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First Wednesday Art and Design Program Oct. 5 at WIU

September 30, 2022

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MACOMB, IL -- The Department of Art and Design's October "First Wednesday" event will be held from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5 in Garwood Hall, the Heating Plant Annex and the University Art Gallery.

The WIU Art and Design faculty combine their efforts to offer creative, hands-on activities to visitors. This event is open and free to the public, and visitors are welcome from campus and the surrounding community and region.

October activities include:

Garwood Hall

• Cyanotype Prints – Professor Bill Howard, Garwood 12
• Masquerade Masks – Professor Jenny Knavel, Garwood
• Halloween Pins – Associate Professor Ta-Teh Ku, Garwood 24
• Palette Knife Painting – Professor Tim Waldrop and Professor Damon McArthur, Garwood 25

Heating Plant Annex

• Freeform Plaster Sculptures – Professor Duke Oursler, HPA 105
• Forged Wire Pendants – Professor/Dept. Chair Kat Myers, HPA 107
• Cosmic Wheelthrowing – Associate Professor Ian Shelly, HPA 111

The University Art Gallery will also be open during the event for the exhibition of The Tate Lindahl Collection, before it closes Oct. 13. A second exhibition by Chicago artist Phyllis Bramson, "Fairytale Trails and Other Fables," will also be on display.

For more information on the monthly program, contact Waldrop at TD-Waldrop@wiu.edu, or the WIU Department of Art & Design at (309) 298-1549.

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