The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art is pleased to host the 2002 Department of Art Faculty Exhibition. This exhibition, held every wo years, provides the opportunity for the faculty to share their current work with University students, faculty, and staff as well as the general community. The quality of the work on exhibit and the concepts presented clearly show the caliber of the fine arts program. Students learn from teaching, from practice, from an exchange of ideas, from debate, and they also learn from seeing what their instructors create. I would like to thank the Department of Art faculty for their contribution to the exhibition and their assistance in organizing it. In particular I would like to thank Duane Noblett, Head, Department of Art for his interest and enthusiasm in organizing this biennial exhibition.

Lorne Render
Director, Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University

The Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition is a collaboration between the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art and visual artists working in a constructive academic and research environment. An excellent museum staff provide focus and structure to the diversity of ongoing faculty creative research. The breadth of individual faclty interests nd a vigorous investigation of art materials and process instruct and nourish the cultural lives of students, the University and surrounding community. This important public mission is further advanced by a beatifully designed portfolio of reproduced faculty art work. Its publication was made possible through the necessary generosity of the Kansas State University Fine Arts Council of the Student Government Association, Commerce Bank of Manhattan, and the William T Kemper Foundation in Kansas City.

Duane Noblett
Head, Department of Art
Kansas State University