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Notes
from the Department
During my three years as department head, outside of
individual student, faculty, and staff accomplishments,
the most rewarding aspect of my position involves the
depth of energizing personalities and the commitment
to academic excellence that is basic to the Art Department.
I continually see dedicated and hard working people
strive in their own distinctive way to build a stimulating
and a quality educational environment. Furthermore,
linkage within the College of Arts and Sciences and
the University at large is an additional enriching aspect
of my appointment.
Within the Art Department, the level of national and
international prestige our department brings to Kansas
State University is impressive. Our faculty's active
involvement as practicing artists builds a curriculum
relevant to the time in which we live, providing diverse
academic opportunities for art students and others seeking
to enrich their cultural lives.
Art related research accomplishments are impressive.
During the 2002-2003 academic year, seventeen studio
and visual communication faculty were participants in
thirty-eight international and forty-eight national
venues. Our art historians wrote over twenty professional
articles for journals published within the United States
and other countries as individual scholarship continued
in support of manuscripts for book publication.
Each year the academic excellence of the Art Department
is enhanced through Kansas State University Student
Governing Association fine arts support. During the
2002-2003 academic year, this student support endowed
almost twenty artist presentations to the campus community
and provided additional support to art student clubs
and guilds.
Among our faculty, the goal of delivering the best possible
academic opportunities for our students is foremost.
As our Concentration Admission Review moves into its
fifth semester, we see a significant enhancement of
successful student placement as they move into major
areas of study. Each semester, the Concentration Admission
Review and a newly designed B.F.A. Exhibition or Portfolio
Presentation course secure an important format for evaluation
of student competency. Aggressive review of curriculum
continued this academic year with unanimous faculty
approval of a soon to be implemented Freshman Art Careers
seminar course designed to greatly increase entering
student access to information, well before an area of
concentration is even considered.
Our dynamic web site, continuous analysis of curriculum,
and faculty involvement is fundamental to the enthusiasm
I have for a promising future for the art department
at Kansas State University. Increased faculty
research opportunities within a newly designed teaching
assignment scheme, now in line with major national university
art departments, and our strong diversified Master of
Fine Arts degree program strengthen pedagogy. With outstanding
office personnel, a College of Arts and Sciences award
winning student advising program, and our faculty and
students, the future of the Art Department is a without
doubt a bright one.
- Duane Noblett
Faculty News: Professor James Munce retires
Jim Munce, announced his retirement at the end of this
2003 Spring Semester. For 32 years his dedicated service
embodied the standard we all strive to achieve within
the mission of the Art Department. His devotion to Printmaking,
Drawing and to the welfare of the Art Department will
be felt well into the future. We will greatly miss Jim’s
presence in our department and wish him the best as
he enters a new phase of his life.
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