Art Auction for Scholarships
July 27, 2011 by art
Friday, August 26, 2011 The College of Arts and Communication will be holding a fundraiser, “Art in the Park” on August 26 to benefit the Robert Villamagna Jr. Memorial Scholarship for Art Therapy at WLU. This scholarship was created to raise money to honor the memory of Professor Robert Villamagna’s late son who tragically passed away a few years ago in car accident. Professor Villamagna is a faculty...
Read more of this articleAdvancing the Arts in Education
June 14, 2011 by art
AEI and West Liberty University partner to create new center The Appalachian Education Initiative and West Liberty University are pleased to announce a new partnership which will result in the creation of an arts and education center on the West Liberty campus. The Center will be a collaboration between AEI and the Colleges of Education and Arts and Communication at the University. The Center will...
Read more of this articleSenior Exhibition 2011
April 17, 2011 by art
The spring 2011 Senior Exhibition opens Wednesday, April 20th. This years show features the work of graduating seniors Amanda Kerns, Ben Rush, Katelyn Gagich, Sara Rowan, Christian Townes, Chris Lovell and Creighton Hill. The show will feature a mix of styles and techniques and is expected to be one of the most interesting gallery shows of the year. The gallery opening is Wednesday April 20th from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and the show...
Read more of this articleWest 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 articleExtreme Art 2011
April 12, 2011 by art
Extreme Art 2011 is quickly approaching. April 14th from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. the Hall of Fine Arts will be buzzing with extreme art making, extreme creativity and extreme fun! The annual all night art event is an opportunity to try something new, hangout with faculty and students in a relaxed manner, enter a contest or two and create from sunset to sunrise. The events this year include: Professor Padgett’s awesome...
Read more of this articleFran Skiles
March 21, 2011 by art
The sophisticated collages of Fran Skiles go on display in the Nutting Gallery at West Liberty University. She creates abstract landscapes that captures nature’s essence. Fran lives half the year in West Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and her work records the “essence” of the beauty that surrounds her. Fran Skiles earned a BFA in 1964 from West Virginia University and has exhibited around the country, including...
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 articleHuber Marionettes in Kelly Theater
February 21, 2011 by art
The Huber Marionettes: Phillip Huber, a world-renowned “marionette artist,” is most widely known for his work in the 3-time Academy Award nominated film BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. Phillip’s stage credits feature BUSKER ALLEY starring Tommy Tune, IT’S MAGIC starring Harry Anderson, THAT’S CHRISTMAS starring Sandy Duncan, CHRISTMAS WITH FRIENDS & NABORS starring Jim Nabors, and THE ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD with Tony-winning...
Read more of this articleExhibition, Presentation and Workshop
February 10, 2011 by art
Incised, Gouged and Pulled, printmaking by Keith Dull and Amanda Presser opens in the Nutting Gallery February 16th, 2011. Keith Dull is an Associate Professor of Art at Ashland University in Ohio. Keith’s work is mainly linocut and he will be discussing his work and technique Monday, February 14th February 16-March 17, 2011 in room 209 in the Hall of Fine Arts at 2 p.m. Amanda Presseur will be conducting a monoprint/monotype...
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...
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