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Art at the Student Research Conference!

Tomorrow Truman will hold the 26th Annual Student Research Conference.  Classes are cancelled on this day to allow students, faculty, and staff to experience the fantastic range of research and creative work being done by students on Truman’s campus.  The Art Department will be very well represented and we hope to see you at a lot of these events!  Congratulations to all the students and to their faculty mentors (including Prof. Priya Kambli who was a semi-finalist for the Research Mentor of the Year award!).

Featured throughout the day will be two exhibitions of student artwork:

8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Atrium, South Wing of OP
Studio Art Display

8:30 am – 7:00 pm • University Art Gallery (OP 1114)
Annual Juried Student Exhibition

In addition, the following events will highlight students and their creative or research work:

Art History (these will be individual research presentations)

1:00 – 2:15 • OP 2117

1:00 ALLIE M. STRAUSSNER (Dr. Julia DeLancey, Dr. Sara Orel, and Dr. Paul Yoder, Faculty Mentors)   Henry Fuseli: Sensations of the Erotic.

1:15  APRIL N. JOHNSTON (TruScholar 2012), (Dr. Julia DeLancey, Faculty Mentor)
I Sacrificed Nothing: Struggle and Triumph in the Painting of Lee Krasner,
1945-1956.

1:30 MAMIE E. COX (TruScholar 2013), (Dr. Elizabeth Gand (Fort Lewis College), Dr. Julia DeLancey, and Dr. Cole Woodcox, Faculty Mentors)
At the Moulin Rouge: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and the Dancer

1:45 LACY A. MURPHY (Dr. Julia DeLancey, Faculty Mentor)
The Women of Jacques-Louis David

Exhibition of Student Works (Studio and Visual Communication)

(students will not make formal presentations, but rather will be available during this time to answer questions about their work;  because of the overlap with Art History presentations, some if not all of the students below have agreed to be available starting at 12:45 p.m.  Thank you to them!).

12:45- 2:15 • OP South Atrium

ELIZABETH A. WILLIAMSON (Prof. Priya Kambli, Faculty Mentor)
Creative Photography: Churches

KATHERINE D. KLEBENOW (Prof. Priya Kambli, Faculty Mentor)
Unnatural: A Photographic Investigation of Interactions with Nature

SHELBY SIMS (Prof. Priya Kambli, Faculty Mentor)
Surrounded by Life

ROCIO D. HOPSON (Prof. Priya Kambli, Faculty Mentor)
Exploring Pregnancy

LONA D. MOODY*, ALEXANDRA WILLIAMSON, JONATHAN MOELLER, and JUSTIN SEVIER (Prof. John Bohac, Faculty Mentor)
Large Scale Sculptural Installation

LONA D. MOODY (TruScholar 2012), (Prof. Priya Kambli, Faculty Mentor)
Experimentally Combining Alternative and Traditional Photographic Processes

ROCIO D. HOPSON (Prof. Matthew Derezinksi, Faculty Mentor)
Casa Nahual, Bed & Breakfast

1:30-2:15 • OP 1210

Studio Art

CARLY M. ROBISON*, KATHRYN E. SUTTON, and KRISTEN N. WILLIAMS (Prof. Matthew Derezinksi, Faculty Mentor)
Design in Motion

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Kappa Pi Update

Students in Truman's Art Department have initiated a new chapter of Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity.  The fraternity received an official charter earlier this semester, and members are making plans for events this semester.  Currently, the fraternity is partnering with a local Lutheran elementary school to teach art classes, and
are preparing to help with the annual Tom Thumb art event.

 

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Truman's Theta Eta Chapter of Kappa Pi at induction earlier this semester.

 

 

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Kappa Pi members having a bleach tie dye event last semester.

 

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Alumni back on campus!

In the past week we have been pleased and fortunate to have back on campus two Art Department alumni to work with students and the Department!

Last week, Heidi (Willhauck) Cook came back to meet with Art History Society and with students in ART 329 Historical Methods.  Heidi is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Pittsburgh where she is working on Modern European art.

This week, Galen Gibson-Cornell gave a wonderful campus-wide talk about his own work and worked with students and others in the Print Shop.  Galen is currently in the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he focuses on lithography.

We are very grateful to both for coming back to campus and sharing their expertise with us.

If you are an alum and have news to share with us, please drop us an e-mail at art@truman.edu!

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Prof. Derezinski & Design in Japan!

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Last May, Prof. Matt Derezinski (Visual Communication) attended the International Art Design Festa, Vol. 36, the biggest design festival in Asia, held this year in Tokyo, Japan.  10,000 international artists participate and thousands of visitors attend.  The festival includes live painting, painting, illustration, fashion, film, mixed media, animation, and other exciting contemporary art media.

If you'd like to learn more about Prof. Derezinski's experiences, please attend his presentation tonight, Monday, November 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the Beta Lab (OP 1210).  The event is hosted by Truman's student chapter of AIGA and is a great chance to learn about this wonderful event.

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Student Clubs Get Started

The Art Department hosts a wide variety of clubs for students interested in various areas relevant to the Department.  Most of those clubs are in the process now of getting started and seeking new members.

For example, Truman's student chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) is holding a barbecue this coming Thursday for any students interested in joining AIGA. The barbecue will be held on Thursday, September 6 at 6:00 p.m. on the Quad side of Ophelia Parrish.

And Art History Society (AHS), the club for any students interested in Art History, has already had their first meeting and is getting ready to unveil a new format for their long-standing service of hosting study sessions for students in any Art History class.  AHS meets weekly this semester on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. in OP 2111 and can be reached by e-mail at ahstruman@gmail.com.

The Art Department also hosts the following clubs for the following areas:  The Bad Acids (printmaking);  Clay People (ceramics);  Fibers Club (fibers);  and Kappa Pi (national honorary art organization).  Stay tuned for more information about those clubs, or contact the Art Department at art@truman.edu with questions.

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Happy Summer!

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Photo Credit:  Tim Barcus (Campus Photographer)

The Art Department blog is on break until classes resume in late August…enjoy the summer, everyone, and be sure to check back again later in the summer to find out what's going on in Art at Truman!

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New honorary art society at Truman State University!

The Art Department at Truman now has the newest chapter of Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity.  Truman's chapter–the Theta Eta Chapter of Kappa Pi–will be officially installed at some point during the Spring 2012 Semester when the President of Kappa Pi will visit Truman's campus to conduct the Chapter installation and Charter Member induction (specific date and further information forthcoming).  Truman's chapter of Kappa Pi is the direct result of a student initiative and petition effort lead by current art majors Emily VanGelder, Andy Doering, and Andrea Linskey.  

Kappa Pi is a 100-year old honorary art fraternity that through the "artistic interests and influence of its members, upholds the highest ideals of a liberal education; [and] provides a means whereby students with artistic commitment meet for the purpose of informal study and communication…to raise the standards of productive artistic work among students…"  (from the Kappa Pi Constitution).  Among the goals of Theta Eta chapter will be the promotion of the visual arts on the Truman campus and within the broader community and the enrichment of the creative environment within the Art Department.  Membership in Kappa Pi is a recognition of excellence in and dedication to the visual arts.  All art majors — studio, visual communications and art history — will be eligible for membership once the chapter is officially installed.

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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!

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Ceramics Sale in Ophelia Parrish!

 

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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.

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