Katie Waters next up for Evansville Museum Master Teacher exhibit
Provided by the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science
Katie Waters, Arrival/Departure, oil on canvas, 2015.
The Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science continues with its year-long series of Master Teacher exhibits. Organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Southern Indiana, the series features the work of five distinguished faculty who have led USI's Art Department through the decades.
The current exhibit, open through October 25, features the work of Katie Waters, professor of art and USI art alumni taught by Waters. Waters has taught painting and drawing at USI since the fall of 1981. She also served as chair of the Art Department for 17 years, and as interim associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts from 2003 to 2004. In August 2009, she was appointed director of the Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries on the USI campus.
Waters earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Ohio University and her bachelor's degree in art education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the recipient of a number of awards for her creative work, including a Midwest National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, the Clowes Fellowship in Painting at the Vermont Studio Center, two Indiana Arts Commission Master Fellowships, and the 2004 Artist of the Year Award at the Mayor's Arts Awards, Evansville, Indiana. She has been chosen for artist residencies at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation. In spring 2003, she taught at Harlaxton College in Grantham, England, and was granted USI Faculty Research and Creative Work Awards to conduct creative research there in 2009 and 2013. In 2013 she was honored with the USI Phenomenal Woman Faculty Award, and with the USI Distinguished Professor Award in 2015.
Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely at the regional, national and international levels, and are found in many corporate, university, museum and private collections.
An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, October 3 at the Evansville Museum. The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit www.emuseum.org.
For more events related to USI's 50th anniversary, visit www.usi.edu/50.