Welcome back from China, Prof. Xu!

Truman Luxun 
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.


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

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

Transfer Credit

If you are an incoming freshman or transfer student with AP  or transfer art credit, you need to submit a Request for Substitution Credit application to the Department Chair in OP1221 if you want this credit to substitute for course required in the major. The form can be obtained in the Art Department Office in OP1109. You are also required to submit a portfolio of work from the course you want to substitute. The faculty will review the portfolio to assess if the work is comparable to the Truman Art course. This review will take place at the first department meeting on August 31st. Please drop off portfolios at OP1221 prior to the 31st. Normally, if substitution is not granted, the credit is assigned as Art Elective credit. If you have questions, please contact art@truman.edu.

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.”