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Archived Art News
 New art classes, fall semester 2006
Summer course 2006, trip to Paris
Ribbon-cutting, new art building
Taylor ceramics featured on calendar
New design foundations asst. professor
New Catron professor
Art faculty show 2004
Several new art courses offered Fall 2006
The Art Department offered several new courses and special opportunities for
Washburn Students. Catron Professor Betsy Roe taught a 1 credit hour course
on Papermaking with Kansas plants She also offered a special topics class on
Fibers: Paper, Baskets & Dye. Two other new courses are AR 359, The Business of Art, co-taught by Michael Stoica of the School of Business and Dennis Baranski, local art appraiser and marketer. Dr. Reinhild Janzen offered AR 116/316 Art in Health.
Summer course to Paris
May 30 - June 14, 2006
The Art Department offered a summer course in Paris; travel dates weree May 30-June 14. Trip was led by Reinhild Janzen.
Ribbon-cutting, new art building / J une 21, 2005
— also read news coverage on-line and in the Topeka Capital-Journal
Taylor ceramics featured on calendar
 Glenda Taylor, chair of Washburn's Art Department, has a ceramic teapot, "Wind-worn Teapot, 2000," featured as the March color photograph in the 2005 calendar of the U.S. Department of State's ARTS in Embassies Program. The 2005 calendar was published by the U.S. Department of State's Regional Program Office, Vienna.
The accompanying description explains that Taylor work takes inspiration from the natural world: "It reflects both my personal history of living on the Kansas prairie and the geologic history of the land itself. Elements of the landscape—textures of wind and water erosion, fossils, or furrows of cultivation—express forces that have left their marks on the prairie landscape through time. The textures and marks are used in combination with utilitarian forms, alluding to the history of human interaction with clay as well as the history of clay as an element of the land."
New design foundations assistant professor
Marguerite Perret, former Catron Professor at Washburn. Marguerite brings a strong interest in teaching fundamentals of design as well as teaching experience to the position. We look forward to revising our design curriculum under Marguerite's guidance.
New Catron professor
The Art Department and the Mulvane Art Museum have also hired a new Catron professor.
Betsy Knabe Roe,
from Columbia, Missouri, has a MFA in fibers from UM-Columbia. She has
experience working with a variety of educational settings and student levels. Her work involves installations of paper and cloth sculptures. Betsy will teach a beginning design class in the fall
semester 2005 and an advanced class in her area of expertise in spring 2006. We look forward to adding more fiber techniques to our curriculum next year.
Art Faculty Show 2004
Mulvane Art Museum, Oct. 16-Dec. 5This biennial showcased the work of Washburn art faculty.
Photos by Glenda Taylor, Department Chair
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