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Welcome back from China, Prof. Xu!

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Prof. Xu with Truman State University students in Shanghai

The Art Department is pleased to welcome back Prof. Ping Xu (Visual Communications) from his trip to China this summer.  Prof. Xu spend the summer in his home city of Shanghai.  While there, Prof. Xu met with a Truman State University study abroad class led by Prof. Julie Minn, met with faculty and students from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Dalian, China (whose work will be showing in the University Art Gallery this fall), and visited Expo 2010 in Shanghai.


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Prof. Xu (front row, middle, light grey shirt) with faculty and students from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, China.

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One Prof. Xu's photographs of the Expo 2010 pavilions in Shanghai.

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Art History Society First Meeting!

The first meeting of the Art History Society will be Tuesday, August 31 at 6:00 p.m. in OP2250.  AHS is the club for any Truman student (regardless of major) interested in Art History.  The club takes trips to see great art and to participate in national conferences, as well as holds fundraisers (including the very popular Art History Cupcakes sale!) and run the popular AHS Study Sessions to work with any student in any Art History course needing some extra support–as well as lots of other great activities!  Any questions?  Please contact AHS at ahstruman@gmail.com

See you there!

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Some Student Summer Plans

Truman Art students will be heading off throughout the world this summer…here are some of the plans we've heard about (in no particular order):

Anna Jahn (Studio:  Painting) has received a competitive paid internship at Dreamworks Studios in Hollywood.

Sarah Schneider (Vis Comm) has an internship in the Department of Graphic Design at the Lance Armstrong Foundation, in Austin, Texas.

Erin Semple (Vis Comm) has an internship at Fair City News in Springfield, Missouri and at the Wannenmacher Advertising Agency, also in Springfield.

Alyssa Noe (Vis Comm) has an internship with Windsor Crossing Community Church in St. Louis.

Chelsea Shelton (Vis Comm) has an internship with St. Louis Magazine.

Morgan Sachs (Vis Comm) has an internship with Programming and PR at Dance St. Louis.

Emily James (Vis Comm) has an internship at Nestle Purina.

Huyen Dinh (Vis Comm) has an internship at H&J Productions in Hanoi, VIetnam.

Danielle Hill (Vis Comm) has an internship with the advertising agency Trungale Egan & Associates in Chicago.

Corinne Nagel (Vis Comm) has an internship with the St. Louis Artists' Guild as well as a paid internship with Scottrade in St. Louis in the Multimedia Department doing Flash and After Effect videos.

Andrew Doering (Vis Comm) has an internship doing flash animation and digital signage with New Ground in Chesterfield, Missouri.

Tara Larson (Vis Comm) has an internship with The Web Marketing Group of Marsh Global Consumer, Affinity and Private Client Solutions in Urbandale, Illinois.

Valerie Lazalier (Art History) received a competitive internship with the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri.

Jaime Chambers (Art History) was accepted to participate (and will participate) in a SHUMLA Field Methods in Rock Art archaeological field school in Texas.

Stephanie Barry (Art History) will be interning at the Kirksville Arts Association.

Ruby Jenkins (Art History) will be returning to her summer work and travel in Italy with Travel for Teens as well as working as a preceptor for Truman's Joseph Baldwin Academy.

Congratulations to each and all!


 

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Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations to all the Art students who graduated on Saturday!  Best wishes and please do keep in touch.  Here are some of the things that some of our very newly minted graduates will be up to this summer and the coming year (in no particular order). 

Alex Merchant:  accepted into the MFA program at the University of Tennessee

Megan Klco:  accepted into the MFA program at the Kendall College of Art & Design at Ferris State University (Michigan)

Katibeth Lee:  will be working at the Houston Area Women's Center, Houston, Texas

Rachel Bock:  has been accepted into the MFA program in Costume Design at the University of MIssouri-Kansas City

Julia Curran:  year-long residency at Evil Prints, a professional art studio printshop in St. Louis

Galen Gibson-Cornell:  one-year internship at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City) as well as accepted into the graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, awarded a full-ride stipend and a graduate teaching position.

Matt James:  summer internship at Evil Prints, professional art studio printmaking studio led by artist Tom Huck

Rosemary Melton:  summer internship at Firecracker Press, a professional letterpress shop in St. Louis (2009);  Accepted into the MAE program at Truman State University for Fall 2010

Alex Thierry:  accpeted into the MAE program at Truman State University for Fall 2010

Sarah McKee:  accepted into the MAE program at Truman State University for Fall 2010

Samantha Lyons:  accepted into the Art History graduate program at the University of Kansas

Cecilia Muruato:  has been awarded a Teaching Assistantship in France at the Academie de Nantes for the 2010 – 2011 academic year

Natalie Hall:  accepted into the immersion program at IFALPES University in Chambery, France.  She will also be tutoring French students in English while there

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Art Student Awards!

 

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Congratulations to Art majors who were honored this afternoon by Art Department faculty members at a reception in OP (Ophelia Parrish, the building on campus that houses Art, Music, and Theatre as well as the School of Arts & Letters).  Some students listed below were selected by the faculty to receive awards that recognize academic achievement and dedication to their area, or extraordinary service to the Art Department.  Others applied for and earned (pending final grades) Departmental Honors.  Finally, others applied for and were selected by the Art faculty to receive competitive Art-related scholarships (see also this link).  Department chair, Prof. Rusty Nelson, served as master of ceremonies.

 

Congratulations to all!

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Undergraduate Student of the Year:  Art (overall): Megan Dowdy

Outstanding Student in Studio Art: Allison Sissom

Outstanding Student in Visual Communications: Andrea Bailey

Outstanding Student in Art History: Cecilia Muruato

 

DEPARTMENTAL HONORS

Art History:

Cecilia Muruato

Samantha Lyons

Studio:

Bonnie Frisch

Katibeth Lee

Rosemary Melton

Leslie Song

Vis Comm:

Megan Dowdy

Jordan Worcester

DEPARTMENT CHAIR SERVICE AWARD

Valerie Lazalier

ART-RELATED FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS (winner's name is preceded by the name of the Foundation scholarship)

Talley/Johnson – Anna Youngyeun

Unger – Joyce Wong

Kraus – Ashley May

Jamison – Michelle Kimberlin

Hearst -   Andrew Doering

                Janna Langholz

                Samantha Wheeler

McGuire - Laura Wellington

ART DEPARTMENT SCHOLARSHIPS – Returning students

Rocio Mauricio

Sara Rudder

Julianne Gross

Valerie Lazalier


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BA & BFA Shows, II

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Check out the University Art Gallery blog for more information on this week's BA & BFA student shows.  Congratulations to all students and faculty on a great two weeks of shows.  407 people attended the April 20th opening so thanks too to the Truman and Kirksville communities for all the great support!

In addition, remember check out the Visual Communications blog for more information on this coming Monday's Vis Comm BFA student portfolio show!  Good luck to all those seniors as they prep for that event. 

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Alumna Dusty Folwarczny’s work featured in Chicago Art 2010

Sculptor and Truman State Art alumna Dusty Folwarczny was recently featured in the Chicago Sun-Times in an article about her piece "Scrape" which is being shown as part of Art Chicago 2010.  Dusty is quoted in the article as saying: “I love working with steel and its raw textured surface and the beautiful oranges in the rust.  And I love the idea of public art’s power to change people’s view of the world.”

 

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Art Department Alumni and Faculty at Renaissance conference in Italy!

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Three Art History alumni and one faculty member participated in this year’s Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting held in Venice, Italy;  the Renaissance Society of America is the leading international conference on Renaissance studies.  Dr. John Garton (BA, Art History and Studio Art;  currently Assistant Professor o f Art History, Clark University) presented a paper entitled “The Siege Ladders of Leonardo da Vinci” in a session honoring his doctoral supervisor, Dr. Colin Eisler (Institute of Fine Arts at New York University);  Jasmine Cloud (BA, Art History;  currently a PhD candidate in Italian Baroque Art at Temple University), was selected to give a paper entitled “A Shifting Sense of the Past: The Early Modern Interpretation of the Façade of San Marco” in a session honoring the historian of Venetian art, Dr. Patricia Fortini Brown (Princeton University);  Leslie Contarini (BA, Art History;  currently working for the art restoration organization Save Venice) helped to organize and host a session sponsored by Save Venice, entitled “Recent Restorations in Venice:  Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese”;  and Dr. Julia DeLancey (Professor of Art, Art Department) was invited to give a paper entitled “L’importantissima mercanzie”:  mapping color sellers (vendecolori) and visual environments in Renaissance Venice” in a session on period eyes and urban space.  Dr. DeLancey also chaired a session entitled "In Search of the Venetian Popolani I:  Identities and Representations".  Please see the conference program for more information (the relevant abstracts are available in the .pdf on pages 142 (Garton), 1 (Cloud), 175 (DeLancey:  chair) and 671 (DeLancey:  paper) and for the Save Venice session, please see page 11 of the Special Events section of the program.

Jasmine, John, and Leslie
(Leslie Contarini, John Garton, and Jasmine Fry in the Centro Don Orione, Dorsoduro, Venice)

 

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Art History Students at National Research Conference

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(A view of the campus of the University of Montana)

Four Art History students presented last week at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research at the University of Montana in Missoula.

Two of the students presented aspects of their Senior Thesis projects:

Samantha Lyons presented a paper entitled: "Jeff Koons:  Artistic Parody and False Comfort in the Consumer Age".

Cecilia Muruato presented a paper entitled:  'The Mexican Baroque:  Survival of Indigenous Artistic Traditions".

Natalie Hall presented on a project for which she received a Truman State University Student Research Stipend:  "A Byzantine Traveling Icon:  The Hands-On Study of Iconography, Manufacture, and Provenance".

Luke Icenogle presented a paper he wrote originally for ART324 Renaissance Art:  "Masculine Homosocial Identity in Donatello's bronze David"

Congratulations to all four on an outstanding job.