Fine Arts Department
Visiting artist calls for return to Catholic art
MAGGIE PAWSEY STAFF WRITER On April 23 in the Gentile Gallery, the Fine Arts department hosted artist Anthony Visco to illustrate and speak about the effects of Franciscan spirituality on renaissance-era sacred art, beginning at 7 p.m. Visco, a Catholic painter and sculptor, showed dozens of images to illustrate how St. Francis’s theology of the […]
Art display exhibits beauty of everyday life and human person
MAGGIE PAWSEY STAFF WRITER On the evening of March 5, Professor Linus Meldrum introduced the artwork of Jean-François Millet, “painter, peasant and Catholic,” as part of a month-long art exhibition in the Gentile Gallery. Meldrum, who earned his masters of fine arts from The Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut, and serves as […]
‘Hamlet’ performance draws large, eager crowd
BY SUZANNAH EVANS There was a line flowing out the doors of the J.C. Williams Center consisting of students, faculty and members of the community eagerly waiting for the American Shakespeare Center’s free performance of Hamlet on Thursday night at Franciscan University. Franciscan hosted the American Shakespeare Center three years ago and everyone enjoyed it […]