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UTRGV School of Art and Design (SOAD) design students competed in two Adobe Jam’s International Competitions this semester: the College + The New York Times Creative Jam 2021 and the College + Amazon Creative Jam 2021 this semester taking a top ten spot, and three honorable mentions. Click Here to Read More!
Detailed information about the College + Amazon Creative Jam contest:
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‘Magical things’: Mexico City muralist leads Brownsville project
On a recent overcast morning in downtown Brownsville, a small group of artists were at work creating a portal to another dimension.
Sofia Castellanos, the Mexico City-based muralist leading the project, which involves about a dozen local artists, said her aim when designing the portal, which is actually a mural, was to create the sense of a world apart yet connected. The massive artwork covering the entire side of the Craftland building opposite the Brownsville/George Ramirez Performing Arts Academy at East 11th and East Washington streets tilts toward surrealism, which she said runs through her work. Click Here to Read More!
Professor Gina Palacios was contacted by Diana Gonzalez from the Mexican Consulate asking if students would be interested in volunteering in painting a mural with and by Mexico City artist, Sofia Castellano.
The UTRGV students who participated:
- Aleya Barrerra
- Yental Marquez
- Armando Castillo
UTRGV Alumni who participated:
- Robert Ruiz – MFA
- Jesse Burciaga – undergrad (with an MFA from UTSA)
Congratulations Ping Xu for submissions of many graphic design works in 2021. Ping Xu received six international awards via three international design competitions and one publication on the national venue in 2021. Click the links below to Read More!
https://www.logolounge.com/book12winners
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https://www.indigoawards.com/winners/3013
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Congratulations to UTRGV Graphic Design student achievements in 2021.
DSVC 2021 National Student Show (Accepted work from UTRGV)
https://pxstudio.us/blog/?p=46363
https://www.utrgv.edu/school-of-art/_files/documents/press_release_design_nssc_entries.pdf
Designrush 2021 Global Student Competition (UTRGV Award Winners)
https://pxstudio.us/blog/?p=46135
https://www.designrush.com/trends/global-student-design-competition-2021
The Thoma Foundation continues to be a pivotal source of support for Latin American Art History in 2021. Inaugural Marilynn Thoma fellows Dr. Katherine Moore McAllen (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) and Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque (University of California, Berkeley) are publishing twelve of the papers based on new research shared at the Thoma Congreso, which McAllen and Muñoz-Nájar organized in Lima, Perú in 2019. This publication includes scholarly essays by Latin American art historians from the U.S., Latin America, and Spain with introductory essays by McAllen and Muñoz-Nájar in this special, two-part guest editing project titled “Thoma Dialogues: Arte Virreinal, el future del arte del pasado” in the Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal (LALVC). Click the links below to Read More!
Volume 3 Issue 4 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | University of California Press
Volume 3 Issue 3 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | University of California Press
Dr. Constance Cortez (UTRGV) and Dr. Karen Mary Davalos (UMN) are proud to announce the launch of a new Digital Resource: Mexican American Art Since 1848.
Bringing together digital collections, images, and art-related primary documents from libraries, archives and museums in the United States, the portal as aggregator celebrates Mexican American art and culture since the U.S.-Mexican War and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Feb. 2, 1848). Click Here to Read More!
Congratulations Rigoberto Gonzalez for being a finalists for The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition!
The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today - April 30, 2022 - February 26, 2023
Finalists Announced in Sixth Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Selected Artworks Will Be Exhibited in Major Exhibition and Tour. Click Here to Read More!
Dr. Elizabeth Berger Receives Grant from VentureWell. We’re proud to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Berger recently received a Faculty Grant from VentureWell! VentureWell’s Faculty Grant program supports the creation or improvement of courses and programs that incorporate sustainability frameworks and principles, and encourages the creation of novel sustainable designs and green technologies. This funding will support a new course that tasks student teams with developing solutions to the global and regional problem of plastic waste in the Rio Grande Valley. Students will learn green design concepts and entrepreneurship and innovation principles, apply user-centered design methodologies, and measure potential community impact as they develop their innovations. Berger was one of twelve grant recipients chosen through a competitive national review process. Learn more about the award, and the other grantees supported by this program. Click Here to Read More!
Congratulations! Elena Macias, Professor of the School of Art and Design and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts was invited as guest curator by the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen. The exhibition title is Imagined Worlds: Exploring the Carlos Melguizo Collection. Scheduled through February 27, 2022. Click here to read more!
Congratulations! On behalf of the Texas Art Education Association, Lilia Cabrera was announced as the winner of the Texas Art Education Association Higher Education Educator of the Year Award for her significant contributions to TAEA and to the art education on the state, local and /or national level.
Many thanks to the Studio Art faculty for their mentorship and positive impact to our student’s success!
GRADUATE 3RD PLACE University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
SELECTED ARTIST University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
SELECTED ARTIST University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley |
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Three Design Students from the School of Art were accepted to the (NSSC) National Student Show & Conference 17 th Show for 2021 ( https://nationalstudentshow.com/ ). They were Lorelei Lopez for her Mobile app “Otto”; Lorelei Lopez and Jaquelin Leal for their mobile app “Urbs”; and Noemi Garcia and Miroslava Rodriguez for their mobile app “City Mobile”. These students were from Professor Ping Xu’s Design Class this semester.
School of Art and Design (SOAD) design students takes a Bronze in the Addy’s District 10 Competition
Eleven UTRGV Gold award-winning entries from the AAF-RGV’s local American Advertising Awards Competition were advanced to the ADDY-2021 District-10 Regional Competition. Noemi Garcia and Miroslava Rodriguez for mobile app “City Mobile”. Noemi and Miroslava worked on this app during Professor Ping Xu’s Design Class this semester and participated in the Adobe challenge with this app as well.
The Addys (American Advertising Federation of McAllen) had their Gala last week and our students as usual swept the Addys. They took home 11 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze.
Three students took the best of the show for various categories. So special kudos to Ashley Garcia, Laura Segura, and Noemi Garcia /Miroslava Rodrequiz.
The exciting thing about this year's entries is we branched out into new categories of Advertising, UXUI, and Animation and took awards across more media. Great job by all the faculty and students. -Elizabeth Berger
Winning app, ‘JunkRide,’ offers practical solutions to illegal dumping
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – Three UTRGV design students within the College of Fine Arts School of Art took first and second places at the annual Adobe Jam Texas Design Competition, during a virtual event held mid-November.
The contest featured 82 teams with more than 161 entrants. Ten teams were named finalists, with five of those teams from UTRGV.
Laura Segura, a senior graphic design major, won first place for developing an app called “JunkRide,” which provides smart, simple solutions to help people get rid of bulk trash, like old refrigerators, tires and other items not easy to haul away. The app was created to help stop illegal dumping.
“The majority of residents don’t know where to properly dispose of their waste, so their solution is to dump it anywhere and someone would come pick it up for disposal,” she said. “I thought there should be an easier way for this issue.”
On behalf of TAEA Texas Art Education Association, Carla Santillana a School of Art graduate was announced the the winner of the Texas Art Education Association Student of Art Award for her significant contributions to TAEA and to art education on the state, local and/or national level. Carla Santillana winner of art award!
Three UTRGV art students complete residency program at Chautauqua School of Art in New York
CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK / RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – A giant lump of clay sat in the center of a circle of student artists.
The artists, barefoot and hunched over, squeezed and worked the pallid clay between their fingers to understand its malleability. Ultimately, that simple lump of clay would bond students for a final project and offer perspective into the world of working artists. Three UTRGV student artists were part of that immersive summer experience during a seven-week art residency program at the Chautauqua School of Art in Chautauqua, New York.
Pioneering Accomplishments by Daniel Ymbong: UTRGV's First College of Fine Arts UT Archer Fellow and National Gallery of Art Museum Intern
Filipino Daniel Ymbong is a Master’s graduate student in art history, who recently completed a paid internship at the National Gallery of Art and a UT System Archer Graduate Fellowship in Washington DC this summer 2018. The focus of his studies at the Archer Center in Washington centered on fashion and art counterfeit law and copyright policy. Daniel is a student of Dr. Katherine McAllen, specializing in Colonial Latin American Art with minors in history and anthropology. Click Here to Read More!UTRGV ‘FOLD’ Exhibition unifies artists in cultural, feminist concepts
“FOLD,” an exhibition by UTRGV faculty and visiting artists from around the country, unifies the work of 13 female artists, philosophers and scholars to develop the concept of folding, in an effort to explore the conceptual metaphor in terms of feminism, immigration and interdisciplinary studies. The three-part exhibition, curated by UTRGV assistant professor of ceramics Raheem Filsoofi, is part of UTRGV’s FESTIBA, an annual week-long celebration of books and arts, running this year from Feb. 26 to March 4.FOLD is an exhibition of contemporary works by thirteen female artists who explore the concept of the fold in terms of form and conceptual metaphor in both stationary and time-based art media. The fold is simple and complex at the same time – it is a physical act, a state of material, and a way to explain things that happen in other realms. The fold challenges space and even time, and as a symbolic paradigm, it offers an ever-expanding impulse for creativity.
Art, science and technology meet in UTRGV’s newly founded “fab lab”
EDINBURG, TEXAS — AUG. 7, 2017 — Two faculty members at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley are teaming up to create a new place for people to design products using technology, science and art.ISC International Sculpture Center
Publisher of Sculpture magazine.UTRGV students undertake challenging trek to Machu Picchu, part of study abroad
UTRGV art students this summer undertook a challenging study abroad, trekking high into the Peruvian Andes to visit the famed Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. Dr. Robert Bradley, UTRGV associate professor of Art, accompanied 10 students to Peru from May 18 to May 31 as part of a two-week study abroad course, “Hiking the Inca Trail.”
UTRGV photography course took on added dimension as study abroad trip to China
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – JULY 21, 2016 – Eleven students from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley traded their classes at UTRGV for classes at Hengyang Normal University (HYNU) in Hengyang, Hunan Province, China, to study digital photography.
UTRGV founding president to debut Chain of Office, Presidential Medallion, at commencement
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – DEC. 16, 2015 – A group of jewelry students from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s School of Art took on what may be their biggest academic project yet – not to earn an “A,” but to make history.
Professor guides students into developing photographers
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – JULY 28, 2015 – Patrick Fatica, photography instructor in the School of Art at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, was in second grade when he took his first picture on a family trip to Arizona.