Museum of Art

Artist sculpts future with past

Senior fine arts major Victoria De Leon meanders through campus from Stevens Hall to Southside Café. She builds her own soup in the dining hall and proceeds to a table in the back near the windows. From her backpack, she removes a black sketchbook that is falling apart at the spine. She sifts through the […]

Master of Fine Arts show at Museum of Art

Encounters with creativity await visitors to the Washington State University Museum of Art’s annual Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, April 5-May 4. An opening reception will be at 6 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the museum gallery. Museum admission is always free. The display of work by MFA graduate candidates was organized by Keith […]

Gift of Helm works provides insight into creative process

By Debby Stinson, Museum of Art The Washington State University Museum of Art has received an $82,000 gift of work by late Northwest artist Robert Helm (M.F.A. ’69). The donation, by Robert and Shaké Sarkis, consists of 82 works on paper created 1975–99. The Sarkises have amassed what is arguably the most comprehensive collection of […]