Winter 2019
With a pencil or brush or horse
Artist, graphic designer, and Washington State University alumnus Don Weller has traveled from rural Washington to LA to Utah, where he paints cowboys and Western life. » More ...
Artists
Fall 2019
Monumental task
Rudy Autio and Harold Balazs were monumental artists and Washington State University alumni who left large art collections when they died. » More ...
Fall 2019
Casting an artful brush
Ben Miller, a Washington State University alumnus, paints in a novel way that combines his love of fly fishing with art. » More ...
Spring 2019
Shaking hands with the past
Artist and Washington State University alumnus Nathan Orosco of Gresham, Oregon, says the process of making art is an art in itself. From sculpting clays to melting bronze, “you’re collaborating with raw materials," to speak of his social, political, and cultural “anxieties,” as he calls them. » More ...
Spring 2019
Arctic chronicles
A tall ship carrying artists and writers through the Arctic stirs thoughts of ice art, Frankenstein, and the need to archive disappearances for Washington State University English professor Debbie Lee. » More ...
Spring 2019
Video: Archiving Ice
Archiving Ice.
Caroline Landau
Svalbard and San Francisco 2017–2018
During the Arctic Circle Artist Residency in October 2017, Caroline made molds from “bergy bits” (small icebergs from calved glaciers). She painted melted wax on individual pieces of ice that washed upon the shores of Bloomstrandbreen, Svalbard in Spitsbergen. Read more on Caroline’s website.
An essay in the Spring 2019 issue by WSU Regents professor of English Debbie Lee describes the work and impact of the Artist Residency: Arctic chronicles
Spring 2019
Gallery: Arctic journey
Writer and Washington State University Regents professor of English Debbie Lee traveled to Svalbard in the Arctic aboard the tall ship Antigua, as part of the Arctic Circle Artist Residency Program. Follow the journey through Lee’s photographs below, and read her essay, “Arctic chronicles,” in the Spring 2019 issue.
Winter 2018
Briefly noted
Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Edited by Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack ’02 PhD History
University of Oklahoma Press: 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial Frontier that link past, current, and future generations of African American West scholarship. The West is revealed as a place where black Americans have fought—and continue to fight—to make … » More …
Summer 2018
Fly on the Wall
Podcasts by Squeak Meisel
If you can’t come to the artist, the artist will come to you, thanks to a series of podcasts produced by Washington State University Fine Arts department chair Squeak Meisel.
Called Fly on the Wall, the artists interviewed on Meisel’s podcast have shown their work at some of the biggest venues in the world, such as the Venice Biennial. They come to the Pullman campus, teach for a few days, work one-on-one with undergraduate and graduate students, and give a public lecture.
But Meisel realizes that not everyone has time or ability to … » More …
Summer 2014
Gallery: Gustav Sohon and the Mullan Road
Gustav Sohon (1825–1903) was an artist, interpreter, and topographical assistant. Sohon executed some of the earliest landscape paintings of the Pacific Northwest. One of his first assignments was with Lieutenant John Mullan, who was surveying the country between the Rocky and Bitterroot Mountains for the Pacific Railroad Surveys led by Isaac Stevens.
Read about Mullan in our feature “Lost Highway.”