Carol Flueckiger, MFA
Associate Professor, School of Art, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Texas Tech University, Box 42081, Lubbock, TX 79409-2081
806-742-3825x253
c.flueckiger@ttu.edu ¸
carolflueckiger.com
EDUCATION
MFA
Drawing/Painting with Art History minor, University of New Mexico, 1994
BFA
Drawing/Painting, University of Minnesota, Awarded Cum Laude, 1989
Studied at the Cemanahua Language School in Cuernavaca, Mexico, winter quarter 1987
TEACHING
Texas Tech University, Associate Professor Art, Foundations Coordinator
COURSES
ART 6301-011 Graduate Lecture/Paper
ART 3321-302 Painting I Introduction Water Based
ART 1302-301 Design 1
ART 5322-301 Grad Painting
ART 5304-501 Adv. Studio 2D
ART 2304-??? Drawing II
ART 5202-001 Grad. Sem. Professional Development
ART 4304-051 Adv. Problems
ART 5102-001 Grad. Sem. Teach.
OUTREACH
Lubbock Art Alliance, Lubbock Art Festival Booth and student exhibition & Studio Tour
TASA Texas Association Schools of Art, board member, 2010-2012
Entering Freshman Portfolio Awards
RESEARCH
Using the blistering West Texas sun to expose large cyanotype prints, I “tattoo” historic handwriting and
vintage graphics into painted wood panels. In my compositions images of drawn clothing merge with hand
written words and paper doll shapes to metaphorically try on history like a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
Primary documents used in my work come from the archives at Women’s Rights National Historical Park,
American Antiquarian Society and Library of Congress.
AWARDS
Honorable Mention, Soho Photo 7th Annual Alternative Processes Competition, Juror Michael Paris
Mazzeo, Sept, 2011
First Place Award, TASA One Cube Foot Exhibition, East Fork Gallery, TCC-TRC, Ft. Worth, TX, Sept.
23-24, 2011, award juror, Heyd Fontenot, Director of UTD CentralTrak
Best of Show 2011 Juried Gallery Lubbock Arts Festival, juror Jim Bob Salazar, artist, professor Sul Ross
State University
Nominated for the 2011 Arthouse Texas Prize, juried 30,000 award celebrating a promising Texas –based
artist who has produced a significant body of work in the last two years. Nominees for the
Arthouse Texas Prize have been chosen by a select group of art world professionals tuned into the
Texas art scene.
Nominated for solo exhibition at Women and Their Work, Austin, TX, 2010
Accepted into the final round of judging for the $50,000.00 Hunting Art Prize, 2009
Accepted into the final round of judging for the $50,000.00 Hunting Art Prize, 2007
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TASA Artist Award: Paul Hanna Lecture Series, Texas Association School of Art, 2007
GRANTS
CHASS Creative Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, Texas Tech University, Dorothy
Chansky, College of Visual & Performing Arts (Theatre & Dance), Carol Flueckiger, College of
Visual & Performing Arts (School of Art)- Three Eleanors and Their Solar-Powered Paper Dolls:
Arts as Historiography
CHASS Creative Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, (3,000.00) Texas Tech University, travel to
Library of Congress to study Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s project The Woman’s Bible, for a project
titled Solar Powered Paper Dolls, 2011-2012
Faculty Development Leave (competitive), granted for Fall, 2008
Project was to produce an exhibition of paintings based on feminist history using imagery from
archives at Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Fall, NY and the American
Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
Texas Tech Research Enhancement Fund Grant, ($7,800.00), 2007
My Project titled Paintings Based on American History was to purchase materials and equipment
to use for making large 4x4 foot paintings that are blueprinted with historic handwriting and
vintage graphics from the early feminist movement.
Texas Tech University Arts and Humanities Grant, ($4,600.00), 2007
My project titled Painting Based on Early American History was to gather and digitize primary
documents from the early American Women’s movement with the purpose to blueprint the text
into paintings.
RESIDENCIES
American Antiquarian Society Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists, 2009
Last Artist Fellow, research for a body of work about feminism and early American reform
practices. June 2009
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Arts Afire!, solo exhibition of paintings, workshop and lecture in conjunction with National Park
Service at Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, June 19 - 22, 2012
http://www.nps.gov/wori/planyourvisit/arts-afire-program.htm
Artist Talk, July 19, 2012
Workshops, July 20 – 21, 2012
Borrowed and Blue, solo exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock,
TX, March 2 - April 28, 2012
2011
Solar Powered Paper Dolls, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX, Jan. 14 – Mar. 11
Artist Lecture, Tues. Mar. 1
Thrift Store Blues, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX, November 11-12, 2011
Set design for Flatlands Dance Theatre Performance Collide: A Collaboration of Artist and Art
Forms. Dance follows the life cycle of a shirt.
2010
Solar Powered Paper Dolls, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, Sept. 24 – Oct. 14
Artist Talk, Oct., 14, 2010
2009
Blue Prints: Paintings by Carol Flueckiger, Islander Art Gallery, University Galleries, Texas
A&M University - Corpus Christi, College of Liberal Arts, Oct. 2-31, 2009
Artist’s Talk, Oct. 2, 2009
Reese, Elizabeth, History Becomes Art: Corpus Christi Caller Times. Caller.com, Oct. 22,
2009
Solitude of Self and Postcards from the Laundry Room, International Cultural Center on Texas
Tech campus, Lubbock, TX, Feb. 1 – 27
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2008
Will Send Woman’s Bible, Eula Mae Edwards Museum/Gallery, Clovis, NM, May 6 – June 30
Laundry Label Paintings, Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX, Jan. 4 – Feb. 8
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
The Drawing Center Viewing Program & Artist Registry, NYC, NY, 2007 – Present.
http://drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/index.cfm
2011
Soho Photo 7th Annual Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, Nov. 2
– Dec. 3, juried by Michael Paris Mazzeo, gallerist, educator and photographer based in New York
City
Honorable Mention
One Cube Foot Exhibition in conjunction with TASA conference, East Fork Gallery, TCC-TRC,
Ft. Worth, TX, Sept. 23-24 award juror, Heyd Fontenot, Director of UTD CentralTrak
First Place Award
Lubbock Art Festival, Civic Center, Lubbock, TX, April 7 – 10
Best of Show 2011 Juried Gallery Lubbock Arts Festival
Off Center, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University, Dec. 1 – 17
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Landmark Arts Galleries, Texas Tech University, Sept. 2 – Oct. 16
2010
Off Center, Abraham Art Gallery, Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, TX, Nov. 13 – Dec. 7
Curated by John Chinn, an art show based on the use of photographic and digital media in the
creative process of nine artists.
Historical Prints Fact and Fiction, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA, Oct. 27 –
Nov. 17
Exhibition in conjunction with national scholarly conference of historic American prints
sponsored by American Antiquarian Society. Exhibition includes 19th century prints and
contemporary artist works.
A Prayer for Juarez, A Sculptural Installation, Albuquerque, NM, March 1-31
Two pieces for the art against violence exhibition n conjunction with a series of events in Mexico
City, Mexico, Los Angels, California, and other cities, meant to be a ritual of mourning for the
femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua: Art as a pathway of opposition and resistance to violence.
Curated by Deborah Gavel, Albuquerque artist and social activist
http://unaoracionporjuarez.blogspot.com/p/albuquerque-new-mexico.html
One Cube Foot exhibition, TASA, St. Edwards College, April 8-10, 2010
2009
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Sept. 4 – Oct. 18
Hunting Prize Award Gala, Decorative Arts Center, Houston, TX, May 2, 2009
The Hunting Art Prize, which is sponsored by the international oil services company Hunting
PLC, is a prestigious annual competition open to established artists, talented newcomers, and
promising amateurs. Its $50,000 award is the most generous annual art prize in the U.S. and has
helped to build the reputations, raise the profiles, and support the careers of distinguished artists.
Curated by Kate Green, independent curator and former curator of Artpace in San Antonio; Chiyo
Ishikawa, deputy director of art, Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington; Suzanne Folds
McCullagh, curator-prints and drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
31st Annual Lubbock Arts Festival, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, April 30 – May 3
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Ladies First, Three-person exhibition accepted by the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the
Regional Curatorial Program, Nov. 20, 2008 – Jan. 27, 2009
Delivered a gallery talk, Jan. 2, 2009
Blue Prints: Painting by Carol Flueckiger exhibition in conjunction with Women Studies
Conference, Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX, April 1 – 20, 2009
One Cube Foot Exhibition TASA at Ryan Fine Arts Gallery, McMurry University, Abilene, TX,
Mar. 5 – 28, 2009
2008
Monochrome Orange & Out of the Blue, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, Mar. 7
– April 18.
Delivered a gallery talk about materiality and social aspects of color in conjunction with
exhibition, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, Mar. 7, 2008
Color me Happy, MSU gallery paints the town blue, and orange, with exhibits united by color
Lanna Sweeten-Shults, TimesRecordNews.com, Saturday, March 1, 2008
file:///Users/Carol/Desktop/orange%20and%20blue/Color%20me%20happy%20%20Local%20-%20Times%20Record%20News.webarchive
The Cradle Project, a humanitarian artist project organized by Naomi Natalie involving an
installation of 1000 artist made cradles from around the world. Project aimed
to create money and awareness for 48 million orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa. Two
graduate students in painting, Esther Dealquis and Sallie Inman and myself presented three cradles
on behalf of Texas Tech University, 2008.219 Central NW, (Sunrise Bank), Albuquerque, NM,
June 7 – 28
The New Wave: A Centennial Celebration of Art in Lubbock, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center
for the Visual and Performing Arts, Lubbock, TX, Ap. 24 – May 24
Curated by Charles Adams, director/owner Charles Adams Gallery.
Catalogue produced for the exhibition
Art Rodeo, Gilrose Studios, Witichia Falls, TX, Ap. 26- May 26
Juried by Gregory Johnson, interdepartmental studio manager at The Southwest School of Art and
Craft in San Antonio.
‘Rodeo’ exhibit out of the chute at Gilrose, by Lana Sweeten-Shults, Tuesday, April 22, 2008
http://www.timesrecord newscom.news.2008/apr/22/rodeo-exhibit-out-chute-gilrose/
Giving Shelter a sister exhibition to The Cradle Project, (Exhibition explores themes of safe
shelter, refuge and sacred space. Exhibition events are in conjunction with the Women and
Creativity series presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center), 516 Arts Albuquerque, NM,
March 1-29
Curated by Deborah Gavel, artist and educator based in Albuquerque.
Gallery Talk: Sustainable Feminism, Mar. 22, 2008
Rivers & Bridges International Mail Art Exhibit, Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX,
March 6 – April 24
One work presented.
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Landmark Arts Galleries, Texas Tech University
2007
El Paso Art Association Art International Exhibit, Downtown Public Library, El Paso TX, Oct. 5 –
Oct. 26
Juried by Bob Rohm, OPA, PSA-Artist, Flower Mound, TX and Lee Rommel, Artist, Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
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Hunting Prize Award Gala, Decorative Arts Center, Houston, TX, April 28, 2007
The Hunting Art Prize, which is sponsored by the international oil services company Hunting
PLC, is a prestigious annual competition open to established artists, talented newcomers, and
promising amateurs. Its $50,000 award is the most generous annual art prize in the U.S. and has
helped to build the reputations, raise the profiles, and support the careers of distinguished artists.
Curatored by Regine Basha, co-founder and associate of Fluent~Collaborative in Austin; Viola
Delgado, guest curator at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas; Deborah Dobbins, director of arts
education at the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA); Fairfax Dorn, co-founder and executive
director of Ballroom Marfa; Holly Johnson, owner and director of the Holly Johnson Gallery in
Dallas; and Valerie Olson, associate director, special projects at The Glassell School of Art,
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
Out in the Mainstream: Queer Social Landscape, (Affiliated with a companion exhibition E Que?
juried by Harmony Hammond, international artist and author on queer theory.) LHUCA Christine
De Vitte Icehouse, Lubbock, TX, Oct. 5, 2007
Sun Pics to Mega Pixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities (Pre and Post Modernist
Photography), Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 9 – Nov. 4
Juried by Ellen Carey and curated by Joel Simpson.
Two paintings accepted.
Digital catalogue produced for the exhibition
Texas National, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, Ap. 14 – May 20
Juried by MANUAL (Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill, two international collaborative artists).
One painting accepted.
Catalogue produced for the exhibition
Women Who Made the West Their Home: The Second Annual New West Exhibition, Louise
Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX, Aug. 31 – Sept. 29
Curated by Future Akins, Assist Professor Visual Studies at Texas Tech University and Dawn
Wolf Taylor, coordinator of education, programs and exhibits at LHUCA.
Lubbock Arts Festival, Lubbock Civic Center, Lubbock, TX, Ap. 19-22
One painting presented.
20th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State
University, Lake Charles, LA, Mar. 22 – Ap. 19
Juried by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator of Photography at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts,
and Clint Willour, Director of the Galveston Arts Center.
One painting accepted.
Catalogue produced for the exhibition
A Way With Words, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX, Jan. 27 – March 11
Curated by Clint Willour, Director of the Galveston Arts Center.
One painting accepted.
Orange and Blue: Studies in Monochrome, a group exhibition accepted by the University of Texas
Permian Basin, Odessa, TX, Oct. 5 – Nov. 18
Out of the Blue, an exhibition accepted by the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
Helen Dewitt Jones Exhibition hall. Exhibition ran from Jan. 3 – 25
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Landmark Arts Galleries, Texas Tech University
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Lubbock Magazine Holiday Issue, 2012, ‘Tis The Season This Christmas, we celebrate the gifts of
Lubbock artists by Doug Hensley pp 45 - 51
International Art Magazine, Fall 2011, jurors: Alan Rothwell, curator, Alice Chapman, art critic and
Rebecca Smith, curator
Studio Visit Magazine, International Juried publication of art in all media. Summer 2010, two paintings
published: Examine Our Undergarments and Solar Powered Paper Dolls
Reese, Elizabeth, History Becomes Art: Corpus Christi Caller Times. Caller.com, Oct. 22, 2009
Good Day Lubbock, FOX News Interview on my integration of historical documents into my paintings,
July, 23, 2009
Studio Visit Magazine, National juried publication of artist in all media. Fall 2008
ARTIST TALKS / WORKSHOPS
Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Arts Afire!, Seneca Falls, NY, July 19 & 21, 2012
Museum of Texas Tech University, Borrowed and Blue: the artist in the archive, lecture and
cyanotype workshop in conjunction with Speaking Volumes - Books and Ideas from 1250-1862,
from the collection of the Remnant Trust, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, March
25, 2012
Texas Tech University, Women Studies Conference, Lubbock, TX, Cash Paid for Rags, Presentation at
Women Studies Conference, Feb. 4, 2011
San Antonio College, Keynote speaker, women studies conference in conjunction with solo exhibition
Solar Powered Paper Dolls, San Antonio, TX, Mar. 1, 2011
St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, lecture and workshop on my work, Oct. 14, 2010
Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Richmond, VA, Paper titled Solar Powered Paper Dolls
accepted for presentation on a panel titled All That is Old is New Again: The Revival of
Alternative Photographic Processes, October 21, 2010
TASA, Texas Association School of Art, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, April 8-10, 2010
Cash Paid for Rags, a performance on the Art & Activism panel
Hutch Junior High School, Presentation: Cash Paid for Rags to fifty junior high students enrolled in
Angelyn Nicholson’s art classes. Feb, 23, 2010
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, College of Liberal Arts, Oct. 2, 2009
Lecture titled Blue Prints in conjunction with exhibition
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, June 16, 2009
Fellow talk on work titled Painting Based on Early American Feminism
Texas Tech University, Women Studies Conference, Lubbock, TX April 2, 2009
Lecture titled Blue Prints: Archives, Art and Scholarship
Co-Presented a lecture titled Blue Prints: Archives, Art and Scholarship, at the Women Studies
Conference with Jennifer Sead, Ph. D. English, Texas Tech University, April 2, 2009
What can an artist do with an archive? What can a scholar do with primary documents? Two
Texas Tech Women’s Studies Faculty Affiliates: Carol Flueckiger, MFA, Associate Professor Art
and Jennifer Snead, Ph. D., Assistant Professor English reinvent, retrofit and recycle images and
concepts from history for their scholarly and creative research. Co-produced a brochure for the
event that pictures my blueprint paintings and a written essay by Snead.
LHUCA, Lubbock, TX, Jan. 2, 2009
Gallery talk for Ladies First exhibition
Pintores Art Club, Clovis, NM, March 5, 2009
Artist talk titled Solitude of Self, Chances of Rain and Post Cards from the Laundry Room
Workshop on cyanotype
Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, Mar. 7, 2008
Gallery talk for exhibition titled Out of the Blue and Monochrome Orange
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, March 22, 2008
Lecture titled Sustainable Feminism for the Giving Shelter exhibition
Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX, April 17, 2008
Lecture titled Solitude of Self, Chances of Rain and Post Cards from the Laundry Room
Workshop on cyanotype
University of North Texas, Denton, TX, October 17, 2007
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Lecture titled Solitude of Self, Chances of Rain and Post Cards from the Laundry Room
Odessa College, TASA Conference, Odessa, TX, Mar. 30, 2007
Paul Hanna Lecture titled Solitude of Self, Chances of Rain and Post Cards from the Laundry
Room
Texas Tech University Women Studies Conference, February 23, 2007
Delivered a lecture titled Paintings Based on Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the 23rd Annual All
University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education at Texas Tech
University, February 23, 2007
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Sustainable Cabin Project, Pease River Foundation, Crowell, TX,
Student Wellness Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
Texas Tech University, West Hall Visitors Center,, Lubbock, TX
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Canson-Talens Inc., South Hadley, MA
Target Center, Minneapolis, MN
GALLERY AFFILIATION
Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX, Director Charles Adams (2007-present)
CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Director Wanda Fleschsig (1999-2010)
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