Blinn Art Instructor Jamie Speck's work featured at the Arts Center of the Brazos Valley

Speck's Hausfrau Collections: Mundane to Magical is on display through March 6

January 23, 2026

The artwork of Blinn College District Art Instructor Jamie Speck currently is on display at the Arts Center of the Brazos Valley. “Hausfrau Collections: Mundane to Magical” is featured in the Center’s Main Gallery and Bradfield Gallery of Fine Art through March 6.

“I’m excited to share my work locally,” said Speck. “As an educator, I’m always pushing my students to step out of the classroom and into galleries. Seeing art in person is a vital part of the professional practice I teach in my studio courses.”

“Hausfrau Collections: Mundane to Magical” takes everyday domestic items and transforms them into garments and wall hangings. Used tea bags and dryer sheets take on a new life as magical dresses that reflect a sense of beauty and femininity.

“My domestic schedule, environment, and family are interwoven in my art and represent an aggregate of who I am, and who I have yet to become,” Speck said. “My desire is to invent the magical and mysterious by implementing the mundane and celebrating notions of domesticity.”

Speck has been an art instructor at Blinn since 2002, moving from part-time to full-time instructor in 2024. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas State University, master’s degree in drawing and painting from Stephen F. Austin State University, and her Master of Fine Art from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Blinn’s Arts Program allows students to complete their core curriculum while exploring their creative interests in one or more visual arts media. Students can specialize in traditional arts like ceramics, metals, drawing, and painting or the digital arts, which include photography and graphic design.

With studios on both the Brenham and Bryan campuses, Blinn’s Arts Program offers a nurturing environment where students have access to state-of-the-art computers for digital work and traditional creative space for hands-on projects. The program prepares students for careers in fields like design, art education, multimedia art or to transfer to bachelor’s degree programs at the state’s leading universities.

For more information about Blinn’s Arts Program, visit www.blinn.edu/arts.