Joshua Kight


Post-Secondary Education

University of Texas Austin
Master of Fine Arts
Studio Art


Teaching Experience

25 years of teaching Drawing, Illustration, Design , painting and figure drawing. at ACC

Taught Figure Drawing at the University of Texas

35 years teaching Middle school art

 

Professional Experience

 

Austin Community College: Instructor, Drawing I &II, Life Drawing, Basic Graphic Design, and Painting I&II 1993- Present

Laguna Gloria Art Museum: Instructor, Life Drawing, summer 1994 &1995 

University of Texas at Austin, lecturer, Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Life Drawing, 1991

Eanes Independent School District, Middle school Art Teacher 1985-present

Community Education, Eanes School District 1989, Adult Art History

University of Texas at Austin, Teaching Assistant in Painting, 1982-1984


Professional Publications

 

Publications

Poem:”Hodgkin’s Hole”  White Pelican Review, Fall 2009 edition

 

Poem . “On Seeing a Stalled Car on Route 71”  “Pinyon “ Spring edition 2006

 

Poem : “Poem for a Lake”   Poetry Motel  2006 

 

Illustrator: “Oh to Glow”; published by Hunt House Publishing, Inc. 1991.Written by Diane Howard

 

 

 

Exhibitions:

2025: Third Coast Biennial , K- Space Contemporary

2023 The Magic of Modern art Marietta Cobb Museum of Art 

2021; "Quarantine Figures" Solo Show, September/ October, Estrada Garcia Gallery Georgetown , Texas 

2010: 

“Habeas Corpus” Solo Show ,Paintings/poetry Laura Bush Library , Bee cave Rd. Austin ,TX July/August 

 

“Withering Machines “ ,Drawing and poetry show  ,Gerald’s café Longview ,TX  ,July

 

 “Liquid Nocturnes “  New Paintings by Joshua Kight , Café Java , Austin , TX  May 15th ------

 

2008: Juried show” Beaumont Art Association, National” . two paintings and poems ,March 

 

2007: “Organ Music”  Mixed Media Abstracts paintings and poems, Cafe Java , Austin Texas May – 2008 

2006 

Benefit show for Eanes Independent school district , Treaty Oak Bank, December 12th 

 

Mixed Media Group show “ Longview Museum of Fine Arts “ , Longview ,TX  July, August

 

 

2004 

“Hearts and minds “Café Java, Stonehollow shopping center, Austin, TX, Solo Show December Of 2004, January 2005

 

 

2003

Gallery 1114, Two person show Midland, TX, April-May-June

Recent Works, Joshua Kight, Solo show Tarrant County College, Ft. Worth, TX February

 

2002

Paper Wasp Pie, Solo show, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX September-October

Two Person Show, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, November 2nd- December 29th

Austin Art Scene III, Artist’s Coalition of Austin, March

2001

“Baker’s Dozen” solo show, Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Cultural Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas, May

2000“Ten Poems for Ten Heads”Solo Show, Texas Gallery, Arts Council of Brazos Valley, 2501 Texas Avenue Suite 105-C College Station, Texas, April

 

1999 

“Benefit Show for Literacy of Austin “ Speakeasy, 412 Congress, Austin, TX, November 14th

 

 “The Figure and It’s Field” Artscan Gallery, Vine St. Houston, Texas, Volker Eisele.                 Owner

 

1998

  “Bucking the Texas Myth III”, Dougherty Cultural Arts Center, Austin, TX September

               “Stations of the Cross”, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas, 



Published: December 01, 2025