Student Spotlight
The William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library encourages UH student artists to apply for a chance to exhibit their work inside the library. Three students whose art was selected for exhibition this year are Dan Li, Emmanuel Oluwaseyi Bamtefa, and Morgan Stahl.
Dan Li
Dan Li is an artist and art educator from Hong Kong. She discovered art at a young age and found passion working with watercolors and acrylics. Inspired by the artist Claude Monet, Li created a series of bright flowers for the coming spring season, in hope of bringing warmth and happiness to people. Li is currently a PhD candidate in the Art Education program at the University of Houston. She holds a Masters degree in Contemporary Studio Arts and Criticism in Education and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (major in Visual Arts and minor in Special Needs) at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include social justice art education, issues-based art education, critical visual literacy, interdisciplinary art education, and technology in art education.
Emmanuel Oluwaseyi Bamtefa
Emmanuel Oluwaseyi Bamtefa is
a visual artist from Brooklyn of Yoruba descent. He has been an active artist since 2012 and is interested in portraiture and figure painting. Bamtefa also likes to play with scale to see how viewers respond to colors in any given space. Bamtefa originally studied architecture but switched to the School of Art’s painting program at the University of Houston. After graduation, he intends to continue his architecture path.
Morgan Stahl
Morgan Stahl is a designer from Baltimore, Maryland. She started drawing when she was in 6th grade and hasn’t stopped since. Her passion for art is what helped her find her future as an architect. Even though her older works are in colored pencil, her favorite drawing medium is ink marker.