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Faculty
Associate Professor Robert Bradley has Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He has written a monograph entitled The Compages of Kuelap (VDM, 2008) and his recent publications include "Sudado de Raya: an Ancient Peruvian Dish" in the winter 2012 upshot of Gastronomica, "Coca: An Andean Daily Chew" in Cualli: Latin American and Iberian Food Studies Review, and "A Western Mirage on the Bolivian Altiplano" in Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910 (Academy of New United mexican states Press, 2013). "Architectural Anomalies in the Northeastern Forest of Peru" in Visual Civilization of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Andrew Finegold and Ellen Hoobler, University of Oklahoma Press has just been published in 2017. In progress is "The Life catfish in Pre-Columbian Moche Art and Culture", in Andean Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Pre-Columbian, Colonial, Contemporary and Symbolic significance of Nutrient and Cuisines in S America, edited by John Staller and Robert Bradley and finally "Innovative Ingesting of Alkaloids in Ancient South America" in peer review for Gastronomica, Academy of California Press. Dr. Bradley is also the Faculty Fellow of UTRGV's Honors College.
Curriculum Vitae
Robert Bradley, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Art and Design
E-mail: robert.bradley@utrgv.edu
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Phone: (956) 665-2897
Professor Elena Macias
Education
-MFA, Art, The Academy of Texas - Pan American, 2001
-BFA, The University of Texas - Pan American, 1989
-BA, Universidad Valle del Bravo, 1981
Curriculum Vitae
Elena Macias, MFA
Professor
Schoolhouse of Fine art and Blueprint
Electronic mail: elena.macias@utrgv.edu
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Telephone: 956-665-2213
Areas of Expertise
-Alternative surfaces in Printmaking, Painting, and Ceramics
Instruction
MFA, Printmaking with form piece of work in Ceramic-Sculpture, Computer, and Painting, Rochester Constitute of Applied science, 1983
BA, Painting and Graphic Arts with Class work in Photography & Ceramic-Sculpture, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, 1981
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Reynaldo I. Santiago, MFA
Professor
School of Art
Electronic mail: reynaldo.santiago@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-7599
Dr. de Souza's areas of interest are the modern visual culture of Latin America with emphasis on the use of mass printed photography equally narrative device and propaganda.
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Areas of Expertise
- The history of photography with special attention to the modern printing civilization created subsequently the advent of the halftone process in the 1890.
- The use of mass printed photography as narrative device and propaganda.
- Mass printing counterpart technology
- Latin American Modern Art
- Women Printing
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Teaching
- PhD, Fine art History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009
- MS, Editing of Photography, Brooks Found of Photography, 1998
- Licenciatura, Brazilian History, University Federal Fluminense, 1981
Curriculum Vitae
Carlos De Souza, Ph.D.
Acquaintance Professor
Schoolhouse of Art
Email: carlos.desouza@utrgv.edu
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Elizabeth Berger, MFA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Design Plan CoordinatorPhone: (956) 665-3480
Email: elizabeth.berger@utrgv.edu
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Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Berger is the program coordinator and associate professor for the graphic pattern department at the School of Art and Blueprint. A designer and blueprint educator of visual communications, her client list range from fortune 500 companies to regional start-ups based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. She has produced award-winning piece of work for companies such every bit American Airlines Publishing, Southwest Airlines, and the American Middle Association to a mom-and-pop chocolate shop in Dubai. Her piece of work is published in honour and design publications such equally the New York Fine art Managing director's Almanac, Print, Graphis Magazine, the Dallas Guild of Visual Communications, and the Smithsonian National Graphic Design Annal.
Berger received her Ph.D. in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Advice (ATEC) from the Academy of Texas at Dallas in 2019. Her research interests combine non-traditional areas of focus in m-Learning, cognitive scientific discipline, and visual pattern pedagogy in multicultural environments.
She formerly taught blueprint and technology courses at Purdue Academy, Oklahoma Land University, Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, and was the Academic Director for the Whanganui School of Design in Whanganui, New Zealand. Berger helped establish the postgraduate programs in design and the commencement primary'south program for blueprint in Dubai.
She feels, "The world of pattern is expanding to become a discipline that incorporates more than than aesthetics –it is embracing encephalon sciences, applied science, multiculturalism, and manifesting its power beyond business toward human being transformation." The future for designers is not simply in their artifacts, only in their design thinking processes that create meaningful human connections.
Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth Berger, MFA, Ph.D.
Acquaintance Professor & Pattern Program Coordinator
School of Fine art and Pattern
Electronic mail: elizabeth.berger@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3480
Built-in in Texas on 1971
MFA University of Texas A&M -Commerce, Texas 1998
MAE University of Texas Tech , Lubbock Texas 2006
Skowhegan Schoolhouse of Painting and Sculpture 1997
Courses Taught:Painting 2, Iii, & Iv, Perception & Expression in Art I & II (Art Education), Artistic & Critical Thinking (Art Education) , Art Curriculum (Art Education), Design I & two, Introduction to Blackness and White Photography, BFA Studio Portfolio, BFA Exhibition, Gimmicky Bug, Study Abroad Italian republic
Graduate Level Courses: Studio 2D Feel Sections 1 and two, Design Seminar
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Marcus Farris, MFA
Associate Professor
School of Fine art and Design
Email: marcus.faris@utrgv.edu
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Creative person's Biography
Robert Gilbert is a graphic designer, digital artist and educator. He graduated from the Otis Parsons Fine art Plant in Los Angeles and received a masters degree from California State University at Los Angeles. His design experience ranges from ad to publication and he works to refine a visual approach that combines the surprise of commercialism within fine fine art pattern. His personal work uses the digital epitome, employing the concept of a personal mythology. Robert has taught and worked as a designer in Greece, and he is an Honorary Professor at Hangyang Normal University in Mainland china. He is an Associate Professor at University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, working in the boarder region of south Texas.
Curriculum Vitae
Robert Gilbert, MFA
Associate Professor
School of Art and Pattern
Electronic mail: robert.gilbert@utrgv.edu
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BFA-1995-Kansas Urban center Fine art plant MFA-2000- American University Instruction at UTPA since 2006
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Areas of Expertise
- painting, drawing, application of drawing and painting in creating greater appreciation of indigenous ecosystems, local ecosystems, paleontology, sequential narrative illustration
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Education
- MFA, Painting, American University, 2000
- BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Plant, 1995
Curriculum Vitae
Donald Lyles, MFA
Acquaintance Professor
School of Fine art and Design
Electronic mail: donald.lyles@utrgv.edu
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Ping Xu, MFA
Associate ProfessorPhone: (956) 665-3480
Electronic mail: ping.xu@utrgv.edu
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Ping Xu, MFA
Acquaintance Professor of Graphic Blueprint
Ping Xu was born and raised in Shanghai. Before joining the teaching industry in the U.Southward., he began his professional career and served as a graphic designer, an Fine art Managing director, a Creative Manager, and a Production Manager in the advertisement industry for x years. Ping has been teaching visual communication design courses at all levels in the U.S. academic domain since 2005. He joined The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Fall 2015.
Ping's expertise includes identity design, poster design, collateral design, ad design, interactive blueprint, digital photography, and typography. His research involvement is to create visual concepts through practical experiments and contemporary media and deliver ideas that inspire, inform, and obsess consumers and target audiences.
Ping Xu received a total of xx-two Statuary Awards inINDIGO Award International Design Almanac Competitions 2018 in Amsterdam, 2019 in Malaga, 2020 in Bangkok, 2021 in Amsterdam, and one Silver Indigo Award in 2021 in Amsterdam. He received a full of seven Silver and Bronze Awards in theUnited Designs Alliance (UDA)'s International Almanac Design competitions in Seoul 2018, 2019, 2020, and iii Silver and Bronze Awards in the U.South. in 2021. In February 2020, Ping too received an Honorable Mention in 2019 London International Creative Contest (LICC). From 2007 to 2020, Ping received xiii American Advertising Awards in ADDY Awards guild competitions in Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas.
Ping's logo design was published in book 12 of the LogoLounge Book Series in 2021. His ten graphic design and illustration works were published in Volume-Nine, Book-Seven, and Volume-11 of theInternational Contemporary Artists book series in 2013, 2014, and 2016. His vii graphic design works were published inUDA Annual in 2018 and 2019.
Ping too submitted work to join some professional exhibitions in national and international venues. Some of his graphic designs and photographs were accustomed by some national juried exhibitions in St. Louis, Missouri, Naples, Florida, and some international exhibitions in Korea, China, and Taiwan in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Ping Xu initiated theCross Connections International Design Exhibition and curated it in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2018. As an international exchange program, the visual advice juried exhibitions represented significant overviews of international graphic blueprint trends, featuring faculty and students works from many international institutions making their marks in the Visual Communication field within their respective countries. The participating institutions in past years were selected from the United States, Frg, Russia, Belgium, Southward Africa, México, China, and Taiwan. In 2018, Ping curated theCantankerous Connections 2018 International Exhibition of Blueprint & Illustration and collaborated with Brownsville Museum of Fine Fine art (BMFA) to showcase 96 works of visual communications and illustrations created by international faculty and students from ten participating institutions. They were School of The Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC); National Design Found at Moscow, Russia (NDI); LUCA School of Arts, Belgium (LUCA); Central Academy of Fine Arts, Communist china (CAFA); Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, China (LAFA); Shanghai University, Cathay (SHU); The University of Texas Arlington (UTA); Ming Chuan University, Taiwan (MCU); and Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos México (UAEM). The purpose of this showroom was to requite a cosmopolitan view of the most exciting new work in graphic media. Eight participating institutions exhibited the xc-six works for well-nigh 2 weeks in their corresponding campuses.
Ping Xu is a member of the Art Directors Club, New York, a fellow member of the Type Directors Club (TDC), New York, a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and a fellow member of the American Advertisement Federation (AAF). Ping works as a freelancer to aid design many pro bono works for local communities, non-profit organizations, national clients in the U.S., and international clients in China and Taiwan to maintain a professional practice.
Ping Xu has led Study Abroad trips since 2011. Afterwards joining UTRGV, he led UTRGV students to Mainland Red china for Study Abroad trips in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, and led students to Taiwan after their master Written report Abroad trips in the Chinese mainland in 2017 and 2018. Ping also coordinated and led UTRGV Graphic Pattern students to participate in an internship programme through the UTRGV Study Abroad Asia program, enabling students to gain an edge in the competitive chore marketplace and explore Asia cultures. The collaborating internship companies were McCann and Leo Burnett in 2018 and Ogilvy and Saatchi & Saatchi in 2019. As the UTRGV Study Abroad Asia plan faculty leader, Ping is currently preparing the new Asia trips in Korea, Nihon, and Taiwan for the future.
Ping Xu, MFA in Visual Advice Blueprint
Associate Professor of Graphic Pattern
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Ping Xu, MFA
Acquaintance Professor
School of Fine art and Design
E-mail: ping.xu@utrgv.edu
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Phone: (956) 665-3480

Clara J. Choi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Graphic DesignPhone: (956) 665-3480
Email: clara.choi@utrgv.edu
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Clara J. Choi, Ph.D.
Clara Joungyun Choi received my Ph.D. in Design at University of Minnesota followed past ii masters' degrees. She earned MFA in Graphic Design at University of Florida. With strong involvement of multidisciplinary arroyo of solving pattern problems and interrelationship between 2D and 3D pattern, she earned MDes in Product Design at Domus Academy in Milan, Italia. She has many years of professional design experience in industrial contexts and various design collaborations. Her expertise includes brand system design, impress/digital publication, user experience, and product design.
Her involvement in design for social impact including how design can help people to solve social problems, such as complex issues in education, environment and well-being is a driving force for her work. Her pattern philosophy has focused on social problems; in particular, she has looked at the relationship between human being behavior and the environment such equally products and systems, combined with blueprint processes that can support people's lives, not but environmental sustainability but also promoting human creativity. Electric current research focuses on how higher educational activity, particularly design teaching, motivates students with different learning styles to have a creative mindset so as to enhance their inventiveness and ultimately influence their success.
Curriculum Vitae
Clara J. Choi, Ph.D.
Banana Professor, Graphic Blueprint
School of Art and Design
Email: clara.choi@utrgv.edu
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Romeo Di Loreto born in Toronto Canada March 15, 1965. I grew upwards in a very simple Italian family from the Abruzzo region of Italia. My memories and cultural roots are strictly Italian, I retrieve the foods, ideologies and behavior. From Canada I have a great memory of the natural landscape and have respect for nature that the country reflects to the people and citizens. I accept great respect for the natural surroundings, as a child it was a refuge and escape from all around that was around me. Today the Mural and the natural surroundings has the same purpose, an escape and refuge. I studied photography at Ryerson University in Toronto Canada. Where I completed a four-year BAA Photography programme specializing in Sensitometry and photographic chemical science, with a minor in semiotics and aesthetics vision and I graduated with dean institutional honors. Afterward graduating I worked for Kodak Canada responsible for the technical division of the Kodachrome Processing Laboratories and collaborated and researcher for the film and paper innovative technology enquiry section. I began my teaching career teaching continuous teaching classes in the evenings for Ryerson University in Toronto. My passion for photography and teaching fabricated me decide to passionately attend graduate school and obtain my terminal degree where I could further my personal ideologies and visionary philosophies. After beingness accepted in several American Universities (Yale, Rhode lsland Schoolhouse of Art and Design, Art Constitute of Chicago, Rochester Establish of Engineering science, School of Visual Arts and the San Francisco Art Found) I choose to report at the Savannah College of Art and Blueprint in Savannah Georgia due to its unique surroundings which was very critical for my personal investigative visual and written research. After graduating from Savannah with Summa cum laude institute recognition and National Deans Listing. I then began to work for Archive Fratelli Alinari in Florence Italy. My vast knowledge as a Art and Culling Printer allowed me to investigate this wonderful world-wide recognized annal, and was challenged to make renew these glass plates to its original state. Afterwards Leaving Alinari I along with my colleague Paolo Woods opened Print Service (a custom black and white press laboratory) and Print Gallery, founded in 1994 and was recently airtight by who took information technology over.
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Romeo Di Loreto
Assistant Professor in Photography
School of Art and Design
Email: romeo.diloreto@utrgv.edu
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Dr. Katherine McAllen
Dr. Katherine Moore McAllen is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Managing director of the Center for Latin American Arts at UTRGV. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard Academy in the History of Art and Architecture. She received her M.A. in Art History from the Academy of Texas. She received her B.A in Art History from Trinity University. Her research has been supported past the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Fine art Foundation with the 2019-2020 Marilynn Thoma Post-doctoral Fellowship in Spanish Colonial Art and the Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Her contempo publications announced in the Latin American and Latinx Visual Civilization Journal (Academy of California Printing, 2021), the Journal of Jesuit Studies (Brill, 2019), San Antonio 1718 (Trinity University Press, 2018), and the New World in Early on Modern Italy, 1492-1750 (Cambridge Academy Press, 2017).
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Katherine McAllen, Ph.D.
Banana Professor
School of Art and Pattern
Email: katherine.mcallen@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3480

Gina Gwen Palacios
Assistant Professor - Painting & Drawing / Acquaintance ManagerPhone: (956) 882-8805
Email: gina.palacios@utrgv.edu
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Gina Gwen Palacios was born in Taft, Texas. She earned an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island Schoolhouse of Design, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio Art at Brandeis University, an MA from The University of Texas at Austin in Instructional Technology, a BA from Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi in Television set/Film and an AA from Del Mar College in Radio/Television.
Gina has exhibited at Arlington Art Center (Arlington, VA), Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art (Victoria, TX), Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York, NY), Villa Victoria Heart for the Arts (Boston, MA), Listing Fine art Center, Brown University (Providence, RI), BAIT15 (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and the Newport Art Museum (Newport, RI). Drawing on her family history and Mexican American identity, Gina uses traditional and nontraditional materials, to highlight an ofttimes underrepresented geographic and cultural narrative.
Growing up in South Texas, she captivated her parents' stories of migrant farm piece of work, cotton wool picking, and the bigotry they experienced in the region. Although vast expanses of the southwestern United states of america were once part of Mexico, Mexican American families who accept deep roots in the expanse are treated as outsiders, equally usurpers of the country and resource their families have occupied, in many cases, for generations. She creates portraits of family unit history, using colors and materials that emphasize their connection to their surround and the long cultural lineage of which they are a part of.
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Curriculum Vitae
Gina Gwen Palacios
Banana Professor - Painting & Drawing / Associate Manager
Schoolhouse of Art and Design
Email: gina.palacios@utrgv.edu
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Dr. Riccardo Pizzinato is Banana Professor of Medieval Fine art History at UTRGV. He received his B.A. (2000) and his M.A. (2005) from the Catholic University in Milan, Italy. Advised by Prof. Herbert Kessler, he earned his Ph.D. in 2012 from The Johns Hopkins Academy. Earlier joining the faculty at UTGV, Dr. Pizzinato served equally the Zanvyl Krieger Curatorial Young man in the Department of Manuscript and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore from 2009 to 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Minnesota, Morris. His research interests focus on Pictorial Arts in the West from 800 to 1300 and Museum Studies with a principal interest in early on medieval manuscripts. His research gives particular accent to the written report of medieval image theory, artifacts material, and the relationship between fine art, theology, philosophy and aesthetics. Having served as Cultural Mediator and Interpreter for the 31st Medical Group at the United States Air Force Base in Aviano, Italy, Dr. Pizzinato is moreover trained in medical language and translation.
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Riccardo Pizzinato, Ph.D.
Banana Professor
School of Art and Design
Electronic mail: riccardo.pizzinato@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3480
DM Witman is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of environmental disruption and the man relationship to place in the Age of the Anthropocene. Her creative practice is securely rooted inside the realm of the effects of humans on this world using photographic materials, video, and installation. DM is affiliated with Klompching Gallery, NY and Cove Street Arts, Portland. Contempo interviews and publications include The Guardian, BBC Civilization, WIRED, Boston Earth, and Art New England. She actively exhibits her work and has been recognized with grants from the Maine Arts Commission, The Kindling Fund (a regractor for the Warhol Foundation), The John Anson Kittredge Fund, and the Puffin Foundation.
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DM Witman
Assistant Professor
School of Fine art and Design
Email: deanna.witman@utrgv.edu
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Brandi Lee Cooper is a ceramic sculptor that works at the intersection of art and ecology. Her work is greatly informed past her background in zoology and her commitment to bridging disciplines in order to serve equally a witness to humanity's touch on the globe and abet for urgent change.
BLC is an Arizona native. She holds a BS in Zoology from Northern Arizona University and an MFA in Ceramics from Arizona State University. She exhibits her work nationally and she has been a resident artist in Rome, Italy at CRETA, the Tempe Center for the Arts, and the Academy of Kansas.
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Brandi Lee Cooper
Assistant Professor
School of Fine art and Design
Email: brandi.cooper@utrgv.edu
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Christen Sperry García's research intersects at art, operation, writing, pedagogy, and borderlands. She is co-founder of the Nationwide Museum Mascot Projection (NWMMP). Examining the borders that exist between the public and the art museum institution, NWMMP has mascotted over 40 venues including the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; Orangish County Museum of Fine art; Newport Beach, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; Bushwick Site Fest, Brooklyn, NY; Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Lima, Republic of peru; San Diego Museum of Fine art, San Diego, CA; and Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia. For six years, she worked for the studio of world-renowned video artist Pecker Viola coordinating exhibitions, publications, projects, and museum collections. Sperry Garcia has taught in school-based and public settings in New United mexican states, California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Guatemala, Cambodia, and Mexico. Sperry Garcia earned her B.South. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach. She received her Ph.D. in Art Education at The Pennsylvania State University where she also ran the Edwin C. Zoller Gallery within the School of Visual Art. She resides between Los Angeles, CA and South Texas.
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Christen Sperry Garcia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Fine art
Email: christen.sperrygarca@utrgv.edu
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Atended the San Francisco Fine art Constitute, earned his BFA in Interdisciplinary Art earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Areas of Expertise
- art
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Teaching
- MFA, Studio Art, The University of N Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
- BFA, Interdisciplinary Fine art, San Francisco Art Plant, 1997
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Paul Valadez, MFA
Assistant Professor
Schoolhouse of Art and Blueprint
E-mail: paul.valadez@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-2898
Stephen Hawks, born in Washington D. C., has lived nigh of his life in Georgia. He has training in art, music, and theater, an AA in theater from S Georgia Higher, a BFA from Valdosta State Academy, and an interdisciplinary MFA, with a concentration in Ceramics from Florida Country University. He was Resident Potter at Westville living history museum for 19 years and an independent artist for over thirty years. He is married with 2 grown Daughters. He came to Brownsville Texas in the fall of 2012 to teach at UTB, courses in Ceramics, Graduate Art Ed, Art History, 3D Design, and Art Appreciation. Currently, he oversees the Ceramics Program and Foundations in the Schoolhouse of Art at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on the Brownsville Campus.
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Stephen Hawks, MFA
Lecturer Ii
School of Art and Design
Email: stephen.hawks@utrgv.edu
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Erika Balogh was built-in in Mezotur, Hungary. Her bi-cultural groundwork has greatly shaped her identity and influenced her artwork likewise. When she moved to the U.s., Erika left behind a traditional part of her life associated with her Hungarian heritage, her childhood memories, and her family. She entered into an utterly different civilization; a more modernistic and eclectic society that completely changed her life. However, aspects of her Hungarian traditions connected to class her artwork and her self-presentation.
Erika Balogh received her MFA with a concentration in Blueprint from the University of Texas – Pan American in 2013. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas. Erika's research involvement include the function of women in order, social and economic disparity and exploring alternatives to capitalism, and trademarks and symbols as social signifiers.
Courses Taught: ARTS 1311 Drawing I, ARTS 1332 Typography, ARTS 3330 Prototype & Illustration, ARTS 3333 Design & Production, ARTS 3338 Ideas & Styles, ARTS 4333 Graphic Design I, ARTS 4334 Graphic Design II, ARTS 4339 Portfolio for Graphic Design, ARTS 4391 Individual Problems/Internship/Co-op.
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Erika M. Balogh, MFA
Lecturer Two
School of Art and Design
Electronic mail: erika.balogh@utrgv.edu
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Lilia Cabrera has been didactics the variety of facets that make upwards public school art education since 1999. In 2007, Cabrera started didactics art didactics courses at UT- Pan American Edinburg, TX.
Cabrera'due south creative experiences are securely rooted in Brownsville, Texas, where she was born and raised. Upon graduating from Homer Hanna High School, Cabrera pursued her Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Texas- Pan American. Her specialized preparation is in secondary art instruction and printmaking. In 2007, Cabrera fulfilled her passion in completing a Masters in Art Education through the Texas Tech University loma country programme known as the Junction School of Art.
Her success in pedagogy art in such a fashion where students can acquire to appreciate information technology equally if it were a core discipline has delivered positive change in the most challenging of students from differing backgrounds. Her teaching style weighs heavily on encouraging higher gild thinking and critical problem-solving skills, along with real life situations, in order to teach students to exercise their imaginations and promote fine art making. Her practice has earned her the recognition of being a Texas Art Didactics Association (TAEA) Leadership Scholar. She collaborates with TAEA in reforming country standards for art educators in the public and private school districts across the state.
Nonetheless, "showtime and foremost," Lilia Cabrera is an artist. Cabrera's art consists of amoeba-like, organic-similar, claw-like, sperm-like, and absurd-like figures that harmonize in a strange 'attack style' performance in her art. She likes to refer to this entourage equally 'La Contra,' which basically is that force that lurks around contradicting everything that is the 'creative yous.' The taboo of beingness a female artist determined to succeed in the art world through the creation of art that nurtures and plays the game with 'La Contra.' Cabrera'southward canvas, or surface for fine art making ordinarily consists of recycled items. Aluminum cans, plastic bottles, article of furniture crates, discarded plaster, and outdated organdy are just a few things that she utilizes in stamping her fight and eternal relationship with 'La Contra.' Cabrera imagines herself creating art for the residue of her life, instruction people the value of art in our everyday activities, and producing as much recycled fine art works in an effort to educate
the viewer of 'trash' alternatives.
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Lilia Cabrera, MFA
Lecturer II
School of Art and Blueprint
Email: lilia.cabrera@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3480
Rigoberto Gonzalez
Painting and Drawing
Education
-MFA, Painting, New York Academy of Art, 2004
-BFA, Studio Art, The Academy of Texas - Pan American, 1999
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Rigoberto Gonzalez, MFA
Lecturer II
School of Fine art
Email: rigoberto.gonzalez@utrgv.edu
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Mr. Julian R. Rodriguez
Education
-MFA, Ceramics & Sculpture, The Academy of Texas - Pan American, 2007
-BA, Art, St. Edward's University, 1994
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Julian Rafael Rodriguez, MFA
Lecturer Two
School of Art and Design
Email: julian.rodriguez@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 882-7785
My work is mostly improvisational. That includes sculptural and fourth dimension‐based actions that extend into social space. Exemplified in a performance collaborative chosen the Nationwide Museum Mascot Project (NWMMP), we appoint in sight specific performance making with the aim of promoting Museums and Fine art spaces to the public. I consider my work a social activity that can be a goad for soapbox and customs. Because I see my work as a fulcrum for listening and talking, the work that is produced tin can be, and frequently is, disposable. I prefer the transitory energetic interaction between homo beings over the stored energy of a congenital-to-last object. Another way to put information technology is that art, for me, is a beautiful context to assist u.s.a. communicate with one another.
I love the alchemy of making. I love the swiftness of fabricating from found materials. For me, fine art is almost discovering the beauty that others overlook, and juxtaposing disparate objects and ideas to create something never seen before-at to the lowest degree by me. Execution must be fast, materials must be cheap, and the idea must spark me to action. There are always reasons non to make stuff, simply if I don't make it, who will? At to the lowest degree, who will arrive like I volition brand it?
At that place are times when the ideas come so apace that I am overwhelmed. In those moments, information technology has to exist enough to fix a idea to paper in the form of a sketch or brief text. By hanging a notion in a sketch-volume I tin can call back information technology subsequently; pull it out and put information technology on. I recently gave a talk at UCLA about drawing. While researching the talk I understood that for me, drawing is a way of property an idea. The drawing, whether information technology is in the class of a quick sketch, a detailed cartoon, a h2o colour, or a finished slice, brings elusive thinking and thoughts into focus just plenty, not to solidify and ground something into a set reality, but to keep information technology alive, fix to be acted upon in the physical world.
Allan Kaprow in one case said to me: "Y'all make good piece of work but you retrieve too much." Merely play. Just do. This is a phone call to activity that I have never forgotten.
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Brian Dick
Lecturer I
School of Art and Design
Email: brian.dick@utrgv.edu
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Phone: (956) 665-3480
I am versatile in both traditional and digital arts, I can clearly see close connections and principles that can exist applied to both. For me digital art course or traditional fine art is non only about reproducing reality but is an most exploring simple shapes and generating bones class that I can build on. I enjoy fine art creation process, expressing myself, solving design and technical bug besides as creating educational content.
I am defended and experienced faculty with over 14 years of experience in digital content development, teaching campus-based, online classes (5 years) and independent studies in individual, community college and state run colleges and universities in the United states and away (4 years in South korea). I taught students from diverse backgrounds, cultures, countries, veterans, overseas military (online classes), and ages; from high schoolhouse students to retirees.
Education:
- DePaul Academy Chicago, Illinois M.Due south. in Computer Graphics and Animation September 2007
- The Illinois Found of Art Chicago, Illinois B.F.A. Media Arts & Blitheness December 2002
Curriculum Vitae
Aneta Urbanska
Banana Professor of Practice
Schoolhouse of Fine art and Design
Email: aneta.urbanska@utrgv.edu
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Phone: (956) 665-3480
"Felix holds a PhD in art education with a small in Latin American Studies from the Pennsylvania State Academy. Felix is currently interested in histories of art education, community-based art education and pedagogical initiatives addressing problems of migration, border-crossing, negated-blackness, racism, and gender exclusion with a particular focus on the Caribbean experience. Felix's inquiry has been recognized by various institutions, including Fulbright, the Inter-University Program for Latino Studies-Mellon Foundation, and the Dominican National Archive."
Curriculum Vitae
Felix Rodriguez Suero
Lecturer I
School of Fine art and Design
Email: felix.rodriguezsuero@utrgv.edu
106 BRUST, Brownsville
Phone: 956-665-3480
Corinne Whittemore is an artist, single female parent, graphic designer and educator. She grew upwards in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), received her MFA in Visual Communications from the University of Arizona and has been teaching at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley for the past six years in graphic design. Corinne has worked in the field of graphic pattern for over fifteen years as a Production Artist, Graphic Designer, Marketing Coordinator and Freelancer on both the East and West Coasts. She lived, virtually recently, in Virginia Beach, VA before moving back to the RGV in 2014. Corinne has and continues to freelance, consult, and exhibits her artwork locally and nationally.
Having grown up in the RGV, Corinne has first-manus feel with its unique border culture and, challenge it every bit her own, has focused her research and artwork effectually the hybridity of her borderland identity. Collaboration is integral to both her fine art and graphic design and Corinne is currently collaborating with two other women poets, Katherine Hoerth and Julieta Corpus, to produce a book of art and poetry called 'Frontier Mujeres.'
Borderland Mujeres is a collaborative, bilingual conversation in poetry and art depicting the multifaceted experiences of women living in the borderlands of deep due south Texas. In this fraught political climate, much has been written ABOUT the Rio Grande Valley and U.S/Mexico border, but what about the people who call this place domicile? Iii women, each with a dissimilar relationship to the borderlands, come together to offering their vision of the cultural, linguistic, and ecological landscape of a region that is multifaceted, circuitous, and total of both majestic beauty and stark reality. The resulting poems and images explore what it means to be a woman living in this contested infinite from different perspectives, angles, and voices. This project challenges the masculinized narrative of the region, the images of a militarized and dangerous space, and the idea of a centered, singular identity of the peoples of the borderlands. This project hopes to spark questions and chat almost identity, feminisms, and the idea of collaboration/ekphrasis in art and poetry and is scheduled to be published in 2021.
Elizabeth McCormack-Whittemore, MFA
Lecturer I (OYA)
Schoolhouse of Art and Design
E-mail: elizabeth.mccormackwhittemore@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3480
Fabian was born in Mastranto Pinal de Amoles Queretaro, United mexican states. He establish an early interestin fine art while growing up which led him to written report a Masters of Fine Arts at The Academy of TexasRio Grande Valley in Edinburg Texas.
While in fine art school from 2015 to 2018 Fabian develop his dearest for painting, drawing, and sculptinghe realized the three can get had by had as he pursued and develop new techniques that heincorporated as a painting fashion.
Social commentary, cultural mixture, and self-identity became the base of Fabian'due south piecesthrough the years ranging from the political climate in South Texas Border, social justice,domestic issues, race, migration, and even the covid 19 pandemic. The virtually popular serial todate and the largest torso of work is the series of mixed media paintings that certificate thespotlight of mixed civilisation on the edge. Fabians has expanded this into his works that speak tothe common people that struggle and are afraid to be unique and different with fright of beingpersecuted, considering of their color.
The body of piece of work was created during the development of his chief'due south degree in Edinburg Texasfrom 2015 to 2018 with the assist of his graduate committee which proudly guides a broad range oftalented groups of artists to develop a body of work. He is part of an arrangement called OutdoorPainters Guild, travels to other parts of Texas and the United states of america, and paints the beautiful outdoors.
Fabian has broadly exhibited his work not only in Rio Grande Valley but nationally andinternationally. His preferred medium in painting is oil on sail, drawing super blackness Indian inkon canvas, sculpting with cream. He lives and works on S Texas Border.
Curriculum Vitae
Fabian Chavarria
Function-Time Lecturer
School of Art and Design
Email: fabian.chavarria01@utrgv.edu
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Phone: (956) 665-2480
Nansi Guevara is a border artist and activist from Laredo, Texas. Her work is at the cadre of using her border and rasquache sensibilities to create decolonial public artwork alongside communities. As part of a Fulbright in United mexican states Urban center she co-authored and co-illustrated a children'south book for pediatric cancer patients, currently used in the Infirmary General de México Federico Gómez and Lurie Children'southward Hospital of Chicago. She studied Arts in Educational activity at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was an Artplace Artist in Residence for the Blueprint Studio for Social Intervention in Boston, Massachusetts and partnered with Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative to work alongside communities in the Roxbury and Dorchester, and created several public art pieces celebrating and amplifying the experiences of people of color in the Northeast. Nansi currently lives in Brownsville, Texas and is the co-founder and co-managing director of Taller de Permiso, an artplace funded project to demystify city permitting processes and create pathways of access for street vendors through fine art, creative placemaking, and customs organizing. She co-founded, Las Imaginistas, a socially engaged artist colectivo that works to create space for community to imagine a decolonized border. Las Imaginistes are Bract of Grass Fellows and Artplace America Grantees.
Nancy Guevara
Part-Time Lecturer
School of Art and Design
Email: nancy.guevara@utrgv.edu
Telephone: (956) 665-3480

Sharon Hewitt
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Part-fourth dimension Lecturer
Schoolhouse of Art and Design
Artist Biography:
Jesmil Thousand. Maldonado Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican artist raised in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. From a young age, a passion for fine art developed, which lead her to study fine arts at a college level. She pursued her Bachelor'southward degree in Arts at The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. Maldonado received her degree with honors in June 2016. In December 2019, she caused her Master's in Fine Arts degree with a concentration in two-dimensional art and 2 minors, one in Design and the other in three–dimensional work from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Maldonado- Rodriguez is currently working as a professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. In which she mainly teaches Printmaking and Drawing, focusing on the arroyo and agreement of the nuts of each area. Encouraging students to utilise the different techniques to their major and finding new methods and development in their artwork. In her teaching, she also breaks language boundaries past providing explanations and assistant in Spanish to the students, that is their primary linguistic communication.
She was published in the Latino Volume Review Mag 2020 Consequence, alongside other artists, poets, writers, etc. She was the featured artist for the Chicana/Latina Studies: the Periodical of MALCS for the Spring 2019 Result. Her work has been exhibited in Puerto Rico, Texas, and New York. She is working in a new series of illustrations that represent the "normal" within the peculiarity in her heed—aiming to share these works with a broad audience in unlike upcoming exhibitions.
Curriculum Vitae
Jesmil Maldonado
Part-Time Lecturer
Schoolhouse of Art and Pattern
Email: jesmil.maldonado01@utrgv.edu
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Josefina Stoleson is an instructional designer for the Center for Online Learning, and Teaching Technology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She has vii-teen years of experience in the instructional design and development field. She is responsible for faculty support, design and evolution of online courses. Josie has offshoot instructor for the Fine art department and Standing Education department, for over viii years, where she teaches graphic and interactive blueprint.
I create fine art to express my personal thoughts, feelings to communicate with my community, and to tell a story. The purpose for my artwork is to provide the audience a new visual experience through my digital illustrations. I also share my life experiences through teaching. I firmly believe in active learning. Feedback, is an important aspect of learning, it should not be taken personally, but rather push the learner by what they recall they are capable of achieving. Mrs. Stoleson holds a Primary in Fine Arts degree from UTPA.
Curriculum Vitae
Josie Stoleson
Role-Time Lecturer
Schoolhouse of Art and Design
Email: josefina.stoleson@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3480
Carl Vestweber
Didactics
-MFA, Studio Fine art, Tufts University, 2013
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Carl Vestweber, MFA
Part-Time Lecturer
School of Art and Design
E-mail: carl.vestweber@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3480
Richard East. Phillips received his Ph.D. in Viceregal art history from the Academy of Texas at Austin in 1993. Amid his publications is the volume "Adult female and Art in Early Modern Latin America," 2007. He is the UTPA Fine art Department's fine art history coordinator. Dr. Phillips was the just art historian at UTPA since 2000 until the Art Department faculty endorsed his 2008 plan to add two new art historians in 2009 so that Mexican, Latin@, and Latin American fine art and architectural history are fully covered in a mode unprecedented in almost of the world's universities in their three epochs and across both hemispheres of North and South America: Pre-Columbian, Viceregal and Modern. This enabled him to create the UTPA Bachelor of Arts in Mexican and Latin American Art and Architectural History and Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Art History degrees and curriculum. There are at present students majoring in both programs. Dr. Phillips is an art curriculum adept and has had a major impact on the design of undergraduate and graduate art degree plans and their implementation for the new UTRGV for Fall semester 2015.
Courses Taught: ARTS 1303 Art History I, 1304 Fine art History II, 3355 History of Castilian Architecture 711 to 1780 A.D, 3357 Viceregal Art and Compages of Mexico, 4359 Capstone Undergraduate Art History Seminar: Women Surrealist Artists in United mexican states Urban center, 6351 Fine art History Graduate Seminar I: Topics in American Art, 6355 Art History Graduate Seminar 5: Topics in Viceregal Latin American Art.
Curriculum Vitae
Richard Phillips, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
School of Art and Blueprint
Electronic mail: richard.phillips@retiree.utrgv.edu
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Phone: (956) 665-3480
Source: https://www.utrgv.edu/school-of-art/faculty-and-staff/faculty/index.htm
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