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Hogensen stands beside one of his works on display at One Riverwalk Place with Almeida and Sabatino.<\/p>\nFor students studying architecture at UT San Antonio, art is not confined to a museum or gallery. It is part of the environment where they learn, work and spend their days.<\/p>\n
That idea is at the heart of On the Walls: Art in Architectural Space, a new lunchtime series launched this past spring by the UT San Antonio Art Collection and the School of Architecture + Planning. The series brings artists and architecture students together to explore the artwork around them and consider how art and architecture shape the spaces people experience every day.<\/p>\n
The inaugural session featured local artist Mark Hogensen, MFA \u201990, whose work is part of the university\u2019s permanent collection. About 35 to 40 students and faculty attended the session at One Riverwalk Place, where Hogensen discussed his work and creative process and reflected on the relationship between art, architecture and the spaces where art is experienced.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter teaching at the college level for 30 years, I\u2019ve come to understand the importance of listening to the questions students ask, to the ideas they bring into the room, and to the unexpected directions a conversation can take. I consider myself a lifelong learner,\u201d said Hogensen. \u201cWhen I\u2019m with students, I often learn as much from them as they learn from me, if not more. There is always something new to discover, even in the things we think we already know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hogensen\u2019s background in both art and architecture made him a natural choice to launch the series.<\/p>\n
Arturo Infante Almeida, director and curator of the UT San Antonio Art Collection, partnered with Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, director of the School of Architecture + Planning, to launch the On the Walls series.<\/p>\n
\u201cI created On the Walls: Art in Architectural Space to bring art and architecture together and strengthen the connection between the artists, their work, and the spaces we experience every day,\u201d Almeida said. \u201cOver time, I hope the series continues to grow, bringing more artists into the conversation and giving our students and community a deeper understanding of the art around them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Learning through the built environmentHogensen stands beside one of his works on display at One Riverwalk Place with Almeida and Sabatino.<\/p>\n
The series builds on the school\u2019s move to One Riverwalk Place in the heart of downtown.<\/p>\n
For Sabatino, the new location offered more than a new home for the architecture program. It created an opportunity to use the building \u2014 and its place within downtown San Antonio \u2014 as a platform for students to engage with the city and the art within it, he said.<\/p>\n
Paintings, photographs, art tiles and other media in One Riverwalk Place were selected with the architectural environment and students in mind.<\/p>\n
A series of photographs by renowned photographer Elliott Erwitt, for example, offers students a different way to think about observation and framing. Students routinely use their phones to photograph buildings, Sabatino said, but Erwitt\u2019s work demonstrates that photography involves intentional choices about what to see, where to stand and how to frame a subject.<\/p>\n
For Sabatino, those connections are fundamental to an architectural education.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think creativity need not be in silos,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is art in architecture as well. And there is architecture in art.\u201d<\/p>\n
That philosophy has deep roots. Sabatino trained as an architect in Italy before earning a doctorate in art and architectural history, and he sees the historical relationship between the disciplines as something worth bringing into students\u2019 contemporary education.<\/p>\n
Beyond the classroom<\/p>\n
Hogensen\u2019s work illustrates the possibilities.<\/p>\n
His 58-foot tiled mural outside San Pedro I is part of the university\u2019s permanent collection and is just a short walk from One Riverwalk Place. When discussing the mural with students, Hogensen described it as a \u201clayering of ideas,\u201d explaining how geometric structures, colors and shapes work together within the project\u2019s parameters.<\/p>\n
Inside One Riverwalk Place, two of Hogensen\u2019s works \u2014 an untitled ink perspective drawing and A Well-Oiled Machine \u2014 are displayed in the 10th-floor lobby. Placed across from one another, the works give students an opportunity to see different aspects of his practice, from line and perspective to color, geometry and composition.<\/p>\n
The goal extends beyond displaying art in the building. It is to encourage students to stop, look and ask questions.<\/p>\n
Sabatino has noticed students doing exactly that \u2014 pausing in the lobby to look at the artwork as they move through their day.<\/p>\n
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Hogensen\u2019s 58-foot tiled mural outside San Pedro I is part of the university\u2019s permanent collection.The series continues<\/p>\n
On the Walls will continue this fall with the arrival of artist Ernesto Ibanez on Wednesday, Oct. 14, from noon to 1 p.m. Ibanez\u2019s artwork is on display on the fourth floor of One Riverwalk Place, giving students the chance to encounter his work in their everyday learning environment before hearing directly from him about his practice.<\/p>\n
Ibanez will discuss his work and creative process and explore the relationship between sculpture and architectural space. Ibanez\u2019s artwork has also been featured in the 2024 and 2025 UT San Antonio Gala & Art Sale, while Hogensen\u2019s work has been part of the event in previous years and will once again be featured in this year\u2019s sale.<\/p>\n
By bringing artists into the spaces where architecture students learn \u2014 and by connecting those works to the broader downtown environment \u2014 On the Walls offers students a chance to experience art not as something separate from architecture but as part of the same creative conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For students studying architecture at UT San Antonio, art is not confined to a museum or gallery. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-453037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}