Victoria College Fine Art Gallery
Victoria, Texas
March 8 - April 8, 2021

This exhibition will featured artworks by present Faculty and Graduate Students working in Sculpture courses during the 2020-2021 academic year at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.

Jacqueline Negreros, Second year MFA Studio Art graduate student 
From Houston, Texas, Jacqueline Negreros first developed an affinity for print at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art in 2013. Jacqueline exhibits regionally and nationally and participates in community engagement through live printing events. She was awarded a scholarship in 2019 to study monoprint at the Glassell Studio School in Houston, and is excited to expand her studio practice as part of the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi community. 

Amelia Key, First year MFA Studio Art graduate student
Originally from Dothan, AL, Amelia Key received her B.A. in Art from Belhaven University in 2011. While living in Jackson, MS, she worked at a fine craft gallery and a stained glass studio, while exhibiting her work locally and across various locations in the Southeast. After moving to Corpus Christi, Amelia has continued to investigate colorful everyday materials and plastics while adding new techniques such as laser cutting and metal fabrication to her studio practice.  

Olivia Hinkel, First year MFA Studio Art graduate student
From Indiana, Olivia Hinkel received her B.A. in Studio Art and English Literature from Hanover College.  During the Fall 2020 term, Olivia added laser cut acrylic and photography to her primary medium of cut paper, as she investigates and redefines her relationship with her own body, with in an interest in understanding and critiquing the way our bodies serve as a primary interface for knowing ourselves and each other. 

Leticia R. Bajuyo, M.F.A., Associate Professor
From Metropolis, a small town in southern Illinois, Bajuyo received her M.F.A. in 2001 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and her B.F.A. in 1998 from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining TAMU-CC in 2017, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sculpture at the University of Notre Dame and as a Professor of Art at Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana 2001-2015. An interdisciplinary object maker, her large-scale, site-specific art installations have been featured at the From Waste to Art Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Site Gallery at Sawyer Yards Silos in Houston, Texas; and the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee.

Richard James, M.F.A., Assistant Professor 
James grew up in rural Tennessee and received his BFA from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001. He earned his MFA in ceramics from the University of Kansas in 2016 and was a 2016-17 long-term artist-in-residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. He has been a summer artist-in-residence at Zhenrutang in Jingdezhen, China. Richard is the recipient of Sculpture Magazine 2016 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and served as the 2017 Speyer Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation. 

David Hill, M.F.A., Professional Assistant Professor
Born in Mobile, Alabama, David Hill received his B.F.A. from the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, in painting and drawing. Originally a philosophy major, he changed his degree plan after his first introductory drawing class. After his undergraduate degree, he attended the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, as a graduate teaching assistant where he earned his M.F.A. in painting and drawing. A resident of Corpus Christi since 2000, David has actively supported the local arts. He has hosted critiques and shows in his home, public critiques at the Art Museum of South Texas with then director Bill Otton, believing that artistic maturity occurs for everyone in a community where open and constructive feedback is valued. He began teaching as an adjunct at Del Mar Community College in 2011, and considers education an important component to a well-rounded studio practice. His own work currently explores the contemporary role of the artist as cultural producer and instructor as well as the role of the creative process in those practices.

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