The Kinder HSPVA Visual Arts Department continues to prepare students to study at the nation’s top arts conservatories. Your gifts to HSPVA Friends allow the curriculum to expand and evolve. You provide the adjunct teachers, guest artists, equipment, and daily supplies that allow the faculty to offer a range of opportunities for students to take creative risks, master new techniques, and expand their artistic visions.
YOUR GIFTS PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND MASTER CLASSES:
- Art Gallery master class with Nancy Douthey
- Artist Statement Writing Workshop with Vicky Hauptman-Bryan
- Ceramics with Bailey Anderson and Hallie Raybourn
- Collage and Screenprinting with Jordan Buldoc
- Contemporary Art History with Kathleen Christman
- Digital Literacy with Fernando Namerow and Lindsey Slavin
- Digital Photography and Film with Elisha Luckett
- Drawing with Abel Garza
- Graphic Design with Fernando Namerow
- Painting with Bailey Anderson
- Printmaking with Jordan Buldoc and Gabriela Hurtado-Ramos
- Professionalism in the Arts master class with Angel Oloshove
- Round Robin Critiques with Bennie Flores Ansell, Brian Ellison, Edwin Smalling, Sarah Darro, Christopher Sperandio, and Lisa Harris (Vocal ’98)
- Senior Artist Talks and Zine Workshop with Astrid Yeager ’20
- Senior Legacy Critiques with Nathaniel Donnett
- Textiles with Kathleen Christman and Lee Emerson
- Welding with Ray Thorson
Your gifts also fund ALL of the art supplies for the year—from the everyday essentials like markers, pens, brushes, and high-quality paper to more specialized materials including mirrors for figure painting class, welding wire, steel, and lumber for sculpture and mixed media classes. Your support also made it possible to purchase still life objects for our drawing and painting studios, a new metal chop saw for the sculpture lab, and a belt and disc sander for the woodshop.
STUDENTS EXPLORE ART IN THE COMMUNITY
The entire department took a full-day field trip to Meow Wolf, Aurora Picture Show, the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where Seniors Nate Barcot and Faina Maredia spoke about their work on display.
After the field trip, Patrick Renner ’00 gave a lecture about his career and his installations at Meow Wolf.
CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2026
