December 16, 2020
Freshman Samantha Wiltermood captured some of the strangeness and anxiety of 2020 in her recent images, which include this photo of a family of four seated on a couch, each lit by the eerie glow of their digital device.
By Adriana Aumen, College of Arts and Sciences
From moist, cool clay to wet, drippy paint and dry, smudgy charcoal, visual art is a distinctly hands‑on, sometimes messy, field of practice and study. So, what happens when art education goes online?
For faculty and students in fine arts at Washington State University, the pandemic-prompted move to mostly remote instruction last spring inspired many creative, new approaches to making, teaching and learning about art even the messy parts.