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Mulvane Women's Board Scholarship 2010-11
High School Art Day at Washburn
Washburn Student Art Show 2010
Volunteers Used
K.C. Art Trip
ArtStor

Mulvane Women's Board Scholarship 2010-11
    Reminder:The Women’s Board Scholarship Committee will interview applicants on Friday afternoon Feb. 26, 2010 starting at 1:00 pm. Check with the Art Dept. Office for your assigned time to meet with the committee. 2/1/2010

High School Art Day at Washburn
Friday, February 5, 2010, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Washburn University Art Building

Regional High School students and art instructors were invited to visit WU's art department for a day of fun, friends, and learning.

Students took various workshops with Washburn's Art Faculty, visited the Mulvane Art Museum, met peers from other high schools as well as Washburn students, and displayed their own artwork in our John R. Adams Gallery. We offered workshops in Ceramics, Photography, Digital Arts, Sculpture, Bookmaking, Painting, and more. Each member of our faculty is a working, exhibiting, and nationally known artist, and we truly enjoyed the energy and potential high school students bring to our department.

View a photo summary of the 2009 event. 1/16/2010

Washburn Art Student Exhibition,
2010 Prospectus

Eligibility Washburn Art Students enrolled in art classes during 2009 and 2010 may enter up to four original works of art produced in that time. Works of art must be completed at the time of entry. Students must meet all listed deadlines and requirements in order to participate.

Juror The Juror for the Washburn Art Student Exhibition is Dr. Royce Smith, Assistant Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wichita State University. To learn more about Dr. Smith, visit his web page at www.wichita.edu and follow the links.

Eligible Media Any medium that is taught in the Art Department qualifies for this exhibit. Works of art may not weigh over 100 pounds, exceed 8 running feet (wall area) in length, 8 feet in height, or exceed a floor space area of 6' x 6'. If you have a series of pieces, the total running wall space remains 8'.

Entry Format Artists may submit up to four entries on a CD. The images must not exceed 2 MBs with a JPEG format only. The images should be 5” x 7” with a resolution of 300 dpi. Three dimensional works may be represented with two views of each entry. The following information must be included in the titles of each image: name of artist, title, medium, size, year art was made, and instructor. Each image should be numbered and an annotated image list must accompany the CD (see example).

Entry Deadline Images must be submitted to the Mulvane Workroom (Room 12, Garvey) or the Mulvane Office on February 8th no later than 4:00 pm.

Notification of Acceptance A list of accepted work will be posted outside of the Art Department's and Mulvane's offices by 5:00 PM on March 2nd (Tuesday).

Conditions of Acceptance Accepted works may not be removed from the exhibition prior to the closing date of June 6th, 2010. Entry into the exhibit grants copyright permission to reproduce work for publicity purposes only.

Delivery of Work All accepted work must be delivered to the Mulvane's first floor galleries on March 25th and 26th between the hours of 9 am – 12 pm and 1 – 5 pm. The work must be complete, framed and ready to install (wired, hooks, etc…)

Retrieval of Accepted work All works accepted must be retrieved from the Mulvane's galleries on June 7th (Monday) between the hours of 9 am – 12 pm and 1 – 5 pm. If you cannot pick up your work at this time, please make arrangements with someone who can. Our lack of storage space requires this condition.

Special Conditions Participating students are required to attend a Museum Studies Workshop. Students may choose a time at either 4:00 pm or 5:00 pm in the Museum. DO NOT matt or frame your art, or create displays for 3-D works until you have attended this class. Specific instructions will be given at that time, and students will sign up for a time to install their art work. Students unable to attend this workshop must contact Michael Hager at 670-2426. Students will install their own art with the assistance of Mulvane Art Museum's Staff during the week of March 29 - April 1.

The Mulvane Art Museum reserves the right to withhold installation of art that does not meet the deadlines and/or criteria for inclusion in this exhibition.


Washburn Art Student Exhibition, 2010
Prospectus Calendar

February 8 Images must be submitted to the Mulvane Workroom (Room 12, Garvey) or the Mulvane Office on February 8th no later than 4:00 pm. Guidelines for image submission, according to standards, are presented in the prospectus. Submissions that do not follow these standards will not be reviewed.

March 2 Notification of Juror's choices will be posted outside the Mulvane office and the Art Department Office by 5:00 pm.

March 9 Participating students are required to attend a Museum Studies Workshop. Students may choose a time at either 4:00 pm or 5:00 pm in the Museum. DO NOT matt or frame your art, or create displays for 3-D works until you have attended this class. Specific instructions will be given at that time, and students will sign up for a time to install their art work. Students unable to attend this workshop must contact Michael Hager, phone 670-2426 or e-mail.

March 25 & 26 Completed art must be delivered to the Museum's first floor gallery during 9:00 am to noon, and 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm on these days. Works of art maybe delivered prior to these dates by making arrangements with Michael Hager, phone 670-2426 or e-mail.

Mar. 29 - April 1 Students will install their own art with the assistance of Mulvane Art Museum's Staff.

April 2 Opening reception 5:00 – 8:00 pm in the Museum. Opening remarks will be at 5:30 pm.

June 7 Art must be picked up in the Museum from 9 am – 12 pm and 1 – 5 pm. Art works must be picked up at this time due to the lack of storage space.

Example of CD image, image title and annotated image list

1. Karl Schmidty, Puppy,
   Drawing, 12 x 14, 2009,
   Ye Wang
2. Karl Schmidty, Kitty,
   Drawing, 12 x 14, 2009
   Ye Wang

Annotated image list (the number in front of the entry corresponds to the number in the title of the image)
1. Karl M. Schmidty (as you want your name to appear in the label), Puppy, charcoal drawing on board, 12” X 14” (height X length, including matt and frame), 2009, Ye Wang
2. Karl M. Schmidty, Kitty, charcoal and conté drawing, 12” X 14”, 2009, Ye Wang
…and so on.

The sizes of 3-dimensional work should be given in height X length X depth. 1/16/2010

Volunteers used
Volunteers were used to assist in harvesting the saplings, leaf removal and construction of a site specific environmental sculpture created at Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University. Beginning Nov. 2, environmental sculptor Patrick Dougherty expanded the definition of creativity, one stick at a time.
    For three weeks (through Nov. 21), the North Carolina artist developed 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 combined his affection for nature, carpentry skills and primitive building techniques to create one of his trademark sculptures inspired by the local environment. 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 harvested thousands of indigenous tree saplings in the Topeka area and brought them to campus. Dougherty then began 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

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.