1977-1978 Yearbook

--~ITt£----------- 66 • Art Lo.... C.... MfA Instructor Art loy o-•. ldO Assistant Professor Art S_,On... 1SI Instructor Art _M_.MA ~ .. CIoo_. Professor Art PouI PItt. MA Assistant Professor Art Don ......... MA Associate Professor Art Robinson gets Governor's Award for acrylic in statewide show Art shows by various members of the department and by senior art majors highlighted the year for the Art Department . Paul Pitt put on a show at the White County Library and exhibited his works in two Little Rock shows . Dr . Faye Doran and her husband exhibited their works in a show at Oklahoma Christian College. In the Arkansas Arts. Crafts and Design Fair at Little Rock. Don Robinson received the Governor's Award for an acrylic painting. A new addition to the curricul um was a course in Visual Aesthetics. which entails looking at works of art to determine what is beautiful. using the Christian viewpoint as the determining factor . The course was taught by Don Robinson. Mrs. Elizabeth Mason. chairman of the art department. served this year as vice-president of the Arkansas Art Education Association . In addition. she sponsored art majors on a trip to New Orleans to see the treasures of the tomb of King Tut . Lowell Carr worked on his PhD in Art at Texas Tech University during the summer of 1977. Senior art majors held their shows throughout the year in the Stephen's Memorial Art Gallery. The purpose of these shows was to give the student body a greater appreciation of the art talent on campus as well as art in general. Another purpose was to give senior art majors practical experience in putting on an art exhibit . Robin Newberry, a senior art major from Parkersburg, West Virginia, won the national Kappa Pi Art Fraternity Scholarship for his outstanding art work. 1. CHECKING a brochure, Mrs. Mason uses it as she makes plans to help keep the Kappa Pi art trip in New Orleans on schedule. 2. PREPARING a course list, Don Robinson counsels an art major during fall registration.

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