Intercollegiate Student Competition

The deadline to enter the 2016 Intercollegiate Student Art Competition sponsored by The Center for Contemporary Arts is THIS FRIDAY!

Students must submit the online entry form with information about their artwork (they may submit two pieces).  Artwork must be delivered on Tuesday or Wednesday, January 19 or 20, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to The Center, 220 Cypress Street, downtown, across from Monk’s Coffee Shop.

Entries are trickling in, but I hope to see many more entries! Please encourage them to enter today!

You or your students may call me at 325-677-8389 if you have any questions, or see the complete list of rules here.

Thanks for spreading the word!

Debbie Manns
Gallery Manager/Marketing Director
Center for Contemporary Arts
220 Cypress Street, Abilene, TX 79601
325-677-8389
www.center-arts.com

Art & Design Chapel

We will not begin departmental chapel until Jan 28th so watch this space for more information!

INTD Design Competition

I am a product designer and Front-End Developer at Expensify and we do expense reports that don’t suck! One of our many perks is the annual offshore (almost all expenses paid). While the San Francisco chronicle called it “lavish” it’s really anything but that. Every year we head out of the country to work remotely for month. We still work 50+ hour weeks, the only difference being that we do it on the beach or from local cafes.

This year we headed to Cambodia and Thailand. 80 of us flew from the US to different parts of Asia to begin our journey. I headed to Hong Kong for a few days with friends before meeting everyone in Cambodia with only a 30 liter backpack! Cambodia really opened our eyes to see how a developing country operated. It was a humbling experience to say the least. We made stops in both Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. And of course, we paid a visit to Angkor Wat! We actually rented out a temple for a company meeting filled with traditional dances by local tribes.

After about 14 days of Cambodia we headed to Thailand for the remainder of the trip. The dream for our offshore is to find a beach. Railay beach (Krabi) is beautiful and that’s where we stayed for just over a week. We worked from our beach houses, took afternoon dips, kayaked before lunch, and had company meetings in what we called “Meeting Room Sea” (the ocean). The sunsets were unreal, the beach looked fake, and the water was crystal clear. We even had a company dinner on a private island! From there we headed to Bangkok where we got a taste of the city and culture, then most of us headed home.

The offshore was amazing. I got to hangout with everyone in my company no matter what team they were on – including my CEO! Looking back at the 200+ hours I worked, I can honestly say it paid off. Finding a job that I love with people I love means the world to me. We are Expensify. We are family.

by Leanne Kawahigashi (’13)

Holiday Building Access

Fall 2015 building access runs through Dec. 12th.  If you need access during the holidays it will have to be handled on an individual basis through Barb in JMC who manages the building access.  Please respond to Arlene with your name and banner ID if you will need access.

Design Competition: Sherwin-Williams

Mark your calendars — the Sherwin-Williams STIR Student Design Challenge will be back for 2016. The challenge celebrates excellence in residential and commercial design by students in the U.S. and Canada. What it’s about: The contest has two categories: residential design and commercial design. The top winner from each category will receive a $2,500 cash prize. Second-place winners will win a $1,000 cash prize, and third-place winners will win a $500 cash prize. The two first-place winners will also have their work featured in the 2016 edition of STIR magazine. All winners will be featured on our Sherwin-Williams Facebook page and in a future issue of Sherwin-Williams® STIR® eExtra email newsletter.

Challenge details: The challenge will be open for submissions March 1—April 15, 2016. Students may enter as individuals or as a design team of up to three people. With a team entry, one student must be designated as the team contact. There is no entry fee.

The contest is open to projects of all kinds in residential or commercial design, though each entry must use a minimum of three Sherwin-Williams colors (of the entrant’s choice). Only projects using Sherwin-Williams colors will qualify. (See contest rules for complete details.)

Intercollegiate Student Art Competition

The Center’s 2016 Intercollegiate Student Art Competition page is now live on our Website. Information about rules and restrictions, deadlines and due dates, and the online enrollment form can be found there.
Again this year, we will be accepting submissions using an online form in which students submit the title and other information about their artwork to enter the competition. Students may submit two entries each. Work that can be considered “contemporary” is most likely to be included in the juried exhibit. Artwork delivery will not be until January after students are back, so they can even work on their pieces during the holidays!
If you have any questions about the competition, please refer them to this link or look for the Intercollegiate button at the top of our home page, center-arts.com.

January Short Courses

If you are planning on dropping your January Short Course it must be done on the day before the class begins. The day of class is too late. Bear in mind that I am not in the office on a Sunday so you need to take care of it or email Arlene a few days before if you want her to take care of it.