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Molly Papier has joined the staff as the new director of the Community Arts Academy and assistant to the dean for community engagement. She has served as a public school art teacher at Fort Wayne Community Schools, Southwest Allen County Schools, and Seattle Public Schools. She spent 15 years working in marketing communications as a print and web designer and project manager for PFW, Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wis., and as a freelance designer with her main client being Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust in
Oak Park, Ill.
“As the daughter of a college painting professor and after years of working in and around the arts, I feel as if I’ve landed in the perfect role,” explained Papier. “My personal goal in this position is to promote visual and performing arts education and expand access to Fort Wayne Community Schools’ families, as I am a FWCS alumna.”
Papier is most interested in adding classes to the Community Arts Academy that cover areas that kids cannot get in school such as crochet, film editing, motion graphics, TikTok-style dance and an expanded improv community.
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Cherry Bauer joins the Dean’s office in the newly created role of business assistant for CVPA and the Helmke Library. An alumna of IPFW, she has been trained as a Registered Financial Services Representative for New York Life, where she assisted clients with life planning related to financial goals. She also worked in banking in a variety of roles from teller to systems support during the transition from Indiana Bank to NBD in Fort Wayne.
Bauer was interested in the position because she has always admired the campus and opportunities offered to the community. She wanted to be closer to creative energy and CVPA and the Library sounded like a good fit. “People at PFW have been extremely warm and welcoming. The atmosphere is great – very relaxed even when it’s busy,” said Bauer. “I’ve heard more laughter in the last two months than I had in the last several years.”
She spends her leisure time with needlework and reading. She claims to acquire quilts and throws like she’s expecting the next ice age and her favorite weekend sweatshirt motto is “I’m all booked up.” It sounds like the library and the arts are a good fit indeed.
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Derek Decker has made the Department of Art and Design his stomping ground for nearly 30 years. He now joins the college in the full-time role of Gallery Director/Studio Tech. The position also has a teaching component and for the spring semester he is teaching Intro to Sculpture and Intro to 3D Design Fundamentals. Decker has worked for the department on and off in a part-time capacity since his graduation in 2006 with a B.F.A. in sculpture.
His sculptural work in clay opened doors for him post-graduation for an apprenticeship at the Moravian Pottery and Tiles Works in Doylestown, Penn., and a residency at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in New Castle, Maine. He then earned an M.F.A. in sculpture in 2012 at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, which is now PennWest in Edinboro, Penn. He then served as assistant professor of 3D Art (sculpture and ceramics) and gallery director at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, from 2019–2021.
In his free-time he enjoys the outdoors, camping, hiking and kayaking. “I am looking forward to the opportunity to run a gallery, connect with the community, and continue teaching,” said Decker.
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Successful Amplify Art Campaign
Associate Professor John Oakley Egger led a successful fundraising effort sponsored by Arts United’s Amplify Art campaign in October 2022, raising $5,000 to fund The Fusion Band. The collaborative instrumental ensemble brings together middle school students from Fort Wayne Community Schools and PFW music education students lead by Egger to create a spring instrumental program. Student musicians will be instructed in small and large ensemble settings after school every Tuesday for twelve weeks.
The Fusion Band program which began Jan. 24, is hosted by Memorial Park Middle School, where 65 middle school students are being directed by seven PFW music education seniors. Private lessons and small group instruction are offered to the students and taught by eight sophomore music education majors. Dinner is also served to the students as part of the program. At the end of the twelve-week period students will present a concert to showcase their progress.
The School of Music would like to thank financial donors and area businesses for their gift-in-kind donations including Oley’s Pizza, Cookie Cottage, Salvatori’s, and Jimmy Johns.
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Conferences on Our Campus |
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The College of Visual and Performing Arts was proud to host several state-wide conferences on the PFW campus in Fall 2022. The Indiana Music Teachers Association (IMTA) State Conference was held October 7–8, 2022, and was hosted by the School of Music. More than 50 piano teachers from across the state convened for two days of masterclasses, lectures, forums, and performances in the Rhinehart Music Center. Faculty members Jonathan Young and Dr. Hamilton Tescarollo were part of the conference planning committee. Visiting Assistant Professor Kevin McMahon was chosen as the National Music Teachers Association/Indiana Music Teachers Association 2022 Commissioned Composer for Indiana. His piano composition, “Moments in Time” premiered at the conference and was performed by Tescarollo.
Art educators (in photo above) and university students attended the annual conference of the Art Education Association of Indiana (AEAI) from Nov 4–6, 2022. The main goal of AEAI is to provide opportunities for professional development and networking. Over 350 members from across Indiana regularly participate in local and state-wide meetings. Approximately 125 participants took visual art workshops and listened to research presentations over the three-day sessions.
Keynote speakers included Dr. Wanda Knight from Penn State University speaking about diversity; Bob Reeker from Nebraska Wesleyan University presented on leadership in state and national art associations; and, Dr. Robert Sabol from Purdue University West Lafayette spoke about the NAEA's Leadership Academy. Attendees enjoyed hands-on art workshops where PFW art professors offered their skills and knowledge. Dr. Laurel Campbell, director of the art education program for the PFW Department of Art and Design was awarded the Distinguished Fellow at the conference.
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Summer Faculty Grant Recipients
College of Visual and Performing Arts faculty were recently awarded 2023 Summer Faculty Grants from the Office of Academic Affairs. Assistant Professor of Clarinet Kylie Stultz-Dessent (pictured above) received funds to further her project Sounds of Home: Music for Clarinet Inspired by Indiana’s Art and Architecture.
Professor of Interior Design Suining Ding will continue work on her project Using Space Syntax to Examine Users’ Perception of Privacy in Doctors' Office Waiting Rooms: Seating Visibility and Seating Preferences.
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Ensembles Perform at IMEA Annual Conference
Both the School of Music Chamber Treble Singers and Symphonic Wind Ensemble were selected from university entries from throughout the state to be featured at this year’s Indiana Music Educators Association Conference held at the Grand Wayne Center in Fort Wayne from January 12 – 14, 2023.
On Saturday, Jan. 14, the Chamber Treble Singers performed at First Presbyterian Church, and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble performed at the Grand Wayne Center.
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Professor Hrehov – Fall Exhibitions
John Hrehov, professor of painting, spent a productive fall semester exhibiting his work in three different shows. His painting, Summer Gate, was included in the South Shore Arts 79th Annual Salon Show at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Munster, Ind., from Sept. 9–Nov. 6. It was awarded the Ag Perryman Award For Excellence.
A large number of Hrehov’s works were featured in a solo exhibition of oil paintings at Artlink Gallery in Fort Wayne, Ind., entitled In A Midnight World from Oct. 27–Nov. 20, 2022. The exhibition theme of exploring the night was accompanied by Nocturne, a parallel exhibition of works by 50 artists juried by John Hrehov.
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Cody Appointed as Teaching Fellow
The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching appointed Dr. Steve Cody to their Teaching Fellows team in late September. Cody, an associate professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Design, joins a stellar group of PFW faculty who have been trained to provide teaching consultation services using a model of collegial, formative peer review.
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Tembras Presents at Annual Clinic
Associate Professor of Music Dan Tembras recently presented at The 76th Midwest Clinic held December 19–22, 2022, at McCormick Place West in Chicago, Ill. More than 700 people attended his clinic entitled “Teach Like Your Hair Is on Fire: Rehearsal Techniques That Engage All Learners, Establish Ownership, and Create Mindful Learning.”
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Mindy Cox, adjunct faculty in the School of Music and co-founder of Summit City Music Theatre, premiered a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol at Salomon Farm Park in December, in conjunction with FW Parks and Recreation. The run was sold out and the theatre company plans to make it a Fort Wayne tradition. Cox served as music director and featured alumni David Eisenhauer, Richard Hargis, and current student Dave Ealy.
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Ceramic artist Brooke Fuerst is the new studio manager at The Pottery at the Community Learning Center in Kendallville, Ind. In 2018, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics from Purdue University Fort Wayne. Since then she has brought art to the community by teaching local pottery workshops and her work has been shown at The Wassenberg Art Center and Garret Museum of Art.
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Dr. Suining Ding, professor of interior design, has released her new book Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design, published through Routledge and available here. In her book, she explains how environmental behavior (EB) studies can contribute to healthcare design research. Drawing on EB theories and the latest research in environment-behavior studies, Dr. Ding presents how the healthcare environment can positively impact patients’ and caregivers’ well-being and healthcare organizations’ efficiency by modifying environmental attributes. In the editorial review, her book is endorsed and lauded for providing a very strong theoretical foundation and demonstrating how design practice and research can be linked.
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Ceramic works by Associate Professor Seth Green were featured in the recent Fort Wayne Museum of Art exhibition entitled Fired Up: New Vistas in Ceramics from December 10 through January 29, 2023. Works by Green and regional artists George Morrison, Joseph Pelka, Joel Pisowicz, and Justin Rothshank explored each artists’ version of the Earth’s landscape through ceramics, showcasing their technical abilities and individualized aesthetics. By creating work about the earth from the earth, they added dimension and perspective to the timeless conversation between artist and landscape.
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