Kansas State University
Director Visual Communications

Spanish Spreads
Poster experiments related to excursions through Spain.
Madrid M with Goya's Fable
Barcelona B with Gaudi structure

Mindfulness Seeking Light

Robert Hower received his Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Recently, Professor Hower was a visiting lecturer/faculty at The Norwich School of Art and Design, (Norwich, England) and was a visiting Artist at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland , Jordanstone School of Art-University of Dundee in Scotland and Fachhochschule Trier, Germany.

Honors include: Stamey Teaching Award - Kansas State University 1994, 1999, National Park Foundation/Leadership/Partnership Awards - 1994, 1996, and selected Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Robert Hower has exhibited his work in numerous international, national, and one-person exhibitions. Including work at the Minnesota Museum of Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, KC, Houston Center for Photography, and The Sheldon-University of Nebraska. Recently Hower had one-person exhibitions at the Lu Xun College of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Scotland and Fachhochschule Trier, Germany.

Professor Hower, has worked on numerous national design activities that include the following organizations and companies: U.S. National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, The Coleman Company, The Chase Manhattan Bank, Cox Communications, Warner-Ishee, U.S. Army, Warner Brothers, University of Nebraska Lincoln, San Diego State University, Viewmart Inc. Minneapolis, The Avalon Group/The Mesa Verde Museum Association and The Kansas State University Physics Education Group - National Science Foundation.

Presentations and Interactive projects presented include: Videotex National Conference, NYC (Videotex User Interface), Alliances IV-National Parks Conference, Denver (New Technology/Design), Media World Conference 94-ED. Media, Multimedia and Hypermedia, Vancouver B.C. (An Interactive Collaboration) and Imaging the Past with Computer Graphics-The British Museum, London (The Interactive Design Studio).