Art & Art History

Two students in the Department of Art & Art History, Kim Krausert (BFA candidate in Art Education) and Jennifer Minnis (BFA candidate in painting), have work in juried group exhibitions in the southeast. Kim is showing work, including “Winter Has Arrived” (above left) in Bellwethers 2019, the 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition of Collegiate Student Art […]

Decorative Artist, Leo Dowell Designs

Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis will serve as an artist-in-residence in a research project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project, “Quantifying climate-dependent subcritical cracking and mechanical weathering over geologic time,” will be led by Professor Missy Eppes in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, with Professor Russ […]

Three professors in the Department of Art & Art History have published new books this year. Associate Professor of Art Education Jane E. Dalton recently published a co-edited book, The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina (October 2019) with Rowman and Littlefield publishers. Her artwork also appears on the cover […]

Three art students and Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis received an invitation to participate in the Gorée Diaspora Festival in Senegal, Africa, November 17-29. The annual international art festival was established to promote links through art and cultural exchange between Senegal and the descendants of the slaves forced to leave Africa from Gorée Island. […]

Works by painting professors Andrew Leventis and Maja Godlewska appear in the exhibition The World Without Us at A.P.T. Gallery London. The show opens October 25 and runs through November 10. The World Without Us considers the role of the painter in the contemporary digital world through the work of six contemporary international artists: Phillip […]

Work by Associate Professor of Art Thomas Schmidt will be in exhibition at The Mint Museum as part of the museum’s Young Affilliates’ fourth annual Coined in the South exhibition. The juried exhibition, which features established and emerging artists from the Southeast, will be on view at the museum’s uptown location from October 10 through […]

Associate Professor of Illustration Jamie Franki designed the official medal for the 2019 American Numismatic Association (ANA) Chicago World’s Fair of Money. Held August 13-17 in Rosemont, Illinois, it was the ANA’s 128th Anniversary Convention. The medal features Abraham Lincoln framed by stalks of wheat inspired by the “wheat” penny on its obverse; the reverse […]

Two alumni of the Department of Art & Art History are featured artists in local exhibitions this fall. Works by Alexandra Giannell are in Surreal Spaces, a month-long contemporary art exhibition at Goodyear Arts in the Camp North End campus. The show, curated by Hilary Silber Art, features work from seven artists whose artistic practices […]

In July, digital media professors Heather Freeman and Jeff Murphy participated in the “Truth and Reconciliation” artist residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Over a 15-month period, from September 2018 through November 2019, the “Truth and Reconciliation” residency is bringing together 70 artists, creative practitioners, content experts, and innovative thinkers from all over the […]