Art & Design

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...

An “e” sculpture made its debut Tuesday, Dec. 17 in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Hairpin. Dave Thomas Design of Edwardsville created the seven-foot tall, seven-foot wide monument. SIUE alumnus Dave Thomas, who earned his bachelor’s in art and design from SIUE in 1972, is the owner of the design company.

“The sculpture is made of metal and has an internal steel structure that gives it resilience. The exterior is painted to match the SIUE red,” s...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School has announced the winners of the 2019 Visualizing Research Impacts (VRI) competition, which encourages SIUE scholars to show the results and impacts of their research to the public through images.

The recipients are Rodrick Whetstone, professor of graphic design in the Department of Art and Design, and Laura Strand, professor and head of textile arts in the Department of Art and Design. Their works were selected from eight faculty an...

A career of extraordinary talent and innovation. A leader in metalsmithing education. A mentor for artistic metal designs. These accomplishments and more have earned Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Art and Design Emeritus Professor Paulette Myers the Edwardsville Art Center’s (EAC) Patron of the Arts Award. 

“Being named Patron of the Arts was a big surprise, because I had retired already,” said Myers, of Maryville, who retired from SIUE in 2013. &...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Art and Design West building is bustling with activity this summer as children grades K-8 are expressing themselves creatively through exciting art lessons in innovative media during Summer Arts camp.

Three Monday-Friday sessions of Summer Arts camp ran June 17-21, June 24-28, and are continuing July 8-12 with themes of 2-D Exploration, 3-D Exploration and Arts and Crafts. The camp is hosting its largest group to date this year, with 62 particip...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumna Ashley Ho will see her artwork displayed in a scene on the CBS series “NCIS New Orleans.” The episode is scheduled to air on January 8, 2019 on local CBS affiliate KMOV-TV (Ch. 4).

As a group, SIUE art and design students put their talent to work in an interdisciplinary collaboration for International Studies Day coordinated by Sorin Nastasia, PhD, associate professor of public relations and director of internships in the Departm...

The Friends of Art, along with the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Art and Design, will host its 42nd annual Art Auction on Friday, March 22, 2019. The site will be in the Art West Gallery located in the Art and Design West building on the SIUE campus.

The 2019 auction will offer original artworks donated by faculty, visiting artists, alumni, friends and advanced students. Doors open at 6 p.m., and Ahrens & Niemeier auctioneers will start the bidding at 7 p.m.  Addi...

The Friends of Art along with the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Art and Design will host their 4lst annual Art Auction at 7 p.m. Friday, March 16. The auction will be held in the Art West Gallery located in the Art and Design West building on the SIUE campus.

The 2018 auction will offer original artworks donated by faculty, visiting artists, alumni, friends and advanced students. Additional work will be available to the highest bidder in a silent auction. Doors open at...

SIUE’s Kenzie Holzinger, of Highland, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Design, is using her artistic talents to commemorate the history of Grantfork.

KSDK News Channel 5 highlighted her involvement in the small town’s centennial celebration in a story posted Tuesday, Sept. 26.

The 17^th annual Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Sculpture on Campus program will delight once again with 10 new wonderful works of sculpture being featured on campus. The three-day event, hosted by the SIUE Department of Art and Design, will be held Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 4-6.

The event kicks off with a public lecture by juror and Cleveland-based artist David Deming, MFA, at noon Wednesday, Oct 4. On Friday, Oct. 6, the public is invited to view the installations during the Sculpture ...

Original pieces of art will be on sale March 16 at the 39^th Annual Art Auction March, sponsored by Friends of Art Southern Illinois University and the Department of Art & Design at SIUE.

The auction will be held in the Art West Gallery located in the Art and Design West building on the SIUE campus. Doors open at 6 p.m. and Ahrens & Niemeier auctioneers will start the bidding at 7 p.m.  

Original artworks have been donated by faculty, visiting artists, alumn...

Captivating outdoor sculptures pepper the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus, ready for their artistic debut during the 15^th Annual SIUE Sculpture Walk at 4 p.m. today. The 12 works of art were designed and installed by current students through the “Sculpture on Campus” (SoC) program.

“I don’t know of any other program like this in the country,” said Thad Duhigg, PhD, professor in the SIUE Department of Art and Design. “This year’s piece...

Dr. Joseph Page, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design at SIUE, will have his artwork displayed at The Pearl Concord Gallery at The Ohio State University. 

Flow Chart will be on display from Aug. 25-Sept. 17.  Read more about Page’s exhibition in the Richland Source.

Art students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are moving beyond the pottery wheel; and instead, producing ceramic objects with the click of a button. For the first time, the SIUE Department of Art and Design is incorporating the pioneering technology of 3D printing in a summer ceramics course.

“We’re training students to draw parallels between the use of technology and how it informs our physical human experience,” said class instructor Dr. Joe Page, assistant prof...

Students in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center’s Project Success program eagerly work on their pieces of fabric. Some are cutting the outlines of their hands, while others are helping secure the shapes on the fabric. 

Sewing all the pieces together in a quilt will be Edna Patterson Petty of East St. Louis, noted multimedia and fabric artist and art therapist. Petty earned a bachelor’s of art and design in 1984 a master’...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Art and Design West Building was featured in last month’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch for being one of many reasons Illinois again tops the country in being environmentally responsible and resource efficient in construction.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch pictured SIUE’s Art and Design West Building and noted that it received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council....

SIUE Alumni Association Hall of Fame member Gib Singleton passed away on Friday, Feb. 28 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The renowned sculptor earned a bachelor’s in art and design from SIUE in 1967. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010.

Writer Bruce Krasnow profiled Singleton in the Santa Fe New Mexican.

For more information on Singleton, visit gibsingletonmuseum.org or gibsingleton.com.