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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
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| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS |
| 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: | Christopher Mayer, David Lambo, Cassandra Lea | Department: | Art |
| News: | David Lambo, Cassandra Lea, and Christopher Mayer received the "Best of Show Award" at the 2008 ADDY Chinook Awards held in Yakima. They were awarded for their work titled "Lego" a television commercial created as a class project for 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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| Name: | Matt Milton | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | I just wanted to let you know that I was recently hired on as the technical theatre and design instructor at Renton High School and have also been brought on as the Technical Director at the IKEA Performing Arts Center, our performance space which doubles as a very busy rental theater. Right now I am very busy developing a brand-new curriculum and managing the theater. There is no drama program here, but hopefully next year I will be helping to get that started up again as well. Also, as you may know, I got married last August and (big news) now my wife and I are expecting our first child this June! Yeah, life for me is a little bit exciting. I miss everyone at CWU and am so thankful for the knowledge I gained in ALL areas of theatre while I was there, I use it every day! I hope all is well there, I hope to come over sometime before the end of the year so I will have to stop in. |
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| Name: | Tyler Killam | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Tyler Killam, a History Ed major and Religious Studies minor was awarded a scholarship from the Scottish Rite of Washington for the 2007-2008 academic year. |
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| Name: | Sean Guffy | Department: | Art |
| News: | Photography student, Sean Guffy has photos on exhibition at Wine Works in Ellensburg for the month of October. He has been showing his work at the local Starbucks and Cascade Land Conservancy, with more to come. Please make an opportunity to visit Wine Works and see the exhibition this month. |
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| Name: | Laurel Ebanal | Department: | Art |
| News: | Photography student Laurel Ebenal won 1st prize of $10,000 for her digital photograph, "Faun" through VSA arts. The photo will be on display in the S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington DC from mid-September through Mid-November in the "Driven" Exhibition co-sponsored by Volkeswagen of America, Inc. For more information please reference the following web pages: http://www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/Ripley.asp for the exhibition, www.vsarts.org for more information. |
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| GRADUATE STUDENTS |
| 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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| Name: | Rachael Birks | Department: | History |
| News: | Rachael Birks won this year's Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Region "Best Overall Paper" prize for an extract from her MA thesis entitled "Dancing Cubanidad: Reconfiguring National Identity Through Fidel Castro's Cultural Project, 1959-1973." This means she gets funded by PAT to present this paper at the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA conference in Honolulu at the end of July.
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| Name: | Albert Miller | Department: | History |
| News: | Al has received the College of Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholarship Achievement Award for his work titled "Aspects of British Identity as Exhibited in Accounts of Russia by British Visitors." The award comes with a certificate and cash award of $150. He was acknowledged at the CAH banquet on May 15. |
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| Name: | Ellicia Mertens | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Ellicia Mertens, MA third year candidate and director at Richland High, received five nominations for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, including Outstanding Set Design, Outstanding Hair and Make-up Design, Outstanding Costume Design (honorable mention,) Outstanding Program Design, and Outstanding Performance for an Actress in a Lead Role (Lauren Smith as the Narrator).
Eighty productions entered this year, making this is a huge honor for all those nominated. More info can be found at the 5th Avenue web page, http://www.5thavenue.org/education/highschoolawards-2007.aspx
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| FACULTY MEMBERS |
| 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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| Name: | Stephen Moore | Department: | History |
| News: | Stephen Moore has been chosen by the Awards Committee of the Washington State Historical Society's Board of Trustees to receive the Charles Gates Award for the best article, "Cross-Border Crusades: The Binational Temperance Movement in Washington and British Columbia," to appear in the PACIFIC NORTHWEST QUARTERLY in 2007. He has been invited to be their guest at the Washington State Historical Society's Annual Awards Luncheon at noon on June 21, 2008, at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. |
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| Name: | Nikolas Caoile | Department: | Music |
| News: | Nikolas Caoile, Director of Orchestras, has been selected as one of 40 conductors to compete at the 9th Cadaques Conducting Competition in Spain. The winner of the competition will be awarded a cash prize and will be engaged to conduct over 30 European orchestras over the course of the next three years. |
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| Name: | Jon Hamar | Department: | Music |
| News: | In January Jon Hamar was awarded a Golden Ear Award for Emerging Artist by Earshot. Earshot is a Seattle based jazz organization that each year gives awards citing extraordinary achievment in the field of Jazz music in the Northwest region. Jon is also celebrating the relaese of his new Cd Hereafter. Visit www.jonhamar.com to check it out. |
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| Name: | Larry Gookin | Department: | Music |
| News: | Professor Larry Gookin will be guest conductor of the APAC International Honor Band in Kobe, Japan this February. APAC is made up of six international schools; Brent International School Manila, Osaka International School and Canadian Academy Japan, Seoul Foreign School Korea, Shanghai American School and the International School of Beijing China.
Professor Gookin recently received news that he is the recipient of University of Oregon's 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award for the School of Music. He will be acknowledged during the University of Oregon's graduation ceremony this June in Eugene, Oregon. |
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| Name: | Matthew Altman | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Dr. Altman's article, "Kant on Sex and Marriage: The Implications for the Same-Sex Marriage Debate," has been accepted for publication by the journal Kant-Studien. |
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| Name: | Matthew Altman and Cynthia Coe | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Dr. Altman and Dr. Coe's co-authored article, "The Self as Creature and Creator: Fichte and Freud Against the Enlightenment," will appear later this year in the journal Idealistic Studies. |
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| Name: | Matthew Altman | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Dr. Altman's article, "The Significance of the Other in Moral Education: Fichte on the Birth of Subjectivity," will be published in the journal History of Philosophy Quarterly later this year. |
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| Name: | Stephen Moore | Department: | History |
| News: | Professor Stephen Moore recently wrote an article for PACIFIC NORTHWEST QARTERLY titled "Cross-Border Crusades: The Binational Temperance Movement in Washington and British Columbia." This article has been bublished in PNQ, Summer 2008, Volume 98, Number 3, magazine. |
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| Name: | Chenyang Li | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Chenyang Li, of Philosophy and Religious Studies, has a paper entitled "Does Confucian Ethics Integrate Care Ethics and Justice Ethics?" to appear in the forthcoming issue of the journal of Asian Philosophy (Volume 18 Number 1 March 2008).
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| Name: | Apple Zefelius Igrek | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Apple Igrek's essay “Concrete Containment in Late Capitalism, Mysticism, the Marquis de Sade, and Phenomenological Anthropology” has been accepted for publication (2008) in the Australian based journal Colloquy (out of Monash University). |
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| Name: | Apple Zefelius Igrek | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Apple Igrek's essay “The Metaphysics of Death in Bataille and Baudrillard” has been accepted for publication in the Review Journal of Political Philosophy (Forthcoming, 2009). |
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| Name: | Vijay Singh | Department: | Music |
| News: | Vijay Singh performed with the professional a cappella jazz quartet Just 4 Kicks as featured guest artist at the Olympic College Jazz Festival Nov. 17th in Bremerton, WA. Singh also adjudicated over 20 high school/junior high vocal jazz ensembles, many of whom were directed by recent CWU music education majors. |
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| Name: | Vijay Singh | Department: | Music |
| News: | Vijay Singh conducted the North Carolina Middle School Honors Choir at the NCMEA conference held in Winston-Salem, NC Nov. 9-12. Vijay also gave an interest session for music educators on the topic "Musical Multi-tasking for Choral Directors". Prior to his guest conducting in NC, Vijay adjudicated the Inland Empire's National Association of Teachers of Singing competition Nov. 3rd at CWU and had two of his voice students place in the top 3 of their respective divisions ( his high school division student won the HS division). |
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| Name: | Vijay Singh | Department: | Music |
| News: | Vijay Singh sang the bass solos for Yakima Symphony Orchestra's production of Mozart's Requiem Nov. 1st in Yakima at the Seasons Concert Hall. Singh also adjudicated jazz choirs at the Edmonds Jazz Symposium held at Mountlake Terrace High School the previous weekend. Fellow CWU faculty member Chris Bruya was also invited to adjudicate jazz bands at the symposium. |
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| Name: | Vijay Singh | Department: | Music |
| News: | Vijay Singh conducted the British Columbia Music Educators Association Honors Jazz Choir in Vancouver, BC Oct. 18-20. The select ensemble, comprised of the finest high school jazz vocalists in BC, sang a program featuring 3 of Singh's arrangements/compositions. Vijay also gave an interest session for music educators at the conference on rhythm section techniques for jazz choir directors. |
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| Name: | Andrew Kaufman | Department: | Art |
| News: | Andrew Kaufman will be showing his video at the Story Tellers: 11 International Review of Video Art. This is located at the Primo Piano Livingallery. This is will take place from December 1st through Dec. 12th. To find out more information please visit www.primopianogallery.com |
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| Name: | Donna Stack | Department: | Art |
| News: | Donna Stack will be showing her video at the Story Tellers: 11 International Review of Video Art. This is located at the Primo Piano Livingallery. This is will take place from December 1st through Dec. 12th. To find out more information please visit www.primopianogallery.com |
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| Name: | Margo Selski | Department: | Art |
| News: | 'Boulevard' magazine's feature's painting and drawing lecturer Margo Selski's piece, "Desire & the Queens," on the cover of the September/October issue! Margo has been affiliated with the Glass Gallery Garage in Hollywood for nearly a year, promoting her work. For mor information: http://www.glassgaragegallery.com/lib/frameset1.php?artist_code=MS&id=53
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| Name: | Vijay Singh | Department: | Music |
| News: | Vijay Singh guest conducted the British Columbia Music Educators Association Secondary School Honors Jazz Choir in Vancouver, BC, Canada October 17-20th. The group was a select ensemble comprised of the finest auditioned students from the province of British Columbia. Singh also gave a workshop on jazz rhythm section/drumming skills for choral directors attending the conference. He will be adjudicating the Edmonds Jazz Symposium with fellow jazz faculty member Chris Bruya on October 27th, at Mountlake Terrace High School in Edmonds, WA. |
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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: | 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: | Howard Barlow | Department: | Art |
| News: | Howard Barlow will be showing his work at the Punch Gallery in Seattle, WA. His work titled "Safe and Sound" will be showing from March 6th to March 30th, 2008. For more information visit www.punchgallery.org |
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| Name: | Chris Beards | Department: | Art |
| News: | Alumni Chris Beards is showing his work titled "Pretty Sure: scrounged, made and altered" at the Merced College Art Gallery in Merced, CA. His work will be showing from Feb 19th to March 13, 2008 with the opening reception on Wed, Feb 20th from 6-7:30. For more information contact 209-384-6064 or french.s@mccd.edu. And to see some of chris's work visit www.chrisbeards.com |
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| Name: | Jenny Walton | Department: | Art |
| News: | Jenny Walton, who once was the SAC President, received a job as the Executive Assistant to the President of an international arts organization in Washington, DC. Congrats! |
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| Name: | Joanna Horowitz | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | Joanna will be performing her one-woman country musical “100 Heartbreaks” for a six-night, fully staged, run at the Capitol Hill Arts Center in Seattle, Feb. 15,16, 22, 23, 29, March 1. The play, is a tongue-in-cheek story about an aspiring country singer trying to accumulate songwriting inspiration by suffering through 100 heartbreaks. It is directed by Jennifer Zeyl (a former Stranger Genius Award winner and Artistic Director of Washington Ensemble Theatre), with musical direction by John Osebold of the band “Awesome.” Joanna is also producing the show, funding the project, and serving as marketing director. For ticket information visit the production website at www.100heartbreaks.com. |
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| Name: | Autumn Brown | Department: | Theatre Arts |
| News: | "The Deadly Game" opened this past weekend [Jan 4, 2008] at the Long Beach Playhouse directed by CWU alum Autumn Brown. |
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| Name: | Becky Rogers | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Becky Rogers, a Religious Studies major, is currently employed as a Social Worker at a skilled nursing facility. You can contact Becky at blueberrybecky85@hotmail.com |
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| Name: | Zac Hymes | Department: | Philosophy |
| News: | Mr. Zac Hymes received his M.A. in Philosophy from Washington State University in May 2007, and has recently received an appointment as an adjunct instructor with Green River Community College. |
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| Name: | Tony Magnotti | Department: | Art |
| News: | Alumni Tony Magnotti will be showing his work along with GEggie Mace. Their exhibit is called Explode, Filth, Djinn. It will be shown at Grapefields Wine Bar and Restaurant in Walla Walla, WA. The artist reception will take place on Sunday Nov 18th, from 6-8pm. |
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| Name: | Steve Gardner | Department: | Art |
| News: | Steve Gardner and many other artists displayed their work in the exhibition titled "Harvest". It is contemporary clay work from the members of the Washington Potters' Association. The exhibition was open from September 20th through November 4th and the Peggy Lewis Gallery in Yakima, WA. for more information visit www.alliedartsyakima.org |
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| OTHER |
| 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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| Name: | Shari Stoddart | Department: | Art |
| News: | The Student Chapter of the National Art Education Association began the year with twenty-six majors attending the first meeting on September 28th; officers and committee members will be elected at the October 12th meeting. The SCNAEA participates in Ware Fare on campus and the NAEA conference in New York City. |
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