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May 16: WSU Museum of Art summer exhibit opens

The Museum of Art/WSU will present its summer exhibit “Points of Interest: Reflections on Place,” May 16-June 30.

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This exhibit offers a glimpse into the idea of place through the works of four WSU faculty members, including Ruth Boden, associate professor of music; Kevin Haas, professor of art/printmaking; Taiji Miyasaka, associate professor of architecture; and Linda Russo, clinical associate professor of English and poetry.

Each artist provides a unique, multifaceted view of place through their creativity and research. Supplementing and providing context to their inquiries will be selections of place-based works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection of over 3500 objects.

Admission to the exhibit is free.

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Art on display through Oct. 15; events today, Friday

“Outlaw architecture” installations by visiting artist Oscar Tauzon will be on exhibit through Oct. 15 in the Fine Arts Gallery at Washington State University. The works have been created with help from WSU fine arts students.

An opening reception will be 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, and a talk by the artist will be at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, in Fine Arts 5062. All are free to the public. » More …

Art, ecology exhibit a call to community action

Stream and native plant restoration along Missouri Flat Creek in Pullman is the subject of an exhibit of Washington State University student art and an opening talk 2-4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, at Thomas Hammer coffee shop downtown.

The art will be on display through Oct. 13. Paintings, either done at the stream or inspired by visits to it, will be available for sale; half of the proceeds will help restore the creek.

Kayla Wakulich
Kayla Wakulich

WSU graduate student Kayla Wakulich, School of the Environment, will talk briefly about her work protecting and restoring Missouri Flat Creek. The little known stream enters Pullman from the north, continues along north Grand Avenue and joins the south fork of the Palouse River just northwest of downtown. » More …

Through Sept. 17: Faculty art explores geometric tradition

A retrospective of works by Chris Watts, emeritus professor of fine arts at WSU, will run Aug. 22-Sept. 17 at the Museum of Art/WSU. An opening reception at 6 p.m. and artist talk at 7 p.m. will be Thursday, Aug. 25, in the museum gallery. Admission is free.

Chris Watts
Chris Watts

Citing influences as diverse as Bronze Age monuments, spirals and mazes, Pythagoras, counting processes, scientific structures, bell ringing, Theosophy and the geometric tradition in art, Watts pursues a long-term inquiry into systems of order, patterning and – to a certain degree – spiritual or esoteric ideas.

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Daughters of Hanford Wins History Award

The Washington State Historical Society will present the David Douglas Award to the Daughters of Hanford, an educational collaboration between Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King, freelance photographer Kai-Huei Yau, and Doug Gast, associate professor of fine arts and director of the Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) Program at WSU Tri-Cities, with assistance from DTC student interns and community members.

Doug Gast
Doug Gast

Daughters of Hanford is oral histories, portraits and personal archives of women who changed the World War II plutonium site, and women who were changed by it. It’s a series, a museum installation, and a radio documentary.

The Douglas Award honors projects, exhibits and digital presentations that inform and expand appreciation of Washington state history. The award will be conferred at a ceremony in Tacoma in September.

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