Eastern Illinois University’s 2008 Art Graduate Exhibition will be on exhibition through April 27 in the Main Galleries of the Tarble Arts Center. This group thesis exhibition by EIU master of arts studio art degree candidates presents artwork by Kathryn Armstrong (installation/drawing), Marc Blumthal (painting), Erin Caldwell (drawing/cut paper), April Callaway (printmaking/drawing), Samantha Davenport (mixed media painting/sculpture), Chris Davis (painting), Karl Lanier (weaving/drawing), Michelle Hinson (metals/mixed media), Kathryn Neale (painting), Matthew Searle (installation), and Seval Sener (painting/sculpture). The Tarble Arts Center is located on south Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue on the EIU campus in Charleston. A division of Eastern’s College of Arts & Humanities, the Tarble Arts Center is funded in part by the Tarble Arts Center Fund/EIU Foundation, Tarble Arts Center membership contributions, and by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

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Its destiny changed dramatically when McDonald’s story was relayed in 1999 to Armelle Le Roux, a stained-glass designer and restorer born in a village in Brittany. The ambitious Oakland resident spent the next seven years working with McDonald and fellow artisans, transforming those glass remains into sculptural phoenixes. The 25 works, 14 created or co-created by Le Roux, turn the chapel-like room into a sparkling shrine of mortality and morality, salvage and salvation. John’s Church in London, where McDonald worshipped often in 1933, includes a leaded shard placed above the envelope in which he placed the St. Considering the shards as thorns, Narcissus Quagliata placed 33 pieces — one for every year of Christ’s life — from a French cathedral on a crucifixion crown.

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The council voted 4-1 yesterday (Monday) to approve the settlement with San Francisco artist Steven White and his attorneys, Terri Keyser-Cooper and Diane Vaillancourt. Supreme Court refused to hear the city’s appeal of a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in favor of White. The case stems from 2003 when White sued the city over an ordinance that prohibited him from setting up his easel on the sidewalks and parks in the city and selling his paintings without a license. District Judge David Hagen in Reno ruled that the city’s ordinance infringed on White’s constitutional rights under the First Amendment and the Ninth Circuit upheld that ruling last August. It said that as long as it is an artist’s self-expression, a painting will be protected under the First Amendment because it expresses the artist’s perspective. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service .

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