At a reception announcing the Charles and Germaine
Field Endowed Scholarship in Painting are: Alan
Craven, dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts;
President Ricardo Romo; Harriett Romo, associate
professor of sociology; Art Professor Charles Field;
Germaine Field; Roxi McCloskey, art faculty member
and chair of the COLFA Advisory Council; and Jim
Broderick, chair of the Department of Art and Art History.
New scholarship honors art professor and wife
(March 28, 2002)--Former students, friends and family from throughout the country gathered at UTSA March 23 to honor one of the university's early faculty members, Charles Field, professor of painting and drawing, who retires this spring after 27 years with the university. At a reception in the UTSA Art Gallery, Field and his wife, Germaine Field, were surprised with the announcement of the creation of the Charles and Germaine Field Endowed Scholarship in Painting.
The $50,000 scholarship fund was announced by Roxi McCloskey, art faculty member and College of Liberal and Fine Arts Advisory Council chair, who helped spearhead the endowment effort. The academic awards will benefit both undergraduate and graduate painting students in the Department of Art and Art History in perpetuity.
Among those honoring the Fields at the Saturday event were UTSA President Ricardo Romo, College of Liberal and Fine Arts Dean Alan E. Craven and Department of Art and Art History Chair James Broderick.
Field, who joined the UTSA faculty in 1974, and his wife have mentored and nurtured hundreds of aspiring artists during their years in San Antonio, and many of those former students shared their stories for a special memory book for the honorees.
Field, a native Californian, received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1958 and his M.F.A. at the University of Washington in 1965. He and his wife, an Ottawa, Canada, native, met while she was working at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. They have three children, Michelle, Caroline and Mark.
Field taught at the University of London in 1986 and was awarded a painting
fellowship in Ireland in 1999. He is currently working on six paintings of
Texas landscapes and skies that will be displayed in the new SBC Center. The
center will be home to the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association
beginning in 2003.
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