Digital mockup, by Shannon Cannings, of William's steel clouds to be installed at Houston Hobby Airport in May 2022.

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Associate Professor of Painting Ghislaine Fremaux's work, qui vive, was selected for inclusion in BODY POLITICS at ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL (January 6-29, 2022). Juried by interdisciplinary artist Ginny Sykes, the exhibition assembles works from 35 artists. They collectively address notions of bodily autonomy such as consent, reproductive rights, and domestic violence. ARC Gallery, established in 1973, is one of the first and longest-running women's cooperative galleries in the country. Fremaux's work sold to a private collector.

Carla Tedeschi wins Gold at 2021 Davey Award Competition.

David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock – the sort of thing small agencies do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than stratospheric budgets.The 2021 Davey Award Competition, presented by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts based in Ashland, KY,  recognized the best small shops worldwide in web, design, video, advertising, mobile, social, branded, virtual, remote, and podcasts. Carla Tedeschi, associate professor of graphic design, received Gold awards for three poster designs for Moonlight Musicals.

Aaron Hegert featured in popular Korean Photo Magazine VOSTOK.

Aaron Hegert, assistant professor of photography, had work published in VOSTOK Magazine: Visual ASMR (published fall 2021 in Seoul, Korea) is a contemporary art photography magazine special issue that asks "How does the now-here image live? This is a special issue that explores today's visual landscapes, from photography to photography-like graphics to graphics-like pictures. These days, online and social media, we routinely encounter images in which the distinction between photos and graphics is ambiguous. You can meet various photographic works related to the contemporary visual phenomenon, in which photographs and graphics are mixed and resemble each other, and critical essays by eight critics who analyzed these images."

Ghislaine Fremaux completes one-month residency at Anderson Center. 

Ghislaine Fremaux, associate professor of painting, and her collaborator, Lando Valdez, were artists-in-residence at the Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, MN, for the month of October 2021. There, they developed a series of large-scale drawings examining grief, desire, and the medicalized subject. They took part in Anderson Center programming, such as a reading by 22nd United States Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith. Their studio investigations were supported and strengthened by the dialogue of their fellow residents, poet Preeti Kaur Rajpal and novelist Karen Smyte. Fremaux and Valdez plan to exhibit their new work in Lubbock in 2022.

Sangmi Yoo presents solo exhibition in TTU System Admin Building. 

Sangmi Yoo, professor of printmaking has a solo exhibition of her printmaking work in the TTU System Administartio Building from August 15, 2021 through January 15, 2022.  Yoo's prints and installations are based on iconic images that are created through personal memory, simulating the perception and memory from a collective experience. She has developed an interest in tract homes combined with botanical elements found in public gardens, using the format of layered hand-cut and lasercut prints. She is interested in the juncture of private space and public built environments, such as Botanic Gardens, stereotypical public places in the US and its territories, such as Puerto Rico. Cultural representations of botanic gardens are interesting and problematic as they embody many different histories and colonial perspectives still residing in our everyday life. She used constructed paper panels, laser-cuts felts and various digital, traditional and post-digital printmaking techniques. The visual forms in this exhibition are derived from Dazzle (disruptive) camouflage patterns used in war ships during World War I. Dazzle ship camouflage used in World War I by a British marine artist, Norman Wilkinson, makes it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed, and heading. With the pandemic and the everchanging political climate in global relationships in recent years, these patterns resonate the interferences and intersections being part of this tension. By means of these choices, seeks to create a sense of fragility in memories and in illusions of the world we believe while overcoming it through resilience. The overlayed patterns and paper cuts create optical illusions through the cast shadows of the original shapes, which compares the notion of ideal place as a tangible subject to illusion.