Ken Anderson
Kate Bingaman-Burt
Karen Blessen
Roger Carlisle
Bruce Conner
Aaron Douglas
D.B. Dowd Dr. Anne El-Omami
Christopher Ervin
Kate Bingaman-Burt
Karen Blessen
Roger Carlisle
Bruce Conner
Aaron Douglas
D.B. Dowd Dr. Anne El-Omami
Christopher Ervin
Margaret Furlong
Lari Gibbons
Jane Gregorius
Fred Hagstrom
Joan Hall
Melissa Haviland
Billy Howard
Holly Jerger
Lari Gibbons
Jane Gregorius
Fred Hagstrom
Joan Hall
Melissa Haviland
Billy Howard
Holly Jerger
Lawrence McFarland
Doug Martin
Richard Moses John Nygren
Nancy Palmeri
Vince Quevedo
Jean (McLaughlin) Satterly
Denny Schmickle
Darius A. Spieth
Doug Martin
Richard Moses John Nygren
Nancy Palmeri
Vince Quevedo
Jean (McLaughlin) Satterly
Denny Schmickle
Darius A. Spieth
Ken Anderson
Professor of Art, Art Department Chair and Gallery Director
Peru State College, Peru, NE
Ken Anderson received his BFA from UNO in 1980 and his MFA in sculpture from UNL in 1983. He began teaching at Peru State College 1984.
His work has been shown nationally and internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections. In 2008 he was awarded "First Place" in the Winds of Life exhibition- a windmill themed statewide sculpture competition in Nebraska.
Professor of Art, Art Department Chair and Gallery Director
Peru State College, Peru, NE
Ken Anderson received his BFA from UNO in 1980 and his MFA in sculpture from UNL in 1983. He began teaching at Peru State College 1984.
His work has been shown nationally and internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections. In 2008 he was awarded "First Place" in the Winds of Life exhibition- a windmill themed statewide sculpture competition in Nebraska.
Kate Bingaman-Burt
Designer / Assistant Professor of Graphic Design - Portland State University
Kate Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator, educator, and maker of things. She has been making work about consumption since 2002, teaching since 2004 and drawing until her hand cramps since 2006. Her first book, Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010 and her second book, What Did I Buy Today?, was released from Princeton Architectural Press in December of 2012.
She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004 and is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University.
Designer / Assistant Professor of Graphic Design - Portland State University
Kate Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator, educator, and maker of things. She has been making work about consumption since 2002, teaching since 2004 and drawing until her hand cramps since 2006. Her first book, Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010 and her second book, What Did I Buy Today?, was released from Princeton Architectural Press in December of 2012.
She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004 and is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University.
Karen Blessen
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Karen Blessen is an award winning free lance artist and writer based in Dallas, Texas. She received her BFA from UNL in 1973.
In 1989, while on staff at The Dallas Morning News, she was the first graphic artist to be named as a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer was awarded in the category of Explanatory Journalism for work done with teammates David Hanners and William Snyder on a special section, "Anatomy of an Air Crash."
Though her work has been primarily as an artist, since 1999 she has incorporated her writing with her art in feature contributions to The Dallas Morning News. "ONE BULLET", a story and art package that followed the emotional aftermath of a murder in front of her home, received an Honorable Mention in the Texas Associated Press Managing Editor's 2003 competition.
On New Year's Eve of the Millennium, she was a crew chief for a team of "Times Square Confetti and Airborne Materials Engineers," dropping three tons of confetti onto the crowd of celebrants below. She wrote and illustrated a story about the experience, "Diary of a Confetti Engineer", The Dallas Morning News, January 16, 2000.
She has traveled to Africa as a member of the HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee of the international relief organization, Save the Children. On a 2002 trip to Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, she interviewed women dealing with HIV/AIDS, and then wrote and illustrated "Faces of a Plague" for The Dallas Morning News. That piece was adapted into a theatrical production Today Marks the Beginning, which raised over $40,000 to "adopt" two villages in Malawi. Other major project experience includes, Be an Angel, a book collaboration with author Dana Reynolds. It was published in 1994 by Simon and Schuster. From 1994 to the present, she has worked with the Times Square Business Improvement District in New York City, creating art for the BID's banners, posters, billboards, sides of buses, maps, guidebooks, events, and web site. She represented Texas in Absolut Statehood - a series of artworks commissioned by Absolut Vodka, benefiting the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS.
She is now working on the art and design for a Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail station and adjacent two acre park. Themed "On the Pulse," the park incorporates five meandering sidewalks, each adorned with a 10-15 ft. mosaic, representing one of the five senses. She is also collaborating with British activist and author, Jeremy Gilley, on a children's book for Penguin Putnam. I Can Make a Difference is the story of Mr. Gilley's work with the United Nations to name September 21 as an annual global day of peace.
Other clients include Adobe Software, The Park Ridge Center (a Chicago based bioethics think-tank), RCA, Texas Instruments, The Greenwich Village Alliance, The Hartford Courant, Simon and Schuster, Harcourt-Brace, Galison Press, Microsoft, American Lawyer, Klutz Publishing, Neiman Marcus, The League of American Theatres, The Los Angeles Times, UCLA Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Smart Money Magazine, Lucent Technologies, and The Gap.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Karen Blessen is an award winning free lance artist and writer based in Dallas, Texas. She received her BFA from UNL in 1973.
In 1989, while on staff at The Dallas Morning News, she was the first graphic artist to be named as a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer was awarded in the category of Explanatory Journalism for work done with teammates David Hanners and William Snyder on a special section, "Anatomy of an Air Crash."
Though her work has been primarily as an artist, since 1999 she has incorporated her writing with her art in feature contributions to The Dallas Morning News. "ONE BULLET", a story and art package that followed the emotional aftermath of a murder in front of her home, received an Honorable Mention in the Texas Associated Press Managing Editor's 2003 competition.
On New Year's Eve of the Millennium, she was a crew chief for a team of "Times Square Confetti and Airborne Materials Engineers," dropping three tons of confetti onto the crowd of celebrants below. She wrote and illustrated a story about the experience, "Diary of a Confetti Engineer", The Dallas Morning News, January 16, 2000.
She has traveled to Africa as a member of the HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee of the international relief organization, Save the Children. On a 2002 trip to Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, she interviewed women dealing with HIV/AIDS, and then wrote and illustrated "Faces of a Plague" for The Dallas Morning News. That piece was adapted into a theatrical production Today Marks the Beginning, which raised over $40,000 to "adopt" two villages in Malawi. Other major project experience includes, Be an Angel, a book collaboration with author Dana Reynolds. It was published in 1994 by Simon and Schuster. From 1994 to the present, she has worked with the Times Square Business Improvement District in New York City, creating art for the BID's banners, posters, billboards, sides of buses, maps, guidebooks, events, and web site. She represented Texas in Absolut Statehood - a series of artworks commissioned by Absolut Vodka, benefiting the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS.
She is now working on the art and design for a Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail station and adjacent two acre park. Themed "On the Pulse," the park incorporates five meandering sidewalks, each adorned with a 10-15 ft. mosaic, representing one of the five senses. She is also collaborating with British activist and author, Jeremy Gilley, on a children's book for Penguin Putnam. I Can Make a Difference is the story of Mr. Gilley's work with the United Nations to name September 21 as an annual global day of peace.
Other clients include Adobe Software, The Park Ridge Center (a Chicago based bioethics think-tank), RCA, Texas Instruments, The Greenwich Village Alliance, The Hartford Courant, Simon and Schuster, Harcourt-Brace, Galison Press, Microsoft, American Lawyer, Klutz Publishing, Neiman Marcus, The League of American Theatres, The Los Angeles Times, UCLA Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Smart Money Magazine, Lucent Technologies, and The Gap.
Roger Carlisle
Artist and Educator
A native of Nebraska, Roger Carlisle came to Arkansas State University in 1974, where he teaches drawing and painting in the Art Department. He earned his BFA and MFA from the University of Nebraska. His work has been shown in major competitions throughout the country, including Arts for the Parks National Competition in Jackson Hole, WY. His work has won major commissions and prizes. He was commissioned to design the Arkansas Sesquintennial Stamp in 1986 for the U.S. Postal Service and numerous collector panels for the U.S. Postal Commemorative Society. Carlisle's works are found in many public and private collections. The artist works in oil, acrylic, pastels, and watercolor. His striking landscapes have a broad range of vibrant color, mood, and style.
Artist and Educator
A native of Nebraska, Roger Carlisle came to Arkansas State University in 1974, where he teaches drawing and painting in the Art Department. He earned his BFA and MFA from the University of Nebraska. His work has been shown in major competitions throughout the country, including Arts for the Parks National Competition in Jackson Hole, WY. His work has won major commissions and prizes. He was commissioned to design the Arkansas Sesquintennial Stamp in 1986 for the U.S. Postal Service and numerous collector panels for the U.S. Postal Commemorative Society. Carlisle's works are found in many public and private collections. The artist works in oil, acrylic, pastels, and watercolor. His striking landscapes have a broad range of vibrant color, mood, and style.
Bruce Conner (1933-2008)
The Artist
"Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Conner studied art at the University of Nebraska, which awarded him a B.F.A. in 1956. He continued his studies at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene, he and his wife, Jean, moved to San Francisco. Conner subsequently became a key figure in the burgeoning Beat community, along with visual artists Jay De Feo, Joan Brown and Manuel Neri, and poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure and Philip Lamantia. After sojourns in Mexico City and Brookline, Massachusetts, Conner resettled in San Francisco, where he continues to work today.
Conner first attracted attention in the late 1950s with his moody, nylon-shrouded assemblages, which were complex amalgams of such found objects as women's stockings, bicycle wheels, broken dolls, fringe, fur, costume jewelry and candles, often combined with collaged or painted surfaces. Erotically charged and tinged with echoes of both the Surrealist tradition and of San Francisco's Victorian past, these works established Conner as a leading figure within the international assemblage "movement."
Simultaneously during the late 1950s, Conner began making short movies in a singular style that has since established him as one of the most important figures in postwar independent filmmaking. His innovative technique can best be seen in his first film, A MOVIE (1958), an editing tour-de-force made entirely by piecing together scraps of B-movie condensations, newsreels, novelty shorts and other pre-existing footage. His subsequent films are most often fast-paced collages of found and new footage. Conner was among the first to use pop music for film sound tracks. His films have inspired generations of filmmakers and are now considered to be the precursors of the music video genre.
During the 1960s Conner became an active force in the San Francisco counterculture as a collaborator in light shows for the legendary Family Dog at the Avalon ballroom, and through his intricate black-and-white mandala drawings and elaborate collages made from scraps of 19th-century engravings, all of which remain icons of the period's sensory-based spirituality. During the 1970s he focused on drawing and photography, producing dramatic, life-sized photograms as well as intimately scaled inkblot drawings. In his later career, Conner continued to work on a small scale, producing collages and inkblot drawings that have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including the 1997 Whitney Biennial. Throughout Conner's entire body of work, the recurrence of religious imagery and symbology underscores the essentially visionary nature of his work. Conner continued to make art until shortly before his death.
The Artist
"Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Conner studied art at the University of Nebraska, which awarded him a B.F.A. in 1956. He continued his studies at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene, he and his wife, Jean, moved to San Francisco. Conner subsequently became a key figure in the burgeoning Beat community, along with visual artists Jay De Feo, Joan Brown and Manuel Neri, and poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure and Philip Lamantia. After sojourns in Mexico City and Brookline, Massachusetts, Conner resettled in San Francisco, where he continues to work today.
Conner first attracted attention in the late 1950s with his moody, nylon-shrouded assemblages, which were complex amalgams of such found objects as women's stockings, bicycle wheels, broken dolls, fringe, fur, costume jewelry and candles, often combined with collaged or painted surfaces. Erotically charged and tinged with echoes of both the Surrealist tradition and of San Francisco's Victorian past, these works established Conner as a leading figure within the international assemblage "movement."
Simultaneously during the late 1950s, Conner began making short movies in a singular style that has since established him as one of the most important figures in postwar independent filmmaking. His innovative technique can best be seen in his first film, A MOVIE (1958), an editing tour-de-force made entirely by piecing together scraps of B-movie condensations, newsreels, novelty shorts and other pre-existing footage. His subsequent films are most often fast-paced collages of found and new footage. Conner was among the first to use pop music for film sound tracks. His films have inspired generations of filmmakers and are now considered to be the precursors of the music video genre.
During the 1960s Conner became an active force in the San Francisco counterculture as a collaborator in light shows for the legendary Family Dog at the Avalon ballroom, and through his intricate black-and-white mandala drawings and elaborate collages made from scraps of 19th-century engravings, all of which remain icons of the period's sensory-based spirituality. During the 1970s he focused on drawing and photography, producing dramatic, life-sized photograms as well as intimately scaled inkblot drawings. In his later career, Conner continued to work on a small scale, producing collages and inkblot drawings that have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including the 1997 Whitney Biennial. Throughout Conner's entire body of work, the recurrence of religious imagery and symbology underscores the essentially visionary nature of his work. Conner continued to make art until shortly before his death.
Aaron Douglas (1898-1979)
Painter, Muralist
Born in Kansas, Aaron Douglas received a B.A. in art from the University of Nebraska. He taught in Kansas City schools for a few years and then began to study with Winold Reiss, an illustrator from Germany who encouraged him to look to African art for inspiration in his work. Douglas' use of African design and subject matter in his work brought him to the attention of William Edward Burghardt DuBois and Alain Locke who were pressing for young African-American artists to express their African heritage and African-American folk culture in their art. This was during the "Harlem Renaissance" or New Negro Movement, and Aaron Douglas became a leading visual artist during this time. In fact, he was called the "Dean of African-American painters" at a time when DuBois and others were trying desperately to convince painter Henry O. Tanner to return from Europe and establish a school of Negro painting.
Other painters active during this time included Palmer Hayden, Archibald Motley, William H. Johnson, Malvin Grey Johnson and Laura Wheeler Waring.
Douglas' work was published regularly in The Crisis. He also illustrated for Opportunity and Vanity Fair magazines. His most famous illustrations were for James Weldon Johnson's book of poetic sermons, God's Trombones . Alain Locke called him a "pioneering Africanist" and used his illustrations in his famous anthology, The New Negro, published in 1925 in which his classic essay "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" appeared.
In 1934, Douglas was commissioned, under the sponsorship of the WPA, to paint a series of murals for the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library. The photograph shows Douglas showing his murals to Arthur Schomburg. The library murals attempt to give a symbolic representation to certain aspects of Negro life. Aaron Douglas' style, flat with hard edges and repetitive designs, was heavily influenced by African sculptures, jazz music, dance and geometric forms. The panel shown, "Song of the Towers," depicts a figure fleeing from the hand of serfdom. It is symbolic of the migration of African peoples from the rural South and the Caribbean to the urban industrial centers of the North just after World War I. There is also a saxophonist standing on the wheel of life. The jazz musician in Douglas' work is symbolic of the creativity of the 1920s and the freedom it afforded the "New Negro."
Douglas joined the faculty of Fisk University in 1937 and stayed there until his retirement in 1966. His artistic insight is a lasting influence and a testament to the themes of African heritage and racial pride.
"Aaron Douglas (1898-1979)." Harlem 1900-1940. No Date. New York Public Library. 24 Nov. 2008 ‹http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/Harlem/text/adouglas.html›.
Painter, Muralist
Born in Kansas, Aaron Douglas received a B.A. in art from the University of Nebraska. He taught in Kansas City schools for a few years and then began to study with Winold Reiss, an illustrator from Germany who encouraged him to look to African art for inspiration in his work. Douglas' use of African design and subject matter in his work brought him to the attention of William Edward Burghardt DuBois and Alain Locke who were pressing for young African-American artists to express their African heritage and African-American folk culture in their art. This was during the "Harlem Renaissance" or New Negro Movement, and Aaron Douglas became a leading visual artist during this time. In fact, he was called the "Dean of African-American painters" at a time when DuBois and others were trying desperately to convince painter Henry O. Tanner to return from Europe and establish a school of Negro painting.
Other painters active during this time included Palmer Hayden, Archibald Motley, William H. Johnson, Malvin Grey Johnson and Laura Wheeler Waring.
Douglas' work was published regularly in The Crisis. He also illustrated for Opportunity and Vanity Fair magazines. His most famous illustrations were for James Weldon Johnson's book of poetic sermons, God's Trombones . Alain Locke called him a "pioneering Africanist" and used his illustrations in his famous anthology, The New Negro, published in 1925 in which his classic essay "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" appeared.
In 1934, Douglas was commissioned, under the sponsorship of the WPA, to paint a series of murals for the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library. The photograph shows Douglas showing his murals to Arthur Schomburg. The library murals attempt to give a symbolic representation to certain aspects of Negro life. Aaron Douglas' style, flat with hard edges and repetitive designs, was heavily influenced by African sculptures, jazz music, dance and geometric forms. The panel shown, "Song of the Towers," depicts a figure fleeing from the hand of serfdom. It is symbolic of the migration of African peoples from the rural South and the Caribbean to the urban industrial centers of the North just after World War I. There is also a saxophonist standing on the wheel of life. The jazz musician in Douglas' work is symbolic of the creativity of the 1920s and the freedom it afforded the "New Negro."
Douglas joined the faculty of Fisk University in 1937 and stayed there until his retirement in 1966. His artistic insight is a lasting influence and a testament to the themes of African heritage and racial pride.
"Aaron Douglas (1898-1979)." Harlem 1900-1940. No Date. New York Public Library. 24 Nov. 2008 ‹http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/Harlem/text/adouglas.html›.
D.B. Dowd
President and Creative Director of Sam the Dog, Inc.
Professor of Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Writer, illustrator, director, satirist, and teacher, Dowd has gravitated to online animation as an opportunity to integrate design, drama, and sound. In addition to producing the original 108-week "Sam the Dog" saga in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1997 to 1999, Dowd provides periodic illustration work for the New Yorker magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Dowd also produces limited editions of handmade books featuring his own stories and prints. These works are held in museum collections around the U.S.
Dowd has work in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Musuem of Art at Harvard, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. His work was recently highlighted in the "Creative Showcase" feature of the international design magazine Graphis (March/April 2000 issue).
Dowd is also a tenured member of the faculty of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. He received a bachelor of arts in history from Kenyon College in 1983 and master of fine arts in printmaking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1989. In 1991, D.B. was a Rotary International Postgraduate Scholar of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
President and Creative Director of Sam the Dog, Inc.
Professor of Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Writer, illustrator, director, satirist, and teacher, Dowd has gravitated to online animation as an opportunity to integrate design, drama, and sound. In addition to producing the original 108-week "Sam the Dog" saga in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1997 to 1999, Dowd provides periodic illustration work for the New Yorker magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Dowd also produces limited editions of handmade books featuring his own stories and prints. These works are held in museum collections around the U.S.
Dowd has work in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Musuem of Art at Harvard, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. His work was recently highlighted in the "Creative Showcase" feature of the international design magazine Graphis (March/April 2000 issue).
Dowd is also a tenured member of the faculty of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. He received a bachelor of arts in history from Kenyon College in 1983 and master of fine arts in printmaking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1989. In 1991, D.B. was a Rotary International Postgraduate Scholar of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Dr. Anne El-Omami
Director of Education, Joslyn Art Museum
Dr. El-Omami graduated from UNL in 1970 and received her Master of Arts in 1974. She taught art in the public school systems in Kansas and Nebraska for a decade. She moved into museum work when appointed Curator of Education at Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum, where she created the innovative "Artward Bound" project. She went on to a position as Assistant Professor and Curator of Education at the University of Kansas and Spencer Museum of Art, followed by the position of Division Director for Educaton and Academic Affairs at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She then was Associate Professor and Director of the M.A. Program in Museum Education at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, a program recognized for its excellence and strength of its graduates. Last spring, she returned to Omaha to become Director of Education at the Joslyn.
El-Omami was named a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association in 1998. In 2003, she was the winner of the Richard C. von Hess Faculty Prize at U. Arts. Throughout her career, El-Omami has authored scores of publications, ranging from teacher handbooks to youth guides to art history texts. She has developed and implemented innovative and creative leadership opportunities for museum professionals, art specialists in the visual arts, university faculties, and the corporate community. Her consultancies include work with the Pew Charitable Trust, the Getty Center, Kellogg Foundation, Terra Museum of American Art, and National Endowment for the Arts. She is a member of UNL's Cather Circle and also was a 2004 Master's Week Scholar.
Director of Education, Joslyn Art Museum
Dr. El-Omami graduated from UNL in 1970 and received her Master of Arts in 1974. She taught art in the public school systems in Kansas and Nebraska for a decade. She moved into museum work when appointed Curator of Education at Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum, where she created the innovative "Artward Bound" project. She went on to a position as Assistant Professor and Curator of Education at the University of Kansas and Spencer Museum of Art, followed by the position of Division Director for Educaton and Academic Affairs at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She then was Associate Professor and Director of the M.A. Program in Museum Education at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, a program recognized for its excellence and strength of its graduates. Last spring, she returned to Omaha to become Director of Education at the Joslyn.
El-Omami was named a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association in 1998. In 2003, she was the winner of the Richard C. von Hess Faculty Prize at U. Arts. Throughout her career, El-Omami has authored scores of publications, ranging from teacher handbooks to youth guides to art history texts. She has developed and implemented innovative and creative leadership opportunities for museum professionals, art specialists in the visual arts, university faculties, and the corporate community. Her consultancies include work with the Pew Charitable Trust, the Getty Center, Kellogg Foundation, Terra Museum of American Art, and National Endowment for the Arts. She is a member of UNL's Cather Circle and also was a 2004 Master's Week Scholar.
Christopher Ervin
Visual Effects Artist, Creative Director, Designer
Christopher Thomas Ervin's passion for art and design became apparent at an early age while growing up in Cortez, Colorado. After graduation from high school, Chris moved to Nebraska to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Art and Art History. He majored in fine art and found his true passion, graphic design, while studying with professor Ron Bartels during his junior year. For Chris, designing with this relatively new digital medium opened up a world with seemingly limitless creative possibility.
After graduating with a BFA in the winter of 1995, Chris moved to Los Angeles to start a career in the film and television industry. After a few months Chris landed a position at prominent post facility, 525 Post Productions in Hollywood. 525 was known for high-end music video work with clients such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna and Fiona Apple. Chris honed his talents as a motion graphics and visual effects artist and in 1997 left 525 to build his own creative studio VelocityApe FX. Teaming up with work colleagues, Chris and his partners landed contracts with production companies and labels such as Sony/Epic, Nickelodeon, Interscope Records and The FX Network. By the spring of 2000, Chris had worked as a motion graphic artist and creative consultant with artists such as Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Bryan Adams, No Doubt and Eminem.
From 2001 to present, Chris has taken his company and created five separate divisions: film, broadcast, web development, branding and print. To date, he has worked on 46 feature films, over 150 television spots and promotional campaigns, and received a Best Visual Effects nomination for the 2003 DVD Premiere Movie Awards.
Visual Effects Artist, Creative Director, Designer
Christopher Thomas Ervin's passion for art and design became apparent at an early age while growing up in Cortez, Colorado. After graduation from high school, Chris moved to Nebraska to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Art and Art History. He majored in fine art and found his true passion, graphic design, while studying with professor Ron Bartels during his junior year. For Chris, designing with this relatively new digital medium opened up a world with seemingly limitless creative possibility.
After graduating with a BFA in the winter of 1995, Chris moved to Los Angeles to start a career in the film and television industry. After a few months Chris landed a position at prominent post facility, 525 Post Productions in Hollywood. 525 was known for high-end music video work with clients such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna and Fiona Apple. Chris honed his talents as a motion graphics and visual effects artist and in 1997 left 525 to build his own creative studio VelocityApe FX. Teaming up with work colleagues, Chris and his partners landed contracts with production companies and labels such as Sony/Epic, Nickelodeon, Interscope Records and The FX Network. By the spring of 2000, Chris had worked as a motion graphic artist and creative consultant with artists such as Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Bryan Adams, No Doubt and Eminem.
From 2001 to present, Chris has taken his company and created five separate divisions: film, broadcast, web development, branding and print. To date, he has worked on 46 feature films, over 150 television spots and promotional campaigns, and received a Best Visual Effects nomination for the 2003 DVD Premiere Movie Awards.
Margaret Furlong
Ceramic Artist
During the time Margaret was enrolled at the University of Nebraska, her work in ceramics and watercolor was accepted in numerous local and regional exhibitions. She was a 1973 recipient of the Vreeland Award. Her work is also included in the permanent collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Since receiving her Masters Degree in Fine Arts in 1976, Margaret has become a ceramics artist of national renown. Best known for her porcelain angels, which she designed and first manufactured at her studio in Lincoln soon after graduation, she now is the owner and president of Margaret Furlong Designs, which produces porcelain giftware and has a factory in Salem, Oregon, that employs about 50 people.
Her porcelains are marketed nationally and have been mentioned in numerous magazine articles. Her critical and commercial success has been phenomenal. Her website is at http://www.margaretfurlong.com.
Ceramic Artist
During the time Margaret was enrolled at the University of Nebraska, her work in ceramics and watercolor was accepted in numerous local and regional exhibitions. She was a 1973 recipient of the Vreeland Award. Her work is also included in the permanent collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Since receiving her Masters Degree in Fine Arts in 1976, Margaret has become a ceramics artist of national renown. Best known for her porcelain angels, which she designed and first manufactured at her studio in Lincoln soon after graduation, she now is the owner and president of Margaret Furlong Designs, which produces porcelain giftware and has a factory in Salem, Oregon, that employs about 50 people.
Her porcelains are marketed nationally and have been mentioned in numerous magazine articles. Her critical and commercial success has been phenomenal. Her website is at http://www.margaretfurlong.com.
Lari R. Gibbons
Artist (drawing, printmaking)
Associate Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Lari R. Gibbons’ drawings and prints have been featured in numerous national, international and traveling exhibitions in venues such as the Centre of Culture Promotion (Czestochowa, Poland), International Fine Print Dealers Association (New York, New York), and Musée d’Art Contemporain de Chamalières (Auvergne, France). Her work has earned many awards, notably from “Espacio de Art” (Rosario, Argentina), Gufang Gallery (Beijing, China) and New Leaf Editions (Vancouver, Canada); and it is held in permanent collections such as City Gallery (Uzice, Serbia, Yugoslavia), the New York Public Library (New York, New York) and Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon). Gibbons has been an Artist-in-Residence at numerous institutions, including Anchor Graphics (Chicago, Illinois), Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) and Sitka Center (Otis, Oregon). Her work is represented by Pan American Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Gibbons received an MFA from the University of Nebraska (1997), a certificate in aluminum plate lithography from Tamarind Institute (2002), and a BA from Grinnell College (1993). She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Texas, where she teaches drawing and printmaking.
Photo credit: Allison Smith.
Artist (drawing, printmaking)
Associate Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Lari R. Gibbons’ drawings and prints have been featured in numerous national, international and traveling exhibitions in venues such as the Centre of Culture Promotion (Czestochowa, Poland), International Fine Print Dealers Association (New York, New York), and Musée d’Art Contemporain de Chamalières (Auvergne, France). Her work has earned many awards, notably from “Espacio de Art” (Rosario, Argentina), Gufang Gallery (Beijing, China) and New Leaf Editions (Vancouver, Canada); and it is held in permanent collections such as City Gallery (Uzice, Serbia, Yugoslavia), the New York Public Library (New York, New York) and Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon). Gibbons has been an Artist-in-Residence at numerous institutions, including Anchor Graphics (Chicago, Illinois), Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) and Sitka Center (Otis, Oregon). Her work is represented by Pan American Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Gibbons received an MFA from the University of Nebraska (1997), a certificate in aluminum plate lithography from Tamarind Institute (2002), and a BA from Grinnell College (1993). She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Texas, where she teaches drawing and printmaking.
Photo credit: Allison Smith.
Jane Gregorius
Professor Emeritus, Cabrillo College, California
Jane received her BS degree in Art Education from UNL in 1966, way back when Art Ed was in the Department of Art. She received her MFA in printmaking from California State University, Long Beach, in 1976. She fulfilled her promise for teaching through positions at the Los Angeles City School for 12 years, at the Colorado Mountain College, Vail for 2 years, and at Cabrillo College for 27 years.
Jane's most important long-term contributions are through her development and organization of two extraordinary environments to create rich opportunities for creativity and dialog. She was a founding member of the group that led the Summervail Workshops in Vail, Colorado from 1971–1984, which brought together 70 artists for workshops throughout the summer. And similarly she is a founder of the Yuma Symposium, Yuma, Arizona, ongoing since 1985 through today, which is a weeklong extravaganza of shows, workshops, lectures and slide jams with 10 visiting artists and 200 participants each year. In both these complex programs Jane fostered a collaborative, experimental, educational experience for all participants – professional artists, amateurs, art patrons, locals.
Professor Emeritus, Cabrillo College, California
Jane received her BS degree in Art Education from UNL in 1966, way back when Art Ed was in the Department of Art. She received her MFA in printmaking from California State University, Long Beach, in 1976. She fulfilled her promise for teaching through positions at the Los Angeles City School for 12 years, at the Colorado Mountain College, Vail for 2 years, and at Cabrillo College for 27 years.
Jane's most important long-term contributions are through her development and organization of two extraordinary environments to create rich opportunities for creativity and dialog. She was a founding member of the group that led the Summervail Workshops in Vail, Colorado from 1971–1984, which brought together 70 artists for workshops throughout the summer. And similarly she is a founder of the Yuma Symposium, Yuma, Arizona, ongoing since 1985 through today, which is a weeklong extravaganza of shows, workshops, lectures and slide jams with 10 visiting artists and 200 participants each year. In both these complex programs Jane fostered a collaborative, experimental, educational experience for all participants – professional artists, amateurs, art patrons, locals.
Fred Hagstrom
Printmaker
Professor of Art, Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota
I work in printmaking and book arts. I work (and teach) in all of the print media- intaglio, relief, lithography, silk-screen and letterpress. Much of my work has been in relief, often in large-scale prints from carved wood blocks or plastic plates. I have done book projects in which I worked with students, producing editions of hand printed books that were donated to High School libraries. I am interested in art about social issues, and draw upon printmaking's rich history in this area. I also think that every student ought to try to learn how to draw. Drawing means learning to be visually literate- as important as knowing how to read. I lead an off- campus trip to the South pacific for Carleton students, and have found that my studies of indigenous cultures of Australia and New Zealand have greatly influenced my work.
My undergraduate degree is from Hamline University 77, and my graduate degree is from the University of Nebraska 82. I also worked at Atelier 17 in Paris, and taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art. My work is in a number of public collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota Museum of Art and the Weismann Museum at the University of Minnesota.
Printmaker
Professor of Art, Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota
I work in printmaking and book arts. I work (and teach) in all of the print media- intaglio, relief, lithography, silk-screen and letterpress. Much of my work has been in relief, often in large-scale prints from carved wood blocks or plastic plates. I have done book projects in which I worked with students, producing editions of hand printed books that were donated to High School libraries. I am interested in art about social issues, and draw upon printmaking's rich history in this area. I also think that every student ought to try to learn how to draw. Drawing means learning to be visually literate- as important as knowing how to read. I lead an off- campus trip to the South pacific for Carleton students, and have found that my studies of indigenous cultures of Australia and New Zealand have greatly influenced my work.
My undergraduate degree is from Hamline University 77, and my graduate degree is from the University of Nebraska 82. I also worked at Atelier 17 in Paris, and taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art. My work is in a number of public collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota Museum of Art and the Weismann Museum at the University of Minnesota.
Joan Hall
Printmaker, Papermaker,
Professor of Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Joan Hall received her B.F.A. at the Columbus (Ohio) College of Art and Design. She studied at the Institute of Experimental Printmaking in San Francisco, before receiving her M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln in 1978. In addition to her 23-year commitment to Washington University School of Art, Joan has been a visiting artist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii and at the Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst in Salzburg, Austria.
Joan has exhibited internationally at The Saint Louis Art Museum; the Ohio Craft Museum; the Museum Aernstelle, The Netherlands; The Drawing Center, NYC; Haggar Gallery, University of Dallas; The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Hungary; the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Wiegand Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada; Leopold-Hoesh Museum, Germany; Musee D'Art, France.
Her work is in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska; Evanston Museum of Arts and Sciences, Indiana; Suwa Municipal Museum, Japan; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
Printmaker, Papermaker,
Professor of Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Joan Hall received her B.F.A. at the Columbus (Ohio) College of Art and Design. She studied at the Institute of Experimental Printmaking in San Francisco, before receiving her M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln in 1978. In addition to her 23-year commitment to Washington University School of Art, Joan has been a visiting artist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii and at the Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst in Salzburg, Austria.
Joan has exhibited internationally at The Saint Louis Art Museum; the Ohio Craft Museum; the Museum Aernstelle, The Netherlands; The Drawing Center, NYC; Haggar Gallery, University of Dallas; The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Hungary; the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Wiegand Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada; Leopold-Hoesh Museum, Germany; Musee D'Art, France.
Her work is in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska; Evanston Museum of Arts and Sciences, Indiana; Suwa Municipal Museum, Japan; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
Melissa Haviland
Associate Professor, Ohio University, School of Art
Melissa Haviland received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in December 2002. She is an artist whose work straddles the boundaries between printmaking and installation-performance. She explores lineage, ritual, and practice within objects that are gendered and classed, like fine china.
Associate Professor, Ohio University, School of Art
Melissa Haviland received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in December 2002. She is an artist whose work straddles the boundaries between printmaking and installation-performance. She explores lineage, ritual, and practice within objects that are gendered and classed, like fine china.
Billy Howard
Gallery Director
Following his graduation from UNL (BFA 1992), he completed an MFA in ceramics at University of Washington in Seattle. By the time he graduated he was the assistant director of William Travor Gallery in Seattle, and within three years opened his own 'gallery', Howard House. Later he moved his business to the Seattle gallery district where he has served as the President of the Seattle Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Council, and the Seattle Art Dealers Association. He is also an Ex-ficisio member of the board of the Seattle Art Museum. His gallery is one of the most highly regarded on the west coast.
His resume can be accessed from his website: howardhouse.com or howardhousegallery.com
Gallery Director
Following his graduation from UNL (BFA 1992), he completed an MFA in ceramics at University of Washington in Seattle. By the time he graduated he was the assistant director of William Travor Gallery in Seattle, and within three years opened his own 'gallery', Howard House. Later he moved his business to the Seattle gallery district where he has served as the President of the Seattle Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Council, and the Seattle Art Dealers Association. He is also an Ex-ficisio member of the board of the Seattle Art Museum. His gallery is one of the most highly regarded on the west coast.
His resume can be accessed from his website: howardhouse.com or howardhousegallery.com
Holly Jerger
Director of Public Programs, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Holly Jerger has worked as a museum educator and programs coordinator for the past eight years. She has taught art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Fullerton Museum Center in Orange County, and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks. Holly is currently the Director of Public Programs at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles where she teaches and oversees a variety of art programs and also works in exhibition development. There, she has also coordinated programs with many institutions including UCLA, the Getty Center, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Holly investigates Los Angeles’ various neighborhoods and landscapes in her artwork. She works in various media with particular focus on printmaking, painting, and paper. In her work, Holly explores mixing materials, the idea of multiples, and drawing. She exhibits internationally, and her work is in many collections around the country.
Director of Public Programs, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Holly Jerger has worked as a museum educator and programs coordinator for the past eight years. She has taught art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Fullerton Museum Center in Orange County, and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks. Holly is currently the Director of Public Programs at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles where she teaches and oversees a variety of art programs and also works in exhibition development. There, she has also coordinated programs with many institutions including UCLA, the Getty Center, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Holly investigates Los Angeles’ various neighborhoods and landscapes in her artwork. She works in various media with particular focus on printmaking, painting, and paper. In her work, Holly explores mixing materials, the idea of multiples, and drawing. She exhibits internationally, and her work is in many collections around the country.
Doug Martin
Painter
Doug Martin is represented by the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York, NY, and he has been a Resident Fellow at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY on several occasions. His work is included in distinguished public collections including the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He received his MFA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1975.
Reviews by Donald Goddard: Review 1, Review 2, Review 3
Painter
Doug Martin is represented by the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York, NY, and he has been a Resident Fellow at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY on several occasions. His work is included in distinguished public collections including the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He received his MFA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1975.
Reviews by Donald Goddard: Review 1, Review 2, Review 3
Lawrence McFarland
Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin
McFarland holds the William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Professorship in Photography at The University of Texas at Austin where he has taught since 1985. Besides teaching on campus, McFarland regularly teaches at the UT Study Abroad in Italy Program at Castiglion Fiorentino. Professor McFarland received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1973 and went on to receive an M.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1976. He has received numerous awards and honors including three National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grants over three decades, (1978-79, 1984-85, and 1990-91). He was also awarded the Ferguson Grant in 1982 from the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. McFarland's work concentrates on landscape photography, and has worked on several documentary projects including the Central Arizona Cannel Project in Arizona and also working with a group of Navajo's helping to document and preserve their special land that was being destroyed. McFarland has most recently produced a series of panoramic images in the American West and in Italy. His work has been included in numerous important exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and he has been published widely, most recently with a small publication of his work being produced by Blue Sky Gallery from Portland, Oregon. His photographs are included in major collections including the Center for Creative Photography, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum.
He is highly regarded nationally in the photo field, noted for his creative activity, his teaching and his service to the field. He is currently on the National Board of SPE and was National SPE Conference Chair in Austin in 2003. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2010.
Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin
McFarland holds the William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Professorship in Photography at The University of Texas at Austin where he has taught since 1985. Besides teaching on campus, McFarland regularly teaches at the UT Study Abroad in Italy Program at Castiglion Fiorentino. Professor McFarland received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1973 and went on to receive an M.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1976. He has received numerous awards and honors including three National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grants over three decades, (1978-79, 1984-85, and 1990-91). He was also awarded the Ferguson Grant in 1982 from the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. McFarland's work concentrates on landscape photography, and has worked on several documentary projects including the Central Arizona Cannel Project in Arizona and also working with a group of Navajo's helping to document and preserve their special land that was being destroyed. McFarland has most recently produced a series of panoramic images in the American West and in Italy. His work has been included in numerous important exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and he has been published widely, most recently with a small publication of his work being produced by Blue Sky Gallery from Portland, Oregon. His photographs are included in major collections including the Center for Creative Photography, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum.
He is highly regarded nationally in the photo field, noted for his creative activity, his teaching and his service to the field. He is currently on the National Board of SPE and was National SPE Conference Chair in Austin in 2003. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2010.
Richead Moses
Professor Emeritus- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Richard Moses has exhibited in more than 300 solo, small group, invitational and competitive exhibitions. His work is represented in 15 museums and numerous private collections. Dick lives and works in Falls City, Nebraska. He is a Life Member of the Nebraska Alumni Association, and a Member of the Chancellor's Club and A.E. Burnett Society. He retired after 39 years overall with the last 36 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he taught drawing, painting, and design and headed the Foundation Art and Design Program. He received his BFA from UNL in 1959.
Professor Emeritus- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Richard Moses has exhibited in more than 300 solo, small group, invitational and competitive exhibitions. His work is represented in 15 museums and numerous private collections. Dick lives and works in Falls City, Nebraska. He is a Life Member of the Nebraska Alumni Association, and a Member of the Chancellor's Club and A.E. Burnett Society. He retired after 39 years overall with the last 36 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he taught drawing, painting, and design and headed the Foundation Art and Design Program. He received his BFA from UNL in 1959.
John Nygren
Glass Artist
Nygren is a senior member of the North Carolina glass art community and a renowned American master. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Nebraska– Lincoln in 1965, where he received the Vreeland Award. His interest in glass was peaked by his professor and printmaker Jean Richards.
John continued his studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1967, where he received his Master of Fine Arts. He attended a three-week glassblowing course at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, which changed his life. He gained the basic skills and confidence he needed to dedicate his creative energy to glass art.
The central theme reflected in his glass art has always been a deep-felt reverence towards Mother Earth. His love of nature is expressed in the artistic excellence of his work. His work has been shown in more than 350 exhibitions throughout the country. His collections include The Corning Museum of Glass, The Smithsonian Institution, The Mint Museum, the Asheville Art Museum, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, and the R.J. Reynolds Collection. He was named the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Artist of the Year in 2000.
Glass Artist
Nygren is a senior member of the North Carolina glass art community and a renowned American master. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Nebraska– Lincoln in 1965, where he received the Vreeland Award. His interest in glass was peaked by his professor and printmaker Jean Richards.
John continued his studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1967, where he received his Master of Fine Arts. He attended a three-week glassblowing course at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, which changed his life. He gained the basic skills and confidence he needed to dedicate his creative energy to glass art.
The central theme reflected in his glass art has always been a deep-felt reverence towards Mother Earth. His love of nature is expressed in the artistic excellence of his work. His work has been shown in more than 350 exhibitions throughout the country. His collections include The Corning Museum of Glass, The Smithsonian Institution, The Mint Museum, the Asheville Art Museum, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, and the R.J. Reynolds Collection. He was named the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Artist of the Year in 2000.
Nancy Palmeri
Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor, UT Arlington
Since her arrival at the University of Texas at Arlington, Nancy Palmeri has received several international honors for her prints. In 2001, she received a fellowship, for her recent work, at the Frans Masereel Graphic Arts Center in Kasterlee, Belgium. Palmeri was also awarded a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship to live and work in Genoa, Italy in 1998. She has presented at the Southern Graphics Council Conference numerous times. Professor Palmeri has lectured and demonstrated her printmaking techniques at colleges and universities, nationally, including: Washington University, St. Louis, Pratt Institute of Art, New York, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Boston University, Boston, MA. Palmeri has had solo exhibitions of her work in New York, Boston, Louisiana, Texas, Italy, Chicago, and Virginia. Recently, her prints were included in Color Print USA, Lubbock, TX, and Global Matrix International Print Exhibition, Perdue University Art Gallery and the Frans Masereel Graphic Art Center’s Jubilee Exhibition, Belgium. She has also curated three exhibitions at the Gallery on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington, Anthropology in Print, Pervasive Impressions: Contemporary Political Prints, and Foundations: Mechanics and Instinct. Nancy Palmeri has lectured at the International Humanities Conference, Cambridge, UK.
Palmeri’s prints are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, The Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium, The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, The Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NY, the Instituto per la Cultura e l’arte, Catania, Italy, the UCLA Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, The University of Miami, and the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1993.
Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor, UT Arlington
Since her arrival at the University of Texas at Arlington, Nancy Palmeri has received several international honors for her prints. In 2001, she received a fellowship, for her recent work, at the Frans Masereel Graphic Arts Center in Kasterlee, Belgium. Palmeri was also awarded a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship to live and work in Genoa, Italy in 1998. She has presented at the Southern Graphics Council Conference numerous times. Professor Palmeri has lectured and demonstrated her printmaking techniques at colleges and universities, nationally, including: Washington University, St. Louis, Pratt Institute of Art, New York, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Boston University, Boston, MA. Palmeri has had solo exhibitions of her work in New York, Boston, Louisiana, Texas, Italy, Chicago, and Virginia. Recently, her prints were included in Color Print USA, Lubbock, TX, and Global Matrix International Print Exhibition, Perdue University Art Gallery and the Frans Masereel Graphic Art Center’s Jubilee Exhibition, Belgium. She has also curated three exhibitions at the Gallery on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington, Anthropology in Print, Pervasive Impressions: Contemporary Political Prints, and Foundations: Mechanics and Instinct. Nancy Palmeri has lectured at the International Humanities Conference, Cambridge, UK.
Palmeri’s prints are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, The Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium, The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, The Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NY, the Instituto per la Cultura e l’arte, Catania, Italy, the UCLA Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, The University of Miami, and the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1993.
Vince Quevedo
Designer/ Associate Professor- Oklahoma State University
Vinci is a national and international award winning designer. His art-to-wear designs have garnered him prestigious awards for his creativity, ingenuity, and fine craftsmanship. His designs have been exhibited in France, England, Germany, South Korea, Japan and many other countries. Considered to be one of the top design professors in the country, his many awards rank him with some of the best design educators in the country. Currently, Vinci is a design faculty at Oklahoma State University. He received his MFA from UNL in 2004.
Designer/ Associate Professor- Oklahoma State University
Vinci is a national and international award winning designer. His art-to-wear designs have garnered him prestigious awards for his creativity, ingenuity, and fine craftsmanship. His designs have been exhibited in France, England, Germany, South Korea, Japan and many other countries. Considered to be one of the top design professors in the country, his many awards rank him with some of the best design educators in the country. Currently, Vinci is a design faculty at Oklahoma State University. He received his MFA from UNL in 2004.
Jean (McLaughlin) Satterly
Artist, Educator, Illustrator
A 1968 graduate of UNL with a major in art and a minor in zoology, Jean has been a certified teacher of visual arts for more than 35 years. During that time, she has also been a professional artist and contributor to the central Nebraska arts scene. She has taught at many levels, including elementary school, junior high and high school. She retired in 2003 as art teacher at Grand Island Central Catholic High School.
Since retirement, she has been involved in many community art and educational projects, and has been recognized for her talents and contributions to the arts. She won "Best of Show" from the judges in March 2004 in the local watercolor competition for her piece, "Tempest," a painting that depicted a stormy Nebraska landscape. In November 2004, she illustrated a children's book, "Gus the Gorilla." She became a full participating member of the Prairie Winds Art Center in downtown Grand Island in July 2004.
Artist, Educator, Illustrator
A 1968 graduate of UNL with a major in art and a minor in zoology, Jean has been a certified teacher of visual arts for more than 35 years. During that time, she has also been a professional artist and contributor to the central Nebraska arts scene. She has taught at many levels, including elementary school, junior high and high school. She retired in 2003 as art teacher at Grand Island Central Catholic High School.
Since retirement, she has been involved in many community art and educational projects, and has been recognized for her talents and contributions to the arts. She won "Best of Show" from the judges in March 2004 in the local watercolor competition for her piece, "Tempest," a painting that depicted a stormy Nebraska landscape. In November 2004, she illustrated a children's book, "Gus the Gorilla." She became a full participating member of the Prairie Winds Art Center in downtown Grand Island in July 2004.
Denny Schmickle
Artist and Educator
Denny Schmickle is an artist and graphic designer who specializes in hand-printed silkscreen concert posters, gallery installations, and artwork that investigates how the two practices interact. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Rogers State University in Northeastern Oklahoma. He received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006, and a bachelor’s degree from College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.
Artist and Educator
Denny Schmickle is an artist and graphic designer who specializes in hand-printed silkscreen concert posters, gallery installations, and artwork that investigates how the two practices interact. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Rogers State University in Northeastern Oklahoma. He received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006, and a bachelor’s degree from College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.
Darius A. Spieth
Assistant Professor of Art History, Louisiana State University
Darius A. Spieth is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University. Born in Hamburg (Germany), Dr. Spieth is a specialist in early modern European art and intellectual history. He earned his B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he majored in Art History and French. He continued his education at the graduate level first at the Université de Paris IV–Sorbonne, later at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed his Doctoral degree. He also holds a graduate degree in finance from the International University of Japan, Niigata. Dr. Spieth has worked for Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, and held professional positions in the international art market. He has published numerous scholarly articles and museum catalogues, mostly dealing with European art from the turn of the nineteenth century. His book Napoleon’s Sorcerers: The Sophisians, forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press, explores the Masonic contexts for the revived Isis cult in Napoleonic France.
Assistant Professor of Art History, Louisiana State University
Darius A. Spieth is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University. Born in Hamburg (Germany), Dr. Spieth is a specialist in early modern European art and intellectual history. He earned his B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he majored in Art History and French. He continued his education at the graduate level first at the Université de Paris IV–Sorbonne, later at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed his Doctoral degree. He also holds a graduate degree in finance from the International University of Japan, Niigata. Dr. Spieth has worked for Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, and held professional positions in the international art market. He has published numerous scholarly articles and museum catalogues, mostly dealing with European art from the turn of the nineteenth century. His book Napoleon’s Sorcerers: The Sophisians, forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press, explores the Masonic contexts for the revived Isis cult in Napoleonic France.
Tom Riesing
Professor, University of Tennessee School of Art
Tom Riesing received his BFA in 1970 and MFA in 1973, both from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Over the past thirty years Riesing has been an instructor of painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee School of Art. He maintains an active exhibition record and an impressive list of residencies, workshops, visiting artist and guest lecture positions. He has twice been awarded the School of Art's prestigious three-year Ellen McClung Berry Fellowship, honoring a faculty member outstanding in professional activity, teaching and community service.
With an interest that began in Gail Butt's Asian Art History course, Riesing has traveled extensively to museums, archeological sites, and academies in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He has visited China sixteen times in the past twelve years lecturing and teaching at thirteen universities and academies, writing articles for a contemporary Chinese art magazine, organizing official exchanges and exhibiting his work. He has recently been honored as Permanent Visiting Professor at Sichuan University.
Professor, University of Tennessee School of Art
Tom Riesing received his BFA in 1970 and MFA in 1973, both from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Over the past thirty years Riesing has been an instructor of painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee School of Art. He maintains an active exhibition record and an impressive list of residencies, workshops, visiting artist and guest lecture positions. He has twice been awarded the School of Art's prestigious three-year Ellen McClung Berry Fellowship, honoring a faculty member outstanding in professional activity, teaching and community service.
With an interest that began in Gail Butt's Asian Art History course, Riesing has traveled extensively to museums, archeological sites, and academies in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He has visited China sixteen times in the past twelve years lecturing and teaching at thirteen universities and academies, writing articles for a contemporary Chinese art magazine, organizing official exchanges and exhibiting his work. He has recently been honored as Permanent Visiting Professor at Sichuan University.
T. L. Solien
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Currently teaches figure painting which investigates contemporary concepts and methodologies of figuration. Has been in numerous exhibitions including the 1983 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the 39th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., Avant-Garde in the Eighties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Printmaking in America: The Collaborative Print and Presses 1960-1990 at the Bloch Gallery at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Recipient of McKnight "Mid-Career" Artist Fellowship in 1994. Work featured in numerous university, museum, and corporate collections, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Fredrick Weismann Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Currently teaches figure painting which investigates contemporary concepts and methodologies of figuration. Has been in numerous exhibitions including the 1983 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the 39th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., Avant-Garde in the Eighties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Printmaking in America: The Collaborative Print and Presses 1960-1990 at the Bloch Gallery at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Recipient of McKnight "Mid-Career" Artist Fellowship in 1994. Work featured in numerous university, museum, and corporate collections, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Fredrick Weismann Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ronald Watson
Art and Art History Department Chair, Texas Christian University
Ronald Watson, Professor of Art and Chair of Texas Christian University's Department of Art and Art History since 1994 also serves as the Director of the University Art Gallery. A native of Nebraska who earned his BFA and MFA at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, he has been teaching in higher education since 1967 and has administered two college level art programs since 1971. He also was the founder and Director of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1977 to 1982. Watson was a consultant to the Art in Public Places program of the National Endowment for the Arts 1975-79. In 1987 he was elected President of the National Council of Art Administrators.
He is an active artist who has been awarded an Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1975) and two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977 and 1991). He has been a guest artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Ohio State University, and Lehman College in New York. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions in Michigan, Texas, Illinois and Florida and is in more than a dozen public and corporate collections including the Veterans Administration Hospital, Wood (Milwaukee), Wisconsin; Standard Oil, Inc., Chicago and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. Watson has published one book and five exhibition catalogues.
His teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is in a variety of studio disciplines including drawing, painting, design and color. He also offers seminars in art criticism and in art professions. Watson teaches in the TCU in Budapest program and has offered instruction in art criticism at universities in Peru and Mexico. At present, he is concentrating his efforts on explorations of digital imagery.
Art and Art History Department Chair, Texas Christian University
Ronald Watson, Professor of Art and Chair of Texas Christian University's Department of Art and Art History since 1994 also serves as the Director of the University Art Gallery. A native of Nebraska who earned his BFA and MFA at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, he has been teaching in higher education since 1967 and has administered two college level art programs since 1971. He also was the founder and Director of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1977 to 1982. Watson was a consultant to the Art in Public Places program of the National Endowment for the Arts 1975-79. In 1987 he was elected President of the National Council of Art Administrators.
He is an active artist who has been awarded an Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1975) and two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977 and 1991). He has been a guest artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Ohio State University, and Lehman College in New York. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions in Michigan, Texas, Illinois and Florida and is in more than a dozen public and corporate collections including the Veterans Administration Hospital, Wood (Milwaukee), Wisconsin; Standard Oil, Inc., Chicago and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. Watson has published one book and five exhibition catalogues.
His teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is in a variety of studio disciplines including drawing, painting, design and color. He also offers seminars in art criticism and in art professions. Watson teaches in the TCU in Budapest program and has offered instruction in art criticism at universities in Peru and Mexico. At present, he is concentrating his efforts on explorations of digital imagery.
John Robert Weaver
Portrait Artist
One of Nebraska's most celebrated artists, John Robert Weaver received his Master of Fine Arts from UNL in 1968. His work ranges from his early illustrations to paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. He may be most noted for his expressive portraits. His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Nebraska Art and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, as well as the Oklahoma Art Center, University of Missouri, Albrecht Art Museum and The Canton Art Institute.
He received a Governor's Arts Award in 1978 and a Helen Haggie Award in 1989. He was the recipient of a Vreeland Award at UNL in 1967.
Portrait Artist
One of Nebraska's most celebrated artists, John Robert Weaver received his Master of Fine Arts from UNL in 1968. His work ranges from his early illustrations to paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. He may be most noted for his expressive portraits. His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Nebraska Art and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, as well as the Oklahoma Art Center, University of Missouri, Albrecht Art Museum and The Canton Art Institute.
He received a Governor's Arts Award in 1978 and a Helen Haggie Award in 1989. He was the recipient of a Vreeland Award at UNL in 1967.