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Awards Ceremony for Art Students

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Student award winners with Art Department Chair Prof. Rusty Nelson (center)

This afternoon, on the last day of classes for the academic year, the Art Department held a ceremony to officially recognize students who have won either university-wide or departmental awards.  Please join us in congratulating all of these talented artists, designers, and art historians!

Outstanding Undergraduate in Art (university wide):  Anna Youngyuen

Outstanding Undergraduate in Art History:  Valerie Lazalier

Outstanding Undergraduate in Studio Art:  Laura Wellington

Outstanding Undergraduate in Visual Communication:  Julianne Gross

Department Service Award: Huyen Dinh

The following students were awarded Art Department scholarships:

    Kat Klebenow;  Kristine Campbell;  Sara Rudder;  Jon Moeller;  Megan Schaffer.

In addition, the following students will be awarded Departmental Honors next Friday at a separate, university-wide ceremony:

Julianne Gross (Vis. Comm.);  Becky Hernandez (Studio Art);  Valerie Lazalier (Art History); AnnaYoungyuen (Studio Art)

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TSU Student Research Conference–Art Presentations

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Congratulations to all the Art majors who presented their work at Truman's 24th annual Student Research Conference on Tuesday!

Stephanie Barry (senior, Art History):  "The Number Four in Lakota Directional Symbolism"

Jaime Chambers (senior, Art History):  "Out of the River and into Pop Culture:  Indigenous Belief and Foreign Influences in Images of Mami Wata"

Emily Hagen (freshman, Art History):  "Unknown Floating Head:  Attribution of a Renaissance Woodcut"

Ruby Jenkins (senior, Art History):  "All These Pretty Pictures?  An Analysis of Rene Magritte's Use of Language with Art"

Michelle Kimberlin (senior, Art History):  "Claude Monet:  Cataract Development and the Effects on His Artwork"

Janna Langholz (senior, Studio Art):  "Cutting Out a Space:  The Construction of an Imaginary World"

Valerie Lazalier (senior, Art History):  "Flotsam and Jetsam:  Joseph Cornell's Plae in the History of Collecting"

Elmer Stunkel (senior, Art History):  "Damien Hirst and the End of Art"'

Laura Wellington (senior, Studio Art):  "Through Her Eyes"

 

 

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Art students present at national research conference

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Congratulations to the four Art students were accepted to present at the 25th National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) conference held this month in Ithaca, New York.

Ruby Jenkins (Art History):  All Those Pretty Pictures? An Analysis of René Magritte’s Use of Language with Art

 Janna Añonuevo Langholz (Studio Art):  Cutting Out a Space: The Construction of an Imaginary World

 Valerie Lazalier (Art History): Flotsam and Jetsam: Joseph Cornell’s Place in the History of Collecting

Elmer Stunkel (Art HIstory & Philosophy):  Damien Hirst and the End of Art

Pictured are (from top to bottom) Janna Langholz, Elmer Stunkel, and Valerie Lazalier.  Thanks to Dr. Sara Orel for taking and sharing these photographs.

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Alumni and Faculty at Renaissance Conference in Montreal

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The international Renaissance Society of America gathered last week in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Three Truman State University Art History alumni and one faculty member were actively involved in conference proceedings.  Prof. Jasmine Cloud, a Ph.D. candidate at Temple University, presented a paper entitled "Reviving the Heart (of the City):  The Renovation of the Churches on the Roman Forum", Dr. Ryan Gregg (Webster University) presented a paper entitled "Vasari's Decorations for the Giovanni Delle Bande Nere Room in the Palazzo Vecchio", and Dr. John Garton (Clark University) organized two sessions entitled "Physiognomy, Disfigurement, and the Early Modern Grotesque", one of which was chaired by Dr. Julia DeLancey (Truman State University).

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Student docents in University Art Gallery

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First-year Art History major Emily Hagen works with visiting middle and high school students in "The Workshop and the World".  Emily also worked as a Curatorial Assistant for this exhibition.

This semester, as always, many Truman State University students have been active as volunteer docents in the University Art Gallery.  Many are members of Art History Society, but the Gallery also has docents from Departments across campus;  for example, a number of Communication Disorders majors and Disability Studies minors docented for the recent "4 Real 4 Faux" exhibition.  Anyone interested in being trained as a Gallery docent should contact Prof. Aaron Fine, Gallery Director, at afine@truman.edu;  in addition, anyone interested in arranging for a docent-led Gallery tour may also contact Prof. Fine.

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First-year Art History major April Johnston shows printmaking equipment related to "The Workshop and the World" to middle and high school students.

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Student Work in Art Gallery!

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Congratulations to all the students who submitted work to and had work accepted for exhibition in the Forty-Fourth Annual Student Juried Exhibition.  The show was juried by Truman Curatorial Fellow Prof. Brandelyn Dillaway and will be on display in the main gallery until April 12, 2011.  Currently on display in the side gallery are selected works by Rene Gagnon, also curated by Prof. Dillaway.

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Life-sized Egyptian Tomb Wall in Ophelia Parrish!

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Dr. Sara Orel's Egyptian Art class set up a full-scale reproduction of a painted wall of an Egyptian Middle Kingdom tomb in the atrium of the art wing of Ophelia Parrish Hall.  The scenes show Khnumhotep, a provincial governor of Beni Hasan about 4000 years ago, accepting offerings for the afterlife from his family and servants and hunting animals in the desert.  One of the most famous scenes from his tomb shows foreigners (probably from the area of modern Israel and Palestine) wrapped in elaborately-patterned woolen clothes, a scene that is often reproduced to illustrate the biblical story of Joseph and his family settling in Egypt.  The scene was painted in the original colours by some of the students in the class to illustrate the bright hues of the original tomb.  Laura Wellington, of Fine Arts Publications, expanded the original 1893 line drawing (from Percy E. Newberry's Beni Hasan I, London) to the original size, approximately 33 feet long and 14 feet tall. 

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Studio Publication…congratulations, Profs. Fine!

Professor of Art, Aaron Fine, and his brother Peter Fine, Associate Professor of Art at New Mexico State University, recently had their paper "Whiteout" published in Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance, Jeff Shantz, ed. Algora Publishing. This paper was written collaboratively and was originally presented at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles in 2009.