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Spring Greetings from Dean Faimon
"We could not be prouder of each of our graduate’s accomplishments," writes Faimon. "We are also very proud that the Eskenazi School has been the incubator for their ideas, creations, and personal growth. They have spent their time at this school bringing their humanity to bear – together with all the latest knowledge, tools, and techniques – in problem solving."
Nakagawa's photographs stand witness to painful history
In 2022, Eskenazi School faculty Osamu James Nakagawa made a 15,200-mile pilgrimage around the US to photograph the sites where Japanese and Japanese-American people were incarcerated during World War 2. On view at Tokyo's Photo Gallery International May 17-July 1, the work is a reckoning with the artist's own national identity.
"Not delicate": Professor Emeritus Barry Gealt's latest landscapes at McCalla
They are called landscapes, but more than anything, Barry Gealt's paintings seem to register how it feels to be in the landscape. "I think of myself as a realist," said Gealt, Eskenazi School professor emeritus of painting. "I can’t name you each tree in the painting, but I’m a realist in that the experience is real." A show of his newest paintings opens April 21 at University Collections at McCalla.
A senior lecturer in merchandising at the Eskenazi School, Mary Embry's focus is sustainability. It's a topic her latest students are conversant in, "because they know about the challenges of dwindling resources and feel the impact of climate change largely for the first time." Read more about Embry's teaching and research.
Expo Chicago 2023 features ceramics by Eskenazi's Malcolm Smith
Malcolm Mobutu Smith, associate professor of ceramics, is one of four artists featured in Seeing is Believing, on view at Expo Chicago April 13-16. Presented by the Wexler Gallery, the show features work by artists outside the dominant culture exploring representation of the self across mediums and genres.
Washington Post cites Eskenazi fashion historian Akou on political apparel
No mug-shot was taken when Trump was arraigned this week, but plenty of graphic Ts were manufactured bearing whimsical interpretations of one. The Washington Post interviewed Eskenazi fashion design faculty Heather Akou about the vagaries of political apparel.
Eskenazi's Claffey to pursue Fulbright project in Spain
Eskenazi School Associate Professor of Photography Elizabeth M. Claffey will further her inquiry into women's work in Murcia, Spain with a project funded by a Fulbright Scholar Award in the fall of 2023. Claffey will explore how women's craft-making traditions accomplish the essential yet invisible labor of articulating and strengthening social culture.
Ricketts' extraordinary textile on view at Seattle Art Museum
The largest textile of its kind, Zurashi/Slipped, by Eskenazi faculty Rowland Ricketts in collaboration with Chinami Ricketts, is part of the Seattle Art Museum's exhibition "Ikat: A World of Compelling Cloth," on view through May 29, 2023. The Ricketts' weaving used 1.2 million yards of yarn.
Printmaking faculty creates new WFIU design
Listeners who pledged support to WFIU Public Radio during its most recent fund drive will spot a new design on the gift they received as thanks. Created by Tonja Torgerson, lecturer of printmaking in the Eskenazi School, the design shows two flowers commonly found in Indiana gardens sprouting from a pair of studio headphones.
Eskenazi dean is 2023 Evansville Museum show juror
Eskenazi School Founding Dean Peg Faimon served as this year's juror for the 60th Annual High School Art Show at the Evansville Museum of Arts, Science and History, on view through April 16. Faimon curated the selection of 125 artworks by students from 19 high schools.
