Art History | Studio Art | Visual Communications

Photo Credit:  Tim Barcus (Campus Photographer)

Congratulations to all our graduates!  We are so proud of you and wish you the best.  Please do stay in touch!  (art@truman.edu)

Congratulations to Prof. Matt Derezinski (Visual Communications) on a variety of great exhibitions and awards!

Exhibitions in 2013

South Shore Art Center, “Photography Now”, Cohasset, Massachusetts

Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, “2013 Juried and Open Fine Art, Photography and Electronic Media Show”, Ocean Shores,Washington

Light Space & Time Online Gallery, “Nature 2013-Mixed Media & Other Category”, Jupiter, Florida (www.lightspacetime.com)

Mystic Arts Center, “102nd Exhibition Connecticut Academy of Fine Art”, East Hampton, Connecticut

River Gallery + Exhibits, “10th Anniversary Showcase”, Chelsea, Michigan

Bruce Gallery, “Thoughts of Perception”, Edinboro, Pennsylvania(*solo show)

Light Space & Time Online Gallery, “All Photography Art Exhibition”, Jupiter, Florida (www.lightspacetime.com)

Awards (2013)

Honorable Mention, Nature 2013 - MixedMedia & Other Category at www.lightspacetime.com

Special Recognition, 15th All Media Juried Online Interantional Art Exhibition at (www.upstreampeoplegallery.com)

Best of Show, Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, “2013 Juried and Open Fine Art,
Photography and Electronic Media Show”, Ocean Shores, Washington

Freelance work (2013)

Designed a patch for Boy Scouts of America, Kansas City chapter for Klondike Derby.

Photo Credit:  Matt Derezinski

Please join us Monday, May 6th, 6:00 p.m., in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114) for the BFA Vis Comm portfolio exhibition.  It's a great chance to see the graphic design work of seniors graduating with the BFA Vis Comm degree and to talk with them about their work.  As always, gallery events are free and open to the public.  Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the great designers who will be exhibiting: 

Ashley Buhmann, Tracy Cheung, Linh Doa, Andrew Doering, Corey Felter, Rebecca Greiner, Wesley Harbison, Ryan Haskins, Kristin Henry, Anne Kramer, Shelby Maggart, Duy Pham, and Alyssa Vannoy

This afternoon, the Art Department held its annual Art Awards Ceremony.  We are happy to honor the following talented students who have been recognized by the Art faculty for various achievements.  Congratulations to each and all!

The following students have received academic awards: 

Outstanding Student, BA Art:  Katelyn Brewer

Outstanding Student, BFA Studio:  Jonathan Moeller

Outstanding Student, BFA Visual Communications:  Wesley Harbison

Art Department Service Award:  Ashley Buhmann

The following students have received art-related scholarships from the Truman State University Foundation.  The Department would like to thank all the generous donors, some of whom are retired faculty or alumni from the Art Department, who have made these scholarships possible.

Paul Talley & Matt Johnson Memorial Scholarship: Carley Robinson & Allison Behm

William Unger Memorial Scholarship: Kat Klebenow

Jean Kraus Memorial Scholarship: Shelby Seaman

Juanita McGuire Jamison Memorial Art Scholarship: Emily Pulley

Hearst Fine Arts (Art) Scholarship:  Mikki Nunnikoven, Alex Eickhoff, Melissa Aholt

William R. Murray Art Scholarship: Emily Pulley

William & Heddi Unger Art History Scholarship: Azure Stevens

George & Stacey McGuire Scholarship: Amanda Aichholz

Bracey Cornett Memorial Scholarship: Kelsey Schmidt

The following students will receive Departmental Honors at graduation:

Kristin Henry, Lona Moody, Lauren Thomaczek, and Jake Wittrock

The following students have been selected to receive the Department’s Returning Student Scholarships:

Olivia Brady, Kayla Busby, Stephanie Dunn, Mason Einspahr, Jonathon Gamache, April Johnston, Derek Jones, Jessica DiMariano, Emma Roeder, and, Jessica Zilch

Heartiest congratulations, again, to each and all!

 
(Some of the award winners, all of whom were good sports, jump in honor of photographer Philippe Halsman's famous "Jump" portraits).

 Congratulations to Prof. Jamie Bates Slone whose show, entitled "BIO" was on exhibition April 5- 29 at the Pool Art Center Gallery at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri from April 5 - 29, 2013. Congratulations again!

Just a reminder to everyone that the opening for the BFA Studio Capstone exhibition will be tonight at 6:00 p.m. in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114).  Hope to see you there!

The exhibition of Capstone work by students working towards the BFA degree in Studio Art will be held next week!  The show will be up April 29th - May 3, with an opening reception on Tuesday, April 30th at 6:00 p.m.  Congratulations to the following students!

Toni Brister (Painting)

Jonathan Moeller (Printmaking)

Lona Moody (Painting)

Erica Robertson (Ceramics)

Lauren Thomeczek (Ceramics)

Jake Wittrock (Painting)

As always, all Gallery events are free and open to the public.  Hope to see you there!

 

Sara Orel, Professor of Art History, has been elected chair of the Arts and Humanities Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).  CUR is a national organization for promotion of undergraduate research in all disciplines and provides support for faculty development, including publications and outreach to share successful models and strategies for implementing research at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum.  The organization sponsors the National Conference of Undergraduate Research every spring as well as workshops and institutes throughout the year. 

Dr. Orel was one of the presenters at a CUR institute for promoting undergraduate research in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Delaware in November of 2012 and will be a co-editor of their  publication on successful models for involving students in research through classwork and other settings.  She will assume her position as chair of the Arts and Humanities Division at the end of the June business meeting of CUR. 

This week, we have a chance to see work submitted by students in fulfillment of the requirements for the BA in Art in Studio Art.  The show will be up through Friday, with an opening reception to be held Tuesday, April 23 at 6:00 p.m.  As always, all Gallery events are free and open to the public. Congratulations to these great artists!

Katie Brewer (Painting)
Tori Hudson (Painting)
Andrea Linskey (Ceramics)
Lauren Radix (Ceramics)
Emily Frierdich (Ceramics)

We recently received some great news from alumnus Galen Gibson-Cornell (Studio Art: Printmaking) who is finishing up his MFA in Printmaking at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.  His MFA exhbition will open on April 13th, 2013 (see poster above for more details) in Madison, he has an exhibition of his work in Florence, Italy at the Santa Reparata International School of Art, and he will graduate in May!

In August of this year, he has been selected to receive a very competitive and coveted Fulbright Fellowship in the Arts, to Hungary.  While there, he will be based in Budapest and will:  work with art students at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts;  create a series of prints alongside master printers at the Art Union of Hungarian Etchers and Lithographers;  and work at Printa, a screen-printing workshop and gallery. He will also have a solo show at Galleria IX in Budapest in May 2014 to showcase the project and will be establishing an on-going printmaking exchange between students at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and at UW-Madison. 

Heartiest congratulations!

If you would like to keep up with Galen's work, please visit his website.

And if you are an alum of the Art Department and would like to share your news, please write to us at art@truman.edu.