Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Yauger Williams, assistant professor of visualization at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, has been named a Montague Scholar by the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M.
The center established the program in 1991 to recognize excellence in teaching early in a faculty member’s career. Williams, who joined the Aggie faculty in 2003, and his fellow Montague Scholars received $5,000 grants to develop and research innovative teaching techniques, the results of which the CTE uses for faculty development programs.
The center’s program was named for its founding donor Kenneth Montague, ’37.
Williams focuses on the globalization of art, design and technology with an emphasis on image and word.
“The Last Snowperson,” Williams’ series of images that celebrates the life-giving power of water, was on exhibit at a juried art show at the Hotel Des Arts in San Francisco in 2008.
“This work is part of an ongoing series, ‘Ice on Parade,’ aspiring to feature the sublimity of water for creating increasing presence with judgment and our environment,” said Williams.
In his ‘Ice on Parade’ project, Williams seeks to personify the Earth’s environment with Ice People sculptures in Antarctica and the U.S. He plans to use the Internet extensively, documenting the project through video and photos.
The “Ice on Parade” website can be accessed at http://www.iceonparade.com/about.htm.
