Department News and Events | Fall 2024

On Nov. 14 from 6-7 p.m., artist Mario Zoots will give a lecture in the Kimball Visual Arts building, room 143. 

As a lens-based artist, he employs modes of appropriation and collage. Altering mass-produced images, found photographs, and pop culture icons to reimagine and question the belief systems that shape our world.

Zoots is the Curator of Collé, a publication exploring the world of contemporary collage, and Curatorial Manager for New Projects, an arts initiative designed to foster experimentation and collaboration.

The event is free and open to the public.

On Oct. 8 at 5:30 p.m., please join the Afro-Latin America: History & Culture class taught by DOVAD's very own Dr. Maria del Mar Gonzalez-Gonzalez and Dr. James Almeida (Dept. of History) for an artist talk by Afro-Caribbean performance and installation artist Carlos Martiel.

Located in the Hetzel-Hoellein room at Stewart Library (room 321). The event is free and open to the public.

Jessenia Bigelow and Claire (Tink) Safeer, were recently selected for the Utah chapter of the American Association of University Women's annual Utah Women Artists exhibition and both received juror awards for their pieces.

Congrats Jessenia and Tink!

Exhibit will be open Sept. 13 - Nov. 16, 2024.

Please join us for the Opening Reception on Sept. 13 from 6-8 p.m. at the Shaw Gallery.

Mark your calendars for the lecture series featuring exhibiting artists on the following dates:

Sept. 17 - Jude Agboada
Sept. 24 - Kellie Bornhoft
Oct. 22 - Stephanie Kimmey
Oct. 29 - Andrew Rice
Nov. 12 - Ariel Wilson

Lectures will take place inside the Shaw Gallery from noon-1 p.m.

Please join us on Wednesday, Aug. 28 in the ACT Lab (KA 306) from 10 a.m.-noon for an open house!

Students are welcome to come check out the ACT Lab to see how they can use the tools in the room to make art.

3D printers, laser cutters, plotters and more! This lab has everything you need to take your art to the next level.

Carter Pasma is the 3D Studio Manager and Foundations Assistant.

Pasma is a practicing ceramic artist making primarily wheel thrown functional pottery. He is currently researching cone 10 soda firing, high alumina clay bodies and the effects reduction cooling have on the clay and glaze in a soda kiln. In May of 2022, Pasma was named as one of Ceramics Monthly's emerging artists. He has published multiple articles in Pottery Making Illustrated and Ceramics Monthly. Pasma regularly shows work around the country.

He earned his BFA in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. After obtaining his BFA he was a post-bacc at Montana State University for two years, he then went on to earn his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University.

Cathy Qi is an Assistant Professor of Art Education.

Cathy Qi got her Ph.D. in Art Education from the University of Arizona and MFA in
Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. She has worked in various K-12
institutions worldwide and art museums across the United States. Her research interests and publications focus on museum education, online teaching, global art communication and
multicultural art education.

Ben Evjan is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design.

Ben Evjen is a maker, designer and educator who relies upon experimentation and conceptual thinking. He has taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Utah Valley University. He earned his MFA in Design/Visual Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University and his BFA in Graphic Design from Utah State University.  

His current creative work explores the creation of therapeutic toys for children whose caregivers suffer from epilepsy.