Alumni in the News

Alumna Lindsey Bailey (BFA, 2008), graduate student at Belmont University, has spearheaded a project that brings together Belmont University sculpture students and Nashvilla-area schools. Starting with a campaign on Kickstarter, Bailey raised over $4,000 to fund 12 of 24 workshops, a documentary film crew, and transportation for students to the gallery opening at Belmont University. The exhibition, titled Deliciously Happy, features the results of the collaborative workshops between Belmont students and Nashville students. It will be on view from February 29th to March 30th, with a reception on March 1st from 5 - 7pm, at Gallery 121 in the Leu Center for Visual Arts.

Mike McKinley (BFA, 1977) is currently writing a memoir on his time spent in the Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the New York-based parody ballet company. McKinley spent around a decade with the company as his alter-egos, ballerina Tatiana Youbetchabootskaya (pictured left) and danseur Igor Teupleze. His memoir is titled Blood and Satin: Confessions of a Drag Ballerina. 

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will perform at the Long Center Tuesday, February 7th at 7:30pm in Dell Hall. For more information on the performance call 474-5664 or visit www.thelongcenter.org.

Alumna Connie Swann (BFA, 1996) will be featured in a solo exhibit in March at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, TX. Titled Spaces in Between, the exhibit will run from March 2 - March 25, 2012. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 2nd, 6pm - 9pm and on First Friday, March 3rd, 6pm - 9pm.

David Lujan (BFA, Studio Art, 2006) is featured in the show, Dimensions: Constructed Exploration and the Painted Print at Gallery Black Lagoon. The exhibition, which opens with a reception on Friday, February 3 from 7-10 p.m., is free to the public. RSVP on the Gallery Black Lagoon's Facebook event page.

The eye-popping solo exhibit at the UT FAB Gallery, Taylor Winn: Large Works 2005 – 2011, features paintings spanning up to 7 feet tall by 15 feet wide brimming with signature comets, tornadoes and rivers of paint in sophisticated colors.  Opening reception is Thursday, November 10, from 6 - 8pm.  The exhibition runs through Dec. 16.

Associate Professor Teresa Hubbard (B.F.A., Studio Art, 1988) and partner Alexander Birchler, were included in the October issue of Texas Monthly. The article entitled, "Straight from the Art" discusses the art boom in Texas, and Hubbard is included with a group of 12 other movers and shakers in the Texas art world. 

Matt Rebholz (MFA, Studio Art, 2008) and Monica Joy Alfonso (BFA, Studio Art, 2000) are featured in the show, Paintings, Drawings & Prints at Gallery Black Lagoon. The exhibition, which opens with a reception this Friday, Sept. 23 from 7-10 p.m., is free to the public. RSVP by calling 512/371-8838.512.371.8838

David Cloyd (BM, Music Performance, 1998) offers up a fresh take on a Paul McCartney classic—"Dear Boy" from the 1971 album Ram. "David's talents as a multi-instrumentalist and his vocal work on the song 'Unhand Me, You Fiend!' made 'Dear Boy' both an obvious choice and an ideal challenge for a new recording," says producer Blake Morgan.  Worldwide Release TODAY, September 13th, 2011 on Engine Company Records. Watch the Official YouTube Video: HERE Worldwide Release TODAY, September 13th, 2011 on Engine Company Records

This past spring Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT (UT BFA 1976) was promoted to full professor at Kansas State University where she has taught theater and directed the drama therapy program for the past 11 years.  Her recent book "Barrier-Free Theatre: Including Everyone in Theatre Arts -- In Schools, Recreation, and Arts Program -- Regardless of (Dis)Abililty" was awarded the 2011 Distinguished Book Award by the American Alliance for Theatre in Education in Chicago at its annual conference in July.  "Barrier-Free Theatre" is published by Idyll Arbor, Inc.

Mali Vargas Docktor (B.F.A., Studio Art, 2000) will have an exhibition, Chromatone, at Evanescence Gallery during the month of September. The opening reception will be from 6-9pm on Friday, September 2nd. Chromatone is an inviting journey through color. Docktor combines formal abstraction with modern expressionism in her latest series of intensely colorful paintings as she seeks to explore the emotive effects of color.

Docktor’s work entitled Sporadic Growth was chosen by the jury to be included in the Artists Choice exhibition organized by the Alberta Society of Artists. Only 21 artworks were selected for the exhibition. The Artists Choice exhibition will be exhibited at the Alberta Society of Artists Gallery At Lougheed House in Calgary, AB from August 31- October 30, 2011.