Opening Reception for MAA Fall Juried Art Exhibition at MC

 

The Midland Arts Association and Midland College present the 35th Annual Fall Juried Art Exhibition

October 12 – November 16, 2012
McCormick Gallery · Allison Fine Arts Building
Midland College

An opening reception for the exhibit takes place Friday, October 12, at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

This year's juror is Tina Fuentes, Associate Professor of Art at Texas Tech University. Awards Cash awards totaling at least $4,000 will be presented at the juror's designation.

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Born in 1949 in San Angelo and raised in Odessa, Texas, Tina Fuentes earned B.F.A. and M.F.A degrees at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas where she trained in painting, drawing and printmaking. Much of her teaching experience has been teaching art within the Texas Public Schools, Waco Art Center, University of Albuquerque, and the University of New Mexico. Presently she is Professor within the School of Art at Texas Tech University and is serving as Director. She has numerous one woman, group, museum and gallery exhibitions to her credit from throughout the U.S. and particularly Texas and New Mexico. She has participated extensively as an exhibition juror and has served as a member of the Visual Arts Panel’s of the New Mexico Arts Division and the Texas Commission on the Arts. She has also served as juror and board member of the Albuquerque Arts Board, 1% for Art Program. She has served as grants reviewer for the Lubbock arts Alliance, served as member of the Texas Tech Museum Acquisition Sub-Committee, served on the University Public Arts Committee and serves on several committee’s for the School of Art. Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR, presently represents her work. Tina Fuentes maintains a studio in Lubbock, Texas.

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The purpose of MAA, as stated in the by-laws, includes : to encourage a community of interest between professional and lay people in all forms of art; to widen the scope of potential experience in art by sponsoring art events; to offer artists opportunities to display their work and to offer the public a means of witnessing what is being done; to encourage amateur artists and to create an atmosphere of coordinated effort between the amateur and the professional; and to promote other educational, charitable, civic and educational objectives.