graduation

Morningside's Class of 2023 Graduation!

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Me and one of our brand new alumni at the 2023 Morningside University graduation ceremony!

This was a special year for me, as this graduating class is the first I’ve had at Morningside University where I’ve seen them through from start to finish - it’s my fourth year here, too!

Graduation was on Saturday, May 13th, and it’s always heartwarming with a dusting of saudade. I’m excited to see my students continue to progress in their professional and personal lives, but it’s always a little sad not to have them around nearly as much as I’ve become accustomed to. New students will be arriving in the fall, though, so the cycle will begin again!

End of the 2021-2022 Academic Year!

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Morningside’s 2022 graduation was on May 14th, and it was a really nice ceremony filled with a lot of students-becoming-alumni I have taught over the past three years! I posed for several photos, but I haven’t received copies yet - however, here’s one from our ODK honors ceremony in April. This is of Steinkamp, our 2022 Marion Shapiro award winner!

I’m posing with Rachel in front of her entry into the Morningside Reynders’ Retirement Art Contest!

Speaking of wrapping up for the year, here are some of our graduating art department majors’ websites (a capstone course assignment), if you’d like to check any or all of them out:

https://www.calissahanson.com/

https://elizabethobermeier.com/

https://gracie-eli-design.squarespace.com/

https://lexwurth.wixsite.com/lex-wurth

https://8shayjohnson.wixsite.com/my-site

https://mk0025.wixsite.com/madeline-keating

This was a fun and full academic year, and it should be a bustling summer as well!

A Couple Commencement Photos

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It was a good graduation! Here are a couple photos from the Morningside Flickr account of me processing and congratulating students.

It's Commencement!

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Well, that was a strange and hard academic year we just finished, due to the pandemic, but I’m proud of our community for getting through it as best we could and being able to celebrate a range of accomplishments along the way.

Today is the graduation for our class of 2021! We had a wonderful string of senior thesis shows over the past month - the disciplines of graphic design, photography, animation, ceramics, drawing, and painting were all variously on display in the exhibitions of Courtney Klocke, Anna Uehling, Abby Koch, Kazune Oguro, and Carissa Powell. In fact, Kaz and Carissa’s two-person show will stay up through May 17th if you haven’t yet seen it and want to stop in!

The Spring Student Art Exhibition and the End of the Academic Year!

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We had a great Spring Student Art Exhibition, which was accompanied by the annual judging for Miller Art Awards.  Our guest judge this year was alumna and graphic designer Lea Whitson!  Here are some photos of the show, but there were so many more pieces than what you'll see in this slideshow.

This Saturday was also our graduation, and it is always wonderful to see my students walk across that stage but just a little bit sad knowing that I won't see them return again in fall.  I hope they go on to do great things but also stay in touch!