Liakesha Cooper in “High Noon,” an oil on canvas by Felice House, will be in the “Women Painting Women: In Earnest” exhibit. By Sarah Wilson, College of Architecture Art by Felice House, assistant professor of visualization at the Texas A&M College of Architecture, will be part of the Oct.
The east entrance of the Jack K. Williams Building on the campus of Texas A&M features the combination of a honeysuckle ornament with a pineapple to welcome visitors. The photograph, taken by Carolyn Brown, is among more than 200 others featured in, “Architecture That Speaks,” by Nancy McCoy and…
Texas A&M student Jonathan Lee Gonzales owns Sunday Drive Records. By Sarah Wilson, Texas A&M University College of Architecture From emo-punk to Arkansas space rock, unassuming music impresario Jonathan Lee Gonzales, an entrepreneurial Texas A&M visualization major with his own record label, is orchestrating a three-city Texas tour…
Rachel Nhan, 3-D fashion designer, prepares a dress for a runway show. By Sarah Wilson, Texas A&M University College of Architecture Futuristic bridal gowns, haute couture costumes and tech-inspired fashion accessories, all made with 3-D printers, have garnered international recognition for Rachel Nhan ’11, a Texas A&M Visualization…
This story by Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture One of the world’s foremost hyperrealist painters, Leng Jun, created a portrait of live model Bailee WIlson in a one-day, public painting session April 3 in the Texas A&M College of Architecture’s Wright Gallery. Jun’s visit was…
By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture Student artists and technologists will team up and match wits in a 36-hour competition to create dazzling technology-based art for GigaJam, an inaugural competition staged March 31 – April 2 by the Texas A&M student chapter of AMC SIGGRAPH, a group…
By Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications The Texas A&M College of Architecture’s Visualization Department will showcase Oscar-winning animation, educational gaming and digital enhancements for therapeutics, among other “zones of engagement” that live at the intersection of art and science, during South-by-Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Week. The multidisciplinary exhibits…
A preliminary version of artist Jennifer Chenoweth’s emotional map. By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture This spring, Austin artist Jennifer Chenoweth is leading an army of volunteers to create a public art project, the “XYZ Atlas,” a color-coded data-based map that will geographically plot…
“Zootopia” (Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Animation Studios) By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture From lifelike fur covering the anthropomorphic animal denizens of Disney Animation Studio’s feature, “Zootopia,” to realistic feathers that fluff dry and droop wet on “Piper,” the beachcombing namesake of…
Yingzhe Duan’s first-place design. (Photo courtesy College of Architecture) By Texas A&M University College of Architecture A conceptual design for a Houston museum skinned with sheet metal refuse from automotive manufacturing and conceived to enhance public awareness on the environmental impact of waste, earned Yingzhe Duan, a Texas A&M…