Artist Jim Dine gave WSU The Technicolor Heart in 2004. Now he has donated a significant collection of more than 200 of his prints to the University, including the selections in this gallery.
Read more in “Where the heart is.”
Courtesy WSU Museum of Art
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Tarah Luke ’05 drew this abstract version of the iconic clock tower at WSU for Washington State Magazine. Read more about her work in coloring books for adults.
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Photographs by Vivian Maier and iconic images from the Corbis collection were featured at the WSU Museum of Art in spring 2015.
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» More ...Ten years ago, artist Jim Dine left his heart in Pullman. The 12-foot-tall painted bronze sculpture called The Technicolor Heart—a blue beacon covered with ordinary items like hammers, shoes, clamps, and flashlights—has stirred conversation and controversy.
Now the world-famous sculptor and printmaker is giving Washington State University a whole collection of more than 200 prints representing his work from 1967 to 2011. Valued at over $1.8 million, this print donation will be the largest university museum collection of Dine prints in the world and one of the largest collections of his prints ever assembled.
Cincinnati native Dine grew up around his grandfather’s hardware store and … » More …
Marianne Kinkel
University of Illinois Press, 2011
In the struggle to find out what makes people unique, artists of the twentieth century entered the field of physical anthropology. In 1930, Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to research and create sculptures of all races of mankind, of which there were believed to be more than 160.
Marianne Kinkel, an associate professor of fine arts at Washington State University, … » More …
Doug Gritzmacher ’98 and Michael DeChant Jr.
Double Six Productions, 2013
Through clouds of smoke, soldiers call out to each other at Omaha Beach in the Normandy fields they recreated in Wyandotte, Oklahoma. Paintballs fly through the air as Allied troops storm toward concrete pillboxes filled with Axis troops intent on preventing the invasion.
It’s a hot, humid June day at the world’s largest paintball game, an annual reenactment of D-Day on 710 private acres. Thousands of paintball enthusiasts gather for this monumental event, captured in all of its chaos and camaraderie in the … » More …
“Willapa Bay Oysters” is a seven-part video documentary series by Keith Cox, sharing the stories of the oyster men and women of Willapa Bay, in Washington State.
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On a Saturday night in late August, the oyster community of Willapa Bay has gathered in the Raymond Theater to watch themselves on the screen. Local boy Keith Cox had gone off to Hollywood, but then returned to document his home and the life of Willapa Bay and its oystering.
Every seat in the elegant old theater is full, and the room is buzzing.
Cox is premiering the eighth in a series of documentaries on the bay, on oyster farming, on the oystermen themselves. What started out as an innocent project intended to summarize the industry has led to over 130 interviews, over 350 hours … » More …