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History’s Foundation: Jack Arends Hall

By Olivia Willoughby | February 29, 2012

Jack Arends Hall, or the Visual Arts Building as it is more commonly known, holds two former faculty members at heart. Jack Arends, former head of the art department, was the reason for the Visual Arts Building’s existence, said Visual Resources librarian...

Kyle Myer, junior art education major, sands part of his project
in the woodshop classroom in the Jack Arends Visual Arts Building
Monday night. The ceiling can leak up to 10 gallons of water on a
day with heavy rainfall, woodshop professor Jeremy Gosser said.

Art building sees water woes

By Chelsey Boutan | October 31, 2011

If it's been a rainy weekend, woodshop professor Jeremy Gosser stops by his classroom to make sure water hasn't leaked all over the floor. Gosser has to empty buckets filled with water because the woodshop classroom in the Jack Arends Visual Arts Building...

Acclaimed author speaks about sexuality and gender

By Lauren Dielman | October 3, 2011

Ana Castillo, acclaimed novelist, poet and short-story writer, spoke about race, sexuality and gender in the Jack Arends Visual Arts Building Tuesday night.Castillo's novel So Far From God and her poem-turned-novel, "Watercolor Women, Opaque Men," both...