School of Art
Outreach
Saturday Morning Art Project
saturday morning art project
Twenty-one gifted and talented students from the surrounding school districts and the Lubbock area, covering a forty-five-mile radius, are recommended by their public-school art teachers for participation. The selected students meet for seven Saturday mornings during the spring semester in the Texas Tech University Art Buildings for three hours of instruction by School of Art faculty.
The Saturday Morning Art Project began in 1981 from a collaborative effort by the
Junior League of Lubbock, the Texas Tech Art Department, the Texas Tech Museum, and
the Lubbock Independent School District; it continues today as a cooperative venture
between the Helen Jones Foundation and the School of Art.
Former participants of this program have ended up pursuing Art degrees at the university
level, often at Texas Tech. They develop successful professional art careers and have
distinguished themselves as leaders in the art field, as educators, studio artists,
designers, and arts entrepreneurs.
One distinguished SMAP alumnus is Alex Ross, a Chicago based artist who contributes to Spiderman and Human Torch for Marvel Comics and Superman for DC Comics. He is a significant influence in the graphic novel and comic book world. A 2016 SMAP alumna, Koby Griggs, graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design. After graduation, Ms. Griggs was employed by Atlanta-based Floyd County Productions as a Background Illustrator for an Animated International Televised Show. Daniel Aycock entered the TTU Art program soon after participating in SMAP. He received a BFA in Photography then proceeded to get an MFA from the School of the Visual Arts in New York, where he stayed. Daniel was one of the earliest artists to venture into Williamsburg in the late 1990s, setting up one of the first art galleries there. He was also the founding publisher of WAGMAG, the Williamburg Area Galleries magazine. While Daniel has re-located his gallery into Manhattan, WAGMAG still operates as a Brooklyn Art Guide.
Program Highlights
Sponsored by the Helen Jones Foundation, Texas Tech University, the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Texas Tech School of Art. All art materials are provided for students by the Helen Jones Foundation for the Saturday Morning Art Project.
MORE HIGHLIGHTS
schedule
All workshops are scheduled from 9 a.m. – noon on Saturdays.
SPRING 2025
Saturday February 1st, 2025
Organic Cast Sterling Silver Ring: Part 1
Rob Glover, Professor of Jewelry Design & Metalsmithing
Students will cast one organic sterling silver ring and will be introduced to the importance of functionality in wearable jewelry. Students will learn the lost wax casting process: wax carving techniques, investing process, casting, and oxidization practices. Students will also learn about current trends and career opportunities within the field of Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing.
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
CERAMICS: part 1
Von Venheizen, Professor of Ceramics
This first session will be divided into two separate meetings – one to make clay pieces and
one to finish pieces. In this first session we will explore the many facets of ceramics
by making things out of clay with slabs, coils, possibly trying the potter’s wheel and
shown how to design things to be 3D printed in clay. We will be using the sgraffito process
to aide in our design/decorating process, so look that up for ideas before you arrive for
the first session.
Saturday February 22nd, 2025
Organic Cast Sterling Silver Ring: Part 2
Rob Glover, Professor of Jewelry Design & Metalsmithing
Texas Tech University Campus
Students will learn the centrifugal casting process, remove rings from flasks, and finish and polish their rings. A short section will be presented on mold-making and reproductive processes within the casting technique. Students will learn about how to support themselves as practicing artists – “No starving artists” lecture. Students will also learn about current trends and career opportunities within the field of Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing.
Saturday March 1st, 2025
SMAP – Ceramics: part 2
Von Venheizen, Professor of Ceramics
Texas Tech University Campus
This is the second of ceramics, class will raku pre-made pieces that can be taken home that day as well as putting a glaze on the pieces you made in the first session. The pieces you glaze the second session will then be glaze fired, and may be picked up at the following SMAP class.
Saturday March 8th, 2025
Mold Making
William Cannings - Professor of Sculpture, School of Art
3-D Art Annex, 3216 Main Street- Room TBD, Texas Tech University Campus
Meet in the 3D Art Annex hallway, group will move to Sculpture studio
Professor Cannings will conduct a mold making workshop, utilizing the alginate and plaster process. Objects and body parts will be cast to create plaster sculptures to create anobject that can be humorous or serious. Students will also learn about current trends and career opportunities within the field of sculpture.
Saturday March 15, 2025
Complicated Color: Using Color Theory in Watercolor Pencil
Shannon Cannings, Professor of Practice, School of Art
Interpreting color that we see in reality can be difficult and complicated. In this workshop we will look at one kind of color scenario and break it down to understandable information. We will make small drawings with colored pencil working from direct observation of a still life. Students will have a beginning understanding of color and material to use in future artworks. Students will also learn about current trends and career opportunities within the field of painting and working with a gallery.
Saturday April 5th, 2025
Button Collage Workshop
Dirk Fowler, Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Students will experiment with collage using xerography, cut paper, typography, drawing etc. and then press their art into their own buttons. Basic principles of design will be discussed with emphasis on hierarchy, balance, communication, and appropriateness. Students will also learn about current trends and career opportunities within the field of Graphic Design.
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