Representing at once a diversity of style, medium, and scale and an intersection of inspiration and response, Art of West Texas Women celebrates twenty women visual artists living and working in an expansive, rugged landscape the vast western half of Texas, far from the dynamics of urban art communities and large national markets.Without attempting to serve as a comprehensive catalog impossible considering the breadth of activity in a huge region the book is a sampler of creative expression. The painters, photographers, installation artists, sculptors, fiber artists, and printmakers in these...

A Faculty Story takes a long look back at the Department of Electrical Engineering during the middle years of the twentieth century when Texas Technological College became a part of the state university system as Texas Tech University. The excitement and growing pains of this transition from regional teaching college to academic research institution often took dramatic form through the leadership and talents of electrical engineering faculty members during the Cold War years. This is the story of their ambitions, achievements, and struggles in creating a precedent-setting undergraduate...