TAMIU Professor, Art Students Present “Uncertainty” Exhibit at Laredo Center for the Arts through Dec. 17

Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) assistant professor of Printmaking Jesse Shaw is joined by TAMIU art students Julian Martínez and Christian Terrazas for a special limited art exhibition at Laredo’s downtown Center for the Arts. The exhibit’s opening reception is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 13 from 6 – 8 p.m.  

Admission is free of charge and open to the public. 

The exhibit is also open for viewing Saturday, Dec. 14 and Tuesday, Dec. 17 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. 

TAMIU art students Julian Martínez and Christian Terrazas worked with professor Shaw throughout this Fall semester to create their own body of work using skill sets acquired as his research assistants. Both assisted in the research, development, and fabrication of Shaw’s installation work for this exhibition. 

Shaw said the exhibit theme seeks to capture the tense and tentative time and space people today seem to share.

“We seemingly live in an ever-increasing world of uncertainty. The uncertainty we face is both collective and individual. Our uncertainty can be economic, environmental, mental, national, personal, political, or religious. Each artist in this show has interpreted the idea of uncertainty in their print-based works,” Shaw explained.

TAMIU’s ACT on IDEAs Research Assistantship Program made support for this initiative possible.  

For additional exhibit information and more about printmaking at TAMIU, contact Shaw at 956.326.2591, email jesse.shaw@tamiu.edu, click on tamiu.edu, or visit offices in the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts 233.

Registration for the Spring Semester at TAMIU is now underway.  Spring 2019 Classes begin Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020.

For more about the Laredo Center for the Arts, call Rosie Santos 956.725.1715, email: rosiesantos21@gmail.com or visit their website at laredoartcenter.org.

TAMIU is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and its 25th Anniversary at its north Laredo campus throughout 2019-2020.  A dedicated website shares the University’s transformation from a hybrid upper-level university to a full doctoral degree-granting University. It includes a calendar of Anniversary events and more at tamiu.edu/50.

For more on the University’s story, contact the TAMIU Office of Public Relations, Marketing and Information Services at 956.326.2180, email prmis@tamiu.edu, click on tamiu.edu or visit offices in the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library, room 268.

TAMIU offices will close in a State-authorized holiday Monday, Dec. 23 - Thursday, Jan. 2.  

Offices and the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library will reopen Friday, Jan. 3 at 8 a.m. The final day of full campus operation is Friday, Dec. 20, from 8 a.m. to noon. 

Read additional information on TAMIU holiday schedule and Spring Registration.