M. Teresa Valero

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Applied Associate Professor of ArtDirector, Ad Program at TUPhillips Hall 316
(918)631-3513
teresa-valero@utulsa.edu

Co-founder and Creative Director of Third Floor Designs (1992), a student-run design studio that provides high-quality design services for nonprofit organizations in Tulsa and surrounding areas. Teresa is interested in community work and how the upcoming designer, what Steven Heller calls, the “Citizen Designer”. One that is aware of local needs, global trends and sustainability of design. In addition to her teaching duties, she works as a documentary photographer and graphic designer, winning many awards in advertising and design some include the Tulsa Addy Awards, Graphex, and Creativity Today. Valero's photographs have been exhibited in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, Georgia and Arkansas; overseas her work has been seen in Venezuela, Spain, Lebanon, Syria and Canada.
She has curated many exhibitions most recently Journey to America, (the exhibition is the stories of immigrants and/or first generation Americans, their experiences of coming to the U.S.) a documentary photography show that is housed at YWCA Multi Cultural Center and recently had a second opening at the Williams Company in Tulsa. Journey to America is traveling across Oklahoma including the Capitol.

Education and Degrees Earned

  • Master of Arts in Art History, University of Kansas

Areas of Academic Specialty

  • Graphic Design

Previous Relevant Work Experience

  • Art Director for advertising agencies both in the U.S. and Venezuela

Professional Affiliations

  • American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
  • Board member for the AIGA XCD (Cross Cultural Design)
  • Art Directors Club of Tulsa
  • Tulsa Advertising Federation

Courses Taught at TU

  • Advertising Design (ART 3453)
  • Graphic Communication I (ART 3243)
  • Graphic Communication II (ART 3253)
  • Internship (ART 4902-6)
  • Packaging Design (ART 3293)
  • Portfolio: Graphic Design (ART 4072-6)
  • Senior Seminar (ART 4973)
  • Third Floor Design Internship (ART 4903-6)
  • Typography and Graphic Production (ART 3273)

Awards & Recognition

  • 2001 Outstanding teaching award, The University of Tulsa.
  • 2003 Excellence in Teaching Award by the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at TU.
  • 2007 The Pinnacle Award for the Arts and Humanities presented by the Women Foundation and the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Publications

  • The Levant: Lebanon and Syria through western eyes
    Documentary photography work. Traveled to Syria, Spain and the U.S. 2006-07.