Major National Sponsors Blick Art Materials, DaVinci Paint Co., In2Art & Jerry's Artarama. University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

University of Houston The University of Houston School of Art is a collection of impressive resources – both human and material – focused intently towards creating and sustaining the intellectual, emotional and physical environments necessary to support young artists, designers, theorists, critics and art historians. Art is never a product of the assimilation of a body of knowledge, but rather the result of risk-taking within a field of “not knowing”. We prepare young artists by providing them with a secure environment in which to risk failure, as well as the technical, conceptual and contextual tools to inform that risk. A beneficial academic environment will provide those “languages” while encouraging the uniqueness of speech. To create these nurturing environments, we have to maintain both an institutional agility – an ability to respond appropriately and meaningfully to change - and a clear, collective sense of the primacy of each student. At the School of Art, we provide progressive programs that expand or contract based on individual need and interest. We have that flexibility because we are large enough (1,000+ majors) to sustain the insularity of an atelier environment that is also embedded within and has access to the vast resources of a premier research institution. It is the best of both worlds. VIEW THE HU COMPETITION ARTISTS! COMING SOON! Dr. John Roberts, Dean College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences University of Houston Houston, Texas 77004 Phone: 713-743-2255 Contact Dr. John Roberts