Art News!
Summer Travel 2010: Spain
Volunteers Needed
K.C. Art Trip
2009-2010 Art Scholarships announced
ArtStor
High School Art Day at Washburn

Summer Travel Opportunity: Spain
“Spanish Art and Culture,” a 3 hr credit course with credit in Art or Spanish (AR 399 A/SP 399 A) will be offered in Summer Session 2010. This class is a WTE Option. Dates of travel are May 24-June 9, 2010. Faculty are Professor Edward Navone and Professor Karen Diaz Reátegui. This travel opportunity is also open to non-academic credit travelers. An informational meeting is planned for Friday, November 13, Garvey Fine Arts Bldg, Room 118 @ Noon. (It's okay to bring your “brown bag” lunch.) Come hear about where you will go, what you will see, cost estimates, travel arrangements, deadlines, etc. There will be slides at the meeting, presented by Professor Edward Navone.

Volunteers needed for variety of tasks for construction of sculpture

Volunteers are needed to assist in harvesting the saplings, leaf removal and construction of a site specific environmental sculpture to be created at Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University.
Assistance is needed Nov. 2-6, 9 -13 and 16-20 and volunteers will work 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 – 4 p.m. To sign up, contact Jan Bychinski at 785-670-2427.

Beginning Nov. 2, environmental sculptor Patrick Dougherty will expand the definition of creativity, one stick at a time.
    For three weeks (through Nov. 21), the North Carolina artist will develop a site specific tree-sapling sculpture in front of the Mulvane Art Museum on the Washburn University campus in Topeka. Through his unique vision, the artist will combine his affection for nature, carpentry skills and primitive building techniques to create one of his trademark sculptures inspired by the local environment. Once completed, the sculptures are typically willowy, whimsical and windblown-looking and tower over, or fold into, buildings, trees and other landscape elements.
    To create the sculpture, volunteers will harvest thousands of indigenous tree saplings in the Topeka area, which will then be brought to campus. Dougherty then begins to sketch out the lines of the structure using the saplings like a pencil on paper. The larger diameter saplings are imbedded in the ground and are used to form the armature of the sculpture. He employs the natural affinity of the branches to cling to each other without any wire, nails or clamps. Three layers of saplings are then woven onto the armature forming the skin of the piece with heavier branches used to emphasize lines and different colored branches to provide the shading.
    Although his sculptures are only temporary (most last two to three years) like the saplings from which they are created, they have a natural life cycle. Eventually the saplings become brittle, disintegrate, are reduced to compost and returned to the earth. 10/15/2009 —photo credit: James Fraher

Kansas City Art Trip
Art students and faculty visited Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Johnson Co. Community College) on a bus trip, Thurs., Oct. 22, 2009. 10/15/2009

Art Scholarship for New Students
Approximately $2000 is available for academic year 2009 - 2010

Exact number of scholarships and amounts will be determined by available
funds and applications. Deadline for application has passed.
Contact Glenda Taylor, Art Department Chair, with questions.

Mabee Library now subscribes to ARTstor! 
That means that faculty and students have full access, both on-campus and remote, to the full database of  over 1,000,000 images. Faculty can also have instructor privileges which creatation of electronic folders of images for research, classroom use, or student use. Users can also download images to PowerPoint files and much more.

Early in the fall semester Dean Corwin, Catalog Librarian and CPA Division Liaison, will offer ARTstor training for any interested faculty.  Meantime, explore ARTstor's searching features.  On campus you can connect directly to the service by going to www.ARTstor.org. For additional information contact Dean Corwin, ext. x1484.  

The Art Department held an open house Art Day on February 27, 2009, for area high school students and teachers. Participating schools included St. Mary's, Jeff Co North, Jeff Co West, Shawnee Heights, Washburn Rural, Maur Hill, Highland Park, Jackson Heights, and Rossville.
    Students were invited to bring one piece of artwork to display. Winners in various categories were chosen by Dr. Reinhild Janzen, Art Historian at Wsashburn University. The winners received small prizes from the Art Department.

Outstanding artworks were chosen in the following categories:

• 3-Dimensional Art: Christelle Karnowski from St. Mary's HS
• Painting: David Franzke from Shawnee heights HS
• Digital /Photo: Shauntae Rogers from Highland Park HS
• Drawing: Isaac Stallbamer from Shawnee Heights
• Printmaking: Alex Olson from Washburn Rurual HS
• Best in Show: Hilary Johnson (Digital Photo) from Washburn Rurual HS

Appproximately 100 students and teachers attended the Hisgh School Art
Day at WU. View photos from this event. -3/3/2009