We need a few upper-level or graduate students majoring in Graphic Communications or Photography/Digital Media to help with a collection analysis before the semester’s over. If you meet that description, please contact cwessinger@uh.edu or visit the library to perform a quick (10 minute) evaluation. Your participation would be very helpful, strongly impact how our budget will be spent over the next few years, AND you will be rewarded with flash drives and other cool, free stuff.
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Visit the library to see our exhibit of three-dimensional works in the collection (legos, board games, card games, Philip Johnson-style glasses!) and Chris Conway’s bulletin board on lost masterpieces destroyed during World War II.
The Sixth Annual UH Libraries’ Student Art Exhibition will open Friday, February 22nd at 5:00 pm on the third floor of the M.D. Anderson Library. Attendees will see the original work of up-and-coming UH artists from multiple classifications and academic departments. Attendees will also have the opportunity to mingle with the student artists themselves, as well as the exhibition’s jurors and organizers.
Refreshments will be provided.
This exhibit was juried by Raphael Rubinstein, author, UH professor, and former Art in America editor, Susan Sutton, Curatorial Assistant at the Menil Collection, Katherine Veneman, Curator of Education at UH’s Blaffer Art Museum, and Christine Jelson West, Executive Director of Lawndale Art Center.
The exhibit features the work of Yanci Benitez, Peter Broz, Araceli Casas, Jose Cordova, Brenda Cruz, Sandra de la Rosa, Lauren Fort, Desira Garcia, Chanquilla Gordon, Vladimir Hernandez, Lan Hoang, Darwin Itzep, Greg Jackson, Jeremy Keas, Unaiza Khan, Daniar Listyasari, Miguel Martinez, Linh O’Briant, Frederick Ockrassa, Maureen Penders, Tiffany Perez, Sandra de la Rosa, Sonakshee Shree, Vu Tran, Jason Wilkinson, Amy Wright, and Brandon Zech.
The Sixth Annual UH Libraries’ Student Art Exhibition will open Friday, February 22nd at 5:00 pm on the third floor of the M.D. Anderson Library. Attendees will experience the original work of up-and-coming UH artists from multiple classifications and academic departments. Attendees will also have the opportunity to mingle with the student artists themselves, as well as the exhibition’s jurors and organizers.
This exhibit was juried by Raphael Rubinstein, author, UH professor, and former editor of Art in America, Susan Sutton, Curatorial Assistant at the Menil Collection, Katherine Veneman, Curator of Education at UH’s Blaffer Art Museum, and Christine Jelson West, Executive Director of Lawndale Art Center.
The exhibit features the work of Peter Broz, Araceli Casas, Jose Cordova, Brenda Cruz, Chanquilla Gordon, Vladimir Hernandez, Lan Hoang, Darwin Itzep, Greg Jackson, Daniar Listyasari, Lauren Fort, Linh O’Briant, Frederick Ockrassa, Tiffany Perez, Sandra de la Rosa, Sonakshee Shree, Jason Wilkinson, Amy Wright, and Brandon Zech.
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UH Libraries’ 6th Annual Student Art Exhibit 2013
The Architecture and Art Library is now accepting artwork for the UH Libraries’ sixth Annual Student Art Exhibit, a competitive juried exhibit that will be on display in the M.D. Anderson Library February 22 – April 12, 2013. Jurors will include curators from the Menil Collection and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as prominent members of the Houston arts community and UH School of Art faculty.
The exhibit is open to all UH students enrolled spring 2013 – any classification or major. Students are welcome to submit multiple entries. Requirements of submissions: 2D in any medium, ready to hang with wires/brackets or on foam core, not to exceed 5’x5’, 5 pounds, or extend more than 4” from the wall. Sculpture with pedestals, no more than 20 pounds total and must fit inside a library elevator.
Students should submit their work to the Architecture and Art Library, located in the College of Architecture. Deadline for submissions is February 8, 2013. Artists must complete a waiver form, as well as an exhibition agreement for each work submitted.
For more information visit the Architecture and Art Library’s homepage at info.lib.uh.edu/aa or contact archlib@mail.uh.edu