Each year, Augustana’s First-Year students have the opportunity to submit their research to the Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research. This competition presents an opportunity to celebrate Augie’s...
Formerly known as the Museum of Art, Augustana’s Center of Visual Culture has received a makeover, undergoing renovations, new management along with its new name. Found in the basement of Bergendoff...
In this week’s episode of the Augustana Observer Podcast, Multimedia Editor Jaren Smith sits down with Professor Peter Xiao to discuss his art show, “Sighting at Augie.”
After days, hours and years of expressing their artistic passion at Augustana, the seniors in the art, art history and graphic design departments are ready to present their work in this year’s Senior...
Art allows people of all ages to stretch their creativity and make something unique. For kids, the satisfaction of molding a favorite animal from clay or completing a one-of-a-kind-drawing to be proudly...
While most kindergartners were busy playing with blocks and running around the playground, Augustana art professor Peter Xiao remembers pacing through the green of his backyard, hands clasped behind his...
Every three years, the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art has a Faculty Art Exhibit. This is one of those lucky years. The opening of the Faculty Art Exhibit was on April 8, 2022. All of the art is beautifully...
Last week, I needed to get into the Abbey art studios. It was 7:45pm on a Thursday, well within open building hours. When I ran down to the building and went to open the back door, it was locked. I walked...
Photo Above: Heidi Hernandez, Lorna, 20”x 20”, oil on canvas. Photo by Bri Berndt.
The Quad City International Airport has begun to hold an art exhibit called “A Portrait of Remarkable Women,”...
Happy Earth week! If you’re anything like me, you’re going stir crazy during these difficult times and struggling to make the most out of your situation as shelter-in-place is extended in Illinois...
Fall has clearly begun and with it cuffing season. If you are unfamiliar with this term, cuffing season is a pop culture term for the period between fall and winter when people start seriously looking...
The Figge Art Museum opened up their latest exhibit, “Mia Feuer: Totems of the Anthropocene,” on Sept. 21, which consists of works by Candian artist Mia Feuer. The exhibit will run until Dec. 29.
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