A note from Virginia Gause

BROWNSVILLE – SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 — The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College’s Patron of the Arts series starts its 24th season this month with several gifted artists ready to perform and showcase their talent.

Ricardo Delgado Herbert, baritone, and James Pulles, pianist, will perform a concert of 19th century songs by the composers of Mexico at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 20 in the Science, Engineering & Technology Building Lecture Hall.

Herbert has studied at Escuela Autonoma de Mexico and Escuela de la Musica Mexicana and is a member of the Mercedes Mendoza Opera Workshop at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica.

Pulles received a piano degree from Conservatorio Nacional de Musica and has performed at Sala Blas Galindo of the National Center of the Arts, the Amphitheatre Simon Bolivar in Mexico City and The National Museum of Art in Washington, D.C.

The Faculty and Students Hispanic Heritage Concert will be at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27 at the SETB Lecture Hall.

Admission to the concerts is $10 for non-members, $7 for senior citizens and children and $3 for UTB/TSC students with valid identification.

Kicking off the art season will be James C. Miller, a contemporary South Texas artist trained in flatbed scanned photography and art instillation. The exhibit opened Tuesday, Sept. 9, and closes Saturday, Sept. 27 at The Art Gallery in Rusteberg Hall.

Miller attended UTB/TSC from 1992 to 1994 and graduated from The University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg. He was awarded the Best of Show in “Black and White,” a UTB/TSC juried photography exhibit held earlier this year.

“My recent work has been influenced by technology, from sonograms to digital imagery. The retrieval of images and how they are perceived is what I take to ideas that have haunted my imagination for years,” Miller said.

The Talent and Incentive Exhibit will be on display from Tuesday, Sept. 30 to Saturday, Oct. 18 at The Art Gallery in Rusteberg Hall.

The exhibit is free to UTB/TSC art majors with valid identification, $1 for non-members and $3 with a semester pass. Gallery hours are from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Monday to Thursday and from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

For more information, contact the fine arts department at 882-8247 or e-mail at http://blue.utb.edu/finearts/PatronHome.htm.