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The theme for the 2005 TASA conference will be ART SPAN: bringing together the past and future in arts and education.
The title of this year’s conference refers to our keynote speaker’s ability to successfully pair education with the contemporary arts community. Richard Brettell is a role model for professors due to his interventionist outreach in establishing the SouthSide on Lamar Residency Program. This program acts as a conduit of support between the university’s role in arts education and the investor community while also serving as a model in linking the insular educational programs for artists and arts discourse with active professional artists. As educators we all strive to bring relevant connective interests to art history, art appreciation and studio classes. Educators work to maintain a forward-thinking balance between technology and traditional foundation skills in studio classes as well as familiarizing students with post- institutional support structures and resources. As art educators we respectfully bring together the past with the present in progressive anticipation of the dynamics of our future.
Your conference organizers Rosemary Meza, Chair, Barbara Armstrong, Iris Bechtol, Randall Garrett, Omar Hernandez, Greg Metz, Luke Sides, Cathie Tyler, and Eddy Rawlinson are excited to offer an exciting schedule of activities for the 37th Annual Meeting of the Texas Association of Schools of Art.
• Stay at the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown
• Enjoy the pre-conference tour of the Rachofsky House and its contemporary art collection of painting, sculpture and
installation, and take tours to the
• See the El Centro Gallery and
• Attend a lunch reception at the Brazos Gallery for the One Square Foot show.
• Tour a number of
• Hear keynote speaker, art historian, Dr. Richard Brettell,
Ph.D., the Margaret McDermont Professor of Art and
Aesthetics from UTD.
• Listen to relevant discussions of issues that concern artists and art
teachers.
Richard Robson Brettell,
Ph.D. will be the keynote speaker for the 2005 TASA Conference.
His credentials include a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from
Dr. Brettell has also served as the American
Coordinator for FRAME, the French Regional and American Museum Exchange,
McDermott Director at the Dallas Museum of Art, Visiting Professor at
His professional affiliations include chairman for the United States Federal Indemnity Panel, the Getty Grant Program Publication Committee, the American Association of Museum Directors, the Elizabethan Club and the Phelps Association.
The most recent books from his vast list of publications include, 19th and 20th Century European Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection, Impression: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890, Modern Art: 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation, Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, among others.
Thursday March 31
10:30am-11:30am
................................................. Visit Richland Art
Studios and Galleries
for One Square Foot Show – “TASA – One Square Foot Show,” March 1 – April 1,
2005 Closing reception Friday, April 1st from
Saturday April 2
9:30am-12:00noon................................................. Art History Lectures at El Centro College
Performance Hall
Sunday April
9:00am-10:00am
Completed in 1996, The Rachofsky House, a virtual museum designed by award-winning architect Richard Meier, includes a site-specific front lawn by Robert Irwin and post-1970s sculptures. In all spaces of the house, works of contemporary art combine to explore the relationship between manmade structure and nature. The exhibition includes painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture from the last five decades and is intended as reflection on sculpture in art. The current installation, conceived to honor The Nasher Sculpture Center, includes five Donald Judd sculptures shown together to create visual play between art and architecture. Works in the gallery, dining room, bedroom and master bath examine the shift from painting to sculpture. In other areas, the representational works explore issues of a psychological nature.
Recent news: on
Sources: Statements by Howard Rachofsky, Richard Meier (Architect of the Rachofsky House) and Allan Schwartzman (Director of the Rachofsky House); and the Dallas Morning News, “DMA Gift a Work of Heart, $400 Million in Bequests Sets Record, Wednesday, by Janet Kutner, February 16, 2005.
The
Set amid lushly landscaped grounds, the center includes a 55,000-square-foot
building comprising five glass pavilions, prompting its Italian architect, Renzo Piano, to describe it as "a museum without a
roof." It is, designed in collaboration with Peter Walker of
From the outset, the idea was to create a quiet oasis amidst the busy activity of the urban center. The resulting design encompasses an indoor gallery and outdoor sculpture garden. The gallery building features long walls faced in two-inch wide slabs of Italian travertine that define five, equal-sized, parallel pavilions. The exterior stone is rough and pitted, while the interior walls have been smoothed and honed to remove the weathered outer layers, exposing the creamy surfaces beneath that will serve as a quiet background for the sculpture.
The $70 million, 2.4-acre park and museum presents rotating exhibits including masterworks by Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Duchamp-Villon, Moore, Calder, David Smith, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, James Turrell, Jonathan Borofsky, and Richard Serra.
Source:
Formerly the 1910 Sears Catalogue and Distribution facility, the Southside
Residency houses 485 residential units for artists, ten of them are under the
direction of Dr. Richard Brettell and are managed by
the
Artists are provided with 1000 square feet of studio/living space in exchange for providing lectures, exhibitions, and performances at UTD and Southside. There are two fully furnished units for international or visiting artists. The first floor of the Southside Residency is used for exhibitions.
Source: http://ah.utdallas.edu/southside/history.htm
Institutional Membership (pays Conference fee for one
Institutional Representative) $150.
Pre-Conference Day (Thursday)
Thursday – Gallery Tour Fee * (add to Conference Fee) $ 35.
General Conference Fee ** (individual other than Instl. Rep.) $ 85.
Late Registration Fee *** $ 20.
Friday Only $ 50.
Saturday Only (includes Banquet) $ 75.
Banquet Only (Saturday - pre-registration encouraged) $ 35.
*Includes bus transportation and gallery tours; dinner on your own at a choice of restaurants in the vicinity of the galleries
**Includes breakfast and lunch on Friday, lunch and Banquet on Saturday (all Friday/Saturday activities, Pre-conference activities on Thursday are separate)
***$ 20.00 (Late Registration Fee - added to Instl. Membership or General Conference Fee paid on or after March 31 - Apr 2)
The TASA conference has a block of fifty rooms reserved at The Adolphus Hotel for the price of $69 a night plus tax (this is the same price advertised in the TASA newsletter for the Hotel Lawrence). TASA conference attendees should call 800-221-9083 to make a reservation.
Reservations must be made prior to
For this lecture series I propose to present my work as a sculptor and
graphic designer. For over ten years, my work has explored architectural and
mechanical forms utilizing wood and cast metal as primary materials. Since
moving to
Artist Statement: While working in
My sculpture evokes the form and function of these implements, providing new associations of meaning. This work explores mechanical devices used to alter the landscape. The purpose of these devises interests me with their ability to cultivate as well as scar the land. Reconstructing forms of this nature alludes to a variety of interpretations and potential applications based on the relationships of scale and materials.
Bob Hext will present "Similarities in Style and Motif of Indian Rock Art Among
Shelters in
Kathleen Anderson-Wyman will present "The Art of Heaven and Hell." This presentation explores
visual and narrative representations of Heaven and Hell from Antiquity to the
20th century, primarily in the West. It aims to provoke questions and offer
responses as to how and why the artist, the mystic, the storyteller, and the
shaman perform similar tasks for their cultures. Questions as to what is
universal in the human need to postulate other worlds (especially of judgment
and reward), as well as the diversity of those worlds, will be explored.
The images, many of which are quite hair-raisingly horrific, will be presented
via Power Point. The presentation will not be boring.
Gail Gear will
present "Travel in the Ancient World in the Early Christian Period
(1st-4th c. A.D.)." This lecture includes what travel conditions were like
2000 years ago and who, when, where, how (hoof, sail and foot) and why the
ancient Romans traveled.
Future Akins will
present "Finding the Studio." Believing that "art saves
lives," this presentation is an autobiographical response to the daily
demands of education as job
title. It is a call to remember the creative spirit that once fueled our spirits
and now all too often lays dormant under a pile of reports, meetings, to do
lists and more meetings. Conversation will focus on personal strategies for
continuing a daily art practice.
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2005 TASA "One Square
Foot Exhibition", to be held from March 1st to
TASA "One Square Foot Show" March 1 -
closing reception/awards: Friday April 1st
Richland College Brazos Gallery
Submission instructions:
To qualify for submission artist must be a current 2004-05 TASA individual
member:
Each artist may submit one work.
1. Works may be up to (but no larger than) 12 x 12 x 12 inches.
2. Work must be clearly labeled with the following:
artist's name/date/title/medium/value/return address.
Ship (or hand deliver) by deadline of Monday, February 28th to:
Randall Garrett, Gallery Coordinator
Humanities Division /
For more information, call 972-238-6339.
For membership information contact Bob Hext at
bhext@sulross.edu.
For TASA Conference information and membership forms go to TASA website:
www.tasart.org.
The nominating committee will be selecting a slate of names for the TASA
Board whose terms will expire this year. 2005 elections will be held at the
TASA 2005 conference during the Saturday luncheon business meeting, April 2 in
Please be sure your membership is current, and encourage other members and your colleagues to renew or join our TASA family. Forms can be duplicated and downloaded from the web site for your convenience. We hope to reconnect with members who have slipped away. Please help.
TASA RENEWAL or NEW MEMBERSHIP
(TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF ART)
With the start of Fall semester and a new fiscal year, Texas Visual Arts
department chairs/coordinators are encouraged to take action toward renewing
TASA institutional membership. Institutional membership includes the conference
registration fee for one representative with voting rights at the business
meeting. All TASA memberships include a free subscription to TASA’s Envision Newsletter. Plan NOW to attend the upcomingTASA Conference (see attached preliminary itinerary
and make plans to budget for conference fees) .
TASA Membership Dues Invoice Tax ID
# 1-74-2252-903-6
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Check Dues Amount:
( ) $ 150.00 (Institutional Membership) includes annual conference
registration for one institutional representative.
( ) $ 85.00 (General Conference Fee) some members have asked to be
reminded of the new conference fee approved at the 2004 conference to budget
early for this expenditure.
( ) $ 35.00 (Pre-conference Fee)
( ) $ 20.00 (Individual membership)
( ) $ 5.00 (Student Membership)
( ) $ 20.00 (Late Registration Fee) added to Institutional Membership or
General Conference Fee paid on or after the conference date.
Make Check Payable To: "TASA" and attach copy of this invoice with your dues payment. Save a
copy for your records and/or to submit with your requisition.
Return Payment and Form to:
TASA c/o Eduardo Aguilar
Department of Fine Arts and Global Languages
Tarrant County College, NW
4801 Marine Creek Pkwy.
(817) 515-7207, Fax-(817) 515 7007 eduardo.aguilar@tccd.net
President (2004-2006)
4801 Marine Creek Pkwy.
(817) 515-7207
Fax-(817) 515 7007
eduardo.aguilar@tccd.net
Past President (2004-2005)
Dept. of Fine Arts and Communications
Box T-0320
(254)968-0742
FAX(254)968-9239
seelig@tarleton.edu
Membership (2001-2003)
Bob Hext
Sul Ross State University
Department of Art
P.O. Box C-43 SRSU
Alpine, TX 79832
(915) 837-8130
FAX- (915) 837-8376
bhext@sulross.edu
Board Member (2002-2005)
J. Ulbricht, PhD
Visual Art Studies/Art Education Division
Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station D1300
Austin, TX 78712-0337
512/471/4970
FAX 512/471/7801
j.ulbricht@mail.utexas.edu
Board Member/Web Page (2002-2005)
4511
210-507-5861
nwood@aiusanantonio.com
cel 210-846-0152
nancy@pixelpaint.com
Board Member (2002-2005)
Gary Washmon
Texas Woman's University
940/878-2539
gwashmon@twu.edu
Board Member/Treasurer (2002-2005)
828
817/515-6693
Karmien.Bowman@tccd.net
Board Member (2004-07)
2400
(903) 782-0460
FAX (903) 782-0370
ctyler@parisjc.edu
Board Member/ Recorder (2004-2007)
Kay Byfield
Assistant Professor
Department of
(903) 577-1911 ext. 333
kaybyfield@iname.com
kbyfield@ntcc.edu
Board Member/Newsletter (2004-2006)
P.O. Box 447
806-371-5982
vtg60@msn.com
Board Member/Database (2002-2005)
Brian Row
Department of Art and Design, Southwest Texas State University – San Marcos
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
512-245-0314
br01@txstate.edu
