West Liberty Art students travel abroad
April 17, 2011 by art
West Liberty University has provided three art students the opportunity to travel overseas. Art Education major Sara Cunningham recently visited Italy with the WLU Education program. The visit started with a music school in Fiesole near Florence. There she observed Professor Yakkey’s Method in music. This method is a new way to teach students, young and old, how to read music. Also while in Italy they toured a private...
Read more of this articleAnnual Art trip to NYC
March 14, 2011 by art
It is time for WLU Art Faculty and students to spend five days in the art capitol of the world, New York City. Highlight from past trips include a visit to the legendary Pushpin Studios to meet design icon Seymour Chwast, walking tour and artist studio visits in DUMBO and seeing Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle at the Guggenheim museum. Other activities include museum visits, gallery visits in Manhattan and Brooklyn,...
Read more of this articleAIGA Field Trip to Commonwealth Press
February 7, 2011 by art
18 members of West Liberty’s AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) student group recently took a tour of Commonwealth Press in Pittsburgh’s South Side. Dan Rugh, proprietor, gave a spellbinding tour of his screen printing business. The company prides itself in making high quality custom screen prints for shirts, signs, and anything else that ink adheres to, except, apparently, wine corks. Here are some great...
Read more of this article2011 International Technology, Education and Development Conference
January 26, 2011 by art
Associate Professor of Graphic Design Jim Haizlett will be making an oral paper presentation at the 2011 International Technology, Education and Development Conference – (www.inted2011.org) in Valencia, Spain on March 7 – 9. The goal of INTED2011 is to promote international collaboration in Education and Research in all educational fields and disciplines. The conference provides the opportunity to present and discuss...
Read more of this articleWest Virginia Art & Craft Guild’s 8th Competition exhibition
January 23, 2011 by art
The 8th biennial West Virginia Arts and Craft Guild ‘s Exhibition opened at the Wheeling Artisan Center. Faculty members, Nancy Tirone, Robert Villamagna and Brian Fencl are participating in the juried exhibition. The show started at the Parkersberg Arts Center, traveled to the Wheeling Artisan Center and wraps up in Beckley, WV. Photo by Jolene Craig for the Parkersberg News and Sentinal Read More →
Read more of this article(I’ve Got a Secret)
January 23, 2011 by art
Interim Department Chair Brian Fencl has a watercolor included in (I’ve Got a Secret) on display at the Forbes Galleries in NYC. A New Abraham was originally exhibited as part of the annual art faculty exhibition in the Nutting Gallery located in the Hall of Fine Arts. About the show the curators wrote, “Everybody loves to get in on a secret…and every artist is holding something back. This exhibition...
Read more of this articlePaper, Rock, Scissors
January 19, 2011 by art
Rock, Paper, Scissors opens at 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Nutting Art Gallery on January 19th, 2011. The theme this year was voted on by WLU Art faculty and each piece in the exhibition reflects on that theme. Associate Professor of Art Brian Fencl approached the theme this way, “Rock, Paper, Scissors, is a game of selection. In several of my pieces I focused on the game itself and in the other paintings I focused...
Read more of this articleSculpture II students join the parade
November 20, 2010 by art
Students in Professor Bob Villamagna’s Sculpture II class created and marched a large elephant puppet in the 2010 Wheeling “Fantasy In Lights Parade.” The design of the puppet was inspired by Salvador Dali’s surrealist masterpiece “Les Elephants.” The project was designed, built and marched through the streets of Wheeling by WLU students under the direction of Professor’s Robert Villamagna...
Read more of this articleThe Art of Brian Fencl at West Virginia State University
November 10, 2010 by art
Brian Fencl, Power Over Resources, oil on panel, 2010 The art of Brian Fencl, Assistant Professor of Art at West Liberty University is on display in the Della Brown Taylor Gallery on the campus of West Virginia State University. Kate Long of the Charleston Gazette and West Virginia Public Radio said about Brian Fencl’s work, “The guy is funny and thoughtful and irreverent. He’s political in the broad...
Read more of this articleAIGA Field Trip to Toonseum in Pittsburgh
October 9, 2010 by art
PITTSBURGH – West Liberty’s AIGA student group recently took a field trip to downtown Pittsburgh to visit Toonseum, SPACE Gallery, Wood Street Galleries, and the Contemporary Craft Society. Toonseum is one of three museums of cartooning in the United States. The students were given a tour of the history of cartooning and saw several examples of early animation. Creighton Hill, Graphic Design senior and AIGA...
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