Department of Fine Arts

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About the Faculty

The faculty in the Department of Fine Arts are practicing artists and scholars. The work of the studio faculty can be seen in galleries and museum collections in the Northwest, nationally and internationally. By working alongside professional artists our students learn first hand about developing a career in art. The WSU Art History Faculty specializes in Ancient Rome and the Italian Renaissance, Twentieth Century Visual Culture, and the arts of Native North America and the Pacific Islands. They recognize that art history is an interdisciplinary field and encourage students to investigate a wide range of issues including aesthetics, material practices, and social conditions surrounding the arts.

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Faculty News

Reza Safavi

Reza Safavi's work is currently includeed in the Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum. The exhibition gets a review by Jen Graves here.

Marianne Kinkel

Marianne Kinkles's recent publication: The Races of Mankind:The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman was recently reviewed in Art in America by Sue Taylor.

Io Palmer

Io Palmer recently traveled to New Delhi, India to take part in the Sanskriti Residency.

Upcoming exhibitions include:Delicate Impressions at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas; Transcending Integration at the Baltimore Clayworks; and a solo exhibition titled Workspace will be on view from February 27th through March 31st, 2012 at the Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana.

She and het collaborator Lisa Link continue Serve & Project, our public arts initiative. In May their project will travel to Clermont College Art Gallery, University of Cincinatti.

A four page review written by Annin Barrett was recently published in the November 2011 issue of the UK based journal Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture.

Michelle Forsyth

Forsyth's work is included in a traveling exhibition called Papercuts, curated by Reni Gower at Georgia State University, Ernest G Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA.w


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