Street and Indiana Avenue.
In his slide presentation Mr. Kreneck will discuss the origins of the prints in the exhibition Lynwood Kreneck, Printmaker, on display from March 9 to August 17.
Lynwood Kreneck was born in Kenedy, Texas. He finished High School in 1954, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1959. Afterwards, he worked in commercial art with a company in San Antonio. He returned to UT in Austin where he received an M.F.A. in 1964. That same year Kreneck accepted a teaching position with the Art Department at Texas Tech University. In addition to teaching printmaking, he has been the director of the program and exhibition Colorprint U.S.A. since its founding in 1969.
Known as "Dr. Waterbase," Kreneck has influenced his students in the art of printmaking for many years. This exhibition is a retrospective of the many aspects of his career. The exhibition Lynwood Kreneck, Printmaker is companion to a newly published book by the same title. The exhibition consists of 70 works.
A grant from the Helen Jones
Foundation, Inc., makes the public Exhibition Series possible,
free of charge. For more information or to request special assistance,
please contact the Museum's Education office at (806)742-2432,
or email to museum.education@ttu.edu.