News & Events
Faculty Successes
Spring 2009
Associate Professor Dana Goodman’s ceramic
sculpture “The Better Butter Bud Vase” was chosen
to be a part of the permanent collection of the
International Festival of Ceramics in Mino, Japan.
This November, his work “A Little Hot Though”
was selected to be part of the Fifth World Ceramic
Biennale competition in Icheon, Korea.
Associate Professor Christopher Ganz’s drawing “The Descent” was awarded one of the three
grand prizes in the Fort Wayne Museum of Art’s
Contemporary American Realism 2008 Biennial in
September. Ganz’s print “Jonas Ark: The Leviathan
Ascendant” was accepted into the Boston
Printmaking 2009 North American Biennial.
Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago, one of the
most important figurative and representational
galleries in the United States, is now representing
Ganz’s drawings.
Deborah Robinson Miller recently installed a
mural in the lobby of Cancer Services of Northeast
Indiana, to the delight of the organization’s executive
director, Dianne May. “It so beautifully enhances our
lobby,” May says, “and it shows our appreciation to
our recent capital campaign donors in a most
unique way.” The mural can be viewed during
regular weekday business hours at 6316 Mutual
Drive in Fort Wayne.
Robert Schroeder had two pieces accepted into the
30th Elkhart Juried Regional Exhibition in 2008,
sponsored annually by the Midwest Museum of
American Art. “Trepidation” and “Mishka Kukin”
were both combinations of a variety of metals
including copper, brass, and silver.
Fine Arts
Professor Audrey
Ushenko completed her
oil painting
Celebration in front of a large
number of passersby
in Kettler Hall during spring semester 2008. The
work currently graces a wall in the lobby of The John
and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center.
