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Ed Pogue
Director
School of Art and Design
ELABS 125
ed.pogue@utrgv.edu
956-665-3480
956-882-8805

Lilia Cabrera
Associate Director and Undergrad Program Coordinator
School of Art and Design
EVABL 1.218
lilia.cabrera@utrgv.edu
956-665-3480

DM Witman
Graduate Program Coordinator
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EVABL 1.201
dm.witman@utrgv.edu
956-665-3480


School of Art and Design Director

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Ed Pogue was raised amongst the cotton fields of northern Arkansas along the banks the Mississippi river delta, Ed attended Arkansas State University as a first generation college student, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1985. Ed attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale graduating with the Master of Fine Arts degree in 1989. His primary research is oriented around the use of 3D technologies and the development of cast and fabricated sculpture within public and intimate spaces. Ed has exhibited his work in Utah, Tennessee, California and Illinois galleries throughout his career. He was Chair of the Department of Art and Digital Media at Bethany College Kansas for several years, Assistant Director of the Sculpture Center at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and Director of the California Sculpture Center. Ed also worked in New Jersey for New York City sculptors, Joel Shapiro and Julian Schnabel. He worked in Illinois for Ernest Trova, to name a few. Ed travels to the desert southwest each summer and is heavily influenced by the art of indigenous peoples and their lands.

Ed Pogue
School of Art & Design, Director
(956) 665-3480
Brownsville • Edinburg • Harlingen

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