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Faculty Successes

Spring 2006

IPFW visual art faculty participated in the IPFW/University of Saint Francis Faculty Exhibition from March 3 to April 5, 2006, in the main gallery at Artlink. The show is held every two years.

Assistant Professor Christopher Ganz was the recipient of the College of Visual and Performing Arts Excellence in Teaching Award for 2005. His prints Self-Portrait in the Dark, Ebb and Flow, and Self-Checkout were selected for the 19th University of Dallas National Print Invitational. An etching and his piece Self-Checkout were selected out of more than 1,000 entries for the Parkside National Juried Small Print Exhibition at the University of Wisconsin Parkside. His drawings Self-Checkout and A Faustian Compact were selected for the “Paper in Particular—National Juried Works on Paper” exhibition at the Sidney Larson Gallery at Columbia College in Columbia, Mo.

Associate Faculty Sayaka Ganz was one of three regional winners in Artlink’s Regional Winners show, Oct. 7–Nov. 9, 2005. The gallery was filled with charming birds and animals sculpted and welded from found-metal objects.

Professor John Hrehov was one of 72 artists invited to create and exhibit an original work of art for the 25th Anniversary Exhibition The Art of the Bookplate at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition, running from Dec. 2 through Feb. 4, featured other notable artists such as Phyllis Bramson, Richard Hunt, and Jim Nutt. The work can be viewed at www.printworkschicago.com . Hrehov’s painting After the Flood was displayed in the Fort Wayne Museum of Art’s main gallery exhibition Views of Nature: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection in spring 2005.

Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf, associate faculty, presented a lecture chronicling the development of art in America as well as its major themes and influences at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art’s opening night exhibition Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of Art in January 2006. In December 2005, Kuebler-Wolf successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in art history at Indiana University Bloomington.

The one-woman show Ceramic Botanica by Associate Professor Nancy McCroskey was featured at Denise Bibro Fine Arts Inc. in New York City from Oct. 6 to Nov. 5, 2005. McCrosky also curated The Politics of Place, one of the exhibits at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, March 8–11, at Clackamas Community College in Portland, Ore. The exhibit featured the ceramic works of Dana Goodman , Sadahi Inuzuka, Tom Phardel, Nathan Taves, and Jamie Walker.

Associate Faculty Gary Travis’ work was on display in an exhibit at First Presbyterian Gallery with woodturnings and objects by Travis and paintings by Roger Hultquist from Oct. 15 to Nov. 27, 2005.