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March 12, 2012 Maria Altmann worked for decades to reclaim five family owned portraits painted by Gustav Klimt for her family, including this portrait of her aunt,  Adele Bloch-Bauer. The painting had been shown in an Austrian art museum for years. Nazis had stolen the painting after Altmann and the Bloch Bauers had fled Austria during WWll. Stolen treasures, stolen lives – the story of the plunder of art in Europe during WWII By Barbara Clements The ambulance bumped along a nameless track

Q&A: Student experiences art in the big city Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015 Elly Vadseth '16 – New York Academy of ArtOn any given day chances are you can find Elly Vadseth in the painting studio in Ingram Hall. As a senior this year, she’s looking towards grad school, and she has big dreams of studying art in the heart of a bustling metropolis. She’s already tasted those dreams at the “New York Academy of Art.”What’s your internship? My internship was a residency

“A Sense of Place” exhibit opens in Seattle Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / February 27, 2013 February 27, 2013 Picturesque scenery awaits the art lover this Valentine’s Day. Painting Professor Michael Stasinos’ new Seattle exhibition, “A Sense of Place,” opens February 9th with an artist reception February 14 from 5:30 to 8:30pm at the Woodside/Braseth Gallery. Stasinos’ new works were created in his past year of painting and traveling during sabbatical. Travels took him through Amsterdam, Paris

November 12, 2012 Gustav Klimt painted this portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer in 1907 at the behest of her husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. The painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1938, and was displayed in the Austrian National Gallery until Ferdinand’s niece, Maria Altmann decided in 1998 to claim the painting, and other Klimt masterpieces, for the family and battled up to the Supreme Court to have the paintings returned. A quest for justice and the return of lost masterpieces By Barbara

narrative is intertwined with the forms. I find digital photography’s mutable nature an advantage, and the way photography, painting and design can be integrated and restructured into a new paradigm. Steve Sobeck, lecturer of art Area of Emphasis: ceramics Jessica Spring, lecturer of art, Elliott Press manager Area of Emphasis: printing and publishing arts Artist statement: Sheets is a collection of four homeless haiku by Dolores Connelly, each poem capturing a moment within a season. The ongoing cycle

exhibiting and graduating with a BA or BFA in Art and Design this May. The exhibition will show a variety of artistic mediums including book arts, graphic design, painting, printmaking, letterpress, photography and ceramics. Students are expected to produce a significant body of work that reflects their best independent work, not just class assignments. Students submit a body of work, and the best of the best will be displayed. In some cases, students have been preparing for a year to two years for the

PLU Associate Professor of Anthropology Bradford Andrews. One of those is an invaluable painting illustration that artistically has brought to life a market scene in the city of Calixtlahuaca, an important archaeological site for studying Mesoamerican urbanism in the Postclassic period (A.D. 1100-1520). Research at this archeology site has been conducted by the Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project—supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and sponsored by Arizona State University—in