Department of Art

Terry Rathje reports on former students:

Dave Stram, 2009 art minor, won an award for his digital photography in the Chimney Rock State Park photo contest.

The Grand Prize winner is Dave Stram from Schaumburg, IL. Dave submitted several images and they were all beautiful. In fact, the judges had such a difficult time choosing [...]

Terry Rathje is putting on a multi-session workshop at the University of Iowa on Motion Graphics during the last half of April and beginning of May.  This year’s workshop is dealing with making a motion portrait of one’s self and one’s work to build a motion portrait for a personal website.

Vince Palacios reports that his work is in a number of shows.

He has works juried into the 18th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition held at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art.  The Juror was Sherman Hall.
He had three works juried into the 20th Annual Mid-Atlantic National Exhibition in Norfolk VA.  The  Juror was [...]

Jenny Knavel had three pieces accepted for “Texas National 2010” at the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art.  The juror was Judy Pfaff a past MacArthur Fellow.  Knavel received an “Honorable Mention” award.

Bruce Walters did his first test video projection on the exterior of the Figge Art Museum on April 8. This test is for projections on the Figge on Halloween 2010 and in Arts Alley in Rock Island for the opening reception of a solo exhibition a few days before.
See the test on [...]

Art Department faculty are showing their work in the 34th Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition at Augustana College which runs from April 7 -May 2, including:

$995 Two-Dimensional Award in Memory of Bernice and Stanley Harris to Jan Clough for “Kaleidoscope” (pencil and gouache).

$100 Honorable Mention to Bruce Walters for “Changeling” (graphite drawing).

Brett [...]

A retirement reception for Lorraine Schwartz, associate professor of art, will be held from 3-5 p.m. Friday, May 7 at the University Art Gallery. Schwartz, who has taught art history from early Christian to 20th century, research in art history and the history of architecture, retires with 29 years of service to Western. She started [...]