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WSU art students participate in art exchange

February 19, 2014

WSU master of fine arts students are participating in some creative cross-pollination through two art exchange exhibitions with peers at nearby universities this month.

Students are showing work in printmaking, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, video and ceramics at the University of Idaho in Moscow through Feb. 20. They are sharing exhibit space at WSU Vancouver with students from Portland State University Feb. 15-April 15.

The collaborative shows are designed to introduce students from all three universities to other artists and their creative work while providing real-world experience in the many facets of exhibition planning and execution.

JJ Harty is among WSU students showing work in both exhibits.

“I’m participating because I love to share my work and ideas,” he said. “I also want to make connections with others artists and expand my curriculum vitae and professional portfolio while fostering communications and community between universities.”

Find out more about the art shows.

Dazzling fluorescent rocks on display

February 5, 2014

Geologist Kurt Wilkie. WSU’s fluorescent rocks are beacons to students and visitors. (Photos by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services)

“There’s always lots of oohing and aahing when kids see them and, as you can see, they get as close as they possibly can,” said WSU geologist Kurt Wilkie. He’s one of several scientists who give tours of the S. Elroy McCaw Fluorescent Mineral Display located on campus – and who sometimes must clean the viewing window of so many small hand and nose prints.

On display behind the glass, 150 rocks glow in brilliant yellows, purples, oranges and greens. Set against a dark background, they make up a nocturnal garden that captivates adult visitors as well, said Wilkie.

Feb. 3-March 7: German resistance is topic of exhibit, films, talks

January 29, 2014

They were college students with lives like WSU students might have today. Some studied medicine and did military service. One had a fiancé. One was a married father of three.

But for the unpardonable crime of speaking out, considered treason in Nazi Germany, the University of Munich students and a sympathetic professor were executed. Their story is the subject of a traveling exhibit, “Die Weisse Rose: The White Rose,” at WSU Libraries’ Terrell Atrium, Feb. 3-March 7, on the Pullman campus.

“Very normal people can undertake very major resistance,” said Rachel Halverson, associate professor of German and Marianna Merritt and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professor in Foreign Languages and Cultures. “It’s really ordinary people who can make change happen, believing in doing the right thing.”

Find out more about the White Rose movement educational events at WSU.

Jan. 27-31: Humanities Week looks at scholarship, influence

January 10, 2014

Three free, public presentations will highlight Humanities Week presented by the WSU Humanities Planning Group.

Guest speakers from Duke and Michigan State universities will join WSU faculty in covering a range of topics, including:

“Is a Little Pollution Good for You? How the Humanities Can Contribute to Science and Policy”
“Four Glimpses of Scholarship in the Humanities: A Roundtable”
“Cosmopolitan Humanities”
“Empathy and Religious Diversity”

Get more details and a list of events

Visual Edge: Dennis DeHart’s Confluences

December 13, 2013

Insider’s look at the oddities and the beauty of the Pacific Northwest

You are invited to travel the byways of eastern Washington, Oregon and Idaho with photographer Dennis DeHart at The Evergreen State College. DeHart, a TESC graduate who teaches photography at WSU, has trained his lens on many of the out-of-the-way places in the Northwest to provide an insider’s look at the oddities and the beauty of the region and a look into the devastating effects of industry on once pristine lands.

He approaches his photographic journey with an artist’s eye for color and composition and with obvious sympathy, and even reverence, for the land and its people. Not to mention a quirky sense of humor.