Weekly Announcements: 4/18/16
Guest Lecture – Jose Canales
The office of Canales & Co. is visiting the department this Friday at 9:00 am in room 141. Come and hear these alum speak about what they do and are up to at the office!
Reviews
http://blogs.acu.edu/artanddesign/studentreviews/
Please make sure you are familiar with the link on the blog for your reviews. You will find step by step instructions to help you prepare. Freshmen you will do a Foundation Review and
Sophomores you will do a Concentration Review.
All new majors who have only just transferred into the department and have not yet taken an art class we will get you on track next year with your reviews. The same applies if you have only taken one Art class.
Arlene will open an appointment calendar and send the link to you a little closer to the time so you can schedule your reviews. For now you can mark your calendars with the following information and plan accordingly: All Foundation reviews will be 4/28 and Concentration ones 4/29.
Calendar links to set up your review time will be sent out in a separate email in the next day or two.
Student Competition Show Opens THIS Friday
New Catalog
I think the only real benefit scenarios are:
1.If you have additional history credits that you transferred in that are sitting in your electives
2. If you have taken CORE but have not taken a foreign language and you are willing to take additional History.These are the basic changes:
Social Science requirement changing from 6 hours to 3 hours with the removal of the Fine Arts/Humanities section from that menu and those choices added to the Cultural Awareness menu.
Addition of 3 hours required from new Historical Literacy menu (HIST 117, 118, 131, 221, 222, 250 and THEA 490)
Cultural Awareness and Fine Arts/Humanities menus have been combined for a menu requiring 3 hours (and CORE 210 is now in this menu).
CORE 210 no longer required – replaced by 3 hours of free elective (This is truly a “Free” elective. It does not have to be a general education selection like the other elective in the University Requirements menu. However, there is a stipulation that it cannot be fulfilled by a course required for the student’s major. So you cannot assign one of your courses to that spot. On the sample schedule, it must read “Free Elective.”)
BCOR 310 will be replaced by a second advanced Bible selection. Total Bible hours remain at 15. BCOR will be taught out for the next year.
Central Advising
Meeting Professionals and Seeing Art in the Metroplex
The spring 2016 Life and Career in Art class had a great trip on Saturday to the Metroplex for face-to-face meetings with professional art practitioners matched to their own career plans. Students dined at Chicken Scratch with artist and textile-designer Sarah Maxwell English (’01), visited with art business owner Kayli Cussick at Oil and Cotton in the Bishop Arts District, and had a conversation about careers in art therapy with registered art therapist Anne Briggs at The Art Station, a rare facility focused solely on art therapy.
Students share a meal and converation with Sarah Maxwell English.
As if this weren’t enough, the students also got to experience contemporary art on an international scale as they visited the Dallas Art Fair. Galleries from around the world were in Dallas to present the work of their finest artists. And later the same afternoon, students visited with artists from around the nation who were selling their creations in booths in the prestigious Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival. It was an inspiring day, and one full of learning!
Ashley Smith and Kaitlyn Brown visit with a jewelry/metal artist at the Fort Worth Arts Festival.
19th Instagram Competition Runner Up
The Runner Up for our 19th Instagram Competition is Hayden Walker!
Summer Opportunity: Teaching Art to Children in Honduras
ACU Alumna Helga Sierra is organizing a trip from June 1-10 to teach art lessons to children in low-income areas of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. This is essentially a mission trip for which you would raise funds to cover airfare and meals. If you have a heart for children and visual art, this might be right up your alley!
For more information, contact Helga Sierra at hsierradesigns@gmail.com!
Weekly Announcements: 4/11/16
Help Needed!
I will be sending out a link to sign up for working at the submissions desk for receiving art work for the competition on Monday. Please volunteer if you can! We will give one art event credit for working the competition,
In addition: if you are free to help set the gallery up at 8am on Monday morning I will need about 5 people to set up chairs and tables. It will take about 30 minutes. This is not on the sign up link, just email me if you can do it.
Student Competition
See the blog http://blogs.acu.edu/ artanddesign/competition/ for everything you need to know about entering the student competition. This is a required part of being an Art & Design major.
Reviews
http://blogs.acu.edu/artanddesign/studentreviews/
Please make sure you are familiar with the link on the blog for your reviews. You will find step by step instructions to help you prepare. Freshmen you will do a Foundation Review and
Sophomores you will do a Concentration Review.
All new majors who have only just transferred into the department and have not yet taken an art class we will get you on track next year with your reviews. The same applies if you have only taken one Art class.
I will open an appointment calendar and send the link to you a little closer to the time so you can schedule your reviews. For now you can mark your calendars with the following information and plan accordingly: All Foundation reviews will be 4/28 and Concentration ones 4/29.
Student Work
