Deborah Luster, noted photographer, will present a public lecture about her creative work at the Springfield Art Museum auditorium at 6 pm on Tuesday, April 3. The image that accompanies this release is from Luster's series: Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish. The circle of the lens that masks these images relates to the scope of a gun as it … [Read more...]
https://youtu.be/ykHfYjwmwGE If someone gave you an item from the past and asked you to identify where it came from and how it was used, where would you start? This is the challenge students took on in the courses Art of the Americas and Art of Mesoamerica. Dr. Billie Follensbee assigned objects to each student, charging them to use careful research, contextualization and … [Read more...]
Emeritus professor Rodney Frew died on June 28 after a long period of declining health. Frew received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas in 1962. In 1963, he was appointed assistant professor at Missouri State. In the spring of 1970, he attended the University of Iowa for post-graduate study. He retired from Missouri State after 34 years of teaching and … [Read more...]
Congratulations to Sarah Perkins! Her work is currently featured on the Missouri State research page. Here's a snippet: Alchemy. The ancient desire to exchange the commonplace for the extraordinary -- an impulse as understandable as it is unreachable. But art and design professor Sarah Perkins has mastered a process that turns plain material into a shimmering work of … [Read more...]
The Council on General Education and Interdisciplinary Programs (CGEIP) has selected Dr. Mitzi Kirkland-Ives for the 2017 General Education Assessment Award for her leadership in assessment for improvement and for employing effective and innovative practices to help students achieve success in general education in ART 274: Survey of Asian Art. In 2016-2017, CGEIP reviewed … [Read more...]