Art and Design

At St. Ambrose, we deliver a contemporary and complete art experience with the choice of three supplemental concentrations – Book and Print; Graphic Design; and Painting – and seven minors.

For each concentration, a core set of courses will develop skills in basic drawing, problem-solving, writing, and learning how to conduct relevant and accurate research.

在以后的学期中，你将学习综合各种影响，并建立一个原创的声音. 你将探索和建立创造力，以建立你在该领域的利基.

Service is fundamental to who we are as a university. At SAU, 你可以通过难民的眼睛看世界，帮助他们适应在美国的生活.S. 你可以花几个小时帮助校园邻居为他们的家准备过冬， clean litter from an iconic river, and stand with your peers to advance social justice. Service 拓展你对世界、竞技宝app下载和你自己的视野和理解. It becomes part of who you are as an artist. 

In fact, go further and touch more lives with your compassion. We are one of few universities in Iowa offering Peace Corps Prep这一系列课程可以让你在大学毕业后成为志愿者职位的有力候选人. 大多数学生不需要额外的课程就可以获得由和平队颁发的证书. Click here to learn more or contact your faculty advisor.

根据你的兴趣和价值观行事，并与你的同龄人一起扩展它们. We have 80+ student clubs and organizations.

有很多方法可以利用你的创造力和机会来完善或分享你的手艺.

作为一名专业艺术家，你几乎可以在工作的各个方面建立自己的职业生涯.

Here's just a sampling of job titles:

• graphic or web designer
• gallery director
• curator
• museum educator or preparatory
• photojournalist
• visual communications specialist
• production artist
• illustrator
• research assistant
• design assistant
• project coordinator
• typographer
• book production artist
• sign painter
• media designer
• printer

• 毕业后，14岁的布兰妮·艾伦(Brittney Allen)参加了Lynco Products的暑期实习面试. 他们被她的工作深深吸引，为她设立了一个全职职位.
• Munir Sayegh '11, a double major in graphic design and marketing, 获得富布赖特研究生奖学金，在埃及学习阿拉伯书法和排版.
• Heather (Behrens) White '10, a triple major in graphic design, book arts, and marketing, 是创世纪健康系统的创意设计和营销协调员，并有一个成功的自由设计业务, Heather White Design.
• 毛里塔·菲茨帕特里克(Maurita Fitzpatrick) 11年级的学生在获得艺术学位的同时辅修了市场营销. Today she works for WEA Member Benefits in Madison, Wisc., as a marketing assistant. 她也是自由职业者，是Maurita Fitzpatrick平面设计公司的老板.

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Our Art and Design Department is in the Galvin Fine Arts Center. 主要的绘画工作室是一个1600平方英尺的明亮的开放空间. 平面设计课程在Mac计算机实验室举行，我们的图书艺术/版画/造纸工作室不仅是独一无二的, it is fully equipped.

Galvin is home to two public galleries – the Morrissey and Catich – for you to exhibit your work. 你将在工作室学习一些基础和高级课程 Figge Museum in downtown Davenport, and as a huge bonus, our students can visit the museum's collection, attend lectures, and participate in workshops for free.

Joseph Lappie, MFA
Professor and Chair

约瑟夫专门教授簿记，绘画，凸版印刷，造纸和传统 & non-traditional forms of printmaking. 他致力于将艺术创作与竞技宝app下载建设、社会正义和艺术治疗相结合.

Website: josephlappie.com
Instagram: joseph_lappie_art
Linkedin: joseph-lappie-a602337

Courses Taught
2D Design
Bookbinding
Drawing
Life Drawing
Papermaking
Print/Paper/Book
Printmaking
Screen Print

Recent Exhibitions
Seeking Balance, Laramie County Library. Cheyenne, WY, 2023
Faculty & Staff Exhibition, Catich Gallery, Davenport, IA, 2022
The Book As Art, Decatur Arts Alliance, Decatur, GA, 2022
HABITAT artist's books, Laramie County Library. Cheyenne, WY, 2022
Narratives of the Possible, Laramie County Library, Laramie, WY, 2021
Narratives of the Possible, Laramie County Library, Clearmont, WY, 2021
Romeo & Juliet - a web series in shadows, Allaert Auditorium, Davenport, IA, 2021
The EVAC exhibit, Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, IA, 2020
A Figural Exhibition, The In Art Gallery, Online, 2020
Festschrift For Bill, Marriot Library, Salt Lake City, UT, 2020
Pandemic, Artist's Book House, Evanston, IL, 2020
Sweet 16, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, 2019
Personal Mythologies, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, 2018
Yuko Nii Foundation's Permanent Collection Show, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Me, You, and a Few of Our Friends, Ann Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown, KY, 2018
The Book As Art: Flight Edition, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, GA, 2018
Faculty Exhibition, Catich Gallery, Davenport, IA. 2018

Professional Organizations
College Arts Association
College Book Arts Association
Mid American Print Council
North American Hand Papermakers
Southern Graphics Council International

Contact
Art and Design
Galvin Fine Arts Center 07
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA
52803563-333-6150
lappiejosephd@hengtongmm.com

Renee Meyer Ernst, MFA
Professor

Renee教授所有层次的平面设计，并擅长品牌推广 & identity systems, interaction design, and digital art. 她的个人作品探讨了在跨文化背景下形成身份的概念.

Website: reneemeyerernst.myportfolio.com
Instagram: @reneemeyerernst
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/reneemeyerernst

Courses Taught
Branding & Identity Systems
Computers in Art
Interaction Design
Motion Graphics
Professional Practices
Publication Design
Typography

Recent Exhibitions
Motherland, KADU (Korean Adoptees Diaspora Art & CultUre), Maru Arts Center & Korea National Assembly, Insadong, Seoul, South Korea, 2023
Spacemaking, Morrissey Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, 2023
Faculty Exhibition, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, 2022
42nd Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, 2021
#social International Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Gyeonggi, South Korea, 2021
Women Artists Solo Exhibition，爱荷华州艺术委员会，州长办公室，国会大厦，得梅因，爱荷华州，2020
Christopher Reno & Renee Meyer Ernst, Quad City Arts, Rock Island, IL, 2019
The Magnificently Mundane，伊利诺伊大学斯普林菲尔德分校视觉艺术画廊，斯普林菲尔德，伊利诺伊州，2019

Professional Organizations
AIGA: The Professional Association of Design

Contact
Art and Design
Galvin Fine Arts Center 143
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA
52803563-333-5702
ErnstReneeM@hengtongmm.com

Kristin Quinn, MFA
Professor

Kristin teaches all levels of painting and drawing.

Website: www.kristinquinn.net
Instagram: @painterquinn

Courses Taught
3D Design
Experimental Drawing
Life Drawing
Painting I
Painting Lab

Recent Exhibitions
Featured Artist for Fall Art Tour, Wantoot Gallery, Mineral Point, WI, 2023
Dubuque Biennial Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, 2023
Waterworks: Paintings from the North Coast, Solo Sabbatical Exhibition, Catich Gallery, Davenport, IA, 2023
Faculty Exhibition, Catich Gallery, Davenport, IA, 2021
Hard Won, Not Done, Invitational, Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, IA, 2020
Faculty Exhibition, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, 2020
Flyways, Solo Exhibition, Wantoot Gallery, Mineral Point, WI, 2019
Iowa Biennial Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, 2019

Contact
Art and Design
Galvin Fine Arts Center 132
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA
52803563-333-6428
QuinnKristin@hengtongmm.com

Chirstopher Reno, MFA
Clinical Asst. Professor and Director of Catholic and Morrissey Gallaries

克里斯教授所有级别的绘画和水媒体和入门工作室设计(2D和3D). 他还指导卡蒂奇和莫里西画廊和画廊相关的实习.

Website: www.chrisreno.com
FB: Work by Christopher Reno
IG: @cwreno2001

Courses Taught
Painting Fundamentals
3D Design
Introductory Topics: Watercolor
Paintin I
Painting II
Painting III
Painting IV
Internship Art

Recent Exhibitions
Christopher Reno and Carla Markwart, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL, 2018
Photo Sensitive, Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, IA, 2018
Piecing It Together, Hawn Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 2017

Contact
Art and DesignGalvin Fine Arts Center
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA
52803
563-333-6444
renochristopherw@hengtongmm.com

Randy Richmond
Adjust Professor and Computer Lab Techncial

Randy teaches digital photography and supervises the Galvin Mac lab.

Website: www.otherography.com

Courses Taught
Digital Photography

Recent Exhibitions
"Subtext and Overstory", Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa 2022
"Compelling Ground", Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, Iowa 2021
"Verisimilitude", Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa 2019
Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibit at the Figge, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa 2018 & 2022
"Photo Sensitive", Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa 2018
"Le Paysage", Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont 2017
"Picturing the Prairie", Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa 2016
Dubuque Biennial, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa 2015 & 2017

Contact
Art and Design
Galvin Fine Arts Center
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA
52803
RichmondRandalR@hengtongmm.com

奖学金提供给在艺术作品中表现出模范才能的学生. 如果你有这样的创作激情，我们想和你谈谈在圣. 竞技宝app下载安装可以丰富你的才能，并帮助你走上几条充实的职业道路.

艺术奖学金认可并奖励你的特殊天赋，可以为你的学习提供重要的经济帮助. The Art Scholarship is comprised of two parts: a Portfolio and Questionnaire. Click here to learn more about submitting your portfolio.

Not quite ready? Get a review of your artwork

与艺术教师分享一些你的作品样本，以获得关于你作品集的早期反馈 before putting it together formally. Send a few .jpg or .pdf files through a quick and secure system: click here to upload your artwork.

You can also read some tips on how to compile a great portfolio.

Digital submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis, but preference is given to those who submit before March 10.

IMPORTANT: Beginning in Fall 2021, 艺术学士学位将转为艺术与设计学士学位，并选择平面设计方向, Painting, or Print & Book.

Required Core (30 credits):

+AD 100 Drawing
+AD 110 2D Design
+AD 120 3D Design
+AD 140 Computers in Art
+AD 160 Print/Paper/Book I
AD 200 Figure Composition
WI-AD 310 Professional Practices
AD 380 Visual Narratives
+AH 250 Art Through the Ages I
+AH 251 Art Through the Ages II

Choose One Concentration Below:
Graphic Design, Painting, or Print and Book

See course descriptions in the online catalog

+ satisfies a general education requirement
WI writing intensive

The Art and Design Department offers seven minors:

• Art (for non-Art majors)
• Art Therapy
• Arts Administration
• Design and Interactive Media
• Graphic Design
• Painting
• Print and Book

View complete details on the Art Minors page

Whether you aspire to work for a major advertising firm, create small business websites, or direct the visual voice of a magazine, 您的艺术与设计学位与平面设计专业相结合，无论您的方向如何，都可以提供成功的技能和信心.

All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.

Concentration (24 credits):
+AD 180 Motion Graphics
AD 210 Typography
+AD 240 Designing Data
AD 320 Digital Illustrations
AD 340 Publication Design
AD 350 Branding and Identity Systems
AD 390 Interaction Design Lab (6 credits)

Read course descriptions

+ satisfies a general education requirement
WI writing intensive

Whether your passion is rooted in abstract or realism, or you simply desire to share your voice through color, a concentration in Painting will help you grow as a fine artist.

我们的教师擅长一对一的互动和指导，并将其应用于从混合油漆到讨论您的创造性成长和抱负的所有事情.

All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.

Concentration (24 credits)
+AD 170 Water Media
+AD 220 Printmaking
+AD 250 Experimental Drawing
+AD 270 Painting I
AD 300 Figure Drawing
AD 370 Painting Lab (9 credits)

我们的学生用他们的手艺来评论和贡献社会.

我们的教师通过教授艺术和技术技能，为你的职业生涯和终身参与艺术做好准备, aesthetic judgment, critical thinking, and historical understanding.

All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.

Concentration (24 credits):
AD 210 Typography
+AD 220 Printmaking
+AD 225 Papermaking
+AD 260 Bookbinding
+AD 280 Screen Print
AD 360 Print/Paper/Book Lab (6 hours)
ENGL 317 Creative Writing Workshop