The Museum Research Library
This Pachyderm presentation serves as an orientation for new Texas Tech University graduate students to the Museum Research Library.
Young Artists at Arthouse
Young Artists @ Arthouse is a free Saturday morning program for students living in East or Southeast Austin. Students will meet every other Saturday for a three-month period to develop their art portfolios and learn about career opportunities in the arts. Students will work directly with a local artist. Art supplies, transportation, and lunches will be provided. Each session culminates with a student exhibition and reception in the Jones Center’s Project Gallery.
The student portfolios are all published as Pachyderm content.
2007 Arthouse Texas Prize Exhibition Pachyderm is Online
The 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize Exhibition, published in Pachyderm, features new works by finalists for the second Arthouse Texas Prize.
The five finalists selected to participate in the biennial 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize Exhibition are Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Justin Boyd, Margarita Cabrera, Bill Davenport and Katrina Moorhead, one of whom will receive the $30,000 Arthouse Texas Prize. Celebrating the broad spectrum of creative voices in Texas’ contemporary art community, these artists explore subjects like the histories of different ethnic, racial, and cultural groups within the United States or the reappropriation of traditional forms of media, though each perspective is markedly different. Selected from 136 nominations presented by a knowledgeable group of art world professionals, these finalists represent some of the most innovative and talented artists working in Texas today. The 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize recipient will be announced at Arthouse’s annual gala on November 2, 2007.
First awarded to Eileen Maxson in November 2005, the Arthouse Texas Prize is the first-ever prize in Texas created to acknowledge the accomplishments of an emerging and/or under-recognized Texas-based artist. It is one of the largest regional visual arts awards in the United States and is given to a Texas-based visual artist working in any discipline. The prize encourages the growth of the state’s artistic community by providing the means for artists to develop their work while remaining based there and by bringing prominent international art professionals to Texas. Artists living in the state for the past three years are eligible for nomination and could not have had a solo exhibition at a major museum during that time.
Elixr: Case Stories of Exemplary Faculty Practice
ELIXR is a faculty development initiative that uses Pachyderm as the authoring environment for creating video case stories of exemplary teaching practice.
ELIXR Case Stories have been developed on a number of theme areas including active learning in large lecture sections, Universal Design for Learning, and Making your First Day of Class Really First Class. The case studies involve video of both teachers and students intended to engage faculty in trying new approaches. Hear case studies of successful teaching practice at the Elixr site Active Learning Groups in Organic Chemistry.
Felix “Fox” Harris at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET)
Have you seen the Voodoo Man?
American Folk Artist Felix “Fox” Harris acquired his nickname, the Voodoo Man, because of the mysterious totems that filled his yard and surrounded his home. His remarkable gift for sculpture allowed Harris to transform found items into serendipitous sculptures.
Harris’ work now resides at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont, Texas. Experience AMSET’s new semi-permanent gallery published in Pachyderm: Somethin’ Out of Nothin’: the Works of Felix “Fox” Harris.
The Grace Museum’s Night at the Museum
Have you ever wondered what would happen if the art in The Grace Museum came to life?
As a collaborative project between the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas and Abilene Christian University’s English Department, students spent a night at the museum to spend time with a work of art and see how it comes “alive.”
Students from the Christianity and Creativity class at ACU breathe life into six art works from The Grace’s Permanent Collection by spending time with an individual work of art that was then the inspiration for a work of their own. The student’s artistic response to the work could be in any medium that could be placed on the web, including photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture, poems, videos, sounds, music, or writings. The art inspired more art.
According to the Professor of English at Abilene Christian University, Albert Haley, “it’s an eclectic burst of creativity, crafted especially for cyber delivery, and I am very proud of the results.”
Still Life Observational Exercise
This exercise trains students to use their powers of observation to describe specific features of a setting with increasing detail and accuracy.
hush, hush: the power of a secret
hush, hush: the power of a secret was an art project conceived of and created entirely by teens participating in Club Arthouse at Arthouse at the Jones Center.
hush, hush was inspired by PBS’s award-winning contemporary art show, Art:21. After watching the episode, the students decided to concentrate on the power of communication and the control of that power through the action of keeping secrets. Over several weeks, the students collected anonymous secrets on tape from both their peers and the general public. They then transcribed the secrets, and each student chose one secret to interpret in a piece of visual art.
Faces of Battle: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection
An installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores the themes of samurai virtue in conflicts ranging from legends of pre-history to epic moments of civil war in the late 19th century.
The thirty woodblock prints from the installation are also presented online in this interactive feature with stories of the protagonists, zoom screens enabling close inspection of the images, and a brief biography of the influential printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92).
Reflections from the Heart: Photography by David Seymour
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Albin O. Kunh Library Gallery displays art and artifacts from all over the world, including occasional traveling exhibitions and works from its Special Collections Department. An exhibit on the photography of David Seymour runs September 11-December 10, 2006 and includes both black and white and color imagery. The following description is from the gallery’s website:
Curated by Tom Beck and organized by the Library Gallery in collaboration with the Corcoran Museum of Art and the George Eastman House, the project provides the first real critical examination of imagery by the pioneering photojournalist David Seymour (Chim). This project will elevate the significance of work by Seymour, the least well-recognized master among the founders of Magnum Photos, and will better familiarize viewers with the symbolism and artistic roots of his imagery. A major publication on Seymour authored by Beck and published by Phaidon Press, Ltd. will accompany the show.
The show is also accompanied by a podcast and a Flash presentation created in Pachyderm, which features ten images by David Seymour and audio commentary by curator Tom Beck.
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