Faculty News

Leslie Martin, OSU BFA Studio Art graduate and former faculty member, has collaborated with Abbey Hepner to curate an exhibition at Modella titled, “Collective Voices”.  that has both OSU faculty and students included.

Congratulations to Art History professors Jennifer Borland and Louise Siddons, who recently published an article on their use of public art to teach more community-focused and civically-engaged art history. 

PRESS RELEASE

Cimarron National Works on Paper
Gardiner Gallery of Art Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078
https://art.okstate.edu/

24 Works on Paper, is a biennial travelling art exhibition that is featured in the Spring issue of ART FOCUS Oklahoma. This exhibition was curated by OSU Associate Professor Louise Siddons and features 24 artist from across Oklahoma. Several of the artist featured include OSU Professor Mark Siddons and OSU Assistant Professor Andy Mattern.

Dr. Louise Siddons, Associate Professor of Art History, has been awarded the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS) Faculty Fellowship for her project ""Good pictures are a strong weapon": Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty."

Andy Mattern's series "Average Subject / Medium Distance" will be included in the exhibition "Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes" at SFMOMA, July 20 – Dec 1, 2019. The exhibition was curated by Senior Curator of Photography Clément Chéroux. An opening reception will be held on July 20th.

Recently Dr. Cristina Cruz González received the Oklahoma Humanities Scholar Research Grant, $3000 for the book project "Art Community, and Salvation in Colonial Mexico." and the Helmerich Center for American Research (HCAR) Grant, $1000 for the project "Constructing Sanctity in the Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Mission." This grant allows for archival research in the HCAR at the Gilcrease Museum leading to the publication of an article.

Conratulations to Dr. Cristina Cruz González!

Dr. Cristina Cruz González will be giving a lecture "Gender, Piety, & the Colonial Archive" at University of Texas Rio Grand Valley in Edinburg, Texas April 10. 2019.

Oklahoma State University Professor Chris Ramsay will be honored for his contributions to the arts in Oklahoma during the 43rd annual Governor’s Arts Awards April 16 at the Oklahoma State Capitol.