The Vocal Cue

Texas Tech Associate Professor of Art and portrait maker Ghislaine Fremaux joins host Ricki Castanieto to discuss her body or work. She ponders on topics of body positivity, the face as identity, and her work in medicine with Texas Tech Health Science Center El Paso. Her interdisciplinary project will map the intestinal tract of gastroenterology patients. Q9C7094JXPOOKEOF

Efrem Zelony-Mindell (They/Them) joins host Ricki Castanieto to discuss their work on "Witness", which collects the work of 64 BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists.HPHLRDBWR0WJRGPBRCOSQHNXFIJO96MA

Associate Professor of Sculpture Will Cannings discusses his process of inflating metal into 3D clouds. These sculptures will be on display at the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, May 2022. Over 14 million passengers pass through Houston Hobby International annually. Cannings gives his thoughts on craftsmanship and the freedom of expression, not just for artists, but architecture and engineering students at #TexasTech, too.

Nutrition Science major/Theatre minor Disha Ganjegunte joins host Ricki Castanieto to discuss her ambitions, including her upcoming YouTube show "A New Disha". Hear Disha talk about her Off Broadway experience during the pandemic shutdown, as well as where she thinks the sorting hat would place her.

Host Ricki Castanieto discusses the First Friday Art Trail in Lubbock, Texas, with Landmark Arts Director Joe Arredondo. Joe talks about Texas Tech's School of Art involvement in the art trail, the opportunities it gives students to exhibit work, and the thriving cultural district in Lubbock.V4H4JTBOB5SMPOPK

Inside Kids host, Ricki Castanieto, speaks with MFA graduate and current Drawing 1 teacher, Devin Ratheal, about iconography, NFTs, and the nature of imagery in his digital and traditional paintings.ZYX7GZR60NEFONWI

Dr. Kevin Chua, Associate Professor of 18th and 19th-century European and Southeast Asian Art History, talks with host Ricki Castanieto about representation. They discuss Asian stereotypes in films both the ones they can relate to and the ones routed in racism.  

Intro to Cinema with Dr. Erin Grogan!  Host Ricki Castanieto talks with Dr. Grogan about what makes a film a cult classic.Interested in more? Students can take THA 2304 and dive deeper into film and the cinematic art form. Fulfills core Creative Arts requirement.

"What are you?"*uncomfortable*School of Art MFA student Madeline Castillo joins the Inside Kids to discuss involvement with diversity committees throughout the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts, as well as Maddie's lived experiences as non-binary BIPOC.

Mechademia 13.2.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/mech.13-issue-2Dr. Stacy Jocoy was the guest editor of the volume and contributed a substantive chapter, as well. Dr. Heather Warren-Crow also contributed a chapter to this important special issue considering the soundscapes and aurality studies of Japanese popular culture.This issue of Mechademia considers sound and soundscapes, broadly conceived, as an aspect of the deeper narratives of anime, manga, gaming, and related fields. The studies in this volume offer musicological, sociocultural, musico-psychological, acoustical, and visual considerations toward the investigation into the global ramifications of soundscapes in Japanese popular culture.

Dr. Lesley  Wolff joins Ricki to give insight into the artistry of food. Dr. Wolff is currently working on her book Hungry Eyes: Picturing Foodways and Indigeneity in Postrevolutionary Mexico City, which traces the shifting relationships between art and food during Mexico's post-revolutionary era (1920-1960). Dr. Wolff's research has appeared in Food, Culture & Society; African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal; and Ralph Norton and His Museum.

Dr. Ali Duffy joins the Inside Kids to discuss her research. Dr. Duffy is a professor of dance at the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Art's School of Theatre & Dance, as well as the Artistic Director of the Flatlands Dance Theatre in Lubbock, Texas.  In her latest research, Dr. Duffy explores motherhood int he arts.  

Educator of the Year for Zachry Middle School and School of Theatre & Dance Alumna (BA Dance) Leslie Ortiz joins The Inside Kids to talk about her award winning year as a dance teacher. We also jump into topics like comic books, anime, video games and more.

Host Ricki Castanieto talks with Jazz Studies professors Ben Haugland, Stephen Jones, and Kevin Whalen. They play and discuss Miles Davis, bebop, benefits of a music education, and the biggest advice for those looking to start a band and gig. Hint: "don't come up with the band name first."

On this episode, host Ricki Castanieto talks with professors Jerry Dolter—Voice Area Chair—and Casey Joiner—Assistant Professor in Musical Theatre. They discuss the differences between Opera and Musical Theatre, singing versus controlled shouting, and pick some favorite operas and musicals. Stream wherever you listen to podcasts.

Ricki talks with Dr. Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Curator of Clothing and Textiles at the Museum of Texas Tech University.  The Museum re-opened Thursday, October 22nd on a modified schedule due to COVID-19.

Ricki talks with Dr. Peter Briggs, Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art, for the Museum of Texas Tech University.  The Museum will re-open Thursday, October 22nd on a modified schedule due to COVID-19.

Art History major and host of the Inside Kids, Ricki Castanieto, is joined by Dr. Jorgelina Orfila from Texas Tech's School of Art to talk spies, conspiracies, heists, the Black Dahlia and more.

Episode 10 of The Vocal Cue, with your host Hayden Browning, talks to Texas Tech University School of Music Assistant Professor of Practice in Voice, Musical Theatre & Commercial Music, Dr. José (Joey) Holland-Garcia. Joey's passion and love of teaching, especially in commercial and musical theater music, has established his reputation for excellence in instruction. His students have advanced and won awards through the Student Auditions for the National Association of Teachers of Singing and his private students have been accepted at some of the most notable musical theater programs around the country. In addition, his training and certification in massage therapy has informed his teaching and understanding of the vocal mechanism to aid in building body awareness.

Episode 9 of The Vocal Cue, with your host Tawny Ballinger, talks to Texas Tech University School of Art Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History and Critical Theory, Dr. Jorgelina Orfila. Dr. Jorgelina Orfila joined the Art History faculty in Fall 2008. Prior to coming to the US, she earned degrees in art history and museum studies in her country of origin, Argentina. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Orfila has curated numerous exhibitions and published several articles in her areas of special interest: modernism and the history of art history, Paul Cézanne, John Rewald, museography in the Interwar Period, and the use of photographs for the study of modern art.In 2014, she cofounded together with Dr. Francisco Ortega-Grimaldo, Animationduo, a collective of art scholars committed to a teaching and research project focused on the history and theory of animation and its intersections with modern and contemporary art. Drs. Orfila and Ortega coordinate the Undergraduate Certificate in Animation Studies at the School of Art, a unique undertaking that examines animation as a cross-disciplinary field of practice and knowledge that brings together music, theater/performance and the visual arts.