Melanie Schopper is a local artist who utilzes slip casting to create functional ceramics. She has been the artist in residence at The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems and is a co-founder of the all women's art group Handmade Austin Women. She worked as an assistant to porcelain artist Sunyong Chung of Ginko Studios, where she trained in a process of plaster mold making that has informed her current process. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Art.
This workshop will be a two-hour hands-on tutorial for students who are interested in learning how to make prints from black-and-white film negatives in the UTSOA's Darkroom. Students will learn how to use an enlarger to expose their negatives onto resin-coated paper. Correct exposure and developing times will be covered as well as proper print washing and drying techniques. Negatives can be provided if needed.
UT Senior Lecturer Fran Gale and nine SOA graduate students participated in the 16th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium at Texas A&M University on February 20-21. The School of Architecture’s Center for Heritage Conservation hosted the Symposium. http://chc.arch.tamu.edu/ The Alamo: Structure of History was the focus of this year’s symposium and Historian Charles Porter of St. Edwards University provided the keynote address on Friday evening. During the Saturday morning session, Alamo Historian and Curator Dr.
This presentation will open with an analysis of national big-picture trends affecting economic development, including recovery from the Great Recession, job growth by industry, and workforce trends. The second section includes a quantitative look at economic trends in the Austin metro and a qualitative discussion of the Austin story that attempts to answer the question What drives Austin’s economic vitality? The conclusion will shine a light on the future of the region’s economy over the next five to ten years.
Fine Lumber & Plywood
9407 Brown Lane
Fine Lumber & Plywood is a family-owned lumberyard that stocks a variety of hardwoods, plywoods, exotic woods, and custom trim. They offer custom milling services and have a vast collection of moulding profiles.
This field trip was a coordinated effort with Interior Design Construction 2, taught by Tamie Glass.
A Vancouver Story:
Learnings from a Livable City
Gordon Price is the Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University.
In 2002, he finished his sixth term as a City Councillor in Vancouver, BC. He also served on the Board of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (Metro Vancouver) and was appointed to the first board of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink) in 1999.
Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla contributed images in this exhibition documenting the restoration of Santo Domingo de Guzmán and the Open Chapel of Teposcolula in Oaxaca, Mexico to the school’s Visual Resources Collection (VRC).
The Visual Resources Collection will be offering group darkroom orientations throughout the semester; all UTSOA students are welcome to use the darkroom after first attending an orientation session. Orientation sessions are intended to familiarize students who have previous darkroom experience with the UTSOA Darkroom.
If you have any questions—or if you are interested in other VRC resources and workshops related to darkroom or digital photography—please contact VRC Photography TA Katie Slusher (katie.slusher11@gmail.com)