BA Liberal Arts Northeast Missouri State University, MFA Studio Painting University of Wisconsin Madison Recently exhibited works in the International Juried Exhibition at the New Jersey Visual Arts Center (2006) The Texas National at S.F. Austin State University (2007) and is active in Art St. Louis. Dr. DeLancey has been at Truman State University since 1995. She earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan in the History of Art (Honors) and her Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland also in the History of Art. She teaches courses on European and American art from the Renaissance through the present day, including upper-level courses on Renaissance and Baroque art, as well as seminars on Michelangelo, and the historiography and methodology of art history. Dr. DeLancey's research focuses on painters’ materials in Florence and Venice, and has been funded by organizations such as the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Renaissance Society of America & Istituto Nationale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Italy). Her current projects focus on the specialist vendecolori (color sellers) in Venice in the sixteenth century. She is a member of the College Art Association, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Italian Art Society. At Truman State University she has received the Educator of the Year award (2002) as well as an Allen Fellowship (2005). Matthew Derezinski received his BFA and MFA from Kansas State University. BORN in Milwaukee in 1971, Aaron Fine moved to a dozen different homes in four college towns before he was 18. Raised in an intellectual, creative, politicized, and loving environment, Aaron had chosen his career as artist before kindergarten. He attended Ohio University in Athens Ohio, where he wrote a Philosophy honors thesis on Spinoza and received a BFA in Painting in 1993. Moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Fine attended Claremont Graduate University where he studied art in an interdisciplinary environment, learned the basics of drywall installation, and received his MFA in Painting in 1996. MFA with honors, 1985, University of Wyoming. Working at Truman State University since 1990. Teaching categories: Printmaking, Drawing, Design, Basic Art History. Main emphasis: Printmaking, to include all traditional and contemporary methods and materials. Side interests: Museum studies - Conservation and restoration of various period pieces. Paper making, book binding, stained glass design and construction. Current events: Just came off of a 25-year retrospective of printmaking works: catalogues still available! Upgrading my letterpress equipment. Right now hunting for a 19th century iron hand press. Prof. Kambli is on sabbatical this year. B.F.A. Graphic Design, Fort Hays State University | M.F.A. Visual Communications, Kansas State University Associate Professor of Art, Rusty Nelson has served for the last year and a half as Art Department Chair at Truman State University. Nelson has taught Visual Communications at Truman for ten years. Prior to higher education, Nelson worked professionally in advertising for fifteen years in Topeka, Kansas City, and Salina, Kansas. His career encompasses multiple areas of experience from advertising and publication design, corporate identity, outdoor billboard and signage design, book design and traditional illustration. Nelson’s illustrations have been published in regional and national publications such as Field and Stream, Discipleship Journal and Mature Living. Related areas of interest include micropublishing and bookbinding as well as mural design and production. Technical areas of experience include traditional paste-up, marker comps, type specifying, pre-press offset lithography production as well as digital applications of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver. Sara Orel got her M.A. and Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Toronto (Egyptian Archaeology), where she spent several years looking at coffins and burials from the site of Beni Hasan. Perhaps that is why she is so fond of Halloween? Dr. Orel teaches ancient and non-western Art History and is chair of the Student Research Committee. She received the Distinguished Research Service Award (2001) and the Allen Fellowship for Faculty Excellence (2008). Currently she is preparing the publication of archaeological fieldwork at Gebel el-Haridi in Egypt. Susan Shoaff-Ballanger is originally from Dunedin, Florida. She received her ABS from Webber College in Florida and her BA and MA in Art Education and Constructive Design from Florida State University. She earned her PhD from the University of North Texas in 1984. She joined the art faculty at Truman in 1980. During her time here she has taught art education and fibers as well as foundations design and drawing. Education: BA Bethany College; MA Emporia State University; MFA University of Florida Expertise: Ceramics, Art Education Biography: Wynne Wilbur is originally from Manhattan, Kansas. She received her BA, Art Education, Magna Cum Laude, from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. After receiving her MA in Art (ceramics) from Emporia (KS) State University, she had a career for many years as a teacher in the public schools in Kansas. In 1998 she went to the University of Florida where she received her MFA in Art (ceramics). She has been teaching at Truman State University since 2002. Recent shows include the 2008 Strictly Functional XVI, Lancaster, PA; the Yunomi Invitational, Iowa City, IA, and shows with the Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS.Recent images have been published in 500 Plates and Chargers (Lark Books), Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface, and the Penland Glaze Book. Research Interest: Making vessels in terra cotta with a traditional majolica glazed (white opaque glaze with a colorful decoration) surfaceDirectory
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As a Designer, Matthew has worked with many clients from local to national level. In Fall 2008 he was the curator for the show, “Message: exchange” from the University of Arlington, Texas on Visual Communications.
As a Fine Artist, he incorporates layers of textural and organic imagery that draws upon his interest in decaying, nature and the Mid-Western Landscape into his photographic work. He has exhibited all across the United States and Internationally.
In 1999 Aaron Fine accepted his current position as Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Truman State University in Kirksville Missouri. At Truman he met his wife, artist Priya Kambli. Their son Kavi Fine was born in 2005. From May 2007 to August 2008 Mr. Fine was on sabbatical drawing toy cars and wooden blocks, reading books by Walter Mosley, and watching Food Network.
Go to aaronfineart.com for more information, images, etc.
Her A.B. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology is from Bryn Mawr College. She has also done National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes/Workshops at the East West Center/University of Hawai'i and at the University of Notre Dame.
Shoaff-Ballanger’s own work focuses on imagery expressed thorough the medium of surface design. See her website for additional information and images of her work and that of her students.