Department of Art

Jillian Moore, a 2005 BFA Metals graduate, was a finalist for the 2011 LEAP Awards in jewelry. The LEAP Award was established in the fall of 2007 to recognize emerging talent in the contemporary craft field. The LEAP Award recognizes excellence in the field of contemporary craft. The competition is open to exceptionally talented students [...]

Two Art Education alums report getting teaching jobs.
Tyler Casson (BA Art Ed Sp11) will be teaching K-8 Art in Auburn Illinois.
Catherine McFaddin (BA Art Ed Sp11) will be teaching at a middle school in Rockford Illinois.
Both Tyler and Catherine are excited about their new positions, and look forward to sending Art Education Professor, Dr. Ta-Teh [...]

From June 23-24, 2011, Associate Professor Art, Keith Holz participated in an international colloquium How the Second Exile Causes the First to Speak: Moscow Archives and the Arts in Paris, 1933-1945, held in Moscow at the German Historical Institute and Russian State Military Archive. The colloquium was organized by Ines Rotermund-Reynard of the [...]

Alum Tom Jackson’s, BA 1972, photograph American Cipher 48 was selected for the 54th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, a juried exhibition.
This annual exhibition of approximately 25 works from contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers and ceramicists, were selected by Jim Kempner of Jim Kempner Gallery located in the Chelsea Art District in New York City. [...]