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Visitation Set for Art Professor Emeritus Ann Mullin-Renshaw
May 5, 2008
MACOMB, IL -- Former Western Illinois University art professor Ann Mullin-Renshaw, 67, of Macomb, died May 1 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Family will meet friends from 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 9 at Dodsworth-Piper-Wallen Funeral Home in Macomb. Cremation rites have been accorded.
Mullin-Renshaw joined the WIU art department in 1967. She took a two-year leave of absence in 1974 to teach at Virginia Commonwealth University as a visiting artist and returned to Western in 1976, where she taught for 34 years before retiring in 2002.
Throughout her career some of her works were displayed at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York City, the Whitney Museum in New York City and Ann Nathans Gallery in Chicago. Most recently, she was working on her own Christmas ornament and birdhouse collection that was to be distributed nationwide as the Ann Mullin-Renshaw Collection.
Mullin-Renshaw received her bachelor's degree from Connecticut College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Survivors include her husband, James; two sons, Bryan and John both of Chicago; one daughter, Sarah of Providence, RI; one stepson Michael of Colonial Heights, VA; and two brothers William S. Mullin of San Diego, CA. and John H. Mullin of Tucson, AZ.
Memorials may be made in her name to Macomb Beautiful.
Posted By: Darcie Shinberger (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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