Art News
UIU art program to expand majors, hire new faculty
Upper Iowa University has approved plans to expand course
offerings in art, art education, and graphic design beginning
fall 2010. New courses in art history, drawing, painting, ceramics,
sculpture, and graphic design will expand the major requirements
in the art program from 36 to 43 credit hours. The changes reflect
growth in the number of majors in the art department and a
commitment to quality improvement and global citizenship.
Go to the Degree Requirements page to see changes in our
programs.
Search for new art history faculty underway
The Upper Iowa University Art Department will grow to four full-
time faculty beginning fall 2010, with the hire of a new assistant
professor to teach art history classes. New courses in Twentieth-
Century Art and Graphic Design History will be added to the art
department's current art history curriculum. The expanded offerings
will increase the art history requirements in the art program from
six to nine credit hours. Download the job announcement
Current art students have options for their plans of study
The new 43-hour art curriculum will go into effect for all new
freshmen and transfer students entering the university for the
first time fall 2010. Current students will have the option of
completing their current plans of study or adding the new art
program requirements. Academic advisors can help students
make decisions about their plans of study.
Twenty-Seventh Northeast Iowa High School Art Show
More than 100 area high school students and their teachers
are expected to attend the Twenty-seventh Northeast
Iowa High School Art Show Friday 16 April 2010 on the
Upper Iowa University campus in Fayette.
Saturday art program
More than 40 Fayette County elementary students participated
in the Saturday Art Program during four sessions held during late
January and early February 2010 on the Upper Iowa University
campus in Fayette. Students worked with a variety of materials
including paint, clay, and printmaking media.
UIU art program welcomes two new faculty
Two new art faculty will teach courses at UIU's Fayette
campus beginning fall semester 2008
Danni Xi, Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer from Bejing,
will teach a drawing class during fall term I. Her visit is a
collaborative effort with UIU's International Program.
Elissa Cox, Assistant Professor of Art, will teach ceramics,
sculpture, 3-D foundations, environmental art, and non-
western art history.
Cox earned her Master in Fine Arts
in 2007 at Ohio University in Athens OH. She graduated
in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics and a
Bachelor of Art in art history from the University of Minnesota
in Minneapolis, MN. She most recently taught at the University
of Kentucky in Lexington, before coming to Upper Iowa.
