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Edited by: Nancy A. Bremer, university relations and communications, 260-481-6808

Media contact: Audrey Ushenko, professor of fine arts, 260-481-6639

IPFW Professor of Fine Arts Will Teach Summer Session at Chautauqua

(Fort Wayne, May 22, 2009) -- The Chautauqua Institution: A place of immense scenic beauty in western New York State where visitors have sought intellectual and spiritual growth since the 19th century. It has been described as an experience rather than a vacation—a place for renewal. Today it functions as a resort where vacations can be combined with education through concerts, theatrical performances, exhibitions, and lectures and workshops by prominent figures in politics, law, theology, and the arts. It is in this rarified atmosphere that artist Audrey Ushenko will share her expertise in a figure drawing workshop at the Chautauqua Institution, July 26 through Aug. 8, 2009.

Ushenko, a professor of fine arts at Indiana University–Purdue University (IPFW) since 1988, is an active painter and art historian who specializes in the history of prints and drawings, particularly 18th century materials and techniques. She has also been an artist-in-residence for the Brauer Museum of Art in Valparaiso, Ind., the St. Louis University Museum of Art, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Her works have hung in the National Academy of Design Museum in New York, the Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul, and the Polish Museum of America in Chicago. She was elected to the National Academy of Design, and among her awards for artistic excellence are the Samuel F. B. Morse Prize for Painting and the Isidor Prize and Medal for Figure Painting. Ushenko was also an artist-in-residence at the Indiana State Museum; the work completed there is on display in an exhibition of American Art at the National Academy of Design in New York City, “Making it in the Midwest—They Chose to Stay.”

Students in Ushenko’s figure drawing workshop at the Chautauqua Institution will be encouraged to employ a variety of media and to explore line, light, and shadow. “Each student will find their own way to bring a work to life,” she says.

A downloadable image of Ushenko is available on the Downloadable Resources page. For more information about Professor Audrey Ushenko, call 260-481-6639 or e-mail ushenkoa@ipfw.edu.

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