Congratulations to Art major Sarah Harford (Studio Art: Fibers)! Her solo show of her fibers work has been up all week and the reception will be Friday, March 23, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in The Hub. Well done Sarah!
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Felt Making Workshop in Fibers!
Wednesday, March 21st, from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., alumna Danielle Yakle (Studio Art: Fibers) will be giving a felt making workshop. The workshop will cover basic felting techniques and will provide an opportunity for participants to create a three-dimensional felted vessel.
Before the workshop, at 12:30 p.m. will be a potluck lunch that will include an artist's presentation. All are welcome to the potluck; no sign-up required.
Questions? Contact Prof. Julia Karll who has organized this great event!
News from Prof. Kambli!
Priya Kambli, Me (Inoculation), 2008 (archival inkjet print)
In honor of International Women's Day (March 8, 2012) Prof. Priya Kambli (Studio Art: Photography) has been selected by the editors of the Lens Culture, an on-line magazine and weblog as one of "55 remarkable female photographers who are making the world a better place". You can see their page on Prof. Kambli here.
Also this month, Prof. Kambli's internationally recognized body of work, Color Falls Down, will be exhibited by the Houston Center for Photography from March 9 – April 22, 2012; the exhibition will also feature an artist's talk by Prof. Kambli. These events are part of Houston's FotoFest 2012, the 14th Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art. FotoFest is one of the oldest celebrations of photography in the world, and is the biggest and most long-lived such festival in the United States.
Congratulations, Prof. Kambli!
Art history alumna update
We just received this update from alumna Taylor (Klein) Worley (BA, Art History, 2009) on the great things she's been up to:
I am currently in my 4th of 6 semesters with Emporia State University pursuing a Masters in Library Science and Information Technology as well as a Certificate in Archival Studies. I am currently interning with Operation Breakthrough, an non-profit organization formed in 1969 by two Catholic Sisters through St. Vincent’s Catholic School. The organization takes care of over 500 needy children daily from the metropolitan Kansas City Missouri area. They focus on early education and after school programs as well as providing necessary health services for the children and their families. They operate through both public and private funding but are not affiliated with any specific organization. My role is to work with two other students and take approximately 40 years of photographs, slides, negatives, and documents and create a workable collection for authors, journalists, and the employees of Operation Breakthrough to use. A large part of my role is to weed out the unnecessary items from the collection, develop a working finding aid, and to select and implement the necessary software (databases, finding aids, websites, etc.) to keep the archive running in the future. As far as career plans I am looking to work with a museum, historical organization, or special collections department in an academic library. I am looking to stay west of the Mississippi, though those plans are up in the air right now. I am also considering future graduate studies in Art History or Preservation as well as a dual JD/PhD in Library Science to pursue Law Librarianship.
Congratulations, Taylor!
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Congratulations students
Congratulations to the following students, each of whom had at least one (and in many cases more than one) artwork chosen by the juror, Prof. Armin Mühsam (Missouri State University) to be included in the Annual Juried Student Art Competition. As a reminder, that exhibition will be up in the Gallery until Friday, April 6th.
Adam McMichael, Aerin Melvin, Albert McCormick, Alexandra Olson, Allison Sissom, Alyssa Vannoy, Amanda Bell, Andrea Hock, Andrea Linskey, Andy Doering, Anna Christian, Antonia Brister, Arayna White, Ashley Buhmann, Carley Robison, Carly Winchell, Cate Chaney, Daniel Riekena, Danielle Naeger, Danielle Tobar, Emily Frierdich, Emma Dunlap, Emma Howard, Emma Roeder, Erica Robertson, Jake Wittrock, Jonathan Moeller, Kat Klebenow, Katharyn Sutton, Katie Brewer, Kristine Campbell, Kyle Pappalardo, Lauren Radix, Lauren Thomeczek, Linh Dao, Lona Moody, Mason Einspahr, Meghan Doil, Rebecca Fels, Rebecca Greiner, Reina Koyano, Sam Meisenbacher, Sarah Harford, Shannon Spickler, Shawn Griffin, and Zhaoli Ge
Congratulations everyone!
Art Department student researched and designed website featured by Missouri Department of State
The website researched, written, and designed by Truman State University Art Department students has been featured on the Missouri Department of State's Missouri Digital Heritage website. Congratulations to all the students (now alumni) who were involved in that project!
For more on the original project, please click here.
Happy Midterm Break!
Photo Credit: Tim Barcus, Campus Photographer
Truman will be on break for the next week so be sure to check back here during the week of March 12 for more news about goings on in the Art Department.
Congrats to Art alum!
Congratulations to alumna (Studio Art) Kayla (Goff) Knox who has started the graduate program at Eastern University in Philadelphia working towards a Masters in Urban Studies with an emphasis in Transformational Art! Kayla had this to say about her program: "With this degree I can work in inner cities, or internationally, teaching art but not art for arts sake. I would teach students academics, social skills, and other things like that all the while using art as the means."
If you are an alum and have news to share, we'd love to hear from you! Please e-mail us at art@truman.edu.
Gallery Opening Tonight!
We hope to see you at the University Art Gallery (OP 1114) tonight for the opening reception for two great shows!
The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition will feature works by Truman State University Art students selected by exhibition juror Prof. Armin Mühsam. Prof. Mühsam, who is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Nortwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, was invited to jury the show.
At the same time as the Juried Student Art Exhibition, also up in the Gallery will be an exhibition, entitled "Narratives of Inevitability". This show features Prof. Mühsam's own paintings which deal with "the changing and changed landscape, particularly the face of nature as altered by human intervention". For Prof. Mühsam's artist's statement and images of some of his paintings, please click here.
Both exhibitions were funded in part by the Missouri Arts Council and are both free and open to the public. We hope to see you at the reception!
Alumna returns to campus!
Photo Credit: Sara Orel
Allison Meadows (BA in Art History, Truman State University, 2008; MSc in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnology, Oxford University, 2009) returned to campus last week as a guest speaker for the Folklore Colloquium. In addition to her talk she also presented to several classes about her research on material covered by NAGPRA (the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) and her work as a Curatorial Assistant at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Allison talked with several students about how to identify and take advantage of opportunities for training in Museum Studies, including how to choose and apply for internships and jobs, what different types of training are needed for different types of jobs, and what academic and co-curricular activities might offer to someone interested in museums as a career path.
Allison Meadows speaks to/with students in ART 428: Museums and Collections about training and careers in Museum Studies, on Valentine's Day 2012. Photo Credit: Sara Orel