Prof. Aaron Fine (Studio and Gallery Director) had an essay entitled "Newton's Black Box" included in the first issue of 8 1/2 x 11, a periodical of images and art-related writing published by Plug Projects in Kansas City.
The essay can be either read digitally or ordered through this link:http://issuu.com/plugprojects/docs/8x11issuu1_/3
Congratulations, Prof. Fine!
As many on campus know, the University is in the process of conducting a restoration and renovation project on the iconic Kirk Memorial building on campus. Part of that project involved replacing the original cupola with one that would be more weather-resistent and durable. This gave many a chance to see the original cupola up close, as above, as well as to watch the new cupola being installed (below). Thanks to Campus Photographer Tim Barcus for making these images available! For more information, see this biref article (which includes a link to more photos), this article from The Index (Truman's student newspaper), and this web page for more information on the building and the man for whom it was named.
Mamie Cox in front of the National Museum of the American Indian. As part of her research on James McNeill Whistler, Mamie traveled to the Smithsonian Instition in Washington D.C. to see paintings and prints by the American artist, as well as to work with archival documents.
Two Art majors, Mamie Cox (Art History) and Emma Roeder (Studio) were selected through a very competitive process to participate in the TruScholars Undergraduate Research Program during Summer 2013. Both will be presenting the results of research and creative work at the TruScholars Symposium on Saturday, August 24th in the Georgian Room, Student Union Building (SUB) on Truman's campus.
Emma
Roeder (Studio)
"Art
& Craft: The Debate Explored Through Textiles"
in the
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon session
Mamie
Cox (Art History)
"The
Self Fashioning of James McNeill Whistler"
in the
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. session
There will also be closing reception at 4:30 p.m. in the OP South
Atrium, at which Emma Roeder’s work will be on display as well.
If you are a student who might be interested in next summer's program, please check here: http://osr.truman.edu/TruScholars/description.asp
Applications are usually due in late January/early February for the immediately
following summer.
Congratulations to both Emma and Mamie on great work!
Classes for the 2013-14 academic year begin on Thursday, August 22nd for students and faculty across campus. We are so happy to have everyone back and look forward to a great year ahead. Stay tuned to the blog to keep up on events this coming academic year in the Art Department and beyond.
Good luck each and all and best wishes for a great year!
Truman Week classes in the Art Department this week have been going strong as first-year Art students settle into life in college. We are excited that two Truman Week sections of our new Art Studio Foundations I course are being offered. Yesterday, Prof. Priya Kambli (Photo) took her class to the Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery in Kirksville which contains graves of Civil War soldiers, Andrew T. Still (founder of osteopathy), and other notable Kirksville citizens. The students drew and explored, and Prof. Kambli shared these great photos with us!
The Art Department sends a special welcome to all first-year Art majors! Freshmen arrived on campus this past Saturday, August 17th to move into the dorms and start settling into life at Truman. They also start Truman Week classes, some of which will be in the Art Department. We look forward to welcoming them all at Majors Day on Tuesday of this week and in their full schedule of classes starting on Thursday.
Welcome, all, and best wishes for the year to come!
The Truman State University Art Department is pleased to welcome Prof. Lily Martina Lee as a new faculty member in the areas of Fibers, Sculpture, and three-dimensional art for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Lee, who comes originally from Washington state, received an MFA in Studio Art (Sculpture) from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 2012 and a BFA in Fibers and BA in American Indian Studies with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Her work involves a wide variety of techniques, including welding, grinding, sanding, stitching and beading, and she uses the resultant art to explore the relationship between identity, place, and material culture.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Center on Contemporary Art in (Seattle), First Street Gallery (New York, NY), Modern Eden Gallery (San Francisco), and Scythia Fibre Art (Kherson, Ukraine).
To learn more about Prof. Lee, and to see more of her work, please visit her website.
We look forward to working with Professor Lee and getting to know her as she brings her talents and insights to the Art Department, to Truman State Univesity, and to the Kirksville community. We are fortunate to have her. Welcome Prof. Lee!
Dr. Sara Orel (Art History) put out a call on Facebook recently for information on what Art History alumni were up to. We were overwhelmed not only by the wonderful response but also all the great things that our alums are doing. So, this summer the blog will feature updates on all that great stuff! The most recent post appears below:
Stuart writes:
Stuart Henn (BA, Art History, 2002)
"Professionally:
I accepted admission to Northern Illinois University's Masters of Arts in Art History program in the Fall of 2012 and will begin my second year and thesis work this fall. I received a graduate teaching assistantship and lead discussion sections of Introduction to the Visual Arts as well as Art History Survey II. My thesis work will focus on the dynamics of the New Bauhaus and the Institute of Design in Chicago and the mid-century designers present in Chicago at the time.
I worked at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for a time after graduating until accepting a position with the Elmhurst Art Museum as Coordinator of External Relations. While there I was able to author the didactic panels for Sandra Jorgensen: Fitting In, an exhibition of recent acquisitions of work by Chicago Imagist, Sandra Jorgenen. I served as the Interim Educator at the Geneva History Center presenting adult and children' educational programming on local history to visitors and area school children. I produced a highly successful audio tour for the traveling exhibition, Rural America which presented Regionalist lithographic prints by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry.
Personally:
I met my wife, Michelle, and in April of 2011 we were married and make our home in Geneva, Illinois outside Chicago."
Congratulations, Stuart!
If you are an alum of the Art Department and have news to share, we'd love to hear from you! art@truman.edu
Dr. Sara Orel (Art History) put out a call on Facebook recently for information on what Art History alumni were up to. We were overwhelmed not only by the wonderful response but also all the great things that our alums are doing. So, this summer the blog will feature updates on all that great stuff! The most recent post appears below:
Leslie Contarini at Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, during Save Venice's Summertime Gala 2012 fundraising event.
Leslie writes:
"After Truman I completed my MA in Art History at the University of Warwick in the UK. I moved to Venice, Italy in 2006 and have been working at Save Venice Inc. ever since. Save Venice Inc. is an American non-profit organization that is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the art and architecture of Venice.
As program coordinator at Save Venice, I follow everything from our educational programs including our international internship program, to our publications and website, and our community and donor outreach efforts ranging from lectures and tours to major fundraising events. My favorite part of my job is helping to coordinate the restoration efforts of incredible works of art including masterpieces by Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
While at Truman in addition to art history I also studied political science and Italian language and culture, all invaluable subjects that I use in my job each day."
Congratulations, Leslie!
If you are an alum of the Art Department and have news to share, please contact us! art@truman.edu
Dr. Sara Orel (Art History) put out a call on Facebook recently for information on what Art History alumni were up to. We were overwhelmed not only by the wonderful response but also all the great things that our alums are doing. So, this summer the blog will feature updates on all that great stuff! The most recent post appears below:
Heidi writes:
"I received an American Councils Title VIII Research and Language Training fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year. I will be in Zagreb, Croatia for 9 months doing some more Croatian learning and archival research for my dissertation project."
Congratulations, Heidi!
If you are an alum of the Art Department and have news to share, please contact us! art@truman.edu