Artists’ Talk tonight! October 16th, 5 pm, in the University Gallery, with reception to follow. We look forward to seeing you there.
Department
Professor Priya Kambli Part of St. Louis Gallery Show
Second Annual Blow Stuff Up on the Quad Exhibition!
September 14th, 2018, was a bright sunny day with relatively little wind — the perfect day to showcase the work of Advanced Sculpture, as taught by Professor Danielle Yakle. As they did last year, students outdid themselves with playful over-life-sized toys taking over the great lawn between Ophelia Parrish and Baldwin Halls.
Alumni Artists to Visit Campus
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Thanks to funding from the School of Arts and Letters we are happy to have Mimi Kato and Jimmy Kuehnle visit campus to give talks about their work. Both are successful artists, living and working in Cleveland, Ohio. We hope you will be able to join us to hear about their current creative work.
The flyer has an image from Mimi Kato’s work; an example of Jimmy Kuehnle’s work is below.
Updates on some recent graduates
Congratulations to the following students who have sent us their recent news:
Katie Feldkamp, a 2017 Art History/History double major, will be attending graduate school abroad this fall. She writes:
I will be attending the University of St. Andrews in Scotland this September for their Museum and Gallery Studies MLitt program. The program is a year-long course that focuses on practical hands-on skills as well as more theoretical coursework and provides students with broad training in all types of museums, galleries and other heritage facilities.
Lisa Simms’ news comes from painting professor Lindsey Dunnagan:
Lisa Simms has been working as a Teaching Artist at Resident Arts in Columbus, MO. She works with teen artists to teach them different painting techniques and they are also working on a large public mural along the MKT trail under Elm Street. The position will come to a close around the end of the summer when the full-time person returns from maternity leave.
Lisa Simms (right) with professor Lindsey Dunnagan (left) at Simms’ capstone exhibit.
Art History grad Kathryn Hodge, who has been a curatorial intern at the St. Louis Art Museum this summer, writes to say she has accepted a part time position with Leslie Hindman Auctioneers as a client services specialist. As she has always been interested in the collecting aspect of art, this is a great move for her. We wish her the best of success!
If you are a Truman art student alumna/alumnus and would like to share your adventures with us, please write us at art@truman.edu. We’d love to hear from you!
Design Capstone Show and Reception
Our graduating Design (Visual Communication) majors have set up an exhibition of their capstone work at the Kirksville Arts Association (1902 South Baltimore, Suite 100). Come and see their creative endeavors and get a chance to talk with them about their work and future plans. Their celebratory reception is Friday, May 11th, the evening before graduation. Congratulations to all our graduating seniors!
Capstone Exhibits and Reception for the BA in Studio Art
Friday at 6 pm come and join the graduating BA students to celebrate their capstone exhibition, which is on display in the University Gallery until that evening. Help us congratulate the students on completion of their degree (and enjoy some lovely snacks while you do)!
What Will Hannah Nicks Do After Graduation?
Hannah Nicks, who will graduate in December with a BA double major in Art History and Studio (Ceramics Concentration), sends us the following exciting news about what she will be doing after walking across the stage to receive her diploma:
Following my December graduation, I will begin an Art Residency at Access Arts in Columbia, Missouri. At Access Arts I will be teaching two classes, Adaptive Clay Handbuilding for adults and children with special needs, and Handbuilding & Altered Forms for more advanced students. During the residency, I plan to make a body of work that I can use to apply to a graduate program for ceramics. Along with the creation of this body of work I have a number of art shows around the midwest that I am going to apply for in order to gain exhibition experience.
Congratulations to Hannah and our other graduates!
Here are a few of Hannah’s recent works for you to admire.
University Gallery Event
Join us this week, December 4th-8th, for the graduating BFA Exhibition featuring the works of graduating BFA Truman student Linan Sun and pieces featured from promising foundation students. The Reception will take place this Friday, but the show will be up Monday through Friday.
Both the reception and the show itself are free and open to the public.
2003 Alumna Dusty Folwarczny Visits Campus
Dusty Folwarczny, Studio Art graduate, and co-founder of Chicago’s Ink Factory, visited Truman in October to talk about her post-Truman career and provide a workshop on Visual Note Taking. She spoke to classes, including the Senior Capstone Seminar, and explained to students what she does as part of this innovative Chicago start-up, and gave them a chance to practice visual note taking themselves.
Dusty and Art Department chair Aaron Fine talk after her presentation. 
Student tries out visual note taking.