Art & Design

Amidst the more than 80 pieces of artwork selected for the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Art and Design’s Annual Regional Juried High School Exhibition, was a sculpture made from the pages of a Webster Dictionary. 

Kiara Williams, SIUE East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS) senior, is the creator of “Still Relevant.” The piece, a tree standing in the middle of an opened dictionary, was on display last month in the Art and Design West Gallery.&#...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School has announced the winners of the 2020 Visualizing Research Impacts (VRI) competition, which encourages SIUE scholars to share the impacts of their research through images.

This year’s recipients are Abbey Hepner, assistant professor and head of photography and digital arts in the Department of Art and Design, and John Savoie, PhD, professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. Their works were selected from a p...

The thought-provoking and eye-catching works of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates are now on display in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Design’s MFA and BFA Virtual Exhibition.

Each spring, the creative talents of BFA and MFA candidates are showcased in the Art and Design West Gallery, culminating years of hard work and dedication. This year, event cancellations caused by the...

Governor J.B. Pritzker has appointed SIUE alumnus Robert Maguire to serve a four-year term on the Illinois Arts Council.

Maguire earned a bachelor’s in art and design from the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences in 1971. Details on his appointment were posted Friday, April 17 in The Telegraph.

The Friends of Art and the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Art and Design will hold their 43rd annual art auction at 7 p.m. Friday, March 20. The auction will be held in the Art West Gallery located in the Art and Design West building on the SIUE campus.

Since l977, the Friends of Art, a non-profit, self-supporting organization, has assisted the SIUE Department of Art and Design with this event. The 2019 auction allowed the department to invite 17 local, national, and in...