Art News!

Art Scholarships Available, 1-10-12 deadline
Faculty and Courses News, Fall 2011

Art Scholarhips Available, 1-10-12 deadline

The Art Department has some unclaimed scholarship money for spring 2012
that we want to award to deserving Art majors. If you are a full-time
art major and are not currently on art scholarship, you are eligible.
Please submit a digital portfolio of 10 artworks on CD and a letter of
request for scholarship outlining your need and art goals. These items
are due in the Art Department by Jan 10. We hope to award three $1500
scholarships for spring semester only.

Faculty & Courses News, Fall 2011

There is a variety of news concerning departmental plans for Fall Semester 2011:

First, Dr. Janzen will be back this fall to teach just one course, AR
300 Art Criticism, Wed, 1:00-3:45.  Here is your opportunity to take
advantage of her unique knowledge and teaching for (maybe) the last time.
We have hired Carla Tilghman for one year as our full-time Art
Historian.  She will be teaching her 2 on-line courses and AR 304
Renaissance Art, AR 312 Research in Art History, and AR 101A Survey of
Art History I.

Also joining our faculty is a new graphic designer, Brian Bookwalter. 
Brian has his MFA from KSU and has 8 years professional experience as a
graphic and web designer in Manhattan and Topeka.  Brian will be
teaching AR 399A Word and Image in Design on MW Mornings.  He describes
this course as, "a conceptual practices course. Through projects and
demonstrations the students will explore the relationships between
typography and images in design. These relationships will be used to
create memorable and expressive visual communication."  He's also
teaching AR 321 Photoshop I, "a foundation Photoshop course. Through
tutorial exercises, projects, and quizzes, students will become more
familiar with technical software practice as it relates to print media.
We will explore color and tonal relationships, photo retouching, and
image manipulation."  Brian is very excited to work with art students
and become part of the Washburn faculty.  He shares this about himself,
"I have lived in Kansas for 17 years and when I'm not designing I enjoy
running, football, and a nice grilled steak."

Our new Catron Professor, Jennifer Marsh, will be moving to Topeka this
month.  I'm sure you will all become familiar with her in her role as
WASA mentor and faculty member.  She'll be teaching a Design I course
this fall.

Mike Hager will be joining us as full-time faculty covering both
sculpture and printmaking.  We will take full advantage of Mike's
experience and skills as a full-time faculty member.

This will be an exciting year and we look forward to welcoming studentsl
back to campus.

If you have questions about courses or enrollment, please contact Glenda Taylor, department chair, Sharafy, or Becky Shaffer, our secretary. Their e-mail links are available on our Faculty web page. We'll all be happy to assist you. 7/18/2011