Department of Art Faculty
Ed Walker directs the Commercial Art / Computer Graphics major which includes courses in print production, illustration, computer graphics, and advertising design. With fourteen years of professional design experience, he continues the practical application of his skills through his company WALKER DESIGN. Professor Walker's approach to teaching computer graphics is based on the integration of technology and fine art to solve complex visual problems. These visual problems are typically client driven and demand knowledge of how computer hardware and software can be used as an artistic tool for communicating ideas.
Courses taught: Production Techniques, Illustration, Computer Art and Design: Layout and Multimedia, Ad Agency, and Portfolio.
1993 - present
B.F.A. Millikin University 1985
M.F.A. Rochester Institute of Technology 1991
Chairman, Art Department
Associate Professor of Art History
Courses taught: Non-Western Art, Ancient and Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Intro to Visual Culture, and Critical Reading, Writing, & Research II.
1995 - present
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (1996), University of Illinois
Art Education and Art Therapy supervisor
Teacher Education Program Committee
Art Therapy Consultant for several agencies in the community
Batterer's Intervention Specialist & Trainer for DHS of Illinois
DHS Subcommittee member - Men's Responsibility Abuser Service
Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award - MU - 1998
Courses taught: Intro to Design - 2D & 3D, Art Therapy Seminar & Art therapy internships, and Art for Teachers
1987 - present
B.F.A. Millikin University 1980
M.A. The George Washington University 1984
Assistant Professor of Art
Professor Salmi is a 1998 Fellowship recipient to the Hambidge Center for the Arts, has been recognized for outstanding teaching in the 1996 edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and received an NEA/ Arts Midwest Fellowship in Painting in 1994. In addition to the responsibilities of teaching, Salmi is Assistant Director of Perkinson Gallery, and he continues to exhibit his own artwork nationally.
Courses taught: Intro to Drawing, Figure DrawingI, Printmaking, and Painting..
1996 - present
B.F.A. University of Minnesota 1983
M.F.A. Arizona State University 1988
Associate Professor of Art
Professor of Art
Courses taught: Beginning and Advanced Photography and Ceramics: Hand-building and Wheel Throwing, Intro to Sculpture, Adv. Sculpture.
1978 - present
B.A. University of South Florida 1968
M.F.A. University of South Florida 1971
Art Lecturer
She is also the Manger of the student run retail art gallery the BlueConnection.
Courses taught: Beginning drawing and the Art of Entrepreneurship.