Associate Professor Pete Schulte has been awarded a prestigious artist residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Founded in the late 1970s by sculptor Donald Judd, the Chinati Foundation has hosted renowned and emerging artists including Ingólfur Arnarsson, John Newman, John Wesley and Karl Haendel. Schulte, who was the recipient of the South Arts State Fellowship for Alabama in 2017, said that this is one of the more prestigious residencies for visual artists. "I am quite honored to have received it," he said. Now a mecca for artists, the town of Marfa is located in the Chihuahuan Desert of west Texas. The Chinati Foundation provides resident artists with a furnished apartment on the grounds of the Foundation's museum as well as a studio in Marfa. Artists have unlimited access to Chinati's art collection and archive, and the museum staff and interns are available to assist in securing materials and preparing exhibitions. A stipend of $1,000 is provided to assist with travel and art materials. Pete Schulte has taught drawing at The University of Alabama since 2011. He received the MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Iowa. Schulte has held solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson New York; Whitespace, Atlanta; Luise Ross Gallery, New York City; Biggin Gallery at Auburn University; and UAB Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His work has been in recent group exhibitions at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn; Galerie Look&Listen in Saint-Chamas, France and Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City. Schulte has been awarded art residencies at the Hambidge Center, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Threewalls. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, World Sculpture News, Burnaway and New Art Examiner, among other publications. In 2013 he co-founded The Fuel And Lumber Company curatorial initiative with artist Amy Pleasant. His work is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York and by Whitespace in Atlanta. For more information about The University of Alabama’s programs in studio art and art history, go here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/.
Drawing Animal Skulls at the Museum
UA full-time instructor Charlotte Wegrzynowski took her students for a drawing session in the Alabama Museum of Natural History's special collections recently . Wegrzynowski said, "We are capping off our unit on line with some discussion of scientific illustration. We had such a good time drawing various skulls that I had to take some pictures!" Located in Smith Hall on UA campus, the Alabama Museum of Natural History's collections were begun by state geologist, Eugene Allen Smith, in the 1870s. The Department of Art and Art History at The University of Alabama provides an innovative, energetic and interdisciplinary learning environment that focuses on academic excellence in the areas of art history and studio art. For more information about our programs, go to this page.
Lisa Iglesias to Present Artist Lecture and Workshop at UA
The UA Department of Art and Art History announces an artist lecture by Lisa Iglesias on Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 6 p.m. in 203 Garland Hall. Iglesias will also lead a workshop in Pete Schulte's Concepts/ Advanced Concepts in Drawing class (ART 344/444). In conjunction with her talk and workshop, Iglesias will present a drawing installation at The Fuel & Lumber Company's Tuscaloosa Project Space (TPS) at 2003 8th Street, downtown Tuscaloosa. Lisa Iglesias received the MFA from the University of Florida in 2006 where she now teaches drawing and painting as assistant professor. A native of Queens, New York, she works collaboratively and individually with her sister Janelle Iglesias as Las Hermanas Iglesias. She has exhibited around the United States, Mexico City and Australia: Mulherin New York; Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown; Y Gallery, NYC; Abrons Art Center, New York; and the Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, among others. Her website is here. Lisa Iglesias' artist lecture is supported by The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History, the University of Florida School of Art + Art History and the SEC Faculty Travel Program. More information about UA Art and Art History's visiting artists and lecturers. Image credit, top right: Lisa Iglesias, In The Very Roof of The Vault, 2013, frames, cement, sumi ink, salt, gouache, paper, found sidewalk and asphalt chunks, rocks, collage, wood, graphite, embroidery floss; 18 X 2 X 16 feet.