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| Welcome to the College of Arts and Humanities News page.
Read about the many achievements of our faculty, students, staff,
and alumni. Submit your own good news if you are a current or former
college member. |
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| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Justin Sanders | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Justin Sanders recieved the 2008 Raymond A. Smith Award for Achievement in Scholarship for his essay entitled "Can Ethics be Regarded as Knowledge?" at the College of Arts and Humanities Banquet. |
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| Name: | Christopher Mayer, David Lambo, Cassandra Lea | Department: | Art |
| News: | Cassandra Lea, Christopher Mayer, and David Lambo received a Silver ADDY® Award in the 2008 Northwest ADDY® Awards Competition. They were awarded for their work titled "Imagination — Build Yours" a television commercial for Lego. The award they received was one of only 7 student awards and only 136 total awards given out, out of a pool of over 700 entrants. |
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| Name: | Chris Mayer | Department: | Art |
| News: | Chris Mayer received two Gold Chinook Addy Awards at the 2008 ADDY Chinook Awards held in Yakima. The award was for his portfolio web site and a billboard campaign he did for Gatorade. |
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| Name: | Tyler Johnson | Department: | Art |
| News: | Graphic Design student, Tyler Johnson is the brains behind this years summer session theme 'Rock Your Summer. 'The University Rockers' started in July '07 and pitched the notion to the Office of Contiuning Ed as a way to get students to pay attention to the program's benefits. The band's single "Rock Your Summer" will be aired on KCWU 88.1 The 'Burg! Way to go Tyler! |
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| Name: | Samantha Armitage | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Has been accepted and has accepted a position in the graduate program at Arizona State University where she will continue her studies in the field of Costume Design. |
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| Name: | Stephanie Collins | Department: | Art |
| News: | Stephanie Collins received a Gold Chinook Addy award at the 2008 ADDY Chinook Awards. She was awarded for her poster "Become a Professional" which was created for Career Services on behalf of the Publicity Center under the direction of Lola Gallagher. |
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| Name: | Jules Walker | Department: | Art |
| News: | Jules Walker received a Gold Chinook Addy Award at the 2008 ADDY Chinook Awards held in Yakima. The award was for her brochure "Wildcat Welcome Weekend" created on behalf of the Publicity Center under the direction of Lola Gallagher. |
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| Name: | Dan Steel | Department: | Art |
| News: | Dan Steel received a Silver Chinook Addy Award at the 2008 ADDY Chinook Awards in Yakima. He was awarded for his work "AIDS Prevention print campaign" created as a class project in Art 471, taught by Glen Bach. |
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| Name: | Majors in Philosophy and Religous Studies | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | The following Philosophy & Religious Studies Majors have had their research papers accepted for presentation at the 12th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 18-19, 2008, Forrest Grove, Oregon. They are:
Phillip Downes, "Refuting Moral Luck"
Casie Dunleavy, "What the World Needs Is a Moral Marx"
Travis Petersen, "Influences of Phenomenology and Logical Positivism on the Natural Sciences"
Ashley Goo, "Anarchy, State, and Utopia or a Life 'After Virtue': MacIntyre's Stand against Nozick's Position and Lack of Moral Desert"
Christian Mecham, "Cast Off Body and Mind: The Teachings of Buddhism as Applied to a Phenomenological Model"
They will present their papers at the conference.
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| Name: | Madeleine Cartwright | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | “PS – I Love You,” a 10-minute play by Madeleine Cartwright, a senior theatre arts performance major, was chosen for presentation at the 2008 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Region VII. In a field of nearly 70 scripts submitted to this year's contest, Maddie’s has been chosen as one of six to advance to the finals. The scripts were chosen by a panel of experts in Region II (mid-Atlantic region), who read the scripts "blind" (without any knowledge of the authors or schools who submitted). At this year's festival in Laramie, WY, award-winning student directors will cast and rehearse the plays, which will then be presented as staged readings. The winners of the regional 10-minute Play Contests are eligible to participate in a similar process at the National KCACTF Festival in Washington, DC in April. |
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| GRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Ian Stacy | Department: | History |
| News: | Ian Stacy has won this year's Best Overall Paper prize from the Phi Alpha Theta Northwest regional conference for his paper entitled "Under an Atomic Sky: Origins of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's Infamous Green Run." As a result of winning this award, Ian is now able to present this work at the AHA-PCB conference, to be held in August in Pasadena. So congratulations to Ian!
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| Name: | Justin Beckman | Department: | Art |
| News: | Justin Beckman will be showing his MFA exhibition titled "Town and Country" at CWU's Sarah Spurgeon Gallery. It will be showing from May 21 to May 30 and will be having an opening reception on May 21 from 6-8p.m. For more information contact the gallery at 963-2665 |
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| Name: | David Weed | Department: | Art |
| News: | David Weed will be showing his MFA Thesis Exhibition at Studio E in Seattle.The exhibition titled "18 Signs" will have an opening reception onf Thursday May 1 from 5-9 p.m. For more information email brothersweed@yahoo.com |
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| Name: | Tamara Caulkins | Department: | History |
| News: | Tamara presented her poster “Science, Art, and the Perception of Nature: Maria Sybilla Merian and Alexander von Humboldt in the New World” at the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting in Boise ID, March 2008.
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| Name: | Alex Chaney | Department: | Art |
| News: | Alex Chaney won first place in jewelry at the Yuma Symposium in AZ. She was awarded for her work titled Repel:Aprilophobia'. To see her and others work visit http://www.pvartcenter.org/exhibitions.html
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| Name: | Jessica Pribula | Department: | Art |
| News: | Jessica Pribula exhibited her work at the 53nd Annual Central WA Artists' Exhibition. This is located at the Larson Gallery, Yakima Valley Community College. Her work will be showing from November 3 to December 8, 2007 |
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| Name: | Alexandra Chaney | Department: | Art |
| News: | Alexandra Chaney exhibited her work at the 53nd Annual Central WA Artists' Exhibition. This is located at the Larson Gallery, Yakima Valley Community College. Her work will be showing from November 3 to December 8, 2007 |
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| Name: | Justin Beckman | Department: | Art |
| News: | Seattle's PUNCH Gallery is hosting Justin Beckman's 'Homestead' installation September 6-30 with the artist in attendance the first and final Saturday's of the month. For more information, please call 206.621.1945 or www.punchgallery.org. |
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| Name: | Alexandra Chaney, Justin Colt Beckman, Jessica Pribula & Genne Laakso | Department: | Art |
| News: | Gallery One Visual Art Center has a Juried Art Show This month, Opening Reception will be August 3, 5-7 PM for First Friday Art Walk remaining open through the month of August. Various Alumni, Faculty, and students are featured in this exhibition. |
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| Name: | Rachael Birks | Department: | History |
| News: | Rachael has recently been hired at Hanford High School, Richland, WA, for 2007-2008 to teach German and History. Congratulations Rachael. Rachael will also be defending her MA thesis "Dancing Cubanidad: Reconfiguring National Identity Through Fidel Castro's Cultural Project, 1959-73" on Thursday, July 20, 2007. |
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| FACULTY MEMBERS |
| Name: | Gary Weidenaar | Department: | Music |
| News: | Gary Weidenaar was engaged by the Mrs. Washington pageant, held June 21, 2008 in Moses Lake, to provide music. The pageant wanted the National Anthem and the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Dr. Weidenaar created an arrangement of the National Anthem for the pageant. Weidenaar also oversaw the hiring of a 32 piece orchestra of CWU students which recorded the Peter Wilhousky arrangement of the Battle Hymn under his direction, and hired a 12 voice choir comprised of selected CWU Chamber Choir members to sing live. |
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| Name: | Gary Weidenaar | Department: | Music |
| News: | Gary Weidenaar served as a rating judge for the traditional choir day at the Columbia Basin College Festival in the Tri-Cities. |
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| Name: | Demaris Garceau | Department: | English |
| News: | Demaris Garceau finished her Master of Science in Resource Management in 2007. Since fall of 1995, she has been teaching writing and literture courses at Oregon State University, and the History of Science and Technology at Linn Benton Community College. At OSU, Demaris has taught Media Writing 201, Business Writing 214, Style in Composition 323, and Technical Writing 327. She also taught a course in Latin American and Caribbean Literature. Lately, she mostly teaches the Technical Writing courses, which she enjoys as she works with students in engineering, the sciences, education, and arts and humanities. She is still working on a novella and developing her prose poems. This year, she participated in creating a collaborative sculpture for Da Vinci Days in Corvallis, Oregon, and is planning to work on another collaborative kinetic sculpture for next year's Da Vinci Days. (Check out Da Vinci Days on the web--very cool!) |
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| Name: | Bret Smith | Department: | Music |
| News: | Dr. Bret Smith was one of three faculty members selected by the Professional Education Advisory Board to receive a 2008 Crystal Apple award for service to teacher education. |
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| Name: | Mark Lane | Department: | Music |
| News: | Mark Lane just began his two year term as President of the Washington Music Education Association. During his term he will represent Washington State at the National Assembly and will be involved in National policy decisions involving music education in addition to leading the State Association. |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett has been accepted into the 2008 APA/AAPT Graduate Teaching Seminar, August 7th-10th, at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The seminar, which is for current or recent graduate students, and is run by the American Philosophical Association and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, is limited to 20 participants. |
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| Name: | Vijay SIngh | Department: | Music |
| News: | Vijay Singh adjudicated over 30 high school choirs in the Boise area April 15-16, 2008. Other adjudications this quarter included the Puyallup school district high school division and Wenatchee district high school divisions. Singh also performed the bass solos in CWU's production of the Beethoven 9th Symphony May 18th, 2008 as part of the Presidential Concert Series. |
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| Name: | Chenyang Li | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Chenyang Li, Philosophy and Religious Studies, published a paper "The Ideal of Harmony in Ancient Chinese and Greek Philosophy" in the journal Tao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, VII.1 (March 2008). In the same issue he also published a book review of Daniel Bell's Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asia in Context (a CHOICE 2007 Best Academic Title). |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Heidi Szpek was awarded the College of Arts and Humanities 2008 Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Heidi Szpek delivered a presentation entitled “Grodno Gubernya Poland Imaging Project: An Introduction to the contributions of Jewish Epitaphs to the Humanities” at the Pacific Northwest Society of Biblical Literature 2008 at George Fox University, May 2-4, 2008. |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Heidi Szpek's paper “He Walked Upon a Wooden Leg: Epitaphs and Acrostic Poems on Jewish Tombstones”, presented at the Legacy of the Holocaust Conference 2007 at the Jagiellionian University, Krakow, Poland (May 24-26, 2007), has been accepted for publication by the Jagiellionian University Press in the peer reviewed conference proceedings.
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett's paper "An Argument Against Spanking" has been accepted to two conferences: the 2nd Annual Felician Ethics Conference (Felician College, Lodi, NJ; May 3rd 2008), and the 25th International Social Philosophy Conference (University of Portland, Portland, OR; July 17th-19th, 2008). |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett's article, "On the Correct Treatment of Inverted Earth", has been accepted for publication in the journal Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett's article, "Whither Internalism? How Internalists Should Respond to the Extended Mind Hypothesis" has been published in the journal Metaphilosophy (Vol. 39 No. 2, April 2008). |
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| Name: | Dr. Bret Smith | Department: | Music |
| News: | Dr. Bret Smith recently attended the Music Educators National Conference Biennial Inservice Conference in Milwaukee WI, where he served as member of the Music Educators Journal editorial committee and chaired meetings and panel discussions for the Special Research Interest Group on Asseesment. Dr. Smith recently presented at the Washington Music Educators Association annual conference. He has been invited to contribute a chapter on motivation in music to the upcoming MENC Handbook of Music Learning published by Oxford University Press. He is also one of the organizers of SynergiaNW, a benefit concert bringing classical and contemporary artists from the Northwest together to benefit youth music causes, to occur in spring of 2010. |
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| Name: | Jason Knirck | Department: | History |
| News: | Jason Knirck's SEED grant has been approved by the Faculty Development and Research Committee for Summer 2008. Jason's research is on "Enemies Within and Without: Cumann na nGaedheal Under Siege, 1922-23," his next book. |
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| Name: | Gary Weidenaar | Department: | Music |
| News: | Gary Weidenaar served as adjudicator/clinician for the Eastern Washington Music Educator's Association (EWMEA) large group festival held at Spokane Falls Community College March 24-27, 2008. Working with a team of three other adjudicators, Weidenaar provided taped comments and ratings for 43 choirs during the four-day festival, while providing clinics for 25 of the choirs. About half of the clinics were 15 minute sessions on stage. The other half of the clinics were 25 minute sessions in a rehearsal room, and included strategies for sight reading as well as working on the performed pieces.
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| Name: | Gary Weidenaar | Department: | Music |
| News: | Gary Weidenaar served as a guest clinician for two Boise, Idaho high schools on Mon. & Tues., March 17 & 18, 2008. On Monday, Weidenaar worked with 4 choirs at Centennial High School, and was guest clinician for their pre-festival concert in the evening. On Tuesday, he worked with three choirs at Eagle High School. |
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| Name: | Gary Weidenaar | Department: | Music |
| News: | Gary Weidenaar served as an adjudicator for the Columbia Basin Music Educators Association (CBMEA) large group festival held at Kamiakin High School in the Tri-Cities on March 20, 2008. The one-day festival included 19 choirs. Weidenaar rated and provided taped comments to all 19 choirs, and gave separate half-hour clinics to seven of the choirs. |
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| Name: | Brian Goeltzenleuchter | Department: | Art |
| News: | Brian Goeltzenleuchter, along with other artists, will be displaying their work titled "3D Multiples: the object of production." Their work is being shown at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA. It is showing from March 7 to March 29, 2008. For more information go to www.1708Gallery.org |
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| STAFF MEMBERS |
| Name: | Laura Reinstatler | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Has been hired to work as the Costume Shop Manager for Idaho Repertory Theatre's summer season. |
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| Name: | Veronica Gomez-Vilchis | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Veronica Gomez-Vilchis' and Lois Breedlove's proposal, "Empowering students through video and self-expression: A collaboration with Central Washington University and Wahluke School District," has been accepted for presentation at the National Conference on GEAR UP, July 2006. |
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| Name: | Dave Barnett | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | David Barnett recently attended two sound conferences in Dallas, Texas. The first was called "Sound Reinforcement for Operators," where Barnett learned to operate, adjust and troubleshoot sound systems in order to achieve the best sound quality possible. The second conference, "Sound Reinforcement for Technicians," focused on the assembly and installation of sound systems based on venue space and production requirements.
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| Name: | Leslee Caul | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | This years recipient of the CAH Staff Recognition Award, Leslee Caul, has established a thriving marketing department to support the Theatre Arts' degree programs and the productions of Central Theatre Ensemble, and launched a national ad campaign and marketing plan in 2005 that is causing quite a buzz both regionally and nationally. Caul was presented the award at a gathering of the college faculty and staff, hosted by CAH Dean Dr. Marji Morgan. Caul is a 1994 graduate of CWU's Department of English and has worked in the Department of Theatre Arts for 11 years. |
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| ALUMNI |
| Name: | Amanda Rubeck | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Has recently completed a successful costume/makeup internship with Seattle Rep and has now been hired at the Seattle Opera as a makeup artist for the upcoming production of "Aida." |
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| Name: | Emily Rollie | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Emily Rollie will be attending the University of Missouri in Columbia to begin work
on her PhD in theatre studies. |
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| Name: | Emily Rollie | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Former graduate teaching assistant and MA alum, Emily Rollie has been accepted to University of Missouri - Columbia's PhD program in theatre studies, beginning in August 2008. |
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| Name: | Renee Adams | Department: | Art |
| News: | Renee Adams and many others are showing their artwork at the Punch Gallery in Seattle. The exhibition is titled "Homegrown." It will be showing from May 1-June 1 with the opening reception on May 1 at 5p.m. For more information visit www.punchgallery.org |
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| Name: | Naomi Gray | Department: | Art |
| News: | First Friday Art Walk May 2nd, at Amazing Frames on 4th and Water St, will be Naomi's first solo show, please take an opportunity to visit this venue!
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| Name: | Holly O'Hara | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | has been offered and accepted a graduate assistantship at the University of Florida in scenic design. Her offer includes a full tuition waiver. At CWU her scenic work was seen most recently in the 2007 Youth Theatre Tour production of "Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede." |
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| Name: | Autumn Browne | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | is appearing in "Steel Magnolias," as M'Lynn Eatenton (the role played by Sally Field in the motion picture) at the Huntington Beach Playhouse, April 4-20. Browne received her MA in Theatre Production at CWU. |
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| Name: | Christopher Comte | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Christopher was recently appointed to the position of Facilities Manager for Annex Theatre, Seattle's longest-operating "fringe theatre" company, now completing its 21st season of production. In addition, Mr. Comte has recently completed his fifth season as Site Coordinator for the Kevin Hadley Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program for Performing Artists, and later this summer will celebrate his third anniversary as Membership Director for the Seattle Local of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the national union for professional broadcasters, recording artists, and television, radio, and new media performers. |
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| Name: | Jillian Vashro | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | has accepted an education internship with Seattle Children's Theatre, which she will begin in June 2008. Jillian says, "I wanted to thank you all again for all the support, encouragement and experience you've given me over the past few years. Thank you, thank you, thank you!" |
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| Name: | Justin Gibbens | Department: | Art |
| News: | Justin Gibbens, along with Amy Ross, will be showing their work titled "Animal Spell" at the Punch Gallery in Seattle, WA. Their work will be showing from April 3rd to April 27th, 2008. The opening reception will be on April 3rd from 5-8pm. For more information visit www.punchgallery.org |
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| Name: | 5th Annual Juried Art Exhibition | Department: | Art |
| News: | The 5th annual juried art exhibition will be taking place at the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery. It will be showing from May 5th to May 16th. May 16th will be the reception taking place from 6-8 p.m. with awards being given out at 7 p.m. For more information contact SAC at 963-3137 |
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| Name: | Sarah Spurgeon Gallery | Department: | Art |
| News: | The Sarah Spurgeon Gallery will be having the 9th annual international Shoebox Sculpture exhibition. There will be a public reception on Friday, Jan 4th from 5-8pm. This will take place during the First Friday Art Walk. This exhibition will be open from January 5th-March 9th. Admission is free. Monday-Friday the gallery is open from 10am-3pm and on weekeneds from 1-4pm. For more information go to www.cwu.edu/~art/gallery.html |
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| Name: | Contance Speth | Department: | Art |
| News: | Constance Speth exhibited her work at the 53nd Annual Central WA Artists' Exhibition. This is located at the Larson Gallery, Yakima Valley Community College. Her work will be showing from November 3 to December 8, 2007. She also won the Excellence in Drawing Award. This was for her work titled "Light Filled Passage". |
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| Name: | Punch Gallery | Department: | Art |
| News: | Punch Gallery and SOIL, located in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle, present an international juried exhibition taking place December 2007. Artists from any country may submit work in any medium. In addition to tradtional 2-D and 3-D works, artists are encouraged to submit work in new media, video, sound, or installation. It will be juried by Eric Fredericksen, Director of Western Bridge. Deadline: Oct. 15, 2007. Submit at www.punchgallery.org |
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| Name: | Joanna Thomas | Department: | Art |
| News: | Joanna Thomas will be showing her work titled "100 Horses in a Landscape & Other Collages" at the Punch Gallery in Seattle, WA. It will be showing from October 4-28, 2007. The opening reception will be on Oct. 4th from 5-8pm. Janna will be in attendance the first and final Saturdays of the month. If you have any questions go to www.punchgallery.com or call 206-621-1945. |
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| Name: | AIGA | Department: | Art |
| News: | The AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts ) club has designed the program for the Asian Studies Development Nation Conference. |
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| Name: | Louis Kollmeyer | Department: | Art |
| News: | Louis Kollmeyer, emeritus professor, participated in the 51st Annual Central Washington Artists Exhibition, November 5 - December 9, 2006 at the Larson Gallery in Yakima. |
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| Name: | Student Art Council | Department: | Art |
| News: | November 18 2006, the Student Art Coucil (SAC) hosted the 7th annual Art Auction in the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery. This was a successful event and the money raised will be going to support this club. |
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| Name: | Scott Bailey | Department: | Art |
| News: | Scott Bailey showed his artwork, titled "Virtually Sublime" in the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, in Randall Hall. His artwork was on view until November 5, 2006. Additional information about Scott and his artwork can be seen at www.sbailey.us/ Admission to the gallery is free. It is open Mon.- Fri. from 10 am to 3 pm and Sat. and Sun. from noon to 3 pm. |
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| Name: | Joseph Scheer | Department: | Art |
| News: | Night Flyers, sponsored in part by the CWU Department of Art, depicted stunningly detailed large format IRIS prints 9/1/06-10/28/06 at the GALLERY ONE Visual Arts Center. |
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