Bob Wade resides and was born in Austin, Texas in 1943. He received a BFA from the University of Texas Austin and an M.A. from the University of California Berkeley.

Mr. Wade is the recipient of three NEA grants and has been included in Biennials in Paris, France; New Orleans, LA; and, the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY. Collections include Chase Manhattan Bank, AT&T, the Menil Collection, Houston and the Austin Museum Of Art.

Wade has produced three books and his work is included in "Oil Patch Dreams: Images of the Petroleum Industry in American Art" (Austin Museum Of Art, March '98).

Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books (MIMB) is an international traveling art exhibit.
“The range of MIMB books’ ideas and mediums are incredible from complicated structures, beautiful poems, humorous texts, intricate drawings, and some of the greatest ideas one could imagine,” Ying writes in the curator’s statement. “Many of the books use unconventional materials and innovative bookmaking techniques. These include the best samples of printmaking techniques ranging from traditional relief, intaglio, lithograph, silkscreen printing, to the newest digital printing processes. We received books not only from the USA, but also from Korea, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Spain India, Pakistan, the UK, Canada, Mauritius, and Argentina.” 

More information on MIMB’s artists, exhibition locations and the catalog can be found at www.mimb.org.

The Visual Arts Department will be hosting an exhibition, lecture and workshop series of artist-books, prints and poetry by the international artist Brian Curling and poet Naomi Nye. The interdisciplinary nature of the collaboration between artist and poet is expected to draw the interest of the entire community.  

 

Naomi Nye is an award-winning poet, writer, anthologist, and educator who “uses her writing to attest to our shared Humanity.”  She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Lavan Award reciepent, her poetry crosses where politics and mass society generally cannot by celebrating the “similarities and differences between cultures.”  She has lived in the America and the Middle East, which has informed her of the breath that permeates between cultures.  Nye resolves these disputes, memories, desires and experiences through the art of poetry.
Learn more about Naomi Nye.

 

Brian Curling was born on a family farm in small town Kentucky where everyone knew everyone else and there he grew up until attending the University of Kentucky.  He traveled often through the American landscape, he wanted to be a ladscape architect.  However, studying under the direction and friendship of Robert James Foose and Ross Zirkle he was introduced to book and printmaking.  Almost immediately he was „hooked“ and began experimenting with form, visual language, mark making and metaphor.  He spent a transitional summer at the Tamarind Institute in Albequerque, New Mexico working on the Trickster Project, a collaboration between San artists and Native American artist.  Attending the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, he studied under an influential Karen Kunc, and insightful Andrea Bolland.  While in Nebraska he worked, as he does now more or less, with the specifity of time and place.  Following granduate school he was awarded a residency by the Finnish Graphics Council  and travelled to Helsinki.  Returning to America he taught for one semester at Cleveland Institute of Art with Maggie Denk.  In 2006 he accepted a position as assistant professor of art at The American University in Cairo and lived there with his wife and son until 2010.  Although Cairo is amazing Brian is now working as a freelance artist and living with his wife and son in Dresden, Germany.  He is currently occupied by making and exhibiting woodcut prints, publishing collaborative letterpress books under Goldfinch Press and working with children. Curling has worked and published handmade poetry chapbooks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, poets Michael Kuhni, Twyla Hansen, Kate Northrop and naomi Shihab Nye. His drawings, original prints, and hand-made books are held in permanent collections in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. including:  The American University in Cairo Special Collections Library.  Cairo, Egypt.  University of Arizona Museum of Art, Print Collection, Tucson, Arizona.  Sheldon Museum of American Art. Lincoln, Nebraska.  Janice Mason Art Museum. Cadiz, Kentucky.  The Bibliotheca Alexandria Artist’s Book Collection.  Alexandria, Egypt.  He is represented by Gallerie Kühl: Dresden, Germany and Gallerie am Plan: Pirna, Germany.

The Annual Student Exhibition will open April 20, 2012 from 3:00-5:00 pm with awards being announced at 3:30pm in the Annetta Kraushaar Gallery in Schuech Fine Arts Building.

 

The Annual Student Exhibition is an opportunity for any TLU student who was involved in the Visual Arts Department through course work or other means during the academic year to exhibit creative endeavors, art work, etc and be recognized for achievement in the arts. We hope that all TLU family members of participating students would attend the opening event to recognize student achievement and celebrate student visual arts.