My Association with Comics

Artwork – Amazing Fantasy #15, Marvel Comics, NY, NY, 1962 My Association with Comic Books My association with comic books started when I was just a little boy. I can’t even remember exactly when I first started reading comics. According to my family, I first began by taking and looking at ... Read more

District 86 Visit 2014

Art Students from District 86 The Art & Design Department hosted its annual art day with junior high students from District 86. Nicole Koehler, art faculty in the district organized the event for 20 Joliet area students. The day included a tour of facilities, an information session on contemporary ... Read more

Gabriel Reid – She’s a Lucky One

Gabriel's new album "In the Morning" is available at gabreilreidmusic.com, Itunes, or Cdbaby Follow Gabriel on Facebook. Directed by Stephen Tuplin at Echowhitefox Productions. Read more

The Aesthetics of Erwin Madrid

Illustrators have graced the pages of hundreds of childrens books with images that have captured childrens imaginations and brought stories to life for years. Many times, adult readers think of the images that once fascinated them as simplistic and sub par to "real art". If given a closer look ... Read more

Slurs, Blurs, Recent Renderings & Other Devices, 1992

This summer, Art & Design faculty member, Chester Alamo & Costello will be one of the featured artists in the exhibition, "The 431 Gallery through the Years" at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana. In addition to this video, paintings, prints, sculpture, and drawings will present an overview ... Read more

Visual Arts Honors and Awards Exhibition

The Visual Arts Honors and Awards Exhibition is open to all USF students. All artwork should have been completed within the last year. The exhibition will be held at the City Center Gallery March 22 - April 12. Please fill out the attached submission form and drop-off all work on ... Read more

2014 High School Art Show

The University of St. Francis Art & Design department hosted their annual High School Art Competition over the course of the past month. The reception, which was located at the City Center campus and gallery in downtown Joliet, was held on January 18, 2014. The show was successful, due ... Read more

It’s All Relative

Lewis University Art Gallery - Romeoville Campus "It's All Relative" Paintings and Photographs by Two Cousins, Robert Porazinski and Barbara Eberhard January 6-31, 2014 Oreumus Fine Arts Center ----- Excerpt from exhibition flyer Robert Porazinski graduated from the School of the art Institute of Chicago in 1988 and worked as an illustrator and graphic designer ... Read more

The Vision Collection

The University of St. Francis’ Rialto City Center Gallery is pleased to present The Vision Collection an exhibition of work by Mike Kloss and Kate Ruggeri, on view from February 3 through March 15, 2014. Please join us for a reception with the artists on March 19 at 25 ... Read more

3D Foam Projects

During the Fall 2013 semester, 3D Design students recreated small objects on a larger than life scale. Working with foam insulation boards, students used reductive techniques, followed by realistic painting, in order to mimic the object's original appearance. Read more
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