Class Information
Student Gallery
Porcynaluk Gallery
Digital Communication
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P. Doran Porcynaluk - Pat Porcynaluk helped develop the
Southwest
College
Art
Department
. As former Assistant Chair, she has worked with numerous dedicated area artists and educators to provide an environment that fosters curiosity and experimentation with a wide variety of media in the visual arts. Her teaching assignments include Drawing and Printmaking.
Ms. Porcynaluk is currently the Chair of the Digital Communication Department. She defines her mission as one of “merging creative expression with contemporary technology. I am adamant about the need for our students in the fine arts to experiment with new media and our students in the applied arts to understand their historical role as visual communicators.”
Ms. Porcynaluk earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the State University of New York at
Buffalo
. She went on to the Rochester Institute of Technology, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Painting with a minor in Printmaking.
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Pim Ormrod, Houston artist currently teaches Metalsmithing in the Southwest Art Department and Digital Imaging I, Digital Publishing II and Object Oriented Computer Graphics at the West Loop Campus. To see examples of his students metal pieces click this link http://www.whitedog-graphics.com and go to jewelry.
Jewelry/3D Metals at Stafford
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Margo Reece holds an interdisciplinary M.F.A. in Printmaking and Photography and a B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Houston. Locally she has taught photography and printmaking at the University of Houston's Department of Art, the High School for the Performing and Visual Art's Art and Media Art Departments, and the Art Institute. She currently teaches Photography I & II in the Southwest College's Art Department and graphic design, typography, and design history courses in the Digital Communication Department. Her photography and print work has been exhibited in solo and various group exhibits in Texas, Chicago, Michigan and is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Blaffer Gallery Print Study Collection. Her work has been published by Adobe Publications, and the Houston Center for Photography's journal SPOT. To view examples of her photography student's work please click the Link to Student Gallery.
Photography 1 and 2 at Stafford, Drawing 1 and 2 at Stafford and West Loop
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Bryan Bauhs. - Class Information
Mr. Bauhs has taught in the Art Department for several years. He also teaches Art History, Appreciation, and 2D-Design for North Mains.
Art History I at Stafford and WestLoop
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Carol Hebert has had a lifelong passion for Art History reignited in 1984 when she enrolled in Edith Frame’s Art History 1304 class at
Houston
Community College
preparing for ll-level art certification and a Master of Education degree in Art Education at
University
of
Houston
. Later in Fall 2002 an earlier dream to teach both high school and college level students materialized following additional night and summer courses in Art History at
Saint Thomas
University
,
University
of
Houston
,
University
of
Dallas
, National Gallery of Art in
Washington
DC
and Chicago Art Institute. Teaching Art History 1303 and Art Appreciation at Houston Community College Southwest campus followed piloting and teaching Advanced Placement History of Art to students at
Hastings
High School
in the
Alief
Independent
School District
where she also teaches Advanced Painting and Art 1.
Mrs. Hebert received The Year 2005 Joseph B. Whitehead Educator of Distinction Award for Exemplary Dedication in the Field of Education from the Coca Cola Scholars Foundation as a result of a Hastings Advanced Placement Art History student’s nomination. She was honored in Spring and Summer 2005 by the
Alliance
for Young Artists and Writers and Harris County Department of Education as teacher of a Hastings High School Student who won a National Scholastic Silver Key award and Regional Scholastic Gold Key award for a painting. In Fall 2004 each of
Hastings
High School
’s commended Advance Placement scholars had passed the College Board’s History of Art Advanced Placement exam. While such awards are special, Mrs. Hebert believes students daily gift teachers with their enthusiasm for learning, their writing, and making of art.
Art History I at Stafford
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Eric Jones - Though he is currently working and exhibiting in a primarily digital format, Eric received both his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Painting. While waiting for his career as an artist to skyrocket, he has also worked for the
Museum
of
Fine Arts
,
Houston
, been a middle school art instructor and an adjunct faculty member for a number of colleges.
His work, which involves a combination of photography, drawing and digital collage, was most recently included in Grendel, Miami as part of the 2007 Art Fair. An upcoming opportunity to help assist in the afore-mentioned skyrocketing of his career will be possible during his November exhibition at The Art League in
Houston
.
Digital Art - West Loop
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Jim N. Hill - is an artist-painter whose work has been widely accepted and exhibited. After completing his Master of Fine Arts degree at the
University
of
Arkansas
in 1978, Jim moved to
Houston
,
Texas
, where he now paints and teaches. In 1965 Hill's first paintings were purchased by Commercial Ntl. Bank in
Little Rock
,
Arkansas
. Since then his work has been purchased by banks, universities, hotels, restaurants, oil companies and other concerns as well as many individuals in several countries.
Recent Hill paintings indicate his developed spontaneous painting technique with great interest in color harmony and composition. General categories of imagery include seascapes, landscapes, figurative, floral and abstract works. Because many themes are painted over and over, it is interesting that no two are ever alike and each work maintains it's own individuality and purpose as an artistic statement.
Artist Statement: "My painting is an intuitive effort to place on canvas that which I enjoy seeing on a flat surface. Particular images may include figurative, landscape, floral and even non-representational. It is not something I necessarily see in my mind but rather develop, usually on a white painting surface. I then enjoy re-organizing my original idea by painting over areas and leaving some original showing. Rarely does a resolved image originally occur. My interest is primarily in color and shape. All art interests me."
FROM http://www.jimnhill.com/Statement.htm
Art Appreciation
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Masumi Kataoka - a metal artist who creates jewelry, was a resident artist at the
Houston
Center
for Contemporary Craft from January 2004 - January 2005. Kataoka incorporates human hair in conjunction with precious metals. Kataoka?s interest in use of human hair ranges from Victorian mourning jewelry to blurring the boundaries between her jewelry and the body itself. While in residency, she will continue to work with similar materials to expand her ideas about jewelry. She taught sculpture and Art Appreciation for HCCSW during her tenure at HCCC. We welcome her back to
Southwest
College
. She is teaching Art Appreciation at the
Alief
Center
this semester.
Art Appreciation Jewler Metal Smith
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Veronica Keyes - teaches painting and Art Appreciation at the
Stafford
Center
this semester. She graduated with an MFA in painting from the
University
of
Houston
. In the description of her thesis exhibition, her work is described: ?The lived experience is also at the center of Veronica Keyes? self-portraits. Executed on a daily basis, they intimately chart her walk through life. With every transient moment recorded in great detail, the viewer becomes a witness of her existence.? She has taught for four semesters for Southwest.
Art Appreciation, Painting - Stafford
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Jason Kishell - Attended IUPUI, Herron School of Art in
Indianapolis
,
IN
receiving a BFA in 2001 and also attended the
University
of
Colorado
at
Boulder
,
CO
receiving an MFA in 2003.
"I want my creations to appear as though they could be real, creating the sense of an alternate reality. I enjoy the seduction of illusion and how the perception of an object or image is relative to the viewer’s experiences."
Sculpture - Stafford
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Donna Kleszcz - A Fullbright Fellow in Painting Donna Kleszcz holds degrees from Wayne State University and the California College of Arts in the Bay area. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States in galleries, colleges, corporate and private collections, as well as, Art in America.
Art Appreciation - Stafford
Syllabus 1301
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Michele LaRocco - HCCS Gallery Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty member is a native Texan who has recently returned to the US from
London
,
England
. Michele holds two Bachelors degrees from the
University
of
Houston
in Communications and Art History, as well as a Master’s of Art History from
Richmond
the
American
University
in
London
, where she graduated Summa cum Laud. Her thesis focused on the creation of culture through the museum space, in particular the display of Pre-Columbian cultures in
London
,
Barcelona
,
Prague
,
Berlin
and
Vienna
. Michele explored the omission of the Pre-Columbian culture from the ongoing debate concerning how non-western art forms and their peoples should be displayed within the western museum, as well as the placement and treatment of their works within various museum pedagogic systems. Specifically examining the various power relations that exist between institutions, which consisted of those articulated between museum and their public.
Michele is no stranger to the gallery or museum space. While pursuing her graduate studies Michele worked at the National Gallery London. In addition to her work in
London
, Michele worked at the
Museum
of
Fine Arts Houston Education Department
before making her move to
Europe
. Michele has published articles both in
England
and the
US
, as well as produce educational material for the MFAH’s Education Department.
Art History I - West Loop
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Joan Laughlin has a B.A. in Art History and an M.F.A. in New Genres from
Otis
College
of Art and Design in
Los Angeles
in 2001..
"To study Art History is to become visually literate. Without visual literacy, we are lost in a world surrounded with signs and symbols that often have a deliberate history and meaning. To be visually literate is to understand the world that we live in."
Art History 1 - West Loop
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Joyce Ugochi Olewe is a member of Texas Southern University's class of '97. She graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a BA in Fine Art (concentration Sculpture) and a French minor. After her studies at TSU, she went on to pursue graduate studies at the
University
of
Califoria
,
Los Angeles
where she later got her Masters in African Area Studies, with a concentration in African Art History. Joyce has a very rich cultural background. She was born in Nigeria but has spent most of her years either in the United States or in Nigeria, the place of her birth. As a result, speaks five languages, including English. She is a strong advocate for the Arts, as she herself is a sculptress. When she is not creating her own "mistress-pieces", she speaks to the creative potential of her students. Her personal motto is "Art is Culture, Get Some Culture." Click for Class Information.
Art Appreciation, Art History 1 - Alief and Stafford
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Gwendolyn Plunkett received her BFA from the
University
of
Houston
in 1983 and her MFA from the
University
of
South Florida
in 1997. She has exhibited her work in numerous shows across the southeast and in
Texas
. Her work is in the Cinco Banderas collection in
Pensacola
,
Florida
and numerous private collections. She most recently had a one-person show of her encaustic monotypes in fall of 2005 in
Houston
. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at colleges and universities in the
Houston
area.
"I work both abstractly and with referential imagery. The use of a repetitive motif in my current work has evolved from sources as diverse as African textiles, scarification, elements from the natural world and contemporary drawing. In some work the repeated element is referential, in other work, the element becomes the subject itself. This conversation between meaning and form intrigues me and keeps the series moving along."
Art Appreciation at Stafford - Class Links to Art Appreciation Museum Project and Museum Project Requirements
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Susan Smith is a graduate of the University of Houston with an MFA in painting and drawing. Ms. Smith has been teaching in various settings in the Houston area for many years and has been listed in "Who's Who Among American Teachers" mulitple times. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in galleries and museums in Texas and as far away as Norway and Bogota Columbia.
Drawing 1, Painting 1 - West Loop |
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Carol Schwartz - From July through December of 2006, Carol Schwartz has been a ceramics resident artist at the
Houston
Center
for Contemporary Craft. She was raised in
Texas
where she received her BFA in ceramic arts from
Texas
State
University
in 2002. She received her MFA in ceramics with a minor in printmaking from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2005. She recently moved to
Houston
from
Lincoln
,
NE
where she was a resident artist at
Lux
Center
for the Ats. Carol uses humor along with fantasy to address serious issues of love, desire, and ambition that often occur in interpersonal relationships. In her narrative prints and ceramic sculptures, she often uses the workplace as a metaphor for romantic relationships between men and women.
Ceramics
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Gerald Thorp is a graduate of Arizona State University with an MFA in Painting and Drawing. Mr. Thorp is also an undergraduate of University of Houston with a BA in Drama. He has taught in the HCC System since the fall of 1997. When not in his studio he can be found teaching Art History and Art Appreciation. His wife is a published poet and his son will be going into his Sophomore year at HSPVA.
Design 1, Painting 1 and 2 - Stafford
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Walter Wagner instructs studio courses such as drawing, 2-D design, printmaking, and painting in addition to art appreciation and art history courses. He has advocated true diversity amongst rapidly growing campuses and has provided insight into the modernization of the art curriculum and culture within the local community of
Houston
for the past four years. Wagner is a graduate of The University of Texas at
San Antonio
with a MFA in Printmaking and also carries a BFA in Printmaking at
Arizona
State
University
.
Wagner’s artwork currently deals with the spiritual nature of our existence and the exploration of the creative process being spiritual in essence. He also dedicated to emphasize the meditative processes involved in creating the work, and promote an environment for continual dialogue on spiritual concepts and the dual realties of our physical and incorporeal existences.
Printmaking 1, Art Appreciation - Alief and Stafford
Link to Walter Wagner's website.
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