As the Department of Studio Arts approaches its 43rd anniversary and the bustle of another spring semester is underway, we are pleased to launch the first edition of the department’s e-newsletter with information about our progress and events as well as our students, faculty, and alumni.
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In the summer of 2009, the Department of Studio Arts launched a collaborative program with the University Honors College to offer a two-week intensive Field Study in Wyoming.
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Lenore Thomas, assistant professor, has been teaching in the studio arts department since 2007. A solo exhibition of her work just opened at the Haydon Art Center in Lincoln, Neb., and she spent last summer as a resident at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, located in Omaha.
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The remarkable teaching in the department, coupled with the opportunity to share art classes with students from any discipline in the University, helped and continues to help me contextualize an art practice within a broad culture of making and thinking. And, while I am forever trying to figure out what exactly an art practice is, I know that it began during my time at Pitt and that I am forever going to be in it.
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