Summer 2020
“Living with the Volcano”
From the eruption of Mount St. Helens emerged art. » More ...
Painting
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 ...
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 ...
Summer 2019
Venn Pirouettes
Mathematics and art meet in Michael Schultheis exhibit, "Venn Pirouettes" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU in Pullman. » More ...
Spring 2011
An art history
Worth D. Griffin stepped off the train in Pullman in the fall of 1924 to find Washington State College’s art department barely four years old and with just one other full-time faculty member. Prior to that, the only art instruction offered was painting lessons for students with the pocket money.
But Griffin had come to help teach design and creative composition and build a program. The Indiana native had studied commercial and fine art in Indianapolis and at the Art Institute in Chicago. In addition to working as a magazine illustrator, he trained among American realists, artists focused on rendering unidealized scenes of daily life. … » More …
Spring 2010
Video: Ric Gendron discusses his portrait of Sherman Alexie
Native American artist Ric Gendron discusses his portrait of Sherman Alexie. The portrait appears in the Spring 2010 issue of Washington State Magazine, as part of the feature article “Desperately Seeking Sherman.” You can read the article here.
Video: Michael Schultheis '90 talks about his art
View an exclusive slide show of Michael’s paintings and to listen to him talk about the way he uses mathematical concepts in his work. Photos of Michael are by Matt Hagen. Photos of the paintings are by Frank Huster.
Winter 2006
An equation for beauty
The painter spends his days on the third floor of an ancient biscuit plant in a seedy section of industrial Ballard. The building, just a block from the Ballard Bridge, houses a collection of artists, mostly ceramicists whose main-floor kiln warms the warehouse through the winter.
But acrylic paint is the medium for Michael Schultheis, 39. A climb up steep wooden stairs, and we’re welcomed by Cesaria Evora’s alto voice singing in Portuguese from a paint-spattered boom box. “Ah, she’s wonderful,” says a similarly paint-spattered Schultheis standing at the door to his bright studio.
He is in the midst of creating paintings for a fall … » More …
Fall 2006
Art and Enterprise: Jordan Swain '00
So I’m riding around Bellevue with this very high-energy 27-year-old painter, and I’m starting to think, “Well, maybe I should take up painting.” That’s how infectious my companion is. She makes it sound like so much fun.
Jordan Swain ’00 offers me a warm diet soda from her emergency stash of supplies she keeps in the back of her car because she often doesn’t have time to stop and eat. We pull into Children’s Village, a safe haven in Renton for women and children who have been homeless, refugees, or victims of domestic violence. Swain and other artists donated their time and talent to brighten … » More …
Video: Strollin' and Trollin' – A tour of Ray Troll's Ketchikan, with music unlike anything you've ever heard before.
He draws. He paints. He writes songs and—oh lord—he sings them! Hear him for yourself as you tour the world of Ray Troll '81 via an audio slide show produced especially for Washington State Magazine Online
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