Tag: Artists
15 article(s) found with this tag.
Spaces between Taking the road less traveled can lead to serendipitous finds such as the whimsy of Emil Gehrke's windmill creations. Former WSU art professor Patrick Siler '61 has painted a fantastical mural that covers a wall in downtown Pullman. It's his way of creating visual fireworks in the town he taught in for 32 years.
Summer 2013
Categories: Washington state history, Visual arts
Tags: Small towns, Artists
Patrick Siler ’61—On the wall
Fall 2012
Categories: Fine Arts, Alumni
Tags: Artists, Pullman life, Public art, Mural
Letters in the Summer 2011 issue
Summer 2011
Moral capitalKudos to Jennifer Sherman for her good article summarizing her
research and book about real-life experiences in Golden Valley. It
describes the price of economic disaster in a rural atmosphere in a
revealing and provocative w...
Categories: Alumni, Washington State Magazine, History
Tags: Buildings, Artists
An art history
Spring 2011
Worth D. Griffin
stepped off the train in Pullman in the fall of 1924 to find
Washington State College’s art
department barely four years old and with just one other full-time
faculty member. Prior to that, the only art instruction offe...
Categories: WSU faculty, WSU history, Fine Arts
Tags: Native Americans, Painting, Artists
World of Mateo
Summer 2010
The work of Matthew LeikerWSU Museum of Art, May 18–July 2 The World of Mateo is
filled with images of an American subculture known by no particular name
but seemingly related to road culture, California style, album jacket
graphics of the 5...
Categories: Fine Arts, Visual arts
Tags: Pop Art, Surfer culture, Artists
Kary Lamb Lee—Telling stories
Fall 2009
Husky purple isn’t normally in Kary Lamb Lee’s palette. The
Pullman-based illustrator was born in
Pullman, and her family’s ties to Washington State University go back 80 years.Still, she was happy to pull out the purple to create the souve...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Artists
Art Still at Large
Summer 2009
An episode of the Antiques Road Show television program last winter stirred some memories across the Palouse and brought to mind one of the most influential alumni to graduate from Washington State’s fine arts program.
A woman from California b...
Categories: Fine Arts
Tags: Artists, Clyfford Still
Robert Helm, 65 - Acclaimed Northwest artist, teacher
Spring 2009
Robert Helm, an acclaimed Northwest artist known for surreal imagery and exquisite craftsmanship, died October 21, 2008. He was 65.
Helm was born in Wallace, Idaho, and attended North Central High School in Spokane, where he met Tamara Kimpel. They...
Categories: Visual arts, Fine Arts
Tags: Artists, In memoriam
Ray Troll: A story of fish, fossils, and funky art
Spring 2007
Ray Troll '81 has a species of ratfish named after him, Hydrolagus trolli. He calls Darwin "Chuckie D" and paints pictures of him driving around in an Evolvo. This is a man who has embraced his past and paints it wildly and beautifully.
Categories: Alumni, Music, Visual arts, Fine Arts
Tags: Evolution, Artists
Gaylen Hansen: Three decades of paintings
Spring 2007
Categories: Visual arts, WSU history
Tags: Artists
An equation for beauty
Winter 2006
The painter spends his days on the third floor of an ancient biscuit plant in a seedy section of industrial Ballard. The building, just a block from the Ballard Bridge, houses a collection of artists, mostly ceramicists whose main-floor kiln warms...
Categories: Fine Arts, Visual arts
Tags: Painting, Artists
Growing as an Artist
Spring 2006
Isaac Powell, a graduate student in the Department of Fine Arts,
recently won national attention for his work when a piece took grand
prize in a juried competition for young artists with disabilities. The
competition winners are now part of a trav...
Categories: Fine Arts, Awards and honors
Tags: Museums, Artists
The Clothesline Project
Spring 2006
Haunting and colorful, the Clothesline Project usually stops
students in their tracks as they head across the Glenn Terrell Mall
to class. It's a display of several hundred t-shirts made by people
connected to Washington State University with mess...
Categories: Campus life, Visual arts, Fine Arts
Tags: Pullman life, Artists
Growing as an Artist
Spring 2006
windows along the north wall look out over Martin Stadium. They
offer quite a view, especially on game days, says Powell.
On one wall hang two of his latest pieces, paintings on birch
plywood, a medium he says gives him more of a feeling of perman...
Categories: Visual arts, Fine Arts
Tags: Artists
Between humor and menace: The art of Gaylen Hansen
Spring 2003
Gaylen Hansen paints his alter ego as he confronts giant grasshoppers and a buffalo lurking behind the bed.
Categories: Visual arts, Humanities
Tags: Artists, Painting