The Onstead Institute for Education in the Visual Arts & Design

05/13/2020

Artist Traci O'Dwyer demonstrates how to make a no-sew face mask.

Artist Traci O'Dwyer demonstrates how to make a no-sew face mask.

03/23/2020

See CVAD faculty member James Thurman demonstrate the lost wax casting process!

This video explores the lost wax casting process, led by faculty member James Thurman in the College of Visual Arts & Design at the University of North Texas.

08/07/2019

Toni Morrison, who passed away earlier this week, left behind a legacy of stunning literary works including her only book of poetry, Five Poems (Rainmaker Editions, 2002), with illustrations by Kara Walker. You can view pages from the work online at MoMA.

Our evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art. More than 81,000 works are currently available online.

07/29/2019

CALL for Artists!

Well Blended Call for Artists WELL BLENDED JURIED EXHIBITION WHEN? October 4 – 19, 2019 WHERE? UNT on the Square 109 North Elm Street, Denton, Texas 76201 OPEN TO: Anyone who resides in the Denton County area as well as UNT and TWU students. THEME: Coffee is the conceptual/inspirational starting p...

07/17/2019

Last week we welcomed art educators from several local distrcits to CVAD and the UNT Art Gallery for a day of workshops! Read more about what they did during their visit here: https://onstead.unt.edu/taea-region-11-summer-conference

07/17/2019

Read more about what we did during the first Environmental Explorers Summer Camp earlier this summer and check out some awesome photos of the campers and their projects here: https://onstead.unt.edu/environmental-explorers-summer-camp

06/18/2019

Last week we presented our partnership with Denton ISD and led a Design Thinking workshop at the CEDFA Fine Arts Summit in Austin. Participants used empathy, ideation, iteration, and collaboration to design unique "backpack" prototypes for student personas.

06/11/2019

Last week the Onstead Inistitute helped lead the Environmental Explorers Summers Camp. What an incredible week! Students used art and philosophy to explore questions about our environment. Here students were taking a break during a hike to think about turtle conservation and to paint from the perspective of a box turtle.

05/23/2019

5..6.. pick up sticks.. 7..8.. take them to Mabank (for an art workshop)

05/23/2019

Local middle school students sketched and embroidered their own unique designs with us this past week. This activity is a part of our Wandering Wardrobe project which brings historical garments (like this 1780's court coat!) from the Texas Fashion Collection to K-12 students. Stay tuned!

05/21/2019

Congrats to CVAD graduate student Athena Buxton who was selected for the new Onstead Institute / Amon Carter Museum Fellowship in Museum Education. Read more about Athena and the fellowship here: https://onstead.unt.edu/2019-fellow