Fall 2021 TASA Conference plans have been delayed due to COVID-19
Please check back to our website in late May for more information
Friday, October 23, 1-4p.m. 2020 • hosted on Zoom
The 2020 TASA Virtual Forum will focus on the production of innovative ideas, both analog and digital, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent social justice issues. What future changes will be in store for the art world, higher education, and global perspectives? Relevance to theme is preferred but not required.
The Paul Hanna Lecture Award began in 1994 as the result of a generous endowment set up to honor one of TASA's founding members, Professor Paul Hanna (now deceased) of Texas Tech University. The Paul Hanna Award exists to provide a forum through which a selected studio artist can make an annual presentation for TASA. For a list of past Paul Hanna Lecturer recipients, please visit officers/awards.
This year, we also invited proposals for the TASA Excellence in the Field Award from art historians, artists, educators, designers, art theoreticians, critics and philosophers broadly focusing on any of their scholarship interests that might appeal to TASA members.
Congratulations 2020 Paul Hanna Lecturer Elect - Chesley Williams
Congratulations 2020 Paul Hanna Lecturer Elect
Chesley Williams, Dallas College – Mountain View
Paul Hanna Winner
Chesley Antoinette, MFA
Chesley Antoinette is a native Texan, born and raised in Austin where she discovered the process in making art at the local community college. Later, transferred to Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches with a B.F.A in Sculpture and completed her graduate education in Denton at the University of North Texas with a M.F.A in Fiber Arts. Like many artists, she moonlights by day as a community college adjunct art professor and has experience both inside the classroom and online for past 6 years within the D.F.W area.
She is the creator and designer of Cantoinette Studios, conceptualizing with sustainable practices in forms of sculptural installations, wearable art, and curatorial projects. Her current body of work explores 18th century North America through turban headwraps and shares the history in forms of art exhibitions and interactive educational workshops. Chesley remains being passionate towards supporting, sharing, and building the appreciation for the arts with Texas and all of humankind.
www.CantoinetteStudios.com
Topic Title: Tignon
Description: This topic offers an educational experience combining historical imagery, contemporary photography, and textile sculpture that evaluates the history behind the headwrap as it relates to North America. Starting with the early colonization of Louisiana, the exhibition explores content surrounding the 1786 Tignon law, which became a symbol of rebellion represented by the free women of color population.
The body of work includes contemporary photography that references 18th century paintings and drawings that showcase black women in turbans, 50 plus turban headwraps presented as sculpture, with no two alike, and a short three-minute documentary film featuring over 100 women who participated in a workshop titled “Heart of the Headwrap” in South Dallas, Texas.
Congratulations 2020 Excellence in Field Award Lecturers - Teresa Trevino and Lesley Wolff
Congratulations 2020 Excellence in Field Award Lecturers
Teresa Trevino, University of the Incarnate Word
Lesley Wolff, Texas Tech University
Excellence in the Field Award
Teresa Trevino, MFA
Teresa Trevino is a graphic designer and an educator. She holds an MFA on Visual Communication from the University of Houston and MA in Design, from California State University, Fullerton. She has taken workshops with Ken Garland, David Skopec, Duarte Design and Edward Tufte with an emphasis on Information Design. Her most recent publication was included in Steven Heller’s Teaching Graphic Design History. She has participated as a guest speaker and instructor in international forums in Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain and the United States. Following her fifteen years of teaching in Monterrey, Mexico, Teresa is currently working as a Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas.
Topic Title: More Than One Voice.
Description: For a Fair History of Graphic Design. Many books and documents on the history of graphic design leave behind the legacy of a large number of female designers. In the past decades, gender equality, inclusion and representation became an effort to add more than one voice and tell a fair and more complete story. The emergence of female design associations joins a significant number of books published in the past years as Women Design by Libby Sellers, DESIGH(H)ERS: A Celebration of Women in Design Today by Victionary, Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective by Elizabeth Otto, to name a few. AIGA promotes Women Lead events as well as an interactive card kit to present scenarios on gender equality and open the conversation on the subject. In the past five years of teaching the History of Communication Design, I decided to join those efforts on inclusion. It was in the fall of 2016 when I added few but significant changes to the course on outcomes, content and activities. In the fall of 2019, I pulled some data that reflected significant improvements. Those efforts resulted in two academic publications and two international podium presentations. In this presentation I will expose eight strategies on inclusion and gender equality, I will support those strategies with data from the past three years and end with a short activity with the audience to open the conversation.
Excellence in the Field Award
Lesley A. Wolff PhD
Lesley A. Wolff (PhD, Florida State University) is Assistant Professor in Art History at Texas Tech University, specializing in Latinx and Latin American art and critical theory. Her research examines representations of race, consumption, and foodways in the modern and contemporary arts of Mexico, the US, and the Caribbean. Wolff’s interdisciplinary research has been published in venues such as, Vistas: Critical Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art; African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal; Food, Culture & Society; The Recipes Project; and Athanor, among others. Wolff is also an active curator, who has organized exhibitions on Latinx, Indigenous and Diasporic arts and heritage with museums and galleries across the US. Wolff previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Norton Museum of Art (2018/19) and is a 2019/20 Tyson Scholar of American Art with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as well as a 2019/20 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow in the Humanities, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment.
Topic Title: Envisioning Black Freedom and the Global Caribbean in The Kingdom of This World
Description: This lecture responds to the current moment of anti-racist protests in support of Black lives by historicizing the role of uprising, revolution, and Black futures in the Américas through a discussion of my recent curatorial project, The Kingdom of This World, Reimagined, which debuted in 2019 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center at Art Basel Miami Beach. The exhibition originally convened on the 70th publication anniversary of Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s magical-realist novel, The Kingdom of This World (1949), an imaginative dive into the volatile epoch of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)—an historical era that yielded the world’s first successful revolution of enslaved Africans. The exhibition brings to life the slippages of past and present that comprise Afro-diasporic culture in the Americas through a dynamic grouping of contemporary artworks, each of which responds to the novel’s vivid descriptions of colonial enslavement and the struggle for Black freedom and nation. Inspired by this text, contemporary global artists with ties to the greater Caribbean—including Dudley Alexis, Jose Bedia, Edouard Duval-Carrié, José García Cordero, Scherezade García, Simryn Gill, Leah Gordon, and Roberto Juárez—visualize Black futures through painting and multimedia compositions that convey themes of revolution, autonomy, history and transatlantic ecologies resonant with one of Latin America’s most “marvelous” novels.
A look at Adobe Tools for digtial painting and portfolios (Demo Videos)
TASA brings you the following demonstration videos.
Alexandria Canchola
Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design
Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi
Introduction to Adobe Fresco for digital painting and drawing.
Nancy Miller
Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design
Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi
Introduction to Behance.net and Adobe Portfolio to showcase your work.
This year, TASA professional and faculty members were invited to participate in Artovation 2020: A Virtual Exhibition.
