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Welcome back! + Atrium exhibition and reception

Welcome back and good luck today with the first day of classes!

If you're looking to get some good art in this first week back in classes, please come by the Atrium space in the Art wing of Ophelia Parrish (south wing, ground floor) to check out the exhibition "A Strong Foundation: Faculty Selections from the Fall 2011 Proficiency Display" (January 9 – 13, 2012). This exhibition features work selected by faculty members from the first-year Studio and Visual Communications majors' proficiency portfolios and so features some of the best artwork made (in general) by first-year majors in those areas. There will be a chance to congratulate those students, as well as their instructors, at a reception this Thursday, January 12 at 4:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the students whose work was selected for the exhibition:

Emily Bendet, Tim Cooper, Megan Doil, Colleen Glaeser, Andrea Hock, Melanie Pailer, Kyle Pappalardo, Lauren Priest, Emma Roeder, Erin Smith, and Alexandra Williamson

Posted on December 16, 2011 by art history faculty Department, News and Events, Website

Enjoy the winter break!

Photo Credit: Wynne Wilbur

Truman State University is now on break until classes resume on Monday, January 9, 2012. During that time the Art Department blog will be on break too. So, visit here again in early January to see what's going on in the Department! In the meantime, thanks to Prof. Wynne Wilbur for these images of campus from last winter.

Photo Credit: Wynne Wilbur

Posted on December 12, 2011 by art history faculty Art History, Department, News and Events, Website

Good luck with finals everyone!

Finals week started this morning, with final exams, projects, and other work going on throughout the Department. Finals will continue through Friday afternoon, with the traditional Wednesday Reading Day to give everyone a one-day breather. Good luck to everyone, students, staff, and faculty alike, in this busy week!

Posted on December 9, 2011 by art history faculty Department, Faculty Scholarship and Creative Work, News and Events, Website

Photography by Prof. Matt Derezinski in international show

Matt Derezinski, Winter's Night, 2010

Congratulations to Prof. Derezinski (Visual Communications)! He just had photographs juried into an exhibition in Mexico entitled "Crossing Identities". The show, organized by International ArtExpo and curated by Italian artist Luca Curci, focuses on works that explore the fluidity of identity in contemporary society. Congratulations!

Posted on December 8, 2011 by art history faculty Department, News and Events, Student Groups, Website

Ceramics Sale in Ophelia Parrish!

All day on both Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9 the Clay People (the club for students interested in ceramics) will be holding a sale of some of their pieces (Atrium Lobby, Ophelia Parrish, just opposite the Severns Theatre). It's a great chance to support Art students, to do some holiday or home shopping, and to get some new, beautiful, hand-made things. Proceeds for the sale will support travel to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Seattle this academic year.

Posted on December 7, 2011 by art history faculty Department, Faculty Scholarship and Creative Work, News and Events, Website

Congratulations to Prof. Wilbur!

Photo credit: Wynne Wilbur

Congratulations to Art (Studio: Ceramics) faculty member Prof. Wynne Wilbur who was just awarded a competitive sabbatical leave for the 2012-13 academic year! Prof. Wilbur applied to have leave for the year to travel to The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, and then to return to the States where she will plan, design, and create a new body of ceramic artwork based on her experience in Asia. Located in the eastern portion of China, Jingdezhen has been known as a center for ceramic production, in particular porcelain, for almost 2,000 years.

Posted on November 28, 2011 by art history faculty Department, News and Events, Website

Welcome back!

Photo Credit: Sara Orel

Welcome back to everyone after Thanksgiving Break! Sara Orel sent this picture of our department chair with Spike, the Truman mascot, taken on the most recent visit day on campus. A good, goofy start to the last couple of weeks of classes!

Posted on November 16, 2011 by art history faculty Art History, News and Events, Website

Congratulations to Art History almuna!

Hearty congratulations to Art Department aluma Heidi (Willhauck) Cook (BA: Art History, 2007). Heidi recently let us know that she had received her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. Her masters thesis was entitled: "Peasants and Politics: Croatian Ethnography and Nationalism in the Work of Maksimilijan Vanka".

Heidi has been accepted into the PhD program at the University of Pittsburgh, also in the History of Art and Architecture where she will be working on a dissertation on Modern central European art and design. Her university website reports that "her current research focuses on the social and political significance of depictions of folk culture in early twentieth century Central and Eastern Europe. More broadly, her work analyzes visual constructions of nationalism." (http://www.haa.pitt.edu/person/heidi-cook)

Congratulations, Heidi!

If you are an alum and have news to send us, we'd love to hear from you! Just e-mail art@truman.edu.

Posted on November 11, 2011 by art history faculty Art History, Department, News and Events, Website

Upcoming Gallery Event

Lots and lots of great things have been going on in the Department and the University in the last few weeks: talks on what it means to be a public institution and a liberal arts institution, faculty research presentations, and many other good events.

Next week Monday the University Art Gallery is hosting "Talking 'Bout a Revolution: a discussion of posters of social protest". The event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Art, Biology, and Society & Environment so thanks to that interdisciplinary group for good support. Here's what the Gallery says about the event: "Your experiences with the artworks on display in "Up Against the Wall: Posters of Social Protest" will be central to this open-ended discussion".

This exciting discussion will take place on Monday, November 14 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114). Hope to see you there! As always, more information about gallery events is available at http://tsugallery.org.

Posted on October 18, 2011 by art history faculty Art History, Department, News and Events, Website

New Shows in the Gallery!

Two new exhibitions open in the Gallery on Tuesday, October 18:

Up Against the Wall: Posters of Social Protest, organized by the University of Texas at El Paso

This exhibition features the work of thirteen international graphic designers who have made work in response to issues of social justice.

Deanna Dikeman: New Work from the Art Omi Residency

Deanna Dikeman is a Kansas City-based photographer who recently won the Art Omi Residency at the the Omi International Art Center in upstate New York; the exhibition in Truman's Gallery features work produced during this residency. Her work is in the collections of museums including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

The opening reception will be Tuesday, October 18 at 6:00 p.m. Hope to see you there! And for more about these shows, and related programming, check out the Gallery blog.

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