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Howard, Caldwell Collaborate for Art Exhibit

November 19, 2014

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MACOMB, IL - The Western Illinois University Department of Art will host professors James Caldwell and William Howard for a collaborative exhibition through Thursday, Dec. 4 in the Annex Gallery of the Heating Plant Annex, room 103.

A reception for the exhibit will be held in the gallery at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3.

At the end of every semester, Howard picks a student and together they develop an exhibit for the end of the semester. This semester, Caldwell, who has been a WIU music professor since 1985 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in art in 2014, and Howard explored light sensitive lithography plates. This line of work exhibits the use of various line and composition. Caldwell used every day objects such as rubber bands, whereas Howard capped his images off with wood glue abstract drawings.

"This is a marvelous teaching tool for students, and many times the processes we come up with benefit the curriculum," said Howard.

Caldwell said he approaches his visual art projects in much the same way as his musical composition.

"It is a process of inventing, marking, applying technique, reworking, erasing and correcting until the image looks like what I want my art to look like in much the same way that I reach a point in composing when my composition sounds like what I want my music to sound like," said Caldwell.

For more information about the exhibition, contact William Howard at WR-Howard@wiu.edu.

Posted By: Kolette Herndon (WIUNews@wiu.edu)
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